Serendipity Stamps - APRIL Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Serendipity Stamps APRIL Blog Hop!  

We do our HOP's on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.

To enter the HOP Contest to win you can leave comments on the 
Design Team's Blogs through Sunday, April 24.  

The prize is a $20 gift certificate to Serendipity Stamps.  

Mary will announce the winner on her blog on Monday, April 25.

This month the theme is "Embossing".

Check out the SSCB here to play along in our monthly challenge.  

We are just about 1/2 way through the month so you still have time!

The Design Team has an added challenge on this hop to include

Get Well/Thinking of You/Sympathy in our projects.

You should have arrived here from:

Marybeth Lopez

I made two cards to share with you today.  My first card has heat embossing on the

image and sentiment.  I used a Canvas paper which is bumpy and doesn't take

stamping ink so well. So, using my MISTI tool I stamped them twice using

Versafine ink then clear embossed them.

The finished size is 4 1/2 square.

For my second card I used the new Sympathy die. 

The layout is from the MOJO Monday 422 Challenge on April 4.

 I heat embossed the word WITH from the small With Sympathy stamp.  

I thought the font looked good with the Sympathy font.  

The finished size is an A-2.

Next on the HOP is:

Vickie Zimmer

Here is the order of the HOP:

Mary's Blog

Marybeth Lopez

Miriam Napier

Vickie Zimmer

Jeanne Jachna 

Jenny Gropp

Julie Warner
Karen Amidon

The special for the hop is free shipping on all US orders $20 and up  – good Wednesday through Sunday 4/20 – 4/24.  

The 50% off  stamp of the month for April is the Adirondack Chair:  http://www.serendipitystamps.com/product/712G.html

• Serendipity Stamps & Dies: Thinking Of You 171F,  Sympathy Die 074E, With Sympathy stamp 782B, Open Book stamp 1393E
• Ink: Versafine - Onyx Black, Vintage Sepia, Cat's Eye - Chestnut Roan
• Paper:  Bazzill Heavyweight - Brown, Bazzill White Canvas, Bo Bunny - Secret Garden 6x6
• Other: Clear Embossing Powder, Mini Perfect Layers, MFT - Stitched Circles die, Lifestyle Crafts Dies - Nesting Frame 7, MISTI, Fun Foam

SSCB: #49 Holiday!

With a new month brings a new challenge at the 
Serendipity Stamps Blog Challenge!

Holiday projects are the theme this month. Play along with our 
challenge and have the chance to win a prize!

I chose the new sentiment Have Yourself for my card.  
I love the size and font of this stamp!
It is the focus of this card and the decorations just enhance it.

Inside my card is a simple sentiment and a touch of paper.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS is part of the $2 cling sale!
The finished size of this card is 4 1/4 x 4 1/4.

The stamp of the month for November is Snowman Ice Skating http://www.serendipitystamps.com/product/816G.html

 November Guest Designer!

Please welcome Hazel Hodgkins as our guest.
hazelspaperdesigns.wordpress.com

Check out what the rest of the Design Team made:

Mary's Blog

Julie Warner

Karen Amidon

Marybeth Lopez

Miriam Napier

Vickie Zimmer

Jeanne Jachna 

Jenny Gropp

• ·       Stamps: Serendipity Stamps – Have yourself 1377E, Happy Holidays 665CUMCL
• ·       Paper: Graphic 45 – A Christmas Carol 6x6, 8x8
• ·       Ink: Versafine – Deep Lagoon, Cat’s Eye – Chestnut Roan
• ·       Dies: Tim Holtz – Holiday Greens, Impression Obsession: Berry branch
• ·       Wild Orchid Crafts flowers: Apple Blossom, 8 & 10mm Roses, White Aster Daisy, White Cottage Roses, White Bead Berry Spray