FOSTV119 - Easter

I send quite a few Easter cards so made two for this week's FOSTV challenge.  If you would like to join in the challenge you can find the details here.  There will be a prize for one entrant.

My first card uses a cross cut with a die from a wood effect paper.  I used 2 scraps of paper for the hill and the sky and cut them out with a new die from Memory Box.  The "He is Risen" and "Peace" sentiments are from the newly released Easter set.

My second card is a bit of an experiment - I stamped the music, butterfly and tulips onto damp water colour paper.  Not really my style but decided to turn it into a card none the less.

Thanks for looking and I hope your Easter preparations are going well.  Have a great week.

FOSTV115 - Spring Colours

This week's Friends of Speedy TV challenge is to use Spring Colours on your card.  I went out all Spring and used the colours and flowers of Spring.  I used 4 Marks Finest Papers sets
Daffodil Greetings, Spring Things, Winter Crocus and Mothers Magnolias.  All the sets can be found in the store.  The die is from Spellbinders and the ribbon from my stash.

Spring came to the UK this past weekend - a beautiful warm Sunday. 

The prize this week over at FOSTV is the Recipe Completer set.  Please check out the challenge and play along.   Thanks and have a great week.

FOSTV114 - New Home

This week's challenge at FOSTV is to make a new home card.  I knew I wanted to use the little mice from the Yikes a Mouse set but what to use as a "home"

I used stamps from Welcome Poppies and Buffalo Spring to create my cornfield as their little home. The sentiment is from Primitive Farm.

 

On the inside I created a show of poppies with the little butterfly from Spring Things.

The prize for participants this week is the New Year set which looks like this

You can find details of the challenge via this page - it is challenge 114 and we would love you to play along with us.

I hope you keep safe and warm in your home this week.

FOSTV108 - Easel Cards

I tried to make a shaped Easel Card and wanted one for Easter so went with an Easter egg shape.  My card is a little bit smaller than I originally planned but I used my Spellbinders dies and this was the biggest one.  The blue layer had to be cut freehand.  I have used the sets called Daffodil Greetings and Spring Things and coloured with pencils.

Any type of Easel Card is this week's challenge and my colleagues on the team have made some great cards.  You can check out the challenge and their cards on the MFP FOSTV page here.

There is another stamp set up for grabs this week and it is called Snowball Mini and looks like this

Please come and join us.

MFP Blog Hop - Spring Things

March Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured March 19
Garden Bunny

Featured March 20
 Spring Things

For my first card I used the little bunny and the Have a Hoppy Day sentiment using the VLV Week 2 sketch.  The DP and ribbon were in my stash and the colouring was done with pencils.

On this card I used just the tulips with some bright DP and a little Cuttlebug corner to make another Easter card. Another simple one - seem to be into orange this month!

For this one I used some bleach again. The fence is actually whiter than this in real life but getting photos on grey days messes with the colours.  The butterfly was coloured with markers after the bleach had dried. 

My last card uses some more spring coloured papers with the bunny from the Spring Things set and again will be used as an Easter card.  It was coloured with pencils and the sky sponged in while the image was in the die.

Featured March 21
 Glad Glads
 

Featured March 22
Seed Packets

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 March 23,2013 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 March 22,2013.

 The special stamp set we have for you this month is:

"News From The Woods"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

                                                         "Corn Ears"

 
Thanks for looking and commenting.  Next on the hop is An'jenic - check out what goodies she has on display today.