Surprise!!

Hi there!!

I'm so very excited to be writing to you today, because it's a very SPECIAL day. Today is Joy Taylor's birthday!!! :)

A little while ago Joy and I were discussing how as December babies (my birthday is just after Christmas), our birthdays tend to be a bit of a non-event. Everyone is so exhausted after Christmas or gearing up for New Years (or both!) birthdays in December have a nasty habit of either being forgotten, blended with christmas (anyone born this month will be nodding I'm sure) or just generally minimised. (Not that we're complaining lol)

Anyhoo, after our talk I thought it would be nice to make a *bit* of a fuss over this lovely lady and so, I contacted some of Joy's favourite artists and twitter friends to do a bit of a blog hop in honour of her birthday. 

Here is the list of gorgeous (and may I say UBER talented) ladies who I'm honoured to be hopping with;

Linda <<---that's me!
Jennifer
Mary Dawn
Latrice
Laurel
Britta
Jill
Kathy
Danielle
Chari

If at any point during the hop you get lost or encounter a broken link, please come back to my blog for the whole list :)

And on with the card!

Very simple, I used distress stains on the stamp which I spritzed with water before stamping. Then I added the Papertrey Ink diecut Dress form.
Next I stamped the sentiment on a strip of My Minds Eye paper, added some twine and adhered it all to the notecard on top of a doily which I trimmed the edge off.

Finally (in true Joy Taylor style), I added some bling :)

Here are the products I used:

InLinkz.com

Hope you enjoyed!

Please hop along with me to the amazingly giving, super talented Jennifer McGuire's blog to see what magic she has whipped up!

Thanks so much for stopping by and 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOY!!! XXX

Linda xx