FOSTV49 - Christmas Card

Happy Monday to you.  We are into Advent now and Christmas will be upon us before we know it.  I started writing our cards last night and I think I now have enough made - two of them are shown here as today's FOSTV challenge is Christmas cards.  We would love you to join our challenge and the prize set for one lucky entrant is Christmas Greetings.  It is a lovely set so worth getting your creative juices flowing for!


My 1st card uses the window from Enjoy the View, the tree from Tree Selections (I think) and the brick from Brick Wall Mini.  I used acetate for the window and embroidery silk plus gems on the tree.

My second card uses an embossing folder for the brick work, my Cricut for the stockings, a punch for the garland and MFP sets called Christmas Selections and Holly Jolly Greetings.  I hope you like these two.

Please check out the other FOSTV team members blogs and also the challenge on Friends of Speedy TV.  Have a great week.


Janine

Fall in a round

I love fall, or should I say autumn colours and I have to say the more I look the more colours I see.

Beate Johns recently created a tutorial over at Splitcoast for a Twisted Circular Easel Card so that is the design I chose for this one today.  My hands are multi-coloured now but it was quite fun with all those distress inks - nothing like Beate's clean design!

I used the tree from MFP Tree Selections, the maple leaf stamp from MFP Scenic Selections and the sentiment from MFP Daffodil Greetings. The circles were all cut with dies and the sentiment was cut with Spellbinders Romantic Rectangles.  The leaves were cut with one of my original Spellbinders dies.  Ribbon and fibres from my messy stash.  The border inside was punched with an EK Success wide border punch.

Front - detailed view

I am entering this card for the following challenges


Stampin Sisters in Christ 161 - use a tree
Jugs 158 - emboss resist technique used with maple leaf stamp
OCC - Fall in the Circle

Inside - detailed view

The distress inks I used were
Wild Honey
Spiced Marmalade
Peeled Paint
Dusty Concord
Aged Mahogany



Thank you for checking out my card - I really do appreciate your comments.

Tree Greetings - MFP Blog Hop

Welcome to Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Company's 

   August Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

Lesson Learned Featured August 14
Bring on the Sun Featured August 15
Tree Greetings Featured August 16
Oh Crab Featured August 17

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 August 18, 2012 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 11PM EST on Friday August 17, 2012.

I am showing below 3 simple cards made using Tree Greetings.  I have used Distress Markers on the first two and Copics on the 3rd one.  The small trees on the tent topper card are from the mini set called Tree Selections. The sentiment "You're How Old" is from the Birthday Mini stamp set.

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Tree Selections - Preview

Next week Mark's Finest Papers, A Heinrich Company launch the new sets for August.  There are some lovely new images for you to play with.  Today we are previewing a mini set that will be launched called Tree Selections - a selection of small trees.  

The two cards I am showing today both use the set with greetings from other MFP sets.

This card uses the trees in a traditional way with a brayered and sponged background.  I have coloured the trees in a grey green shade so it looks like dusk.

My second card uses the small bare tree to create the wreath.  Very quick to do as long as you have a circle to work to.

I hope you like these cards - please stop by next week to see all the new goodies.