The Craft Dee BowZ June Blog Hop

Welcome to the Craft-Dee BowZ blog hop.

If you arrived here from Monica's blog then you are in the right spot. 

If not, you may want to start at the Craft-Dee BowZ blog to be eligible for the prize to be awarded.

This month we welcome The Paper Nest Dolls as the sponsor of out blog hop.

And we always award a prize to one commenter. 

Leave a comment on each designers blog and one last comment on the Craft-Dee BowZ blog to be in the drawing for the prize.

  The prize to be awarded is a $25.00 certificate to be used on stamps or digital images at The Paper Nest Dolls store.The Paper Nest Dolls offers digital as well as rubber stamp images, and they have a great selection of the cutest images. Hope you can check them out.

I am the last designer in this fun blog hop. Let me share with you my project.

I chose Little Birdie Ellie and she is a cutie!!! 

Lets take a look..................

I used teal as my main color on this easel card. Ellie looks great in a pale blue with teal accents.

Little Birdie Ellie is available as a rubber stamp here

The bow - its a triple loop bow using a satin ribbon.

I use the best bow maker - The Craft-Dee BowZ tool,  to make all my bows. 

This tool will assist you in making the best bows.

You can order yours here

The last stop is back to the Craft -Dee BowZ blog to leave one last comment. To be eligible for this months prize, please make sure to comment on each designers blog and please leave a comment over at the Craft Dee BowZ blog as well.

Here is the list of our talented designers in this months blog hop

Dana

Vicki
Rebecca
Monica

Barbara (you are here)

Craft-Dee BowZ (stop back here last to leave one final comment)

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

• Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes (#73  6-10)
• Loves Rubber Stamps  #106 Anything Goes  (#74  6-11)
• Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes (#136   6-11)
• Through The Craft Room Door  - Always Anything Goes (#81   6-11)
• Crafting from the Heart - Always Anything Goes  (#154   6-10)
• My Craft Creations -  Always Anything Goes (110  6-7)
• The Paper Nest Dolls Challenge -  Always Anything Goes  (#56  6-6)
• Whoopsi Daisy -  Bright Colors (#34   6-7)
• A Little Bit Crafty -  Child's play (#27   6-30)
• A Sprinkle of Colour - Anything Goes (#18   6-12)
• Cards Galore Encore -  #6 Anything Goes  (#43   6-30)
• Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations - (#37   6-15)
• Seemacrafts -  Make it cute  (#22  7-1)

Craft-Dee BowZ Blog Hop

Hi Everyone,
Welcome to the Craft-Dee BowZ blog hop. If you arrived here by way of  Dana's blog then you're in the right spot. If not, you will want to start at the Craft-Dee BowZ blog to be eligible for the prize to be awarded on Saturday.

The theme we have for this blog hop is Butterflies and Flowers and I have really stepped outside the box for this theme because I have used the Craft-Dee BowZ tool in making both my butterfly and my flowers.

My butterfly came about because I made a double looped bow one day and it reminded me of a butterfly without a body. So I made another and fashioned a body using gold filigreed beads. The antennae are just gold seed beads. To add and secure the body to the bow, I just slipped the wire under the knot, added the beads and that secured the body to the bow (wings).Here is the end result.

Here is a close up of the butterfly:

How did I come up with the flowers?? I really don't recall other than I was just playing around with the CDB tool and wound some wire around the pegs instead of the ribbon I usually work with. When I pulled the wire off the pegs and separated the loops, they started to look like petals on a flower and when I had all the loops moved around, the flower was born. I happened to have some brads that have a large colored rhinestone for the center and I felt that would look great as the center of the flower.

Here is a close up of those flowers:

Well that's the back story for my butterfly and the flowers that I used on my card. Hope this inspires you to try different things on your bow maker. The bow maker is a very versatile tool, it makes more that a bow and works well with things other than ribbon.

Blog Rotation in case you've gotten lost along the way.:

Amber

Brenda  

Dana Tatar (our guest designer this month)

Barbara -you are here

Craft-Dee BowZ - (to leave one last comment)

I hope you have enjoyed our little blog hop here at Craft-Dee BowZ this month. Please leave a comment here on my blog and also we ask that you leave a comment back at the Craft-Dee BowZ blog  to be eligible for the prize, a Craft-Dee BowZ tool.

Thanks for stopping in and I will be seeing you soon

My design is being entered in the following challenges:

ABC Challenge - Anything Goes

Animal Friends Challenge - Butterflies and/or Bugs

Card and Scrap - Use Flowers

Kreativeinkauf-Challenge - Everything that Flies

Lia Stampz Challenge - Add a Flower
Craft It Up and Link It Up Party by Craftin Desert Divas - Ribbon or Twine
Created with Love - Anything Goes
Fitztown Challenge - Anything Goes
Make My Monday - Use Lace and/or Ribbon