This week in review

This week has been hectic. I'm sure busy with crafting and this past week's Harvest/Halloween blog hop made me want to stamp even more!

You can scroll down to see the projects. I had fun making them!

This week's Oriental Sketch Challenge over on MFPSpeedyTV.ning.com is this sketch.

The flower was stamped in Versa Mark onto black card stock. I embossed it in white. Then I painted in with bleach to make the card stock white/brown. If you heat set the bleach it will get a brownish look. I love it! I colored in with ink based/water based markers and wiped off the excess with a paper towel. I cut out the image leaving just a bit of the black outside the embossed white lines.

Harvest/Halloween Blog Hop Final day

 

Welcome to the Mark’s Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. Halloween/Harvest Hop. We have some great tutorials for you to make some fun and easy projects for this Halloween/Harvest Season. We will be giving away two stamps sets during this hop, so two lucky people will go home with both of these fabulous stamp sets. Be sure to comment on all the designers’ blogs. Our hop will run from September 24^th-27^th. Our two winners will be announced on September 28th. 

 

September 24th - Treat Holders

September 25th - Polished Stone

September 26th - Treat Bags

September 27th - Holiday Table Setting

 

All our tutorials along with many more are available on MFP SpeedyTV.  The company blog has direct links to the tutorials! http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.com

 

Be sure to check out all of our designers who participated in our hop. The more you comment the more chances you have to win one of these great stamp sets.

  

Thrifty Stamper 

Trudy Harris-Thomas 

Lois Bak 

Jane Chambers 

Amy E 

Davi Reid 

 

Thanks for stopping by! We hope we were able to inspire you with ideas for your Halloween/Harvest season.

 

Harvest Halloween Blog Hop Day 3

 

Welcome to the Mark’s Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. Halloween/Harvest Hop. We have some great tutorials for you to make some fun and easy projects for this Halloween/Harvest Season. We will be giving away two stamps sets during this hop, so two lucky people will go home with both of these fabulous stamp sets. Be sure to comment on all the designers’ blogs. Our hop will run from September 24^th-27^th. Our two winners will be announced on September 28th. 

 

September 24th - Treat Holders

September 25th - Polished Stone

September 26th - Treat Bags

September 27th - Holiday Table Setting

 

All our tutorials along with many more are available on MFP SpeedyTV.  The company blog has direct links to the tutorials! http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.com

 

Be sure to check out all of our designers who participated in our hop. The more you comment the more chances you have to win one of these great stamp sets.

 

Thrifty Stamper

 

Trudy Harris-Thomas

 

Bonnie R.

 

Jane C.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by! We hope we were able to inspire you with ideas for your Halloween/Harvest season.

 

Here is a sample for the Harvest themed Treat Tote.

 

Here is my Treat Tote for Halloween.

 

You can find the tutorial for this Treat Bag here:
http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/page/treat-tote

You can find the tutorial for this Treat Bag here:

http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/page/harvest-halloween-treat-bag-9-26-13

 

Harvest/Halloween Blog Hop Day 2

 

Welcome to the Mark’s Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. Halloween/Harvest Hop. We have some great tutorials for you to make some fun and easy projects for this Halloween/Harvest Season. We will be giving away two stamps sets during this hop, so two lucky people will go home with both of these fabulous stamp sets. Be sure to comment on all the designers’ blogs. Our hop will run from September 24^th-27^th. Our two winners will be announced on September 28th. 

 

September 24th - Treat Holders

September 25th - Polished Stone

September 26th - Treat Bags

September 27th - Holiday Table Setting

 

All our tutorials along with many more are available on MFP SpeedyTV.  The company blog has direct links to the tutorials! http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.com

 

Be sure to check out all of our designers who participated in our hop. The more you comment the more chances you have to win one of these great stamp sets.

 

Thrifty Stamper

 

Sue W.

 

Trudy Harris-Thomas

 

Lois B. on other blogs this link may not work, use this link!

 

Jane C.

 

Amy E.

 

 

 



Thanks for stopping by! We hope we were able to inspire you with ideas for your Halloween/Harvest season.

 

Here is my Harvest sample.

 

This is my Halloween sample.

 

Harvest/Halloween Blog Hop Day 1

 

Welcome to the Mark’s Finest Papers a Heinrich Co. Halloween/Harvest Hop. We have some great tutorials for you to make some fun and easy projects for this Halloween/Harvest Season. We will be giving away two stamps sets during this hop, so two lucky people will go home with both of these fabulous stamp sets. Be sure to comment on all the designers’ blogs. Our hop will run from September 24^th-27^th. Our two winners will be announced on September 28th. 

 

September 24th - Treat Holders

September 25th - Polished Stone

September 26th - Treat Bags

September 27th - Holiday Table Setting

 

All our tutorials along with many more are available on MFP SpeedyTV.  The company blog has direct links to the tutorials! http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.com

 

Be sure to check out all of our designers who participated in our hop. The more you comment the more chances you have to win one of these great stamp prizes.

 

Thrifty Stamper

 

Trudy Harris-Thomas

  

Jane C.

 

Sue W.

 

 My first 2 samples are for the Candy Bar Sleeve

You can find the tutorial for the candy bar sleeves here:

http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/page/candy-bar-sleeve

These are my Lollipop Holder Samples

 

You can find the tutorial for these here:

http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/page/lollipop-holder

 

These are my samples for the Mini Candy Bar/Tic Tac/Gum Pack Holders.

 

This one is a Tic Tac Holder

 

Inside view

 

Front View of Halloween Mini Candy Bar holder.

Side view

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by! We hope we were able to inspire you with ideas for your Halloween/Harvest season.

 

This week's cards!

Today's Oriental Sketch Challenge #3 is a great one! I love the design team samples.
Here is a direct link to the challenge on MFPSpeedyTV.ning.com
http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/page/oriental-sketch-challenge-3-9-21-13

Here is my card.

 

 

I didn't get much stamping in this week. Here is the card I made for this week's Tutorial Time Challenge found here:

http://mfpspeedytv.ning.com/page/tutorial-time-on-speedytv-challenge-67-9-20-13

 

Here is my sample card.

A thrifty hint is to purchase the Clorox Concentrated bleach. It works fast and dries quickly.

 

Oriental Sketch Challenge on MFPSpeedyTV!

It's week 2 of the Oriental Sketch challenge on MFPSpeedyTV.ning.com! This is my card for the challenge:

I love this little bird on the pussy willow branch. I used some scrapbook paper for the panels. I traded some empty jars for a huge box of scrapbook paper last weekend.

 I put together a community Craft Materials/Tools Swap. We meet once a month at the church. Each person brings a box of items that they want to swap. You can swap out the entire box or you can swap piece by piece.  It's fun, and you never know what you are going to come home with! I got a glue gun, punches and a crimper a few months back! Other ladies brought in scissors, markers, gold flaking materials, stained glass tools, mosaic pieces, wood tools, old drills, leather kits, sewing materials, old glass milk jugs, glass blocks, baby food containers, half bottles of different glues, half cans of spray paint, skeins of yarn, sewing bags, knitting needles, paper cutters, ink pads, shredder, pasta machine and little pill bottles.

I was a bit stymied in my stamping about a year ago. I didn't have many tools. The Craft Swap helped get my creative juices going and gave me access to new to me tools. You may want to think about getting together with a few friends once in a while to try a craft materials/tools swap!
 

Final Day of this month's blog hop-Tailgate Party!

September Blog Hop
 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 FeaturedSept 10
Koi Fish

FeaturedSept 11
Primitive Farm 

Featured Sept 12 
What a Scream

Featured Sept 13
Tailgate Party

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 Sept. 14, 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 10 PM EST on Friday Sept. 13, 2013.

Here's the Design Team:

Patty

Lois

Jane C

Debbie

Pam

Pat G

Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn

Karen K

Bonnie

Kathy

Angela

Cathy C

Toni

Sue W

Janine

An'Jenic

Kate Z

Shirley Q

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

I love this set because it has great masculine images and a banner. The banner is just one banner with different words that can be stamped in it. This banner could and will be used as a Birthday Party banner on future cards. I will stamp Birthday and then have the Party in the banner. On the inside of the card I will print up the party invitation! You could also have it be a Thank You card for gifts you received on your birthday. There are many uses for the banner and I am looking forward to playing! Great set!

This week's cards in review!

For the Thrifty Stamper column on MFPSpeedyTV.ning.com we focused on plastic ribbon masking



Today's Tutorial Time challenge is this darling shoe!

This week's Themes from the Orient column and tutorial are about Oriental Weaving.

Heavens to Betsy! I just realized I used the same butterfly image on all these projects! Thank goodness I colored him differently!  I made these at different times weeks apart. You'd think I only had a few stamp sets! heehee

Day 3 of this month's blog hop- What a Scream

September Blog Hop
 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 FeaturedSept 10
Koi Fish

FeaturedSept 11
Primitive Farm 

Featured Sept 12 
What a Scream

Featured Sept 13
Tailgate Party

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 Sept. 14, 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 10 PM EST on Friday Sept. 13, 2013.

Here's the Design Team:

Patty

Lois

Jane C

Debbie

Pam

Pat G

Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn

Karen K

Bonnie

Kathy

Angela

Cathy C

Toni

Sue W

Janine

An'Jenic

Kate Z

Shirley Q

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

This card is 3" x 3" It will be used as a place card for our Harvest Festival at church.

 

 

This candy corn was colored with water based markers.

Day 2 of this month's blog hop Primitive Farm

September Blog Hop
 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 FeaturedSept 10
Koi Fish

FeaturedSept 11
Primitive Farm 

Featured Sept 12 
What a Scream

Featured Sept 13
Tailgate Party

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 Sept. 14, 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 10 PM EST on Friday Sept. 13, 2013.

Here's the Design Team:

Patty

Lois

Jane C

Debbie

Pam

Pat G

Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn

Karen K

Bonnie

Kathy

Angela

Cathy C

Toni

Sue W

Janine

An'Jenic

Kate Z

Shirley Q

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

This card was done in monotones to get the primitive look.

 

 

The cow and house were stamped, colored and masked. The background was sponged in.

Day 1 of this month's MFP Blog Hop: Koi Fish Pond

September Blog Hop
 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 FeaturedSept 10
Koi Fish

FeaturedSept 11
Primitive Farm 

Featured Sept 12 
What a Scream

Featured Sept 13
Tailgate Party

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 Sept. 14, 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 10 PM EST on Friday Sept. 13, 2013.

 

 

Here's the Design Team:

Patty

Lois

Jane C

Debbie

Pam

Pat G

Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn

Karen K

Bonnie

Kathy

Angela

Cathy C

Toni

Sue W

Janine

An'Jenic

Kate Z

Shirley Q

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

I love this set! I repeatedly inked and stamped the sentiment Koi Fish on the panel . Colored with Sharpies.

This one was colored with Copics. I added the red chops to both cards. The chops are from the Be Virtuous stamp set.

Sneak Peeks for this month's Blog Hop

Sept.Blog Hop Starts Tomorrow!
Join us today for Sneak Peeks!

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 FeaturedSept 10
Koi Fish

FeaturedSept 11
Primitive Farm 

Featured Sept 12 
What a Scream

Featured Sept 13
Tailgate Party

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 Sept. 14, 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 10 PM EST on Friday Sept. 13, 2013.

Here's the Design Team:

Patty
Lois
Jane C
Debbie
Pam
Pat G
Thrfity Stamper
Marilynn

Karen K

Bonnie

Kathy
Angela
Cathy C
Toni
Sue W
Janine
An'Jenic
Kate Z
Shirley Q
Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Today's Sneak Peeks are from Holiday Tag:

 This card was sponged with brown to make it look vintage.

I have a new Natural color cardstock that was given to me by my daughter. I have been making vintage type cards.

 

The mini that is FREE this month when you buy 4 sets is called

Nature's Sketches

This card is simple and clean.

 

The image was colored with a marker. I huffed on it to make the ink wet and stamped. Next I sponged in the color. I think it looks like a dandelion puff. The background is onion printed.