happy birthday karen baker!!!!!

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I'm such a huge fan of birthday's...I love them...I love to celebrate them!

Today, we celebrate the birthday of a most fabulous gal...a bloggie friend to soooo many:


The very wonderful Erin Thiem put together this virtual birthday party for Karen!

You should have arrived here from the lovely Lindsay's blog, if not...start at the oh-so-fabbie organizer-extraordinaire Erin's Blog!

I volunteered to bring the cupcakes...


I mean, come on...a party isn't a party without cupcakes..how about Red Velvet Cupcakes?!

I used the cupcake from the EAD Designs Sweet Treats Stickerz...the sentiment is Paper Smooches and the patterned paper is MME!

I was inspired by the latest Clean & Simple sketch, FTL162:


I adore the colors of CR84FN40:


What else am I bringing to this oh-so-fun party?

Hello, Cupcake!


This cupcake cookbook is BEYOND amazing....we have it and well, basically drool over the pages...I'm no cook, as I told the other girls that are attending Karen's virtual birthday party, I'm the girl that goes to the fun cupcake shops!  Karen is a baker, and I can't wait to see her whip up some of these cupcake masterpieces...{no pressure Karen..LOL!}.  

Now make sure you pop on over to the adorable Aimes...

Be sure to check out the other party girls:

Erin
Amy  <<--that's me!

Of course you'll also pop over to Karen's and leave her a birthday shout out!!!!!

Happy Happy Birthday my friend.

You are most fabulous and I am sure that one day we will meet up!!!!!  I hope you have a magnificent day!!!!!

For those of you that don't know...the talented Karen designed my bloggie banner and all the fab side bar extras:)