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Happy Birthday Stephanie!

I am so excited to be participating in a blog hop to celebrate Stephanie's birthday!  Stephanie is the owner of Bella Blvd and designs the beautiful products that we all love to use! 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHANIE!

This is a complete surprise for her and it was such a wonderful thing for Laura Vegas to organise.  The bonus for you is that you get the inspiration of seeing a huge range of great birthday cards made using all of the wonderful Bella Blvd products that Stephanie has designed!!!  Win win for everyone.

If at any time you lose the hop, you can always go to the Bella Blog to be able to rejoin.

This is the card that I made for Stephanie...

I just love how easy Bella Blvd products are to work with.  This card was create using the Spring Flings and Easter Things range and the sentiment from the Sophisticates Minatures - love it!

I hope you have a wonderful birthday Stephanie and are completely spoilt!

Now ... Even thought it's Stephanie's birthday, we have some gifts for a few of you lucky readers as well! We know how generous and giving Stephanie is, and we know she would never have a fun blog hop, without a few giveaways up for grabs too. So we got permission from Robin, who works alongside Stephanie in the office, to pick TEN lucky winners, who will each receive a Bella Blvd collection. All you need to do to be entered in the random drawings, is to leave Stephanie your birthday wishes in the comment section. You have lots of opportunities to up your chances, since you can leave a comment on each blog you visit, as you go through the blog hop. There are 26 blogs, plus the Bella Blvd blog, for a total of 27 chances to get your name in the pot. We will randomly choose winners, from 10 randomly choosen blogs, and announce them on Friday!  

Now you can continue the hop by moving onto Morgan Bandkowski's blog where she will share with you her card.

Cheers
Kim x

Bella Blvd Newsletter

The Bella Blvd Newsletter is available to download from the Bella Blvd blog - great inspiration to be found so check it out!

More Lily Bee ...

... but this was for Aussie Scrap Source!

I was very excited to be asked to join Aussie Scrap Source on their design team and my work has started to be posted to the blog this month.  I was asked to do a layout using Lily Bee and put this one together - the Head over Heels range is divine!

I totally put the pressure on Gary to step into that photo booth with me - and what cracked me up more is that once we did it, all of these other couples waiting around for the movie to start did it too!

Cheers
Kim x

Lily Bee update (part 2)

Just popping in to share the layout that I did for the Lily Bee / Maya Road blog hop that was on last week ...

Maya Road and Lily Bee just work so well together.  There are lots of inspiring projects from the blog hop on both the Lily Bee and Maya Road blogs, so drop over and check it out!

Cheers
Kim x

Lily Bee update

I have had a few projects up on the Lily Bee blog lately so I thought it was time for a catch up ...

I was challenged this month to create something that focused on the Lily Bee stamps.  I am not much of a stamper and I was a little concerned, but I have to say that the Lily Bee stamps made such beautiful crisp images - I was impressed!

I chose to make some Christmas tags - dressing up plain old shipping tags with Lily Bee stamps and christmas papers.

More to come tomorrow!

Cheers
Kim x

Bella Bvld update

If you celebrate Thanksgiving, you just have to check out the amazing free printable on the Bella Blvd blog to create a beautiful Thanksgiving album ...

and to finish off this Bella Blvd post, I want to share a recent layout up on the Bella Blvd blog.  We were asked to create a project using an inspiration image.  This is what I created ...

To see the inspiration image and what everyone else created, drop on over here to the Bella Blvd blog!

Cheers
Kim xx

Bella sketch

Bella Blvd released a cute card sketch at the end of last week and I got asked to take the sketch and make a layout from it - so I did!  I love sketches and it was an interesting challenge to convert a card sketch into a layout - but I love how it turned out ...

If you have a go at the Bella sketch - don't forget to link it up in the comments or share it via facebook.

Cheers
Kim xxx

Scrap scrap scapping away!

I had the best time last night at a crop held at Scrapbooking Delights.  There was lots of laughs and chatting along with great thai food for dinner!  I even got some scrapping in  ;o)

Can't share any of that at the moment, but here is one to share ...

Some photos of Benson and Christian before bed the first time that we put them in to share a room together one weekend when we were visiting our best friends.  Let's just say that it wasn't very successful!

This was also the basis of a sketch at Inspired Blueprints.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend ... what is left of it!  I am going to archive some files for work so that my desk is cleared off and go for a run.  Dinner is in the slow cooker so I am all organised!

Cheers
Kim xxx

Scrappy goodness

I have another layout to share from an older Inspired Blueprints sketch.  Remember IB is on hiatus for a while, but the sketches can still be accessed from the blog.

I have had some of the best scrappy news x2 in the last couple of weeks.  One annoucement will be made public in November, the other might not be until December.  I can't wait to be able to share on my blog!

Talk again soon

Kim xxx

New releases from Bella Blvd!

Bella Blvd has annouced their first ever mid season releases and they are delicious!  The full annoucements can be read on the Bella Blvd blog: here, here, and here.  The best part is that there are 3 super giveaways - one for each annoucement post on the blog .... so I suggest that you get over there are you could SCORE yourself lots of Bella Blvd goodness!!!

Here are the new releases and some of my favourite things ...

 

Don't forget - you need to be in it to win it so go and comment and link up!  The prizes on offer are awesome!!!!!!!!

Kim xxx