January Blast from the Past Blog Hop

It's time for another Blast from the Past blog hop and I'm super excited! It was nice to take a break during December while we all enjoyed the holidays, but I'm ready to get back to hopping with all of you! The theme for our hop today is Love so I'm sure you'll be seeing pink and red and lots of hearts along the hop. As always, Baker's Dozen design team member, Sankari Wegman has provided us with another inspiring sketch as a starting point. It's optional for our hop participants to use the sketch and I promise I started off with the best intentions of using the sketch! My card took a turn somewhere along the way and I ended up without circle elements and my ribbon switched spots. But that's why sketches are so great... you can use them as a jump start and sometimes end up with something totally unexpected!

I decided to grab my Valentine Project Pantry kit and the Love Everywhere stamp set (which is currently on sale!) for my card. I started by stamping the tree in Memento Rich Cocoa ink. Then I stamped the hearts onto scraps of Choice Snow White paper in Lime Pastel, Rouge, and Warm Red, cut them out, and popped them up on the tree branches. I also stamped the dog and bench in Rich Cocoa ink. I think I had the most fun embellishing the bottom of the card. I used the Medium Scallop Border die and cut it out of pink and red. I lined them up, glued them together, and trimmed the layers to fit my card front. I find myself in a bling'y' mood lately and I just couldn't leave the card without adding some Stardust Stickles to the hearts on the tree and Crystal Twinkles on all of the scallops (with the help of Embellie Gellie, of course!).

Thanks so much for stopping by for our Blast from the Past blog hop! I hope you'll click through the links below and check out what the rest of our hoppers have created! We'd love to have you join us for the blog hop next month too! You can find all the details here.