CASE Study #176 - Love

 Hi friends!  I hope you are having a great day!  I'm loving the inspiration from our muse at CASE Study this month - the wonderful Donna Mikasa from 3 Umbrellas blog.  She's been taking me to school this month and teaching me new ways to look at things.  That's something I really love about CASE - seeing that there are so many different ways to  interpret a design, and finding beauty in all of them. 

Here's the design for this week - hooked yet?  I love the die cut flower, the sprinkle of sequins, the rich gold embossed sentiment on vellum, and YES!  Hot Pink!!!    So clean, but absolutely PACKED with lots of details.   How did I make it mine?  I switched out the flower for a heart, the vellum sentiment for a die cut sentiment, and pattern paper, for the plain white card stock.  To add a little sparkle to my die cut sentiment I added silver glimmer paper inside the heart cut outs and sprinkled on some silver sequins topped with silver pearls.  The die is actually cut into the pattern paper, and the die cut pieces set inside.

Want a  little more inspiration, or maybe you just want to see what the rest of the design team made?  Just click on their names here to jump to their blogs!

Chupa - Iwona Palamountain

Amy Wanford

Andrea Ewen

Clare Buswell

Debbie Hughes

Maureen Plut

Tasnim Ahmed 

Maureen Merritt

Silke Ledlow

I'm looking forward to seeing what you make!  You can link up your designs here - at CASE Study Challenge Blog!  Have a great day!











Supplies Used:  Finished Size:  4.25 x 5.5"
Die Cuts:  Memory Box La Rue Heart, Serendipity Stamps Love
Pattern Paper:  Crate Paper Emma's Shoppe Collection
Card Stock:  SU! Silver Glimmer, PTI Pure Poppy, Hibiscust Burst, SU! Pretty In Pink, Pink Pirouette 
Sequins, Silver Pearls
1/4" Corner Chomper We R Memory Keepers

Serendipity Stamps Blog Hop - Day 1 Shamrock

Today is  the first day of a three day new release blog hop for Serendipity Stamps.  We've got three great new dies to show you.  If you are hopping along you should have reached me from  Anya's blog.  If you just dropped by and would like to start from the beginning you can get all the details here at  Mary's Blog. 

Today we are previewing the new shamrock die!  This shamrock makes the perfect embellishment for  St. Patrick's Day cards or treats, or just wish someone good luck. I'm an Indiana girl and I can even see using these for some fighting Irish (Notre Dame) scrapbook pages.  The detail is beautiful on this die from the celtic inspired design to the bitty row of hearts running along the stem of the die.

I wanted to use this sentiment, but didn't want the shamrocks to show so  I placed tape over the shamrock images, inked it up, removed the tape, and then stamped the image.  To create the debossed pattern I  attached the shamrock die to the stamped cardstock with removable post it note tape and ran it through my die cut machine with a rubber embossing pad.  I repeated this process several times changing the position of  the shamrock to create a pattern over the entire base of the card.  To fill the die cut holes of the shamrock I first cut it in dark green card stock.  I poked out all the die cut holes and then put scotch tape on the back side of the die cut to cover all the holes.  Next I cut the shamrock  a second time with a lighter green, placed it over the dark green shamrock and pushed the small pieces into the sticky holes.  

The next stop on the hop is Jenny Gropp.    But before you go - make sure you leave a comment.   Each day of the hop one random winner will be selected from the commenters to receive a $10 gift certificate to use at Serendipity Stamps - so you can get whatever you like!    You have until February 5 to leave a comment.  Winners will be posted on February 7 on  Mary's Blog  For your convenience a  complete list of all the designers on today's hop is here.  Just click on their names to jump to their blog.

Julie Warner

Karen Amidon

Marybeth Lopez

Miriam Napier

Pauline Pollington

Vickie Zimmer

Anya Schrier

Jeanne Jachna  (That's me!)

Jenny Gropp

I hope you will stop by tomorrow to see another new release die and have another chance at winning! 

Supplies Used:  Finished Size 4.25 x 5.5" 

Stamps:  Serendipity Stamps Happy St. Pat's

Dies:  Serendipity Stamps Shamrock Die

Card Stock:  PTI White, Simply Chartreuse, SU! Garden Green

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

PSSPARKS January Sketch - Floral Reflections

Wow another super cold day here!  The high is 1 if you can believe that.  We have wind chill advisories, and the kids are home from school - yes even the one in college!  And just got another voice mail alert - no school tomorrow either!   I can't ever remember so many school closings in one season before - EVER!   I wanted to play along with the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge so I snuck off for a little "me" time this morning.   This week is a sketch challenge.  I don't know why but this one sort of scared me.   I almost didn't play at all.   I think it was that split down the middle and dividing my design in half that had me worried.    

After I decided on what set I would use I pulled out all the ink and started stamping and the rest sort of came together on it's own.   I think the little strip of vellum really pulls it all together. 

There is a lesson in there some where... don't doubt yourself, or just have fun maybe? I'm glad I stuck with it because I'm really happy with how it turned out. 

Thanks for stopping by for a look!  I hope you have a beautiful day!  

Supplies Used:  Finished Size 4.5 x 6.25"

Stamps:  Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler, Reflections

Pattern Paper:  My Mind's Eye The Sweetest Thing Tangerine 6x6

Card Stock:  SU! Certainly Celery, PTI White, Terracotta Tile, Vellum

Dies:  Paper Smooches Hickory Leaf, Little Inker Designs Stitched Rectangles, Spellbinder Standard Circles, Big Scalloped Circles

Pearls:  Doodlbug

Heart Gem:  Recollections

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Memento Tangelo, Love Letter, Peart Tart, Morocco, Cantaloupe, Dandelion, Bamboo Leaves