21st Birthday Blog Hop

Welcome to Day 1 of Ashley's 21st Birthday Blog Hop!  

We are so glad you could join us!

 

If you've come from the FABULOUS Ashley's blog, you're in the right place! If you have just come across the hop and would like to start at the beginning, please visit Ashley at Made Especially For You.

This weekend we are celebrating Ashley's 21st Birthday with some fun and creative, birthday/alcohol-themed projects! It's not 21 without a drink or two, right?!

 

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I am so HAPPY to be part of this hop.  I just LOVE Ashley to DEATH!!!  She is such a sweetie, and fun to talk to/be around, level headed, intelligent, with a great future ahead of her.  Geeh, do you get the idea that she is just F-A-B-U-LOUS???   She is!

 

When I was asked to a part of the hop, I was elated, and honored. Sparkly, pretty, and friendly comes to mind when I think of Ashley....And that was the inspiration for my creations.........

 

CARDS!

  What is a birthday without cards???   My first card......

 

Isn't this little gnome a cutie?  I thought he was just adorable and since Ashley's birthday is in March, Spring and flower gardens are on everyone's mind.  And Ashley is a dear friend, so I thought a gnomie would be appropriate.    

 

I die cut some a balloons (to match the printed background paper) and numbers for my little gnome to hold just for Ashley. 

The inside says "Happy Birthday to my Gnomie!" 

 

 

My second card a bit more sophisticated.... 

 

Ashley LOVES polka dots and glitter.  This card SCREAMS Ashley, doesn't it?

 

I used a Teresa Collins paper pad that we went in on (halved the costs), and the colors and patterns were perfect.

I used a striped pattern from the pack for the card base, and polka dot mat. 

 

 

 

The cake stand was cut out 5 times (4 on white cardstock and 1 on patterned paper from the pad).  To coordinate the papers, I dry chalked the edges in yellow once all the layers were glued together.

 

The hearts and cake were spritzed with Perfect Pearl Mist.   

I cut out Happy Birthday from coordinating blue cardstock and spritzed with the same Perfect Pearls mist.   

 

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  We have 21 fabulous sponsors providing 21 fabulous prizes for those who hop with us, and because there are so many of them, we have included all the prize information in the second stop of the lineup. To be eligible to win, you must...   -Leave a comment on EVERY stop of BOTH days of the hop    Winners will be randomly chosen and announced on Friday March 14th at  Made Especially For You.
Your next stop is Nikki's blog.

Here's the complete lineup in case you get lost along the way... Ashley <--------- Birthday Girl!! Hop Prizes Tonya (you are here) Nikki Julie K.  Jessica Jasmina Heidi Abby N.  Robin Abby H.  Happy Hopping! :)  

 

Get Inky Stamp Challenge

Happy Wednesday!

 

 

Today is my day to post on the Get Inky Stamps blog with a bit of inspiration for our current challenge which is.........

 

 

Use Buttons on a Halloween Card.

 

 

Here is my take..............

 

Don't you love it??  I do!!  :-D

 

I used Teresa Collins' new Masquerade Party Paper Collection.   The week that I created this project, Cricut also had the Teresa Collins Chic and Scary cartridge free.  I used my Cricut Craft Room and the TC cartridge to create the witch and '31.'   For the witch, I added Black Diamond Stickles. 

Now for the buttons...I added two.  The orange button with a bit of twine...and if you can believe it, the spider web is a button. 

 

To finish of the card, I used Get Inky's Halloween Stamp set for the sentiment and the witch hats. 

 

 

I used Memento Tuxedo Black in to stamp the image/sentiment.  For a touch of sparkle, I traced the ink with a spica pen. 

 

Be sure to head over to the challenge blog and link up your creation.

 

Happy Haunting!