Jugs 189

The wedding anniversary season is upon us, well it is for me anyway, so here is another anniversary card for one coming up this weekend.  I have used several dies and my colours are this week's JUGS colours.

Thank you for looking.

Cat and Dog day

Hi everyone hope you are safe and well.

The Less is More challenge is to make cards with the theme Dog or Cat.  I am a doggy person but I need a card for someone who loves cats - so the answer make one of each!

I chose a High Hopes image for the dog card so I can enter it into the High Hopes CAS challenge.  I coloured with Prismacolor Pencils.

I used a Jane Gill Woodware cat and paper pieced him with a "ginger" scrap from my paper trays.

Friday Sketch 43

Friday Sketch Challenge from 10th May had a lovely hexagon in the centre and I decided I wanted to play along and use my Spellbinders Hexagon dies.  I actually didn't use them in the end because the image I wanted to use would not fit a hexagon!

My husband chose this stamp set and I love it - great for the girlie cards - this is its first outing.  The stamp is from Crafty Individuals and is called Lifes a beach.

I coloured the image with Copics and use another Spellbinders die for cutting it out.  I drew round the die for the black layer.  Thanks for checking this out.

FOSTV 73 - Card for a Child

Sorry to be late posting today.  It is getting on for midday here in the UK and I just remembered in the middle of my Maths preparation for tomorrow's GCSE revision session for my nephew and his friend that I had not done my blog post!

Well better late than never, I hope, here is my card using one of last week's releases Space Fun.  It is a very simple card but how many children take notice of the card - they are more interested in the money inside or the gift!  Mind you most parents appreciate the time and trouble you have gone to.

The challenge this week could not be easier so please do join in - all you have to do is make a card for a child and add it in to the challenge post (It will be Challenge 73 on this page ).
You can use any stamps you would like but if you use Marks Finest Papers stamps you double your chance of winning the prize which is a cute set called Zoo Friends.

Thanks for dropping in and please don't forget to enjoy our challenge this week.  We would love to see your creation.

MFP Blog Hop Day 4 - Now Showing

May Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured May 14th
Marsh Birds

Featured May 15th
In Tents
 

Featured May 16th

Space Fun
 

Featured May 17th

Now Showing

Today we have another fun set to share with you, the last set of this month's hop and I have two cards to show you.  My first card is a folded card (my first one of these) and I hope to use it to give a gift of cinema tickets - you can see how I have mocked it up in the second photo.  I layered up the image - very fiddly but I think it was worth it - the popcorn is raised up the most.

 This one uses the film strip from this set and ducks from the set called Oh Baby.  Having made it I decided it reminded me of the duck shooting game at the fun-fair - I hope this idea doesn't attach itself to the card when it is given!!!  

If you are hopping please go to AnJenic next.

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 May 18,2013 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 May 17,2013.

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

"Marsh Silhouettes"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Lily of the Valley"
                                                      

 

Less is More - Single Layer Coloured Card

The Less is More challenge this week is to produce a single layer card using coloured card. 

My first card uses navy card stock and a flower image from Penny Black, which was stamped in white and embellished with some Prismacolor pencils and a white pen.  This one is also being entered into Penny Black Saturday Challenge for May.

My second card uses a soft green card and I stamped in a dark purple from Memento.  The image is from Stampin Up and the sentiment is from Waltzingmouse.

Thanks for looking - have a great weekend.

MFP Blog Hop Day 3 - Space Fun (aka "Ground Control to Major Tom")

May Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured May 14th
Marsh Birds

Featured May 15th
In Tents
 

Featured May 16th

Space Fun

This is a cute set and a very topical one with the astronaut Chris Hadfield coming back down to earth and all the news of his facebook, photos from space, singing David Bowie songs etc.  

I have 3 cards to share with you today, one of which is also on the MFP site.  All of them are pretty straightforward so need little explanation.  Once you have checked these out beam over to AnJenic to see her creations.  Please don't forget our FOSTV challenge this week - we would love you to play along with our "Inspired by something in your home" challenge.

Inside it says - "Sorry I Forgot" - sentiment in the set!

 

Featured May 17th

Now Showing

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 May 18,2013 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 May 17,2013.

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

"Marsh Silhouettes"

 The mini stamp set we have for you this month is

"Lily of the Valley"