Audrey's Reflection: Top Dog Dies

Welcome to the Top Dog Dies & Scrapbook Circle Blog Hop! Today we’re showing off projects featuring exclusive dies from Top Dog Dies and the new Bucket List kit from Scrapbook Circle.

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Top Dog Dies (http://www.topdogdies.com/) is a new online store that offers their own brand of wafer-thin and steel-rule dies, along with dies from brands you already know and trust, including Little B, My Favorite Things, Lawn Fawn, Taylored Expressions, Savvy Stamps and Cheery Lynn Designs. Top Dog Dies is also the leading U.S. retailer for Tattered Lace (http://www.topdogdies.com/brands/tattered-lace-dies.html) a new line of intricate dies designed by British designer Stephanie Weightman.

Top Dog Dies is also offering a special promotion during the hop. Spend $100 on anything in the store and get 15% off when you use code SCHOP15, or spend $60 and get 10% off when you use code SCHOP10.

Scrapbook Circle is giving away two $50 Prize Packs of exclusive wafer-thin dies:

Top Dog Dies is giving away a Bucket List Kit

Winners will be chosen from comments left on on the Design Team Members blogs or the Top Dog Die and Scrapbook Circle blog - be sure to leave some love by Sunday, April 27th when the hop ends.

I got to work with the Mason Jar die, and was excited because Mason Jars seem to be a hot trend right now! In my entryway, I have a set of frames that I like to decorate for the season or holidays. I thought a Spring themed jar would look pretty in one of the frames that is backed with burlap.

I began by cutting the jar shape from a piece of vellum and the "newsprint" paper from Fancy Pants in the Scrapbook Circle "Bucket List" kit. I put some gold heart between the two layers and then cut a slit in the top vellum layer to add my flower stems into. Then I glued around the edges.

My stems I cut with my Silhouette Cameo and used some paper from the Bucket List kit (except for the green paper from my stash).

The die come with the mason jar shape, a lid die, and 2 labels. I just used the jar and one of the labels because my jar was "open" to hold the flowers. For the label, I used another paper from the Bucket List kit and cut the delicate 'flowers" title on my cameo from dark brown paper. I did some faux stitching around the edges. And that's it!