Mark's Finest Papers Sand Surf Relax blog hop

Hello! Welcome to the June 2011 MFP New Releases Blog Hop!

This week's new releases are: All Aboard, Poppies Poppies Poppies, Sand Surf Relax, and Floating Along.

For your convenience, all these sets are available TODAY at Mark's Finest Papers.

So, do you want to WIN today's Featured Stamp Set: Sand Surf Relax? (If you don't want to wait to win, you can always purchase the sets right away! We'll substitute a set from NEXT month's release if today's winner has already purchased this set!)

For your chance to win: Comment on the following Design Team members' blogs TODAY before midnight EDT. There will be ONE random winner chosen from the comments on today's Blog Hop blogs. That winner will win Sand, Surf, Relax. We will announce the winner's name on tomorrow's blog post.

Emily
Nancyruth
Neva
Silvia
Faith
Claudine
Dawn
Marilynn (You are here)
Patricia
Chrissy
Karen
Pam
Joanne
Kittie
Sharon-Guest Designer for June
Mark’s Finest Papers

This is my card using this marvelous set. Last week I had a dream about it. (That is when you know that stamping and card making take up a big part of your life when you dream about them.) I pictured a polaroid photo that someone might have taken on their vacation before digital photos. :) (So I was thinking old people like me!!) I stamped the shells and colored them by watercoloring. I cut them out and used porcelain paper technique on them. I also shaped and curved them so that they resembled real shells. The background was brown paper that I crinkled up and distressed the edges to make it look like an old treasure map. I doodled around the edges and made that "X" all treasure maps have. I added raffia to look like grass that might be growing along the shore and I added twine with a figure 8 knot. I made this masculine card as a thank you note for my sons' boy scout leader. He took them camping this last weekend and had to put up with a lot with high temperatures, high humidity and rain in the tents... I really appreciate all that the voluteers with boy scouts do!! They are amazing!