5th Anniversary Blog Hop

Welcome to Jo's Scrap Shack's 5th blogaversary birthday celebration hop! In honor of celebrating 5 wonderful years, Jo has an amazing two day blog hop lined up with 19 talented designers, several sponsors, some of which are among the top companies in the industry and lots of blog candy! So share this news with your crafty friends, grab your favorite beverage and hop along with us! If you want to start at the beginning of the hop, go visit Jo's Scrap Shack. But you should have come from Lisa's blog and if you did, you are right on track with the hop!  
Our theme is "Birthday" and we have prizes!!  We have several sponsors and some of the hops will have blog candy as well.  Here is the list of prizes you can win:

Jo's Scrap Shack- Prize: Mystery Craft Box ($40 value), &  A Guest Designer Spotlight

Lawn Fawn - Prize: 1 stamp set and a 6x6 paper pad

The Cutting Cafe- Prize: The Orange You Cute Kit to one winner (Must be a U.S. winner)

Little Blue Button Stamps- Prize:  $15 gift certificate

Bugaboo- Prize:  $30 gift certificate

Really Reasonable Ribbon- Prize: $10 gift certificate

Sunny Studio Stamps- Prize: (2) $20 gift certificates

Shemakes.club- Prize: 1 month membership

IMPORTANT:

In order to be eligible to win the prizes, you need to leave a comment on each blog AND become a follower of each blog.  You have until Monday, May 8th to leave your comments and the winner will be announced on Jo's blog on Tuesday the 9th.

With all the details out of the way, here's my project.  I created a little gift bag and card combo for my husband's Step-Grandmother who's birthday is also this week.   Sit back and relax because this post is photo heavy!  I bought her this handmade goat's milk soap from a local farm.  Can you see all that lavender seed goodness on the top!?

Specially when I am giving a small gift, I really like to create some pretty packaging to go along with, so I made this cute little gift bag that is just the right size to hold the bar of soap.

Here is the closeup of the tag.  I recruited my oldest daughter to help with the flowers.  She punched out all the layers and then I showed her how to crumble them up until the fibers break down and you can separate the card stock into two layers.  It saved me a lot of time!!  Unfortunately, the photo doesn't show all 8 lovely, crumpled layers, but it is bit an fluffy.

And, of course, I had to make a coordinating birthday card.  My daughter also punched and crumbled the layers for this one.  The white definitely shows better in the pictures.

Because of the square shape of the card, I had to make my own envelope with my envelope punch board and I lightly stamped the image that goes with the leaf die I used on the card.

I used a small image from the same set to decorate the inside of the card, too:

And here is the picture of both the bag and card together:

 

Phew!!  You made it to the end!  Now you should head off to Megan Elizabeth's blog.  Thanks for stopping by!

Start: Jo's Scrap Shack 

​Angie- Angie's Craft Fusion

Sherrie- Sherrie Scraps with Passion

Kellie- A Little Bit of Kellie

Janis- Pause, Dream, Enjoy

Christine- With a Grateful Heart

Monica- Bernstine Creations

Alpna- Feelings

Lisa- A Mermaid's Crafts

Heather- Wire Wrapture

End: Megan Elizabeth- Above Rubies Studio

Supplies:
Stamps: PTI "Mat Stack 3" and "Turning a New Leaf"
Dies: PTI "Mat Stack 3" and "Turning a New Leaf" and "Big Birthday Wishes"; Verve "Sprightly Sprigs" and "Flag It" banner; and Spellbinders "Fleur Di Lis Sqaures"

Challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge #193--embossing (I heat embossed the sentiment on the card)
Crazy 4 Challenges #383--music
Come And Get It--make it square
Unicorn Challenge #21--special occasion (blog anniversary AND birthday)
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper--anything goes with patterned paper
Creative with Stamps #14--flowers

Crafting By Designs--anything goes
The Paper Shelter #292--flowers
Penny's Challenge #327--anything goes
Crafty Creations #340--anything goes
Feeling Sketchy #168--sketch