Papertrey Paper Dolls Blog Hop

Welcome to the Paper Dolls' First Blog Hop! We are so glad you are joining us today and hope that you will hop along with us as we get to know each other better. Perhaps you can even play along with our challenge!  If your following along with the hop you should have come from Katie's blog!  If not, that's alright I've included a list below to help get you on track!

The theme for this blog hop is:
P T I
We decided to pay tribute to the reason why we are all here in the first place - a love for Papertrey Ink.  Each creation you see along the hop this week will have something that starts with a P, something that starts with a T and something that starts with an I on it.
In addition to viewing wonderful and varied creations, you will be able to read a little bit more about each member of this blog group and get to know all the girls better.
Just for hopping along and leaving comments on our Blog Hop posts, we are offering up a prize! One randomly selected winner from all the comments left on the Dolls' posts will receive the wonderful stamp set, "Made of Snow,".



Several of our members post daily, so make sure you scroll through the Dolls' blogs for the post with the Blog Hop banner pictured. That's the post on which you should leave a comment to be entered in the drawing.

We'd also love for you to play along with us and link up your creations using the InLinkz tool on the Dolls' blog: here! Linking up one of your creations following our theme will get you in a drawing for a $25.00 gift certificate to PTI!  If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

All comments and projects should be in by midnight on Sunday, March 13th. We'll randomly select the winner for both prizes on Monday, March 14th and announce it on the Dolls' Blog!

Below is a list of the Papertrey Ink Paper Dolls and their blogs. Grab something to drink, something to snack on and enjoy. We are glad you are here. (The names in parentheses are our PTI forum names.)

Jen (JenCarter)

Lee Anne (Lee Anne)
Laurie W. (Laurie Beth)  
Deena (honugurl16)
Leish (leish)
Amy (kolling143)  
Suzanne (*suzanne*)
Katie (choc0holic)
Laurie (In My Craft Room)  <------------ You Are Here!!
Cecilia "C" (camvds) <------------ Go here next!!
Michelle (abzzymom)
Sara (hiinaz)
Tanna (tfiskers)
Renee (Renee L.)
Kristin (jcmom04)
Christy (christea) 

After you are finished hopping with us, please join us for our regularly scheduled challenges every two weeks. We'd love for you to play along with us!

Here's what I came up with:

The P's:  Plum Pudding & Pure Poppy cardstock, Plumeria, Perfectly Paisley embossing folder, Polka Dots stamp set

The T's:  Two Tags, True Black Ink, Tiny Bubbles & Traffic Jam embossing folder, Through the Tree stamp set

The I's:  Iridescent Medium, and Okay I cheated a little and came up with I-lets!!

Plumeria was cut from Life is a Beach cartridge at 2 1/2".

I painted it with Iridescent Medium to give it a shimmery effect which just can't be captured with a photo!

Recipe:

Card Base: PTI  Pure Poppy 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" (folded)

Card front:  Homemade DP 4" X 5 1/4";  Plum Pudding 4 1/8" X 5 3/8"

Other Cardstock / Paper:  White

Ink:  Perfect Plum, True Black, Real Red

Stamps:  PTI Polka Dot Basics, Through the Trees (sentiment)

Accessories:  Ribbon, Eyelets (I-lets), Iridescent Medium, Cricut & Tags, Bags, Boxes & More and Life is A Beach cartridges, Cuttlebug & Perfectly Paisley, Tiny Bubbles, and Traffic Jam embossing folders 

Okay, we are suppose to share a little bit about ourselves as well!  I know this post is getting scary long, but in keeping with the 'rules' I better share a little!  What do you want to know?  What do you not already know?  Well, for those who don't know ......

I am a mother of actually 8 but one I say I got the easy way!  He was adopted from my first marriage and from that marriage I had two that I had to birth or get the hard way! LOL!!  They are 22, 19, and 14.  I remarried and have 5 children with my husband that are 6, 5, 4, 2, and 2 1/2 months.  I love to craft and really I do sometimes 'hide' in my craft room!  I have to!!!  I am origianlly from Arkansas.  Yes, a southern girl!  But my husband is in the military and so now we live in Arizona.  I love it here!

Some of my hobbies are dancing (only at home), scrapbooking & card making (duh), and reading but here I cheat and really only do audio books anymore while I'm doing dishes, folding clothes, making cards (You get the idea!).  I'm not sure I still know how to read! ha ha!! And when I say I've read a book my 14 year old annoying son reminds me that I didn't really read it!

I've been a Papertrey Paper Doll since the very beginning and feel like we have a great bunch of gals!!
I am so thankful for my blogging outlet and all the friends that I have made.  I've become a little addicted to it and have some pretty big goals that I have set for myself, but my family will always come first.  I'm so surprised and thankful for anyone who is STILL reading! LOL!! 

Thanks so much for visiting me while I am

Hiding in My Craft Room!

Don't forget to leave a quick comment to get into the drawing!