The Craft Loft Is My Happy Place and a blog hop

Hi Everyone,
I'm super excited to be a part of Jo's Blogaversary Blog Hop. Jo has been a long time follower of my blog and I was so thrilled when she asked me to participate in celebrating her 4th Blogaversary. Happy 4th Jo!

Our challenge was to make anything but a card. So with my new space I thought it needed a sign to welcome visitors to my loft. Here's what I made.

I started off with a blank wooden sign I picked up from Hobby Lobby and painted it with a coat of gesso. Each of the 4 boards are painted in different shades of my favorite color blue and then dry brushed with the base color from the board below it. I hope I'm describing that correctly.
Here are the colors I used: (the paints are all by Folkart) Sky Blue, Jamaican Sea, Deep Ocean Blue, and Cayman Blue.
The letters are white stickers from Hobby Lobby by the Paper Studio Company. I added a coat of matte medium to keep them from peeling off in the future. Plus I moved them so many times trying to  line it up perfectly that some of the corners lost their stickiness. 

I also added some flowers using a Prima flower pack I found at Hobby Lobby as well as a canvas flower. I hot glued those to the upper and lower corners. 

My quote is inspired by some quotes I've seen on Pinterest.  

Jo is giving away prizes during the hop...Here's how it works.

• All hoppers must leave a comment and subscribe to each designer's blog to be eligible to win prizes
• Hoppers will have until 11:59PM on May 6th to leave comments and winners will be announced on May 7th on Jo's Blog (Jo's Scrap Shack)

and here are the prizes you could win!

Sponsors & Prizes

1. Jo's Scrap Shack - $15 Silhouette Store 
2. Scrapper's Delight's - 3 Digital Stamps
3. DoubleClick Connections- 3 bags of Skittles
4. Sunny Studio Stamps- $20 gift voucher
5. Little Blue Button Stamps- $15 gift voucher
6. Lawn Fawn- 1 Stamp Set & a 6x6 paper pad-
7. Bugaboo Digital Stamps- $30 gift voucher

The hop starts on Jo's blog

If you missed Millie...she's before me in the hop...Click HERE

Now head over to Darlene. You can find her HERE
and under my signature you can find all the stops for this fun hop. 

Thanks everyone for stopping by and I hope you have fun on the blog hop.
Hugs

Disclaimer: I participate in an affilate program with Simon Says Stamps, Scrapbook.com, Cricut.com, Bluemoon Scrapbooking and Amazon. I receive a commission when products are purchased through the links provided at no additional cost to you.

Day 1- May 3rd

Blog starts off -Jo's Scrap Shack 

Lisa

Heather

Georgiana

Antoinette

Tina

Joyce

Carri

Michelle

AJ

Day 2- May 4th

Blog starts off- Jo's Scrap Shack

Sherrie

Angie

Millie

Christina

Darlene

Kellie

Mendi

Linsey

Amanda

Margaret