Building Friendships Blog Hop

Hello Friends!!

Happy Sunday!!
(I hope you like the new background I designed).

(important info in red text)

Welcome to the "Building Friendships Blog Hop!!

You should of arrived here from Brenda's Blog, and if not, you will want to start at Heidi's Blog.  I wouldn't want you to miss out on any of the Fabulous Giveaways that each gal has made!!

Each of us has created a unique project.  Not only will we be sharing these creations with you, we will be offering them up as prizes too!!  Who doesn't LOVE to win a beautiful creation??  Here are the Details.

Details

You need to leave a little love in the form of a comment on each of our blogs by 12 midnight EST Wednesday, August 22nd.

You need to become a follower of each of our blogs.

You will need to gather all the letters and words along the way and put them into a little sentence and email the sentence to Heidi at pinkprincess67@gmx.com.

All correct entries will be put in to win the prizes.

Prizes will be posted on each of our blogs on Saturday August 25th.

Here are the letters you need to collect from me:  bu

Here is a look at what I created!!
It is my take on a "Smash Book."  I used images from Gecko Galz and the Graphic Fairy and embellishments from Pro 31 Designs!  Thank you to my BFF Ginny for the clothes pin and idea.  We sat in her store Thursday afternoon, she designing with paper and me designing on my laptop.  It was super fun.  We even stuck to our Healthy eating :0)

Here is a list of the embellishments from Pro 31 Designs I used on the cover.
Brown Blingy Bling Mesh, My favorite Champagne Flatback pearls, Black drop pearl beaded trim, ivory mulberry roses, & ivory felt leaf trim,
I used GIMP (image manipulating program) to alter the images from Gecko Galz.  Leanne gives me the best images to play with!!

I just love the books...and my favorite Champagne flatback pearls!!

I used Inkscape (a vector / line program) to create cut lines for all of my images, so when I figure out where I put the new blade that Sherri (Black Cat Cougar Digital cutters), sent me, I can cut out another one of these :0)  All of you who know me, know I love my Kitty Kitty Digital cutter!!

I designed the Ruler paper by taking a ruler image, getting rid of the white background and adding in colors that I liked.  Then I stacked a bunch together to form the paper.  You can see how to do this yourself by watching my GIMP tutorials on you tube.

My Regular visitors know that I love to create "Shaped pages" so I designed my pages so that the apple peaks out on the first page, pencil would peak out on this page, the next has a vintage report card, and finally a ruler pocket.  These little treasures are on pop dots (paper still on, so not all sticky yet), so you can slide in a note or photo, then stick the die cuts down.

I flipped my outline o my page, but not the image, so that my letters would not be backwards :0)

Created a ruler pocket and apple with chalkboard tag.  You can see and hear more information in the video below.  Sorry the sound is a little weird, my son was using my headphones :0)

Here are some more still photos

Gecko Galz digi stamps....etc....

Another lunch back to hold some goodies!!

ruler pocket with tag

More Gecko Galz images and Digi Stamps!  The apple I use through out the project is from Graphic Fairy

The clothes pin that I altered for the Design Team Challenge at PRO 31 Designs.

and the extra pieces below...so you can "Make it your own" if you are the winner!!

Thank you for putting up with my LONG post....LOL
Here are two thank you cards that I made using a Digital Collage Sheet that I created.

You can find the sheet below in my Etsy Shop. 

The apple image and image on the chalk board are from Karen the Graphic's Fairy.

You can watch my Tutorial on how to create the cards from my Collage Sheet.

Thanks again for joining us in our Building Friendships Blog Hop!!  You will want to hop on over to Laura's blog to see her wonderful creation and a chance to win another prize!!

Hugs!!
Heather

I will be playing along with the following challenges:
Simon says Stamp and Show:  Favorite Technique.
(creating digital images, then making them into paper projects)
The pink Elephant:  Back to School
Digital Tuesday: Child's play
DYSU: Buttons

I will be sharing with 
Make it Monday
Brag Monday with Graphic Fairy