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26 Jan 2010

It's a Birthday Hop!


Good Tuesday morning the 26th of January! 

It is a fun day today because it is the boss lady's birthday, and since she won't fly us all to Ireland to help her celebrate, the Waltzingmouse Stamps Design Team are bring our designs to her and having a surprise birthday hop!! 

Happy Birthday Claire!

If you want to start at the beginning of our Happy Birthday hop, then you will want to go to Anya's blog. If you just came here from Belinda's blog then you are on the right track! 

I decided to use my Sewing Box - Hugs and Earth Angel stamp sets from Waltzingmouse Stamps since these are some of the first sets I received and both are terribly under-used! 






Using Memento Rich Cocoa (for copic colouring capabilities!), I stamped the flowers from Sewing Box - Hugs, three times each, twice on Rustic Cream cardstock and once on My Mind's Eye Beloved designer paper (can you say yummy??!!). I stamped only the packaging sheet that comes with the MME package because I loved the smaller images.


I used my grey copic marker to go around each "sewing" layer to make a shadow and then layered them up with glue and pop dots.

The leaves were done the very same way. 

I sanded the edges of the strips of the Beloved designer paper so that it would look like another layer - love doing that! and then I adhered it onto the Rustic Cream card base.

The sentiment is from Earth Angel, stamped in Memento Rich Cocoa - and I love this sweet little font - I am totally into fonts right now - analyzing, brainstorming different uses, all sorts of freaky font-y ideas!





The flower centers have seed beads added to them - easy to do - just pop a clear glue dot onto the center of the flower and go cross-eyed placing seed beads on the glue dot! lol!

The flowers and leaves were then layered and popped up beside the sentiment.

I hope you like it Claire!! and have a Happy Happy Birthday!!                                             

Your next stop in the Birthday Hop is over to Jennifer's blog! I know she has something sensational up her sleeve!!




Supplies:
Stamps: Sewing Box - Hugs, Earth Angel (Waltzingmouse Stamps)
Paper: Rustic Cream (Papertrey Ink); Beloved - the packaging sheet (My Mind's Eye)
Ink: Rich Cocoa (Memento), copics

Accessories: seed beads, pop up tape (Taylored Expressions), sanding block

27 comments:

  1. Bonnie, I'm hugging you across the ocean!!! Thank you so much!! you all have me in bits 'm leaking!!! (tears!lol) Thank you so much!

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  2. Bonnie this is so pretty! I just love this set! You gals are awesome for doing this for Claire!

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  3. I LOVE the papers you used on this Bonnie! The flowers look wonderful paper pieced and colored and with the lovely pearl centers!

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  4. wow love your gorgeous card :)
    and happy birthday Claire :)

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  5. Just amazing, Bonnie! The papers are fantastic and I love the seed beads in the flower centers. Great, great job - I love it!

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  6. Sweet card! Such pretty flowers and really like the pearl centers. So thoughtful of all of you for doing such great cards in celebration of Claire's birthday.

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  7. This is GORGEOUS, Bonnie! I *love* those flowers!

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  8. Adorable! Love your colours and that teensy shading really makes the flowers pop.

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  9. This is one beautiful card. I just love the DP and the bling you added to the flowers.

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  10. This is fabulous, Bonnie! I love the DP you used and that color combo is one of my favs! But it's the added beading that really rocks my world! LOVE it!

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  11. This is so heart warmingly delicious! Love the flower stamped on the pp and layered like this - and really want to try your bead centres! Joining you in saying Happy Birthday Claire!!

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  12. I love the details on those flowers! I must get this set. :)

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  13. LOVE it, Bonnie & hope your eyes "uncrossed" after adding the beads!!! What a great way to do them though with the pop dot! Gotta do some again -- been too long!!!

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  14. OMGosh, Bonnie, you knocked this one clear out of the ballpark! I LOVE it!!! The Sewing Box stamps are some of my favorites... I love how you mixed and matched the layers. Awesome work, as always, my friend.

    Hugs,
    Lisa

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  15. P.S. Jennifer's link is going back to your own blog. Woops!

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  16. Beautiful card Bonnie - love that dp (just picked some up myself!) :) Such a great design - the pearls are fabulous!

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  17. This is beautiful! I love the fresh colors!

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  18. What a cheery, bright card! This is terrific!

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  19. i love that stamp set! beautiful!

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  20. Gorgeous card, love the seed beads, they give the card even more texture.
    Sian
    x

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  21. Bonnie this is absolutely wonderful! Sooo, soo pretty, and those beaded flower centers are GENIUS!!!

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  22. OMG! Freaking adorable! This is my absolute fave set of Claire's and what a wonderful tribute to a very special lady. You all are so sweet to celebrate her such a fabulous way! Thanks for sharing!

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  23. Wow, this is marvelous. Love the pearls in the middles!

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  24. I love this set, and you've made it so cute. This is now on my wish list!! TFS!

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  25. Beautiful Bonnie. What beautiful colors and your layout design is divine. This is one of my favorite sentiments of Claire's....so very well done!

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  26. This is GORGEOUS Bonnie!! LOVE the layered flowers and the seed bead centers!!!

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  27. So pretty! I love these flowers and the seed bead centers! Wow!

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