Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Mark's Finest Papers Blog Hop August Day 2 - Flourished Sea Creatures

Mark's Finest Papers' Design Teams are celebrating our NEWEST STAMP RELEASE with a Blog Hop. Our very talented Design Teams have created exciting paper crafts for your inspiration. With the addition of New Design Team members to inspire you, this is going to be a really fun-packed Hop!

We have 4 New Stamp Sets Released today: Tweet Blessings, Flourished Sea Creatures, Regal & Proud, and Owl Be Here. For your convenience, all 4 stamp sets are available for purchase TODAY!

For your chance to win BLOG CANDY, (a set that will be released NEXT month), visit and comment on each of the following design team members' blogs on August 10, 11, 12, and 13, 2010. On Saturday, (August 14, 2010), a winner will be chosen FOR EACH DAY from those participants who visited all the blogs listed for that day. (There will be four different winners, one winner for each day.)

THAT MEANS IF YOU MISSED A DAY, YOU STILL HAVE OTHER CHANCES WIN! And, you can go back and comment on each day's blogs, as the winners will be chosen Saturday morning!
Here is my sample card for today:

This set is my favorite!  You know I LOVE the sea and sea creatures are right up there for me.  I used my cuttlebug folder to look like the sea, and used a couple of ms punches.  Hop on... Sea You tomorrow~~


August Guest Designer- Wendy
Liz:

48 comments:

Lois said...

Great shading on that background, Vicki!

Lynn McAuley said...

Love this beautiful card with its layered sea creatures and fabulous texture!! Wonderful work, Vicki!

Theresa's Studio said...

Great Card...love your layout and brilliant colors. Great shading. Fun stamp set. TFS!

Vicky Gould said...

Vicki, this is awesome!

Emily Keaton said...

Vicki, I LOVE how you used all three sea creatures together in one card!! Great thinking--perfect way to showcase this set :)

jovialjudi said...

Vicki I love this vibrant and colorful card. Perfect shading on that great embossed bg!Awesome!

Heather said...

Gorgeous, love that texture. Heather:)

jdmommy - Anne Harmon said...

I just love the sponging on the bg and the layout of the 3 creatures!!

Benzi said...

Super job on this awesome creation, Vicki! Your sponging is always fabulous.

Unknown said...

I absolutely love the coloring of the 'critters'... wish I could do it that well.. beautiful card

Unknown said...

I absolutely love the coloring of the 'critters'... wish I could do it that well.. beautiful card

stampcz said...

Love the card!

wendyp said...

Beautiful job coloring all the sealife! Great card!

Gale said...

What a pretty card! Love the colors and the EF you used really rocked this card.

Becky said...

This is fabulous, love the embossed background..

Alicia (aka Bunny) said...

Lovely coloring and textures!

Terri (blindstamper) said...

Icredible colors! Great use of the embossing folder too!

Marisa said...

Love how you used EF on this card and sponged it. Great card.

Sue D said...

Great seascape and I really like your embossed background.

redwasher1 said...

WOW! Vicki I know I keep saying this but WOW! Love the richness and all the added details!

Patti P. said...

Your colors on your sea creatures is so realistic...love the texture. Beautiful card.

peggysue said...

Oooh very nice, great texture and layering, great coloring!

Connie said...

Love all of it Vicki!! The embossing adds so much.
Connie

Carol Dee said...

Love the texture.

Joanne (jojot) said...

that background is FAB.....great little scene you have created

Amanda B said...

wow thats fabulous!!!

Joanne Travis said...

Love the textured background and the vivid colors of the sea creatures. So beautiful!!

Winnie and Patty said...

Vicki--this is beautiful. I love how you cute out the images and made them 3-D. Great job. TFS

Lindsey said...

What a gorgeous card!

dawnmercedes said...

what great embellies you've chosen!

Francie G. said...

Fabulous under the sea creation, Vicki! Love the embossing!

Rosemary said...

absolutely gorgeous cards!

mmwilken said...

What a beautiful card Vicki!! My favorite colors!! Thanks so much for the inspiration!

Betty Wright said...

Beautiful created scene and fabulous detailing, Vicki! Wonderfully done!

Claudine Poch said...

Wonderful scene you have created! Your texture and punched seaweed are great.

Wanda Cullen said...

Great sea scene, Vicki! Love your textured BG!

Roxie said...

Nice rich colors and great embossing choice.

Carol L said...

What beautiful sponging and coloring you've done on this great card! Those sea creatures look wonderful in those vivid colors!

Brenda said...

Beautiful card Vicki!!! I love that scene you created.

MariLynn said...

Love the textured background and the little shells. Great job!

FibreJunky said...

OOh, I love it! Great colours and the texture is perfect!

Michelle VP said...

Nice texture to your card and I like how you layered the sea creatures on the side. :)

Virgo5 said...

Fabulous! Love your colouring!

Nanny's Room said...

Absolutely gorgeous Vickie!

Chrissy D said...

Love the texture and sponging! fun border punch along the edge...Beautiful!

carrie said...

Oh, wow! Love the colors in this card. Love the way you created the ocean for the background.

CCC said...

Love all the texture and vivid colors. Great card.

Lynnes old blog said...

Oooh, I love your colouring on the embossed BG and those embellies are just perfect!