My Pink-alicious Blog Hop and **Giveaway Alert**

Hello and welcome to the My Pink-alicious blog hop! You are in for a real treat today! We have all been asked to make either a mini-album or a scrapbook page. Well, this is definitely a challenge for me! I thought for a second about doing a scrapbook page and then thought, "I have never done a mini album!" So, here is my VERY FIRST mini album! **Caution, picture heavy post!!!**

I spy with my little eye...... SIX uses of My Pink Stamper Stamps. There are two pictures that are close-ups of the stamps, but why don't you see if you can find them all? :) 

I decided to make it a mini calendar album. I didn't have the first idea about how to bind one and then I realized my YourStory is in the storage unit 2 hours away from the move! So luckily my friend June taught me how to do the accordion thing to make it work over Skype. Now, I didn't realize that so much of the accordion would show so I wish I hadn't used the green. But oh well, I love it anyway!

You should have gotten here from Kassidy's blog. If not, start HERE at My Pink Stamper's blog!

I used My Pink Stamper's: Itty Bitty-licious™ all throughout this book! I LOVE the fact that these stamps are so small! They worked so well! Did you find all 6 of the stamps that I used? If you did, GO you!

Recipe:

• My Pink Stamper: Itty Bitty-licious
• Cartridges: 
• Straight From the Nest™
• Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons™
• Cake Basics™

• Patterned Paper: My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose - pretty much every paper from all four collections
• Embellishments: My Mind's Eye: Stella and Rose
• Core'dinations Tim Holtz Kraft-Core™
• Ribbon from Kris Swain's Etsy Store™(Please tell her I sent you if you buy from her store! Thanks!)

Here is the order in case you get lost:

Robyn (My Pink Stamper)

Michelle (Meesh's Pieces)

Agnes (Flowerdisco)

Renee (RockinRenee) 

Angela (Simple Creations)

Cristi

Julie (readysetstamp)

Carissa (Sprinkled with Glitter)

June

Shelley

Helen

Edna (Create With Expression)

Andrea

Chelle (Paper Krate)

Missy

Kassidy

Courtney (Court's Crafts)<---You Are Here :)

Sharon

Tracy (CraftJunkieToo)

Roberta

Karlee

Maria

The thing you can win today is..... 

The Twinery Sampler pack!

*photo taken from The Twinery*

The Twinery was so kind to send this to me for getting published with their twine! Since I already have a ton, I thought I would give it away to one of YOU! Leave a comment here to win! You do not have to be a follower. I will draw a winner in a week. If you want to win and you are international, I just request that you pay for a non-domestic shipping fee. It should be pretty inexpensive given that it's such a light package. :) 

Make sure you hop all the way through to My Pink Stamper's blog so that you can play along with the challenge! 

Now, don't forget to leave a comment for the giveaway and then hop on to Sharon's blog!

Happy Belated Birthday

Hope you all are enjoying the Shop Pumpkin Spice Hop!!! Go to yesterday's post HERE if you haven't hopped and make sure to leave a comment on the Shop Pumpkin Spice blog where you can win $25 to the store! That's a LOT of goodies!!!

I am participating in another last minute challenge. It has to be up today! whew! 

So I made this quick card for a friend. It has to travel across the world and I realized it only has 5 days to get there and probably won't make it on time. So I made it a "belated" one just in case. I hope she likes it! It's clean and simple, but full of a LOT of love!

The challenge was to use a grid and it was a for the Paper Posies Kit Club.

Ugh! I didn't push hard enough with my stamp and left some blank-ish spots, so I went back with a pen and made little dots to kind of fill them in. USER error! haha. It's good to laugh at oneself. 

Here is my entry:

Recipe:

• I used items from their July kit. The papers are: 
• My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Life of the Party "Charmed" Trees Paper™ (green stripes and floral)
• My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Life of the Party "Charmed" Ric-rac Paper™ (ric-rac and woodgrain background)
• i-rock™
• Glam Rocks in Pearl™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Fabulous Phrases™ 
• Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store (THANK YOU to the people who have let her know that you have come from my blog! It means a lot to me and she appreciates it too! :)

Pumpkin Spice Blog Hop and *giveaway alert*!

Hello and welcome to the Pumpkin Spice Blog Hop! Today we are showcasing Crate Paper!!! 

You should have gotten here from Lenae's blog. If not, start HERE at Pumpkin Spice's blog! 

I wanted to leave the sentiment on this blank as I thought it could be used as a "thinking of you", "birthday", "sympathy" or "thank you" note. So until the need arises, it will be blank. :)

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Elegant Edges™
• Patterned Paper:
• Crate Paper: Portrait Collection "Honeymoon"™ (both sides - stripes and yellow flowers)
• Solid Paper:
• Core'dinations: Vintage Collection "Asparagus"™
• Martha Stewart Crystal Tinsel Glitter™
• Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Pewter
• Flowers: Prima Mini Rose Mid Release Sunrise™
• Glossy Accents

Here is the sneak peek from June's kit for November! It's a Christmas card and treat box kit! Keep hopping along to see the sneak peeks and then June is last on the hop to show you a piece of the kit! 

Now hop on over to June's blog! Don't forget to leave comments on the way and also on Shop Pumpkin Spice's blog so that you can be entered to win the $25 gift certificate to Pumpkin Spice!!! 

Burlap & Buttercups Challenge

I found this new kit club called Burlap & Buttercups and it's super cute! 

They have a weekly challenge where you can play each week to compete for a $15 GC to their store. All of your entries are added up for the month and then they pick one winner. :) 

I am putting this in last week's challenge. It was to scrap at an angle... Well, how many projects/cards/whatever have you seen me scrap at an angle? Not many. SO this was a challenge for me! But I LOVE challenges! Wait until you see the one I show you on the 11th! Totally new for me! :) I better get working on it! haha. 

 A new challenge will be posted today. I made this card in 30 minutes flat! Boo-yah! 

Recipe (I will have to come back and fill this in later! I have to get this linked up! :) So if you have any questions about the products, then feel free to ask! :)

HUGS to all! A lot of you asked about the trick or treaters... Sadly, my Co-mom had to work :( So we didn't get to go up to San Francisco and hand out candy :( BUT we had a whopping 13 trick or treaters here at my parent's house! haha. 

Halloween Wreath

Well, this was a last minute project that I made on Halloween! I was feverishly working in the afternoon because I had bought the wreath base and didn't want to hold onto it for a whole year before using it! 

So while it's now past Halloween, I thought you might still enjoy it!

I saw something similar to this wreath SOMEWHERE on the internet! I have NO idea where, but it had the same black wreath base and had rosettes. That's all I could remember about this when I was making it! But I had already bought the black background prior to seeing the inspiration. So anyway if any of you out there in bloggy world know where I saw my inspiration, please let me know so I can give due credit! Thanks! 

I made this for the Echo Park's Dots and Stripes Contest! 

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Happy Hauntings™ (Trick Or Treat)
• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park Paper: Dots and Stripes: Metropolitan "Tuxedo Large Dot"™
• Echo Park Paper: Dots and Stripes: Metropolitan "Tuxedo Small Dot"™
• Echo Park Paper: Dots and Stripes: Metropolitan "Leaf Large Dot"™
• Echo Park Paper: Dots and Stripes: Metropolitan "Leaf Small Dot"™
• Echo Park Paper: Apothecary Emporium Collection and Stickers™
• i-bond by Imaginisce™
• Stickles in Orange™

Have a SUPER birthday!

Our ring bearer's birthday was on Halloween. He is so SMART! His parents even just flew him out to Florida to watch the last space shuttle launch. So with that fresh in his mind, I knew I wanted to make him a rocket card! The one on Nifty Fifties was perfect! 

Recipe:

• Cartridges:
• Nifty Fifties™
• Cake Basics™
• Patterned Paper:
• My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Fly a Kite "Spring" Stars Paper™(stars and green background)
• My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Fly a Kite "Wish" Confetti Paper™ (red stripes)
• My Mind's Eye: Lime Twist: Fly a Kite "Soar" Fly Paper™ (blue)
• Solid cardstock: black and white
• i-rock by Imaginisce™
• Hot Rock Compact in Jewel by Imaginisce™
• Glam Rocks in Pearl by Imaginisce™
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Boy Crazy™

Fall Colors

WOO HOO! Imaginisce November Sketch Challenge time!!! 

Recipe:

• Cartridges:
• Gypsy Wanderings™
• Elegant Edges™
• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "I Love Fall"™ (orange polka dots)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest "Dancing Leaves"™(leaves)
• Canvas Stickers: Imaginisce Happy Harvest Canvas Sticker (fall colors)
• Solid Cardstock:
• Bazzill Basics Java
• Core'dinations Roy-G-Biv (two colors of turquoise)
• Ribbon: PTI
• Foam tape by Imaginisce in white™

I based this on the November Sketch for Imaginisce! I LOVE this sketch! I worked in all of the layers, scalloped side, ribbon (behind sentiment), journaling (sentiment), and the stars are the pumpkins which I squished together. I deleted all of the picture boxes for obvious reasons. 

I hope you play along with us this month for the chance to win BIG! The prize pack is always valued at around $75! That's a LOT of Imaginisce! Just use 75% Imaginisce in your creation and make it great because we all get to judge it! :) We love creative ideas!