Scrap and Stamp Saturday Blog Hop

welcome to the first Scrap and Stamp Saturday Blog Hop! we are so excited to have you join us in this first of hopefully many bloghops! it is February - the month of ..........yes you guessed it, LOOOOOOVVVEEEEEE!!! so, without any further delay, here is the nitty gritty!
if your first stop is here on my blog - thank you, but you need to go to everyone on the list's blogs in order to win - and win big! the challenge is open to people from all over the world, so even if you are in Timbaktu, we want you to enter!!
here are the blogs you need to visit in order to win:

Regina Jones

Pamela Young

Chris Severs

Boni Boutelle-Jones

Isolde Pyncket

Michelle Kovack

Lacey Stephens

Janette Padley (Dragon's Lair designs)

ME

Scrap and Stamp

One of the best things about playing along at Scrap and Stamp Saturday is the challenge of using your all too loved stamps with your scrap pages. Every page you see here will have a stamped image of some sort on it and it continues to challenge each of us to complete a page a week and hopefully it will encourage you as well. We love reading about you and your families and getting to know you better. We hope you will play along as we challenge you to get that album done!! i know for a fact that i love making my cards, but to use your stamps on your scrapbook pages, is sometimes a challenge! that is why i love Scrap and Stamp. it really forces me to use a stamp on a Scrapbook page almost every time! (now i don't want to use finished embellishments anymore - i just want to STAMP!!!!)

The Design Team was given this Sketch as inspiration

Here is my interpretation of the sketch

i have very few pictures of me and my hubby together. this was taken about six months ago at my cousin's wedding. i love the way we just look TOGETHER!!

here i used a ribbon slide from Making Memories that i have had for ages. the hearts were cut with my slice, the journal one edged with my Pitch Black Paint dabber, and the red one was cut from Heidi Swapp's Invisible's range, and i inked it with my Fired Brick Distress ink. i stamped the swirls directly onto the Kraft paper with Versamark and embossed it with my red EP. the stamps i received in the mail this week from a benefactor in the USA - (more about that later)

the stars were also cut with the slice, and i wanted to add a red button, but i did not have the right red. then i remembered that you could emboss them!! so i just embossed the button with my red EP, and VOILA!!

the scallops were made by punching circles from the ledger paper and the Invisibles, and then cut in half, and arranged where i wanted them around the black cardstock.

Now to get in on the Grand Prize you have to leave a comment on each blog along the way and make sure that you leave your info on the Challenge blog as well. Your next rest area will be at Scrap and Stamp

and you will truly enjoy the scenery. And don't forget there are other giveaways too. So here's what you need to do:

1. Place one comment on each blog along the way

2. Completes the sketch before the end of the hop (2/7 midnight)and link it to the Scrap and Stamp Saturday blog.

3. If you are not a follower become one - you get your name in a drawing for new followers

4. Do whatever you have to do to win individual RAKs on respective blogs.

EASY!!! Winners will be posted Monday, February 8th.

so, all you wonderfully talented people - get out there and SCRAP AND STAMP!!!!