Blog Hops

There She Goes has a new product - Card Bins! Check out the TSG blog hop, you can win a free box. If you don't win, they are only $2. I am sure that I need some!

Also, the Paper Crafts Connection featured Lisa Johnson, one of my favorite Paper Trey Ink designers. They are offering blog candy too on this post!

And the new Believe set by Verve is a fund-raiser, and it is beautiful. $10 from EVERY SALE goes to breast cancer cure research. Check out all the beautiful samples on their Believe Blog Hop.

One Krafy Kat has Blog Candy!

Jenny over at One Krafty Kat is offering blog candy - a $25 gift certificate to Repeat Impressions!  Don't you love blog candy that you get to pick yourself?  Go check it out - she also has a great shoe card to share, and you can never have enough shoes!

BittyDot Sketch Challenge

This card was created for the fun "connect the dots" sketch that Papertrey Ink used to celebrate the release of their BittyDot paper. That second anniversary celebration really set a new level of superiority for blog events!  While I have a huge wish list of PTI stamps and other products, I do not actually own any. . . YET!  So instead I turned to dot-related stamps from my own collection to honor the dots theme. 

I started with SU "Dotted" background stamp using dark olive dye ink on an Old Olive background.  The white flowers were punched, then I cut between the petals towards the center and curled the petals up to give them some dimension and attached with mini black brads.  The center panel uses stamps from the SU "Be Happy" set.  The border punched panels have a punched dot in each scallop, and the dotted ribbon finished off the theme!

Polka dots of any size are fun, and I enjoyed mixing up all the different scales on this card!  What are some of your favorite polka dot creations?

Card Details:

Stamps: Stampin' Up! - Dotted, Be Happy

Ink: Marvy dye ink - Pond Green

Paper: Stampin' Up! Old Olive, black, white

Embellishments: brads, ribbon

Tools: Fiskars Threading Water border punch