Dotty For You Blog Hop

Welcome to the Dotty For You Blog Hop CELEBRATING NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING MONTH in May 2012.  Dotty for You includes 24 specially designed, coordinating B&T Duos® sheets (2 each of 12 patterns) and an artwork idea insert to get your creative juices flowing. This oh-so-cute package will be available April 17 thru May 31, 2012.  Join Close to my Heart today or host a $400 party and you can get your package FREE (a $19.95 value), OR with a $35 purchase you can get this package for just $5.

 

If you have come here from Helen Onulak's blog, you are on the right path!  You can find a list of all the partipant's in case you get lost here:  http://bowlofstamps.blogspot.com/p/sotm-blog-hop-list.html.

We have almost 40 CTMH Consultants sharing their creations using these amazing papers. The hop is simple to follow --just click on the link provided at the end of the post to move to the next blog!

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This standard size card came from last week's MojoMonday sketch.  I just love the look of the bright popping colors with black background!  First, a small view of the sketch:

Papers: Dotty For You papers; Sweet Leaf and Black Cardstock

Stamps: Cricket Art Philosphy D-size Stamp set (one of 3 that comes with the cartridge) and S1204 You Are (April Stamp of the Month)

Ink: Lagoon and Smoothie Exclusive Inks

Embellishments: Z1683 Mixed Shapes Dimentional Elements; Z1466 Bling Assortment button; Z1702 Paradise Assortment Baker's Twine; Lace from Colonial White Designer Ribbon Collection (Retired); Cricket Art Philosophy cartridge

A second card I did, also standard size just went together in about 30 minutes (usually it takes me days staring at a blank canvas to create a card and even longer for scrapbook pages); however with the beautiful colors of spring and something I did a long time ago this came together so easily!

I like both of these pictures and couldn't decide from which angle I liked it better.  Tee hee....

Papers: Dotty For You papers; Colonial White and Black Cardstock

Stamps: D1475 Card Chatter - Birthday

Ink: VersaMark and White embossing powder

Embellishments: Z1702 Paradise Assortment Baker's Twine; Z1694 Bouquet Assortment

Other:  Z578 Corner Rounder

Hope you enjoyed my slant on these gorgeous papers!  Now it's off to Dawn Ross' Blog to see her lovely creations!

April SOTM Blog Hop

Oh my gosh can you believe it's already April? This month the featured stamp of the month is S1204-You Are..., a set of 15 amazing images!  Below are the images in this stamp set. I just love those background images with lines.

If you have come here from Vicki Price's blog, you are on the right path!  I am the first stop for this month's hop! You can find a list of all the participants (in case you get lost) here: http://bowlofstamps.blogspot.com/p/sotm-blog-hop-list.html  This month we have over 50 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this set. The hop is simple to follow - just click on the link provided in the post to move to the next blog!

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My item is a 5.5" x 5.5" card made with the Victory Papers.  This is the card I made for my son who is a taxidermist.  This year at the Montana Taxidermy Association convention he took first place for his entry (which was a porcupine on a rock eating an elk antler.  He wasn't able to attend the banquet but found that after the banquet everyone was rushing to see his exhibit.  At the awards banquet he won Best of Show for Small Animal Class and Master of Division (this is given to the best animal out of all the professional entries of any kind entered under the Professional--over 350 entries).  But what was even more amazing is the judges gave him 100 on his score which just doesn't happen.  WOW!  I'm SO proud of him!  Anyway, here is my humble offering....

And here is a closer look at the dimensional elements of it:

Papers: Victory WOTG papers; Colonial White, New England Ivy, Barn Red, Outdoor Denim Card stocks

Stamps:  S1204 You Are...
Ink:   New England Ivy, Barn Red, Outdoor Denim Exclusive Ink

Embellishments:  Z1464 MilePost Shapes; Durables Round

Other: Bronze Glitz

And of course I have to show you the mount that won the Professional Division of this year's Montana Taxidermy Associations Convention. The judges said that they thought it looked like it would walk right off the rock it looked so real.

Time to hop on over to Helen Onulak's Blog to see her beautiful eye candy! Be sure to visit all the Consultants' Blogs to get some great crafting and other fun ideas! Remember, the SOTM is only available thru April 30th! Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set for $5!

Happy hopping!