Jillian's Blog Hop Day 3 - My brother's B-day card

Welcome to Jillian's Birthday Blog Hop!

*Be sure to scroll down a few posts for my 500 follower giveaway*

We are so glad you are here! If you came from My Favorite Blog you are on the right track.  If you just happened here by chance and want to start from the beginning, please go to the beginning at Deanne's Creative Juice. For those of you who don't know who Jillian is, I think you'll want to know her. Go to her blog for her own hop at http://www.ajillianvancedesign.com/Blog.html.  She is turning 12 years old and already has made for herself an amazing business!  She has some of the best stamp sets I've seen.  In fact, I went over there a few nights ago and bought 4 sets of her stamps because she's a smart chick who created phrases for particular Cricut cartridges which I really need!  I do have some awesome ones from a few of my other favorite blogs, but Jillian is just 12!!! OMGosh!

For this awesome hop, we have four straight days of birthday fun lined up for you all.  Each day, each blog is going to post a new project and there may be some blog candy involved. ;)  Am I doing blog candy, you ask???  Well, OF COURSE!!!  What would a hop be without some fun goodies?  All you need to do is leave a comment below and please become a follower if you are not.  You don't have to comment each day, but if you do, you have more chances to win the blog candy I'll be giving away after the hop is over.  This hop goes from June 10th through June 13th.  Works well for me because my brother's (Dennis's) b-day was yesterday so I just happen to have a card for him!  Today is the day I'm showcasing that card. :0)

Every participant is linking their project back to the hostess' blog.  Bloggers will vote on their favorite projects.  CLICK HERE to vote for the project you believe deserves to win a new Cricut cartridge:) If you like any of my projects best, PLEASE be sure to vote for me.  I'd greatly appreciate it because I really want to win the cartridge being offered!  Thanks for taking the time to do so each day.  :0) (If you haven't seen yesterday's project, please go down one post to check it out and vote on it if you like it.)  I have been unable to link yesterday's and today's post so please come back and click on the "Click Here" link again.  I'll try to get it fixed by tomorrow morning.


The card I have for today's birthday project is for my older brother Dennis.  He's the middle child and is now 46!??  OMGosh, I thought he was gonna be 45!  I've totally missed doing something extra special for his 45th!  Dang! :p I am always running late when it comes to actually mailing cards and since his b-day was yesterday, I'm sure you can see where this is going. LOL  Anyways, he is really into antiques, likes the color red and likes things that look old-timey, not modern so this is what I came up with for him.  It is a completely Cricut-less project!  I can't believe it!  I really had about 6 projects in mind that I wanted to make for him that would have included the Cricut, but you just can't squeeze everything onto one card and I know he doesn't want 6 cards for his b-day. LOL

 Front of 5x7" card - pop dots were used, red textured cardstock, Bo Bunny papers, bronze brads, (rest listed below in other pics)

 Main message - This just fits for my brother - Used stickers, rub-ons, and an awesome brad

 Top border is actually a sticker from Bo Bunny that I added Creative Charms - Dark Brown Pearls to

 This star is something I got in a Craig's List lot with a bunch of other western embellishments

Inside of card - Used a chipboard frame, 2 black pearl embellies, and stamped the background with my clock stamp from my store - Stickers are from my store too!  Not sure which paper line at the moment, but ask if you have questions.

I'm not going to ramble on today about how this one was made.  The pics are pretty clear although you can't see what was raised with pop dots very easily, but I do want you to know that the awesome stickers, papers, and stamps (for the clock background) I used all came from my Memory Works store! So, if you are interested in any of these products (this line was mostly Bo Bunny) please let me know and I can help you with pricing and ordering, etc.  Everything I used for this gorgeous card was really inexpensive! I even added a little to the inside. :0)   Let me know if you would like a catalog mailed to you.    Hope you all enjoy this card and I really hope my bro likes it too.  


I hope to enter this into some challenges and will post them at the bottom of this post when I do.




Thanks so much for hopping with us, now be sure to head on over to Funky Cards  to check out what Madison has in store for us today!  She makes some great projects!

Here is the blog list!

Deanne's Creative Juice

Anniebees Craftroom

My Favorite Blog 

Scrapping Card Making and Living with Fibro - You are Here

Funky Cards  - Next

Scrappin with Cricut 

Courts Craft Corner

Handcrafted Simply by Us

Don't forget to leave a comment and become a follower for a chance to win my blog candy (fun tags, stickers, accents and rub-ons from Colorbok)!  1 comment per day please. :0)  If you are unable to leave a comment b/c Blogger has been acting up, try using Google Chrome or a different Internet browser to open my blog in.  That should do the trick.  You don't want to miss out!

Jillian also has a hop going on over at her Blog! Head over and see what's going on there. Tell her that you came from Deanne's Blog Hop and give her some birthday love.

http://www.ajillianvancedesign.com/Blog.html

Challenges Entered:
Getting Cricky - Vintage Appeal