You are Invited

This party invitation is my challenge for the Cuttlebug Spot - a cute summer birthday card using CTMH's It's Your Day stamp set - part of the Everyday Celebration card kit, designed exclusively for National Stamping Month, which can be yours FREE!* Go to my sister's website for more details.

Bless Our Home

I got a chance to play with my new stamp set Welcome Home from CTMH. This set will be available to order Sept. 1st (there are some really cute new stamp sets!) If you need to order any CTMH products, please visit my sister's CTMH website. My sketch tonight comes from no other than Priscilla's Midnight Magic It is a very fun weekly challenge to participate in - and she always has great prizes! I also used pink and brown for the Copic Buzz challenge of the week. This was easy for me, because I love those colors together. Let me know what you think!

Get ready for Fall card

I used a cute sketch from Eclectic Endeavours for this leaf card. Be sure to check Rebecca's site for great blog candy! Can you believe fall is almost here? My husband is a teacher, and he has to go back to school tomorrow! I also used the color challenge from Flourishes' Timeless Tuesday challenge - use red, olive, black and one other neutral. With those colors, who can help but think of fall?

Hurry to Eclectic Endeavours

Here are the details below for entering Rebecca's great blog candy giveaway! Go to her site to enter and mention that I referred you and you and I will both get additional entries - yeah!


ETA - Aug 12: I have added a COPIC SKETCH MARKER!! YG03!

ETA - Aug 15th: With only 3 entries so far, I may delay the contest, reposting it for the week after school starts. Seems everyone is too busy to visit!

I have a lot to celebrate! My hubby was on strike and it is over, finally! Fortunately, we didn't fair too badly financially because as an essential service, paramedic, he still worked 75%. I'm suffering withdrawal from ordering goodies from the internet though! My blog has over 10,000 hits, actually over 12,000 by now and I just went over 200 posts in less than a year! So, blog candy is in order!

So what are we playing for? How about A COPIC SKETCH MARKER YG03, 20 yards of mixed ribbon and ric-rack, a grab bag of unmounted rubber, SU! die cut tags and two favour boxes, a package of felt flowers, a generous mix of brads, eyelets, butterfly charms, pearls and beads and a brand new package of bright pink Scrapper’s Floss for your paper crafting pleasure! Oh, and some turquoise faux suede cording, envelope seals and two little word bubble embellishments. Pretty good, huh?

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To Earn Entries

1. Earn one entry for leaving a comment, one per person. Include the title of your favourite project post of mine from January to June of this year. Why you like it would be a nice addition to your comment. No title, no entry. Easy enough?! I have an archives section on my sidebar so you don't have to scroll back the whole way. Just click on a month and you will get all that month's posts.

2. Earn 5 entries for playing the sketch challenge below, no Mr. Linky, just leave a comment with a DIRECT link to your card on your blog or in a gallery. You may enter more than one card if you choose, 5 entries for each card. Please leave a separate comment for each card you make even if they are in the same post.

EES0013. Earn 10 additional entries for posting my Blog Candy on your blog by August 18th. If I get more than 100 different people entering, I will add another prize!! Your post MUST include a direct link to this post, a list of items being given away and the end date; feel free to copy and paste all or part of this post including the photo. To earn your entries, leave a comment here with the DIRECT LINK to your BLOG POST, please do not simply add it to your sidebar. You may putt your sketch card and the blog candy announcement in the same post but leave me 2 separate comments. If you upload to SCS, PCP or another online gallery, please use keyword EES001.

4. Spread the word any way you can! Facebook, Twitter, Email, Phone your gal pals! Anyone who mentions your name and says you referred them in their comment (even if you don't have a blog) gets a bonus entry and you get 5 bonus entries!! (Your comment must be in before theirs.)

Contest ends August 20th at 11:59 pm EST. Winner to be announced August 21st. If you do not include your email or have a Blogger account with email linked to your comments, visit here to find out if you won. I will choose another winner if I don't hear from you in 48 hours. I may also add another prize for best sketch card if I am really wowed so do your best work!

Enjoy, Rebecca

More blog candy from Priscilla!

Priscilla has such a fun blog with the wonderful Midnight Madness challenge every week. She has just posted very generous blog candy that gets more and more generous, the more you play along. Go to her website for the details, but the winner will get at least 5 sets of new stamps!You have until Sept. 18th to enter. Good luck!

Dream Card

It's Sunday night, which usually means I need to sit down and have some creative time to unwind. Tonight I made this Dream card for several challenges. At Copic Creations, the challenge was to color using red or pink. I colored the Fairy (which is a digital download from Mo's Digital Pencil. Over at Timeless Tuesday, the challenge was to score - which I used my Scor-pal to emboss my score lines on core'dinations Black Magic paper, and then sanded to reveal the lavender. The Cuttlebug Challenge this week was to use a scene. I used the mountain border from CTMH True Happiness set to create the scene. My wish for everyone who reads this blog is for you to have big dreams, and for them all to come true!