Busy Beauties Boutique New Release Blog Hop

Welcome & THANK YOU for joining the Busy Beauties today! If you are arriving here from Heather's blog, you are hopping right along. To start at the beginning, please visit Carolyn’s blog.

Today is my birthday and I've always been about the card, yes I do enjoy gifts, but I always loved getting birthday cards. I love(d) that the person took time to find just the right card to send/give to me often adding their own note(s). Maybe that is part of the reason I enjoy making cards so much. I truly love the new images that Carolyn and Thomas have created and want to showcase a couple of them. So without further adieu here are my creations:

On this card I used the Tailz and Finz digi stamp image.

A quick clean and simple card. I just love fish, I'm not really into horoscopes, yet this Pisces chibi is adorable! Purple and green are my favorite colors and this card came together rather easily. The card idea is from my current issue of Papercrafts magazine.

Here is my card using the Shamrock'd Beauty. Isn't she just too cute?

We are super excited to introduce a new set of images (available for purchase on Saturday, March 6) and also share some news! Coming Soon...The BUSY BEAUTIES BLOG! We are hoping to have all the kinks worked out and launch the blog next month, but we just couldn’t contain our excitement and want to get our feet wet now with OUR FIRST EVER BUSY BEAUTIES CHALLENGE! Our theme is “GO GREEN!” and the challenge is to use GREEN as the predominate color on your card/project. TheWEDNESDAY, MARCH 17^TH (St. Patrick’s Day)! challenge is open from now through BBB images are of course encouraged & preferred, but not required for this one. Since our official blog is not yet ready, Catherine will be hosting the challenge on her blog, where you can find all the nitty-gritty details and link your creations. (She's the last stop of the hop, so just keep bopping along.) And since this is our premier challenge, there is a tangible prize package for the winner:

The PRIZE includes: Basic Grey Origins 6x6 pad; 4 yards of American Crafts satin ribbon, 1 yard of May Arts striped twill ribbon, 1 jar of Shimmerz.

As always, we also have HOP PRIZES! There will be winners chosen from the comments left on, certain DT blogs, but it's a secret which blogs we'll draw from! The prize for these winners is their choice of 3 Free BBB Images! There will also be a GRAND PRIZE of 5 Free BBB Images (winner's choice) drawn from the hoppers who leave comments on *all* the DT blogs. So be sure to leave some love all along the way! Blog Hop Winners will be announced Friday night on Carolyn's blog.

Your next stop is Rachel's blog!

Enjoy the hop and we can't wait to see your GO GREEN Challenge creations!

Think of me while I'm taking a mid-term today and then I'll be celebrating my birthday with a massage and hopefully going out for frozen custard at Culver's in Taylor, MI. We'll see how that all plays out.

OWH Veteran's Day Blog Hop

**Chances to win - now closed**

Welcome to the Hop! Ok so it isn't actually Veteran's Day today, that was on Wednesday! But you've gotta love that 75 cardmakers have gotten together to promote Operation Write Home. A wonderful cause for our servicemen and women to get handmade greeting cards to send home to family and friends. If you can why not create some cards for Operation Write Home. Do it yourself, have a few friends over or have a card making party. If you don't have the time or just aren't a card maker please consider donating $$ for shipping. Shipping all the wonderful cards overseas does cost quite a bit. You can see for yourself on Operation Write Home's site. Here is the Any Hero card I created.
(Remember you can click on the image to enlarge photo)

I created this with a digi stamp from Fresh Brewed Designs. Heather Dennis is the creator of this wonderful Love Mug image. You can find out more about Fresh Brewed Designs here. Here is my Valentine's card:

I realize my Valentine's card is just a bit different from the usual Valentine's Day Card, but I wanted to use the Bubbly Beauty Cameo. I thought cameo sounded cool after I diecut the image in an oval. This digi stamp comes from Busy Beauties Boutique. My dear friend Carolyn and her friend Thomas create these wonderful images. I followed the Sketch Saturday sketch and just love how this card turned out! You can go to the Busy Beauties Boutique by clicking the image in my sidebar. I know she has some new images in the works, so please be sure to check back again soon! From now until January 8th please consider making Valentine's cards for OWH. Servicemen and women love to send love home. Occasionally you can find a note on the Homefront Blog about a serviceman/woman who sent home a card and the recipient's reaction. Which always warms my heart and gives me the motivation to create more cards for OWH. Also OWH is on Facebook and Twitter so you can follow there to for the most recent updates. It's always great to see Mailroom Monday and Thankful Thursday posts. You will also want to check the Homefront Blog to hop along and see all the wonderful cards created. Some will offer prizes. I will be offering 3 prizes for those who leave a comment. I will choose 3 random names from all those who comment today! One Grand Prize winner will receive 2 images 1 from Fresh Brewed Designs and 1 from Busy Beauties. One winner will receive 1 digi image of their choice from Busy Beauties Boutique and one winner will win 1 digi image of their choice from Fresh Brewed Designs. I will also throw in some goodies, like gems because you know Busy Beauties need some bling. hehehe . If you would like to boost your chances at winning, make sure you stop by and visit the blogs of the following ladies: Carolyn, Catherine, Heather D & Kelly

Here are two Free images to get you started from Busy Beauties & Fresh Brewed

Bubbly Beauty and God Bless Ewe Now hop on over to Heather and see what wonderful cards she's created!