Susan's Anything Goes Birthday Bash Blog Hop

Happy Birthday Susan and welcome to Day 2 of our Susan's Anything Goes Birthday Bash Blog Hop!!

If you are looking for Day 1 of the Labor of Love Halloween Banner Blog Hop, please go HERE.

For this hop, we get to do....well Anything!!  As long as it is birthday related!  I also found out that Susan's favorite color is purple so I totally used that!  You should have arrived from the Lovely LINDA.  If you found me first, you can go to Susan's BLOG to begin the festivities!!

Welcome to Susan's Anything goes Festive Birthday Bash Blog Hop to celebrate Susan E. Bermudez's birthday with anything goes to celebrate her birthday whether it be a card, favor, banner, or that something special. Hope you enjoy our hop while you check the following blogs as we celebrate Susan's birthday with our usual creativity and craftiness!!! So, please stop by and make sure to wish Susan a very Happy Birthday along with some bloggy love!!

Grand Prizes with Sponsors:

1. Karber Digital Images (http://www.karberdigital.com/) will offer blog candy to a random commenter of the blog hop :)

2. Jen's Digi Designs - $15 gift card for liking her Face Book page and commenting on Susan's page with a winner being chosen randomly :)

Also, please, be sure to stop by Staci McD's site (http://preciousmem.blogspot.com) as there will be a $20 gift card to Designs on Cloud 9 to one commenter on her blog.

Some of the blogs may be offering candy so be sure to leave your comments along the way and don't forget to give bloggy love!



  Below is a complete blog hop list for day 2 in case you get lost along the way!  To see day 1, start HERE!

1. Susan: http://susanascorner.blogspot.com/

2. Amy: http://www.lovetocrop.com/

3. Darlene: http://twoscrappinlawyers.blogspot.com/

4. Faith: http://faithfulecreations.com/

5. Heather: http://blessed2cre8.blogspot.com/

6. Indira: http://craftyhomemade.blogspot.com/

7. Janet: http://ladyluvbug.blogspot.com/

8. Jearise: http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/

9. Linda: http://www.lindascreativity.blogspot.com/

10. Lori: YOU ARE HERE

11. Maria: http://justgetscraphappy.blogspot.com/

12. Nicole: http://crashingcreatively.blogspot.com/

13. Theresa: http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/

I decided to decorate a gift bag for my project.  I used my Gypsy (of course)!  I found "It's Your Day" from Celebrations and sized it to 3.63w x 5.00h.  I found the butterflies from Hannah Montana.  I cut out one for the bag in the shadow mode and both sets for the gift tag.  The bag butterfly is 3.38w x 2.53h.  The tag butterfly is 2.25 inches tall (each piece is a different width, but the height is the same and they layer nice).

Here is my screen shot.  Notice the bigger butterfly is rotated.  I did that on the mat to mimic what I wanted on the bag.  That helped me determine the size of the butterfly and words I needed.

I coverd a white paper bag from Michaels with this pretty purple butterfly paper while my images were cutting out.

Then I took my big butterfly and these ART C beads and mini balls (found at Michaels on clearance right now) and some Glossy Accents and created my beaded butterfly.

This is how it looks when wet.

While my butterfly was drying, I assembled my ribbon bow.

I added some purple stickles to the words ~ every girl needs a little sparkle!

And put it all together!

Here is the butterfly dry.

The stickles dry.

And here is the tag.  I cut off the yellow antenae and only glued the center of the butterfly down.  I bent up the wings.  You can write on the back of the purple butterfly.

Here is my completed bag!  I hope you enjoyed my tutorial!!  I have a little blog candy for you. 

Please leave me a comment with a favorite birthday story or memory and a way to contact you if you win.  If you like my work, please subscribe or become a follower!

Your next stop in the hop is the marvelous MARIA!