Southern Girls First Birthday blog hop

Can you believe we are a year old?, and what a fantastic year it has been with the support from all our wonderful sponsors, and to be on the best Design Team anyone could wish for. In celebration of this, we have an amazing bloghop with some of our fantastic regular sponsors giving away fabulous prizes. You should have arrived from Karen's blog http://www.vanillascraps.blogspot.com// , if not, head back to www.southerngirlschallenges.blogspot.com where a full blog hop list is.

I have used some gorgeous papers from Bearly Mine
http://bmd-creations.blogspot.com/
called Delicous Delights. The lovely Donna at Bearly Mine is giving away a £10 Gift Voucher to one lucky lady who: 1 - comments on my blog and 2 - enters the challenge at Southern Girls.

So, to recap.... the rules are simple, make sure you make a card, layout or OTP project and enter on Southern Girls Challenges, also leave me a comment, and on the 31st of September I will draw a random name, that will be a winner of the sponsor that I am showcasing. All prizes on the other design team's blogs will be drawn on the 20th, however I will be overseas til the 29th, so I will draw a winner when i return.

Here are my two layouts that i created using the Delicous Delights paper from Bearly Mine.
I printed out 3 different strawberry designed pieces of paper and have layered them onto white cardstock. I handstitched the border around the edge of the cardstock. Other materials used were Bella flower, prima flourish, card, kaiser die cut, a2Z Scraplet chipboard, kaiser rub ons and pearls. Im reasonably happy with how this layout came together

For this second layout I printed out some of the cherry designed papers, I thought they matched in nicely with the dessert in the photo. I tore these into strips and layered them on top of each other. I also used flourish with a bling pearls, Kaiser wood butterfly, leaves, Bella flower, Kaiser diecuts and arrow and American craft thickers. I thought this page might have looked a bit busy, but I reckon it turned out okay.

Now head on over to Sue's blog http://patriciasue.blogspot.com/ , have fun......