BugBites: Imagine Better Together

Welcome to the Frosted Designs Ice cream on the Beach Blog Hop/weekly challenge and 1st Anniversary.

if you are coming over from Krissinia you're in the right spot. if you just stopped by and want to start from the beginning, click here.

For my blog hop project, I challenged myself to include:

Blog Hop theme - Ice Cream on the Beach

Challenge theme - Ribbon/fancy/trim,charm,rhinestone/pearls for this week

Birthday theme - to celebrate Frosted Designs 1st Birthday.

Phew- that was a challenge to get all this into one little card.

I was asked recently...

What size LO do you prefer or do you prefer cards.

My Answer: Prefer cards
Yup- seems that is my go to project type lately since it can be quick.

Now for the project this week....

I came up with my little swimmer who just got out of the water and now is looking to see what direction to go for ice cream. Not only does he see the sign for ice cream, he is wished a Happy Birthday and stumbles along a treasure of oyster shells filled with pearls.

I used several cartridges for this card....
H2O for the swimmer and sun
Pooh and Friends for the sign
Sponge Bob, Square Pants for the fish
Birthday Bash for the ice cream cone
Life's a Beach for the crab
Stretch Your Imagination for the shells
Imagine cartridge Better Together for the blue paper background

I think this is a record of carts used on one project for me.

I added some lace at the waters edge to look like white caps on the water. Added some pearls inside the oyster shells, google eyes on the crab, some brads on the signs that look like screws, and a charm I found of a flipper and swim goggles.

I added glossy accents to the swim mask and flippers on my swimmer.

Finally, I used the Swiss Dots and Divine Swirls embossing folders for the sandy beach
I used several stamps--MPS More Punny-licious, Scrappy Moms Kids Incorpated, and PKS Boy Mates Face stamp sets.

Now we can't have a blog hop without some Blog Candy.

************BLOG CANDY************

Become or be a follower of BugBites
Leave a comment on this post with a way to contact you should you win

and you will have a chance to win the
My Pink Stamper More Punny-licious stamp set
that I used on this card.

I will draw and announce one lucky winner on July 12.

Now, Frosted Designs also has some Blog candy. So check out the Blog Hop post to see how to win and how to post a project for this weeks challenge.

Your Next Stop is Erin

Here is the whole line up in case you get lost along the way

Barb http://www.barbcraft.blogspot.com/

Diana http://itsmylifeandimscrappingit.blogspot.com/

Lori http://www.scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/

Andrea http://www.scrapality.com/

Kissinia http://kissinia.blogspot.com/

Barb O. http://bugbites411.blogspot.com/- your here

Erin http://scraps-of-reflections.blogspot.com/-your next stop

Amanda http://www.whiteruffles.blogspot.com/

Lydia http://www.kiwimumscraps.blogspot.com/

Ann http://annsnovemberrose.blogspot.com/