Diana's Birthday Bash...

Welcome to the Magnolia-licious Highlites Birthday bash Blog Hop. We are celebrating our fabulous Diana's birthday (which is actually tomorrow, August 24th) and we're throwing one bodacious Cyber Birthday Party. I'm in charge of the appetizer's and this is what I'm putting on the table...



Don't these look delicious? What a yummy way to start the festivities!!

Since this is still a blog hop you should have arrived here from the uber talented Janiel's blog. If not, please hop back to the beginning of the party hop by going over to the Magnolia-licious Highlites to start your journey. Lots of fabulous creations and lot's of fun party items to be found along the way. From here you will hop to Sharon Caudle's awesome blog to see her fabulous creation.

We were each asked to make something very special for Diana to honor her. She is such a fabulous leader, most generous with her Maggies and always looking for a way to give us all a break! So my mind began to just pop with ideas that I hope will let her know just how greatly appreciated she is, not just by her DT but by everyone who shops with her online. I made three special projects for her and I hope she will enjoy each one. Here are the three projects together and I will go through how each one was made followed by a recipe on each project at the end of the post. All the images are available from Diana at Magnolia-licious unless otherwise stated...if you can't find a particular image, just let Diana know and I know she will work her magic to get it into the shop for you! I'm telling you, Diana goes well out of her way to give us the best prices, the best service and the best discounted deals anywhere.




The first project I pulled together is a tin DVD case. I ordered a number of these several years ago and was down to my last two. These are so cool. They make a really great gift when you put personal touches on them. I thought about traveling to B.C to help Diana celebrate, but, well, that was out of the question. However, I knew that Tilda could travel and so I chose #262 Traveller Tilda (she is not available in the store right now) and sat her upon #625 Suitcase with Sign from the Bon Voyage collection (also not available) and masked them together. I knew I wanted to use Magnolia dp on this project too so I went hunting through my drawer and found these two papers from the Bon Voyage Collection also. I covered the seam of the paper with a strip of black card stock using my Magnolia Vintage Lace die and a piece of red ribbon. Notice that Tilda's purse uses the Zebra paper to match and that I've put 'TX' and 'BC' on the sign post. Oh what fun I'm having...



Here's a close up of sweet Tilda...



Now, on the inside I decided to put a party in the box. Sorry, Diana, I really tried to fit in some chocolate but nothing would fit. However, there is still some chocolate to come so don't despair!

I reversed the paper and finished off the middle leaving a pocket to stick stuff into. For the party I've included a balloon and three candles, but after these are removed you can put in little reminder notes, receipts or anything that just needs tucking in. (just not a candy bar!)



On the opposite side I've added a small notepad (which has had 1" removed from the bottom to fit the tin). I covered the top of the pad with more Zebra paper and stamped each and every page with Mini images of Tilda. I used #293 Tilda with small gift, #294 Tilda with a Balloon, #233 Congratulation Tilda, #241 Dancing Part Tilda and #3050 Tilda with Heart Lace. All of these mini images are available at Diana's store. Then to complete the ensemble I used more Zebra paper and inserted it into the barrel of the pen then tied a small piece of gingham ribbon to the pocket clip and wrote a note to Diana. This birthday note pad in a tin is perfect for slipping into your purse, you always have pen and paper handy and the tin snaps closed to keep loose papers contained.



Next I had been working on this idea for a Cupcake gift card holder, but wasn't happy with the results. So keeping the Styrofoam ball with the flowers and ribbon, I redid the bottom to my satisfaction and reinserted the ball. Instead of making a regular rectangular gift card part, I made mine oval and used a Mini Congratulation Tilda and Mini Tilda with a balloon again, masking together. I repeated the Spellbinder shape that I had used on then front of the Note pad tin. This doesn't slip all the way into the "Cupcake" as in the instructions, but I liked my idea well enough. I used a Micro binder clip to hold the images panel and a Starbucks gift card on the back. Red bows finished off this project.



Here is the cupcake with the images slipped all the way out...



And here is the cupcake with the gift card swiveled out. Diana, enjoy a good cup of coffee or two on me and think of me while you sip away...wish I could be there to share it with you.


My final project and little gifty for Diana is a altered Crystal Light container. I'm tellin' ya the ideas just kept on comin'!!!

I didn't have any of the original dp left, at least in pieces big enough to cover this oval shaped container. So I found some Magnolia stripped paper from the same collection which I thought would do. No more Zebra paper so I used some black and white stripped ribbon from my stash and used it to border the container. My image is #226 Birthday Tilda and here is where the chocolate comes in...first here is my altered container...



I managed to stuff three delicious Chocolate Biscotti with Chocolate icing into the container. I mean, what is a birthday without chocolate???



Fianlly, I had just enough scrap Zebra paper left to decorate the lid with and tie the piece into the rest of ensemble.



Okay, here's my recipe (excluding the images which I have already listed):

DP - Magnolia, unknown maker from stash
CS - Xpress It Blending Card, SU
Distress Ink - weathered wood, tattered rose
Copics:
Skin - E0000, E000, E00, E11, chalk for cheeks
Blonde Hair - E35, Y26, &23
Black Hair - C7, 5, 3, 1
All red clothing/shoes et al - R46, R14, R12
All other clothing - BG70, BG93
Suitcase - E40, 41, 42, 43, gold Spica pen
Cake - E25, 27, 31
Sign post - E35, 34, 31
Flowers - stash
Ribbon - stash
Stickles
Glossy Accents

I hope you're enjoying all the wonderful projects on the Blog hop and that you'll take the time to comment on all the DT blogs. Remember from here you're hopping over to Sharon's blog...

Thanks for hopping along with us as we celebrate Diana's awesome birthday!

Blessings and hugs,

Barb