Use What You Have Challenge

I made quite a few layouts last weekend for The Studio's charity:water event that I haven't shared yet.  Here's one of them.

March 2011 issue

This was for a challenge by Jen Jockish to "Use What You Have" on your craft table.  I could make TONS of layouts with just what I have on my table!  Besides a tray of current fave papers and a bucket of fave stamps, I have a little tray where "extra" stickers, stamped images, ribbon fragments, diecuts, etc. land.  It's overflowing! 

Every embellie you see here except for the letter stickers in "discover" were in this tray:  a couple of Silhouette diecuts I'd painted and heated a while back, some flowers used as masks for mist on my "I Collect Dust" layout, a fragment of my stamp blotter, a ribbon fragment, and a Dymo word that just didn't work out.

These are some die cut "center" pieces (the parts you're supposed to throw away) and a little mirror (in which you can see my camera reflected).

Details:  DCWV paper, Diecuts - Silhouette, Cricut; Michaels ribbon, Dymo tape; Prima flowers; Paint - Ranger, Making Memories ; Stampin' Up! blotter; Hero Arts stamp; StazOn ink; Darice mirror; Glimmer Mist; AdornIt letter stickers; staples.

Thanks for stopping by!

Heidi

The Candy Is GROWING!!! + I'm Being LIFTED + GDT Challenge, + Scrap For a Cause! + A Torendi Sale

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BLOG CANDY IS GROWING!!

My visitors counter just tipped over 16K!!  Which mean MORE CANDY added to my blog candy pot.

How about a retired Stampin' Up! stamp set this time?? 

All I Have Seen

This is a set of 4 wood-mounted rubber stamps (brand new, unmounted) that is no longer available.  These would make GREAT layout embellies or beautiful cards.  Silhouettes are so hot right now!

So, what're we up to now?  A 147-pc scrapbook set, a beautiful Stampin' Up! Designer Series 12x12 Paper pack, and now a 4-pc stamp set.

Great for family layouts!

Just in time for the winter holidays!

A reminder on how to win this candy:

I will give everyone who comments on THIS ORIGINAL POST by 11:59pm EST November 30 an entry to win this candy, which will be drawn randomly on December 1.

Everyone who is a follower will get an entry also.

And, everyone who posts about my blog candy will get another entry. Please make a unique comment to this original post with the link to where you posted. If you post more than one place (your blog, a forum *where allowed*, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) make a separate comment for each link. I'm leaving it up to you guys to a) give yourselves as many entries as you want by commenting on separate comments - as in, I'm not going to comb thru looking for comments that should count as 2 entries, and b) I'm trusting you guys to not "cheat" for entries - but none of my followers would do that because you are all a great bunch of people, so this is a moot point! LOL!

If you post about my blog candy in your sidebar, come back and comment AGAIN with the link for another entry.

And remember, I'll keep adding to the blog candy pot until 11/30. 

For every 1000 hits, I'll add something else!!  (So at 17K, 18K, etc.)


Aaaand, if I hit 100 followers, I'll kick in something else!

AND, for every 25 followers after that I'll kick in more!!!

CRAZY I tell ya!!

See, the way I see it, yes it's fun to see hits and comments and followers, but for every person who reads this blog I'm also exposing them to all the Design Teams I'm on and great sites and blogs I've got listed in my sidebar so it's a virtual lovefest for everyone involved!!!

So, come one!  Help a girl out helping my favorite blogs and challenges and sites out!!  Spread the word!!  Remember that 70s shampoo commercial?  You tell 2 friends, and she'll tell 2 friends, and she'll tell 2 friends, and so on, and so on, and so on...

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I'M BEING SCRAPLIFTED!!

Jen over on Challenge U 2 is hosting a SCRAPLIFT OF ME this weekend!!

This Layout!

Click for Details.

I'm so excited!!  I am so HONORED!  Pop on over there to play along!! 

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SKETCHY THURSDAYS DECEMBER GUEST DESIGN TEAM CHALLENGE IS UP!

Come, play along with us!!!

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THE STUDIO charity:water WEEKEND EXTRAVAGANZA IS UNDERWAY!!

Challenges posting every 2 hours from now until 2pm EST Sunday!!  EVERY SINGLE CHALLENGE has an unbelieveable prize (that's 25 prizes up for grabs) PLUS there will be a couple overall winners!! 

See THIS POST for details about the amazing charity benefitting from this scrapfest. 

Hop on over to The Studio to begin playing along. 

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TORENDI SALE

The Torendi store is having an awesome sale going on now through 11/16!! 

Japanese imports are 15% off and Japanese stamps are 30% off!! Killer deals!!
 
Look at some of these adorable goodies just waiting to come home to you:
 

Birthday Cake stamps

 

"Fuss" tape - it's almost 2" wide!!!

A Taste of Torendi

And Torendi always offers $5 shipping on all orders.
 
(Psst!  Check out this week's sketch challenge on Sketchy Thursdays...Torendi is our sponsor and they're offering all Sketchy Thursdays followers a 15% of their entire order coupon code!!)


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Whew!  Lots going on!  Thanks for hanging with me to the end of the post! 
 
Have a great weekend! 
 
Heidi

charity:water and Sketchy Thursdays

Remember I said I loved this week's Sketchy Thursdays sketch so much I would just have to make another layout with it??!! 

This time I actually used mist & paint!!!!

These pictures were taken at the California Adventure amusement park a couple years ago.  They have a great splash pad for the kiddies!

I love how sparkly Glimmer Mist is but it's so hard to pick that up in pictures.

You can see I also covered the "splashes" with Diamond Glaze. 

I ~heart~ alcohol inks, too.  They work wonders to custom color so many things, like these rhinestones, for instance.

These started as plain, clear rhinestones.

Details: Paper - Crate Paper, We R Memory Keepers; Pebbles Inc. labels; Jewelry Essentials rhinestones; Ranger alcohol ink; Making Memories paint; Glimmer Mist; JudiKins Diamond Glaze

Be sure to play along this week on Sketchy Thursdays for your chance to win a fabulous prize from Studio Calico!!  Hook up to Mr. Linky in the Sketchy Thursdays sidebar.

Do you remember me telling you about a wonderful charity event coming up this month to benefit charity:water?  See this post for more details. 

The charity:water event over on The Studio is happening this weekend!! 

It is chock-full of challenges and prizes.  And Sketchy Thursdays is sponsoring a challenge and a prize!!!  I'm not going to let the cat out of the bag what the challenge will be (my layout above is a good hint, however) because I want you to come play with us this weekend!!

See THIS POST over on the Sketchy Thursdays site for all the details.

Have a great evening!

Heidi

charity:water

Meet charity: water.

Have a good look around, get to know them. They are doing wonders in areas that don’t have what most of us take for granted - clean water. Just think about it for a minute… imagine what it would be like to be without this necessity. Hard to imagine, isn’t it? It’s hard to imagine being without something that is always there. Something you never have to think or worry about. But a lot of people do worry. One billion people do, in fact. They face every day without that life giving luxury that we throw around like, um, water.

Now meet Amanda from The Studio.  She started talking to everyone she knew. And everyone she didn’t really know. And everyone they knew. Soon she had something incredible going on. And now, SHE NEEDS YOU!

Starting at 7pm (GMT) on Friday 13th November they will be hosting a BIG scrapbooking event. It will last for 48 hours and there will be games, challenges, special guests and PRIZES! A new challenge will be posted every 2 hours for the whole weekend! And there's an unbelievable grand finale:  Cathy Zielske will be setting the final challenge!!!! 

For a while now Cathy Z has used her online voice to reach the thousands of scrapbookers who frequent her website and started this pretty cool campaign: Scrapbookers for clean water. Her campaign supports charity: water.

There will be a prize for each and every challenge they post over the weekend and a prize for the overall winner of the event! More details will follow on how it will all work. For now, they need to get everyone signed up and ready to go! Of course, they are starting off as they mean to continue – with some prizes! Everyone who signs up to play and makes a donation before 20th October will be entered into a random draw to win one of five of these cool kits from Cosmo Cricket!

Now you’re paying attention!!  ;o)

Here’s what you need to do to play:

1. To sign up for the event click here. You need to register and then join the charity: water event to start the ball rolling. If you’re playing for fun, that’s all you need to do.

2. If you want to be in to win the prizes you need to make a donation. Whatever you can spare. They aren’t into pressure at all. There are 2 ways to donate, here on Cathy’s page OR here to The Studio's charity: water Paypal address. If you donate directly to Cathy’s page you MUST enter the following into the comments box: “My donation for thestudio.scrapbook-101.com charity: extravaganza” so they know you’ve donated and can include you in the prize drawings.

3. Once you’re signed up and have made your donation leave a comment on the wall in the event area letting them know that you’re ready to play! If you are unable to donate they’d still love to have you play along anyway but, sorry, the prizes will be off limits! There is a chat group set up here for you to start getting to know your fellow players!

4. Sit back and watch the fun unfold. The Studio will be having prize giveaways leading up to the event and then the real excitement begins at 7pm (GMT) on 13th November! It’s going to be fabulous!

Be sure to check out the list of sponsors so far that are donating for this wonderful event for this wonder cause.  It's a very impressive list and it's only going to get longer!!  Be sure to keep checking back for updates!!  (I'm guessing you'll see a sponsor close to my heart showing up soon.  I'm just sayin'...Stay tuned!)  If you would like the opportunity to sponsor this amazing event The Studio would love to hear from you!  Drop them an email to Amanda@scrapbook-101.com and do something great today!

So now, go forth, tell everyone you know. And everyone you don’t know. Just like I did!