FOSTV 103 - Christmas Cards

Hello - sorry to be so late posting today - my day has run away from me.  I have just got home from tutoring and actually feel like going to sleep and it is only 8pm!  Anyway you didn't come here to read about my day but to see my FOSTV103 card.

This week's challenge is to make a Christmas Card and I actually have two to share with you.  I made one for the challenge and then decided I wanted to try and be a bit more creative - hence my second card.

This first card uses the Wise Men set with some gold embossing powder on the star.

 

I combined 3 Marks Finest Papers sets to make this card Fabulous Dogs, Fantastic Dogs and Joyous Season.  I used gilding flakes on each ornament.

Thank you for looking and have a great week.

FOSTV62 - Inspiration Challenge

Today's inspiration challenge at Friends of Speedy TV is a great one.  The photo is lovely and I thought I knew what I was going to do but my ideas and my creating skills did not match.

I wanted beautifully scrolled ribbons connecting my cake and my numbers but the scrolled ribbons came unscrolled within minutes so I had to rethink.

This is my card.

I used Big Cupcake Mini (the free set if you buy this month's release), the butterflies from Scenic Selections and a sentiment from Fabulous Dogs.  I used Spellbinders dies for cutting and embossing and Copics for colouring.  The butterflies have Stickles on their wings.

If you take up this week's challenge you could win the stamp set In My Den.

Check out the challenge over at Friends of Speedy TV. Have a great week.

Janine

Speedy Challenges

Hi - its rather late on a Sunday night UK time but I am quickly posting 2 cards I have made for challenges on Speedy TV.  I don't often have chance to play with the other team's challenges but today I played both the Sketch with a Twist and Simple Salutations challenges.  The Simple Salutations one I teamed with the Jugs170 sketch posted this week.


On this card I used Marks Finest Papers butterflies (yes I have a few!) but the sentiment is from Chocolate Baroque.  I have "stretched" the sketch a bit but I did stick with the colours of black, white and silver.

Sketch with a Twist 27

On this card I used a Marks Finest Papers sentiment and and image from Inkadinkado - this is going to hubby on his Birthday later in the month and we had a Golden Retriever so had to use the right sort of cute puppy!

Simple Salutations26 & Jugs170

 

 

 

I will be back tomorrow to share my card for the latest Friends of Speedy TV challenge - please pop back and thanks for looking.

A Level Congratulations

Our niece in North Wales received some great news this week - she got a call from Liverpool University to say they had a place for her to study veterinary science if her A level results were good enough.  Later the same day she got her A level results and they were better than she needed - 2 A* and an A.  I haven't spoken to her but apparently she is thrilled. 
Apart from my Design Team commitments I have not made many cards in recent weeks or entered any challenges.  This card is for two challenges - the one from last Sunday at Sentimental Sundays and the colours from todays Jugs challenge.  The card I have made for her uses a doggy image from MFP and a sentiment from the same set called Fabulous Dogs. 

Thank you for checking in.

janine

April Blog Hop - Fabulous Dogs

 Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's  April Blog Hop!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Fabulous Dogs Featured April 17
Daffodil Greetings Featured April 18  
Hey, Cowboy! Featured April 19
Train Talk Featured April 20

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 April 21, 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 April 20, 2012.
 

Lois
Vicky 
Anne 
Pat G.
Karen H.
Patty P.
Mary
Marilynn 
Pam 
Debbie 
Nancy
Bonnie 
Kathy
Brenda
Toni
Tangii
Anna S
Sue
Kelli
Janine (that's me)
Mark's Finest Papers

My first project for today is a simple card using an little poodle image and sentiment from this new set









My second project is a frame for my Mum and shows pictures of her dog Tess who we have been dog-sitting since October.  Mum misses her to bits but cannot get out with her as she is still recovering from surgery.  I have used 2 of the fun sentiments from the set with these pictures.

The detailed view shows the sentiments more clearly.

Thanks for looking and please become a follower of my blog before hopping on to Mark's Finest Papers

Inchie and a Quarter Dogs - SFF040612

This card is made with the Sketch Frenzy Friday sketch from April 6th and uses a dog from a stamp set being released this week by MFP.  The dog bone are from my stash and have been added as another fun element like the drunken writing you get from celebrating too hard!

 The dog heads were stamped in Memento black and coloured with Copics.  They were cut out with a Spellbinders die.
The edge of the dark red cardstockwas punched with a EK Success border punch.  The striped paper is from Papermania.

Please come back later this week and see all the new stamps.