Stamper's Dream & Friends Blog Hop!!

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Happy Monday, everyone!!  I hope that you had a wonderful weekend!! We had an amazing dinner with our good friends Grant & Meagan on Friday night.  Chicken Cordon Bleu, twice baked potatoes, spinach salad with red onions & bacon, and fabulous cappuccino cupcakes to finish....it was YUM!  We also had strawberry daiquiris while watching the first two (filmed) Star Wars films, as Meagan hasn't ever watched them.  It was a good time!  They actually stayed at our house that night, so we could wake up and have an awesome breakfast together as well.  There is a restaurant in Missoula that we all love called The Shack, and they are known for their amazing breakfast.  So, we created our own version of their Buffalo Pie, and blueberry pancakes.  It...was fabulous.  Yum! I would normally have huckleberry pancakes at The Shack, but huckleberries are a wild berry that only grow in the summer.  So, unless you have some frozen from the last season, which we did not, there was no way to get them.  Blueberries were {almost} as good.  ;)

Anyways, enough about my weekend...because we are having an awesome Stamper's Dream & Friends blog hop today...and I am sure you want me to get on with it!! Tee hee! I used the Viva la Verve! April 2011 Sketch #1, and Embellish's Decorative Trim Color Trends challenge for my card.  Here is what I created:

"Happy Birthday & Many More" supplies:
Cardstock: American Crafts (green) 

Paper: Glitz Design (Hoopla: Pipework, Polka, Floral) 

Stamps: JustRite Stampers (Forever Friends cling mount stamp set)

Ink: Clearsnap (Pigment: yellow grass, citrine) & Ranger Industries (Distress Ink: antique linen) 

Ink Blending Tool: Ranger Industries

Trim: Prima 

Twine: Darice Inc.

Chipboard: Tattered Angels

Pearls: Kaiser Craft

Flowers: Recollections

Glitter: DecoArt

Corner Rounder: EK Success

Instructions:  Fold green cardstock in half to make card base, and round the bottom corners.  Cut background paper slightly smaller, apply distress ink to the edges with a blending tool, and adhere to the front.  Cut a block of floral paper and a strip of yellow dotted paper.  Distress ink the edges and layer on the card front.  Adhere a piece of lace trim to front, and then add a glittered chipboard frame over top of it.  Distress ink the edges of a square paper block, and then stamp the frame & sentiment to it.  Adhere the stamped block to the card front, and accent the lower right corner with a paper flower.  Tie a triple bow from twine and adhere to the upper left corner of the glittered chipboard frame.  Add two paper flowers to the middle, and then accent the card with pearls to finish. 

Well, of course...a blog hop isn't one without a list of amazing card makers to hop to!!  There are two prizes hidden somewhere on all of these blogs, so be sure to comment on each one in order to maximize your chance of winning!! 

Becca Feeken
Michelle Rodgers
Jerri Kay Jimenez
Amy Sheffer
Denise Marzec
Arlene Cuevas
Leslie Miller
Cindy Lawrence
Kellie Fortin
Tosh Leyendekker
Jeanne Streiff
Mariana Grigsby
Joan Ervin
Lea Lawson  (You are here!!)
Frances Byrne
Christina Fischer
Carla Murphy
Teresa Kline
Carol Longacre
Gabriela Divine

If you happened upon my blog without knowledge of the blog hop, we would love for you to join us!!  Just start at the top, and start hopping along!  You are sure to find some amazing inspiration along the way!  Here are the two prizes that will be awarded....so be sure to comment along the way! 

Well, it is time for me to grab a cup of coffee and see what all these wonderful ladies have created as well!  Happy hopping!! ♥♥♥ 

Until later,

~Lea L.