"four" - Lil Scrappin Mama challenge

Lil Scrappin Mama has their very first Friday Challenge up so I thought I'd give it a go. 

You must use this sketch and include at least one embellie you made:

Here's my interpretation:

All sorts of tags from my daughter's clothes (can you tell we do our part to support Disney?), a Barbie card, a Barbie Mariposa cut out from the DVD cover, and lots of other little "girly" treasures. 

My daughter can't stop petting the mini Tink t-shirt.  That clear acrylic piece next to it says "OH the drama". 

Here you can see my handmade embellie...my Starbucks cupholder butterfly.  Had to cover it with pink mist, glitter, and rhinestones, of course. 

Here's a close up of the Barbie plus my circular element, which happens to be a DVD that didn't record right so now it's fair game for my scrap pages.  The word "four" is covered with some holographic fine pink & purple glitter from Art Glitter.  Yum!

The Lil Scrappin Mama November Kit is up for grabs.  I was fortunate enough to get an October kit and if the November one is half as good as that one, I soooo want it!!! 

Check out the Lil Scrappin Mama site.  They have some great products and amazing inspiration. 

Have a good evening!

Heidi

SPCC #24

Just wanted to shout out that SPCC's newest color challenge is up!

I haven't had a chance to play along yet with this cool combo but hop on over to the SPCC blog to check out what some of the other SP Divas made for your inspiration.  Very inspiring stuff indeed!

- Heidi

Deanne has BLOG CANDY (and it's Cosmo Cricket!)

Deanne of Three Trees {paper} Creations has some super YUMMY blog candy up for grabs until the end of the week! 

The Cosmo Cricket Boyfriend/Earth Love double stack!!!! 

AND there's a runner-up prize:  a Colorbok chipboard snowman book plus 5 studioG Christmas themed stamps!!! 

Head on over to her blog for your chance to win!  And while you're there, check out her amazing creations!  This girl has some talent.  (Oh, p.s. - she's also one of our newest SP Divas!!!! Woot!  Woot!)

- Heidi

Set Your Dreams Free

Happy Monday to you all! 

This week's prompt over on Spunky Scrappers is "free". 

Details:  DCWV paper; KI Memories "bubbles; unknown typewriter key brads; thread.

Head on over to the Spunky sight to see how the rest of the Design Team interpreted the prompt.  We also have a Guest Design Team member this time!!

I'd love to see you play along!

Have a great Monday!

Heidi

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

Looking for Unity Friday Friends With Flair? 

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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

Always Bring Your Own Sunshine

Happy Friday Friends With Flair!!!!

So loving my Unity Stamp Company October KOTM, although I haven't used very many images yet.  I intend to...just haven't had the chance. 

This card is just chock-full of shimmery goodness but it's just not presenting itself here.  Oh, well.

This one isn't much better.  Oh, well.

I went for the Trifecta with this week's Design Dollies challenges on this card - color: black & turquoise; elements: distressing; sketch:

The circle element is covered with crackle medium.  Most everything is either crinkled, crumpled, docked, inked, and/or shredded.  Like the mat?  It's a piece of paper towel hit with some turquoise and black Glimmer Mist.  The black mat is docked all over the edges with the Stampin' Up perferator tool and then I rubbed turquoise Stickles in the marks. 

Details:  Paper - Stampin' Up!, The Paper Company; Unity Stamp Company stamps; Ink - StazOn, ColorBox, VersaMark; Stampendous embossing powder; Prima Flowers; Stampin' Up! distressing tool; Michaels ribbon; Stickles; Marvy Uchida punch; Unknown twine & butterfly bead; Bounty paper towel.

OMG - Did you SEE the new Unity Donna Downey stamp set??!!  How about the T-Shirts?  And there's an amazing 30% off sale going on, too!!!

Hope you have a great Friday and wonderful prospects for the coming weekend!

Heidi

 p.s.  Don't forget, today at 2pm EST The Studio's charity:water weekend extravaganza begins!!  There are challenges posting every 2 hours all weekend long and you will not BELIEVE all the prizes up for grabs.  Check it out!!  (See my post HERE for more details.)

p.p.s.  Sketchy Thursdays is posting their December Guest Design Team Challenge this morning!!

Sketchy Thursdays Goes Torendi

It's time once again for your weekly Sketchy Thursdays sketch fix!

Once again, Diana hits it out of the park!

Here's my interpretation:

As we often stress over on Sketchy Thursdays, our sketches are for your inspiration.  We don't expect you to always copy them literally (although that's perfectly fine, too).  So, as you can see, I flipped a 180 with this weeks sketch. 

My son loves to build things out of all sorts of materials so I went with a mechanical, robot, tools, cogs sort of theme. 

He gets into the intricacies of what he's building so I thought this little toy magnifying glass fit in quite well:

Details:  Paper - DCWV, Cosmo Cricket, Stampin' Up!, The Paper Company; Punches - Stampin' Up!, Marvy Uchida, Crop-a-Dile;  unknown eyelets & magnifying glass. 

Wait til you hear who is the sketch sponsor this week....

Torendi!!  (yea!)  

And just lOOk at what they are offering up to one lucky winner:

A super fun collection of "torendi" products: American Crafts Elle Haute Boxed Ribbon, Bam Pop! Dream Chipboard, and 2 Bam Pop! stamps that are promo stamps and CAN'T BE PURCHASED - not even from Bam Pop! One is the Bam Pop! logo and the other is a jellyfish that matches the ones on their Bam Pop! Vol. 3 Collection (see below)!!!!!

How stinkin' cute are those images??  I sooooo totally want this prize.  But, alas, I am not eligible.  :o(

Check out the Sketchy Thursdays blog for an extra little bit of goodness from Torendi...a coupon code for all ST players!! 

In honor of our sponsor this week, the Sketchy Thursdays DT all tried their hands at a Japanese Pop Culture theme.  Check out all the samples (as well as a couple from the Torendi team, too!). 

Mr. Linky is all ready, just sitting there in the Sketchy Thursdays sidebar just waiting for you to link your amazing projects up! 

Have a happy Thursday!!

Heidi


p.s.  Don't forget the charity:water event happening this weekend over on The Studio starting Friday at 2pm EST. 

There are lots of great challenges and TONS of prizes up for grabs.  Sketchy Thursdays is sponsoring a challenge on Sunday at noon EST with a fun prize!  (Please note that the event is originating from Merry Ol' England so all event times listed on The Studio site are 5 hours ahead of EST.)  Click here to sign up to participate!

Unity Stamps Co. & Donna Downey

Could you ask for a better match??!!  The creativity from both is simply amazing and now they've hooked up to bring you Unity stamps by Donna Downey!! 

Just lOOk at this set:

Makes you drool, huh?  And just lOOk at Donna's website today for some samples that just made my jaw drop!  She combines so many different media for the most stunning results!

Stop by Donna's site today for your chance to win this set!!! 

And then head on over to the Unity blog to check out what the Unity team has done with it, too.  There's also many more chances to win the set over there, too!!! 

Fingers crossed that I'm a lucky winner!!! 

Heidi

Ninja 2009 Song

Woohoo!  It's time for another Pink Ninjas prompt!!!!  This week:  What's your 2009 song?

I know it's really hard to see but my song lyrics are written in the pink swirl with white paint pen.  I really love the boldness of the paper but it makes for bad pictures.  Oh, well.  I know it's cool IRL.  LOL.

The song is Panic Switch by Silversun Pickups. 

The lyrics written in the swirl, "When you see yourself in a crowded room, will you step in line or release the glitch?  Do you think she'll sleep with a panic..."

I had lots of fun stitching again.  And, this is a double-sided paper and the other side looks so cool with the bottom stitching that I think I'm gonna use the backside for another layout!! 

Cool, eh?  Keep an eye out for it!

Make sure you pop on over to the Pink Ninjas blog today to see all the amazing inspiration brought to you by the Design Team. 

This week's prompt was brought to you by this month's Ninja Star Pearl!  Check out the interview with her HERE.

Have a great Wednesday!

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

Splatter Play & Crazy N R G

Happy Monday!! 

It's that time for your weekly color and spunky prompt inspiration!

SPLATTER PLAY

We have a fun color combo for you this week on SPCC:

This reminded me of the sign in our playroom that the kids splatter painted a while back:

I was going for a splatter effect with the buttons but I don't think I succeeded.  Oh, well. 

Come, PLAY along with us this week on SPCC.  You can create anything your heart desires:  a layout, card, 3D item, anything the colors inspire you to make. 

And guess who's back to sponsor this week's prize??!!  iCopic!!!!!!!

Look what's up for grabs:

That's a pack of Multiliner Copic Pens and some Copic paper!!!  YUM!

Hook yourself up to Mr. Linky on THIS POST for your chance to win!!

Details:  Buttons - Stampin' Up!, SEI, unknown; The Paper Company paper; Zig Millennium pen.

CRAZY N R G

For your prompt inspiration this week on Spunky Scrappers we have "Random Thoughts". 

Doesn't that remind you of Jack Handy's Deep Thoughts from SNL??  LOL!

So my random thought is WHY is it that the more tired kids are the crazier and more energetic they become??

So, I was thinking about one of those Super Bouncy Balls when I made this because that's exactly what my kids resemble when they're tired.  The literally bounce off the walls.  (Yeah, tired also equals diminished sense of size so that they often misjudge the size of door-and hallways.  LOL.)

Another I-had-this-odd-sized-piece-of-paper-so-I-just-thought-I'd-go-with-it layout.  I even used the top of the paper where it attaches to the paper pad that is meant to be cut off because I love the contrast of the white expanse next to the unfinished edge of the pattern and because I knew just what to do with the hanger hole. 

The idea for the scribbled edge frame around the picture comes from a layout by our Sketchy Thursdays November Guest Designer Jennifer Campbell.  Unfortunately, I can't link you direct to the inspiration layout because it won't be revealed until this Thursday BUT be sure to check out her blog to enjoy her wonderful talent!

I liked the way it looked with the end of the string sort of petering out at the end, just like the kids eventually and thankfully do at the end of the night. 

Did you know Spunky Scrappers is in the midst of changing from a Ning sight to a Blogspot blog?!!  Woohoo!!  Come on over and check us out!!  No more signing up.  Just follow us!!  It's going to be just that much easier to join in on the weekly prompt fun.

Details:  We R Memory Keepers paper; DMC floss; Brads - Stampin' Up!, Karen Foster.

Hope you are having an awesome Monday!

Heidi