Denami Design's Pretty Pastels Blog Hop

Good Morning Everyone!

Blogger isn't letting me edit this post so I apologize if it's all crowded together when you read it.  I will try to edit it again later today.

It's going to be a beautiful day.  Welcome to Denami Design's Pretty Pastels Blog Hop.  Here are the details for this hop:

When: The blog hop starts on May 20th at 6 AM, PST. However, you have until May 21st, 2012, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for a prize).

Why: To be inspired by fun DeNami Design creations and also the chance to win mini shopping sprees on the DeNami Design website!

Prizes: We are giving away THREE $20 gift certificates to our website! We'll be giving away one gift certificate to a random participant (DT members not eligible) and then we'll also be giving away TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop!

If you started at the beginning of the hop you have arrived here from Suzanne Bier's stunning blog.

If you get lost along the way you can always return to the Denami blog for help. 

You are currently at Carol Hartery's blog. 

When a friend recently asked me to create some shower favors I was more than happy to help her.  She wanted something quick, easy, inexpensive and pretty and the colors to be mint green and lavender.  The favor we decided upon was perfect for this hop. 

We used a dark Memento Grape Jelly dye ink to stamp the outlines of Denami Design's
Demi Double Circle and Small Umbrella wooden rubber stamps onto scraps of pale purple tag.  We colored in the outline of the circle, the umbrella and its handle with a Memento Lulu Lavender marker.  The color is a soft and pale lavender. 

We fussy cut the circle and mounted it on a scalloped white tag circle.  We adhered the scalloped circle to a lacy white border we created using a Martha Stewart lacy edger punch.  The border has a piece of lavender Washi tape across the middle of it. 

We attached our lavender creation to a piece of mint green tag that we cut and folded to create a tea bag sleeve that holds 6 tea bags.  The instructions for creating this tea bag sleeve can be found on Teri Anderson's amazing blog at this link.

Our tea bag holders are pretty pastels and were quick, easy, and inexpensive to create just as my friend requested.

Before you hop along to Pat Quinet's inspiring blog please leave a comment on my blog and possibly become a follower of it. 

Enjoy the rest of the hop!  Hope you'll visit my blog again soon. 

Carol