fresh & fun

About two weeks ago I about The Creating Keepsake special Issue: Easy Patterns for Scrapbooking. I love the layout ideas for the pages, as well as cards in there. One particular jumped out at me and I thought I case it really quick with Stampin’ Up! products.

The paper was picked pretty quickly, since I am in love with the new Petals and Paisley Designer paper. ThenI tried to sew the border. First, my machine was out of batteries. Then my LCD screen of my Pfaff didn’t show anything anymore. I changed the settings without seeing what I was doing and checked it on scrap paper until I had it the way I wanted.  I guess I will have to find a Pfaff dealer here in the area now.

As you can see in the photo, I played around with several circle colors and sizes before settling on the yellow background paper with teal backing. The flight dots are first free hand pierced then enhanced with black journaling marker. The saying and dragonfly are from the You Make me Happy stamp set from the spring mini catalog.

Girls (and boys) you are making me feel all warm and fuzzy!!!! I can’t believe I already reached this milestone! Thank you for coming to visit! I am having so much fun with this blog!

To celebrate this milestone, I will give away more candy!!!!!

This candy contains

• over 60 sheets of inspiration sheets for current Stampin’ Up! stamp sets. I always give those out to every new downline of mine to help her get ideas!
• CANDY! Five delicious pieces of dark dove chocolate (I can’t swipe more than that from Rick’s stash!!! He loves those)
• A  “Flirty” ribbon pack from Stampin’ Up!’s winter mini catalog.A pack of multi colored mini binding clips from Target
• My Challenge card from this morning
• Mini binding clips from Target

So we get to know each other a bit better, please post a comment and answer these two questions:

1. What is your favorite candy or dessert?
2. What is your favorite drink?

Your name will then be put into drawing!

 Lucas can’t wait to pick the number of the lucky winner and create a winning number sign like Rebecca did last time!

I would have to say my favorite American Candy is Milky Way (the original).I love anything with caramel and chocolate. Close second would be Twix. My favorite dessert might just be the chocolate cake at Zio’s. My favorite drink is diet coke! I am seriously addicted!!!

All entries up to midnight central time on Friday the 02nd of March are eligible. I will announce the winner on Saturday morning.

 Thanks again for visiting me and making this blog so much fun! Hugs and big old smile!

I made a quick challenge card for today’s layout challenge. I am usually not really keen to have three images in a row. But that’s why it’s called a challenge, right?

I decided on using the Heart from the Doodle That set and a saying from Curvy Verses. I used some paper from the Love Me designer paperand ribbon from the Flirty ribbon pack.

The hearts were colored with Taken with Teal, Cool Caribbean, Regal Rose and Rose Red Classic ink and aqua painter and adhered to the card with dimensionals.

I can’t upload to my gallery on splitcoast right now, so I guess this challenge card will only be shown here.

I will send this card out with my next blog candy when I hit 10,000 visits! Thank you so much for visiting my blog!!!

I got lots to do today….so off I go for now. Have a great Tuesday! Don’t forget. It’s the last day get your Free Sell-A-Bration sets, if you don’t have them yet! Don’t miss out on that wonderful Special!!!

For all my blog friends and visitors in the North, I took pictures of the flowers blooming in my backyard right now. They are so pretty. I don’t know what they are called, but I thought you would like to see the first signs of spring!