welcome to a very special surprise "happy birthday" blog hop, for bella blvd's one and only, stephanie hunt! for those of you that don't know, stephanie is the owner, designer … well, she's the "everything" of bella blvd. when i found out she was having a birthday this month, i knew i had to get the design team together to do something special for her. she is so generous with all of us, and we wanted to do something for her on her special day.
so we put together this surprise "happy birthday" blog hop for her!
if you're just finding our blog hop, you will definitely want to go back and start at the beginning HERE, on the bella blog. we have TWENTY SIX of our design team girls participating, along with three girls that are sharing their cards on the bella blog, and you won't want to miss a single card!
happy birthday stephanie! i hope you have an amazing birthday, filled with all sorts of goodness, family and friends, and definitely some cake and ice cream! you're one of the hardest working women i know, and i really hope you get a chance to relax, take it easy, and just truly enjoy your day.
for my card, i choose to use the hello beautiful collection. i love this red text paper, and really wanted to use it. i added the floral paper to the top of the card, and went looking for some ribbon to add between the two patterned papers. i found this wide green and white striped ribbon, and decided it was perfect.
i wanted to pleat the ribbon up a bit, to add lots of texture to the card. when i do the pleating with my ribbons, i like to add brads to each pleat, since it really secures the ribbon down. i pulled out my itop tool, so that i could create my own brads, using this yellow patterned paper from the spring flings and easter things collection. love the dimension those brads add to the card.
your next stop on the blog hop, is wendy wagner.
even though it's stephanie's birthday, we have some gifts for a few of you lucky readers as well! we know how generous and giving stephanie is, and we know she would never have a fun blog hop, without a few giveaways up for grabs too. so we got permission from robin, who works alongside stephanie in the office, to pick TEN lucky winners, who will each receive a bella blvd collection. all you need to do to be entered in the random drawings, is to leave stephanie your birthday wishes in the comment section. you have lots of opportunities to up your chances, since you can leave a comment on each blog you visit, as you go through the blog hop. there are 26 blogs, plus the bella blvd blog, for a total of 27 chances to get your name in the pot. we will randomly choose winners, from 10 randomly choosen blogs, and announce them on friday!
Laura Vegas 
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