Love Bugs Banners for Kids Hop

Welcome to the “Love Bugs Banners for Kids” Hop.

Forty very talented crafty people have come together for a two day hop (Friday, January 6th and Saturday, January 7th) to showcase handmade banners that will be donated to the children at Pediatric Specialty Care. The hope of these banners is that they bring smiles to these children's faces and awareness of Pediatric Specialty Care to all those that hop along.

The “Love Bugs Banner for Kids” Hop has some awesome sponsors and prizes to give away to all those that hop along and leave comments. The more blogs you visit and leave comments at, the more chances you have of winning. That means if you hop through all 20 blogs each day and leave a comment on each blog then you are in the drawing 40 times!

Our Generous Sponsors are:

Jellypark Digital Stamps will award 2 free digi-images to one winner.

K Andrews Designs has donated a stamp set to one winner.

Robyn's Fetish will donate FIVE digital images of the winner's choice as a prize!

Now on with the hop....If you have come from Vicki's Blog then you are on the right track but if you have come here by chance – great! but please start from the beginning at Ellen's Blog and continue through from there.

Please leave a comment below to be entered to win some blog candy from me :) (Pictured Below) One winner will be chosen using Random.org .You will have until Jan. 14th to enter.

I want to thank Ellen for inviting me to be part of this very special hop!!!

It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do for my banner. Then a couple of weeks ago I was looking at stuff online and saw a birth announcement with a Caterpillar on it. I thought it would be cool to do a Caterpillar for this hop since it is a Love Bug Hop. Of course I wanted to incorporate hearts as well :) I wanted to do a banner for a girl and for a boy. So I made two adorable caterpillars :) It was really fun to make and I got input from my sons and daughters, I have 2 of each  :) of course my Birthday Girl who turns two today didn't have much input for me :)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EMMA :)

I used the Create A Critter Cartridge to make the Caterpillar head, I put it on the bottom of the page on my gypsy so it wouldn't cut out the rest of the body. Then I used George Cartridge for the circle and the tiny rectangles for where the ribbon goes. I used Paper Doll Dress up and Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridges for the legs that I welded to the circle and for the cute shoes :) and of course everything is better with sparkles, so I added some Stickles :) The kids and I couldn't decided which embossed hearts we liked best so we used both :) A heart one and a Dot one.

Here are a few different pictures of both the banners :)

Supplies:

Gypsy

Cricut Expression

Diamond Stickles

Black and White Ribbon

Green, Blue, Black, White,Pink and Purple Cardstock

Heart Shaped Hole Punch

ATG gun

Zig Two way glue

3-In-1 craft glue

Bow- Build a Bear :)

Create A Critter, Paper Doll Dress up, Everyday Paper dolls and George Cartridges

Sizzix Dots and Flowers and Valentine Set #4 Embossing folders

Texture Boutique

Thank you for joining us today on our “Love Bug Banner for Kids” Hop for the children of Pediatric Specialty Care. Please continue on to Jessica's Blog and have a wonderful day