Blog Candy Winner!

At 12:00 midnight PDT a random selection was made from all the lovely people who left comments on my blog and the winner of the Kinda Eclectic stamp set, the Lovely Lace Embossing folder and the High Tide DSP is.........

                                               ( Drum roll please!) ..................

Polly McKay

Congratulations, Polly.  I will be shipping you your prize as soon as I get back from a trip to Seattle on Tuesday!

And the winner of 5 handstamped cards for the out of country draw is.....

Donna Nuce

I will be mailing you your prize as soon as I get back as well! 

Thanks to everyone who left comments.  I wish I could send you all a prize!

Blog Candy Winner

It's time to post the winner of my blog candy give-away! Thank you to everyone who entered and left a comment! I used a Random Number Generator to choose one of the comments and it chose #5. It turns out that #5 was the extra entry that Comment #4 got from joining my site!  It really paid off.  The original comment was from UTs Hobby Time:

  "I have not used brayer, its new to me. I would love to see a tutorial on this one. Your card looks fantastic. Lovely color choice and the stamped silhouette image looks very nice with the soft colored background."

Here's what UTs Hobby Time won:

• A full package of Sweater Weather DSP
• A full package of retired Certainly Celery 8 1/2" x 11" Card Stock
• Affection Collection, a retired stamp set that creates amazing vintage and collage stamped cards.
• A retired embossing folder featuring a central oval shaped wreath
• A full roll of Island Indigo Chevron Ribbon
• Remnants of three rolls of retired ribbon

Congratulations, UTs Hobby Time! You have 24 hours to contact me by email with your address for shipping so I can get your Blog Candy to you.

Black Tie Challenge and Blog Candy Winner!

When it comes to class, there's not much that can top black tie and no one can top black tie like Daniel Craig, the latest 007!

I love the Black Tie Challenges over at Dynamic Duos, perhaps because they are so dramatic and, according to my husband, I'm the drama queen!

This week the Dynamic Duo Challenge #71, is a Black Tie challenge:  Basic Black and Crumb Cake.This is a very classy combination and made me think of Christmas for some reason.

Here's my black and tan Christmas card:

• I used last year's Christmas Stamp set, Keepsake Ornaments as my focus.  You can still order this stamp set though it is not in the catalogue.  I embossed the images on Very Vanilla with Black Stampin' Emboss powder.  They also have framelits that I cut them out with.
• To bring the design from boring to beautiful, I added the pop of silver glimmer paper along with the sentiment embossed in Basic Gray.
• The background crumb cake panel is dry embossed using the Modern Mosaic Embossing Folder.                                                                                             

• I like how the 1/8" Taffeta ribbon in Basic Black has silver edging!  It makes the cutest bows for the tops of the ornaments.
• The sentiment is from a set from last year, More Merry Messages, and it, as well, can't be ordered from the catalogue, but can be ordered on line.  That's good because it has some great Christmas sentiments, and some that are small enough for the Modern Label punch.

And now before I fall asleep at the computer, I want to let you know the winner of the Blog Candy from this post.  Thanks to everyone who left a wonderful comment about what they were thankful.  The winning comment comes from Holly Finney!  This is what Holly won:

I will contact her about delivering her prize to her.  Congratulations, Holly!

It was a crazy day in our household yesterday.  I spent most of my day at a   v..e..r..y.......s..l..o..w.. Vendor Fair.  My hubby picked me up there at 3 pm and we went looking at cars.  We wanted to get a vehicle where we are sitting up higher for ease in getting in and out, and also one that got decent gas mileage.  After trying out the seats in several SUVs, we were smitten with a Nissan Murano which had just come into the local Nissan dealer's lot recently.  We ended up buying it and we finalize and pick it up on Monday.  We were pretty excited and went out to dinner to celebrate, getting home late.  I had all my vendor fair stuff to unload (actually, my dear hubby did that for me) and then the card to design and the blog post to write.  Now I'm really done...no, really!  See you tomorrow!

Blog Candy Winner

It was another beautiful Okanagan summer day today.  We went for a walk down by the lake at about 8 pm and the wind was blowing but it was balmy and warm, the perfect time for a walk really.  I should have taken some photos but didn't think to do it.  I will next time.

When we got back, it was time to draw for the winner of the Blog Candy I advertised on Monday.

The winner receives a pack of discontinued DSP - Beyond the Garden, a Big Shot die - Beautiful Butterflies, a wonderful discontinued stamp set called Full of Life - never used, a complete roll of Pretty in Pink Stitched Grosgrain ribbon, a partial roll of Two Tone Ribbon and a package of Designer Silver Basics Buttons.

Here's my hubby doing the draw:

And the winner is:

Karen Bridden

I will contact Karen to arrange to deliver her prize to her.  Congratulations, Karen!

Here's another card designed for my workshop on Wednesday morning:  

• I used the stamp set, Giggle Greetings, again because they are so humorous!  And the palette of colours comes from the DSP (Design Series Paper) Birthday Basics - Bermuda Bay, Crisp Cantaloupe, Raspberry Ripple and Very Vanilla.
• The Crisp Cantaloupe panel is actually Core'dinations Cardstock, with a lighter core colour.  I embossed it with the Stripes embossing folder and sanded it with the Stampin' Sanding Block to reveal more of the inner core.
• I stamped the cheesy image in Bermuda Bay and die cut a circle around it using the Circles Collection Framelits.  Then I backed it with Coastal Cabana Stretch Ruffle Trim.  Because it stretches and is ruffled, it is so easy to adhere it around the perimeter of the circle, which is why I love it so much!

• The sentiment is from Banner Greetings stamped in Raspberry Ripple and fussy cut by hand. A little bow made from 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon in Bermuda Bay adorns the corner of it.
• The Bermuda Bay backing for the candles paper was edged with the Scallop Trim Border punch.

See you tomorrow with a guest stamper and a peek at all the goodies I got at convention!

Stamps:  Giggle Greetings (w131062; c131065); Banner Greetings (w129711; c129714)

Paper:  Core'dinations Cardstock in Crisp Cantaloupe (129958)*; Birthday Basics DSP (130145), Bermuda Bay (131197) and Very Vanilla (101650) cardstock

Ink:  Classic Stampin' Pads in Bermuda Bay (131171) and Raspberry Ripple (126859)

Accessories:  1/8" Taffeta Ribbon in Bermuda Bay (131206); 3/8" Ruffle Stretch Trim in Coastal Cabana (130024)

Tools:  Big Shot (113439); Stripes embossing folder (123128); Circles Collection Framelits (130911); Scallop Trim Border punch (118402); Stampin' Sanding Block (129367)

*Part of the 2013-15 In Colour Collection of Core'dinations Cardstock                                                                                          

Giggle Greetings Stamp Set

Birthday Basics DSP

Banner Greetings Stamp Set

Big Shot

Coastal Cabana 3/8" Ruffle Stretch Trim

Scallop Trim Border Punch

10,000 Hits

While I was out at a Christmas Stampers' Dozen with my upline, Tamara,  I reached 10,000 hits on my blog!  Yay!  And you know what that means.... it means I had to draw for the Blog Candy Giveaway winner...

Here is my DH doing the deed, impartially, randomly, and oh-so-handsomely (lol).

AND the WINNAH is ..................... (Drum roll, please)..................................................

Danielle Godin-Calder!

 

 

Danielle, we will connect so I can get your prize winnings to you.  Congratulations!

 

 

Thanks to everyone who left comments and followed my blog.  I promise I will do my best to keep you entertained, inspired and instructed!

 

 

And, with that in mind, I wanted to show you two cards I CASEd from a paper crafter whose work I really admire, Justin from JK Cards.  The card in question is here. I really liked the well-balanced designs and the great colour combos that Justin uses.  In every challenge gallery I look at, I pick his cards out every time as favourites.   And here are two cards that I made using that basic design:

 

and this one:

 

 

 

The first I made as a make and take for a team meeting and the second was made for the young son of my Pastor, who had been very ill.  I really wanted to showcase the Orchard Harvest DSP with its beautiful colours, and more of the Perfectly Preserved stamp set with the Cannery Collection Framelits that co-ordinate with it.  These are fairly straight-forward, except that the sentiment on the second card was made using MDS 2 (My Digital Studio 2) and I stamped three corn stamps in Lucky Limeade and three in More Mustard, then cut the ears with the kernels showing out of the More Mustard ones and paper pieced them on the green cobs.

 

Hope you enjoy these, and please, go check out Justin's blog.  You'll be inspired!

 

Stamps: Perfectly Preserved (w126690; c126692); Lovely Letters Alphabet (w115030; c127796); Teeny Tiny Wishes (w115370; c127802)

Paper: Orchard Harvest DSP (126895); Island Indigo (122923) and Whisper White (100730) card stock

Ink: Classic Stampin' Pads in Raspberry Ripple (126859), Lucky Limeade (126984), More Mustard (126964), Stampin' Write marker in Lucky Limeade (123002) and Early Espresso (119680)

Accessories: Designer Printed Brads (122940)

Tools: Cannery Set Framelits (127822) or bundled with Perfectly Preserved (w129943; c129944); Ticket Duo Builder punch (126883), Stamp-a-ma-jig (101049)

 

Stamp-a-ma-jig

Perfectly Preserved

 Orchard Harvest DSP

 

Cannery Set Framelits