Every Day is an Occasion Turns 1 Blog Hop

Happy Friday and welcome to the Every Day is an Occasion Turns 1 Happy Birthday Blog Hop!!

Jill from Every Day is an Occasion is celebrating her one year blogaversary!! Today you will be hopping from blog to blog gathering birthday inspiration. If you are just stopping in or joining me from your dashboard, you will want to start at the beginning with our awesome hostess Jill of Every Day is an Occasion. If you are following along with the hop, you should have arrived from the sweet and talented Shelly of My Paper Love.

I am just loving my new Sizzix Accordion die!! So many possibilities!! For this card, I was inspired by Karen Burniston's use of clear plastic for the die (HERE) and this amazing card (HERE).

For the clear plastic, I recycled Spellbinders die packages. The papers for this card are from Prima's Fairy Rhymes stack. I wanted my birthday card to be a bouquet of flowers, so I cut several from Tim Holtz's Tattered Florals and Tattered Florals Garland with Core'dinations paper. The swirls are TH Elegant Flourishes dies. The fairy in the corner and the bird in the top inside corner were fussy cut from the Prima paper. The butterflies are Spellbinders Fanciful Flight dies.

The banner along the top and the fairy in the corner were also cut from the Prima paper. The sentiment banner is a Spellbinders Nested Pennant die. "Make a" was stamped from a Hero Arts alphabet set. "Wish" was cut with a Spellbinders Opulent Opals die and a TH Wish Movers and Shapers insert.

The crystal gems in the center of the flowers and on the butterflies are from Recollections.

I am entering this in the following challenges:

1. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
2. Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Dotty
3. Craftin' Desert Diva's #13 - Anything Goes
4. DL.Art - Thankful Thursday - August Anything Goes
5. Sunday Funday - August Linky Party 
6. Inspire Me Fridays #118 - Anything Goes
7. Just B Creative Crazy - Just Because Linky Party

Jill went to Summer CHA this year and gathered some goodies to giveaway to all of you. Please enter the Rafflecopter below for your chance to win!!

Your next stop is my amazing and talented friend Jessica of Chick-n-Scrap. Here's the entire line-up in case you get lost along the way or want to revisit anyone. Thanks for hopping with us today and don't forget to enter the giveaway below :)

Jill 

Holly

Arin

Angi

Court

Shelly

Lisa < YOU ARE HERE

Jessica

a Rafflecopter giveaway

A Cheerful Heart is Good Medicine

For my challenge and giveaway at Do More With Less, click HERE

For the Prima Doll Blog Hop Week 3, click HERE

Happy Friday!! I can't believe the weekend here already. Summer is flying by so fast, I can't keep up. I hope you are having a great week :)

I have wanted the Sizzix Bigz Accordion 3D Album die for so long but I could never find it in stock. I finally did and was so excited to pick it up, along with the Sizzix Bigz Frame and Label Bracket die, which coordinates with the Accordion Album. You will be seeing lots of projects using these dies from me...I hope you don't get tired of them :)

My first attempt was put together quickly because I want to get it in the mail to a friend who is going through a rough time right now. I kept it at two panels and didn't over-embellish because I wanted to be able to mail it relatively flat. The papers are from Heidi Grace's Daydream stack. The butterflies are Spellbinders In Flight dies. The flowers are Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms dies. The small labels are Spellbinders Labels 1 dies. The front was inked with Tim Holtz Scattered Straw distress ink, the left panel with Shabby Shutters and the right with Spun Sugar. The flower images in the background are from Tim Holtz's Nature's Element stamp set, and they were stamped with the same color as the background for a subtle effect. The front sentiment is from K Andrew Designs Scripture Sayings stamp set. Thinking of You and Sweet Friend are from JustRite Stampers Grand Sentiments stamp set.

I am entering this in the following challenges:

1. Craftin' Desert Diva's #13 - Anything Goes
2. DL.Art - Thankful Thursday - August Anything Goes
3. Sunday Funday - August Linky Party
4. Just B Creative Crazy - Just Because Linky Party

Thanks so much for stopping by!! I hope you will enter my challenge at Do More With Less...you could win some Spellbinders goodies from me!! Have a great weekend :)