Blog Hop Day 1

Mark's Finest Papers Design Team is celebrating our FIRST Blog Hop! How could we make it a REAL celebration? How about giving away some Blog Candy?

For your chance to win, visit and comment on each of the following design team members' blogs on December 9th and 10th. Then, on Friday, a winner will be chosen from those who have visited all 7 blogs both days. The winner will receive 2 BRAND NEW Stamp Sets, 5 packages of Mark's Finest Papers and 5 Satin ribbons! And remember, Friday night will be the New Flourishes Release at Mark's Finest Papers! The winner will be announced on the Mark's Finest Papers Blog on Friday.

Good Luck!

I hope you like my card using the Doves images from Mark's Finest Papers. I colored them with prismacolor markers as well as glitter pens. I used the cutting outside the box technique and the colors Ripened Tomatoe and Speedy the Cat Black. I love the lush sating ribbon, don't you? Thanks for stopping by and be sure to come back tomorrow to see what else I have made!

Rita Marie Creative Design Boutique Blog Hop

Hi! Are you ready? It's time for Creative Design Boutique's Blog Hop! And, there's BLOG CANDY!!!

Make sure you visit ALL of these blogs on Wednesday, September 16. 2009, leave comments on ALL 6 of the Creative Design Team Blog Posts, and a winner's name will be chosen from those posts on Thursday Sept. 17th and posted at 6PM

Hi everyone! I love what I made with the Rita Marie set called FLORAL BREEZE~ I stamped the image in Tim Holtz Shabby Shutters ink on cream linen paper, and I colored the wonderful flowers with prismacolor markers. I paired the image with K and Company paper, and added a handwritten birthday sentiment. Please be sure to visit all the blogs for a chance to win candy, you will see the links on my sidebar! Thanks for stopping by!!!

december blog hop, nancyruth, Generations of Stitches

Hi everyone! I have been very busy at work, helping my cousin close his business. I have worked there for 4 and a half years and it is a very busy and very sad time. I know we will all find new opportunites and new ways to make our livings. I never knew there were so many laws and rules concerning closing a store! So I have been working 6 days a week preparing for the liquidation sale. Yikes, I guess you could say we will go out with a bang. Anyway, to the stamping part of my post, enough personal stuff.....

I made this bag out of a coffee bean bag that Mothermark sent me some time ago. I cut off the top where the wires are and added eyelets and yellow gingham ribbon for the handles. The panels are cut from fabriano watercolor paper and stamped with the giraffes from *generations of stitches*, one of my favorites of H and M's wonderful stamp sets. I used a combo of my watercolor crayons and my prismacolor markers to color the giraffes, and the background is a watercolor wash. I made the medallion out of two nestied layers and added yellow satin ribbon fringe to mimic the giraffes' manes. The finish touch is the yellow daisies from the Wrights factory outlet. if you are ever in Sturbridge Massachusetts you MUST go there, the have tons of ribbons and trims and anything fiber that you can imagine! Anyway, I hope you like my *wrap it up* submission for our blog hop, and thanks so much for stopping by!

now hop on over to the other DT menmbers and look at their brilliant creations! Hugs to you!

Carolina Buchting
Cindy Lawrence
Dawn Easton
Debbie Corbari
Emma Fewkes
Heather Rolin
Julia Aston
Julie Lacey
Kimberly Crawford
Nancy Levine
Neva McMullen
Shannon Erskine
Suzanne Dean
Tracy Dorton

Okay I admit that I am slow! But I sure am nice!

Now I know what this blog hop is and I want you all to join in the fun.

I made this goodie box from a halloween themed chines take out box. do you see the spiders on it? It is for the FIRST Blog Hop, at H and M Stamps! I am posting pictures of my blog candy. You have to leave a comment on this post and you will have a chance to win my loot. The stamp is called *Teacher Percy*, and he is jsut the cutest thing! You will also win a set of chipboard letters in a school colored theme as well as a package of Soft Spoken stickers. Thanks for playing along!