Blog Candy continues. . .

I promised a picture of the blog candy give away and just can't get it to upload, so I will tell you what's in the give away with a picture hopefully to follow tomorrow. As stated earlier, the prize will include an assortment of embellishments from Close to my Heart, these will include Just Blooms Paper Flowers, Bigger Brads, Ribbon Rounds, Rub-on's, and of course a stamp set, With Love.

So submit your ideas by Friday and enter to win this fabulous gift package.

Computer Issues. . .

Gotta love technology!!! I'm having difficulty uploading pictures to my blog so I'm going to try tomorrow at work. I know I'm behind on my creative idea for the day and I promise I will have the days that're missing uploaded tomorrow. Hopefully the rest will go smoothly from home. I have four days off from work and plan to spend at least one day doing nothing but creating and trying the projects I've got listed to do. So stay tunned for more creative ideas and a new "special" coming December 1st.

Day Twenty One. . .

OK, finally here's two of the five cards we're making at my card workshop tomorrow and tonight's creative idea.








I created two of each card to show the versility of Close to my Heart's new double sided background and texture papers. My customers will only get to make one card and they can decide which side to use.

Hope these inspire your creativity. . .

It's Finally Here. . .

So I've been waiting patiently for a month or so for the new Hello Kitty Big Shot machine from Sizzix to be available. Well, it was available on Sizzix.com a couple weeks ago and I ordered it that night, it finally arrived this past Tuesday, but I hadn't had a chance to actually play with it until tonight. Of course, I had to take pictures of my new little toy. For those who aren't Hello Kitty crazed, here's some pictures of it.

I love it!! I tried out the Sizzix Texturz plates and my Cuttlebug embossing folders, everything works great. The Sizzix Texturz plates aren't as deep an emboss as the Cuttlebug folders, but I really like them. The Cuttlebug folders actually tore my paper, maybe because they're designed for the Cuttlebug machine. I also didn't run the wax paper over the paper before I ran it through (I think I read that somewhere on the net, just like what you do with the traditional brass stencels). Will have to try that next time.

Yeah Me!!!!!

I'm all set for my card workshop tomorrow. I can't believe I've actually got everything done and it's not 2:00am. Maybe I'll actually have a chance to do something creative tonight. I'll post a couple of the cards that we're making tomorrow for tonight's creative idea.

Day Twenty. . .

With my card workshop this Sat, I've still got things that need to be done, so I'm posting another card for today's creative idea. I really like this card. It's nice and bright. it's perfect for that someone special. All supplies are from Close to my Heart.


I hope to find some "me" time this weekend to try some of the projects I've put on the back burner the last month or so.

So until tomorrow. . .

Blog Candy Update. . .

I think I might have confused everyone with the blog candy "rules". The winner will be drawn at random. I just wanted to see how everyone did with the idea of embellishing "premade" cards. So send your great cards in to be entered in the random drawing.

THIS JUST IN. . .

Creations by Laurie is announcing the first official blog candy give away. From now until Black Friday you can enter to win an assortment of Close to my Heart embellishments and a My Acrylix stamp set. Entering is easy, just create a card as outlined below and submit it to me. That's it. How easy is that. Please note that a picture of the winning entry will be posted on my blog.

Rules:

Take a premade card you can purchase at any craft store, these are the type that are designed on the front with little or no embellishments. Then you take a few minutes and add some ribbon, flowers, brads, and bling. You can stamp a sentiment to add to it if wanted. Post here with a link to the card and recipe (please include your email so I can contact you if you win), or email me at welajo@aol.com with your creation and recipe attached, type BLOG CANDY in the subject line. Please include the brand of the card you use.

I will have a picture of the candy tomorrow night.

Good Luck. . .

Day Nineteen. . .

Today's idea doesn't include a picture, I actually "borrowed" the idea from my good friend Miranda (check her blog out: http://www.scrampinwithmiranda.com/). She got the idea from another blog by Erin G
( http://inkysmiles.blogspot.com/2008/10/five-minute-cards.html) The idea is to take a premade card you can purchase at any craft store, these are the type that are designed on the front with little or no embellishments. Then you take a few minutes and add some ribbon, flowers, brads, and bling. Stamp a sentiment to add to it and wha lah, the handmade look without alot of time. At this busy time of year who couldn't use some quick and easy crafting.

I'd love to see what you do with this idea, so I'm offering up some blog candy for this one. The way to play is simple, create a card using this simple plan and post here with a link to the card and recipe (please include your email so I can contact you if you win), or email me at welajo@aol.com with your creation and recipe attached, type BLOG CANDY in the subject line. I will draw one lucky winner from all entries. I'm leaving this open until "Black Friday" (the day after Thanksgiving). This lucky winner will receive an assortment of embellishments and a My Acrylix stamp set from Close to my Heart.

So get creating and have fun. . .

New Tree. . .

OK, so I found out you could change the look of the countdown tree I have on the right side. They didn't offer pink anything (how rude) so I went with the closest color, red. I used silver to accent it. I think it looks pretty good for not being pink.