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Welcome to Serendipity Stamps & The Twinery Blog Hop Day 2!

If you arrived here from the blog of Stacey Schafer, you are in the right place.  If not, you may want to head over to the Serendipity Blog to start from the beginning. Are you having fun so far? Lots of fabulous inspiration and there is still one more day to go. Just a reminder…you will need to comment on all blogs all 3 days to be eligible to win one of the following prizes:

• Serendipity Stamps is giving away a $25 gift certificate to their store!
• The Twinery is giving away a Solid Sampler Pack (retail value $48)!
• Serendipity Stamps is also giving away a $25 gift certificate to their store for “Liking” & commenting on their Facebook Page!

There is also a sale…20% off all items in the “Garden” category thru Aug 3 at Serendipity Stamps.

For my “into the window” card,  I stamped the beautiful Hat w/ Flowers close to the corner of 4 x 5.25 piece of white card stock, colored it with Copics then lightly penciled in my frame using the die as the template. I cut into & around the parts of the hat & flowers that would stick into the opening, placed the die under the hat & die cut the opening. I used a slightly larger stitched die to emboss the stitching around the window.  The greeting & ferns were stamped on a slightly larger piece of white, colored & I used the BG10 Copic to add the aqua around its edge before attaching it under my slightly elevated window. Another fern was fussy cut & added on top of the window along w/ a valance die cut. I threaded a blue button with Peapod Stripe & Denim Stripe twine & tied them in a bow. 

The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Your next stop is the blog of Melyssa Connolly. Please be sure to visit & comment on all the posts to be eligible for the prizes! Here is today’s Hop List:

Serendipity Stamps 
The Twinery 
Tifany DeGough
Anya Schrier 
Rebecca VanDeMark
Vickie Zimmer 
Stacey Schafer
Julie Warner  (you are here!)
Melyssa Connolly
Karen Amidon
Melania Deasy 
Cathy Weber
Suzanna Lee 

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A big congrats to Heidi (stamptek), the newest Featured Stamper (FS390) on Splitcoast! What a beautiful, colorful gallery she has! I chose THIS card to CASE. I just loved the flowers and trimmed edge w/ the embossing on the right, so I kept those. I used different images, different embossing folder and different colors. 

For my version, I stamped the outline flowers w/ worn lipstick close to the edge of piece of white card stock then trimmed around them. On an acrylic block, I smushed the lipstick & marigold ink pads, then spritzed the rubber of my solid flower image and pressed it to the inked block then stamped them on another piece of white c/s. I used a stamp positioner to line up the outline ( but slightly off, to keep a bit of the white) and stamped it in black on top. I used the matching die to die cut them and attached them down the side. The left side was die cut and I sponged the two Distress inks, pulling them near the flower edge. 

The coral panel on the right was die cut & embossed & attached under the edge of the flowers. I added just a bit more color to the flowers w/ a couple of Copic markers then added the big black gem centers & the greeting in the upper left. The finished card is 4.25 x 5.50.

Congrats again, Heidi! Thanks so much for stopping by!  

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The Ways to Use It Challenge on Splitcoast today (WT489) is lots of dots. After stamping & coloring the cake, I fussy cut it because I knew the tall candles would end up very close to the top. On the top of the background, I white embossed the polka dot background..I think the white on white adds a nice texture without making it look too busy. I added a die cut fancy border w/ a blue ombre strip behind the top that I just colored w/ Copics. The greeting was stamped in the opening & some sequins added for a little sparkle. The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.

Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t yet, please check out the DRS Thursday Challenge. This week…Inchies! DRS images are not required so head on over.

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