Blogiversary Winner Announced!!

Welcome back to the blog.  Hopefully you were here earlier and read my other post this morning.  If not please scroll down and read it too.  Okay I promised on my other post today that if you came back and read this one you would get to see the card I made for the Frosted Design Card sketch #19 challenge.  Here you go:

I think it turned out cute but this new Sheena Douglass - A Little Bit Scenic - French 50's Cafe Stamp was just too popular with the other Crafter's Companion USA Challenge blog DT girls.  And you can see why it would be.  It is super fun.  Go check out their projects using it on the Crafter's Companion USA Challenge Blog.  There is a new June Sunshine/Yellow challenge posted today!!

I know that you all really just came to see who won my Blogiversary candy so without further ado....
The winner is Caroline - Canadian Liner!!

canadian_linerMay 13, 2012 6:08 AM

Hi Stacy, I will be spending time this summer at our cottage in beautiful Prince Edward Island, Canada. Great photo-ops, so I can scrapbook the pictures all winter and dream of "the Island!" I have heard Spectrum Noir pens are a great alternative to Copics. what do you think?

Congrats Caroline!  Please email your full name and mailing address to me at Scrapwithstacy(@)gmail(dot)com.  You must contact me with this information by Friday, June 8th or you forfeit your candy. 

I enjoyed reading all of your summer plans and I appreciate your friendship.  Here's to another year of blogging!!  Cheers!

hugs, Stacy

If you are stopping by to see who won my Crafter's Companion Customer Appreciation Giveaway go HERE.  And if you want to know who won the Stamp Set Giveaway on the CC Challenge Blog go HERE.

Crafter's Companion Customer Appreciation Winner



The winner of the Crafter's Companion Customer Appreciation Giveaway is:

Michelle H.May 22, 2012 8:25 PM

Pretty card and what an adorable stamp!!
Love the coloring!!
Hugs!

Congratulations Michelle!!   Please email your full name, mailing address and prize won (mention you won it here) to bindy@crafterscompanion.com.   You have until June 8th to do so.  After that you will forfeit your prize. 

Thanks to all who entered!!  Let's see some of you enter the Crafter's Companion USA Challenge blogs June Sunshine/Yellow Challenge!!  This month you can win a $30 gift card to the Crafter's Companion online store!!  Buy whatever your heart desires!!  lol 

Here is the card I made as my inspirational example.

I used the Stamp It Australia - Hummingbird stamp.  I also used a yummy sketch from Frosted Design.

I actually made another card first for my DT example but so many of the DT were in love with the same stamp that I decided to make a second card. 

If you read my second posting today when I announce my Blogiversary giveaway winner then you will get to see it too.  I actually used the same sketch challenge from Frosted Design for inspiration.  Hope to see you there.  Good luck if you entered!!



Last Day...

Hello everyone!!  Just a little information to start off.  Today is the:
Last day to enter my Blogiversary giveaway!!  Last day to enter the Crafter's Companion Customer Appreciation giveaways!  Last day to join in on the May Flower Challenge at Crafter's Companion USA Challenge Blog!  Last day to enter my Stash Challenge at Sketches4all!  Last day to enter my card challenge at Sketches4all!!  Last day to enter to win the stamp set giveaway on the Crafter's Companion USA Challenge Blog!  Last day of MAY!!!!  PHEW!  That's a lot of "last days"!   So there are your reminders....get busy!!  (well read the rest of my post and then get busy!! lol)

Crafter's Companion just came out with this new Sheena Douglass stamp collection called A Little Scenic.  They are really cool stamps.  I used two stamps from the Provence set to make this card.

I'm not sure if it shows in the photo but in person it just looks so awesome!!! (even if I do say so myself)  I made it for my cousin who is graduating but I like it so much I can't decide whether to send it to her, keep it myself or send it off to Crafter's Companion for CHA!!!  lol

I stamped out the cafe scene and then the bicycle and colored them.  Next I fussy cut the bike out.  I layered some yellow card stock under the colored image.  I stamped out my sentiment from the Close to My Heart stamps set that I bought from my friend, Kelly Massman.  If you need stuff from Close to My Heart please buy them from her!!!

May has been pretty crazy and the end of the month is no different.  There are so many end of school activities/events that I have barely been able to stop to take a breath.   Last day of school is next week on Thursday.  Kids are all out at 11:30am!! 

And we won't take a breath then either because that evening my bestie and her family are coming for a long weekend!!!  WOO HOO!!!!  We can't wait!  So close but yet so far!! lol

Last weekend we mostly relaxed around the house.  I got to swim in the pool, play games with my kids, grill out with my hubby and scrap!!  I've shown you a few of the things I made but here is a layout that I set aside to let the stickles dry and then promptly forgot about! LOL 

I used a photo from our trip to China to adopt our daughter.  I've had this paper from Nikki Sivils for awhile.  I've been "saving" it! lol  Why do we save paper?  I love the colors in this paper.  It just makes me happy so it was perfect for this special layout.

I started with a sketch challenge from Stuck on You Sketches.  I love how the circle (flower) is split on the layout!  I had a hard time finding flowers in my stash to match so I ended up taking a white flower and spraying the heck out of it with Sun Sisters Glimmer Mist.  I'm happy with how the layout turned out and I'm entering it in their challenge.  And I'm entering it over at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Anything but a Card.

I also want to share a card I made using a new stamp set from Crafter's Companion called Meadow Cottage Bears-Happy Birthday.  This bear was fun to color.  There was so much room to do shading and blending with my Spectrum Noir markers. 

I made this birthday card for my daughter's friend who has her birthday party this weekend.  I know she will love getting this cuddly bear card. 

Well this is probably enough for today.  Don't forget to stop by tomorrow when I will announce the winners of my blogiversary giveaway and of the Crafter's Companion Customer Appreciation Giveaway.  See you then!!

Recycled Thank You

Happy Memorial Day! Stacy here today with a little Monday Inspiration. I thought I would share a card I made yesterday. I am always attracted to new scrap goodies. Aren't you too? I think one of the reason's why we are so attracted is because of the beautiful packaging. I find myself using up my new scrap items and what's left when I am done? The gorgeous packaging is what is left behind!

I was lucky this weekend to get to scrap ALL DAY on yesterday. I finished my second layout and found I had this cool piece of packaging left after using the flowers that were in it. I decided right then and there that I was not getting up from my desk until I crafted something with it! Seriously!! lol

I decided to make a card and use this packaging as the matting for the colored image. My mother actually colored this image when she came to visit me recently. Didn't she do an awesome job!? It is the Paintbox Poppets EZMount Stamp - With Love. This is such a sweetly romantic image. I took her colored image and I die cut it out.

The packaging was a bit long and I didn't want to show the writing from the company so I cut out that section. I just turned it over and taped the edges together.

I pulled out from my stash some complimentary ribbon tape and used it in three ways. The first way was to cover the cut edge on the front of the packaging. Second, I made a bow by peeling back the paper on the back a bit to give me a little bit of "sticky" and sticking it down in the middle. Then doing the same from the other direction. And then I glued down a button in the middle. And the third way I used this ribbon tape was to cut 3 strips of it and evenly layer them in the middle of the card base.

I added the colored image to the middle of the front of the packaging. And then glued my "bow" on the corner. I added some wired ribbon through the slot on the top of the packaging. I wanted to have some extra dimension so I used some double sided adhesive squares on the back of the packaging and adhered it to the card base. Finally I stamped a tiny sentiment in the corner of the colored image. And voila....here is my card.

Click on the photo to enlarge

What do you think? Has it inspired you to go searching through your trash can in your scrap room?! lol It certainly makes me look at my "trash" differently. Thanks for stopping by and checking out my project. Be sure to join in on all of the Crafter's Companion Customer Appreciation giveaways this month. The end of the month is fast approaching and you don't want to miss out on any chance to win. There is a link on the upper right sidebar to the giveaway on this blog. Check it out before you leave.  And while you are here check out my Blogiversary Giveaway too.  Link on the sidebar also.

And finally I hope that you take a little time today to give thanks to the men and women who have died saving our country.

Until next time...happy scrapping!

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Happy Memorial Day weekend!!  We have just been taking it easy around my house this weekend.  Today I was lucky enough to get to scrap ALL DAY!   My bff, Denise, and I decided to scrap two sketch layout challenges together.  Well sort of together...she scrapped in So. Ca and I scrapped in NV.  

Denise picked out the sketch challenges at The Paper Variety and at Got Sketch?  I'm going to show you the layout I made with the Paper Variety sketch first. 

I kind of wanted to go a little crazy with color on this one so if you need to leave and go get your sun glasses I will wait.......

Okay...you're back?  (ha)  Well...bright enough for you??  I started by pulling out some white card stock and misting it with water then I pulled out the gorgeous brightly colored Dylusions ink sprays.  I used Fresh Lime, Lemon Zest, Postbox Red, Bubblegum Pink and Squeezed Orange.  I'm just so in love with all these fresh bright colors! 

After letting my paper dry, I pulled out some papers from S.E.I. and picked out and trimmed the papers that worked best.  I trimmed out a journaling tag and stitched one of my paper strips.  I finished up by pulling out some chipboard letters and stickers from my stash for the title and subtitle.  I added a bright orange flower and some bright green stick pins.  Voila....done.

I'm obviously entering it over at Paper Variety and just to be matchy matchy with Denise, I am entering it at Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge - Anything but a Card.  And I am also joining in on the Misting challenge #68 at Scrapfit.

Next, I want to show you the layout I made using the sketch challenge from Got Sketch?.  I had fun with this one too.  I pulled out a paper kit of Cosmo Cricket goodies.  Since this sketch used so many different layers of paper, I figured it would be smart to start off with a paper collection that went together. 

I layered and cut and layered some more.  I pulled out a Martha Stewart edge punch and punched.  I found fun goodies in my stash to use, ribbon, flower and brads.  I typed up my journaling in Word and then printed it out on some matching patterned paper.

I thought I was done but it just didn't seem quite right.  After I showed it to my hubby, he agreed with me that the photos I was using were too small.  So, I decided to print them out a little bigger and matted them with red paper to make them pop a bit more.  And then finally I was done.  I really like how this layout turned out.  What do you think?

I'm entering this layout at Got Sketch?

While you are here visiting you should make sure to join in on my blogiversary giveaway HERE.  And I also have a Customer Appreciation Giveaway from Crafter's Companion HERE.  Two ways to possibly win just by stopping by and entering!

I'm going to go enter these now since they are both due today in an hour or so.  Nothing like waiting until the last second.  lol

I will have more to share so check back soon.

Wander and Explore

I was feeling scrappy today and I got out some of the photos from my daughter's 4th grade field trip to Carson City and got busy!  I had some luscious papers from Glitz Design - Afternoon Muse.  These papers are just so dreamy and romantic  I LOVE THEM! 

I printed out the cool sketch #41 challenge from Frosted Design.  I like to start with a sketch challenge when I get a chance.  Plus I'm been so busy that I haven't really gotten to do any fun challenges lately.  I'm also going to enter it in Wifey Cookie's "F is for Flower" challenge on Sketches4all and in the Flower challenge at Scrap it Girl.    And of course I had to enter it in the Glitz Design May challenge which is to honor the women in your life. 

I've been doing a class at Big Picture Classes and one of their class challenges is to use photo strips as a design element.  That is kind of what I was trying to do with my photos on this layout.  There was also a challenge to use letters "large and small" and I did that on here too.

I pulled some flowers, rub on's, brads, ribbon, a doily and vellum quotes from my stash to finish it out.  And I don't want to forget to mention the Crystal Stickles!!  Love me some sparkle.

I love doing layouts.  I wish there were more hours in the day so I could make more of them! 

I had time to make a couple of cards and a gift box with a gift card holder too but these are DT projects that I can't post yet.  You will be seeing them soon!!

I'm excited because the stamps and 24 pack Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers - Brights arrived in the mail today for my Blogiversary candy!!  If you haven't entered yet be sure and do it while you are here!!  (go to this post) 

There is also the Crafter's Companion May Customer Appreciation Giveaway Week 4 going on right now too.  Sign up for that while you are here too and pass the word along!  ENTER HERE.

And finally, I've really been quiet about it this month but I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it if you would go and enter the Crafter's Companion USA Challenge Blog May Flower's Challenge.  All you have to do is pull out a Crafter's Companion Stamp and make a project with a flower on it!  EASY and Fun!  And you could win a Crafter's Companion Ultimate Tool!!!!!!!  Everyone needs an Ultimate Tool!  Everyone!  So what are you waiting for...it is time to help a sister out!  lol

ArtyScrappy has Candy!!



There is an awesome candy over at ArtyScrappy!!  Actually there are 3 candies being given away!!  Go check it out!!