FOSTV - Romance is in the air

Apologies for this post being up late.  In all the excitement of a late, very late night watching the Superbowl I forgot to do it - sadly the Seahawks lost. Seattle was the first city in the USA we ever visited.  We did get to see them play when we last visited Seattle in 2003.

Anyway on to my card.  The challenge this week at FOSTV is a Romantic card or project. The background was done with a technique new to me (forgot what it is called but Angie just reminded me - Bokeh effect) and I think gives a dreamy look to the card, which I think adds to the romantic feel. 
Like a few of my team I used a rose as my image and it is from the Roses stamp set.

We would love you to join us in the challenge this week - not long until Valentine's day!

FOSTV145 - Red, Gold and Green

This times challenge at FOSTV is to use the colours Red, Gold and Green.  You can find the challenge here.

I made two cards.  The first is a simple Christmas card using the holly from Create with Pine Boughs and the sentiment from Cardinal.  The second card uses a very sparkly gold paper which was a nightmare to photograph, a die cut green panel and some Roses from the Roses stamp set which were coloured with H2Os.. 

Don't forget to check out the cards made by my team mates and to get your creative genes going.  The challenge closes on Sunday 23rd November.

MFP July Blog Hop - Day 2

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

July Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 

 Featured July 15 - Chinese Take Out 
Featured July 16 - Coneflowers & Roses

 Featured July 17 - Snowflakes

Featured July 18 - Sun and Moon & Heavenly Harmony

 

 

Today's sets are right up my street.  I love colouring flowers and cards with flowers are ones I am able to use.  No fancy sentiments just nice and clean with some die cut shapes.  The first 4 cards were made whilst on vacation and I even used a little wire mesh on the red rose one donated by my friend Jules. 

The blue rose was made when I got home - for our anniversary later in the month.  It is actually a richer blue than in the photo.  All the colouring was done with Prismacolor pencils and Zest. 

 

 

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 six winners will be announced on 

July 19, 2014 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 10 PM EST on Friday July 18, 2014

 

Here's the Design Team:

 

Lois

Kelli Jo

Karen 

 Kathy

Toni

Janine

Shirley Q

Vickie
Sandy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

 

Come on back tomorrow for more creativity.