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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Practical Scrappers Blog Hop

Hi Scrapping friends!  Today I'm playing along with the Practical Scrappers Blog  Hop!

Welcome to the Practical Scrappers "Linking with Love" Blog Hop!  We believe it is important to always give credit when it is due to another crafter.  For this unique hop all of our design team members used the same inspiration piece to create their project.  Each of them will make an example of themselves as to how to properly "Link with Love" and credit the inspiration.  We'll be running the hop thru Noon EST on Sunday - so you have plenty of time to get thru it!

Liz Qualman created this beautiful layout and we have all used it for inspiration.  Each of us will tell what part we took our inspiration from.  The whole hop will culminate at Liz's blog where she'll provide us with a new sketch for inspiration.

And here's what I created!
I used a few different things for my inspiration.  First off the colors, I loved the color combination!  I also used the half circles in varying patterns.  I used mine to create the banner strips (also inspired by her banners).  And lastly I did some hand stitching on it.  As you can see I got a lot of inspiration from her fun layout and it was cool to see how that translated to a card!  And let's give a special shout-out to Momenta for all the beautiful patterned papers I used!

Many of the designers are providing prizes at their stop and Practical Scrappers is providing a prize for one person who becomes a follower at each stop (for all the details head over to Practical Scrappers). 

As a thank you to all of you for stopping by, I have a prize to give away to one person who is a follower here and at Practical Scrappers!  I've got a selection of great Momenta stickers that you will love!  All you have to do is become a follower and leave me a comment telling me your current favorite supply or tool for papercrafting.  Thanks for stopping by!  Head on over to Kerri's blog now!

30 comments:

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  2. Awesome card Christine! One of my favorite tools are my MS punches! I am already a follower!
    Hopping right along!

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  3. Love your card - especially with the brightly colored papers you used!

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  4. How fun! I love your twist and design! I find it awesome how something can inspire us to a different perspective!! Thanks for sharing with us!

    p.s. I'm now a stalker, eh I mean FOLLOWER! ;)

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  5. Very clever idea and the colors are fantastic!

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  6. I'm Hopping along today! I am a new follower of your blog! I must say that my FAVE thing is PAPER, LOVE it and can't get enough! LOL! LOVE your card. TFS and have a GREAT Day,
    Me-Ma Kim
    kimnsammy at gamil dot com

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  7. Great way to interpret the layout, Christine. I love the little handstitched bits.
    I already follow you and PS, of course! My fave tool presently is my edge distresser - most layouts have some distressing on somewhere.

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  8. Love that card! I think the circles were an inspiration for lots of us!

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  9. Christine! I love this card! Those strips are darling.

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  10. I love your card. It's very bright and fun. I love the lil stitches too. Thanks for sharing it with us. I am now a follower too so I hope to come back often and get plenty of inspiration. My favorite tool to use lately would have to be my Daisy Chain Border punch by Fiskars. I love it.

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  11. this is terrific!!! Loving the colors, too.

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  12. I love what you did with the half circles!

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  13. Beautiful Cards. Joined your blog. Time to keep hopping.

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  14. Wow I love th pattern that those circle create!! So so pretty!

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  15. I love this! This is so creative!

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  16. love it Christine! the ribbon pulls it all together. Great job.

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  17. I just became a follower and my favourite tool is the sew easy line!

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  18. Purple is my favorite, so I lOve your card! Right now I love crafting with Kraft.

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  19. love the layout so colorful. and your card too. pretty. good job. i am now a follower

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  20. Christine i love that you turned it into a card, it is fabulous :)

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  21. Hopping around and I have became your new follower!

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  22. Beautiful card! Love the half circles made in to banners and the colors are awesome! My favorite tool to use in scrapping is Tim Holtz Distress Inks! I am already a follower! Thanks for the opportunity to win!

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  23. My favorite tool is my Xyron X sticker maker!

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  24. What a great card! I love how you lifted the circles and the colors are fab! I'm already a follower and my favorite supply is always patterned paper! Thanks for the chance!

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  25. Wow your card is beautiful. I'm so glad I'm blog hopping today because I found your great inspirations :)

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  26. Love this card Christine...love the colors your pulled for inspriation and the circles!
    Glad you found time to get something in!
    hugs,
    Kerri

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  27. The card is adorable. I love what you pulled from the inspiration piece.

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  28. Great card! I was already a follower of your blog and Practical Scrapper! I am currently addicted to patterned paper, that is all I buy!!

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  29. What a lovely card.. Now I know how to use my patterned papers.. Thanks for the inspiration

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