Catered Crop Recipe Swap and Blog Candy

The Catered Crop Designers are at it again. If books are your constant companion, you're going to love our next challenge. We're going to get creative with the printed word because our featured ingredient is Print! 

  I chose the Flourishes sets Seeds of Friendship and Sweet Days of Summer for my card.   As you can see I used My Mind's Eye Blush paper because it has a printed piece in it that reminded me of newsprint.  I added 2 punched and stitched 3D hearts to add some dimension.  I stamped my images out onto watercolor paper and painted with Tim Holtz's distress ink Tea Dye.  I added a lot of distressing and a heart doily behind my main panel.  

Playing along is easy as A-B-C.

• Just use a printed page or newsprint somewhere in your project.
• Include a link to us at Catered Crop or just add our button, which you can grab on our sidebar or at our {button gallery}.
• Link up and link often, but be sure you link up by 8:00 PM EST on Saturday, February 4.
• Keep the party hopping by visiting the other players and leaving comments.

Need some ideas? Here's a whole gallery of creative ways to incorporate print into your projects. You can click on the inspiration board below to go to a Pinterest board with the sources of these pictures and more gorgeous ideas and brilliant tutorials.

How would you like to win this Flourishes Sweet Days of Summer set and a box of butterfly stick pins?  Just leave me a comment here on my blog.. I will pick a winner on February 11, 2012.  February is my birthday month and I promised if I reached 500 followers I would be giving lots of blog candy.. SO here is my first February Fling...