CREATE BLOG HOP from Pages In Time

It's finally here, our first EVER Pages In Time (PIT) Design Team Blog Hop!  And it's a very special hop indeed.  Each Design Team member created a triangle banner in her own special style for this weekend event.  It's just one way of getting to know each of us a little better as you visit our personal blogs.

There are 9 PIT stops all together.  Each of the 7 Pages In Time Design Team members is offering a prize on her personal blog.  That gives you 7 chances to win!  Karen, the Pages In Time owner, is PIT Stop #8.

PLUS PLUS PLUS:  If you hop along and become a follower and leave a comment on each of the 8 blogs,  AND if you go to Pages in Time--Main Page and leave a comment in Blog Hop End found in the Announcements/Shop News section of the forum (you won't be able to miss it), you will be in the drawing for this grand prize given by Karen:

I'm PIT stop #2 on the CREATE Blog Hop.  If you came directly to my blog, I hope you'll hop back to our Design Team Leader, Barbara, because she has a stunning banner you just won't want to miss!  Then hop back here to sign up for my prize before you continue the hop.

Here's the banner I made.  Did you guess correctly from the sneak peeks?  I went with a campy, fifties theme.  Details are at the end of the post.

I made scallop punch accordian flowers because in the fifties things still were homemade.  I remember coming home from first grade telling my mom I ate the best school lunch in the cafeteria--fish sticks--and asked if she'd buy them for us to eat at home.  She was aghast.  Everything she cooked was from scratch--no processed food.  It was years later that we got to try those frozen TV dinners with aluminum foil lids that you baked in the oven--no microwaves back then!

The prize that I'm offering is some Crafty Secrets supplies: a sheet of stickers and a vintage post card to make: (the image and chipboard) and one foot of Webster's Pages bloomers in turquoise.  The winner of my prize will be chosen by random drawing.  To qualify, you must be a follower of my blog and leave a comment on this post by midnight Sunday Aug. 29, CST.  Winner will be announced on Monday, August 30, 2010.   I'm very close to 100 followers.  If  this hop brings me 7 additional followers, I'll add a little something to the prize.  As a follower of my blog, you'll be able to keep up with all the happenings I'm involved in over at Pages In Time.

From here please hop over to PIT stop #3, Lacee. She's created a fantastic banner.

Should you get lost in cyberspace, here's the blog hop order:
Barbara
Helene--you are here-that's me, 2amscrapper
Lacee
Victoria
Marie
Carla
Maggie
Karen, owner of  Lasting Memories Pages In Time store blog
PIT Pages In Time ning site

And be sure to join us Sept. 10 -12 for the Back to School Crop.
Make Pages In Time your PIT stop for creativity.

Materials used to make my banner:
Crafty Secrets Heartwarming Vintage: Kitchen Time Cuts, Kitchen Mail, and Domestic Goddess Creative Scraps for the vintage images and sentiments
My Mind's Eye Pretty Please Spring Papers for some of the accordian flowers
Basic Grey Eskimos Kisses for some of the accordian flowers
From the Pages In Time Kit:
American Craft Thickers Cupid Patterned Chipboard Letters
Prima patterned paper: Flights of Fancy Collection: Ladybug



Link to banner template that I used: triangle banner template to make 6 pennants from one 12 x12" sheet
You Tube has tutorials for the accordian flower made with a scallop punch.