Bar's Birthday Blog Hop (on Bellarific Friday!)

How many of you can say you have a bestest friend who also shares the same passion that you do for a particular hobby? I am lucky enough to have such a friend in Barbara Anders! We both LOVE papercrafting so much, and are each other's cheerleaders day in and day out! So it was only natural for me to honor her today on her birthday with a Birthday Blog Hop!!! I gathered together as many of her stamping friends and fellow design team members today as I could find, and asked them all to help me wish her a very special Happy Birthday! So I hope you'll take the time today to check out the hop list at the end of this post! Or if you want to just hop from blog-to-blog, you can go from here to Broni Holcombe's blog, and keep following the links in each post!

For my birthday card for Bar, my Mavis Builds a Sandcastle image from Stamping Bella was a natural choice (plus today is Bellarific Friday, of course!) If you didn't already know it, Bar is a mommy to eight cats (and I've met them all!) Plus, she just got back from a little trip to Myrtle Beach (where I'm sure she looked just as cute as Mavis in her swimsuit!) so I thought this'd be a perfect card for Bar. Our Bellarific Friday challenge today is a sketch from Paulabella, so I used my new Lime Twist "Happy Go Lucky" papers for my design. The sentiment is computer-generated.

Stop over at Blogabella to check out all the other delicious creations using Paulabella's sketch, and leave a comment while you're there! One lucky commenter can win some Bella Bucks! And then play along with us for next week's challenge... a navy, kraft and green color challenge... for another chance to win!

And if you'd like to check out all the birthday creations today for Bar, here is the complete list...

Tammy Hershberger

Broni Holcombe

Kristin Eberline

Laura Pryor

Kisa Peters

LeAnne Pugliese

Carole Burrage

Betty Wright

Jody Morrow

Makiko Jones

Cindy Haffner

Silke Ledlow

Julie Koerber

Jessie Rone

Frances Byrne

Lynda Benden

Vicki Garrett

Christina Fischer

Jodi Collins

Kim van der Sanden

Taylor Van Bruggen

Kirsty McIntyre

Iwona Palamountain

Wendy Bond

Jessica Diedrich

Lynn Put

Jackie Pedro

Joanne Basile

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BESTEST FRIEND! I HOPE YOUR BIRTHDAY IS AS FABULOUS AS YOU ARE!!!