Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge-Dots

Welcome to my blog and another Challenge Creation. Our challenge this week is "Dots". So this week I used Faith's signature dots around the card design element for my card. But if you look real close you can see dots on my paper, dots on my butterflies, dots on my die cuts, and dots in the center of my flowers. So come and join us at the Mark's Finest Papers Blog!

My image is Take a Peek from Mark's Finest Papers. My sunflowers are from Mark's Finest Papers as well. I used puff paint for my dots for dimension. The butterflies are a Martha Stewart Punch as well as the branches.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a great weekend!

Challenges Entered:
Our Craft Lounge - Fall Foliage
Phindy's Place Challenge - Autumn/Fall
Stampin with the Dragon - Fall Into Color
Totally Paper Crafts - Autumn
Cute Card Thursday - Animal Crackers

Fred She Said Fall Blue Aster

Hey everybody. I don't know how I even finished this tonight, but here I am. Photobucket wouldn't save my signature on my card. Well, with the new computer, I found I have my own photo editing software....yippee. I like it to. Only thing I have to find out how to put the text on my picture. I achieved this one with Gimp-which I love too-but it will take me 5 years to learn everything it can do...lol

Today my card is a tent topper. This is my first one. Splitcoast Stampers has a tutorial if you interested, but I kinda did my own thing. My car measures 5-1/4" x 5-3/4". I didn't follow any particular pattern, I just went with the proportions I liked.

My image is from Fred She Said and is the Fall Aster. It can be found in the fall flower collection here. The color of the Aster is so awesome. I used Spellbinders Scalloped, Round, and Doily Motif Nesties. There are several layers on my medallion. I punched three rows of border with an EK Success border punch. The butterflies are a Martha Stewart Punch. Lots of pearls, ribbon, and some stick pins for embellishment.

Looking forward to a craft filled weekend. Hope you have a great weekend too!

Challenges Entered:
Crafty Purple Frog - Lots of Layers
Meljen's Design - Use a Square and a Circle
Paper Crafting Journey - Die Cuts and Punches
Rainbow Lady Challenge - Fall Flowers
Southern Girls - Anything Goes
Crafts and Me - Flowers
Digi Stamp for Joy - Anything Goes
Freshly Brewed Challenge - Autumn
I Brake For Challenges - Fall
Inky Impressions - Punches and Dies
Simon Says - Anything Goes
Penny's Paper Crafty Challenge - Anything Goes

Fred She Said Halloween Rosie Candy Boxes

Halloween is just about a month away. I am trying to get together enough of these Candy Boxes for my special Trick or Treaters. This image is from the Fred She Said store and is available. here. Isn't Rosie cute. She is sure to please any of my Trick or Treaters.

These Candy boxes are made from empty Laughing Cow Cheese boxes. If you are interested in the tutorial that I did, please just click here for all the information you need to make some of these for your little Trick or Treaters! The embellishments on these boxes are Martha Stewart Bat Punch, Recollection's Boo Sentiment, and Recollection's Pumpkins.

Thanks for stopping by. It's been a pleasure to have you visit today.

Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge-Things with Wings

Today's challenge at Mark's Finest Paper's is "Things With Wings". I chose this "Boo To You" stamp for the challenge and used some bats with wings for the challenge perimeters. Fun huh! I made this tag to go on a bottle of Bath and Body Works Sweet Cinnamon Pumpkin hand soap. That stuff smells delicious. I made this for a gift.

The tree is a Sizzix die cut on a recycled box of cereal and glittered with Martha Stewart Licorice glitter. The Boo sticker is from last years Recollection collection. The bats were punched with a Martha Stewart punch and popped on dimensionals. The moon was cut with Spellbinders Round nestabilities. The ribbon (orange and green) are from Mark's Finest Papers-some fibers and gold ribbon were added for interest.

Thank so much for stopping by today. Hope you have a craft filled weekend!

Fred She Said Fabulous Fall Blog Hop

Greetings and welcome to the Fred She Said Blog Hop. We are calling it the Fred She Said Fabulous Fall Blog Hop. We were to use a Fall Colour Combo - any 2 or more colors from Red, Green, Yellow, Orange or Gold ... and sky blue. For my card I used the Colored Hollyhocks set that you can find here. I was going for a warm feeling with the reds and distress inks. As hot as it has been here in the South this summer, I have been sad to see the summer fade-hence the warmth I was going for! The flourishes were cut from old cereal boxes with a sizzix die and glittered with bronze Martha Stewart Glitter. Martha Stewart Large and Medium butterfly punches were used for the butterflies. The die cut is Spellbinders. If you came by way of Michelle, then you are on the right tract.

My word is HEART.

Now that you have all the words, it is time to go to the FSS Challenge Blog to enter to win the following prizes!

THE PRIZE:
£15 Gift Voucher to Bearly Mine Designs
$10 Prize Package of yummy goodies chosen by Judy from Pizzazz APlenty
$30 Gift Certificate to the Fred She Said Store

Instructions on how to enter are on the FSS Challenge Blog

Entries close on Friday September 30th at midnight EDT and winners will be announced Saturday October 1st.

Thanks for stopping by. We hope you enjoyed the blog hop.

Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge 73-Autumn Glory

Today's challenge at Mark's Finest Papers is a "One" Layer card. May I just say that this was a
real challenge for me. I don't think since I started making cards that I ever did a one layer. I am not even sure if I did it right...lol But hey, I gave it my best shot. Please join us in the challenge as I would love to visit and get some pointers and a lesson on how to make a one layer card.

What you see here is this awesome paper from Mark's Finest Papers Neutrals Premium Paper Combo that you can find here. It is the 100lb. craft and I embossed it with my cuttlebug pumpkin folder. The leaf image and the sentiment are from Mark's Finest Papers Autumn Glory stamp set here. I ran some tea dye distress ink around the edge of the card. I also got two sided tape at a stamping convention I went to recently just for the purpose of glittering like you see here. I learned some cool things at this convention. I particularly loved the glittered images on acetate they were demonstrating and selling . Holy smokes that was awesome....and you know me with my glitter.

So anyway, I stamped my leaves with some versafine. Then I sponged on Ranger distress inks in Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, and Fired Brick. Yes, I am not only a punch and die cut junkie, but I am addicted to distress inks. I am hopeless with my "stuff". My husband enables me too. He told me to buy whatever I wanted at the convention. Is he crazy. I heard a story where one lady spent $5,000....lol Not at the convention I was at-but I did know some ladies that spent at least $500. I think I spent $80 and that included lunch and dinner......lol I try to pace myself between credit card bills....lol But, I did take 8 classes but I paid for those back in the summer. I really loved the acrylic albums we made and the mixed media one made with canvas. The classes were only about 1hr and 30 minutes so my projects are not yet fully complete for me to post. But it was fun.

Well that's it for today. Hope you have a great weekend. I will be playing in my craft room in-between batches of Pumpkin Butter that I am making and baking English Muffin Bread. I am making the Pumpkin Butter in my crock-pot and it smells awesome in the house. It will cook overnight and I will can it in the morning. It is suppose to be cool this weekend. I hope the weather man is right as it was 99 degrees yesterday and 96 today. To hot to can!!!!

Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop Day 4-Get Your Broom On

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

This week's new releases are:Autumn Glory, Boo To You, Covered Bridges, Get Your Broom On .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:Get Your Broom On? (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 Get Your Broom On. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's MFP blog post.

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

Today is a folder frame card using the Get Your Broom On image. I wanted to make this look like night time so I sponged the top of the mountains lightly with yellow as the reflection off the bright harvest moon. The tree also captures the light reflecting from the moon. Then for the mountains I used purple ink and blended it into midnight blue as Speedy the Cat is taken it all in for this picture...lol The paper is Recollection from last year. I love that green flocked paper so much. This stamp is called Get Your Broom On is available today at Mark's Finest Papers. Thank you so much for stopping by. This is the last day of our Hop-but I will see you tomorrow for the new Challenge over at Speedy the Cat's Friends!