Happy Birthday Dear .......

A very special friend of mine is having a birthday

and a very special group of designers is having a party for her!

Yep...it's my friend Michele Gross' birthday!

Several current and past designers are getting together

to celebrate.  I am one of the 'retired' designers from

the challenge and am so happy to be joining the fun

to honor my friend.

If you've reached my blog by way of my talented friend

Virginia Lu's Blog

then you are on the right trail.

The beginning of the hop starts at my friend & TCM teammate

Karen Baker's Blog

A complete list of blogs on the hop are listed at the end

of this post and you won't want to miss any of the inspiration

provided by these amazing designers!

I thought it would be fun to keep the theme Clean and Simple, so I went with

these fun stickers from SRM.  The primary colors worked so well with

the baker's twine from The Twinery.

Keeping it 'dotty' 

( a word that reminds me of my friend Sarah from the UK)

I did a 3/4 background using an EF from Cuttlebug.

I sure hope you enjoyed your visit and hope you have fun on the hop!

Michele is a fabulous designer and a very dear friend.

I hope you get to know her just a little bit more today because you'll

find out the very same things about her that I have.

The next stop on the party train is the very talented

Christina Maclaren's Blog

If you get lost along the way, the entire list of designer who are

partying with us today are listed here:

Karen
Dana
Stephanie
Karolyn
Angie
Debby
Lorena
Suzanne
Kimberly
Jenny
Virginia
Julie Ranae
Christina
Laurie
Lisa
Deb
Gayatri

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Bazzill (color)

Embellishments: baker's twine in Pink Sorbet, Lemondrop & Carribbean

all by The Twinery

Birthday We've Got Your Border by SRM Stickers

Tools:  Lg Dot EF by Cuttlebug, Big Shot

A Brand New Challenge & A DT Call!!!

Are you ready for something fun?

new and fun??!!

I am excited to be a part of a new partnership

with Michele Gross of StudioMSG

for this brand new challenge!

If you love the look of CAS, then you need

to mark your calendars to play each Friday.

What is CAS?

'Clean and Simple'

Uncluttered, lots of open space

with one clear focal point.

Now...with a new challenge comes the need

for designers...and our 'Girl Fridays' are in for

a fun ride!

***Design Team Call***

We are looking for a handful of fabulous CAS designers
who will promote our new challenge

 and provide inspirational CAS designs on a weekly basis.

* Term will be May through October *

If you are good with deadlines, and can take great photo's of your work,

we'd love to hear from you!
Previous DT experience is not necessary

Please email the following information to Michele at
cookingwithmsg@msn.com 
with "CAS-ual Fridays DT Call" in the Subject line

• Your name, email address, blog link and gallery links
• 3 photos of your work that show your best CAS style, sized no larger than 600 x 800
• Brief bio including your creative highlights and Design Team experience 
• Current Design Teams and term lengths

***Deadline to apply is April 1st, 9 pm EST***

Notifications will be sent out no later than April 15th.
Our Girl Fridays will be announced on April 22nd


Mark your calendars...
***Our first challenge will be May 6th!!***


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