Sites of the week

Surprise, it’s me! Yep, I am re-joining the MFT team and am super excited about it! I’m just one of the 3 new designers that you will “meet” along the way.

As the title of this post suggests, you are in the middle of the MFT VIP HOP. Well, actually you’re just at stop #2. So, if you didn’t get here via Kim’s blog, hop on back and check out all of her good stuff!

What is VIP? It’s a chance for you as a customer to pick up some of next month’s releases, including stamps and product, THREE WEEKS early! So what’s available for the JULY VIP?…

Who’s That Gardening Girl? $15.95
Ruffled Ribbon Garden Collection (2 yards each of 3/4″ ruffled ribbon in Tomato, Celery, & Sunshine) $7.95
Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety $5.95
Garden Button Collection $1.95
Set of 10 White Scalloped A2 Notecards $4.95
Green Thumb mini stamp set (FREE, $9 value)

~~~Who’s That Gardening Girl? VIP $36.75~~~

When is it available?
June 15th 10 PM EST through June 16th at 11:59 PM EST

Here’s my sample using the new Who’s That Gardening Girl paired with a sentiment from the Green Thumb set…

A couple of detail shots…

Now hop on over to Amy’s blog for a continued peek at the VIP products!

Howdy and welcome to the 2nd TCP Tuesday challenge that I am posting this week. Fortunately, this one is actually on time {go me!}. Hopefully today won’t be a repeat of yesterday at all!! Our AC went out and I waited ALL DAY for the repairman only to find out that our neighbor owns his own HVAC biz and took about 20 minutes to fix the problem. Thank goodness because it was creeping over the 80 degree mark and I was NOT happy!!

Anywhooooo…

Leigh is your Hipster Hostess with the Mostess this week and she is challenging you with this fabby sketch…

Instead of making mine into a card, I chose to do a large tag with Joyride and some October Afternoon and Pink Paislee paper…

This tag definitely has some height!…

I embossed the “road” with one of PTI’s impression plates and check out the bow behind the button. It’s some of the bestest twine/thread ever {it’s TCP’s Linen Thread}…

It’s **really** hard to tell, but I used one of my Sakura Glaze pens to create a chrome look on the gray parts of the Vespa…

You will find all the details on this challenge and how to get a chance to win $25 in Cat Cash to spend on the TCP site on LEIGH’s BLOG.

Monday greetings! I’m running a little bit behind on last week’s TCP Tuesday challenge {click HERE for the deets on Susan’s blogaroo} to use any of the TCP alphas. Nic ‘decided’ to come down with a lil’ virus last week that put him all sorts of moods. Needless to say, stamping time was at a minimum. He’s feeling better and taking a good nap now, so I got a chance to play…YAY!

This is the card that I made for Tony for Father’s Day with the TCP Coolvetica set. Ellie affectionately refers to him as “The Daddyman.” Kinda like the “Candyman” on Willy Wonka. It’s so cute to hear her talk about her “Daddyman.” I tried to keep it sweet and simple since it is for a guy, but I didn’t necessarily drive myself towards masculine colors, as you can see.

I popped up the heart to give it a little bit of dimension and distressed and sewed on the Kraft panel for some texture…

Psst…I got word that there’s gonna be another TCP release fairly soon. I’ll be sure to keep you posted with as much info as I’m allowed to give As for now, there’s some new twine in the store that is *divine* and you can see it HERE.

Welcome to this Saturday’s SKETCH FOR YOU TO TRY! We are very lucky that this week SKIPPING STONES DESIGN is our sponsor. You will have a chance to win some of their cute and funny stamps, too!

THANK YOU TO SSD FOR SPONSORING US THIS WEEK!

Here’s this week’s sketch…

Here’s my take on it using my favorite SSD set, Cupcake Cutie along with Fly A Kite paper from October Afternoon…

Designer of the Month, Andrea Ewen created this beauty…

How about checking out some more great samples using Skipping Stones Design stamps from…
Susan Liles
Amy Rohl
Amy Sheffer
Leigh O’Brien
Megan Lock
Amber Hight
Sony Christoph
Jodi Collins
Kelly Lunceford
and another great sample of this sketch from Jenn Diercks

Want a chance to win not just one, but TWO, NOT YET RELEASED sets from Skipping Stones Design? Here’s a peek, or peck!, of one of the sets and be sure to check out the other SFYTT Sisters where there is a hidden peek of the other set.

For a chance to win BOTH of the UNRELEASED sets, just play along and upload your creation below by Friday at noon. A winner will be announced on next week’s SFYTT post. Good luck!

Welcome to your next stop along the Your Next Stamp {YNS} blog hop. Since this is a hop…

You should have started HERE at Cabio’s blog and arrived on my blog via Maylee’s blog HERE. When you leave you’ll be hoppin’ along to Maureen’s blog HERE {I’ll link it down at the bottom, too}.

For this hop, you have a chance to win $50 in YNS Stamps by just leaving a comment at each stop along the hop by Sunday, June 13th at midnight EST. Good Luck!!

Here’s my Father’s Day card using Ethan out on the Pond {part of the Fhiona line that I love so much}.

It’s hard to tell from the pic, but the blue paper is actually polka dotted. I love polka dots, but they aren’t exactly masculine, but I think this paper does the trick, especially since the image is a little cute-sy. I chose red and orange cardstock to compliment the way that I colored the image and I used black cardstock to make it all “POP.”

I think I will be stashing this layout for future use, too!!

Ok, I’ll stop my yapping and let you get hopping along to Maureen’s blog. Happy hopping!!