Happy Birthday Dear You

And it's going to be a very happy birthday/anniversary celebration for Perfect Sentiment Challenge Blog!



Hello and welcome to the first day of our one year birthday/anniversary challenge celebration at the Perfect Sentiment! We have four fun challenges planned for you that we will spread our over the next four days. We have sponsors who have donated generous prizes for each challenge and since we are doing this blog hop style, there are hidden prizes along the way. The good news is you will have 3 full weeks to complete all the challenges and blog hops. There will also be a grand prize that you will be eligible for if you complete all the challenges!

I hope that if you haven't played in our challenges before that you'll do so this time and become a regular follower of my blog and our PSC Blog too.  



This is the first day of the blog hop and the Challenge/Twist: create a card with sentiment for either "Happy Birthday" or "Happy Anniversary" in honor of our one year birthday/anniversary.  Don't forget that you need to have a sentiment on the front of your card.

Here is the card that I created.  Very appropriate don't you think!  

  Materials Used:

• Image - Crafty Sentiments - Blitz with Present
• Sentiment - Stampin Up - Happiest Birthday Wishes - fussy cut by hand
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Brocade Blue; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - My Mind's Eye - Hootenanny
• Ribbon - Stampin Up - Bluebird
• Flowers - Wild Orchid Crafts and Petaloo
• Leaves - Punched from SU Certainly Celery with Martha Stewart Leaf Punch
• Edge Punch - Martha Stewart
• Dies - Classic Circle and Classic Scallop Circle
•  Copic Markers - 0; B0000, B21, B32, B34; E50, E51, E53; R00, R81, R83, R85; Y11, Y21, YG11, YG13, YG25

Today's random winner of the PSC challenge will receive a $9 gift voucher from our fabulous sponsor:

Now, doesn't that get you excited!  So hop on over to the Perfect Sentiment Challenge and see what the rest of the DT have created for your inspiration.   Here is the list of the Design Team.  Start at the top and work your way down.

Jan

Jennipher

Karen

Maggie - you are here!

Molly

Nana Connie

Paula

Vickie

 Just so you'll know, Sam and Cheryl are sitting out this challenge today, so don't expect to see a card for this challenge on their blog, but stop by their blogs anyway to see what they're up to.

Be sure to leave a comment at each blog as there are hidden prizes along the way. Once you are inspired to create, go back to PSC and link up your creation using the inlinkz tool to have a chance at today's prize.

Now, for some more fun news! I've wanted to do have my own celebration for awhile now, but things kept getting in the way and I haven't been able to get it together.  So, in addition to the PSC celebration, I am also celebrating my one-year anniversary of my blog.  It's a little overdue since I started in July of last year.  October is also my birthday month, so this is so appropriate for me to also have a celebration.  So, drum roll please =============   For the PSC blog hop, I will personally be giving away a small stamp or stamp set each of the 4 days.  Here's a photo of what you could win.  If you play in any of the 4 challenges on my blog, in addition to linking up on the PSC challenge blog, please leave a comment on my blog that you were here and were inspired by my card.  That way I'll know who has played and who hasn't from my blog.

 At the end of our blog hop, I will be awarding this Birthday Prize to one lucky winner who plays in all for of my card challenges.  I will have a card posted here on my blog for each of the 4 days.

I think my mouse is possessed tonight.  I was creating a list of the challenges I wanted to submit and my mouse just jumps around on the page and goes where it wants.  It wiped out my whole list.  So here I am redoing it. 

A and T Emerald Fairies - Flowers
Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes
Deep Ocean Challenge - Anything Goes
LEJ Designs - Happy Birthday
Papelitos Challenge - Anything Goes
Sassy Cheryl's - Happy Birthday
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes
Tuesday Alchemy - Anything Goes
Card Mania - Happy Birthday
Lady Anne's Challenges  - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Hip to be Square
Crafty Bloggers - Anything Goes
Forever Friends Fortnightly Challenge - Anything Goes
House of Gilli - Anything Goes
Incy Wincy Designs - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
My Grafico - Anything Goes
The Cutie Pie Challenge - Use a Digi
Victorine Stamps - Lots of Layers
Spark Your Creativity - Anything Goes


That's it for this time.  I'll be back tomorrow with Card No. 2 .  Thanks so much for coming by my blog.  I hope that you'll become a Follower if you're not already and I will reciprocate and become one of your Followers.  I also hope that you have fun with all these challenges this week and will come back and play with us many more times.  Have a blessed week.