MFP September Blog Hop Day 2

Sept. Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Sept 10
Koi Fish

Featured Sept 11

Primitive Farm

Featured Sept 12 

What a Scream

 

Featured Sept 13

Tailgate Party

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 Sept. 14, 2013 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 Sept. 13, 2013.

The special stamp set we have for you this month is:

Holiday Tags

 

The mini stamp set we have for you this month is:
Nature's Brushstrokes
                                                      

Here's the Design Team:

Patty

Lois

Jane C

Debbie

Pam

Pat G

Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn (This is me)

Karen K

Bonnie

Kathy

Angela
Cathy C
Toni
Sue W
Janine

An'Jenic

Kate Z
Shirley Q
Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

Before I show you today's project, I wanted to show you the panel, that I shared yesterday that I was sure was going to end up in the trash.(It is the Koi fish panel on the right. The left was my card from yesterday.) So many people encouraged me to just keep working with it. I figured I didn't have anything to loose. So I added more water, more paint, more water, more paint, more water, more paint... well you get the idea. When I was done, I actually liked it more than the panel I used on my card. So I see another card in the works.

Here is my project for today. It is an altered soup mix. The best thing about stamping, isn't the papers. It isn't the stamps. It isn't the markers, paint, ribbon, embellishments.... the list could go on and on. The best thing about stamping is the friends you make. One of my biggest blessings is my friend Pam. We have been giving each other extra challenges. I challenged her to alter a soup mix. I  decided to use today's set and she decided to use Friday's set Tailgate Party. 

Here is the soup mix I altered. I got it at Walmart the other day because I thought it would be cute to use to make a get well card. It was really inexpensive. I also liked the little chicken.

Isn't he cute?

 I took a brown paper bag and I stenciled cream acrylic paint. I splattered cream paint with a toothbrush when I was done. I then stamped the cow and sheep, house and sentiment. I painted with the same cream paint. I could have fussy cut the images close, but I purposely left a little edge to show that they had been stamped on the paper bag as well. I had first thought I was just going to do a "topper" but as cute as the little chicken on the bag was, he just didn't "GO" with the sheep and cow. So I took a paper lunch sack. I cut of the bottom. I sewed the bottom and side edges. I slid the soup mix in and the added the topper. To finish it off I added a little black and white gingham ribbon and three buttons with twine.

 I still REMEMBER.