Winners from the Halloween Blog Hop!!!

Well HELLO!!! I know I have your attention! A HUGE thank you to Emily at EAD Designs for sponsoring the stickers to give away to these lovely ladies! 

Thank you SO much to all that left comments and became followers! I am SO excited that you decided to watch my work! This will certainly not be the last giveaway. I have one going on again (did you leave a comment on THIS POST here?) AND I already have something lined up for November and am considering doing a giveaway while I am gone in Europe! So if you became a follower you're in for a time of treats (and not tricks). :) 

Day #1 Winner: Leigh! 

She won: Both Cuttlebug folders and Stickerz compliments of EAD Designs!

Day #2 Winner: Sheena!

She won: The October 31st Cartridge and Stickerz compliments of EAD Designs! 

Day #3 Winner: Anna!

She won: My Pink Stamper Spooky Puns and Stickerz compliments of EAD Designs! 

Ladies, contact me within 48 hours to claim your prizes otherwise I will pick new names on Saturday morning. My email address is on the top left hand side of the blog. 

I'll be back later with a project to share :)

Be Inspired Wednesday #104 - Breast Cancer Awareness

Good morning. Today at the Cuttlebug Challenge we are making cards for a wonderful cause: Breast Cancer Awareness. 

This card dawned upon be very quickly and I love how it turned out! Joanna did one similar a while ago and while I also had the idea to make it a shape card, I used hers as inspiration for the doodling since she is the doodle queen!

Recipe: 
Gypsy™
Cartridge: Tie the Knot™, Designer's Calendar™
Embossing: A2 Victoria Emboss Folder™
Stamps: My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions™
Pixie Stix from Pink Paislee™(black glitter)
Hero Arts Gems
Glossy Accents
Pop Dots

Instructions:

1. Select bodice, bodice blackout, and bodice shadow (twice) on your Gypsy™ from the Tie the Knot Cartridge™.

2. Weld two of the bodice shadows together to make the card base. This is the light pink layer.

3. Select Designer's Calendar™ pink ribbon from the October page twice. In the Gypsy™ you can see both the bodice and the bodice blackout. Lay them perfectly on top of each other on their individual layers.

4. Place one of the ribbons in the middle of the bodice. Place the other one on the layer with the bodice black out and also make sure these are perfectly on top of one another. This method allowed me to the cut ribbon out of both layers where you could see the pink of the card base all the way through.

5. Cut out all layers.

6. Doodle white around the edges of the dark pink layer.

7. Run dark pink layer through the Cuttlebug™ with the A2 Victoria Emboss Folder™. 

8. Adhere to black layer (bodice shadow).

9. Doodle black around the light pink layer.

10. Place pink and black layers over the card base.

11. Take My Pink Stamper: Everyday Occasions ribbon (it's the black ribbon) and stamp it in black in the middle of the cut out ribbon.

12. Use Glossy Accents™ on top of the black ribbon stamp. 

13. Sprinkle Pink Paislee Pixie Stix in black over the top. Tap the card to remove excess.

14. Use pop dots to adhere dark pink and black layers to the light pink base. The black ribbon should be showing through the center cut out ribbon.

15. Add Hero Arts™ adhesive gems to the top in the middle and the points of the cut out ribbon on the bottom (you can barely see mine, but they are hot pink). 

16. Give it to someone who is fighting the pink fight! 

I went to a Crop for the Cure on October 2nd in honor of Monique Griffith. So I gave this card to her! 

Head on over to the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has created and play along with us! 

Pumpkin Spice is my sponsor and a giveaway!

I am SO excited to finally announce that Pumpkin Spice is sponsoring my blog!!! This is the company that I was telling you about during the hop where I bought My Pink Stamper stamps from. 

I put the same My Pink Stamper stamps in my cart for 5 companies. Hallmark Scrapbook and Custom Crops were two of the bigger ones and they charged about $6 and $8 for shipping respectively. 

I chose Pumpkin Spice because of two reasons: 

1. The shipping price was $2.78 (I think or it was $2.87)
2. I called customer service because I needed them pronto to use for my projects and for the give away. I got a call back within 15 minutes! And she went to the post office and shipped them within an hour! 

THAT is amazing and I told her so. Now here we are - a friendship has been born and now a sponsorship!

Today I have a card for you that is for my grandfather's birthday. So Grammy, if you're reading this, don't show it to him! :)

Denine at Pumpkin Spice was SO generous and I am pleased to open this with the Union Square line from My Mind's Eye. While I doubt it's the same one they named the line after, we have a Union Square here in San Francisco and I just LOVED the red glitter paper. I thought it is so versatile from men's cards (like this one) to girls night out cards, polka dots, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and even Halloween -- of course it's a shoe in for Valentine's day as well but that's a little bit far away.

Recipe:
From the My Mind's Eye Lost and Found Union Square™ Line:
Union Square "Favorite" Decorative Brads™
Union Square "Home Sweet Home" Glittered Accessories Sheet™
Union Square "Perfect" Stamps™
Union Square "Favorite" Trims™ - the "ribbon" is linen! I love it! 
Union Square "Favorite" Union Station Paper™
Union Square "Favorite" Birds of a Feather Paper™
Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg Collection - Acorn Paper™
Embossing: A2 Seeing Spots Emboss Folder™
Glossy Accents (on the crown)
Red Stickles by Studio G (on the crown)
Pop Dots
Corner Rounder

Denine (owner of Pumpkin Spice) has also generously put this all in a Court's Crafts Collection Kit! So you can everything you need to make it here! How cool is that! 

And if that wasn't great enough, she sent me some goodies to send to you! Leave a comment on this post telling me how many items for sale there are under the section listed "Blackbird" under "My Mind's Eye - Halloween Collections and what your favorite paper is from there. I will randomly choose a winner on Friday to win the Cosmo Cricket Matilda mini deck sponsored by Pumpkin Spice! 

You will have until Thursday at midnight PST to leave a comment. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me because I am leaving for Europe! So become a follower if you don't want to miss it and if you like my work! 

Big News! Part 1 of 2!

So I promised to have big news on Monday, but I had to wait until today, but now I have TWO pieces of big news! 

The first is that I am honored to announce that I have been asked to join Leeanne over at Artful Delight as part of her new DT! Thank you Leeanne! 

She is having a sketch challenge right now where you could win her November kit (which hasn't been released yet, but boy are you going to love it!) and a feature on her blog! So come on over and play!!! :) 

Here is the link to the sketch challenge.

I will be announcing the second this afternoon with a project and believe - you- me it's big as well! 

Have a wonderful morning!

Operation Write Home and a birthday wish

This is my first time using embossing powders and I am in love. 

I was definitely inspired by the cards from the DT shown on the Embellish Magazine Website. 

Recipe:
Cartridge: Cake Basics™
Paper: DCWV™ (black), Bazzill™ (white), Echo Park: A Walk in the Park™
Gypsy™
Stamps: Hero Arts CL 139™, Inkadinkado™ (what a cute name!) 97626
Embossing Powders: a la mode™ (white and black)
Ink: VersaMark: Watermark Ink Pad

Challenges:
Raven's challenge: Make an Operation Write Home card and send it
Scrap Review: Card made on World Card Day
Embellish magazine: Black, White, Yellow with stamped background

Malakai's First Birthday Invites!

That Halloween Hop was fun! I will give you a little while longer to leave comments so be sure to get them in! 

On World Card Making Day (this last Saturday) I went to a Crop for the Cure where I got to meet some wonderful ladies like Monique Griffith and Wendy Lawrence. While there, I made a few things. This is one of them. :)

These are going to be the invitations for our Godson's first birthday! The theme will be Baby Beluga as that is his favorite song to be sure. 

Recipe:
Cartridge: Gypsy Wanderings™ (comes with the Gypsy™), Wild Card™ (for the oval)
Paper: Echo Park: A Walk In the Park™, Bo Bunny™ double dot, Cricut™ (solid brown), Bazzill™ (solid white)
Embossing: Seeing Spots™
Ink: Momento™
Stamps: Hero Arts CL 139
Ribbon
Crop-a-dile™
Eyelets

I made this for the challenge at Off the Wall Craftiness as well: light blue, cream, and brown
Here is the inspiration photo:

I also made this for a variety of places that said, "show us your World Card Making Day card":
Scrap Review

Pumpkin Tree

This is the last day of the blog hop :(
We've had a wonderful time and I hope you have too!

I often decorate this candelabra tree for the different holidays. This decoration was so easy. You could always add EAD Halloween Face Stickerz or Peachy Keen faces. I was really craving them for this project.  I might still add them afterwards. :)

Recipe: 

Cartridge: Everyday Paper Dolls™

Crop-a-dile

Ribbon

Instructions: 

1. Cut 10 2.5" pumpkins from the Everyday Paper Dolls Cartridge™

2. Glue back to back in whatever patterns you want (if you are not using double sided paper, then you need to flip half of the images and be more careful as to what you want showing ahead of time).

3. Punch holes with Crop-a-dile™

4. Add eyelets

5. Tie ribbon around the top!

EAD Designs has decided to sponsor this giveaway and has provided me with some AWESOME Halloween stickerz. Thank you EAD!!! 

I am giving away:

October 31st Cartridge™

My Pink Stamper's Spooky Puns™ This link will take you to the place where I bought them at Pumpkin Spice. It is a fabulous little shop with the best customer service and the best shipping rates I have found to date! AND she has decided to give us free shipping in honor of this blog hop if you use the coupon code "OCTBLOGHOP"! Thank you SO much Pumpkin Spice! 

Cuttlebug Skeleton Scroll Emboss Folder™

Cuttlebug Boo to You Emboss Folder™

If you get lost in the hop, here is the order:

Jen from Purple Scrapbooker

Georgiana from Carson's Cricut Creations

Dorcas from 4 Crafty Angels

Cheryl from Cards by CG

Carri from A Busy Bee

Star from Star's Paper Passion

Court from Court's Crafts (that's me!)

Yvette from The Little Things

Now head on over to Yvette's blog to end the hop! We hope you had fun today!

Don't forget to leave a comment on this post so that you can be entered into the drawing for these awesome prizes! I will be picking multiple winners so check back to see if you are a winner on Thursday! You will have 48 hours to email me because I need to send off the prizes before going to Europe! :) Don't worry, I will be posting while I am away as well. :)

Become a follower if you would like to and rest assured I've already done my shopping for another giveaway in November and EAD has sent some goodies for that too! :)