Vintage Christmas

This "vintage card" was given last night to the "wine man" Dennis and his wife.  It was a quick card using a Woodware Stamp for the background and a MFP stamp on the foreground panel.  I wanted to use lace on the card but as it was for a guy went for sparkly ribbon in neutral colours.  I have had the Woodware stamp a while but have only used it a few times so decided to pull it put and show it some ink.

I am entering this card in the following challenges

Sketch N Stash 128
Our Creative Corner
Sentimental Sundays 128 ( I hope background sentiments count)

Thanks for looking.

FOSTV95 - Fall / Harvest

I love the autumn when you get crisp dry days and the colours are fully on show.  Sadly at the moment we are getting quite a lot of rain and yesterday's walk with Mum's dog Tess was a complete washout.  10 minutes into the walk "the heavens opened" and we had pouring rain, thunder, lightning and then a hail storm.  The two of us and Tess arrived back at Mum's house like drowned rats.  We had to wrap in towels while our jeans dried off! 
Fortunately before this wet spell we did get some lovely walks in to enjoy the colour changes. 

This week at FOSTV we are celebrating autumn, fall and harvest and there is a cute set which relates to harvest for one lucky participant called Corn Ears.

 

You can double your chances of winning by using Marks Finest Papers stamps but if you don't have any please play along just the same.

 

 

My card this week focuses more on the harvest side of things and uses the set called No Sour Grapes along with the leaves from Autumn Splendor.  The little acorn charm is also from MFP.  The edge was punched with a Martha Stewart border punch.

 

 



Thank you for visiting and please drop by the rest of the FOSTV team's blogs to see their cards in all their glory.

FOSTV74 - Bookmark

The FOSTV challenge this week is to make a bookmark.  I gave my bookmark 2 sides using the recently launched Marsh Birds on one side and No Sour Grapes and the books from In My Den on the other.

Apologies that my photos are small but as I have already given it away I cannot do anything about it.  We would love as many people as possible to play along with our challenges so please join us - you can use any stamps you like and you will find the challenge on this page at Speedy TV - challenge number 74.

If you are having a holiday today than I hope you are enjoying it.

Mothering Sunday

Tomorrow is Mothering Sunday and here is the card I made for my Mum.  I used the pansies from the MFP stamp Spring Flowers or Today, Tomorrow and Always.  They are coloured with Prismacolor Pencils.  The sentiment is from the set No Sour Grapes and is stamped with Memento Expresso Truffle.  I sponged edges with Frayed Burlap distress ink.

I used the sketch from Mojo Monday and I am entering this card in the following challenges (I know rather a lot for me!)

Papertakeweekly
Crafty Ribbons Challenge 
Ribbon Carousel  (Spring is in the air)
Craftin Desert Divas 
Word Art Wednesday
Mojo Monday

Thanks for looking.  I hope all Mums have a great day tomorrow.

MFP Blog Hop - No Sour Grapes

   January Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Fantastic Dogs Featured January 15
No Sour Grapes Featured January 16
In My Den Featured January 17
Love, Love, Love Featured January 18

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 January 19, 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 January 18,2013.


Happy New Year!!! Welcome to the first blog hop of 2013! We are so excited to share the great stamp sets we are releasing this month and the months to come. 

 

 

My cards today show what a great set this is for those of you who love to colour. 

The first card is for someone starting a new job this week. It uses a sketch from the Sketchy Challenge from end October.

 

 

My second card is a simple one and will be mailed off as one of my Christmas Thank You cards.  I used my new Spellbinders Ribbon Threader die, Ivy and Blossoms released last month and the Thank You sentiment from Welcome Poppies.  



 

My last card uses another sketch from Crafts Meow (September sketch) and I have combined it with a challenge from Just Us Girls to use embossing with ink.  I used two different embossing folders with Distress Inks and some Inka Gold.

 



 



Thank you for checking these out.  Your next hop stop is Tammylee

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

" OH Baby"

 

The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Not So Ugly"