My First Blog Hop!

I am so excited and nervous at the same time!  I have been wanting to participate in a blog hop for a while but too chicken, so when one of my favorite online stamp stores,  Belles and Whistles decided to do a customer hop, I jumped at the chance. I am still nervous though.  So here is the information you need to know:

Welcome to the Belles ‘n Whistles “All Customer Blog Hop”  We are so excited to be a part of this special release.   Along this hop you will find those new releases.  And we, as customers of Belles ‘n Whistles, get to play along using any of our favorite BnW Stamps…

Today we are celebrating  the rebirth of the darling SweetArt girls designed by none other than Artist Elisabeth Bell.  Belles ‘n Whistles now has a total of 17 SweetArt girls in their store.  They were just too beautiful to be left sitting in the archives.  Elisabeth Bells talent deserves better than storage, don’t you think?

If you have just popped in, it would be great if you started in the beginning, and hopped along with us. You will find the master list of participants over on the Belles ‘n Whistles Inspirational Blog.  To keep things easy, please follow that list and leave a comment on each blog.  Do you know why?  Because YOU could win a stamp from Belles ‘n Whistles, just for leaving some love along the way.  There will be FIVE winners chosen randomly from comments that have been left along the way.  No one knows who’s blog the winners will come from. 

So sit back, grab a cup of coffee, tea, or Lemonade and enjoy all the fun and exciting things we, the Belles ‘n Whistles Customers, have to share with you today.
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So now for my projects!

 This little SweetArt Girl reminds me so much of me as a child, although I must admit i would have been UP in the tree reading my book more often than down on the ground :)  I just got this stamp just in time for this hop and of course I put her on a Corner Bookmark, the instructions for which I got from Splitcoast Stampers. 

This is another of my favorite Elisabeth Bell's stamps - Fairy Thoughts.  The flowers at the top I recently won and the buttons are from my stash - the faceted button was also won but it has been a while :)



This is the first time I have made a shaped easel card.  I found a YouTube video on this from valitasfreshfolds.blogspot.com.  The flowers I made with instructions from another YouTube video from pinkaboo6691.  Now she says she got it from http://www.dawnsstampingthoughts.net/.  I subscribe to Dawn's newsletters and she has some wonderful projects both on her blog and YouTube.  So anyway, I made these flowers and they were so easy peasy!  I put this cute little fairy on a wobble and blinged up the wings on both the fairy and the dragonfly with stickles. 

I hope you like my projects and that I did not lose you half way thru due to the long post.  After all, this is a hop!  So get hopping friends!  I am going to do the same :)

Hugs and God Bless,
Becky