MFP December Blog Hop Part #1, Day #2 - Mini Swallowtail

Mark's Finest Papers December Preview, Week 1

This month's New Stamp Set Releases are

 Featured December 3 Lots of Words

Featured December 4 Mini Swallowtail

Featured December 5 Butterfly Essence

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 three winners will be announced on Dec. 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 Dec.. 13, 2013.

Welcome to the first part of the December Mark's Finest Papers blog hop!  I'll explain a little more what's happening later, but first lets get to the stamps and cards!

Today's featured set is the mini you receive when purchasing the bundle of the main four stamp sets.  Its called "Mini Swallowtail", although it is a very big butterfly stamp:

I decided to make two simple notecards with this set.

After stamping and embossing the card front I coloured the butterflies and added some glitter gel pen. Some dashed lines and gemstones and my card was complete!

For this card I just wanted to use one of the pretty sentiments. I decided to make a huge washi tape blossom using a big gluber I found in my stash.  Its a good way to add a splash of colour and to dip into some of your washi tape collection! 

Thats it for my cards today.  Just to explain a bit about what we are doing this month, instead of having one long blog hop, we've decided to break the team into two, and spread the hop over two weeks. This week the first half of the design team will focus on the first half of the stamps, and the second half of the team will focus on the second half of the stamps next week on December 10, 11, and 12.  Those of us not participating in the hop will be making cards to showcase on the main blog.  So in addition to hopping along, make sure you have a look at the Mark's Finest Papers blog to ensure you don't miss out on any inspiration opportunties!  :)

Here are the design team members hopping this week:

Guest Designer - Kelli Jo

Patty

 Jane C

 Thrfity Stamper

Marilynn 

Cathy C  (Thats me!)

Sue W

An'Jenic

  Amy

Marks Finest Papers, a Heinrich Co.

See you tomorrow!