Pirate Puzzle

Sometimes I have a really mean streak!  A little friend of ours turned 8 on the 1st of October and I forgot to get a card mailed out in time.  I eventually mailed this and apologised for my lateness saying I am sorry but I had so much trouble as his card kept falling apart!

Of course if he works out how to put it all back together, and he will, it looks like this.  I had to adhere it with removable tape to a piece of paper in order to ink it.  I used a Spellbinders die, Distress ink and Copics and the image is from one of the newly released sets from MFP called Buried Treasure.  I hope you find some of your own treasure today.

MFP September Blog Hop - Buried Treasure

Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's 

   September Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Buried Treasure Featured September 25
Going Batty Featured September 26
Autumn Splendor Featured September 27
Tweet That Featured September 28

My cards using Buried Treasure are quite simple.  

The first is for my Nephews Birthday this weekend and will hold some "dosh" inside.  When you are 16 you want to choose your own stuff (aka Treasure!).  I used a paper that has gold on it and then used distress inks on it, polishing it off the gold.  The map was distressed and coloured to make it look old.  A few areas were coloured with Copics and the skull  & crossbones were coloured with a Picket Fence distress marker.  I used SC399 for my card.

 

Inside the card I added a simple pocket for some folded notes or a gift card.

My second card uses the parrot and is showing parrot like repetitive behaviour.  The paper here is from Papermania.  Copics were used for the colouring and Memento inks for the stamping.

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on the following blogs (don't forget this one), each day for more chances to win! (You do NOT have to comment on all the blogs each day! The names are drawn randomly!)

All four winners will be announced on September 29, 2012 on the Mark's Finest Papers blog. You can go back and comment if you missed a day. (HINT: The more you comment, the more chances you have to win and comments on the MFP blog count twice!) The deadline for commenting is 11PM EST on Friday September 28, 2012.