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Effie’s Surprise Birthday Party Blog Hop!

26 Mar

Today is the last day to enter my current giveaways…a Starbucks giveaway to celebrate the Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop and a watercolor giveaway showcasing the awesome Daniel Smith watercolors!  Hope you’ll check them out! ?

Good morning!  I’ve got a special post today!

The design team ladies of The Ton are celebrating Effie’s birthday with a surprise birthday party blog hop!  Effie’s birthday is actually tomorrow but we decided to celebrate a day early!  So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR EFFIE!!  I hope this hop makes you smile!! 🙂

A few days ago I realized that I haven’t made a shaker card in a couple of weeks (the horror!!) so I decided I definitely needed to break out my gorgeous gilding from The Ton in Effie’s honor!  I heat-embossed the Rose Garden cling background stamp with gold tinsel embossing powder and then colored it with zig clean color real brush markers.  I stamped the sentiment from Hey Foxy onto the frame of my shaker and heat-embossed it with gold embossing powder.  I used a variety of red, pink, and clear sequins and red, clear, and gold beads to fill my shaker!  Look at all that sparkly goodness!! 😉  Nobody does sequins and beads like Effie!

Anyway, are you wondering how you can help celebrate Effie’s birthday?!  She’s hosting a challenge for National Craft Month and we’d love to see a ton (no pun intended) of entries come in this weekend!  You can find more details about the challenge here!

And now it’s hop time!  Here are the rest of the stops on the hop!  Head over and see what my crafty friends have created for Effie’s birthday!! 🙂

  • Jess —> YOU ARE HERE!
  • Ruby
  • Mayline
  • Emily
  • Vera
  • Eunji
  • Keeway

Thanks so much for visiting and have a fabulous day!

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  1. Kristie G. says

    March 26, 2016 at 7:51 am

    Gorgeous shaker for Effie!!! LOVE!!!

    Reply
  2. Lou Wittmer says

    March 26, 2016 at 8:37 am

    Happy Birthday Effie! Such fun…..bring on the cake!

    Reply
  3. janet says

    March 26, 2016 at 10:14 am

    Happy Birthday Effie! Enjoy all your wonderful cards 🙂

    Reply
  4. Suzanne Moore says

    March 26, 2016 at 10:18 am

    Happy Birthday, Miss Effie!!!!!!!!!!! Gorgeous card, Jessica!

    Reply
  5. Harriet says

    March 26, 2016 at 10:58 am

    Lovely card. The roses behind the shaker area are beautiful.

    Reply
  6. Jennifer Spiller says

    March 26, 2016 at 11:10 am

    Beautiful shaker card! Love the gold and red such a pretty color combo? And Happy Birthday to Effie

    Reply
  7. Yvonne says

    March 26, 2016 at 11:45 am

    The card is absolutely gorgeous! I love it! Happy Birthday Effie!

    Reply
  8. ~amy~ says

    March 26, 2016 at 12:52 pm

    Gorgeous card…love that shaker!

    Reply
  9. LauraJane:) says

    March 26, 2016 at 1:54 pm

    LOVE the all RED sequins and beads!

    Reply
  10. Lynne Ingram says

    March 26, 2016 at 3:22 pm

    Happy Birthday Effie. Mine is today.

    Reply
  11. Patt H. says

    March 26, 2016 at 3:51 pm

    An absolutely STUNNING shaker card! Just makes me happy looking at it. Happy Birthday, Effie!

    Reply
  12. Helen Gullett says

    March 26, 2016 at 6:50 pm

    Wow! This card is stunning, gorgeous and fun! Love everything on it!

    Reply
  13. glow:) says

    March 26, 2016 at 9:05 pm

    sweet ! Jess… Love your style… so pretty and shining:) thanks for always sharing such gr8 artistic work:)

    Reply
  14. Lisaerica says

    March 26, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    Hey Jess, yes the horror, I was going with withdrawals, lol. It’s gorgeous, thanks for breaking out the beads! Thanks for sharing and inspiring. Happy Birthday Effie!

    Reply
  15. Sue D says

    March 26, 2016 at 10:10 pm

    Wow–that’s gorgeous!

    Reply
  16. Denise Bryant says

    March 27, 2016 at 1:33 am

    Gorgeous card! Happy Birthday to Effie!

    Reply
  17. Jeanne Jordan says

    March 27, 2016 at 10:44 am

    Wonderful card for Effie’s birthday. She’s sweet and her friends are lucky to have her!

    Reply
  18. Karen Letchworth says

    March 27, 2016 at 6:40 pm

    This is lovely, Jessica. Great way to celebrate her birthday. Thanks for taking part.
    Karen
    http://www.karen-mycuprunnethover.blogspot.com

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  19. Arianna Barbara says

    March 28, 2016 at 11:03 am

    Happy Birthday, Effie! Wow! Great card!

    Reply
  20. Ericka Strange says

    March 28, 2016 at 11:06 pm

    Happy birthday Effie! Beautiful card Jess, love the bright colors and the shaker!

    Reply
  21. Melissa Friedrich says

    March 29, 2016 at 7:51 pm

    Oh so beautiful, love this elegant shaker card!

    Reply

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