Hello Doodle Fans!

I am excited to be participating in a very special Birthday Bash Blog Hop starting today, Thursday, January 24th, 2019 and ending at 11:59pm EST on Sunday, January 27, 2019! The Designing Divas, several members of the talented White Rose Crafts design team and I, will be creating extra special Birthday Themed Shaker Cards for the hop today!

For a limited time, you have the opportunity to receive an exclusive, 1st Birthday Freebie Sparkle Blend–only available, while supplies last, with purchase over at White Rose Crafts!

Don’t worry, though–Amber has reserved 6 of these freebie blends to give away on Monday, after the hop ends! 5 of those 1st Birthday Blends will go to 5 lucky winners, as Door Prizes, who leave comments on each of the Blog Stops. The more comments you leave, the more entries you get! For our Grand Prize this month, one lucky winner will receive the full February Release (before it’s revealed), plus a full sized Birthday Freebie Blend! Thats 7 full sized sparkle blends! To be eligible to win the grand prize, you must leave comments on all legs of the blog hop.

Rules: Must be at least 18 to enter. All entries must be received no later than 11:59pm Eastern Time on Sunday, January 27, 2019. To enter, you must leave comments on each leg of the blog hop. There will be one Grand Prize winner and and 5 Door Prize winners drawn from all eligible commenters on Monday, January 28, 2019. Winners will be announced here on the blog, and on the Doodles Paper Playground Facebook page. Winners will have 48 hours to email their mailing addresses to doodlespaperplayground@gmail.com, to claim their prize. Prizes not claimed within that 48 hour window will be redrawn. This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed or affiliated with Facebook or any of its entities. All prizes furnished by Doodles Paper Playground or White Rose Crafts.

As an added bonus, White Rose Crafts will be offering Free Shipping all weekend to correspond with the Blog Hop, so if you’ve had your eye on any of the limited edition Sparkle Blends from our previous releases, now is the time to buy before they sell out and are gone for good!

For my project today, I started with Wild Rose Studio’s Harvest Mice.  I had this funny thought, that went something like, it is a birthday, and a hop, why not have a hoppy birthday.  However, there weren’t any particular themed beer stamps that I wanted to use, and thought, beer comes from wheat…mice on wheat are cute…bam…done!!!  So I colored up the image with my copics and fussy cut it out.

Then I built my shaker element, using some LemonCraft Daydream Collection paper and foam.  I filled my shaker element with Doodle’s Paper Playground’s Bells are Ringing Sparkle Blend Sequins.

I laid the shaker element over some more Daydream paper and added the perfect birthday hop sentiment.  I distressed the paper with a little Wild Honey and Scattered Straw Distress Oxides.  And then using the gold pen from the Kelly Creates Metallic Jeweled Brush Pens I traced over the sentiment and added a few gold dots over the project!

Make sure you continue along the hop.  There are so many great prized being given away.  And of course, Happy Birthday Doodle’s Paper Playground and SparkleBlends Mixes!!!