Blog Hop Day 3

Welcome to the MFP January Blog Hop! This month, we are releasing 4 NEW SETS!


And…LOOK for the WINNERS of the Blog Hop Saturday!

Our New Sets are: In the Forest, Happy Pansies, Sew What, Floral Tea. For your convenience, all 4 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, January 15, 2011, 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.

Thursday, January 13, 2011-Sew What?

Here is my card made with the new set:



Here's the rest of the Design Team. Check out what they have done!
Nancyruth

Lois

Vicky

Dawn L.

Anne

Emily

Karen

Patty

Roxie

Vicki

Liz

Claudine

Dawn M

Joanne T

Nicole

Marilynn

Geri

Lynn

Neva

Mark’s Finest Papers

Be sure to join me again tomorrow for the final day of the MFP Blog Hop!

Blog Hop Day 2

Welcome to the MFP January Blog Hop! This month, we are releasing 4 NEW SETS!


And…LOOK for the WINNERS of the Blog Hop on Saturday!

Our New Sets are: In the Forest, Happy Pansies, Sew What, Floral Tea. For your convenience, all 4 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, January 15, 2011, 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.

WEDNESDAY, January 12, 2011- Happy Pansies

Here is my sample of the new set:


Here is the Design Team. You can click on their names to see more samples:

Nancyruth

Lois

Vicky

Dawn L.

Anne - That's me!

Peggysue

Susan

Connie

Claudine

Dawn

Joanne T

Nicole

Marilynn

Geri

Lynn

Emily N.

Mark’s Finest Papers
Come back tomorrow for Day 3 of the MFP Blog Hop!

Blog Hop Day 1

Welcome to the MFP January Blog Hop! This month, we are releasing 4 NEW SETS!


And…LOOK for the WINNERS of the Blog Hop Saturday!

Our New Sets are: In the Forest, Happy Pansies, Sew What, Floral Tea. For your convenience, all 4 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, January 15, 2011, 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.

Here is my card for today using the first new set:
TUESDAY January 11, 2011- In the Forest

Below are the members of the Design Team, where you can see more samples:


Nancyruth

Lois

Vicky

Dawn L.

Anne

Peggysue

Susan

Connie

Emily

Karen

Patty

Roxie

Vicki

Liz

Geri

Lynn

Emily N.

Neva

Mark’s Finest Papers

Please join us tomorrow for Day 2!

TLC Mojo Challenge & CAS Too!

Tomorrow, there will be a Blog Hop here for four new sets from Mark's Finest Papers. This is a sneak peek of a set called "Floral Tea". I made this card for today's challenge at SCS. I'm back from PT, and off to make a card for the CAS.

Here's the card for the CAS, Snow, which I sincerely HATE to see! This card will go off to Mom this morning. We're battening down the hatches for a storm starting tomorrow night, and she will get this card before it starts. She doesn't like snow either!!

Valentine CASE

The FS today is UKGem (julie) who makes beautifully textured cards. I took one of her all-white cards and jazzed it up a bit with my favorite color.

This is a quickie today........off to lunch with DH and then a day of FOOTBALL! YAY!

Penguin Dude

This split negative card in my favorite colors is for the IC266 today. My inspiration was a penguin pencil topper. I think I was also inspired by the snow we are having today as I wait for grandson Jake to arrive. He's having a sleepover, including some crafting, a movie, and popcorn. Isn't life WONDERFUL!!

Tea Time Hearts

This is not what I visualized. Sometimes a card takes on a life of its own. Now that it's done and posted, I don't even like it. everything matches, but maybe it's too much.......PLMK what you think would make it better......or should I scrap it all together??

I woke up with a migraine about 3 AM, and my stomach is still upside down, even though I am good enough to stamp. I will be in the fiorinal with codeine fog all day. We are expecting snow later today, and I am VERY tuned into the weather. I should have been a meteorologist!! I'm going to spend the rest of the day resting. Hope your day is better than mine, but as my Grandma used to say, "This too shall pass!".

Dakota Verse

Here's a simple masculine card I made today for two challenges. For WT: twine. For StampinB's: something old (punch), and something BRAND NEW (stencil). I love the verse I found to go with this dream Weaver stencil. I got out my dusty light box, my stylus, and some sponging......done! Hope you like it. Off to PT in my new car. Seeya!

Creative Belli Challenge - SNOW!

Welcome to the first Belli Challenge of the New Year!! Our first theme is SNOW. The one requirement of the Belli Challenge is to use what is already in your stash. Mine was some snowflakes I cb'd and saved.

Be sure to join us by adding your card or project to Mr. Linky here, and be sure to check in with us in two weeks for another fun challenge!

Button, Button (and new car below!)

The color challenge today was right up my alley, and gave me another Valentine for my stash. I used a set that will be released next Tuesday from Mark's Finest Papers, called "Sew What?". The images are wonderful, and the sayings are fun!!

Thanks for looking. Have a great day, and take a look below at my new car!!

New Car

Here is my nice shiny brand spankin' new car. Just got it home, and so now I can spend the rest of the day figuring out where everything is, and how it works.

Valentine for Elaine, and a Sneak Peek!

Here's a Valentine for my friend Elaine, who has two cats, Josh and Bill. She loves cat cards, so I think she will really like this. It's for the CAS100 challenge at SCS today, and the technique is "kissing". It took more time to decide which images to use than it took to make!!

I am off shortly to pick up my new car. It's a Ford Escape SUV, 2011. It's metallic blue. I'll take a picture of it later, and post it here too, so you can see it. Have a great day.

Here's a second card......painting with Stickles.......using a sneak peek of a set that will be released next week by MFP, called Sew What? Isn't it fun???

Tea Time

Here's a sneak peek of a soon-to-be-released set from Mark's Finest Papers.

This set is called Floral Tea, and will be available next week on January 11th. It has beautiful cups, teapots, and wonderful sayings. Be sure to watch for it, and three more sets as well! I used it today for the FS challenge at SCS. Have a lovely day, and thanks for looking.

RED for next year!

I thought I should start off the New Year with some RED. The Inspiration Challenge for today had a RED and white pitcher that I thought was fun, and thus this card. Before I put away my Christmas themed images, this nutcracker from Mark's Finest Papers set "Christmas Postage Due" just called to me - the beginning of Christmas 2011's stash. Happy New Year to you all.

Clean = White!

Our challenge today at SCS is to make a card showing our New Year's Resolution. Here is mine, with a bit of explanation:

DH does all the laundry. He folds it, and puts my underwear away, and leaves the things to be hung up on my side of the bed. I only go upstairs to go to bed, so at night, I put the stack on the floor. In the morning when I take my shower, I choose from what's on the floor to wear for the day. IF I were to resolve, it would be to hang up my clothes and see a clean floor.

This card represents a clean floor. I figure clean equals white.

Remember, I'm retired. IFs don't go far any more!! Happy 2011 all!!

Valentine for Mom

The challenge this morning on SCS is to use silver. I love the elegance of white with it, and am starting to make valentines. I think my Mom will really like this. I used the butterfly from MFP's new set, Hearts Hearts Hearts. It didn't hurt that I had soome really cute butterfly beads and a heart charm in silver to add to the cord! Hope you like it.

I'm off for the day with DH......sort of a DATE day! LOL! Catch up with you later.

RED Hat for Joyce

This card will go out to a lady who is fighting a real battle. She is a member of the RED Hat Society, so of course those were my color choices. The cb embossing on the side is from the folder YOU, and has some wonderful words.

I posted this in two galleries at SCS today, the Teapot Tuesday and Sketch Challenges, as it fulfilled both.

We are missing our beautiful and sweet granddaughter, Erin. She went home last night, after spending a few days crafting, reading with her new Nook, baking, and bubbling in the hot tub. We love to have her, and hope she will join us again soon. She had to go home for practices for competitive Cheerleading. You should see her do a SPLIT! AMAZING!! To those of you who commented on her cards, may I thank you? She was delighted with your remarks.

Have a great day!

two for the Color Challenge

Here are the cards Erin and I made for the Color Challenge today on SCS.

Mine is the cupcake, hers is the shirt. I think they both came out great!!

We will miss our sweet granddaughter. She goes home tonight when Daddy picks her up. We'll be glad to have her back ANYTIME!!

Monday Challenges with My Erin!

Here is Erin's card for the CAS.                         And here  is mine.  Hers is better!

Here is my bookmark for the TLC

And here is Erin's.  We've had fun this morning!

In addition to making cards, me have mad a Blitz Bavarian Torte.  Erin loves to cook and we love to eat.  Makes for a fabulous combination.  We'll have it for dessert Tonight!!

Casing our FS, LeisaJane

Here is the card I made to honor our Featured stamper, LeisaJane, on SCS.  If you check in at my gallery, you can fiind the details.

Christmas went by so fast.  Amazing.........the preparations take forever, and then, WHOOSH! it's gone.  We had a wonderful day, the kids had a blast, the food and drinks went in a hurry, and dessert was made by my DGD Erin (a pink champagne/raspberry cake!! YUM!)  I took some awful pictures, but expect to have a couple of decent ones from my kids.  Here's a pic of my DH and me, and Mom,with the grands.  Don't  you just LOVE the kitchen light fixture in the center???