Love!!

Valentine's will be here in a week and I am in the mood to play with hearts!!

This is one of my favorite color combos- love red, white, and black... this time I added a little pink too. The hearts are layered using Spellbinders dies, added a thin piece of patterned paper, a Glitz bauble, and some twine.

I was inspired by the current Curtain Call Inspiration challenge and the Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge to be inspired by the letter "H"... obviously I went with the theme of the month :)

Hope you're having a great Saturday. We're supposed to hit 60 degrees today- not sure it's going to happen but, I have to say it's warmer than it has been lately!!

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Top Dog Dies Friday!! Tea Time!!

Good morning!! Here again to post another card using Top Dog Dies!! I am still in the spring mode... sitting outside on the deck drinking tea or coffee (whatever your pleasure!), listening to the birds, watching the first sprouts of flowers!! You know it's spring when you can do that without shivering!!

I played with Top Dog Dies Tea Time Basics die set. The teapot lid and cup were die cut with some fun patterned papers. The teapot was die cut with soft suede and stamped with a background stamp from Verve's Bountiful Backgrounds. I used the Top Dog Dies Dotted Border set (the scallop) to create layers with patterned paper. You can see a close up of the dotted borders above.... aren't they sweet!!

Here's the full card. Sentiment is Waltzingmouse stamps and added a doily and ribbon to finish it off!! I am so ready for the early morning tea/coffee on the deck to start the day!!

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Color Throwdown 328- hello!!

Good Wednesday morning... time for another Color Throwdown challenge... Wednesday's make me smile :)

Barbara picked the colors this week... FUN!!

My card....

I made a tall, skinny card... fun!! I finally used my MFT polka dot cover up.... love it!! I die cut with midnight muse (doesn't look as dark in the pic) and added some dots with SU peach parfait, lucky limeade, and coastal cabana. Also played with Technique Tuesdays sweet chickadees. Sentiment from the same set.

Looking for more inspiration using the colors...

Check out our February guest designer: Jen Shults from Deconstrucing Jen.  Sooo happy to have you playing with us this month!!

Flo is our Guest Star Stamper this week..... you can find her blog HERE.

And my teamies!

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

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

Monika Davis- MAD Stamper

 Jodi Collins- Stampin a Latte
Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Remember, if you don't have the exact colors, use whatever you have that's close...this is all about having fun!  AND... remember "neutrals" are free! If you upload to a public gallery, please use the key words CTD328  Also, when linking up your card using the linky tool at the bottom of the post, please link to your specific post, not a generic link to your blog.  

When you are finished with your creation, head over to the Color Throwdown blog to add your entry to the Inlinkz tool.

For my layout I used CAS(E) this sketch....

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Serendipity Stamps Blog Challenge- All You Need is Love!!

Welcome to the new monthly challenge for Serendipity Stamps!! Wow... can you believe it's February! It's the month of love...'kay that sounds corny but, sometimes I can be a sentimental kind of girl :)

This month the theme is "All You Need is Love" so all you need to do is create a card or project creating a design of love! Think Valentine's, Wedding, Anniversary... you only need to use one Serendipity stamp or die.

The DT always have an little extra challenge and this time was to be non-traditional... colors, sentiment, guy card.

I went with the non-traditional colors... shades of pink, gold, and gray. The outline is Serendipity's Floral Frame and Embellishment dies (this set comes with 5 dies- fantastic deal!). The gold heart was die cut with Serendipity's Heart Scroll die  with gold paper. I left all the little pieces in for a mosaic type effect. Serendipity's Love word die was cut three times and layered for dimension. Added a gray bow... don't think I will ever be tired of bows on cards, LOL!!

This month Kara Vrabel is joining us from kandrdesigns... so happy to have you joining us!!

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

The rules are simple... play along using at least one Serendipity Stamps image on your submission and the theme of Thankful/Grateful. You don't have to have a blog to play along - you can link your designs to any on line gallery.

Click Here for all the details

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Top Dog Dies- Spring!!

Good Morning and Happy Friday!! This is my weekly Top Dog Dies post and we are thinking Spring!! So what do you think of when you hear the word Spring.... flowers, warmth, sunshine

One of the things that I think of are soft spring colors and the birds chirping!!

So I created a fairly clean card highlighting those things. The card base was created using Top Dog Dies Signature Antique die. I cut two, scored a line on the base towards the top, and adhered with sticky tape. The papers are Heidi Swapp's Dreamy and they were die cut using the same Signature Authentique die. The bird is from Top Dog Dies Little Birds die set. On the close up you will the tiny dots that outline the image... LOVE!! To finish off the Waltzingmouse sentiment was heat embossed with white and I added a couple gold glitter enamel dots and one with color.

Here's a close up of that sweet bird!!

Don't forget Top Dog Dies just released 6 new dies.... go check them out HERE.

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