Serendipity Stamps and NBUS Challenge!!

Good Morning!! Hope you had a great Labor Day WE- we went camping and had a blast!!

This morning was the start of Darnell's new NBUS challenge... "Never Before Used Schtuff" Great way to get out those stamps that have never seen ink- it happens to all of us...not enough play hours in the day and so many goodies!!

Serendipity Stamps is one of the sponsors this go 'round so I just had to show off another image from the Fall Pops set. 

Here's a little close up of the new sweet pumpkins in Serendipity's Fall Pops set that was just released. You can see the clear heat embossing on the black outline image and the wink of stella (love a little shine) on the pumpkins I colored with copics, fussy cut, and popped on top!!

Here's the full card..

The branch from Serendipity's Leaf Pops was stamped with black onto my sponged background and then heat embossed with clear. The first set of pumpkins and sentiment were created the same way. I stamped the pumpkins again onto XPress It Blending cardstock, colored with copics, fussy cut, and popped on top. Last, I sprayed a little water. 

HERE's  the link to all of Serendipity's new dies and stamps. HERE's the link to play along in the NBUS challenge!!

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Serendipity Stamps Blog Hop - FALL!!

Good Morning and welcome to this month's blog hop and new release at Serendipity Stamps!! Serendipity released one new die, two sentiments, a wreath image and Autumn Pops stamp set this month!!

You should have arrived here from Miriam's blog but, if you got lost along the way I have a full list below. I have a couple cards to show you today. 

My first card uses an image from the new Autumn Pops set- this set has four images and a sentiment. LOVE!! I used the leaves/acorn image here and stamped a background. My copic coloring is very abstract for a contemporary feel. The new sentiment was stamped onto cardstock and die cut with Cherry Lynn ovals and stitched ovals- Serendipity carries these in the store too!! 

Here's a little close up of the new wreath.... it's gorgeous... love those leaves and berries!!

I stamped the image onto XPress It Blending cardstock and colored with copics. Don't you love the grapevine wreath!!

Here's the full card-

Stamped the wreath on the inside lightly and overstamped with the sentiment and heat embossed with clear to make it "pop"!!

That's it for me today but, make sure and stop by next week (Tuesday and Wednesday to be exact) to see a couple more examples from the new release!!

The Deals

Special:   Buy 3, get a 4th free coupon.  The coupon code is “40fromhigh915” and will be good Friday the 4th through Monday 9/7.  

The stamp of the month for September is the Japanese Maple 

The next stop on the hop is Jeanne... sure to be something bright and beautiful!!

Instead of linking to each individual stamp/die/sentiment.... CLICK HERE to see the full page of all the new goodies.

If you got lost along the way, here's the full hop list.

Mary's Blog

Marybeth Lopez
Miriam Napier
Vickie Zimmer
Jeanne Jachna 
Jenny Gropp
Julie Warner
Karen Amidon

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Color Throwdown #358- Let's Chill!!

Happy Wednesday and welcome to this week's Color Throwdown challenge!! Jodi picked the colors this week...

Aren't those gorgeous flowers!!  Love these colors- navy, yellow and white!

I am still trying to hang on to summer - 

So, I played with some new MFT stamps and dies- Penguins in Paradise!! The background was sponged with navy ink using the MFT MPD teardrop stencil.

Welcome to Kelly Latevola, September Guest Designer - You and Your Big Dreams This Girl has some "mad" coloring skills!!

Once you’ve finished your card or other paper-crafted project, add a direct link to your creation using the Inlinkz tool at the bottom of the post. And, don’t forget to use the keyword CTD358 if you upload your project to an online gallery, or hashtag on social media with #ctd358 and/or #colorthrowdown.  Challenge guidelines are in the right sidebar on the Color Throwdown Challenge Blog in case you have any questions.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the DT!!

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud
 Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations

 Jodi Collins- Stampin a Latte

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy
Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

                         I also played along with the current Curtain Call Challenge- shades!!

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Color Throwdown # 357- Awesome!!

Good Morning!! It's time for another Color Throwdown Challenge and this week's colors were chosen by Joan!! Oh Lord... if only I had a tiger image and could color it exactly like the pic!!

Love!!

Here's my card....

Trying to post this quick... this girl is packing for the beach...HOOT HOOT HOORAY!! AND.. hubs is getting the kites out- added nectar to the humming bird feeder and birdseed for the birds.. those last minute chores that the youngest may not think of- oy to be 23 again!!

The flowers are Altenew Persian Motifs and sentiment from Painted Butterflies. The flowers were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black onto watercolor cardstock. Colored with SU inks and added a few "strokes" or maybe that's "swishes" around the images. Finished with a Julie Ebersole Bokeh Dot image in black.

Don't forget to stop by  Lindsay Amrhein of Note to Self  our Guest this month.  

Once you’ve finished your card or other paper-crafted project, add a direct link to your creation using the Inlinkz tool at the bottom of the post. And, don’t forget to use the keyword CTD357 if you upload your project to an online gallery, or hashtag on social media with #ctd357 and/or #colorthrowdown.  Challenge guidelines are in the right sidebar on the Color Throwdown Challenge Blog in case you have any questions.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the DT!!

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud
 Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations

 Jodi Collins- Stampin a Latte

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy
Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

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Serendipity Stamps Blog Challenge- Anything Goes!!

Good Wednesday Morning!! Can you believe it is the end of August already... time sure flies!! After the heat of this summer... you would think I'd be welcoming Fall with open arms... and I am.... in a way :) Ready for some cooler temps as we have had above normal this year BUT, I so love summer... and fall brings winter, Ugh!!

Time for the next installment of this month's Serendipity Stamps Challenge. This month is Anything Goes.... so many options!! I was still in a Zig Clean Color Brush markers kick and thought these Serendipity Sun Garden flowers would be perfect for an emboss resist technique. 

I am still experimenting so even though this looks CAS- I water colored that background 4 times until I got the blend of colors I wanted.

Here's the full card...

Added the Serendipity Enjoy die cut several layers and popped up in black for some contrast! Makes the background white embossed flowers and color stand out!! 

Our favorite design will receive our winner blog badge and one random winner of this challenge will receive a $20 discount off their next order from Serendipity Stamps.You have until midnight US Eastern Standard Time on September 7 to link your project. The winner and our next challenge will be posted on September 9.

Want to go shopping? The 50% off Stamp of the month for August is Large Veggie Basket (shown above).

Here's the link to the challenge with all the details

For more inspiration there are samples from the design team on the challenge blog or you can visit them directly and get all the details by clicking on their names below.

Karen Amidon
Jeanne Jachna

Marybeth Lopez

Jenny Gropp 

Julie Warner 

 Miriam Napier

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