Another Blog Giveaway... or two...

Just thought I'd share a link to another great blog giveaway... If you are like me, the MME papers are something you wait for and can't wait to work with. Here's your chance to get some of the new ones!!!

My Mind's Eye Giveaway at "Created by Leanne"

Then there is Arlene at Butterfly Kissses who is offering an incredible blog candy giveaway! You definitely need to go check it out!

Good luck and thanks for stopping by!!!

Card Patterns Sketches and More

Here are a few fun cards I was able to create using the awesome sketches at Card Patterns. The first was done using sketch #23 and the other two were done using the bonus sketch from July.

And here's what else I've been up to for the past few weeks. It's been a long time since I've uploaded anything so I'm doing it all at once... The layouts first...

And then a few more cards. THANKS for stopping by and taking a looksie...

Looking for something fun to do next month???

Check out the ABC Summer crop at My Sketch World. It's sure to provide you with tons of inspiration and great fun!

Awesome new (to me anyway) paper line!!!

Check out the new Bella Blvd. papers being released this summer! I've never worked with their papers, but they look awesome and I may just be giving them a try. I especially like the super cute designs of the "Camped Out" and the fabulous color combinations of the "Plastino". Head on over to their blog to see a little sneak preview of what they have. While you're there read about how you can have a chance to win some freebies!

One hour card sketch at MSW!

My Sketch World is hosting its first ever one hour card sketch challenge. Come on over and join in the fun!

Here are the particulars:
- Friday, July 24th
- Sketches posted at 9:00pm EST
- Finished cards need to be posted in the gallery and linked to sign in thread by 10:20pm EST.
- The 6 sentiments we are working with will be posted the day before so you can pull papers and get psyched up.
- 6 sketches will be posted and you will get one prize draw for each card completed and posted by 10:20pm EST.
- All action will take place the "Card Challenges Forum.
- WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!! Ummm...I mean....It's going to be a swell time!!

Card Patterns Sketch 22

Card Patterns is a GREAT sketch site that posts a new sketch week - you should definitely go check them out if you haven't been there yet. Here's what I did with sketch #22...

Card was made using MME patterned paper, K and Co. Butterfly, Studio G stamp, and Misc. rubons that were in my left-over piles. TFL!

Free Cuttlebug!!!

Melissa Bove is offering you all the chance to win a free Cuttlebug! For more details, check out this link! Good luck to everyone who enters!

My Girl Mini Album (Repost)

Just wanted to re-post the images of my "My Girl" mini-album... they had to be removed last fall for publication... ENJOY!

Blog Candy Alert!

Just thought I'd share another opportunity for some blog candy that I just read about... Head on over to Creating from the Heart for your chance to win some fabulous goodies! Have a happy scrappy day!

It's been a crazy busy spring and I'm finally starting to get a few spare moments to do some scrapping... I will be back to post some of my creations soon!

What to do, what to do???

Man oh, man is this weekend packed with scrappy goodness! Scrapbookdoodle continues with their month long birthday bash (until April 30), Creative Scrappers is kicking off their Birthday Bash (April 19 - May 3), and My Sketch World is beginning it's weeklong crop (April 18 - 25)! It is going to be tough deciding where to start!!! On top of it all, I have my DT stuff to work on for Scrappy Chic! And then there's my homework... Hope everyone has an awesome weekend!

Great Chance for A Great RAK!!!

Just thought I'd share a great new blog I've come across. Jennifer over at Phoenix Crafts is celebrating a year of blogging! In honor of that, she is offering the chance to win an amazing package of scrapping goodies (see pic). Check out her blog and you could be the lucky winner!

Phoenix Crafts

Good luck to all!!!

One more week until Easter!!!

This Palm Sunday weekend has been a pretty good one around here... The weather was good enough for the kiddos to play outside most of the weekend and now we are settling down to get ready to head back to school tomorrow. We are looking forward to a short school week and a visit with my parents for Easter.

Since the kids were fully entertained with their friends, I had the chance to get some good scrapping done this weekend... I finished five layouts and several cards/tags. Three of them are for the month long crop over at Scrapbookdoodle.com and you can view them there (we can't post them anywhere else until the end of the month). My screen name there is Scrappy_Mom_in_MI. The others are below for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy your Easter week preparations and springtime activities this week!

Lookin' for some scrappy fun???

Well if you are looking for some scrappy fun this month, head on over to Scrapbookdoodle.com and join in their birthday bash crop! It is Scrapbookdoodle's 2nd birthday and we are all celebrating with an entire month of challenges, games and chances for prizes! So, what are you waiting for? Click here to see what you've been missing!

Attention Card Makers!!!

One of my online friends is hosting an event to help with her required fundraising for the Breast Cancer 3 Day... If you happen to make cards and would be willing to send just one of those cards to her, please check out the details on her blog: http://scrapinator.blogspot.com/2009/03/normal-0-false-false-false.html
I plan to send several cards since I have been making cards like mad lately and could never use all of the ones I have made! Hope you all can participate!

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Went to the garage sale at Scrappy Chic this weekend and took my daughter... She took her own money and I let her pick out her own scrappy goodies. Shen came home with a good sized bag of rubber stamps which she has already put to good use. There were some great deals to be had for sure - some of the littler stamps she picked up were only $0.05 with the most expensive one being $3. She was thrilled!

I found a couple of great deals as well... An Autumn Leaves acrylic stamp set for $3, Acrylic block (about 3x4) for $2, a pack of rub-ons, a couple of chipboard mini-albums and some miscellaneous embellishments...

I headed for home so that I would be able to participate in the one hour sketch challenge at Creative Scrappers and ended up with this layout...

I was also able to finish up a layout for a challenge at Scrapbook.com using Graphic 45 papers and a bunch of cards for the month-long card challenge at Your Memories By Design.

Monday was back to finalizing my DT requirements for the month of March... Did a little mini-album for spring and LOVE the way it turned out. I still need to take photos of it so you will have to wait another day or two to check it out... Have a scrappy week!

Scrappy Weekend

These are just a few of the pages I've completed this weekend... All of these were done using the fun goodies from the DT kit for this month at Scrappy Chic... Thanks a ton Staci for pushing me to use some products I may not have chosen for myself, but have fallen in love with now that I've experimented! It seems like Staci must have been checking out my photos somehow, because the papers she picked for me worked so well...


Hope you enjoy looking!

Hooo Do You Love?? Mini-Album

Just wanted to share this fun mini-album I just finished about a week ago as part of my first month on the DT at Scrappy Chic... As fun as this album was, it was definitely a major project - I worked on it for about ten hours at the all night crop at Scrappy Chic, and that wasn't counting the time I had already put into it before the crop. I am happy with the results though...

Hope you all enjoy!!!

Amazing Month

Wow! What a month...

I just found out that I will be a Card DT member for My Sketch World! It is an awesome new forum that compliments the blog that has been around for nearly 2 years (Feb 19 is the two year anniversary and start of the weekend long crop!!!) Stop in and check out the fun this weekend!

Between this and my new responsibilities at Scrappy Chic I will be sure to keep busy with plenty of scrappy projects! Here are the first layouts I've created for Scrappy Chic!