MFP Blog Hop Day 1 - Gears to You and Gear Up

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June Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured  June 10

Gears To You & Gear Up

Featured June 11

Pretty Pears

 Featured June 12

Great Flowers & Flower Blocks

Featured June 13

Please Snow

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 six winners will be announced on 

June 14, 2014 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 June 13, 2014


My first card is a simple one. I stamped the image onto an encyclopedia page. I colored several of the gears using a gray colored pencil. I added screws made out of wiggly eyes. If you would like to see my tutorial on how I made them, scroll down to my next post.

My second card took a lot more time and was a lot more labor intensive, but I love how it turned out and I hope you will like it too. 

When I saw the gears, I thought steam punk for inspiration. I did a lot of experimenting with this card and learned a little along the way. I wanted to make it look like I added a tin type photo. I used the image from MFP set called FAMILY. I stamped it using black stazon ink onto white cardstock. I took a black marker and colored around the image. I rubbed the whole image with copper inka gold metallic rub. It looked ok, but I thought I could do better.

 For my second try I stamped the same image. Using the same ink, but I used black colored pencils to color around her. Instead of rubbing the inka gold, I put it on the image with using the water coloring technique. I took the metallic rub and put it on a plastic lid. I added water and painted it on. It looked better. As you can see in both my first and second tries, I thought that she had something lacy in her hair, but as I worked on the image, I decided it was shading.

 So here is my final try the one I used on my card. I colored around the image using gray colored pencils and did the water coloring of the inka gold.

I also used MFP set called TAKE THE TIME  I stamped the watch 2 times. Once was on floral black and white cardstock and the other (for the face of the watch) on white cardstock. I rubbed inka gold on the base. I cut out the face and glued it on top of the base. I added a brad.

The base of the card was my favorite part of my project. I stamped the large gear onto white cardstock. I stamped it 4 times, cut them out and glued them on top of eachother. It took a lot of time so for my second gear. I just stamped the gear onto a cardboard box (crunch n munch- if you were wondering.) I also cut a hinge out of the cardboard box. I used punches to cut out 3 circles. All the pieces I ran through my cuttlebug. I added brads, drywall tape, metal spiral paper clips and other metal embellishments that I could find. I glued them to cardstock. I also drizzled hot glue from my hot glue gun over the top. I painted it all black and then rubbed it all over with the copper inka gold metallic rub.

I also added 2 more gears and a little key.

I made my card an easel card. I put drywall tape under the sentiment. For the sentiment I printed this quote about time onto white cardstock. I colored the background with gray colored pencils and rubbed the metallic rub over the top. The flower brads, looked kinda like small gears to me. They were originally yellow. I took a sharpie marker and colored them black and then added metallic rub.

 Thanks for reading through my long post. I hope you enjoyed learning how I made this card. Check out what the other designers have done with these two sets.

Here's the Design Team:

 Jane C

Pat 
Thrfity Stamper

MariLynn 
Bonnie 

Sue W

An'Jenic

  Pam M

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