CCEE2039 Mushroom Month

For her final CCEE Stampers challenge this week, Frances told us that September is Mushroom Month and asked that we include one or more mushrooms (either stamped or die cut) on our creations.    The mushroom on the front of my card is both -- stamped and die cut.  I remember doing paper tole many years ago, and Riley & Company has a cute line of stamps called Mushroom Lane that you can use for paper tole.  The gnome on the front of the card and the ones on the inside are from Karen Burniston's new release.

Here is a close-up photo of the mushroom so you can hopefully see the paper-tole layers.  There are three layers.

The inside of the card has some more mushrooms, along with the Flip Frame Pop-Up die from Karen Burniston.

Check out the CCEE Stampers blog for some more mushrooms.

MFP Blog Hop Day 4 - Nutcrackers

Welcome to the Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company

September  Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured  Sept. 23

Hot Air Balloons

Featured Sept. 24

Witchie

 Featured Sept. 25

Chrysanthemum

Featured Sept. 26

Nutcrackers

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 

Sept. 27, 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, September 26, 2014.

Again I'm not a part of the official Blog Hop, but I'm so glad you stopped by my blog today because this is my favorite project of the week.  During the summer I attended a stamp show in Orlando and saw a card made with a nutcracker and was hoping that MFP Stamps would eventually have one too. The nutcracker on the card that I saw was made using paper tole, and I loved the dimension.  So, when I saw today's set, I was in Seventh Heaven!  Here is my project, which is a Christmas tag box.

There are three layers of the nutcracker image, which you can see here:

When you open up the box, you can see that it contains some Christmas tags, which were made using another MFP set, Holiday Tag.

I am entering this project in Scor-Pal's More Than One Score challenge for September -- fun storage ideas.  I found the directions for this tag box on one of the Technique Junkies Newsletter CDs, which I also purchased at that stamp show.

When I was looking on the internet for nutcrackers to get some ideas of color combinations, I saw a set of very elegant ones.  One of them was done in black, silver and white; and I decided to use that combination.  Here's my version of that nutcracker.

Today's set has several sentiments but nothing that would work with this particular design, so I used a stamp from another MFP set, Dear Santa.  Both words are on one stamp, so I had to improvise a little bit.  I stamped it twice, covering the unwanted word each time.

Be sure to check out the participating blogs for today and comment often for a chance to win a free stamp set.

Here's the Design Team for today:

 Jane C

Pat 

Marilynn
Nancy 
Bonnie 

Sue W

  Pam M

An'Jenic

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

I hope you have found some inspiration from the projects made by the design team this week.  We certainly had fun bringing them to you.

Tag Box

Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Nutcrackers, Holiday Tag

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - August Greens, Deep Scarlet, Snow Storm Smooth, various DP (unknown source)

Accessories:  Copic markers, Scor-Pal, Ribbon, Foam pop dots, Crop-a-Dial, Velcro

Card
Stamps:  Mark's Finest Papers - Nutcrackers, Dear Santa
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark
Paper:  Mark's Finest Papers - Black Linen, Snow Storm Smooth; Recollections Silver Glitter
Accessories:Detail Silver embossing powder, Detail Black embossing powder, Copic markers, Ribbon, Star punch, Foam pop dots