Dot & Whimsy

I love this week's Pinterest Inspired Challenge at

And everyone has a stash of paperclips laying about, so why

not dress them up with buttons, resin pieces, ribbon, washi tape, etc.

I have been wanting to create a card with this stamp and the inspiration photo harkened 

me to try stamping the leaves onto some of the Designer Tape! I placed the strips onto

 white cardstock and then stamped the image sporadically several times over the tapes. 

Next, I hand-cut the leaves and added a small foam adhesive square to the back of each. 

After stamping the entire image again onto a white cardstock, I placed the matching

 leaves over the design. For extra detail, I embellished a plain paper clip with a 

Button Market button and a high tack adhesive dot!

While looking through the Max Collection, I was drawn to the various star stickers

 found on the Treasures & Text sheet. I added them to a paper clip with a

 high tack adhesive dot and then clipped them to the side of the paper swatch. 

I let the Border paper do most of the work and only accented further with

 some hand-stitching at the top and a crochet heart.

There are two really neat-o layouts using this challenge up on the blog as well

I hope that you have a very fabulous weekend, friends!

It's Pinterest Inspired Thursday at 

Isn't this a fun inspiration piece?

I'm really in love with anything felt these days...throwing in some scallops

makes it even more fun!  And of course, the colors and amongst my favs.

Here are the two cards that I made using the photos for the inspiration:

I followed the haphazard flow of the pillows in designing this card.

 I started with a very basic background by using two of the grid patterns from the 

Freestyle Sophisticates line. Next, I hand-cut three of the blooms from the Family Forever paper.

 I wanted the flowers to have the appearance that they were just laying on the paper, 

so I only added a dab of glue to the backs of each before attaching. I added their

 leaves to the side, choosing to highlight one of them by attaching with a foam adhesive.

 I scattered the Crochet Hearts by following the pattern of the flowers, 

added buttons and then finished with a sentiment sticker.

 I love the scallop design found in the inspiration photo; it's so feminine and soft.

 I started by die-cutting a large scalloped shape and then topped it with a large circle

 trimmed in pom pom ribbon. I also kept with the colors found in the photo, which can 

be found in several of the Bella Blvd collections! In keeping with the pom trim,

I added a small white pom pom to the top of the chipboard heart.

Need some layout inspiration to go along with the challenge?  

Check out the Bella Blvd Blog today and see what Stephanie & Katherine have done!

Thanks for stopping by!

I totally missed the new Monday Morning Challenge at Bella Blvd

so here we go!

I will admit that this was more of a challenge for me than I thought!  

But here they are...my two "Focus on the Square" cards:

After cutting two different sizes of squares, I cut each set into triangles and then pieced

 them back together with alternating patterns! I die-cut one of the journal card sentiments

 into a square and added it with foam dots. Because the journal card included a cluster of

 strawberries, I decided to keep with that motif and created a cute crochet heart strawberry. 

Just add cut out leaves, a stem and small pearls.

 I used one of the borders from the Borders paper as the focus for this card.

 I cut four 1.75" tiles and layered them onto a mat of patterned paper. Two of the squares 

were added with foam dots, which gave a nice 3-D effect. I cut the tabs sticker into a

 square and added it to the center point of the design.

 More square inspiration on the Bella Blog :)  See you tomorrow!

Hello, Tuesday Crafters!

With all of the blogging and hopping going on I forgot

to mention the 

 I added just a little bit of iridescent glitter to the ice cubes and pink pencil to the cheeks!
Are you a KOTM Member?

If not, here is a lookie at this beautiful, sweet

and whimsical collection:

Would you like to play along?  
Simply use any Unity KOTM Stamps and upload your project
to the link above!  The winner will receive a FREE KOTM
Stamp set of choice, PLUS 100 randomly chosen Unity stamps :)

You can check out the details of becoming a Kit of the Month Subscriber here!
Off to play some more with my red rubber stamps :)
Hugs!