Friday, August 12, 2011

August Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop- Day 4



Hello! Welcome to the August 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop!

This week's new releases are:Black Eyed Susans for Encouragement, Butterflies and Wisteria, Forest Gifts, Fun on the Farm .For your convenience, all these sets are available TODAY at Mark's Finest Papers.

So, do you want to WIN today's Featured Stamp Set:Fun On The Farm? (If you don't want to wait to win, you can always purchase the sets right away! We'll substitute a set from NEXT month's release if today's winner has already purchased this set!)

For your chance to win: Comment on the following Design Team members' blogs TODAY before midnight EDT. There will be ONE random winner chosen from the comments on today's Blog Hop blogs. That winner will win Fun On The Farm. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's MFP blog post.

Emily
Nancyruth
Neva
Silvia
Faith
Claudine
Dawn
Marilynn ***** This is me*****
Patricia
Chrissy
Karen
Pam
Joanne
Kittie
Markie
Mark’s Finest Papers


When, my daughter, Kristina, saw this set she squealed and jumped up and down. She said it was the cutest set she had ever seen. She had to stamp the little piggy onto her hand. She wore it to the band party that she went to last week, and showed it off to her friends.


Since today's featured set is called Fun on the Farm, I decided to really have FUN with this set. The first card is very whimsical. I stamped the little piggy and then I masked him. I then stamped the butterfly -(my favorite one) from Mark's Finest Papers set called Daffodil and Anise. I then cut the image out, glued a rhinestone to center of wings and added cotton candy stickles to the wings. The rest of the card was fairly simple. I embossed with the dotted swiss folder, added pearls for the pig's flight trail. The sentiment I printed on my computer. I don't know if you can see it or not in the photo, but the pink paper behind the dotted swiss is really sparkly.




I didn't have any red cardstock that was stiff enough for this next card so I made it out of white cardstock and glued the red to the top and then cut it out barn shaped. I got the barn shape by stamping the barn image from the set and scanning it into my computer. I then enlarged it and used that as my pattern. I placed the top of the barn on the fold. I scored the barn to make it look like wood. I took a red marker and outlined the barn and the doors. I then took a white prisma colored pencil and drew in the white lines.



The inside of my card is a pop up card. The sentiment and animals each have their own pop up mechanism. The sentiment panel pops up sideways, while the animals pop up vertically.


Each animal also has additional dimension. The tip of the horses' nose was stamped twice and cut out. I have craft foam behind his nose. The cow has the whole head stamped twice and cut out with craft foam behind the head. The pig has his head and his nose dimensional with craft foam.


I hope you had as much FUN looking at my cards as I did making them. Have a blessed day!

38 comments:

  1. MariLynn these are such fun cards - love the flying pig, and the barn scene is adorable.
    Blessings
    Maxine

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  2. wow..Both of these are just awesome. When pigs fly is just adorable :).

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  3. I love this sentiments and cuttie animals so much! Great work!

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  4. WOW Marilyn you have been busy and what fun creations you have made with this set.

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  5. Marilynn, both cards are adoralbe but I espeically love the barn and three critters together. Kittie

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  6. So cute. Love the "when pigs fly" card with the butterfly.

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  7. How creative this is, MAriLynn, but No surprise coming from you!! I love the front with the wings! and the animals all popped up in the barn! Great job!!!

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  8. WOW, Marilyn! You sure had fun turning out cuties with this set!!!

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  9. You went over the top and out the front with this set Marilynn. Love your results!!
    Connie

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  10. well, that was quite the work of art with that barn, what very cute creations. i laughted out loud when i saw the pig with wings.

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  11. I LOVE what you did with the pig and wings! So clever!

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  12. Great pop up card and I like the wings on your pig.

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  13. Really cute and creative. Love the flying pigs!

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  14. Love your flying pig-great idea!

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  15. Love thos wings!!! nice dimension with the animals!

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  16. YOUR cards are so cute...love them. YOU did such a good job on them.

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  17. too cute!!! This is an adorable set!!! You did a great job..LOVE the pop up!!!

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  18. Super fun cards!! LOVE the flying pig! hehehe

    Hugs;
    Janette

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  19. These are all adorable.....love the "pigs can fly" and the others also.
    dj_enns@yahoo.com

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  20. Love your flying pig!!! And the dimension you added on the second card looks great. Wonderful job with this fun set, MariLynn!

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  21. AWWW! How creative to give the piggie wings! And I love the little farm scene you created with all that dimension on the animals - terrific job Marilynn!

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  22. Super cute designs, MariLynn!! Such creative work with these adorable barnyard critters!!

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  23. hahaha when pigs fly, love it Marilynn. Nice added bling too! :)

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  24. I love them they are all so darn cute. Great job

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  25. Marilyn- Two fabulous creations! Amazing work, my friend!

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  26. I love them both! I think you like these critters! I do too!

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  27. Great cards! Love how you manipulated the barn stamp to make the card!

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  28. OK, the pigs fly card makes me thing I have to have this set!!! Very adorable!
    Karen C

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  29. Great cards; thanks for sharing. Great new stamp set! Jo4Him

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  30. Great card; thanks for sharing. Awesome stamp set. Jo4Him

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  31. And the 3d animals in the barn are great!

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  32. Awwwww - these are gorgeous and how sweet is that when Pigs Fly one. Love them.

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  33. WOW!! Both are stunning, but flying pig blew me over!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  34. Cute cards, the flying pigs are prescious

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  35. It is stunning and super cute!You really have a talent in art.Thank you for sharing it to us,looking forward to see more paper arts with Epson paper.Premium Luster Photo Paper

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