Birthday Wishes with a Chipboard Canvas on a Wooden Frame

Happy Birthday to someone special, Happy Birthday to you!  Mama LoveBug here with something new for me - a chipboard canvas which I mounted on a wooden frame.

LoveBug Creations Mama's Mesh in a rich chocolate brown and a green Mama's Rose sprayed with Heidi Swapp glimmery green for texture and shine HERE
PaperFlirations handmade flower.........love this Tanya!! STORE
Chipboard with a base coat of gesso and Ranger crackle paint on a Tim Holtz stencil
A lovely sentiment from my stash
A straw for a flower stem
Wooden frame
A flapper stamp

Make someone happy with your crafty skills.............remember no matter how you bunch your blooms, rumple your ribbon, and piece your paper, have fun with it.........cyberbirthday blessings..........Mama LoveBug

Mama LoveBug's Mama - It's Your Birthday!!

It's your birthday, mama and so happy you are celebrating 92 years of living!!  

This is Mama LoveBug here today to say............Happy Birthday to my Mama!!

Mama's Rose and Peach Blossom from the Southern Sass LoveBug Creations Rumple Ribbon HERE
 are two of the ingredients in my tag greeting card in a box - mine has magnets on the back so it will adhere to a mirror for my mom!!

Add to this a straw, a big SVG flower, some lovely sentiments, and a paper doll (Janie's Dolls from Paper Wishes) and lots of love for Mom.

When I was a very little girl my mom introduced me to the joys of paper dolls - we would spend lots of time cutting them out by hand and dressing them up.  My long-standing love for all things paper doll has grown from that.  For this doll I stamped her three times to get the skin tone, the dress, and the hair from various papers and then I pieced her together.  When the project was finished, I sprayed it with Goosebumps Shimmer Spray for some sparkle and shine.  I added the magnet to the back and voila - my project for today.

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

Stephanie's Gorgeous Layout & Katie's Terrific Journal ♥

Hey Lovebug friends! Happy Wednesday! I hope you're week is going well. These Spring days are slipping by so quickly.

Here is a layout I created using Lovebug Creations' Rumple Ribbon and a Mama's Rose!

I used "Blue Bells" from the Gardens of Tara collection on my tag and a Mama's Rose in green. They are so gorgeous and fun to create with!! You can read more about this layout on my blog.

Thanks for letting me share!

 

Katie

The traveling journal has come around again... this time, the owner wants us to use words that inspire our art... so I did.  On the bottom a few quotes on the waterfall, which I cut to allow all three to be seen at the same time

I needed to hide the 'seam' of the waterfall and what better than Rumple Ribbon in Sunset?  Once in a while I do a project without Lovebugs Rumple, but it never looks as finished.  This really brought the whole piece together.  To add some movement, I put in a lot (A LOT) of brads in different finishes.

Here is a close up of the little canvas I made for my 'art'.

 

Craftin' and Stampin' 3 Year Bloggerversary Blog Hop ♥

Hey All!!

 

 

Welcome to the Craftin' and Stampin' 3 Year Bloggerversary Hop!!

You should of arrived here from Crazy About Cricut, but if you did not, please start at the beginning at JESSICA'S BLOG!!!

This hop is going to be a weekend long hop with a TON of inspiration from some of Jessica's blog friends she has met over the last 3 years in bloggy land!!

You will also have the chance to win some AMAZING items from some really amazing Sponsors!

 Craftin' and Stampin Close To My Heart Online Store-Jessica

1 Pack of B and T Duo Paper

1 package of BLING!! 

The Cutting Cafe-Regina Easter 2 Cutting Files of the winners choice!

Craftin Desert Diva's- Tara Bruening 

1 Stamp Set

My Vinyl Direct

12 X 12 Pick A Pack of 12 sheets of vinyl

 

Trendy Twine-Leslie

1 Package of Mini Twine

Lovebug Creations- Kimi 1 Bahama Mama Collection of Rumple Ribbon
Now that you know the AMAZING prizes, its time to HOP to see some AWESOME creations!!!
Jessica is such a sweetheart and I'm so glad to have gotten to know her! Her blog is always filled with amazing-ness...in fact... 3 years worth! She's super talented and I couldn't be happier that she asked me to join her to celebrate this achievement!   Here's my project!!! I made a 3d Box and tag to go inside it! I got a chance to head over to Mama Lovebug's Studio and play around with her craft supplies!
She was an immense help in this project! I've never made something like this before but I enjoyed it and LOVE how it turned out!!

 

 

Products used:

Lovebug Creations: Mama's Mesh (white but misted to change the color!)

Dahila Rumple Ribbon 

 Mama's Roses:White

 

Crafter's Companion Frou-Frou Stamps

Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Vintage Photo

David Tutera Paper Straw

Dies from MCT

Julie Nutting Tag Pad

Goosebumps Spray: Shimmer

SU Butterfly Punch

Pearls

 

Now, its time to hop on over to Anita!
In order to be eligible to win an AWESOME prize from hopping along with us, you MUST do the following:
1) Follow ALL blog hop participants blogs! 2) Follow ALL Facebook pages for our Sponsors! 3) Comment on all stops of the hop!
Winner will be picked on Tuesday's blog post! 
Here is the lineup in case you get lost along the way! Day 1 1.Jessica: http://craftinandstampin.blogspot.com
2. Angela: http://www.crazy3monkeys.blogspot.com/
3.Sarah: www.sarahbiswabic.blogspot.com
4. Gina - http://californiascrappin-gcinderella21.blogspot.com/
5. Tara: http://www.craftindesertdivas.com/
6. Beth ~ http://thecraftyscrapyard.blogspot.com
7. Jenny: http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/   8. Kimi: http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com
9. Anita: http://scrappyhappymommy.blogspot.ca

Day 2 
1. Jessica https://craftinandstampin.blogspot.com
2. Angela: http://www.crazy3monkeys.blogspot.com/
3. Krystle: http://krystlescraftyniche.blogspot.com
4. Scrappin Madge: http://www.thescrappinlounge.com/
5. Cathy http://mimiscraftcorner.blogspot.com
6.Jenny: http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/
7. Alicia:  http://goldengoddessdesigns.blogspot.com
8. Melanie: http://afternoonscrapper.blogspot.com/
Thanks so much for hopping along with us!!! 

 

 

 

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