Glitter Explosion Blog Hop

Welcome to the Glitter Explosion Blog hop
and Shades of Green Challenge Entry

Thank you to Yolie for inviting me to participate in today's blog hop. I am joined by a whole line up of wonderful crafty people that will amaze you with their creations. Today is a special day for me because its MY BIRTHDAY!!! So I was even more exciting to do this hop.

What better to celebrate than a fun birthday card. Here is what I came up with:

I literally created a GLITTER EXPLOSION for the bacground of this fabulous stamp. I am not very good at coloring images, so for a while I stayed away from stamps, I tried and tried but my coloring looked like it was done by a 5 year old. My friend CELY (who is just AMAZING with copics) pointed me to Dustin Pike's blog who has beautifully colored digital stamps. Now I can make fabulous looking cards that look like I colored them, but in reality is all the great work of Dustin. Since it's also mostly green I am also entering it in his current challenge SHADES OF GREEN check it out on his blog.

Card Details: I used Bazzil texture cardstock for the background, this is a very shinny and sparkly paper that is a little hard to appreciate on the photo, but it's totally SHINY!. It was embossed using the happy bday folder. The above stamp is a past freebie from Dustin's site, I printed it twice and cut only the dragon and raised it using pop dots, love those little dots!! It's is also hard to tell but I just glitter the heck out of that cute little dragon, there is glitter on his belly, his horns, his paws, the cake and all over the ballons and presents.  The background looked a little too simple so I used my markers and just dotted it and then dotted it again with stickles.... then I just dabbed each of the stickle dots to create the EXPLOSION effect neat ha!!  I did more stickle dots on the top and bottom and stickled the word birthday (can you tell I really like stickles!!)  I then topped it off with some cute little buttons.

Now time for you to hop on over to another wonderful and glittery creation. Your next stop is:

A N G I E

If you came directly here and you wan to start this hop from the beginning or just wanna do it again, because it was sooo much fun :-) here is the line up:

Yolie – http://www.justyolie.com/

Gaby – http://www.gabycreates.com/

Lenea - http://sugargemscrafts.blogspot.com/

Xochitl - http://cricutcritter.blogspot.com/   <-------- You are HERE

Angie - http://angie-scrappinmemories.blogspot.com/

Ann - http://annlenth.blogspot.com/

Mari - http://mariaschulz.blogspot.com/

Debbi - http://www.scrappingmamma.net/

Sherry - http://patternsbysher.blogspot.com/

Tammy - http://tammyjennings.blogspot.com/

Melin - http://papercraftingworld.blogspot.com/

Celeste - http://www.touchedbyabutterfly.blogspot.com/
John - http://meyer-imports.typepad.com/

Hope you have a wonderful day!