Kiwi Lane Blog Hop!!!

Good Morning Kiwi Lane fans!! This morning we are all sharing our projects with the Tiny Wacky and Tiny Celebrate Designer Templates. If you are just starting out, please head to the Kiwi Lane Blog and follow along. If you got here from Kristy's Blog, you're on the right track! Make sure to comment along the way, one random winner from ONE of the participating blogs (including the Kiwi Lane blog), will be given a $25 gift certificate to the Kiwi Lane Shop that will be announced on the Kiwi Lane blog on Thursday, April 10TH.

Here's today's lineup:

Kiwi Lane http://kiwilane.com/here/blog/

Gail Owens http://glowormdesigns.blogspot.com
Catherine Povec http://www.tybearsmom.blogspot.com
Jennifer McDermott http://wonkywares.blogspot.com
Kristy Lee http://lifescrapped.blogspot.com
*** Heather Conklin http://goldiecar.blogspot.com/ ***
Misty Buck http://www.mistylynnwhat.blogspot.com/
Jennifer Nicholes http://craftingmoments.wordpress.com/
Barb Rapp http://www.mommaducksblog.blogspot.com/
Christina Steel http://tinasscrapcrap.blogspot.com/

I was lucky enough to work with the very fun Tiny Celebrate Designer Templates. I still had a few birthday photos from my little munchkin that very much needed scrapping, and this was the perfect venue for them. I started with My Girl from American Crafts papers, and my fantastic Tiny Celebrate Designer Templates.

For this layout, I used a January 2 page layout from PageMaps as my base, and like most sketches... I changed up quite a bit of it.

One of my favorite parts of the Tiny Celebrate Designer Templates were these balloon shapes. I really liked that there were two sizes, and I could easily ink and then pop them up with dimensional adhesive. I even tied some twine around each of them in order to make them more like birthday balloons.

The second thing I loved about this set, was this fun pinwheel. Once it was folded, it made the perfect embellishment for the layout. I even used an enamel dot to pin down the edges. 

This layout didn't feature ice cream, so I took the ice cream top, and turned it into clouds. 

Another view of the fun pinwheel from the Tiny Celebrate Designer Templates. 

OH! I cannot forget about the banner! I took the ice cream cone, and cut off the bottom of the triangle to create this adorable banner.

Make sure that you leave a response before 11:59 PM MST on Sunday April 6TH for that $25 gift certificate to the Kiwi Lane Shop. If you become a follower (or already are), I'll pick a commenter at random to win a cute little embellishment pack on Monday! Have fun!!

Now... Head on to my fabulously scrappy friend, Misty Buck http://www.mistylynnwhat.blogspot.com/ to see the amazingness that she has created this morning!

Supplies Used:
Tiny Celebrate Designer Templates, American Crafts My Girl papers, American Crafts & Coredination cardstocks, Twinery twine (Cantaloupe), enamel dots (My Mind's Eye), Lawn Fawn (Quinn's ABC, Quinn's ABC Lawn Cuts), Amy Tangerine stitching template and twine, Tsukineko/ImagineCrafts Radiant Neon Inks