Mark's Finest Papers Blog hop day 2 - What an amazing mom

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September Blog Hop! 

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured Sept.23
Hot Air Balloon 

Featured Sept. 24

Witchie

 Featured Sept. 25

Chrysanthemum

Featured Sept. 26

Nutcrackers

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 

Sept. 27, 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 Sept. 26, 2014

I do not celebrate Halloween because of personal beliefs. Because of that I don't make Halloween cards or projects, so a set like today's is a challenge for me. I looked at this set for quite awhile and then I decided on using this spider. Once I had a person in mind to give it to, the card just kind of fell together. I made this card for my dear friend Katie. She made a video last year that went viral about life with her 4 little boys.

A couple of weeks ago, one of her boys came and told her about his new pet. He had named it and everything. It was a giant, and I do mean giant, spider that was hanging outside of their home. She shared that story on facebook and their were several people who were giving advice on how to get rid of him... mostly by doing him in ( and by him, I mean the spider)  But she said how could she do that when her son had already named the spider. I asked her about the spider this weekend when we were doing worship team together at church, and she assured me that the spider was still there and doing well, but she was hoping that "cold weather" might solve the problem. She has a great sense of humor, as you can see from her video. I thought it would be fun to make her a spider card. On the inside I used the sentiment from Mark's Finest Papers set called FAMILY that says "What a Woman". That is how I feel about my friend. She is an amazing mom and I hope when she sees this, it makes her smile and laugh. I stamped the spider on to a strip of dp left over from when I was making my balloon card for yesterday. I then layered that strip over a piece of black cardstock and more of the same dp. I like how it smudged in the right hand corner. I used a black ink pen to draw the web. I colored him in red because I thought a "pop" of red would make him stand out. I used my new spellbinders garden gate die to make the fence at the bottom. It was a very CAS card for me. I really like how it turned out.

Check out what the rest of the design team has done with this set.

Here's the Design Team:

Lois

Kelli Jo

Karen 

 Kathy

Toni

Janine

Shirley Q

Vickie
Sandy

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