My Birthday Wishes Blog Hop

Welcome to the Birthday Wishes Blog hop.  Hi every one I want to thank you for joining us today for MY Birthday hop.  Today I turned, 40 something and I have  a lot of wishes right now.  My first and foremost wish is that you all had a great time hopping through and seeing the amazing talent these gals have.   Please make sure you leave some bloggy love at all the stops today.  If you post on all the hops and follow hers and my blog you will be entered to win some blog candy from me!!!  If you've just popped in to visit my blog or are reading this via email and you'd like to join our Birthday Wishes blog hop, then please start here at the beginning with Rhonda. My blog will be the last stop, so make sure you are commenting on everyone’s post before you come back here.

Now, as I said I do have a lot of wishes, but my main wish is to find a job.  It's been a bit crazy here being unemployed and not being able to contribute to the household as much.  I'm not going to whine anymore about this because I do know there is something "Fabulous" waiting for me, but ...  Nope, done ...  Which brings me to my project.  Now, not having a lot of money right now I've been forced to use up what I have.  Scraps, ribbons, odds and ends...you know, the stuff you have lying around and never use because you don't have to...well, right now I do have to and this got me to thinking.  I wanted to give each of the ladies something for joining me on this special day and it had to be inexpensive since there are 13 of them celebrating with me...A few years ago I was doing a lot of craft fairs and I would spend all winter making stuff to get ready to sell in the spring.  I would search all the dollar stores for inexpensive items to add to my "crafting" and started to accumulate a lot of stuff.  The one thing I went way overboard on were these office clips.  

and having worked at the casino, I accumulated

a lot of these types of coasters (unused of course)

and scrapbooking and card making 

I have A LOT of these

So put that all together and you get this

and here are the fronts:

Now I layed them out randomly and I had each of 

the ladies in the hop enter their name randomly in 

a document on facebook and their number will coincide

with each Post It note holder and that is how I chose

which one to send them...because there was just no

way for me to figure out who got what...I hope 

they like the choices they made...hehehehe

Now I also wrote them each a personal note

thanking them for attending my Birthday Hop and I

hope you left them all a bit of bloggy love.  They

did a fantastic job!!!

I adhered my pattern paper to the front of the coaster,

plain paper to the backside.  Then I added a piece of

paper to the office clip and clipped the post it note

to the coaster and added a ribbon...DONE!!!

Just think how quickly you can deplete some

of your scraps and odds and ends.

Now I will be giving away a set of 4 of each coasters (unused), office clips and post it notes for you to embellish your own post it note holders.  Now the only way you can win, is if you left bloggy love and became followers of ALL of the ladies.  I will be picking a winner and checking with them to make sure you left a comment on their blog...

NOw Since I was the last stop, if you came here first remember to start with Rhonda and then the rest of the lineup is here:

Rhonda http://scraphappenswithrhonda.blogspot.com/
Kari - http://purplefuntastickcreations.blogspot.com/ 
Amy - http://www.lovetocrop.com/
Lisa - http://indymermaid.blogspot.com 
Lynne - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/ 
Kathy - http://the3esblog.blogspot.com/ 
Audrey – http://cuteandsome.blogspot.com 
Tami - http://tamiscraftconnection.blogspot.com 
Kathy - http://www.scrappingfelkatz.blogspot.com/ 
Susan - http://susanascorner.blogspot.com/ 
Kacee - http://www.youhadmeatscrap.blogspot.com/ 
Christy -  http://christybladehandmade.blogspot.com/ 
Erika - http://www.craftysprouts.com/ 
Brenda - http://createbyburffrau.blogspot.com  
 

LTC "Scrap It"

Good morning

***If you are looking for my Festive Friday's card, please scroll down***

 welcome to another day of challenges over at Love to Crop.  I'm so excited to be back for another LTC challenge guest designer.   Amy is such an inspiration and when she asked if I would again help out with the challenge I was more than pleased to assist.  This actually came at a perfect time because I was going to "challenge" myself sorta.  I showed a layout yesterday for Paper Secrets and I have been trying to use up any scrap paper and such when I've been working on projects recently.  I have a ton of paper, but I also have a ton more of scraps and creating more scraps is not really what I want.  Well, this particular layout was not happening without "new" papers...so, needless to say, more scraps...When Amy and I got to talking about this challenge and she told me her plan, I decided to challenge myself also.  So this is the scoop...when I do a layout, I obviously have all the "scraps" laying on my table, so when I've completed the layout...make some cards.  I know this is probably not a new concept to a lot of you, but a light bulb went off and this is what I am challenging myself to do from now on.  I make at least two layouts a week for one DT I am on, Lasting Memories, and then the PaperSecrets challenge.  So you know I probably have more scraps than I know what to do with and this way I might get some extra cards made right away.  So here is the layout I had made if you missed it yesterday...

All the papers here were either a 8 x 11 or 12 x 12

papers to begin with.  As you can see, I didn't use a lot

of the paper, but scraps were created anyway.

Then I created this card

and these notecards...they are 3 x 3 quickies

still yet some more of the same paper 

plus some extras from my scrap bin

and a left over flower I created for a fall project.

I just love how they turned out and you never 

know when you will need a quick "thank you".  

Plus it saves my scrap bin from growing even more.  

So, I hope I've inspired you to create some cards after 

making a layout to avoid a over flowing scrap bin.

Now the next time you create a beautiful layout,

use your scraps right away and make some quickie cards

and head on over to Love to Crop and link up your "Scrap It" project.