Friday, July 29, 2011

Speedy the Cat Challenge #66

Anything but a ribbon

7-30 not ribbon

Use anything but a ribbon, hmmm, I’m tired of using raffia.  Aha, this beautiful cord came in one of the DT packs from Faith.  Everything on this card can be purchased from Mark’s Finest Papers. I love this shimmery pink cardstock and the images are all from the Brick Wall set.  I love the serenity of this set.  Remember to play along with us and link your card up here to be in the drawing for a free stamp set being released in Aug.

Thursday, July 28, 2011

MFP Summer Card Swap

Win a free mini stamp set

A bird told me

Swaps are fun.  I like the one that Mark’s Finest Paper has over at Speedy TV, hosted by my friend Patty Penn because we only send in four cards. The cards I received from the Spring Swap were gorgeous.

For the August swap we were to make a card that references something we like about summer.  I love the birds and don’t get enough of watching them and hearing their cheerful songs. I chose this set, Little Birds with Big mouths to make my card.  EVERYONE who enters receives a free stamp set.  Come and play with us.  You have until Aug 31 to play in the summer one and I see the post is up for the fall swap too!

Thank You Cards

Norwex party

A couple of weeks ago I hosted a Norwex party. It was great fun.  If you haven’t heard about these cleaning products, do yourself a favor and check out Lana’s FB page here.  You will cut your cleaning time in half and not use any harsh chemicals while doing it.  The products actually make cleaning fun as you keep wanting to try the cloths to see if it will clean up ________________  You fill in the blank and most likely it will work.

The party was a huge success and I wanted to thank all the ladies who came with a special Thank You card. I didn’t have enough purple gingham paper and I switched to green but I like both of them.  TY cards 4 NorwexP

And here’s a couple of close-ups of both of them. ty cards for norwexty cards for norwex (2)

I put little googly eyes on them for attention getters.  The set is from Mark’s Finest Papers called Little Birds with Big mouths.  It went pretty quick.  I made twenty two cards and it took about an hour to make six of them. I did six at a time, assembly line fashion.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

PRACTICING WITH COPICS

ODBD CHALLENGE1st copic color (2)

This card started out just on a little piece of scrap paper that I wanted to practice with my copic markers. Thanks so much to Suzanne Dean who has many youtube videos posted on how to shade with these wonderful markers. As I worked with it I remembered I need a card for my friend JoAnn, co-owner of The Stamp Shoppe.  No pressure there, right? Smile  It all came together nicely but the top just looked, well, tooooo white.  I remembered Rebekka Reeds post on paper piercing.  Check out HER blog.  WOW! I’m always impressed with her gorgeous creations. Then there was a post on the Flybabies SCS site to create a card using your scraps, well, that’s how this card came to be.  Isn’t it fun??

  I do believe Copics are my newest favorite thing, now that I have a few more of them. 

Did you know, Hobby Lobby and Michaels carry Copics now?  Think 40% off coupon.   Another tip, if you have a Smart Phone and you can bring up the Hobby Lobby web site, they will let you use the coupon right off your phone, how fun is that???

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Friday, July 22, 2011

Hearts, Hearts, Hearts

Speedy the cat’s challenge #65

We were challenged to use at least three hearts on our project.  I was saved by having this Cuttlebug embossing folder in my stash!  I have no heart  stamps from MFP yet. 7-23 sunflower hearts

The images are from the Planted with Love set from MFP. So many ways to use this set, I’m having so much fun with it.

I took my ink pad and ran it over the inside of the embossing folder before running it through the Cuttlebug.  It gave the impressions a nice soft green color, reminiscent of a garden, don’t you think?  The strips are some plastic ribbon I still have in my stash.  It’s almost gone now, hooray!  But I did have fun with it.  And the final touch, the twine bow.  THIS is by far the best twine I have found anywhere.  It’s soft but still has structure, it’s easy to work with, and ties beautifully. I tell you, MFP has some really nice things besides stamps and paper.  Check them out for great deals.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Speedy the Cat Challenge #64

Color challenge- pink, green, yellow From Lori

7-16 Pnk,Ylw,Gr 

Did you have fun with the blog hop?  Congratulations to the winners. What a fun way to win and absorb new ideas at the same time. 

Ah what a fun stamp set to use.  Here, you have the seed packet for sunflowers from Planted With Love.  Don’t you agree, these little ladies have THE cutest faces?  I chose to make my first easel card.  Here’s a link for you. http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/easelcard/  I wanted the flowers to look like they were sitting in a garden and I used three different color markers on a portion of the flower stamp from the Brick Wall set also from Mark’s Finest Papers to make it look like a vine. The very pretty ribbon is from there.  Check them out for all your stamping needs.  They DO have everything.  It’s convenient.

Did you know, Mark’s Finest Papers has THE best prices on paper anywhere? The quality is really right up there and they give you a great deal compared to retail online or brick and mortar stores.  Check them out if you want to save money.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Whatcha doin' this weekend?


When I was at the store, I overheard the cutest conversation and it just gave me the giggles inside. Young girl to young boy, clerk, prbly 17-18 yrs. Her: What are you doing Friday night? Him: Going to the fair, I'm going to watch my girlfriend show her pigs.

I don't know why but this tickled my funny bone. We live rural but I just thought it was sweet that he was going to do that. It was so clean cut. Not, uh, i dunno, go hang out and have a beer party with my friends. "OINK"

Marks Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 2






I'm not part of the official hop today but I did want to share this wonderful set with you. It's my favorite of this month's release. Isn't this little sunflower gal just the cutest? On the top card, I added the label from the Seed Packet image and tucked it behind the metal tag also available from Mark's finest papers.

I water colored the images and masked them to look like a field of sunflowers and drew my own stems and leaves. I used Staedler water color pencils. The one in the front on the left, I stamped, colored and cut out with a scalloped die cut to add some interest, then popped it up a bit.

I do love how this card turned out. So happy looking.

Here's the blog hop details. Hop along and comment to WIN!

Hello! Welcome to the July 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop!
This week's new releases are: Little Birds With Big Mouths, Planted with Love, Lilacs in the Summer, and Adirondack Summer.For your convenience, all these sets are available TODAY at Mark's Finest Papers.
So, do you want to WIN today's Featured Stamp Set: Planted With Love? (If you don't want to wait to win, you can always purchase the sets right away! We'll substitute a set from NEXT month's release if today's winner has already purchased this set!)
For your chance to win: Comment on the following Design Team members' blogs TODAY before midnight EDT. There will be ONE random winner chosen from the comments on today's Blog Hop blogs. That winner will win Planted With Love. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's blog post.
Lois
Vicky
Dawn
Anne
Peggysue
Connie
Emily
Karen
Patty
Roxie
Vicki
Liz
Geri
Lynn
Mark’s Finest Papers

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Blog Hop Day One-Little Birds with Big Mouths

Hello! Welcome to the July 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop!
This week's new releases are: Little Birds With Big Mouths, Planted with Love, Lilacs in the Summer, and Adirondack Summer.For your convenience, all these sets are available TODAY at Mark's Finest Papers.
So, do you want to WIN today's Featured Stamp Set: Little Birds With Big Mouths? (If you don't want to wait to win, you can always purchase the sets right away! We'll substitute a set from NEXT month's release if today's winner has already purchased this set!)
For your chance to win: Comment on the following Design Team members' blogs TODAY before midnight EDT. There will be ONE random winner chosen from the comments on today's Blog Hop blogs. That winner will win Little Birds With Big Mouths. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's blog post.



Lois
Vicky
Dawn
Anne
Peggysue
Connie
Emily
Karen
Patty
Roxie
Vicki
Liz
Geri
Lynn
Mark’s Finest Papers

Friday, July 8, 2011

Speedy the Cat Challenge #63

Baby Robins-use a die cut on your card
7-9 die cut BG Baby Robins
This set, Little Birds with Big Mouths is such a fun and versatile set. This will be available for sale on Tuesday.  Watch for the BLOG HOP @ Mark's Finest Papers.  When challenged to use die cuts I chose to use my spell binders circles and make them kind of look like holes in the tree.  The BG is embossed with Tim Holt’s embossing folder.  I really like the deep impressions they make. We have had such a great time with baby birds in our yard this summer that I just had to share these little nestlings with you.  Remember to visit the Design Team and leave them some love.  We love comments as much as you do. Smile  If you use stamps from Mark’s Finest Paper you get your name entered twice and everyone has a chance to win one of the new release stamp sets. (and guess what? You get to use yours before we do)  This one didn't photo too well.  If you click on the picture you can see the detail and separation of the little birds better. 

Oh Beautiful for Spacious Skies

Speedy's Challenge #62 Patriotic


Please be safe this holiday week and have fun in all you do.  We are thankful for the freedoms we have in our country.  What a privilege.
7-2 Patriotic






   Speedy the Cat’s friends has a fun Patriotic Challenge going on this week.  Come and join us.  You could win a free stamp set and they stamp SO nicely. Here’s a sneak peek of one of the really fun sets being released this month.  The music notes are from the “Silent Night” stamp  in the Musical Christmas set .  It’s fun to combine sets together.
I’m just getting started with copic coloring and I do love how they shade so nicely.  I used flower soft on the vine to give it a fun look and kind of incorporate that fun little birds ruffly new feathers.  The Martha Stewart punch created the fence edge, which I thought suited the bird house.
I hand lettered the sentiment.  Everything on the card can be purchased from Mark’s Finest Papers except the ribbon which came from Michaels;  oops, and the eyelets were from my stash too.  (we do have eyelets at MFP) just sayin’
Thanks for stopping by. I do appreciate each and every comment and thank you for leaving them. Smile