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Week One MFT Contest

Okay, Here it is, my first entry. I have never felt so much pressure in all my life! crazy! This week's challenge is supposed to represent the top ten finalist Celebrating our happiness for being selected. I just wanted to say Thank You to all the judges that voted for me, it was an honor to be chosen.

Please vote after 10pm EST. There will be a poll up on SCS in the MFT forum. You can vote for more than one person but you can vote only once. Voting will take place from 10pm Tuesday March 17- Wednesday March 18 at 10pm EST.

Stamps: MFT Who's That E-Girl
Paper: Basic Grey Porcelain pack
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Colored with Copic markers
May Arts ribbon, Mini brads, A Muse Twinkle stickers

I am a finalist!

Just a quick post to announce that I was picked to be in the MFT Idol top ten as a finalist. This means I get to stay and compete for the grand prize atleast one more week! yay! I am so excited!

MFT Idol Contest

Okay so I normally don't enter contests and stuff because I hate losing, but $250.00 of MFT is at stake and well that's just more than I can resist! I made a Book log/library journal, a bookmark, and a Gift card holder. My inspiration was the little reading Flopsy. I can not tell you how many times I have gone to the store, bought a book and when I sit down to read, I discover I have already read it! So what I decided I needed was a journal to keep track of my books. After I started making it I realized it would have been nice to have around when my kids would need to keep a reading log at school. It was very simple to just print some pages with lines and columns so that's what I did.

This is a giant paper clip with chipboard covered in matching papers that I plan to use as a bookmark. It was hard to photograph so I put it on a card so you could see it better.


Then I got kind of excited and decided that a Barnes and Noble gift card would be a great gift to go with this set and then I would give it as a gift instead of keeping it for myself. So I needed a card for that.

This is the inside, I made a little pocket to slide a gift card in.

I hope you like my little project and if I make the top ten, please vote for me.

Paper: SU Delicate Dots, Bashful blue, Celery, PTI White

Ink: Mommento Black, Bashful blue, Colored with Copic Markers

Accessories: Chipboard, Matboard, Bind-it- All machine,Ribbon, Giant paper clip, e6000 adhesive, Prima flowers, brads

SCS sketch plus MFT

Ok, I turned the SCS sketch sideways for this one because I wanted to use this image. My question is this, Is this Idol Worthy? MFT is having a contest and I feel like this is good but I can't be sure its good enough. I just don't know. I am on a time crunch today and not sure I have time to keep trying.

Cool Color challenge

Splitcoaststampers has a really good color challenge today. Pink Passion, Kiwi, and Chocolate chip. Again, I used 5th Avenue floral and Urban Oasis paper. The ribbon is from May Arts.

Another MFT challenge

I am trying to win gift certificates for stamps whenever I can so I am submitting as many challenges as I can. LOL. There is no harm in trying. This weeks Who's that girl challenge was to use the Digital girl set and sew on the card. Well, I didn't own the set so I substituted the eGirl set. Then I realized I put the card together without sewing on it!!! What a dork! I faux sewed instead! There was now way I wasting all that hard work! The image was colored with my Copic markers......I am getting 17 more today! WoooHooo! The prices on Copics are now fixed and no one will be able to sell them at a discount so I had to get a few more in the colors I was lacking. I know I still needed more neutrals but I was out of money so it is what it is and I will make do for now. I am hoping to try out for the MFT Idol contest soon. Get ready to see MFT images galore. I don't have very many sets right now so there may be some duplicate usage going on. The grand prize will be a 250.00 gift certificate to use in the MFT store so I really want to win!

Park Avenue

I could not love these stamps sets more if I tried! I love the new SU Manhattan and Park Avenue sets! In fact I only really wanted 3 sets out of the new catty this year and 2 come from the same line. They are just classy! I tried to embellish this up and couldn't bring myself to do it. I had some ribbon on there and pulled it off after after about 2 seconds. LOL. I broke out the dew drops, the silver bell dew drops to be more precise, and stuck them on there for fun. Brads would have worked out too, I just have a bazillion dew drops I would like to use before I am too old to stamp anymore. Anyway, more reluctance to buy all the new in colors this year is over. I officially have all but tangerine now. By the way, I am stamping again if you hadn't noticed. I may be back into it again for awhile. Finally!!!!

MFT Challenge

Did you know that MFT has challenges? Every week they have a "Who'e That Girl" challenge. They also have sketch challenges and other fun things going on each month. This week it was The Tote-ally Fantastic set. I decided I haven't paper pieced in a long time and went for it. Its not easy. I discovered just how dull my cutterbee scissors had gotten and I went out and got a new pair after this one. I ended up using a craft knife which is hard on my eyes and fingers LOL. I hope you like it.

I must be on a roll

Today on SCS there is a fun but difficult sketch challenge. I wanted to use this owl set and I had to make it fit. I *sacrificed* parts of their cute little bodies to make it work. Shame on me! The paper is from the SU SAB bundle Delicate Dots. I thought I was using Going Grey but after close inspection I realized it was Sahara sand. It probably would have been okay either way. The Owl set is from MFT and is called An Owl For All Seasons, I really like them. They are cute and trendy! I colored over their faces using my clear Spica pen for a little shimmer. i think you can see it on the close up shot. Although I enjoyed making this, I don't think I can handle *inchies* in the future, I needed my glasses to make this one.