Love Bugs Banner Hop For Special Needs Kids

*** I have two posts today.  If you are looking for the Forever Night Challenges post, please CLICK HERE. 

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 Alina'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 (AKA CardMonkey) blog and continue through from there.

Now, on to my project:

The theme for this banner project is Valentine's Day and Bugs.  I wanted to create a cute banner for the kids, and I immediately thought of ladybugs!  I turned to my Cricut Create a Critter cartridge for an adorable ladybug image.  I cut her out at 5 1/8 inches.  The letters spelling "HUGS" were cut from the Cricut Storybook cartridge.  I used Design Studio to widen the letters a bit and get them to just the size I wanted for my banner pieces.  The super cute polka dot paper is from Reminisce.  I just LOVE it and think it goes so perfectly with this project!  I tied my banner pieces together with some sheer red ribbon.  Overall, this was a pretty easy project that turned out pretty cute.  I hope it brings a lot of smiles to the kids' faces!

Thank you for joining us today on our “Love Bug Banner for Kids” Hop for the children of Pediatric Specialty Care.   A VERY BIG THANK YOU to Ellen for coordinating these banner hops.  It is such a great cause, and I feel very honored to have a part in it.  Please continue on to Martha's blog to see what she's created for the kids.  Have a great day and don't forget to come back tomorrow!

Here is the complete blog hop lineup:

1. Ellen ♥ CardMonkey - http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
2. Sandie Dunne - http://sandieshores.blogspot.com/
3. Lori Apgar - http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/
4. The Scrapbooking  Queen~ www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
5. Linda Simpson - http://lindasimpsoncraftypieceofheaven.blogspot.com/
6. Beckie Woodall - http://justbcreativecrazy.blogspot.com
7. Lisa Lam- http://craftylam.blogspot.com/
8. Jenny (Crazy About Cricut) - http://crazyaboutcricut.blogspot.com/
9. Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
10. Haidee-http://created2bunique.blogspot.com/
11. Carol - http://cardstockscissorsandglue.blogspot.com/
12. Edwina - http://edwinascreations.blogspot.com/
13. Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/
14. Janet S - http://ladyluvbug.blogspot.com/
15. Denise - http://vintageheartfeltdesigns.blogspot.com/
16. Jamie http://craftygirl21.blogspot.com/
17. Teresa - http://scrappintplace.blogspot.com/
18. Alina - http://neverstopscrapping.blogspot.com/
19. Dena - http://missdjones.blogspot.com/
20. Martha- http://pattisscrapingtime.blogspot.com/
21. Erica http://mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com