Mark's Finest Papers June Release Blog Hop . . . Cupcake Birthday

Welcome to the final day of Mark's Finest Papers new June release blog hop! Mark's Finest Papers' Design Teams are celebrating our NEWEST STAMP RELEASE with a blog hop! All four sets are available right now!

For your chance to win BLOG CANDY, visit and comment on each of the following design team member's blogs on June 8, 9, 10 and 11, 2010. On Saturday, (June 12, 2010) a winner will be chosen FOR EACH DAY from those participants who visited all the blogs listed for that day! (4 different winners, one winner for each day). (THAT MEANS IF YOU MISSED A DAY, YOU STILL HAVE OTHER CHANCES TO WIN!) And, you can go back and comment any time during the four days of the hop as the winners will be chosen on Saturday morning.)

The 4 winners will be announced on the Mark's Finest Papers Blog on June 12, 2010. Each winner will receive 1 Stamp Set that will be released NEXT month!

Today, Friday, June 11 we are featuring the new set, Cupcake Birthday! Here is the hop order:

June Guest Designer- Samantha
Nancyruth
Lois
Vicky
Jeanne
Anne
Debbie
Faith
Vicki
Liz
Claudine
Dawn
Mark's Finest Papers

Here is my card for this release set.


I had a lot of fun with this one, who doesn't like a cupcake birthday set? Do you see the little cake images marching along in a row? They make such a great border to accent the main image or sentiment!

I also hoped to find the time to try an explosion box with this set, it just seemed like a natural. I used the mini line of cupcakes and cake on the outside edge of each side of the cover and propped up an image of the smaller cupcake on the box top as well. When you open the box, there is a balloon spiral attached to the box base and lid. Its supposed to be like a birthday explosion inside the box. I don't know, both older daughters laughed when I showed it to them! I stamped the two different sized balloons from the set on different color cardstock in silver and cut them out, also using two of the set sentiments on the box interior.




If you didn't start at the beginning of the hop, visit Samantha, who is at the top of the list above. If you've already been hopping, you would have arrived from Debbie Seyer's blog and your next stop after this one will be Faith! Good luck and happy hopping!