Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Mark's Finest Papers March Blog Hop day 2

Welcome to the MFP March Blog Hop! This month, we are releasing 4 NEW SETS!


Our New Sets are: Just Dandy, African Veldt, Grandma's Boudoir, and Fish You Were Here.For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

We have a NEW Blog Candy Contest! BE A GUEST DESIGNER!






PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY!


All Blog Hop participants will have the chance to win a Month Long GUEST DESIGNER position on our Senior Design team! That’s right! ONE lucky winner will receive a Guest Designer package that will include April 2011’s Four New Release sets, a selection of Premium Papers, and beautiful embellishments. The winner will also receive a Guest Designer Watermark, Blog Button and have the choice to participate in the April 2011 Blog Hop!


What do you need to do to qualify? Just comment on the Design Team blogs during the blog hop. EACH DAY that participants comment on all the Design Team blogs, their name will be entered once in the random drawing. Each participant has the opportunity to have his/her name entered up to four times. (There are four days of the blog hop, so there are up to four entries per person.) The winner will be announced on the Mark’s Finest Papers blog on Saturday, March 12, 2011.

WEDNESDAY, March 9, 2011-African Veldt



Lois

Vicky

Dawn L.

Anne

Peggysue

Connie

Joanne T.

Claudine

Dawn M.

Nicole

Marilynn (You are here)

Geri

Lynn

Emily N.

Patricia

Chrissy

Guest Desinger, Ted

Mark’s Finest Papers

I took this photo last week when I was visiting my niece. My niece just had a baby and we came for the baby's baptism. My niece has decorated the baby's nursery with zebras and other African animals. Considering that this is my niece's zebra, it makes total sense.


My project, is a windsock that I made for the baby's nursery. It also doubled as a project that I did with my learners for life group last week. We took oatmeal containers and peeled off the paper. I wrapped mine with black cardstock. There was a horizontal seam as well as a vertical seem, but I covered them with the images. I stamped the images with black stazon. I matted the images with different colors and used the scraps to cut triangles. It took awhile to cut the triangles just right. I punched 4 holes at the top and tied black twine in each hole. I then tied the 4 pieces of twine together. I cut out the bottom of the oatmeal container. I added glue around the rim and glued strips of white tissue paper. It was hard to photograph a round object. I tried to take enough photos so that you could see how the windsock looks.


























30 comments:

  1. Wow - this is so dramatic - I love what you have done here MariLynn!
    Seems only last week you were doing the blog hop - someone has stolen my month!!
    Blessings
    Maxine

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  2. Wow, this is so cool! What a great idea, you did a wonderful job.
    thanks for sharing:)

    ExpressionsByElaine.blogspot.com

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  3. This is so fun! Wonderfully made!

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  4. I love this! How very creative -- and it will look so nice in the baby's zebra room!

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  5. What a unique sample you have done Marilynn! I love how this turned out.
    Connie

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  6. how unique and perfect your niece's baby!

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  7. wow! I would never have thought of this...WAY COOL!

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  8. How fun is that!! What a great project, MariLynn! The African images look sensational with your mosaic style design!!

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  9. Very nice wind sock - nice bright colors.

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  10. How gorgeous is this??!!! Great job!

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  11. Oh my gosh...wadda project! Awesome, MariLynn!

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  12. WONDERFUL, MariLynn! (this is the 3rd time I tried to post here - wonder why!)

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  13. that is so different. tfs.
    crotnem@gmail.com

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  14. Great efforts produce great results.
    I find this wind sock very unique.

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  15. Woo hoo- what an amazing project! Great job and so creative!

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  16. This is such a fun and really creative way to show this set! LOVE IT!

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  17. What a wonderful project! Great idea, beautiful work!

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  18. You are so creative!!! Awesome project!!!

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  19. What a totally cool windsock!! You really put a lot of time, creativity, and energy into this--and it shows!

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  20. What a fabulously creative gift....I love this set and all the inspiration we are getting from the designers....great job, tfs.

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  21. How cool is that?!?!? Love the creativity of that project! Amazing!

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  22. What a great craft project! Love the bright mosaic background with the images.
    Thanks for sharing! :)

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  23. This is a great project love what you did with all the colorful paper shapes!

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  24. Aww, I love the mosaic look of your project and how you used so many of the different majestic animals in it. Love the bright colors too.

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