Sunday, November 7, 2010

Mark's Finest Papers November Blog Hop! Day One!

Welcome to the MFP November Blog Hop! This month, we are releaseing 6 NEW SETS!

And…LOOK for a NEW LINK LIST TOMORROW!!!

We have 6 New Stamp Sets Released: Brick Wall, Bells on Bobtail, Christmas Postage Due, Bold & Free, Muscial Holiday and Welcome Home. For your convenience, all 6 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

For your chance to win BLOG CANDY, (a set that will be released NEXT month), visit and comment on each of the following design team members' blogs TODAY. On Saturday, (November 13, 2010), a winner will be chosen from those participants who visited all the blogs listed for today. (There will be four different winners, one winner for each day of the blog hop. You DO NOT have to comment every day. However, the more days you comment, the more chances you have to win!) If you miss a day, you can go back and comment on each day's blogs, as the winners will be chosen Saturday morning.

Using the set Bells On Bobtail, I created these tags by stamping the jingle bells (oh, I love jingle bells!) using Versamark ink then coloring in with Copic markers. I sprayed gold glimmer mist over the entire tag and then added the sentiment stamped in red.



The Brick Wall set is really fun and versatile. For this card, I stamped the brick wall image onto a brick colored card stock then distressed the edges of the panel with a distressing tool and sponging of inks. I then stamped the vine image using versamark ink and embossing with white embossing powder. I colored the embossed vine with pastels, then went back and colored the flowers with purple Smooch and a little gold smooch in the cneters. The butterflies were stamped onto a smoosh created piece of cardstock and embossed with black before cutting out and adding a little more gold smooch. The brick image is mounted onto brown. The butterflies on the brick wall are popped up. I created the purple mat by stamping the vine image with versamark and embossing with clear embossing powder. All that is mounted onto the green card which is an uneven gate fold. I added the luscious purple bow to highlight the brick panel. The cardstock, stamps, ribbon and smooch are all available at Mark's Finest Papers. Go check it out!



Nancyruth
Lois
Vicky
Dawn L.
Anne
Peggysue
Susan
Judi
Connie
Emily
Karen- – that’s me and you are already here!
Patty
Roxie
Vicki
Liz
Geri –
Lynn-
Emily N.
Mark’s Finest Papers

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to come back tomorrow for another new set.

28 comments:

Ujjwal said...

Beautiful vibrant cards!!

Lois said...

Cute tags -- love the look of the gold glimmer mist. And that beautiful purple bow on your second card is scrumptious!!!

Dawn said...

love the tags! cute!
mmmm, purple! on that second one!

Susan Raihala said...

Fab tags (very inspiring to me!) and the gate card is gorgeous...love your colors on that one!

Connie said...

Great ideas and even greater cards Karen! Love them both.
Connie

jovialjudi said...

Just lovely examples Karen! Great tags and the purple on the card is yummy!!

Karen (TLgirl353) said...

Wonderful design on both of your cards!

Lynn McAuley said...

What beautiful work, Karen! Those Christmas tags are delightful!! And your vines look awesome embossed in white!! How fabulous!!

Emily Keaton said...

What great tags! and I love that purple bow :) Super projects, Karen.

Vicky Gould said...

Fabulous tags!! Lovin' that purple too!!

Virgo5 said...

Wonderful, love those tags!

Anonymous said...

my favorite is the tag card, love ideas usng tags. thanks for sharing your work!
linda patti tpatti@windstream.net

ButterflyEars said...

Karen, both of your projects are wonderful.
I love the tags with the bells and the pretty butterflies on the Brick Wall card.

redwasher1 said...

Stunning tags!!! Great card, I love the color purple!!!

orangepunkins said...

I like the christmas tags. Very pretty.

jimlynn said...

Beautiful! Love that purple and green together on the butterfly card.
Lynn

Pat said...

Both are great, but the brick wall with the bright colors is my favorite! Great job with a great set!
Hugs, Pat Smith

Carol L said...

Your butterfly card is gorgeous, and I just LOVE LOVE LOVE those fabulous tags!!

Karen Gladney said...

Georgeous card and love the tags. Great job.

Christine said...

Those tags are just gorgeous.

Winnie and Patty said...

Karen--these are lovely, but I really really like the tags!!!! Great job. TFS

Claudine Poch said...

Very pretty tags and card!

Sue D said...

Great tags and love the colors on the second.

jennyplace2 said...

Beautiful projects, love the tags!

Harriet Skelly said...

Karen I love these cards (and all of your samples for the release)! I especially love the tags and the butterflies look like cloisonne!! They are gorgeous!

Mo Moss said...

Lots of work girl, wonderful finish.

Joan V said...

Tags,something I always forget to do. These are great and I love the colors. The Brick Wall set card is so cute. I like the shape of your card and it works well with the brick wall.

dawnmercedes said...

I think my favorite today is the tags! wow!