Cased Cat! " By the Sea"

Hello, hows everything with you all? I made this card for a challenge over at Stamp TV. Theresa has ask us to case one of the designers at STV, Cat!! I just love Cat's cards and she has been a inspiration for me. Here is the card I chose to case.
Snow Owl.


Things I changed: Stamp set and left off one of the layers and the button is different.
The image is from Theresa Momber "By the Sea" and the sentiment is "Follow your Dreams" both are from GKD.
The image was colored with Primas pencils and white craft ink for my sponging.
I just love this gorgeous set!! Have a great day.

Speedy's Challenge # 69

Hi I'm back again!! Yep, just had to play in Speedy's Friends challenge my friend Linda has ask us to emboss on our card or project. So easy, I just jumped right to it!! LOL. I also made this for SCS inspiration challenge today IC298.
The stamps used here are the newly released set from Mark's Finest Papers "Fun on the Farm". This is such a cute set!!. I colored the image with Prisma pencils and cut it out. I used the cuttlebug embossing folder for Speedy's challenge and to fit the texture of the challenge on SCS. All supplies for this card came from MFP.


Hope you are still enjoying your day. Thanks for coming by.

Some Challenge Cards

Good afternoon! I wanted to share a few challenge cards I recently made. All three cards are challenges over at Split Coast Stampers. This first card was for the sketch challenge this week, SC346. I used the recently released set from Mark's Finest Papers " Poppies, Poppies, Poppies". I just love this gorgeous set. The card stock is MFP and DP is Basic Grey. Flower and ribbon is also from MFP.




This was the TLC337 challenge to make a Swinging fold card. This was my first try at it and it wasn't hard and followed the tutorial SCS has on it. But I do think I would do a better job next time now that I know what I'm doing!! The stamp set is from MFP "Birthday Mini". Card stock is MFP and DP is Basic Grey.

The inside:

Now this card was for another sketch challenge, SC345. The stamps are from Mark's Finest Papers, "Little Birds with big Mouths" Card stock and ribbon is from MFP and DP is Basic Grey.

Hope you are having a lovely week-end and that you get a chance to stamp!! Thanks for stopping by.

Speedy's Friends Challenge #68

Hi all! We have been having very nice weather here and hope you are also. Today I made a card for Speedy's Friends challenge hosted by Carol. The challenge is to distress the edges on our card. All the supplies for this card is from Mark's Finest Papers. The stamp set is the newly released "Blackeyed Susan's for Encouragement" by MFP. Hope your not getting tired of this brown ribbon but I just love it. Go's so well with Cosmo Cricket "Wanted" DP, that I used here.

Hope you all are having a great week-end and thanks ever so much for stopping by.

Aug. MFP Blog Hop Day #4

Hello! Welcome to the August 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop!

This week's new releases are:Black Eyed Susans for Encouragement, Butterflies and Wisteria, Forest Gifts, Fun on the Farm .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:Fun On The Farm? (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 Fun On The Farm. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's MFP blog post.
Here are my samples:


Here are some fun straw toppers, great for kids parties , I got this idea from my daughter Theresa.


This is such an adorable set, wait till you see what wonderful creations the rest of the team has to show you.

Emily
Nancyruth
Neva
Faith
Claudine
Dawn
Marilynn
Patricia
Chrissy
Karen
Pam
Joanne
Kittie
Markie
Mark’s Finest Papers

Have a great week end and thanks for stopping by.

Aug. MFP Blog Hop Day #3

Hello! Welcome to the August 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop!

This week's new releases are:Black Eyed Susans for Encouragement, Butterflies and Wisteria, Forest Gifts, Fun on the Farm .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:Forest Gifts? (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 Forest Gifts. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's MFP blog post.



The supplies used in both cards:
CS -MFP and Basic Grey -DP
Prisma Pencils, memento ink for sponging.
Nestabilities for the tags.
I also used the fern image from "Ferns and Chickadee" By MFP on the bottom card.



Be sure to see what wonderful samples the rest of the design team has to show you.

Emily
Nancyruth
Neva
Faith
Claudine
Dawn
Marilynn
Patricia
Chrissy
Karen
Pam
Joanne
Kittie
Markie
Mark’s Finest Papers

Have a great day and thanks ever so much for visiting my blog!!

Aug MFP Blog Hop Day #2

Hello! Welcome to the August 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop!

This week's new releases are:Black Eyed Susans for Encouragement, Butterflies and Wisteria, Forest Gifts, Fun on the Farm .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: Butterflies and Wisteria? (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 Butterflies and Wisteria. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's MFP blog post.


Good morning!! Hope you are enjoying the hop so far. I think you will enjoy today's featured set!!
Be sure to see the rest of the design teams samples they are stunning!!


Lois
Vicky
Dawn
Anne
Peggysue
Connie
Linda
Karen
Patty
Roxie
Vicki
Liz
Geri (you are here)
Lynn
Mark’s Finest Papers

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by

Aug. MFP Blog Hop Day #1

Hello! Welcome to the August 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop!

This week's new releases are:Black Eyed Susans for Encouragement, Butterflies and Wisteria, Forest Gifts, Fun on the Farm .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: Black Eyed Susans for Encouragement? (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 Black Eyed Susans for Encouragement. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's MFP blog post.

Hi all! I really love these new sets!!!!!!!!! All the supplies used for my card is from MFP.

Be sure to check out the fabulous samples the rest of the team has to share.

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

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Speedy's Friends Challenge #67

Hi there! This week's challenge at Speedy's Friends is brought to you by Colleen who challenges everyone to make a card any shape or size other than the standard 4 1/4" x 5 1/2". My card is a square 5"x 5". The images are from "Floating Along" by Mark's Finest Papers. DP is Prima amd card stock is by MFP. All supplies for this card can be found at Mark's Finest Papers.

If you want to play along and even win a stamp set you can find all the info here.
Hope you are having a nice week-end and thanks for stopping by.

A Whale of a Time

Hello! I have some photo's I thought I would share with you all. My DH and I went over to the coast of Oregon for some R and R. We had a wonderful time and the weather was perfect. We spent most of our time on the beach. We heard that a Grey Whale had come up the Kamath River in northern California, which was about 45 minutes from us . We drove down to take a peek. Sure enough there she was! She is a Grey Whale reportedly 45 feet long, she did have a young one with her but it had made it back to sea. Hope she makes it back soon.










Well that is all for now, still trying to play catch up.
Next Tuesday MFP new release starts, hope you can stop by.

Take care and thanks for stopping by.