Aug 17, 2011
August Blast from the Past Blog Hop
Good morning! I hope you’re all having a great week so far! Hump Day is here and I’m already looking forward to Friday! But for today I’m excited to hop around and check out all of the cards for the August Blast from the Past Blog Hop! If this is your first time at our Blast from the Past blog hop then maybe you’re wondering what it’s all about. Each month we issue a theme and a sketch to our customers and we all get creative with our ‘older’ TE stamps. It’s a great way to get inspiration for the stamps already in your collection and meet fellow TE lovers along the way! We’d love to have you join us and you can find all of the hop details (including how to sign up!) on this page. I hope you’ll come play with us next month!
This month’s theme is “Collector’s Anonymous” and I just know there must be some of you out there who fit that description, right? Perhaps you prefer to remain anonymous! *wink* We all have those precious ribbons and embellishments that we just can’t seem to part with. Maybe they’re hard to find, expensive, or just too pretty to use. Whatever the reason for hoarding, it’s not good enough this month! In addition to using the fabulous sketch that Sankari designed, we also challenged you to use something you’ve been hoarding on your card. So what do I like to hoard? Well, there are lots of things, but for today’s card I picked up my Doodlebug Nifty Notions buttons. They’re super cute colors and some of them are flower shaped. This is how bad my hoarding of pretty buttons is… I threw in one from my ‘regular’ stash because I couldn’t part with three of my pretty buttons. That was just too many! Besides the Nifty Notions buttons, all of the supplies I used on my card are from the August Key Ingredients kit. I’m lovin’ this kit and I can’t seem to get my desk cleared off these days so I just keep using the kit supplies that are strewn all over! I think it may be time to clean! The butterflies on the image panel are from the Garden Party Critters stamp set. I colored them with Copics, paper pieced portions of the wings, and added rhinestones down the center.
Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you’ll all hop around to see the fabulous inspiration from our customers!
