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Design-abilties Blog Hop: MOPS Project

Welcome to the fourth Design-abilities Blog Hop! The Spellbinders® Blog Team has a blog hop on the sixteenth of every other month. This blog hop is just for creative inspiration; we are not sponsored by Spellbinders Paper Arts®. Sometimes we are not all be able to participate, but we would still encourage you to visit all of the Blog Team Members and check out their blogs.  You will find a variety of ideas for die cutting, papercrafting, mixed media, DIY projects, jewelry, home decor,and lots of tutorials and techniques.

My project for today is double-duty. . . of necessity. :-} I got home from my Chicago Copic Certification classes Sunday [waving to my friends!] and still needed to get together a project for our MOPS moms for today. I initially meant to have them make an Easter card today, but then I decided that it would be better if I could give them a choice of what kind of card to make. That meant that I needed a fairly clean and simple design that would work for Easter, birthday, or friendship/encouragement. After looking through my stamp collection, I found that my Spellbinders A-2 Curved Matting Basics A and A-2 Scalloped Borders 1 would work with each of the stamp sets that I had chosen.

I dug through my paper stash, and I found almost a full pad of Papertrey Ink Egg Hunt 8" x 8" paper--bingo! Enough for my MOPS cards! I also used a couple of sheets from the 2008 Bitty Dot Basics pad for a contrasting trim.  The stamp set used above is Polka Dot Parade #1. I added some Flower Soft to the bunny's tail for fluffiness.

I chose Sentiment Signs for the second card option, thinking that any of its sentiments would work.

For the third option, I chose the Stylish Sentiments Birthday stamp set. With those three options, I think my bases are pretty well covered, and my Spellbinders A-2 Curved Matting Basics A and A-2 Scalloped Borders 1 worked perfectly with all of them. :-)

Here are my twenty-one projects--hope they have fun! 

I'd love it if you had time to visit my blog team friends as well, though not everyone is able to participate this month. Thank you for visiting today!

Debbie

Becca Feeken

Darsie Bruno

Heidi Blankenship

Linda Duke 

Michelle Woerner

Seth Apter

Sherry Cheever

Blog Hop Winners are. . .

Wow--two blog hops in two days! We have some winners to announce from both hops. First, the winner from this blog of the Spellbinders Paper Arts Bunny Hop is number 494, Queen Mary.  Queen Mary, you have 48 hours to email Spellbinders at [email protected] to claim your prizes! Other winners can be found on the Spellbinders Paper Arts Blog.

For the JustRite and Stampers Dream Blog Hop, the winners were randomly chosen from these three blogs:

Barb Schram's Blog --- 4 JustRite sets of your choice  (Cyndie)

Kim Teasdale's Blog – Stampers Dream Blog Candy Package  (Lori)

Kellie Fortin's Blog - $50.00 JustRite Gift Certificate  (Barbara)

If you commented on any of these three blogs, you might want to check it or the JustRite Inspiration Blog to see if you are a winner.

I will have another Blog Hop involving a  very special new Copic Shadows and Shading BOOK prize posted on Thursday--I don't think I've ever had three blog hops in one week before! If you're in a hurry to find out what that one is,  Marianne , Jenny, and Bianca will probably have their posts up today.

I'm working on visuals for my Brookfield/Milwaukee Copic Standard Certification this Friday. Will you be there? If so, I can't wait to meet you!

Thanks for stopping by.

Blog Links Page, yadda, yadda. . .

This is primarily an announcement post: I think I have finally included all of the blog links that I have been sent. If you asked to include your blog on my Crafty Blogs to Browse page, and it is not there, would you please leave me a comment here?  Also, if your link has a problem or is outdated, feel free to let me know that as well. Thank you for your patience.  I finally had to schedule a day to play internet catch-up rather than stamp!

I have a  get well card posted over on the CLASSroom blog today--a Kim Hughes Comforting Hugs card for a couple of little girls from Church.

I will draw a random number for the November/December PaperCrafts magazine (posted below) tonight at 11pm CST.

Thanks for visiting!

NEW Blog List Page

Important Announcement: I now have a new blog page set up for links to other crafting blogs. You can find the page here, and it contains all of the blog links that my sidebar currently contains. I will be moving the sidebar list off of the default page in a few days to try to relieve some of the visual congestion. I just want to make sure you know where to find that information before I move it!

If you have a regularly updated crafting blog that you would like for me to add to my list, leave a link in the comments section of this post, and I'll add as I have time. If you have a blog listed on this page and want it removed for any reason, or if you have a link that is in need of updating, please feel free to leave me a comment about that too.

Thank you!