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