Oh Happy Day!

Welcome, again, to our Belles ‘n Whistles Spring and Cleaning and Summertime Blog Hop Release….whooo hooo! Well by now, you've seen the line up of adorable yummies that'll be available for pre-ordering in the store tomorrow, March 20th...I’m very glad that you’ve joined us and that you're still hanging in there! =) If you've landed here from DT member Susan's Blog, great...continue on! If you've accidentally stumbled here on your own, take a moment go to our Belles 'n Whistles blog to start the hop off right--you'll be glad you did! ;D Be sure to visit each of the DT members blogs during your hop and leave comments while you are there…you may just win a stamp from one of the blogs visited! In the end, you'll wind up back at our Belles ‘n Whistles blog for a chance at winning a $50 gift certificate to Belles 'n Whistles... whooo hooo!

Now I have the pleasure of introducing you to the last of the cuties in this release...little miss "Tube Wear"!

Is she not cute?! All decked-out in her fancy tube, ready to hit the water! ;D I tell you, when I started thinking about what I'd like to do with this cute little Belle, I was initially going to have her standing inside the new digital stamp, "The Paddle Pool"...that was going to be waaaay cute!

The beach scene was my alternative. When Andrew, my 6 year old, was bored a few nights ago, that's when I decided to break out the transparencies, glue and the little bag of sand I had scooped from a bucket at my dad's house...it was time to build a beach! =)

Complete with fish, a few sea shells and a pearl or two too, LOL!

I had Andrew help with the building of the beach...easy enough for him to tackle with directions from me! ;D

1. He applied white craft glue horizontally along the bottom of a transparency.

2. Sprinkled the beach sand over the glue

3. Pat the sand down into place. (Once dried, I applied a thin layer over the glue to hold everything firmly into place.)

4. We died the white glue to a nice blue color then Andrew applied it to the backside of the transparency, above our sand. After drying, the transparency was cut to form the waves of our ocean!Well, what do you think? Is she not the cutest of the images you've seen today? Well, now that you've visited all of the blogs and have seen all of the sights, it's time to return you to our Belles 'n Whistles blog where you'll hopefully leave a comment for a chance at winning the gift certificate! Oh and don't forget to comment here as well...one of you will be selected to win this cute "Tube Wear" Belle! =)

Happy spring, spring cleaning and summertime fun to all! Oh, and happy stamping clearly, too! ;D

Summer =)