Serendipity Stamps Blog Challenge- Valentines!!

Good Morning and Welcome to the second installment of this month's Serendipity Stamps Blog Challenge!! 

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.

Did you have a good Valentine's Day? I did... nothing out of the ordinary but, a good day! Started out with a cold (thanks to my daughter) but, felt a little better by afternoon and Hubs and I did a little specialty food shopping... Mediterranean diet shopping, For the price of fresh fish, you would have thought we went to a jewelry store :)

Mary (owner of Serendipity Stamps) gives the DT an extra challenge... this time around is to use vellum. I love vellum and this gold embossed piece from SU was my starting point. Added black, white, and bright pink for coordinating colors... Love the boldness!!

The Heart is Serendipity's Heart Scroll die and the sentiment is Serendipity's Valentine's die. I adore this heart and have a tendency to use it leave the die cuts in place. FYI- you can "poke out" the little pieces and have a beautifully intricate heart die.

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 Friday- Butterfly!!

Happy Friday!! TGIF!! It's been a couple crazy weeks at work and home... my goal this WE is to stay inside (warm and toasty), drink coffee, and stamp!! Sounds good, right!!

Friday is my Top Dog Die day and here's another one for you using a gorgeous background die and butterfly!!!

In this photo, you can see the dimension I created by die cutting two of the butterflies, adhering only in the center, and "opening the wings"

Here's the full card. I left off a sentiment... sometimes that's perfect to have in your stash so you can add the sentiment as needed. This card would work for so many occasions. Isn't the background gorgeous... that is Top Dog dies Modern Mosaic Background. The butterfly is Top Dog Dies Butterfly die set. There are two in the set, the other one is a silhouette. BTW- they are both on sale right now!!

Another little close up so you can see the intricate cuts in the butterfly.. the pearls were the perfect accent.

Thinking Spring? I am!!

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Serendipity Stamps Blog Hop!!

Good Morning and welcome to the Serendipity Stamps Blog Hop!! We are featuring some new dies and stamps available now at Serendipity Stamps! Whoo Hoo!

You should have arrived here from Miriam's blog, (gorgeous, right!) if you got lost along the way, just pop along to the Serendipity Stamp's blog and start from the beginning.

Lots of new goodies (already in the store)!! I have had so much fun playing!! I have several cards to show today but, I'm going to be short and sweet (it's been a long couple of weeks)

The first one uses this sweet puppy image colored with copics and layered... LOVE!!

The inside. 

My next two cards are bright and colorful... reminds me of my sweet friend Jeanne (she's next on the hop and you'll see what I mean)

Isn't that a fabulous border  and with the ladybug.. both are Serendipity dies!!

I've used a bunch of Serendipity dies on this card... the Bunny, the border at the bottom (die cut twice and inset some color for the flowers and added pearls for the centers) and the Easter sentiment. 

My last card uses some new dies that I just ADORE!! I grew up in the Midwest and we were card playing/game playing fools!! 

For this one I made a shaker card. Not sure if you can see all the elements in this die. The "poker chip" had three layers- outside, inside layer, and crown. The outer layer die cuts tiny hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds... LOVE!! AND the lucky sentiment die cuts a four leaf clover.

Here's the deets.... there's a prize...One $20 gift code will go to one random commenter from the blogs. The more blogs you visit, and leave a comment, the greater chance to win. You have until  Febuary 16th to leave comments, winners will be posted on Serendipity's Stamps blog on Febuary 17th.

For a second chance to win - like us on Facebook and share the ad about the hop.  One person who does both will be selected to win a second $20 gift certificate.  If you already like us on FB all you have to do is share the ad with a friend.  Click on the "share" link under the photo. 

Next stop on the hop is my sweet friend Jeanne, sure to be something bright and beautiful...

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 #329- Thank You!!

Good Wednesday morning... time for another Color Throwdown challenge... Wednesday's make me smile :) Not only are we halfway through the work week but, time for another set of colors to play with!!

Boni is the hostest this week...

What a fancy and sweet little coin purse!! Well, that's what I am calling it anywho... could be a lipstick case...

I pulled out some older stamps that needed a little love. The vase/s are from Clear and Simple Stamps. The background for the vase was stamped with SU Pool Party and the "outside" image was stamped with versamark onto vellum and heat embossed with white. Flowers are also Clear and Simple stamps- stamped twice, once onto the Neenah cardstock and again onto XPress It Blending cardstock. Colored both with copics. Fussy cut the red flower images and layered with foam for a lttle dimension. The sentiment is from Altenew's Label Love.

Yes, the green is there :) The flower stems.

Check out our February guest designer: Jen Shults from Deconstrucing Jen!!

Ashwini 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 CTD329  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.

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I WOOF You!!

Hey, how are you doing? We had fabulous weather this WE... 60!! Sunday it was windy so it felt a little cooler but, I was one happy girl!!

Also, had a chance to play with some new goodies...

Aren't those pups from Reverse Confetti adorable... matching dies too!!

The pups were stamped onto XPress It blending cardstock and colored lightly with copics. The sentiment is from the same set Puppy Love and they were die cut with the matching dies. Other RC goodies... whole lotta dots, tagged tote confetti cuts, and love note confetti cuts. Here's the link to the store  :)

Used this month's SFYTT sketch challenge and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge... Bright and Beautiful (maybe puppies aren't what comes to mind but, there a lot of color going on here!)

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