{"id":17172,"date":"2014-07-29T07:58:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T11:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=17172"},"modified":"2014-07-29T11:35:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T15:35:59","slug":"serendipitythe-twinery-blog-hop-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=17172","title":{"rendered":"Serendipity\/The Twinery Blog Hop! Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Flower-Window-cu-04143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17175\" title=\"Julie Warner - https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=17172\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Flower-Window-cu-04143.jpg\" alt=\"Flower Window cu 04143\" width=\"520\" height=\"393\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #e6b8af;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>Welcome to Serendipity Stamps &amp; The Twinery Blog Hop Day 2<\/strong>!<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Twinery-Blog-Hop-Badge-Serendipity-Stamps.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-17168\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Twinery-Blog-Hop-Badge-Serendipity-Stamps.png\" alt=\"Twinery Blog Hop Badge - Serendipity Stamps\" width=\"316\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">If you arrived here from the blog of <span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stampinwithstacey.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/the-twinery-serendipity-stamps-blog-hop.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">Stacey Schafer<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> you are in the right place. \u00a0If not, you may want to head over to the <span style=\"color: #cfe2f3; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cfe2f3;\">Serendipity Blog<\/span><\/a> <\/span>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&#8230;you will need to comment on all blogs all 3 days to be eligible to win one of the following prizes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #cfe2f3;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cfe2f3;\">Serendipity Stamps<\/span><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #e6b8af;\">is\u00a0giving away\u00a0a\u00a0$25 gift certificate to their store!<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #b6d7a8;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.thetwinery.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #b6d7a8;\">The Twinery<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #e6b8af;\">is giving away\u00a0a Solid Sampler Pack (retail value $48)!<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #cfe2f3;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cfe2f3;\">Serendipity Stamps<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #e6b8af;\">\u00a0is also giving away a $25 gift certificate to their store for &#8220;Liking&#8221; &amp; commenting on their<\/span> <span style=\"color: #9fc5e8;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Serendipity-Stamps\/177833132296051\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #9fc5e8;\">Facebook Page<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">There is also a sale&#8230;20% off all items in the <span style=\"color: #b6d7a8;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/category\/garden.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #b6d7a8;\"><strong>&#8220;Garden&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/a> <\/span>category thru Aug 3 at <span style=\"color: #c9daf8;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #c9daf8;\"><strong>Serendipity Stamps<\/strong>.<\/span><\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Flower-Window-04140.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Julie Warner - https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=17172\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Flower-Window-04140.jpg\" alt=\"Flower Window 04140\" width=\"517\" height=\"423\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>For my &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=14811\" target=\"_blank\">into the window<\/a>&#8221; card, \u00a0I stamped the beautiful <span style=\"color: #cfe2f3;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/product\/423E.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cfe2f3;\">Hat w\/ Flowers<\/span><\/a> <\/span>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\u00a0die as the template. I cut into &amp; around the parts of the hat &amp; flowers that would stick into the opening, placed the die under the hat &amp; die cut the opening. I used a slightly larger stitched die to emboss the stitching around the window. \u00a0The<span style=\"color: #cfe2f3;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/product\/372D.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cfe2f3;\"> greeting <\/span><\/a><\/span>&amp; <span style=\"color: #cfe2f3;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/product\/996F.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cfe2f3;\">ferns<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0were stamped on a slightly larger piece of white, colored &amp; 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 &amp; added on top of the window along w\/ a valance die cut. I threaded a blue button with <span style=\"color: #b6d7a8;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.thetwinery.com\/product\/peapod-stripe-mini-bundle-15-yards\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #b6d7a8;\">Peapod Stripe<\/span><\/a><\/span> &amp; <span style=\"color: #b6d7a8;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.thetwinery.com\/product\/denim-stripe-mini-bundle-15-yards\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #b6d7a8;\">Denim Stripe<\/span><\/a><\/span> twine &amp; tied them in a bow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The finished card is 5.50 x 4.25 and these are the Copics I used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Flower-Window-copics-04101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17174\" title=\"Julie Warner - https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=17172\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Flower-Window-copics-04101.jpg\" alt=\"Flower Window copics 04101\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Thanks so much for stopping by! Your next stop is the blog of <span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #a2c4c9;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantastink.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/serendipity-stamps.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">Melyssa Connolly<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">.\u00a0<\/span>Please be sure to visit &amp; comment on all the posts to be eligible for the prizes! Here is today&#8217;s Hop List:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #a2c4c9;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">Serendipity Stamps<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #a2c4c9;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thetwinery.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">The Twinery<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #a2c4c9;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkblotsbytrd.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/the-twineryserendipity-stamps-blog-hop.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">Tifany DeGough<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkblotsbytrd. blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/aschoss.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/the-twinery-and-serendipity-stamps-blog.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">Anya Schrier<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #a2c4c9;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caravansonnet.com\/2014\/07\/mini-teapot-album-twinery-serenditpity.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">Rebecca VanDeMark<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/vickiezimmer.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/serendipity-stamps-and-twinery-blog-hop.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">Vickie Zimmer<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stampinwithstacey.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/the-twinery-serendipity-stamps-blog-hop.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">Stacey Schafer<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/?p=17172 \" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #a2c4c9;\">Julie Warner <\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0(you are here!)<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #a2c4c9;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantastink.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/serendipity-stamps.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">Melyssa Connolly<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/paperliliesandink.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/serendipity-stamps-twinery-blog-hop-day.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">Karen Amidon<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/melaniadeasy.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/the-twinery-serendipity-stamps-blog-hop.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">Melania Deasy<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #a2c4c9;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emptynestcrafter.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/the-twinery-serendipity-stamps-blog-hop.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">Cathy Weber<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/lifestrivialities.typepad.com\/lifes_trivialities\/2014\/07\/the-twinery-serendipity-stamps-blog-hop.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #a2c4c9;\">Suzanna Lee<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Julie2-sig.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12715\" src=\"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Julie2-sig.png\" alt=\"Julie2 sig\" width=\"134\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSupplies:<\/p>\n<table style=\"color: #fdeed3;\" border=\"0\" width=\"90%\" cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"6\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody id=\"collapseobj_photoinfo\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Stamps:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #99ccff;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">Serendipity Stamps<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013<span style=\"color: #9fc5e8; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/product\/423E.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #9fc5e8;\"> Hat w\/ Flowers 423E,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/product\/996F.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #9fc5e8;\">Fern Plant 996F<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/product\/372D.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #9fc5e8;\">More Than Anything 372D<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/drsdesigns.com\/backgrounds\/1186-splatter-background.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Paper:\u00a0<\/b>X-Press It white,\u00a0black<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Ink:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Memento tuxedo black, Versafine onyx (for greeting)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><b>Accessories:<\/b><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Copic markers, <span style=\"color: #cfe2f3;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serendipitystamps.com\/cheery-lynn-dies\/CL-B454.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #cfe2f3;\">Cheery Lynn die (Southern Charm Valance)<\/span><\/a><\/span>, Spellbinders matting basics A &amp; B\u00a0dies,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #fdeed3;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #b6d7a8; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.thetwinery.com\/product\/denim-stripe-mini-bundle-15-yards\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #b6d7a8;\">denim stripe<\/span><\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.thetwinery.com\/product\/peapod-stripe-mini-bundle-15-yards\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #b6d7a8;\">peapod stripe<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #b6d7a8;\"><a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"http:\/\/thetwinery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #b6d7a8;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">twine<\/span> (<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Twinery<\/span>)<\/span><\/a><\/span>, Wink of Stella clear,<a style=\"color: #f8bc54;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourdailybreaddesigns.com\/index.php\/recipe-tags-dies.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a>button, stitched rectangle dies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Serendipity Stamps &amp; The Twinery Blog Hop Day 2! If you arrived here from the blog of Stacey Schafer, you are in the right place. \u00a0If 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&#8230;you will need to comment on all blogs all 3 days to be eligible to win one of the following prizes: Serendipity Stamps\u00a0is\u00a0giving away\u00a0a\u00a0$25 gift certificate to their store! The Twinery is giving away\u00a0a Solid Sampler Pack (retail value $48)! Serendipity Stamps\u00a0is also giving away a $25 gift certificate to their store for &#8220;Liking&#8221; &amp; commenting on their Facebook Page! There is also a sale&#8230;20% off all items in the &#8220;Garden&#8221; category thru Aug 3 at Serendipity Stamps. For my &#8220;into the window&#8221; card, \u00a0I 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\u00a0die as the template. I cut into &amp; around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406,327,43,514,53,34],"tags":[125,405,468,112,450,517,114,227],"class_list":["post-17172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheery-lynn-dies-2","category-girlyfemininemothers-day","category-masking-reverse-masking","category-serendipity-stamps","category-sewingstitching","category-nestabilities","tag-blog-hop","tag-cheery-lynn-dies","tag-copic","tag-flowers","tag-into-the-window","tag-serendipity-stamps","tag-spellbinders","tag-window"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritestuff.justwritedesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}