blog team-up: girly!

hi everyone!

do you remember what day it is?

it's the first day of my blog team-up with Paulina!

we have a theme today... and it's super fun :D

what better way to kick this off?  now, you probably already can tell that i'm something of a girly girl (ummm, the manicure monday posts?), but it goes beyond that... i like my dresses, my hair accessories, and my necklaces.  (side note: the only reason that i don't have piles and piles of earrings/ have my ears pierced yet is because when i was 12 years old i would get a rash from any kind of metal on my skin... but i'm thinking it's time to try it anyway, i've been wearing a silver necklace lately and it hasn't bugged me... so yay earrings!)

and if you know anything about my awesome friend Paulina, you know that she's the QUEEN of girly stuff... in the best possible way :D needless to say, we both appreciate this theme, but we execute it through our card-making in different ways...

let me show you what i mean.  here's my card:

the paper for this card comes solely from a Recollection's paper pack called "Today~Tomorrow~Forever" and i love it!  the woodgrain in the background, and then the gingham pattern... polka dots, even some floral patterns in there.

so to make sure that my paper wasn't the only 'girly' element on the card, i added the Martha Stewart doily (which you can see me use on an entirely different style card from yesterday's blog hop) and some Studio Calico wood veneer butterfly die cuts.  i stamped them with some blue/ teal and pink, and added a fun little flower and pearl.

the brad you can see a close-up of here is from 'the sweetest thing' collection of decorative brads.  it matched perfectly, and the arrow points down to the AC 'dear lizzy' sentiment of smile.

what's not to love?  oh, and there's even some twine on here too, that hint of yellow in the top right corner of the banner?

so that wraps it up for me, but be sure to head over to Paulina's blog to check out what kind of girly project she cooked up in her studio... i know it's going to be FABULOUS! :D

thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to come by tomorrow for more of our blog team-up!  xoxo