2nd testing . . . 1, 2, 3 . . .

While I'm waiting for my daughter to come up with a design for my "Up in the Night with Kat" blog, I found this current template on Leelou's blog.  After some help from Brenda (centralnyscrapper), I was able to get things arranged much better . . . what can I say?  I need a book called "Blog set-up for Dummies". :)  But Brenda was able to answer my questions in great detail that even my kitty could probably set-up a blog.  lol  Anyway, a big "THANK YOU" to you, Brenda!!!

Now that I have my blog set-up, I wanted to do a "practice" post.  So I decided to use what I did for CropChocolate's 2nd Annual Blog Hop.  At the time, I didn't have a blog, so Brenda let me post as a guest blogger on her blog "Crafting for Sanity? or Insanity?".  The following is what I said and did:

Thank you, Brenda!  I'm so excited to be a part of of the 2nd Unofficial Crop Chocolate Blog Hop. And since this is my first time being part of a blog hop, I will be giving away some scrappy goodies to 3 lucky people . . . just leave a comment for me and I'll draw the names on Wednesday after the Blog Hop.

When I first heard about the Blog Hop, I was like "Nope . . . No way . . . No can do" because it would be way out of my comfort zone. :)  But after some encouragement from others and thought on my part, I decided to give it a try.

I had a few ideas but lacked a lot of time for most of them.  I knew I wanted to use one of my new Lucky 8 punches by We R Memory Keepers.  And since it's been so Spring-like the past 2 weeks, I wanted to use "Walk in the Park" paper collection by Echo Park.  So after playing around, this is what I came up with:

I used my Lucky 8 punch "Tatted Doily"; Friskars' scallops w/ dots edge punch for turquoisse strip; and butterfly punch by Martha Stewart.  For the butterflies, I punched 2 from 2 different colors, folded up the wings and layered them.

Here's my final layout:

CC products used:  

"Walk in the Park" by Echo Park

Walnut Stain distress ink

Snake adhesive

Non-CC products used:

Orange flower & green brad (from stash)

pop-up glue dot

Please take time to comment, so I know I did this right. :)  Once I've checked to make sure everything is working the way I want, I'll be posting my "First Official" Blog Post.  Keep an eye out for it . . . for I'll be having a drawing for some awesome blog candy since it will be my 1st Official blog post and as a "Thank You" for visiting.

Till the next time I'm "Up in the Night" - Kathy