#181 BIrds and Birdcages Blog Hop Today!!

Hi everyone!!! Welcome to the Birds and Birdcages Blog Hop hosted by yours truly, this hop is all about birds and birdcages..... 2 of my favorite things! A special thanks to Yolie for creating this beautiful hop button for me.... Thank you so much Yolie I love it!!! 

For my bird themed project I decided to make a layout about mine and my hubby's 6 year anniversary which was last year 2010 and we went on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera.... Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas. We loved it so much, Puerto Vallarta was my favorite it reminded me so much of Hawaii because it's tropical. For my layout I chose to go with the vintage theme and chose a patterned paper from Autumn Leaves that has a lot going on but I made it work LOL! It had words, flourishes, roses and birds. I made my own 3D flowers by layering 3 different sizes and spraying with 3 different colors of Glimmer Mist and added bling. I also added lace and more blig with my i-rock. The font and flowers are from the Stamping Solutions Cricut cart, and the bird is from Florals Embellished. 

Here's a close up of my flowers and the title "Love you forever and ever" I placed the title in my Xyron machine upside down and added blue Micro Beads from Martha Stewart.

I was so happy to see that this bird had a silhouette cut on it since this cart has sooooo many layers. The less layers the better for me sometimes LOL! I also added some Stickles to the bird and bling.

Ok so I just figured out a new technique!! Here's a regular piece of bling that I glued on the lace with some extra hold adhesive, well after it was done drying it had this nice crackle effect that I've never seen when using another kind of glue. The glue smells very strong and it works on any fabric or surface and it stays put and best of all it's acid free! I purchased mine at my local JoAnn's store with a coupon, they sell it in the paint section it's called E-6000 Adhesive. I've also seen it at Big Lots and Walmart. Just had to share that with you guys!!

Blog Candy!! I am giving away  1-  Peachy Keen stamps Bird Faces and More stamp set!!!

To qualify for the prize you must be a follower and leave me a comment today and tomorrow, you won't want to miss my post for tomorrow I will be using this same exact set for my project!!!

I will choose a random winner on Friday 8/12 good luck!

Here is my fabulous lineup:

1. Sandra http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com/  ME2. Ashley http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/ NEXT3. Nadia http://www.nadiasbeautifulmess.blogspot.com/4. Yolie http://www.justyolie.com/5. Celeste http://touchedbyabutterfly.blogspot.com/6. Mel http://scrappymel.blogspot.com/7.  Monica http://simplycricutting.blogspot.com/8.  Amy http://lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com/9. Corri http://www.buglvr.blogspot.com/10. Sylvia http://www.bellascrapbookdesigns.blogspot.com/11. Brynn http://flairandfrillscreativity.blogspot.com/12. Jess http://www.kinderstampo.com/13.  Pam http://www.pammejo-scrapbookflair.com/14.  Laura http://www.makinprettythings.com/15.  Dee http://deesdesignsfrommyheart.blogspot.com/16.  Blue Crayons http://craftingwithblue.blogspot.com/
P.S. Be sure to come check out these blogs again tomorrow, because some of us will be posting on both days!
NEXT STOP is ASHLEY

#57 Father's Day Card (Cricut Cardz Challenge)

I thought the color combos looked perfect for my grandpa, it reminds me of the clothes he wears LOL. I cut the bird from Stamping and I distressed it with brown and green ink. I sanded the cardstock on the birds belly to make it look white. I added green stickles to the eye and wings. I sprayed glimmer mist all over card and stamped the sentiment and also added some more distress ink on the bottom. I made this card for my 1st ever Cricut Cardz challenge  http://cricutcardzchallenge.blogspot.com/2010/06/cricut-cardz-challenge-27.html

#53 Mexican Fiesta LO (3rd Challenge w/Joanna)

This was the 3 rd challenge with my sister Joanna  http://scrap-making.blogspot.com/  This time I choose, I choose this dress from Paisley I thought it was so cute and I was going to do something completely different with this cut. I wanted to make a paper doll with this dress but I didn't think it looked right so I did this instead. I'm pretty happy with the outcome. I CB'd the dress and did some distressing and added gold and green stickles to it since I didn't feel like cutting a shadow...yep I get lazy with my scrapbooking sometimes! I stickled the yellow Prima flower on the left side.  "Party Time" is from Stamping I also added gold stickles to the entire outline. The border flag thing on the bottom is from Give a Hoot, I added some red bling to the tops of the flags. "Fiesta" was cut from SB on white paper I drew the outline with a red pen and colored the inside with a yellow marker. The red patterened paper is from the Citrus stack from Joann's. I  added a strip of red lace ribbon to the middle and used my corner punch for the fiesta flyer that I got when I bought my ticket to this show.