Happy Birthday Tara Blog Hop

SO it is the Creative Accents Seriously Creative Design Teams Fabulous leader Tara's birthday!!! And her faithfull DT and a few of her good customers have organized this little Surprise Birthday Bash Blog hop to show her how much we appreciate all she does for us and well... just to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY TARA!!! We've all got a special creation/greeting for her so hop along and check our creations out, leave us some love if you like, but please leave Tara a Happy Birthday message at the Creative Accents site (last stop on the hop). OK! So this is the starting point....and here is my card.

Tara and I share a passion for GOOOOOOOD Coffee and all stamps related to such a thing. :o) so collectively....we have an AMAZING stamp collection!! LOL

My card is made with the Hero Arts Coffee mug stamp, and the sentiment is from Skipping Stones. My FAB papers are from My Minds Eye. Hope you and she likes!! :o)

Now, your next stop along the way is the FABULOUS Janet (and I think Barb) one of the DT's greatest fans, I know I allways enjoy her company in my classes and her insight on my cards. Thanks Janet!! If you get lost along the way, the order of the hop is as so, feel free to hop back here and use my links if you need too.

Cheri (that's me!!)

Janet

Chris

Sarah

Teila

Carla

Eulanda

Tanya

Creative Accents (Last stop!!)

Thanks for joining us on Tara's Surprise Birthday Hop!!

Happy Birthday Tara!!!

DT Stuff and a Challenge

So, this cute little water scene!! Tara over at Creative Accents (my fav little scrapbook store) has asked me to work some Hero Art images so I've borrowed a couple neat stamp sets from Hero and this is my first creation. Also, the challenge over at Staptacular Sunday (you know, where I'll be playing as a DT soon!!!) is to create a scene!

So now for a few details  I love fish... I dont know why as my OCD will not allow me to swim in any deeper water where I cant see my feet....afraid of the unknown and well... lack of control. Anyhow.. I digress.  I've been wanting to do more with just inking, so I inked up this background...it could be better but not bad for a first attempt. I stamped and played a bit with the shells at the bottom, one I've done with some Smooch, but I didn't realize I'd bought a translucent one...so the other one I used some liquid Pearls on. I stamed the sentiment at the top and then embossed clear over top. the fishies are of course done with my Copics. ;o) and those bubbles... aren't they cool?!?! They're my fav part...well that and the inside bubbles.... anyhow, they are by Bella Baubles (Diamond Ice). They are perfect for bubbles! Can you imagine them in a bathtub?!?! I will get to that yet! LOL More ideas than time....

anyhow!! that's it that's all for now! Thanks for looking!!!