C4C549 - Oriental Card

This week's Crazy4Challenges challenge is to make an oriental style card.  Tracy said, "Let's use some of our stash that are 'Oriental Style' and make a card.  You could use a kimono, cherry blossom, pagoda, lanterns, fans, birds ,koi, etc."

When given an "oriental" challenge, I love to make screen cards.  I've got some cherry blossoms, a parasol, and some Chinese symbols on my card.

Check out the Crazy4Challenges blog for some more "oriental style" cards.

CCEE1837 Fortune Cookie Day

Maryann continues as hostess for the CCEE Stampers.  This week she told us that it is Fortune Cookie Day and asked us to use this to inspire an oriental-themed card.  I don't often make oriental cards, so this was a pleasant change to my stamping style.  I used a couple of old MFP Stamp Shop stamps as well as some patterned paper from a pad I bought many years ago.

Be sure to check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more oriental-themed creations.

Tutorial Time on Speedy TV - Shaving Cream Technique

This week's Tutorial Time challenge is a fun, though messy, technique -- Shaving Cream Backgrounds.  Some time ago I wrote the tutorial for Speedy TV and enjoyed revisiting it.  And I hope our challenge team had fun too.  Here's a new card I created for this technique.  I used three different reinkers for the background, SU Bashful Blue, Tempting Turquoise, and Taken With Teal.  My image is MFP Peace at Mt. Fuji, the give-away for participating in the June Oriental Swap on Speedy TV.

I hope you give this technique a try.   BTW, gloves are almost a requisite for this -- unless you want stained hands for a few days after doing it!    If you do make a card, link it up at the end of the Tutorial Time challenge; and you could win a free stamp set.

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Peace at Mt. Fuji
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, SU Reinkers - Bashful Blue, Tempting Turquoise, Taken With Teal
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Bang Up Blue, Snow Storm Smooth, Glossy White
Accessories:  Shaving Cream, Copic markers, Scallop Petite Ovals Nestabilities die

MFP Blog Hop Day 1 - Chinese Take-Out

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

July Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured July 15
Chinese Take Out 

Featured July 16

Coneflowers
Roses

 Featured July 17

Snowflakes

Featured July 18
Sun and Moon
Heavenly Harmony

Please hop along with us! You have a chance to win one of the above stamp sets! Just comment on today's participating 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 six winners will be announced on 

July 19, 2014, 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, July 18, 2014.

I have two projects for you today -- one of them is a card and one is something different.  I'll start with the card.

I actually stamped the images on another piece of white card stock, colored them, and cut them out.  I laid a piece of oriental designer paper down to look something like a tablecloth then placed the three cut-out items (the take-out box, set of chopsticks, and the fortune cookie) on top.  I shaped the fortune cookie a little bit using my bone folder and stuck it on with a foam pop dot.  Then I stamped the sentiment and added the oriental coin.

I had fun making my 3-D project.  I went on-line and found a template for a Chinese take-out box.  

After I printed the .jpg file and cut it out (four pieces), I embossed two sides of the box and stamped the lotus and words on one of the unembossed sides.  Please note that the words "Take Out" are part of the take-out box stamp.  I carefully cut out those words with a craft knife so that I could stamp just the words on my box.  I punched holes in the sides; and, after assembling the box, I ran a ribbon through and tied knots on the inside.  As the box could be used for a small gift, I decided to make a little gift card to match.

Be sure to check out all of today's blog hop and see what the rest of the team has created with this set.

Here's the Design Team:

Lois (that's me)

Kelli Jo

Karen 

 Kathy

Toni

Janine

Shirley Q

Vickie
Sandy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Come on back tomorrow for more creativity.

Card

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Chinese Take Out

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Black Linen, Snow Storm Smooth; DCWV Far East DP

Other:  Copic markers, Oriental coin, Brad, Foam pop dot

Take-Out Box & Gift Card

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Chinese Take Out, Oriental Joy

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Snow Storm Smooth, Black Linen, ABC Bubblegum

Other:  Ribbon, Embossing folder, template

MFP Blog Hop Day 3 - Great Flowers & Flower Blocks

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

June Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured June 10
Gears To You and Gear Up 

Featured June 11

Pretty Pears

 Featured June 12

Great Flowers and Flower Blocks

Featured June 13
Please Snow

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 six winners will be announced on 

June 14, 2014, 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 June 13, 2014.

Today I am part of the official blog hop, and I again I have two cards for each of the featured sets.  In case you hadn't figured out my "theme" for this month, I'll tell you.  I've used die cuts on each of the cards I've made for this blog hop.  My first card uses a Flip-Its die.  I stamped and colored the flower twice and then cut them out, layering them to give a bit more depth to the final look.  The DP is from the same K & Company pad of paper that I used yesterday.  

I think I'm going to put this card in my Operation Write Home box, so I picked an appropriate sentiment from the choices given me in this set.

My second card using Great Flowers might also go to Operation Write Home.  It's a one-layer card, with just the flower popped up on foam pop dots.  I used a Heidi Swapp stencil and sponged the color on a section of the card before putting on the flower and stamping the sentiment.  I'm sure you noticed that this card does not have a die cut on it.  But the flower is cut out and popped up.  That's almost a die cut.  (That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!!!) 

I have a bonus project for today's set.  I was watching a video on how to make a cute little basket using the envelope punch board and decided that I would make one.  I decorated it with one of the flowers and a sentiment from today's featured set.

For my first card using Flower Blocks, I stamped the strip of butterflies three times and colored each one differently.  Then I cut them out and mounted them on black and then white.   The background paper is from an old stack of oriental-looking DP called Far East; the symbol is from the MFP set, Asian Delights.

My second card using Flower Blocks is a telescoping card.  I had never done a telescoping card using square dies before, and it was a little trickier than with circles.

Here it is opened all the way.  The birthday sentiment is from another MFP set, Daffodil Greetings.

Make sure to visit all the rest of the participating members of the team today and increase your chances of winning a free stamp set by commenting on each one of them.

Here's the Design Team for today:

Lois (that's me)

Kelli Jo

Karen 

 Kathy

Toni

Janine

Shirley Q

Vickie
Sandy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Come on back tomorrow for more creativity.

Card #1

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Great Flowers

Ink:  Memento Rose Bud

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Lime Squeeze, Snow Storm Smooth; K & Company Berry Sweet DP

Accessories:  Stephanie Barnard Flip-Its Card die by Sizzix, Copic marker, Butterfly punches

Card #2

Stamps: Mark's Finest Papers - Great Flowers

Ink: Ranger Distress Victorian Velvet, SU Old Olive, Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper: Mark's Finest Papers - Premium Heavy White, Snow Storm Smooth

Accessories:  Copic markers, Heidi Swapp stencil, Sponge applicator, Foam pop dots, Stickles

Basket
Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Great Flowers
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Precious Pink, Snow Storm Smooth; Recollections Pink Damask DP
Accessories:  Copic markers, Envelope Punch Board, Ribbon, Oval punch, Corner rounder

Card #3

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Flower Blocks, Asian Delights

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Snow Storm Smooth, Black Linen; DCWV Far East DP

Accessories:  Copic markers, Spellbinders Classic Circle dies, Ribbon, Foam pop dots

Card #4

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Flower Blocks, Daffodil Greetings

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Spring Leaf, Black Linen, Snow Storm Smooth, Morning Sun

Accessories:  Copic markers, Spellbinders Classic Square and Scallop Square dies, Brads, Ribbon, Pearls