November Papertrey Blog Hop

Hello friends,

How are you today?  Did you start (or finish) your holiday shopping yesterday?  Did you find any amazing crafty sales?  Are you still reheating leftovers?  Whatever you have on tap for today, I hope you’ll take a little time to check out the eye candy that is the monthly blog hop with Papertrey Ink. You can find the link HERE

This beautiful tablescape is our inspiration photo.

I was inspired by the hexagon pattern on the rug and I also wanted to incorporate the bow from the back of the chair.

The mason jar components are from Friendship Jar Fall Fillers and are colored with Copic markers. The bow is from Tinsel and Tags.  I also used the Linen and Canvas impression plate to add a little texture to the rustic cream card front.

Thanks for stopping by,
-Teddra

Blog Hop for Dawn Part 2

Hello again,

One more card for Dawn before the hop ends. For this card I wanted to focus on Dawn’s love of color!

The sentiments are from Dawn’s Say It With Style stamp set and the stripe background is half inch strips of cardstock in a rainbow of colors. I hope this card brings a smile to her face. Be sure to check out all the amazing cards created for Dawn HERE

Blog Hop for Dawn

Good Morning friends,

Today begins a week long blog hop on Nichole Heady’s blog CAPTURE THE MOMENT  for Dawn McVey.  Dawn is one of the designers for Papertrey Ink and recently had transplant surgery. From all accounts she is on the road to recovery but has a lot of healing to do over the next 4-6 months. The hop is showcasing stamps and dies designed by Dawn, not only to show our love and appreciation but to provide a little bit of eye candy for her during recovery.

If you’ve followed Dawn on her blog or Instagram it quickly becomes apparent that she has a great love for her family, friends and faith. Also high on that list of loves is her love of flowers and she has been able to translate that love into beautiful floral stamps and dies.  It was difficult to choose which stamps to use so I ended up using three different sets.

I began by stamping the background with Basic Backgrounds: Sheet Music. I then die cut and stamped various images from Spruce and Sprigs. The sentiment, from Deck The Halls, is heat embossed on a strip of black cardstock. Then was able to play around with all the pieces until I found one I liked. At that point, the intention was to trim down the background piece slightly and mount it on a red cardbase. However, before I cut the red cardstock down to size I noticed how nice it looked layered on the full sheet of cardstock. So rather than a card, it’s now in a frame ready for Christmas decorating.

Thanks for stopping by,
-Teddra