Win a Gypsy!

Lisa Falduto from Paper Fashions is giving away a Gypsy once she reaches 400 comments on the post.  Hurry over and enter for your chance to win! 

Opinion Please

My 1st Blogoversary is the beginning of December and I am in a Christmas Blog Hop with some Cricut MB members on December 4th and 5th so I wanted to offer a nice blog candy for the hop and my blogoversary.  Would you rather have a chance to win the Cricut cartridge Rock Princess or Country Life or should I offer up a Christmas cartridge?  Please let me know your opinion in the comments section as soon as possible because I will have to order the cartridge soon to make sure I get it in time for the hop.  Thanks for helping me make up my mind:)  My DH says that I can never make a decision and he is probably right because I want to make everyone happy so I am counting on you guys to make up my mind for me;)

Tiddly Ink's Blog Candy

Tiddly Ink's is giving away some great blog candy which ends November 4th.  Go here to find out how to enter for your chance at this:

3 sets of acrylic stamps, stacks of paper, cardboard, bits and pieces of goodies, mirrors and magnets, some cardstock and envelopes, a few finished cards and most important a CD of Tiddly Inks images worth $50....you pick the ones you want up to $50.

Back to School Swaps

This is a clipboard that my DD and I made for a back to school swap she partcipated in, you had to make one item and then buy five items for school, the girl she was giving to really liked iCarly so we made this clipboard for her and then we put some of the left over stickers on the pencil case and notebook we bought her.

My DS participated in the swap too and his partner really liked Cars and Thomas the Train, we could not find too much with Thomas so we went with Cars.  Here is the picture frame we made for his first day of pre-school:

Breast Cancer Ribbon Journal and Bookmark

Here is my entry for the Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #2 Think Pink

Breast Cancer Ribbon Journal and Bookmark

It must include at least 2 Cricut cuts and you must use at least three of the following: Pink, Ruffles, Scallops, Flourishes, Glitter and Jewels.  My two cuts are the ribbons, one on the journal and one on the bookmark, I went to my LSS to use their Pink Journey cartridge to cut them.  I used pink, flourishes (made out of jewels with my iRock) and jewels in the center and on the bottom on both of the ribbon cuts.  I just got the iRock and this is the first thing I used it on.  I LOVE IT!! 
I made this as a gift set for my sister who is a survivor of breast cancer.  She has a pretty good attitude about it.  One of the things she says to people about her journey to recovery is that the cancer may have taken one of my boobs but it didn't take my life, for that I must be thankful. 
 
Keep your fingers crossed that I win one of the six Pink Journey cartridges that they are giving away.  I love this cartridge.  There is just so much I could make with it.  Besides my sister who has won the battle against this horrible disease, I have three cousins who are still battle breast cancer.
 
I am also entering this in Robyn's at My Pink Stamper #1 Karlee challenge (Monday October 11th post) - make something for someone.

Jennifer's Blog Candy

Jennifer is celebrating reaching a 100 followers by giving away a Mickey & Friends Cricut cartridge.  Go here to find out how to enter for your chance to win.

Hurry, you must enter by this Sunday, October 17th, to win.

Jude's Blog Candy

Jude is having blog candy to celebrate "World Cardmaking Day".  One lucky crafter will win the following all Brand New Items:

Daisy Dandelion...A5 Design Papers "Penelope &Percy "Christmas 2010

Decoart Journal Template tools..Creates hundrerds of designs .

Kraftin Kimmie "Snow Much fun " Red Unmounted Rubber Stamp "

Joanna Sheen "Messy Rabbit Umounted Rubber Stamp "Deck The Halls"

Pack HobbyHouse Self Adhesive Pearls Various tones of Red.(60 per pack)

Prima Flower Centers 10 "Assorted Dynasty colours"

Pack Assorted Techno Pop Christmas Ribbons 5 Lengths Various Designs.

10 Christmas Red Roses.

1 Reel of Candy Ribbonby Bobbin Robin.

1 Pack Studio G Clear Stamps (8 in all includes sentiments.)

Plus not shown in Piccy Magnolia &LOTV Christmas images.
 
It ends October 31st.  So go here to find out how to enter.

Pink ATG Gun

Melissa at Disney Dreamer Designs is giving away a Pink ATG Gun.  Hurry to her blog now because it ends tonight.

A Surprise Package

I have been sick since last Thursday and feeling miserable.  I received a package yesterday from Imaginisce, I had won a giveaway on their blog a few weeks ago but wasn't really sure what I would receive.  When I opened the, I was so excited to see the iRock with some gems and their new Cottage Christmas line.  I cannot wait to try the iRock, I am going to have to hide it from my DD until I can get use to using it and bling up some of my own stuff or I will never get to use it.  The Cottage Christmas line is so cute and I cannot wait to make some projects with it.  This package made my day.  Thanks Imaginisce!!!

Card Fronts

Here are some pictures of card fronts I have made for swaps over on the Cricut MB.

For this swap, the card had to contain a butterfly.  I designed this on my Gypsy with the Mother's Day (the background) and Gyprsy Wanderings (the butterfly) carts.  I love the lacey look of the backgroud.  I am going to have to look at the file on the Gypsy to see where I got the label and Thanks from.  I cut the butterfly's shadow from vellum and stickled the edges with Diamond Stickles and the placed the detailed cut on top and sorta of curled the wings with a pencil to give it a more three dimensional look.  (If anyone wants this file, let me know and I will have to email it to you).  This is one of my favorite cards I have made.  I love that I have it on my Gypsy because if I want to use it for a different occasion all i have to do is pull it up and change the sentiment.  I think the possibilities for this one is endless because it would be great for congratulations, deepest sympathy, thinking of you, etc.

This is the first one I made for the swap and you had to have an embossed item on your card.  I used the Moraccan Screen Cuttlebug folder on various color core black magic paper and sanded it to show the embossing then used my ribbon punch and threaded ribbon through to match the color core of the paper.  Next I pop dotted the flowers. 

There are two more card fronts due for this swap, one for September and one for October.  I love having these on hand because you can put them on a card you have or make your own out of cardstock and you have a card ready to go.  They are great for the forgotten or last minute occasions.

Christmas Cards

Here are some cards I made for a Christmas card swap that had several groups with different themes over on the Cricut MB. This was the Kids card group. I used the Mickey Santa die cut for the Cuttlebug on blue core black magic paper which was embossed with the tiny heart Cuttlebug folder which I turned to make it look like snow flakes after it was sanded.

This one was the Let It Snow. I used my Just Rite snowflake stamp, the snowflake paper was from a holiday stack I picked up at Joann's, I think it was DCWV but not positive and kraft cardstock.

This next one was the non-traditional, I decided to use browns and blues as my colors which I think are non-traditional Christmas colors. I used the Lacey Label cart for the circles and "Joy" cut on kraft cardstock.

This one was the Snowman group. I used my Just Right snowman and snowwoman stamps along with a mistletoe sentiment. This Merry Christmas paper is from the same stack as the snowflake paper above again with kraft cardstock.

This last one was for the Vintage group. I used toppers from Flower Soft along with my Vintage Christmas Flower Soft and made two different cards. One said Holly & Ivy and one said Noel. This is my first experience with Flower Soft and I really love how it turned out. This is probably a 5X7 card whereas all the others are A2 size.

I am so excited and cannot wait to get the other cards back from this swap.  After this swap, I have almost 50 of my cards made for Christmas because I made extras of the ones I made and kept them. 

A New Challenge blog

There is a new challenge blog for all of your critter stamps called The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenges.  On the first Friday of every month, there will be a new challenge posted!!! All medias, brands and projects are welcome to enter, as long as the project fits the criteria of the current challenge, and features an animal!  The first challenge will be posted this Friday, September 3rd.  They are offering candy to help them spread the word so go ovr to The Fuzzy Wuzzy Challenges to find out how to win these great prizes.

Up for grabs is:
$30 (AUD) gift voucher from Tickled Pink Stamps
Two digital stamps of your choice and an unmounted Hansel rubber stamp from The Stamping Bazaar
$15 (AUD) digi stamp gift voucher from Make It Crafty
One Popcorn Bear set - Golfing Popcorn
One TGF Marlene Stamp

Whiff of Joy New Winter Release on September 1st

Have you seen the new Whiff of Joy winter stamp release coming out on September 1st.  The DT is showing sneak peeks on their blogs.  You should go here to get the list of blogs showing sneak peeks plus Katharina is offering up a Winter Kit as blog candy (pic below) so make sure you go there to see how you can enter.

Claudia did a beautiful card here with three of the stamps from this set.  But I think my favorite card showcasing the new release is Jeanette's card using Henry on the train here because my son loves trains, anything with trains, and when I seen this card, it reminded me of him.

Whereabouts

Just wanted to drop a quick post to say that I am still here.  I had an accident on August 1st and tore my meniscus and dislocated my knee cap.  My knee cap relocated by itself but caused the most pain and did the most damage.  I had an immobilizer on and was on crutches until August 12th so did not have much mobility. When I met with the ortho on August 12th, she gave me a flexible brace and told me I could go off the crutches and start driving again.  It has been a challenge with two young ones and full-time work but my DH has done a lot and continues to be a big help.  I have meet with an ortho surgeon and he wants to see if physical therapy will help heal and strengthen my knee enough so that I do not have to have surgery.  I will meet with the surgeon again in late September to see if all the therapy paid off and I do not have to get surgery.

I have been working on several projects and have taken some pictures butI am having internet issues and cannot get them to post at the moment so will have to keep working on that.

Amy is celebrating

Amy is celebrating using a 1000 sheets of paper to make cards.  Here is what she says:

".  . . I thought it would be fun to combine that celebration with another crazy milestone that I've been keeping track of and finally hit this past week... you see, since I started making cards and posting them here I've been keeping track of the number of different sheets of pattern paper that I cut into for my cards just to see how long it would take to get to 1000. I'm excited to say that it only took a couple weeks over my year anniversary to get there! I told you this was crazy! LOL!

Crazy or not though, I'm in the mood to celebrate (and clear out some paper) so I've got A THOUSAND 6x6 sheets of paper that I'm giving away! Wanna see what 1000 sheets of paper looks like? Take a look-see..."

She is giving away a lot of different prizes, including various stamps, so go here to see what else she is giving away and how to enter for your chance to win.