Project 164: Buttons, Bunting and Birthday Bloghop!

Happy Birthday MAWTT!

It is a huge honor to be a part of the birthday celebrations this week for Moving Along With the Times. Before we get started, here are the rules of the blog hop:

You must visit the following blogs:

Hazel (Didos)
Sue
Pami
Hazel L
Carole
Judith
Wendy
Janice
Debs
Karina
Laurie
Tammy
Susan
Claire
Jessie (you are here!)

Sarah

Blog Hop Rules.

To be eligible for the prizes you must visit all the blogs, leave a comment and collect a letter from each.  Then email Hazel at didosdesigns@yahoo.com with the word you have made with Blog Hop Word in the Subject Line.  You must send the word to us to be in with a chance of winning!

Each DT Member will announce their winner on their own blog from the comments. 

My prize is a free digi at Kenny K so make sure you get involved!

NNNNNow the theme: we have a buttons, bunting and birthday challenge for Team A and when I saw these gorgeous stamps from our sponsor Aurora Wings, I couldn't resist.

The headline card is the feature for the challenge. I took a bit of liberty with the bunting component and instead punched out purple stars using a Recollections star punch from Michaels. I hand drew the stitching to make it look like bunting.

I colored the image using ProMarkers and I wanted her to be ethereal and fairy-like, which is why I went for the purple and blue and slightly yellow skin tone. I added glitter and a bit of bling to the stars and die-cut her out using a scallop circle die from Xcut.

The purple flag with the greeting is stamped with a new greetings collection Claire bought me from BoBunny - such a great set of messages and I loved the mixed font on this one. I used purple buttons and a strip of bling to make it a bit more festive. The bling may be too much. Oh well, here we all are!

This little guy is from Aurora Wings as well and I just had to use him:

I went for a more woody color scheme this time and colored him (her?) in greens and browns. I cut him out with a scalpel for precision and then layered the image over a die-cut circle of Trader Jane paper from Recollections. I love the pattern on this paper, I'm a bit precious about using it - but MAWTT deserves the best :)

I kept the rest fairly simple, using some dew drops from Paperchase, a gold candy and gold glitter glue for the little spots.

I can't wait to see what you all do to celebrate our birthday with us!

If you thought I was making a typo above, I was giving a hint! Your letter from this blog post is N - if you did the blogs in order then you are nearly there :)