Thank you friends! Here are the winners.

First of all I want to thank all of you who stopped by and wished me a Happy 1 yr. Blogaversary.  Almost everyone left me a link to their favorite projects and I really enjoyed visiting around to see them. There were 2 that I had trouble leaving comments on and like a dimwit, I didn't write them down so I could check back.  So if I didn't leave a comment for you I'm sorry.
There were 34 legitimate comments for the prize drawing so that means 3 winners and here's how this is going to work:
After re-numbering the comments to account for double comments (or commenters who are not followers) I used Random Number Generator to pick three #'s.  The one chosen first (#1) will get first choice, the second comment that was picked needs to give me 2 choices (in case #1 also picks what you want) and #3 will need to give me 3 choices.  That should cover it and I won't have to stretch this out for days waiting on each one of you to make a choice before I can contact the next person.   The rest of the goodies will be giveaways in a couple of blog hops I am in in the coming month, so keep watch for those.
Here's the prizes to choose from
A.  Spellbinders Large Octagons
B.  Spellbinders Eyelet Squares
C.  Spellbinders Lattice Pendant
D.  Spellbinders Nursery Time Frame set
E.  Give a Hoot stamp set by Jillian Vance (this set is great for owl lovers)
F.  A brand new set of Prismacolor Multi-liner pens (please note they are brand new but one pen is missing in the set.)

Now on to the winners.  
#1  -(comment  #3) from Barb

Hi Tami, Barb here from Kinsale Creations. I thought I'd share a link to a funny, "I messed this card up BAD" kinda post with you. I hope you get a giggle from it...it's the one card where I did practically everything wrong...Enjoy!

#2  -(comment #31) from Lori

Happy Blogiversary Tami!
I'm stopping by to Thank you for the comment you left on my photos of Avery Island.
Lori

#3  - (comment # 29) from Glora 

How fun Tami! Congratulations on ONE amazing year and here is to MANY more!!!!
“hi, this is Glora from www.glorascrafts.blogspot.com my favorite project this year is http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com/2011/02/turn-that-frown-upside-down.html"
Thanks for the fun Tami! Hugs- Glora 

OK, ladies I'll be sending you messages so be checking your email or comments for them.

Thank you again everyone for participating!  This was really fun and I think I will try to come up with something to do like this again really soon.  Whadaya think?  

Have a super weekend everyone!

It’s Time to Celebrate

Today is my 1 yr. blogaversary and to thank you, my followers (I prefer to say blogging buddies or friends,) for helping me get to this milestone I want to celebrate and give away some presents.   I have some Spellbinders, a stamp set and maybe a couple of other odds and ends to give away.   The more of you that drop by to say ‘hey’ this week, the more prizes I will put in the pile and the more winners I will choose.  Next Friday I will draw names and you will get to choose which present gets sent to your house.   I don’t expect anyone but a follower will see or read this post from the dashboard, but just in case…this giveaway is for followers only to thank you for your support, inspiration & friendship.  

 For every 15 guests (comments) I will pull a name.  To put your name in the hat and to let me know you came by I’d like for you to do one or two things for me;  just simply say “hi, this is ______ from (name of your blog)", and if you will (but not required) leave me a link to, or just tell me about your favorite thing you’ve made this past year.  I would love to come by and see it.

Wishing you all Sunshine and Smiles, Love and Laughter

Emma's DT call at My Creative Time

I can't believe I'm doing this.  I'm usually one that's happy to just sit in the corner and watch, or be doing something behind the scenes like the support crew, but I had 3 goals when I started my blog (a year ago this coming weekend.) The first was to meet at least one of my blogging buddies in person. (I've gotten to meet 2 and spoken to another one on the phone several times.) My second goal was to make the Cricut Top 40 at least once-check, and the third goal was to be on a DT.  Well, I'm never gonna make this 3rd one if I don't start applying so... here goes!  And now that I'm actually trying, I'm scared to think of how long and how many tries it is going to take to make this goal.
Most of you that I "talk" with on a regular basis are already on DT's, so how long/how many tries did it take you?   I'm not sure if I'm hoping you say "several tries and several months" or if you say "not long at all."  I guess it will all depend on how long and how many tries it takes me, if I can make one at all, lol.

OK all you regular blogging buddies, let me know if you've got any good tips (other than the obvious like "you've got to apply") and send me some luck now too...please.

The stamps are the Peachy Keen Gingerbread Dolls set and Stampabilities for the sentiment, the papers are DCWV except the gumdrop background paper which is homemade/handstamped by yours truly.

A new one to try

Here I go again with the snowflakes....(sorry to you Northern buddies.)
This is my new favorite kind of card (at least for the next few weeks till I find something else.)   I got the idea from Kim Score at Paper Punch Addiction.  She calls it an accordion peeker card and the measurements are HERE.  I followed Kim's measurements but I have to admit I did everything else quite differently from her directions, but the results are about the same.   I don't know if you can see them or not but there are little suspended snowflakes dangling around the scene that didn't show up well in the photo.  And to give the snowmen arms I used floral wire & floral tape.

The card is 6x6 and would be fairly easy to modify to different dimensions.   I've got another one in the works already.  It smooshes down pretty flat too, right around 1/8" thick.
The stamps I used are by Lawn Fawn and the set is called Making Frosty Friends.  Let me know if you've already made one of these cards or if you plan to make one.  I would love to pop over and see it.
Have a great week everyone! OH yeah, and speaking of weeks... my blogaversary is just days away so keep an eye out for a little celebration this week.

Change of plans

Hey y'all   (and yes, that REALLY is the way we greet people down here, by the way.) 
I've had these little place cards made up for almost 4 weeks now.  I intended to post them for a Thanksgiving blog hop I have coming up in a few weeks, but there is a challenge at the Lawnscaping Challenge site (for Lawn Fawn stamps) that I have never participated in and so I decided I would throw my hat in the ring with these.  
Originally I had planned to have my daughter hand write the names, (I can't because my handwriting is horrible!) otherwise I would have just printed them out on the computer before I stamped and pieced them, but now I'm debating.  I've never been too impressed with alphabet stamps because of the results I've seen, but Lawn Fawn manufactures their alphabet stamps with special features that insure you get good results as far as your line-up and spacing goes so I really think I want to order some- I just don't know which set to order.  (I'm thinking Sally's ABC's but there's another set I really like too.)   Because I value the opinions of my regular blogging buddies, I would really appreciate some suggestions.  Check out the Lawn Fawn store HERE and tell me which alphabet stamps you think would be the most versatile. 

 

The stamp sets I used to make the place cards are Harvest Season and Turkey Day, and now since I've used these on this post I have to go come up with another project for the hop, so have a good weekend everybody and please come back soon.

Wishing you all sunshine and smiles, love and laughter!

Peachy Keen Sketch Challenge #62

Two challenges in a week.  What on earth is wrong with me...me, the lady who doesn't care too much for challenges?

I actually made this card for my nephew and since it resembles the sketch for Peachy Keen's Challenge this week, I thought I'd enter it.  It's not exact, but it's pretty close if you flip it sideways.  (By the way, I will fix the little bump in the ribbon.  I didn't notice it till I posted this pic.)   The digi is by Elizabeth Dulemba.  It's one of her coloring pages shrank down small.  I've used a lot of her coloring pages as digis but I don't think I have ever posted the first one, and this is not even close to being one of my favorites.  Oh well.

I don't often get excited about what I make, but I can not wait to show you all the card I worked on this afternoon.   I've got to add just a couple more touches to it and then I'll post.  Hint:  It's a new type of card (at least for me) that I found from Kim Score at Paper Punch Addiction.  She has some of the greatest ideas!  
I hope you had a wonderful weekend, that'll you'll have a wonderful week and remember....

make it a great day for someone else and it'll come back to you. 

Reunited

I realized recently how much I have neglected my Cricut so I decided I've got to get back to using it more and so I have.  Besides making simple little treat boxes for this year's trick or treaters, (see previous post) Emma's My Creative Time Throwback Thursday Challenge this week was just the thing to get me going. 
The challenge is to use the card feature from any cartridge and to make it a Halloween card.  Easy enough.  I found a cute Halloween card on the Wild Card cartridge, not very imaginative I know but hey..... I didn't totally take the easy way out.  I didn't like the face the pumpkin from the Wild Card cut had so I substituted the face from the pumpkin on Gypsy Wanderings.  Here's the card with the new face.
New Face
Original Face
Because this is a cut-away card, it makes the inside a little awkward, but I remedied that by putting a spot for a gift card right behind the pumpkin and I'll be using a metallic gold pen when I sign it and that ties in nicely with the little stars. 
I hope you're having a wonderful weekend and I hope even more that you'll come again soon.  

Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet

Hi Everyone.  I'm glad you've dropped by today during Day One of the Memories in Tyme Halloween Blog Hop.   If you're just joining in from the dashboard please be sure and hop all the way around or if you want to start at the beginning you need to go to Lynda's HERE.  There will be a gift certificate from Sweet Stamping Treats offered as a grand prize for one lucky commenter who makes a comment on each blog stop.
I couldn't decide what to do for a project, so I just thought I'd post my treat boxes I'll be giving out for our trick or treaters this year.  I chose some of the boxes on the Happy Hauntings cartridge.   Because I keep them pretty simple these are fairly quick and easy to make and since we don't get that many trick or treaters I don't have to make a ton.
front and back view
I should note that the candy corn box is a left over from last year's treats.  I kept him for myself because for some dumb reason I love candy corn, and I don't mean to eat.  I love to see candy corn, (it's one of my seasonal "triggers" I guess.)
Just to show you how much I love CC here are a few cute ideas I have pinned on Pinterest.

Notice how 2 of the 3 are desserts........hmmm, go figure!
I hope you are a follower or will consider becoming one because I will be having my 1 year blogaversary in a few weeks and I want you to be a part of it.
Thank you again for stopping by and have fun on the hop.   Barbara is your next stop.

Designed 2 Delight weekly progressive challenge

I hope some of you jumped in and joined the progressive challenge this week at D2D.  This week's image was actually a set of images and what a beautiful set it was.   Check out the D2D store HERE if you missed getting the set for free.

Un-Do, Re-Do & a Winner

Thank the good Lord up above for 2 things, new blogging friends and Un-Do.  I'm so happy to have a couple of new followers and as for the UN-DO, I had been looking for several months for this stuff only to be told that you have to get it by mail order now.  Well, I lucked up & found some when I attended CKC back in August and I bought not 1, but 2 bottles.  I do not want to run out.  This stuff is great and comes in so handy in a case like this weekend.  You see, I just wasn't satisfied with my card from the previous post, so I "un-did"  it and switched a couple of things around,  no biggie but I like it better now,
and since there were several of you who said you'd like a tutorial on my partial pop-up sliding gift card holder, (I hope you meant it, and weren't just trying to be nice) I will be getting one together and post it ASAP.  Thank you all for the encouragement. 

Now for the winner from Brenda's Birthday Wishes Blog Hop......
True Random Number Generator               Min: 1                Max: 27                 Result: 20

scrappinC said...

Happy Birthday to Brenda. You did a fantastic job on your card. Love the birthday cake. Cindy Lou

October 9, 2011 11:39 AM   

Congratulations Cindy Lou, I will be sending you an email as soon as I get off of Blogger.

I hope you'll join me this weekend for the Memories in Time Halloween Blog Hop.  Until then......

Wishing you Sunshine and Smiles, Love and Laughter.