Dots and Spots for Creation Station

Welcome to our May Creation Station Blog Hop. This month our theme is "dots and spots." We could make whatever we wanted so long as we featured dots or spots or both. I went for both; a card with spots and a card with dots.

My two cards feature the So Refreshing Bundle which is brand new in the Stampin' Up! Annual Catalog. I did add a few other products to complete these cards. I used one spot stamp from the Lighting the Way Stamp Set, the Dots and Spots Die, along with inks, cardstocks, and leftover twine from April's Paper Pumpkin Kit.

My color palette for both of these cards includes: Basic White, Bubble Bath, Calypso Coral, and Garden Green. And, I finished with Clear Wink of Stella.

These strawberries look simple but to give them a juicy look I colored them with a Calypso Coral Stampin' Blend and then painted them with Wink of Stella. Each berry sits atop a Bubble Bath spot. This is where I used the one image from Lighting the Way. It makes the perfect spot. In fact, there are three sizes of spots in that stamp set.

I stenciled the background for my second card with a handmade stencil. I die cut the Dots & Spots Die to create a FAST stencil. I used a Blending Brush and Bubble Bath Ink to swirl a soft dotty pattern for my So Refreshing stamped and die cut elements.

Have you taken a close look at the So Refreshing Bundle? It's found on page 29 of the Annual Catalog. Go take a look and check out how fun the dies are. The tiny strawberries are adorable.

It's been a pleasure to have you stop by my SeeigINKspots Blog for our Creation Station Dots and Spots themed blog hop. Hopefully you have been inspired to use spots and to dots in one of your next hand stamped creations. Next up in today's hop is the AMAZING Barb Pfeffer. She always makes the best projects--go check her blog!