Kelly's Stamping Friends - Birthday Blog Hop 2018

What a way to celebrate! Today is my gorgeous friend Kelly Kent's birthday so she is throwing herself a blog hop party! I am so happy to be part of this great celebration. Happy Birthday gorgeous girl! I should add that she has so many people wanting to hop and celebrate with her that there are 2 groups of 20 hopping. You can find the participant list below. Just hop from one link to the next to see lots of gorgeous projects. And yes.... I have met my 'gorgeous' quota for this post!

What better project to show you for this hop than the card I made for Kelly. I gave myself a treat for Kelly's birthday and bought a few new Stampin' Up! products. So here is the card. It is a Tri-Fold Window Card and I used a tutorial by Bronwyn Eastley from AddINKtive Designs. You can find another card that I made using this tutorial here.

It's a really fun card fold that adds that bit of drama for a special card.

When I saw it in the new Stampin' Up 2018/19 Annual catalogue, I thought the Varied Vases stamp set and coordinating punch looked really good but it wasn't until I used it that I realised how fabulous it actually is. With some silver embossing, the flowers stamp up a treat! And how about those stylish vases???

There is even room on the back to write a message. I somehow managed to write my message on the inside so had the remake that panel minutes before I had to leave to post it! Oops!

Next up is another ..... now what is a synonym for gorgeous .......friend, Jenny Hall. (I am so lucky that I have made so many (must buy a thesaurus) friends both in person and online through Stampin' Up! Lucky to have you all in my life. You are all .........

Lou

Participant List (A)

1.      Kelly Kent

2.      Lou Kitzelman - That's me!

3.      Jenny Hall

4.      Denita Wright-Smee

5.      Jackie Aitken

6.      Narelle Simm

7.      Sandra Collett

8.      Monique Fielder

9.      Nicole Wilson

10. Siobhan Fitzsimmons

11. Jenny Hayward

12. Kathryn Mangelsdorf

13. Josie Dean

14. Peta Stephen

15. Kristel Rimmer

16. Kim Oliver

17. Denise Buetler

18. Jacqui Crouch

19. Tina Gillespie

20. Jan McQueen

Product List

Varied Vases Photopolymer Stamp Set [146644] $45.00	Vases Builder Punch [147040] $31.00	Varied Vases Photopolymer Bundle [148381] $68.25	Lovely Floral Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [148048] $16.00	Layering Squares Framelits Dies [141708] $58.00	Blueberry Bushel Classic Stampin' Pad [147138] $13.00	Pineapple Punch Classic Stampin' Pad [147141] $13.00
Grapefruit Grove Classic Stampin' Pad [147142] $13.00	Blueberry Bushel A4 Cardstock [146991] $14.75	Pineapple Punch A4 Cardstock [146994] $14.75	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] $15.75	Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder [109131] $8.75	Versamark Pad [102283] $15.00	Embossing Buddy [103083] $10.00
Heat Tool [129056] $50.00	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $6.00	Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] $6.00