Lynne's Mad Hatter 60th Birthday Tea Party Blog Hop

Welcome to Lynne's Mad Hatter 60th Birthday Tea Party Blog Hop --- don't be late for this very important date and just to be sure you're not late, we're serving tea for not one day but two!! Watch out for rabbit holes, and those drink me and eat me potions as you must do them in moderation. You'll never know what you will see beyond the looking glass --- sew, sit down a spell and enjoy the talented ladies as we hop along in Wonderland. Warning, watch out for the Queen of Hearts as she is losing in the game of croquet and its off with your heads!!!!!

Rather than cake, crumpetts, tarts and cookies, we have blog candy and I mean some sweet treats that are being offered by our great sponsors:

1. Pat Catan's has donated a $25 gift card for shopping at their store, if there isn't a Pat Catan's in your area, we can transfer that out for you 
2. Karber Digital Images at http://www.karberdigital.com/ has offered 2 digital designs of the winner's choice
3. Digi My World at http://digimyworld.com/shop/ has offered a $10 gift card 
4. SVG Attic at http://www.svgattic.com/ has offered a $20 gift certificate
5. PSA Stamps at www.psastamps.com.blogspot.com has offered a 1 stamper, 2 Peel & Stick packs of winner's choice. MSRP for each package is $55.
6. Creative Kuts has offered a $20 Gift Certificate to http://creativekuts.com/
7. Deborah Marie Foti of http://www.scrappingmamma.net/ will make one of her original birthday cards, Crafty Friends Sentiments Large Sheet by www.gettingcricky.com AND $10 Little Scraps of Heaven Designs Gift Certificate

To be eligible by posting you must comment and post on each stop of our tea party along the way --- now remember to hold your pinky out when drinking your tea --- will that be 1 lump or 2?

If you stopped at my blog to just visit today, I don't want you to miss a single thing along the way and you need to start at the beginning which is two hares by the Cheshire cat who is grinning at you and that darn caterpiller smoking her pipe at http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/!!!

Please enjoy my card:)

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed your tea and crumpets and your next stop is not Twiddledee and Twiddledum but Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com

Remember to stop by again tomorrow and check out all the tea parties!!!

Hugs, Love, Tea Cups and Crumpets

Chinese New Year Blog Hop

• Chinese New Year Blog Hop
  
  January 22-23, 2012
  Year of the Dragon
  Ni hao and welcome to the Chines New Year Blog Hop!  This hop is in honor of Guan, the little boy April's family is adopting from Taiwan.  To celebrate his culture, we want to share some Chinese-inspired projects with you! 
  
  If you arrived here from Shannon - http://www.purplelionpaper.com/blog then you are in the right place!  If you just joined us, please go back to April's blog at www.curlsandgrins.blogspot.com to see everyone's amazing creativity!
  
  This is the card that will be sent with yesterdays dragon puppet :)

  

   

   

   
  
  
  
  We have some great blog candy to offer from April Nourse and PSA Essentials.  To be eligible, you must simply comment on each blog on each day's post.  We'd love for you to become a follower of each of our blogs too.
  Thanks for stopping by!  Your next stop is (insert name and blog address of person after you).
• April - http://curlsandgrins.blogspot.com
• Lynne K. - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
• Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
• Amy - http://www.lovetocrop.com/
• Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/
• Shannon - http://www.purplelionpaper.com/blog
• Inga - http://mommahobbit.blogspot.com/
• Maria - http://www.mdcraftcorner.blogspot.com/
• Janet- http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
• Dena -  http://missdjones.blogspot.com/
• Jennifer - http://jenrubio.blogspot.com/
• Theresa- http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
• Ellen - http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
• PSA Essentials - www.psastampcamp.blogspot.com/

Chinese New Year Blog Hop

• Chinese New Year Blog Hop
  
  January 22-23, 2012
  Year of the Dragon
  Ni hao and welcome to the Chines New Year Blog Hop!  This hop is in honor of Guan, the little boy April's family is adopting from Taiwan.  To celebrate his culture, we want to share some Chinese-inspired projects with you! 
  
  If you arrived here from Shannon - http://www.purplelionpaper.com/blog then you are in the right place!  If you just joined us, please go back to April's blog at www.curlsandgrins.blogspot.com to see everyone's amazing creativity!
  
  For my project, I created...A Dragon puppet. As I would like to mail this as a gift I did not add the sticks. All legs and the head move. As well as the wings. I traced it from a file and then used draw and cut on my gazzelle. If you look at his feet you can see the colour of the original paper. I cut all the pieces from 1    12x12 piece of paper then hand painted each piece. I had a great time making this. Thank you so much for joining us. :)
  

  

  
  
  
  We have some great blog candy to offer from April Nourse and PSA Essentials.  To be eligible, you must simply comment on each blog on each day's post.  We'd love for you to become a follower of each of our blogs too.
  Thanks for stopping by!  Your next stop is (insert name and blog address of person after you).
• April - http://curlsandgrins.blogspot.com
• Lynne K. - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
• Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
• Amy - http://www.lovetocrop.com/
• Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/
• Shannon - http://www.purplelionpaper.com/blog
• Inga - http://mommahobbit.blogspot.com/
• Maria - http://www.mdcraftcorner.blogspot.com/
• Janet- http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
• Dena -  http://missdjones.blogspot.com/
• Jennifer - http://jenrubio.blogspot.com/
• Theresa- http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
• Ellen - http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
• PSA Essentials - www.psastampcamp.blogspot.com/ 

 

My Very own SMASH BOOK and I sure smashed it ....

Well once I got over the fact that it was my book , for me , by me , and it had no theme other than to inspire me and make me smile. ..... I think I was okay. LOL.
I ended up buying a journal at walmart because I wanted lined paper. Not much colour selection but oh well. It came for 200 lined pages and was only 3 dollars.The first 2 photos are before the rest are after I attacked it. I knew I wanted some dividers so I dug out some DCWV paper I was hoarding and could " never use" because it was just to pretty. I also used draw and cut with my Gazzy and made the calender pockets supplied by Irishmist( i think) and Thank you. There is a calendar for each month. I also used Nelda's paper clip as my portable tabs. I decorated the pages and put pockets on the back of each divider. When at this point I tried to get it all back onto the O rings and it was a very very very tight fit So I had to change the O rings up to 1 inch wide. I thought I had to break it in so in 1 pic you will see part of my prisma pencil list , by colour. And you will notice a dragon pic that as off center when cut but rather than throw it away I stuck it in here for me to slowly colour. I also made a gloss nail polish (i use instead of smooch) list by colour. I knew if I did not use it right away I would not use it because it was too nice. I put the calender pages at the back with 2 lined pages behind each .. for notes. There is an Idea section and a House section. Elastic is looped over the front cover to hold it all into place. Oh and yes the T on the cover is ment to be at an odd angle ...... It suits me I am always off kilter. Yes the cover is busy but oh well I will get over it lol.
Sorry this post was so long please enjoy!