grace abounds

Hero Arts had a fall colors challenge that ends in a few hours. I just made it in time. The challenge was to use at least one Hero Arts stamp and one of the 4 color combos they shared last week. I only have 3 HA stamps (which I won from them in random giveaways), so I was limited on what I could do. I was dying to use my new Crackle Paint color, peeled paint, so I started with chipboard. The HA stamp I used is a frame with a butterfly and sentiment inside. I stamped it in Versamark, embossed it in gold, and cut out only the frame to use under my chipboard. All the ribbon is from Maya Road and Cosmo Cricket (yes, I won the ribbon, too!) The inside paper is from a DCWV pad (got that the hard way.... with cash). I had no way of getting the words "in Him" and "abounds" onto the card (my printer is broken), so I hand-wrote it. I hope that doesn't ruin it.

MellyPea from Two Peas in a Bucket does her Warehouse Walk giveaway every Thursday. Hurry up and go here (deadline is Monday @ midnight), watch the video, leave your comment and be sure to check back to see if you won.

Operation Write Home giveaways

Cards for Heroes is now called Operation Write Home and they are celebrating their birthday with LOTS of giveaways. Check it out.

***Forgot to tell you all that you will want to make note of when these blogs will announce the winners. Most will NOT contact you, so you'll need to check the blog on the day the winners are chosen, and email them your address if you win. ***

Class for Scrapbookers.. Hurry!

Kelly Goree is giving away a spot in Sherry Steveson's online scrapbooking class about making great layouts even though you have bad photos. Leave a comment on Kelly's blog by Sunday at midnight telling her about your worst photo. The class starts on Wed. What a fun giveaway!! If you win the spot, you MUST share what you learn with us... I'm curious.

Freebie Fridays

Some of you know that I am the queen of winning scrapbooking stuff. I regularly visit tons of blogs that often giveaway free paper products. I thought it would be neat to feature these giveaways on my blog... to share the love!! So follow my blog and I will hook you up with major goodies. Click on the links I provide. Read the post and leave a comment. It's that easy. I win at least one prize a month, so if your name isn't randomly drawn the first time, don't fret! You WILL win eventually. Tell your friends to follow my blog, too. Everyone wants free stuff.

Making Memories is giving away one of their Desktop Carousels. Just tell them what your fave MM product is. Not sure what they make? Click on "products" in their side bar.

Scrapbook & Cards Today  has a huge giveaway from Creative Escape, a weekend scrap event featuring Heidi Swapp and Tim Holtz. These kind of prizes are my favorite because you don't know all the goodies you'll receive.

Creating Keepsakes is giving away some new Papertrey Ink releases.

Moxie Fab World will give a lucky girl a surprise box of delicious-ness.

Paper Crafts mag has some Halloween paper packs to send your way. Just tell them about your favorite childhood Halloween costume.

See? Super easy to win. Good luck!!

A new contest and a giveaway

So, I found out today that none of my projects won the Moxie Fab challenges, BUT my Classy & Elegant card got a mention as a Top 5 project (out of 89 entries). For my first challenge???? I'll take that. I WAS only a little disappointed that I didn't officially win, but am still on cloud 9 for being mentioned. Super SUPER cool! Oh, and if you leave a comment on this post, you could win a "moxie fab" prize.

I found this new challenge over at Two Peas. It runs for 4 weeks starting next week... a new winner each week receives a Cricut cart. Nice.

And Cricut is just giving carts away to celebrate their 100th cartridge. All you need to do is leave a comment under the post. 

If you win any of these, come back and tell me. Good luck!

Reindeer Flying Dust

This is a tic tac container that I filled with 2 different colors of glitter to hopefully fool a child into thinking it's NOT glitter :) It's Reindeer Flying Dust of course! I thought it would be cute to give this to your child along with this letter:

Dear Audrey,

Because you are always on my nice list, I know I can count on you to keep this secret. Sometimes my reindeer get tired and cannot finish delivering all the toys. (We fly all over the world, you know.) This little bottle holds some special reindeer flying dust. Leave it out for me on Christmas Eve so I can sprinkle a little on Rudolph and his friends if they are feeling tired.

Remember: This only works on my reindeer, so don’t waste it on any puppies or goldfish.

Love,

Santa Claus

Wouldn't it be fun for your child to set this out for Santa next to his cookies and milk?

And find this on Christmas morning?

Paper is from MAMBI (I fussy cut the reindeer out.). The ribbon is from American Crafts. And the glitter is Martha's. Oh, I also used some Stickles on Rudolph's nose and ornaments.

BUSTED!!!

I haven't set up this blog to email me when I get comments, so I didn't know what I'd see when I popped on today. 18 followers?!?!?!?!? What in the world? I'm giggling hysterically like I did when I saw the plus sign on the pregnancy test 3 years ago. Someone let the cat out of the bag and said QueenBscraps sent her. I knew right away who the Queen B was.... did a little search on the Cricut board and there was her sweet message. Caught red-handed!!
Thank you, Britten for spreading the word (what a great friend I got!!!) and THANK YOU ladies for all your sweet comments. I am so humbled and a little embarrassed. And feeling some pressure to post some projects. Just what I need.
Thanks again for the welcome and encouragement.