I'll be there...with bells on

Welcome back to another Cut it up Challenge.  This week we are making wedding cards and you must use bells!  I love the bell idea and wanted to use real bells on my card, so this is what I came up with.

Most of the supplies are from the PTI May (I think it was May, but could have been April...) Make it to Market Kit.  (Ahem...I'd like to interrupt this program to tell you this is a fabulous kit!!!  The dies, the paper, the sequins, all of it swoonworthy!)  OK, sorry, back to our featured program. I used what I had, added a little twine and some bells.  For the "sprinkles" I cut the sentiment twice, once in Bermuda Bay and then in Sparkle paper and overlapped them. Maybe not a typical wedding card, but I do this it will make the receiver smile for sure! :)

You can read more about my wacky thought process below, but if you don't want to you can just get creating! You know the drill, make a project using a die and the theme and link it up over at the CIU blog.  One lucky winner will get a $20 coupon to As Cute as a Button AND a $15 gift certificate to Die-Versions,  wahooo!

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As I was making this card, I found myself wondering where the sentiment, "I'll be there with bells on" came from.  My interpretation of this means to do something with enthusiasm, and what I found on Google corroborated this.  I found a really fun site with origins of phrases here.  This is what it said about "with bells on:"

To be somewhere with "bells on" refers to a practice peddlers had when they roamed the area west of the Appalachians selling wares. To avoid Indians, they traveled as silently as possible until they reached a settled area. Then they unmuffled the bells that hung around their horses necks to announce their arrival to outlying cabins. Hence, "I'll be there with bells on." The peddlers' arrival was a much anticipated major event in the mostly tedious and hard lives of settlers, not only for the goods they sold, but also for the news, letters, and messages they carried from the outside world.

Not that you can believe everything you read on the internet (thought everything I say on this blog is 100% true!)... BUT this seems plausible at least. :)  There are other fun origin stories or theories on the page like being on "cloud nine" and "dead as a door nail."

Thanks for stopping and have a great day!