I Love a Pear and a Party!

Oh, hi! Don't you just love waking up on a Monday morning and starting a brand new week filled with who-knows-what fantastic adventures? And double-delight, it's also the start of a brand-new month! Let's hit it!

I can tell you my week is starting out great as I'm honored to be the Guest Designer for Serendipity Stamps Challenge Blog! It's a pleasure to use Mary's stamps. They are deeply-etched red rubber and stamp like a dream! I know a lot of your prefer the clear stamps, but with a Misti or a Stamp-a-ma-jig, the process is EZPZ.

The dies are also fun and well made and that's what I am using to inspire you today. For this first card, I'm using an older pear die, which I thought I had used before because I've had it quite a while. (Slap!) However, I can't find it on my blog or Pinterest board, so I guess it's NBUS and that's cool because I'm on a NBUS mission.

It may look like I cut the pear from gold paper, but I dinnit. I smooched alcohol inks and blender onto glossy card so the whole thing is pearish and glossy. Yes, I know I've made that sound like a blended pear Marga Rita and now your mouth is salervating. Mine, too. The pear underwear is cut from a piece of watercolor smooching.

I used this pear for my color inspiration!

Back to the card, I'm using another NBUS Serendipity Stamps die for the sediment, die cut from the same sheet of blended glossy card. To make the Sweet word even sweeter and glossier, I layered on some Modpodge Dimensional Magic. The other bonusi are that I used some of my ribbon and pp (otherwise known as DSP to some of you) stashes!

I gave myself a pat on the back and now my arm hangs funny.

I hope you'll join in the challenge which lasts the entire month of February! The theme is Anything Goes, which we all love!

P.S. The 50% off stamp of the month for February is this awesome tandem bike stamp! You can order the stamp here.

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I made a second card:

The NBUS corner balloon die was just released last month from Serendipity Stamps. Using my We R Memory Keepers fuse tool, I turned the die into a fun party shaker card. The paper (soft stone and hibiscus burst) and shaker sprinkles are from PTI. The party sediment is from Winnie & Walter. You might be able to spy the silver linings behind both the die openings and the party word die-cut.

Challenges

• Share Joy Challenge: See below, using both inspirations.
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes.
• The Paper Players: Tic-Tac-Toe by Jaydee. (Die-cuts, Pink, Girly.)
• Winnie & Walter: 2nd Birthday Bash! (I used Taheera's photo inspiration with all the soft gray [like my soft stone paper], pink and silver, and my rainbow shaker candies.)

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It's not you, it's me. One more quick comment about Blogger. I have noticed my inbox notifications of your posts have dropped significantly, so I don't know when some of you have updated your blogs. I DO have a Google account, so I wasn't expecting this to happen, but apparently there is some monkey-business happening even if you already have a Google account. If you haven't heard from me for a while and suspect that I've been dropped from your followers, please let me know so I can come and refollow/ resubscribe. 

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Head's up, a new 3-part item has been added to my GIVEAWAY page!

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