A Dotty For You Birthday

As I said earlier this month, May is the month of Birthdays. One of my friends and stamping buddies just had a birthday.  I just love how neat the Dotty For You papers coordinate!  This came together so quickly and easily!

I just love how this all coordinates so beautifully!  Here is a snapshot of the inside of the card. This is the sketch I used for this card from Freshly Made Sketches:

I never get to see enough of the innards of people's cards so I'm still working at the perfect innards.  There should be an innards contest.  Would that be interesting.  OK, I digress....

Papers: Dotty For You papers; Colonial White, Grey Wool Cardstocks 
Stamps: C1494 Card Word Puzzle;  
Ink: Lagoon, Sweet Leaf, Grey Wool Exclusive Inks 
Embellishments: Lagoon Mini-Medley Accent Collection; z1709 Just Blooms Paper Shapes

Wishing my friend Shelley a Happy Birthday!  And wishing everyone a Happy Stamping day!

Happy Mother's Day

Today is the day we honor motherhood and the positive influence of a mother's love.  The most perfect and beautiful of God's creatures on Earth was a mother (Mary) who brought to us her perfect Son. So in honoring mother's everywhere I wish you all the most perfect Mother's Day. 

I have two mothers in particular that I honor today, my daughter Sarah who is the mother of my two year old granddaughter Zoe, and my daughter-in-law Amanda, who is the mother of my grandchildren Hannah 10, Mikayla 7, and Xander 2.  How blessed we all are to have you both!

This is the Mother's Day card I made fashioned from a card made by Allisa Chilton, a very talented CTMH Consultant.  When I saw this paper from the "Dotty For You" special paper pack I thought "what a dull paper in such a splendidly vibrant paper pack."  After seeing Allisa's beautiful card I fell in love with this paper!  The rose is made from 4 embossed flowers cut and layered together.  The tulips were my present.

A closer look at the layering, next:

Papers: Dotty For You papers; White Daisy, Grey Wool Cardstocks

Stamps: C1494 Card Word Puzzle; D1283 Say It In Style (Retired)

Ink: Grey Wool Exclusive Inks

Embellishments: z1707 Bitty Opaques Pearl Adhesive Gems; z1336 Cream Opaques Adhesive Gems; z1732 Bulk Color-Ready Seam Binding Ribbon


Happy Mother's Day everyone.  I hope you all were able to share your day with friends and family!

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!

New Dotty For You Video - Just Out!

I thought you would enjoy this quick video showing the new Close To My Heart promotion--Dotty For You which starts April 17th.  I just love some of the ideas here!



And don't forgot to join me on the 17th for the Dotty for You Blog Hop with almost 40 consultants displaying beautiful artwork made with these yummy papers!

Enjoy!