Down By The Seashore Blog Hop

Welcome to the Down by the Seashore Blog Hop

 

Sit back and enjoy the view as we whisk you away to the sea with amazing projects full of bathing beauties, salty air, sandy toes, and crashing waves.

Connie Can Crop is the first stop on this relaxing Blog Hop. 

This is a one day hop and we appreciate your leaving a comment for all of these talented friends who are here sharing their ideas and creations.

Sponsor: ScrappyKDesigns 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ScrappyKDesigns

She will be giving away 2 sets of yummy flat back flair buttons of the winner's choice. YAY!

What do you need to do to win? Easy... become a follower of each of the fabulous blogs in this hop and leave each of them a comment letting them know what you like best about their projects. Then stop by our sponsor's page at be sure to like her on facebook!!

You will have until 12:00 am Monday to finish the hop and leave your comments.

Winner will be announced on Wednesday at Connie Can Crop.

Be sure to follow everyone and leave a comment along the way!

Pam aka Mama LoveBug here with two seashore fun projects I made for two terrific gals who recently went on a romp through the sand and had fun in the sun.  These tag greeting cards in a handmade box have magnets on the back so they can be placed on a mirror or other surface as a remembrance of a fun day.  

 Ingredients for Turtle Girl

*LoveBug Creations Rumple Ribbon - Southern Sass collection - peach blossom store details

*Cameo print-and-cut of turtle and surf board - colored and gel-pen accented

*Flip flop stamp and handmade flower

*Sentiment stamp - Wishing you oceans of joy

Ingredients for Beach Babe

*LoveBug Creations Beautiful Bloom - pink  store details

There are 18 blooms in this collection. The colors are Hugs, Kisses, White, Crushed, Envious & Jaded! 3 Blooms of each color in 3 different sizes! Beautiful Blooms are made of clay, hand dyed and have a glossy finish to the top side of them! The bottom is not glossy to make adhering these to your projects easy! 

*Digi stamp of little beach babe (Roxie) from Little Miss Muffet - colored and paper pieced with pink accessories

*Ticket die with stamped embellies of beach items plus hand made flower and stamped whale

*Sentiment stamp - Wishing you oceans of joy

Here is our complete line up in case you get lost along the way:

1. Connie - http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com

2. Janet - http://janetscreativeworld.blogspot.com/

3. Alicia - http://goldengoddessdesigns.blogspot.com/

4. Pam - http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/ HERE

5. Jessica -  http://craftinandstampin.blogspot.com NEXT

6. Melissa - http://papershenaniganz.blogspot.com

7. Sarah - www.sarahbiswabic.blogspot.com

8. Gina - http://californiascrappin-gcinderella21.blogspot.com/

9. Angela - www.crazy3monkeys.blogspot.com

10. Madge-  www.thescrappinlounge.com

Remember no matter how you bunch your blooms, rumple your ribbon, and piece your paper, have fun with it..........cyber seashore fun.........Mama LoveBug

Thanks so much for joining us!

Next up is JESSICA

Shower Ideas with Kristi & Christine ♥

Hello Lovebuggies, Kristi here from Little Paper Sprinkles!

Today I am sharing a super cutie patootie Baby Shower Card,

I used the new "Buttercup" Rumple Ribbon, its gorgeous!

These new colors are simply beautiful! 

For more details check out my BLOG! :)

Hugs

Kristi♥

 

 

Christine

Sometimes there's nothing better to soothe us than a nice, warm cup of tea. This week I'm inspired by tea and created a project featuring some gorgeous Lovebug Creations Rumple Ribbon and a Beautiful Bloom. I'm also offering a FREE PRINTABLE Tea Cup template/pattern!

Come on over to the Scarlet Calliope blog to see what's brewing!

xo,

Christine Barker

 

Spring Celebrations New Release and Blog Hop

***IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR THE FLEURETTE BLOOM/LOVEBUG CREATIONS BLOG HOP CLICK HERE!!!!!

 

Welcome to LoveBug Creations Spring Celebrations 

New Release and Blog Hop!!

Spring is a time for Easter and Mother's Day events but it also signals weddings, graduations, family reunions, and more.  LoveBug Creations has some new awesome products to unveil today for your spring celebrations.

  So do you want to add something special to your handmade projects?? If so, consider these new springtime collections for your crafting arsenal of rumple ribbon delights:

Peach Blossom, Buttercup, Dahlia

Garden Green, Spring Lilac, Blue Bells

And for something different, we are releasing the beautiful Mama's Roses.  

Each rose is hand-formed and hand-dyed; each has dimensions of  2"x 2" and can be used as is or inked, painted, stickled, and more - your imagination can provide lots of possibilities for these beauties - and they are feather-light so you can create lots of projects from layouts to cards to tags to mixed media creations to 3-D creations and more and not feel there's an anchor on your project, weighing it down!

And if that isn't enough... We've got 4 NEW Mama's Mesh Colors: Kraft, Ivory, Light Blue & Light Pink!!!

Also Mama's Mesh is now being offered to buy by the yard as opposed to in collections! Awesome!

So settle back as we take you on a tour of spring celebrations and invite you to visit our LBC ONLINE STORE

Mama LoveBug is up first to share several wedding tags (The Tag, The New Greeting Card); yesterday I shared several wedding tags in our co-hop with Fleurette Bloom so I was in the mood to continue with that theme for our spring celebrations. Couldn't you see these framed as a lovely treasure for a wedding gift or using the smaller tag below, placing it on a wedding plate or on an easel next to the guest book.......the possibilities are endless!

Recipe
LoveBug Creations new pink and green Rumple Ribbon (ink distressed)
LoveBug Creations Mama's Rose (white rose inked with pink distressed ink) for the shabby chic look
Prima Marketing Mixed Media Julie Nutting Doll Stamp (stamped, paper pieced, and colored)
Kathy Davis patterned paper
Tanya Stilwell tattered leaves
My Creative Time Doily die and Fiskar sentiments

Recipe
LoveBug Creations Rumple Ribbon - new green color (ink distressed)
LoveBug Creations Mama's Rose (pink rose streaked with pink stickles with a base stem of a David Tutera decorative straw that I inked)
 My Creative Time Dies
Several different patterned papers and Fiskar sentiments


Hi Every-Buggy!!!
Weren't Mama's tags amazing??? Love them!! And they are even prettier in person!!!
So on to my "Celebrations"
I chose Spring in general for my 1st project! I'm hoping this will convince Mother Nature to send some warmer temps our way!! (yes it snowed again today!)

Full Project

 

Close Up of Vase

Close up of Peach Blossom Rumple Ribbon Flower

 

Products used:

Lovebug Creations: All 6 New Rumple Ribbons plus White Beautiful Blooms

Lawn Fawn Papers: Hello Sunshine & Let's Polka

Vase from Silhouette Store: Jamie Lane Designs

Jaded Blossom: Smell The Flowers Sentiment Stamps and Mini Tag Dies

Paper Straws

Greenery from dollar store

 

And for my second project I made a card for the most important woman in my life:

Mama Lovebug!!

I know Mother's Day is a ways away (May 11...It's also my son's 7th birthday!) but I figured Mother's Day is a fabulous Spring Holiday and this way I'm ahead of the game for once :)

Products used:

Lovebug Creations: Ivory Mama's Mesh & Mama's Roses in White

Jaded Blossom: Mother's Day Sentiment Set

Pearls

Cuttlebug

Silhouette shapes

CS from Recollections

 

 

How about some delicious LBC Blog Candy!
LoveBug Creations is offering a $10 gift certificate to our online store and several other items as well.

What do you have to do to be a possible winner?

1.  Become a follower of each crafter (if you're not already)

2. Leave a love note at each blog spot with your contact info

3. For one extra chance to win like our Facebook Page and leave a comment at

LoveBug Creations

4. Check back on Wednesday for the announcement of the winners

The full spring line up is:

1. Kimi & Pamela: http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/  HERE

2. Stephanie: http://www.stephanie-eaken.blogspot.com/  NEXT

3. Dawn Mercedes: http://dawnmercedes.blogspot.com/

4. Connie: http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com/

5.  Katie: http://www.craftykhandy.blogspot.com/

6. Tanya: http://scrappinkymomma.blogspot.com/

7.  Kristi: http://littlepapersprinkles.blogspot.com/

8.  Christine: http://scarletcalliope.wordpress.com/

9.  Kathy: http://kathyand3kids.blogspot.com/ 

10. Stacey: http://staceyscreativecorner.blogspot.com/

We hope you enjoyed your visit and wish you happy spring celebrations!  Remember no matter how you bundle your blooms, rumple your ribbon, and piece your paper, have fun with it..........cyberspring.......Kimi and Mama!!

The next blog spot on this spring tour is the talented Stephanie

Happy Birthday, Connie!! ♥

Happy Birthday, Connie!!!!

 

It's time for another Lovebug Creations CT Member Birthday and we have a few fun projects to share

in honor of Connie's Big Day!

She's such a joy to have on our team so we hope she loves these as much as we loved making them!!!!

 

Mama Lovebug

 

 

Kimi

 

 

 Stacey

 

 

Stephanie

 

Katie

 

 Christine

 

 

Lucky You! Lucky Me! - New LBC Rumple Ribbon Collection

Mama LoveBug here with some fun ways to use 

LoveBug Creations new Rumple Ribbon collection - 

I loved working with Shamrock, Fool's Gold, and Simply Black.  

First of all, I know treat containers and treat holders are always a hit with crafters and even though I have a Cameo I still enjoy using a 6 x 6 piece of paper, scoring it, housing a candy bar (I used a Kit Kat), and then after adhering with double-sided tape, I got out my crimper for the edges!  "I'm crimping, I'm cutting" was a little song I made up doing this with my granddaughter, Savannah - we had so much fun!  It wouldn't have been the same by just using a machine.  After assembling the candy bar packet, I used

  LoveBug Creations new Rumple Ribbon - Shamrock for the top bow and a strip of Simply Black running underneath the shamrocks in the center for that extra touch - 

The darling hippo was from the Silhouette store and the sentiment and shamrock dies are from Jaded Blossom.

For my next two projects I designed The Tag - The New Greeting Card.  These tags both have a Julie Nutting paper doll - the first is using a stencil (and a matte look) and the second is a stamp (and a shinier, sparkle look).  Lots of details for these tags make them worthy of being on display so ink your edges, cut your paper, stamp and/or cut out your focal points, arrange the elements, and don't forget to use 

LoveBug Creations new Rumple Ribbon - Shamrock, Fool's Gold, and Simply Black!!

Additional elements used on these tags were cute hippo and darling bear from the Silhouette store, Jaded Blossom dies, a candy heart die, straws, stars, and some bling.

One further note -on the second tag I used a LoveBug Creations Beautiful Bloom for more texture and interest - remember it's the little touches that add so very much to your handmade creations!!

Hi Every-buggy!!!!

Kimi here to share my two projects with you!!

I wanted to make some St. Patty's Day Treats and I love how they turned out!!!

So here's the first one: A Yummy Pot Of Gold

 

For this one I used the following:

Lovebug Creations: Lucky You - Lucky Me Collection

Jaded Blossom- Lucky Charm Stamp Set & Mini Tag Dies

CS from my Stash

SVG file from Silhouette Store for the Pot

 

 

And here's my 2nd project: A Yummy Treat Bag

 

For This I used the following:

Lovebug Creations: Lucky You - Lucky Me Collection

Jaded Blossom- Lucky Charm Stamp Set, Mini Tag Dies & Clear Purses

 

 

 

 

AND Lucky you....There's a sale going on starting today and going til Monday!!! Save 25% on ANY purchase by using coupon code- LUCKY (all capital letters!) at check-out!!! Click here for some Happy shopping!!!

A Little Love To Share ♥

Hi everyone!!!

I wanted to share a couple Valentine cards I made this weekend!

I wanted to show off some of the NEW Lovebug Creations Beautiful Blooms, New Rumple Ribbon Colors

and New Grunge Ribbons! Plus I have had my Sketch Pens for the Cameo for a year now and haven't used them so I figured lets go for it!!!

So here they are! I love how they turned out!!

What I used

NEW-Lovebug Creations Beautiful Blooms (Kisses Little)

NEW-Lovebug Creations Rumple Ribbon Jaded

NEW-Lovebug Creations Rumple Ribbon Hugs

Jaded Blossom Mini Tag Die

Jaded Blossom: Simple Sayings Valentine Edition

SVGCuttingFiles: I Pick You

CS from my stash

Cameo Sketch Pens

What I used

NEW-Lovebug Creations Beautiful Blooms (Crushed Little)

NEW-Lovebug Creations Rumple Ribbon "I Love Grunge"

Jaded Blossom Mini Tag Die

Jaded Blossom: Simple Sayings Valentine Edition

SVGCuttingFiles: I Pick You

CS from my stash

Cameo Sketch Pens

Hope you enjoyed my cards! They were so much fun to make!!!!

And how fabulous all the products worked together wonderfully!!!

Bug hugs,

Kimi

Wednesday Awesome-ness with Kathy, Stephanie, Katie & Christine ♥

Kathy

Happy Wednesday Lovebug Friends!

 

It's Kathy, from Kathy and Kids, and today I am sharing with you a card that features the new "Kisses" Rumple Ribbon.

 

 

Stop by my blog for all the details.  Thanks for stopping by!

Stephanie

Hey y'all! Stephanie here.

It's another snowy Wednesday around my neck of the woods. We are all starting to feel cabin fever set in and are craving Spring!!

Today I want to share this cute hair clip I made for my daughter. To me it feels fresh & spring-like.

  I used the newest sheer ribbon, "Crushed" from the Loves Me...Loves Me Knot collection. I topped the ribbon flower off with a new Beautiful Bloom! Love these fabulous flowers! They are so fun to add to a project. You can read more about this hair clip over at my blog.

Have a great Hump day!!

Katie

A sale on #10 red envelopes means a new size card.  And my go to product is always Rumple Ribbon!!  This time in 'On the Edge'
I love how this turned out and that 'menu' style will be great to add little notes to someone special once in a while.  Hop over to the blog for details or the video link.

Christine

Hi, it's Christine, sneaking in a project that I created using one of the beautiful new colors of Rumple Ribbon that were released last weekend during the Valentine Loves Me, Loves Me Knot Blog Hop.

Come over to the Scarlet Calliope Blog to see what I made and find out what color I used!

xo,

Christine

Loves Me... Loves Me Knot Blog Hop ♥

Hello Everybuggie!  Welcome to LoveBug Creations’ Love’s Me... Love’s Me Knot Blog Hop and New Release Event! 

Since we primarily sell ribbon, a knot is very important! It's what ties the bow in place and it's love that we share with others that ties us together.

We are so excited to share with you our new products that center around love.  With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, you might be planning some projects to demonstrate love for family, friends, co-workers, neighbors – the sky’s the limit with love!!

The New Love Products

1. Rumple Ribbon- The Loves Me...Love Me Knot Collection:

2. I Love Grunge

3. Simply Sheer

4. Beautiful Blooms

5. It's a Bundle, Baby!!!

This weekend ONLY we are offering our

"It's a Bundle, Baby" 
for $35!!!
What's included you ask?
Everything you see above (45 Yards of Ribbon & 18 Blooms) + 1 yard of Mesh (either White, Pinkish/Purple, Red or Black) + Free Shipping! 
It's a Bundle, Baby!!! :)

Project Love -
Mama LoveBug here - I have two projects to share for our LBC New Release Hop

The first is a 3-D double-sided stand-up card, which can be used for a table decoration at a Love Event; our CT Connie got me thinking about penguins and I found this little gal in the Cameo store from Stinkin' Cute - and she is just that; I used two new LBC products after cutting and gel-pen accenting her:
1. Simply Sheer - just the kiss of pink for my little penguin
2. Beautiful Blooms - the large one in kisses and added a tiny pearl to its center
She's all blinged up and ready to reign over a Valentine celebration!!

My second project is a Valentine Tag, but not just any old tag - this is a Julie Nutting doll stamp and thanks to CT Dawn Rene, I am a huge fan of this stamp. I think the "Tag is the New Greeting Card" - what do you think??

I stamped her twice, once on Tim Holtz glassine paper for the body and once on some colorful Kathy Davis paper for the dress, ruffle, and headband.  I have a ribbon die that has strips of pink twine threaded through and I topped the center with new products

1. LBC Beautiful Blooms in Envious - a small one

2. Mama's Mesh (along the right side of the tag)

and a few other items like the heart border stamp and cut out hearts

BTW - the Beautiful Blooms make a wonderful addition to any project - they are light-weight so they can be used as a paper embellishment; they are shiny, they come in 3 different sizes and 6 different colors, and they can accommodate additional bling - perfect for centers on ribbon or other textures; and they're lots of fun to play with!!  I am sure you want your Valentine projects to be extra-special and these new products and colors can take your imagination to the next level!

Hi everyone!!!

It's Kimi!!!

I hope you enjoy the hop!!! Weren't Mama Lovebugs projects super awesome??

LOVE IT!

Ok for my project I wanted to do something I've never done!

SCARY!!!

So here goes nothing....

I got this sign at a garage sale years ago for 25 cents

so I decided I would take it and turn it into this:

I used the White Mama's Mesh and a Kisses Beautiful Bloom (Large) here on the top:

To dot the "i" I used a small Kisses Beautiful Bloom!!

And for the bottom corner I used a Medium Kisses Beautiful Bloom and the gorgeous "I Love Grunge" Rumple Ribbon to make a fun ribbon flower!!!

I also used:

-Digital Paper 

-The wording is a Silhouette Store File

-Simply White Rumple Ribbon (along the bottom)

-White paint

-Pink paint

-Helmar Crackle Medium

So now it's time to hop along...Here's the full line-up in case you get lost!!!!!

Kimi & Pamela- http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com (here)

Stacey- http://staceyscreativecorner.blogspot.com (Next)

Dorcas- http://www.craftycardangel.com

Zeni- http://www.scrappyzeni.com

Stephanie- http://stephanie-eaken.blogspot.com

Tanya- http://www.scrappinkymomma.blogspot.com/

Kristi- http://littlepapersprinkles.blogspot.com

Connie- http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com

Dawn Mercedes- http://dawnmercedes.blogspot.com

Katie- http://www.craftykhandy.blogspot.com

Christine- http://scarletcalliope.wordpress.com

Kathy- http://kathyand3kids.blogspot.com

Dawn Rene- http://designsbydawnrene.com

Remember, no matter how you bundle your blooms, rumple your ribbon, and piece your paper..........have fun with it...........cyberloveknot from Kimi and Mama LoveBug

And now let the love take you to the talented Stacey