BIRTHDAY BALLOONS BIRTHDAY TAG

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

to you all.

anyway here i am sharing some findings and a b-day tag.

i have been purging items from my craft room and it has been an overwhelming joy, lol

i made this tag with some findings.

remember the time when most of us went to the dollar store to get 

'miss elizabeth" embellishments stickers? lol.

we couldn't get enough, hehe

well, the gorgeous balloons are from her.

it was hubby's b-day and i had bought him a jar of twizzlers. 

-he loves them-

and i needed a card, well i had made a card which turn into a tag, this tag.

happy, happy, happy birthday

 -the papers are from basic grey-

 -hand-stamped the sentiment-

the cupcake was fuzzy cut from a cardstock sheet.

-the hearts were punched out and the pretty ribbon was an upcycle from regina's cutting cafe dt exchange-

i had saved it because i loved the color.

 and

-this is the back,

a mini pouch to insert my personal greeting-

-hubby loved his twizzlers and the tag, of course. he is my #1 fan.

 (wink-wink)

happy birthday to him!!!

see you later!

A CLOWN--- using carousel

i made this card for this weeks challenge at 

The Cuttlebug Spot

Happy Days

4" square card

this is the clown from the carousel cartridge---cricut lite-- i have just used once before.

the challenge at "the cuttlebug spot" is a sketch.

check it out here.

as you can see i made a mess of my balloons using the aleene's paper glaze. i guess i had some tiny bubbles i did not see. i do not like aleen's glaze much. it takes forever to dry but i lost/misplaced my brand new bottle of glossy accents, grrr! every time i re-organize my craft room, i loose/misplace things. hehe

the blue background paper is dcwv, dry embossed with a cuttlebug folder called "diamonds in the rough" and, sanded. the patterned paper is from k&co and the white you see on the clown's shoes, is a bit of a mess up when tearing. they say "there are no mistakes in crafting, just opportunities for embellishments", so i inked it, hehe

the happy days is from a k&co tag i just pulled apart to use the sentiment.

 see the buttons? they are actually googly eyes...hehe

i decided to frame the inside of the card

well, this is it for now.

did you hear i won a nice candy bundle at shantaie's place?

 she is one of provo craft designers. and i love her work.

if you click on her name you will go to her blog to see what a talented lady shantaie is.

i was so happy because i was having a very disgusting day when i read about it. so....a big yay for me. she already shipped it. another big yay, lol.

again, 

thanks so much for stopping by and have a great week.

RECIPE CHALLENGE BLOG HOP

As a designer member of 

"The Cuttlebug Spot"

we were invited to participate in this Recipe Challenge Blog Hop. I won't have any links to the other blogs here but you will find all you need HERE.

 you must go to  

THE CUTTLEBUG SPOT 

for the blog links and more info. 

This blog hop will start the 12th and will end the 14th

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From

  

1. Sassy Lil' Sketches I got the sketch

then I went to the blogs below to see what else I needed to add to the sketch. You will find the links HERE.

2. scrapFIT---said...

We want you to use 3 of the same thing on your LO. (3 buttons, 3 ribbons, 3 brads)

3. Crop Suey---said...

We want you to use ink, paint or mist or all

4.  scraptiffany---said...

We want to see some LACE.

 5.  Dirty Scraps---

We want to see journalling.

OPTIONAL

6.  Cuttlebug Spot---said...

We want to see some texture or embossing

After I got all my ingredients for this fabulous and yummy recipe, this is what I came up with, lol

CELEBRATE

11/24/2010 

AN 8x8 LAYOUT

 

Isn't beautiful? 

You know I do not make too many layouts ;)

 On another note I have to say this: It is always hard for me to stick to a sketch. I know I did not have too but I wanted to follow the sketch as much as I could. This part is always a challenge for me. I tend to change things around, :) BUT, you can see I really tried and pretty much followed the sketch, yay!

Three buttons above

 New butterfly location from sketch

 Added a little cupcake for the Celebration attached with an
Action Wobble.
(click on the link to learn more about them)

Aren't they fun! I am in love with them.
They will be a MUST HAVE in my stash of have to have supplies. That is for sure :)

 The Lace.

 The embossing and the inking. 

(I painted the centers of the lace flowers and I used ink to doodle the faux stitches: 

double duty here, lol)

Here you can see the whole completed project again with everything I needed to pick-up/add from the blog hop to make the recipe challenge a success.

 Nilda at http://thecuttlebugspot.blogspot.com/ 
will be randomly selecting a winner for some giveaway, YAY!!!
  AND...please,...have fun hopping and getting some new ideas from these blogs above and don't forget to let me know what you think of my layout........

This was a very nice project to work with.

Thanks to Nilda for giving me the opportunity to participate in this blog hop.

and Thanks to you for stopping by, for your support and for your love.

Hugs!