I love dots…especially COLORFUL ones. They make me HAPPY! When you start looking around, dots are everywhere. After all, circles are one of our basic design elements.

I was sorting some cards and came across this one from a while back. It made me decide to make DOTS the challenge. I added a punched out circle to the front and put words inside. Just by randomly stamping circles within circles, you can create a nice overall design. And if you don’t have THESE circle stamps, sub other ones in your collection! The solid dots are the “wrong side of any circular stamp…or a “shadow” stamp.

Supplies:

• Stitched Circles
• Pinwheels
• Asterisks
• Clear Design: Mix & Match Elements
• Clear Design: Circular Designs
• Primary Elements Chalk Ink Queue
• Rose Petals Chalk Ink Queue
• Memories Black Ink
• Cream Notecards
• Other: pink ribbon, scallop punch (Paper Source)

I love the new dotted leafy vine stamp from the new Clear Design: Be Yourself set.  On this card the flower is made from punched out circles. I always have extra envelopes, so I punched six circles out of a pink one and scrunched them up to make the flower. I stamped the vine again in a deeper green and cut a few leaves out to add on top for depth. The Raindrop Background is a fave of mine, especially tone on tone.

Supplies:

• Clear Design: Be Yourself
• Modern Lines
• Raindrop Background
• Ink ‘n’ Stamp Design Elements
• Blossom Notecards
• Garden Notecards
• Lemon Notecards
• Primary Elements Chalk Ink Queue
• Peeled Paint Distress Ink
• Memories Black Ink

Here’s the same vine I love turned the other way. You know me, simple stamping!! I stamped an extra leaf, added a tiny greeting, and mounted it for depth. I used the little circle and dots from the birthday set, but you can just add pink gems to a yellow circle if you want.

Supplies:

• Clear Design: Be Yourself
• Clear Design: Happy Birthday to You
• Clear Design: Mix & Match Elements
• Lime Notecards
• White Notecards
• Pink Notecards
• Primary Elements Chalk Ink Queue
• Pink Gemstones
• Other: scallop border punch, flower punch, Bazzill pink dotted paper, Cuttlebug dot embossing folder

Scraps and scissors needed for this card! I stamped the circles and dots, hand cut the imperfect circles and inked the edges for shading. Leaves were cut down from a bigger leaf stamp.

Supplies:

• Clear Design: Circular Designs
• Clear Design: Scattered Leaves
• Clear Design: Everyday Sayings
• Clear Design: Birds and Branches
• Memories Black Ink
• Primary Elements Chalk Ink Queue
• White Notecards
• scraps for flowers and leaves

Here’s one more simple card using our new Artsy Circles stamp and Spring Blossom Papers. Mount it on printed dot paper for a quick card. Fold the blossom paper into strips and gently tie into knots. Add glitter glue or gems.

Supplies:

• Large Artsy Circles
• Clear Design: Mix & Match Elements
• Primary Elements Chalk Ink Queue
• Lime Notecards
• Spring Blossom Papers
• Other: lime, pink, blossom paper scraps, dot patterned paper, circle punch, green glitter glue

So…for the challenge this week, get those circle and dot stamps out of the drawer and start stamping! Post your dotted creations (cards, scrapbook pages, or other) to our Flickr group and be sure to tag them “dots”.  Please include at least one Hero Arts stamp on your project (doesn’t have to be a dot or circle, it can be anything that incorporates dots or circles.)  The deadline for entering is Sunday, May 17 at 11:59pm PST.  Here are the prizes:

• Fresh Face Winner (someone who has not yet won a contest): $50 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog
• Scrapbook Page Winner: $50 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog
• 1st Place: $50 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog
• 2nd Place: $25 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog
• 3rd Place: $15 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog

Now it’s giveaway time!  Just leave any DOT comment before 12:00 PM (PST) tonight and you might be one of three giveaway winners. See below for the prizes…of course they all have DOTS on them!

I will announce the winners tomorrow morning.

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