fresh & fun

Thank you all so much for sticking with me when I took some time off to be with my family. Thank you for your thoughts, prayers and support.

While I was taking my break, my blog counter snug over 1,000,000. Yesterday it passed another 100,000. It’s definitely time for some candy!

I will raffle away a new and unmounted Stampin’ Up! set called Wild Rose along with some retired ribbon.

To participate in the raffle, just leave a comment on this post.

Only one comment per person.

Please add your entry number to your comment (Post number +1).

I will pick a winner with help of random.org tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. CST.

 I wish I could give away bigger gifts and hold blog candys more often. I am so grateful for all your visits and support. But I am not affiliated with any company (besides being a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator) and the blog candy always comes out of my own pocket.

It’s that time again. I crossed 900,000 hits on the counter and want to celebrate with you!

This time the winner of this drawing will receive

an unmounted set of All I Have Seen

Vanilla Ribbon from the Beachfront Ribbon Original pack

a blank Meander book (tutorial will come next week on SCS)

To enter the drawing leave a comment on this post.

Please add your comment number. It’s the number of posts you see on this post+1.

Only one comment per person! I will determine a winner with help from random.org and post it on Thursday morning at 10:00 a.m.

Thanks so much for being patient with me over the last two weeks! I can’t wait to get back to creating. Hopefully two more days and I will be back to my usual routine!

Again, sorry that I am so quiet. I can’t get back into my stamp rhythm. Yesterday was dark here all day. I have a hard time stamping when I can’t see the sun. I don’t know why.Thank goodness we only had horrid rain falls, Pensacola (an hour away from us) got hit by a tornado and we were under Tornado warning for a while.

Can you believe the ticker just passed 800,000??? Because of that, the winner of this sketch challenge will receive an unmounted set of “Stamp of Authenticity“. I guess with that many hits I am a genuine blogger. LOL

I like easy sketches. Can you tell?

To participate in the challenge and be entered in the stamp set raffle, make a card with this layout and upload it either to your blog, or to an online gallery.

 If you upload your card on SCS, put WSC24  (NO SPACE INBETWEEN WSC AND 24) in the keyword section. That way we can look at all of them at once!

Post a link to your card to THIS blog entry as a comment. Please add your entry# to it.

I will determine the winner of the clear stamps with Random.org on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m.

I used my little tree card as inspiration for today’s sketch.

I made the sketch into a rectangle, since last weeks sketch challenge was a square.

I will post a new sample for this sketch later.

To see samples made with this sketch now, check out the blogs of

Charmaine Ikach

Jenn Balcer 

Laurie Schmidlin 

Lori Craig

MaryJo Albright

Sharon Harnist

Have fun creating! I can’t wait to see what you come up with.

SCS submissions

Say WHAT? Oh my goodness….maybe my ticker is broken? I can’t believe I hit 700,000!!!!

Help me celebrate this milestone!!!

Add a comment to this post to be eligible for the freebies.

One comment per person.

Please add your entry number to your comment!

I will draw the lucky winner on Monday at 9:00 a.m. CST with the help from Random.org.

The winner will receive:

• One unmounted Headline Alpha stamp set
• Ribbon from the retired Prep School Ribbon originals (about 2 yards each)

If you have time to stamp a card, or have a card already stamped, please think about sending it to a girl in Texas named Victoria. She has cancer. Her teacher set up a map and would love for her to get a card from each State.

Please help us to fill that map and lift Victorias spirit! It’s easy for us to whip out a card. Let’s do it for a great cause.

 You can read more about her story at Courtney’s blog. Courtney is also running a blog candy for everyone sending Victoria a card. I think that is a great idea. I think I will do the same. Let’s really shower this girl with cards!

Angel is offering card candy as well to stampers who send a card to Victoria.

Make a card for Victoria and upload it online, either your blog or SCS gallery. Add a link to your card to this post. Please also add your State, so we know how close we are getting to covering all 50 States.

The teacher would like all the cards to be send by the 27th of September, so I will  draw a winner on the 28th of September at 10:00 a.m. with Random.org.

The Fresh & Fun Freebies for this drawing include some of each pink May Arts ribbon I own as well as this Lizzie Anne Cling Stamp set. I thought it would be appropriate since Cancer is one long Journey!

Please add your Entry # to your post.

Thanks so much!!!

States sending mail so far: AL, CA, FL, GA, HI, IL, IN, KY,  MA, MD, MI, MN, NV, NY, OH,  OR, PA,  SC, TN, VA, WA , WI, WV

Other countries: Australia, Canada (Alberta, BC, Nova Scotia, Ontario), France, Germany, Ireland, Newfoundland, Scottland

Random Org picked #379, that’s Charlene Austin!

Charlene, please contact me so I can send you your set!

Thank you all for entering the raffle and your kind words! I am floored by all your support.

Hugs and smiles

Heather Imhoff Says: August 29th, 2007 at 7:14 pm eCongratulations!! I love using my punches or cutting out images for my cards. You can fill up any spaces that look too empty this way.

Entry #181

Random Org picked the number 181! Congratulations, Heather! Please send me your snail mail address, so that I can get the ribbon in the mail to you!

It looks like most of you are like me and have several must haves for your cards. Most mentioned accessory was ribbon though. I don’t know if it was because you were looking of a picture of ribbon, or because it is the number one embellishment for you.

Hugs and smiles

….before I even noticed.  Here is just a small Fresh and Fun Freebie to celebrate the Milestone that just snug by.

Ribbon, ribbon and more ribbon.  There are small pieces in it from my bin at my desk. It was overflowing and in need of emptying. There are bigger gorgeous pieces of May Arts ribbon in it. All in all it’s a 6×6x6 priority box full of ribbon!

If you are interested in having a chance to make it all your own and roll in it (optional, but fun choice), please post a comment under this post. Let me know what is a must have on your cards.

You guys know that for me, it’s some kind of stamping with All in a Row and brads. Optional and most likely you will also find something in chocolate chip, ribbon and punching going on. I am big into circular shapes as well.

Please only one comment per person. I will draw a name Friday morning at 9 a.m. with Random.org.

Random.org picked #39:

jenny moors Says: August 19th, 2007 at 2:35 am eWow, What gorgeous cards. That butterfly is so lovely, on my wish list which is so very long!!!!! I did a card as well on my blog, www.stampingmoments.blogspot.com Have a good weekend.

Entry #39

Jenny made this beauty for the challenge:

Thank you to everyone who tried out the sketch. I am having a blast to check them all out. It’s amazing how different each card looked! I loved them all.

Check back on Friday morning for another sketch! Hugs and smiles

Random.org picked Entry #79. The winner is Beth with this card:

You can find more of her work on her blog  A Stampin’ Good Time.

Thank you all for trying out the sketch. I was dazzled by your creations. They  turned out wonderful! Hugs and smiles