Happy Gotcha Day!!

Three years ago yesterday my husband and I were in China adding a daughter to our family.  We are such lucky parents! 

Then

Now



Happy Gotcha Day to Georgia!!! 

WINNERS!!!

Drum roll please.....here are the winners of my SWALK stamp sets Gratitude Giveaway
The winner for Celebrate is:  Elaine!!

Expressions By ElaineFeb 28, 2012 08:34 PM

Love your shape card, cute paper, cupcake & sentiment!

Oh no, losing your blog would be so crazy!
I got a new phone & all my blog pictures synced with my phone, and I thought I don't want all these on my phone so I deleted them. And all the time I was deleting them from my blog! I still haven't got them all loaded back on my blog either!

Thanks for playing along with us a Creative Cutter Room:)

The winner of Mince Pies is:  Jessica!!

The Creative MommyFeb 28, 2012 03:47 PM

OH MY GOSH! I agree with everyone! I would DIE if I did not have my blog! Its my LIFE! lol!

Your card is just beautiful! I love the punch pattern that you did on the card front! Just AWESOME!!

Thanks so much for joining us at the CCR!!!

Crafty Hugs,
Jessica
www.craftinandstampin.blogspot.com

The winner of  Snowmen is: Tonya!!

TonyaFeb 28, 2012 11:46 AM

I've hear of the Lucky 8 punches but not seen much done with them. This is a great card. I love the cut-outs on your mat piece. Thanks for sharing with us at Creative Cutter Room!

Tonya
CCR DT
ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com

Congratulations to the winners!!!  Please be sure and email me with your full name and mailing address by Friday, March 9th.  If you do not, you will forfeit your prize.  Thanks to everyone who showed an interest!

I want to let you all know that there is a new March Going Green Challenge over on the Crafter's Companion USA Challenge Blog!!  WOO HOO!  You all know I am going to bug you to death to get you to go enter!! LOL 

Here is my "Going Green" DT example.  I used an Art-Kure - Oak Tree stamp set.  And colored it with my Spectrum Noir alcohol ink markers.  I tried to do a super clean and simple card.  I love the sweet little yellow ribbon tied around the tree.

I also wanted to announce the winner of this weeks Crafter's Companion USA Challenge Blog Anthony & Burt - Hoppy Birthday stamp set giveaway is Amy E!!  Congratulations!!  Go check it out here Amy!!

Happy Friday!!

Winner of $100 Gift Certificate!!!

 

For all who entered over at Crafter's Companion in their New Follower giveaway....

Thank you to all of you who participated in the efforts to increase the number of blog followers over at Crafter's Companion!!!

And the winner is.....drum roll...... Kathy Boisvert

Cathie from Cricut Creative Cutter Room sent me! Love your blog.

Kathy Boisvert

Kathy, congratulations and thank you so much for becoming a follower!! Please be on the look out for an email from Bindy. Kathy will receive a $100 gift certificate to the Crafter's Companion online store .

Everyone Have a great day!!

I'M BACK!!!! GIVEAWAY TOO!

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SO have you been missing me??  Did you stop by and wonder where my blog went?!?!  Well...yesterday I got the bright idea to upgrade to Google +.   When I was inputting my personal information I accidentally typed in 2012 instead of my actual birth year and guess what?  That makes me too young to have a Google account so Google shut me down immediately!  Gmail, Blogs, everything.  It was a total nightmare yesterday.  I won't go into all the gory details but I had to prove to Google that I was old enough to have an account and I have finally gotten it all back up and running tonight.   YEAH!! 

Wow you don't realize how much you depend on it until it is gone. 

I scrapped yesterday and got 2 cards and a gift bag made.  All dt projects.  I will post one of them tomorrow.  I did make a card on Saturday with my new We R Memory Keepers Lucky 8 punches.   So that is what you get to see here today.

I was just playing around punching out different sized squares and got motivated to make this shaped card.  It is out of the awesome DCWV - The Celebration Stack paper pad that Denise gave me when she came to visit.  I just love how bright and happy it is.  The card is pretty clean and simple.  I added a vellum sentiment to the inside.

I am going to enter it in the shaped card challenge at Creative Cutter Room.

Here is the last time I will bug you about entering the Something Sweet Challenge at Crafter's Companion.  The challenge ends tomorrow so if you plan to enter this month you need to get on the stick!!! lol 

Also, there is a new stamp set being given away over there this week.  It is the Anthony & Burt - Hoppy Birthday stamp set.  The giveaway ends on Thursday, March 1st 8pm PST so if you want to get in on that action you better go over and leave a comment HERE. 

And since I am happy that I am back up and running I am going to do a little giveaway right here on this blog!

I am going to giveaway 3 Winter SWALK stamp sets.  One to each winner.  (so 3 winners)

I am giving away:

Celebrate

Mince Pies

Snowmen

Leave a comment on this post and be a follower.  (if you are already a Google Friends Connect follower can you follow me also on Linky Followers) (just in case GFC goes away)

This starts today and ends on March 1st.  I will post the winners on Friday, March 2nd.  

Okay, enough for now.  I need to feed my kids.  More tomorrow!!

Winner of Carri's Birthday Blog Hop



I'm happy to announce the winner of my candy giveaway for Carri's Birthday Blog Hop is:

jessicaFeb 16, 2012 05:38 AM

What a awesome project!! I love the whole box/card project!!
TFS
jessica
chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com
eschfamily@yahoo.com

WOOT!!  Congrats to Jessica!!  Thanks to everyone who participated in the blog hop to celebrate Carri's birthday!  It was a ton of fun and I was so excited to meet so many new people. I really hope to keep seeing you are the blog.

Jessica, you need to email me with your full name and address by Thursday, March 8th.  (scrapwithstacy@gmail.com)  If you fail to contact me by this date you will forfeit your prize.

Please go to Carri's blog to see if you have won the GRAND PRIZE!! 

Bird Without Wings

Hey there. 
Have you signed up for my gratitude giveaways yet??!!  GO HERE.  I plan to announce my winners on Friday so go sign up.

I want to share a card I made using a soon to be released Stamp It Hummingbird stamp. 



I find myself only stamping in either black or brown most of the time.  Well this time I stepped out of my comfort zone and stamped in PURPLE!  Purple is my favorite color.  And purple went perfectly with these new My Minds Eye-Miss Caroline papers that I have been itching to use.  I added a little crystal Stickles to the hummingbird's tail to make him feel a bit more magical to go along with the lovely quote from Moslih Eddin Saadi which says, "A traveller without observation is a bird without wings".

I mentioned recently that I have been obsessing over these We R Memory Keepers Sew Ribbon punches on this post.  Well, I used the Zig Zag punch on this card.  I'm still loving the product.  It is really just super quick and simple to use.  I think I need the Flower punch next!! lol   I can see a ton of uses for that one. Do any of you have this product??  What do you think about it??  Loving it too??

The only other things on the card are a flower embellie and some bling from my stash that I colored with my Copics to match the card.   Just a clean and simple card.  What do you think?  I like it!

I spent a good portion of my day yesterday cleaning in my scrap room.  It had gotten a bit out of control and I wasn't enjoying trying to find a spot to scrap in there.  It is much better today.  Not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but better.

Tonight my ds has another Lacrosse game and we are going to take a team mate to the game with us.  I need to find my warm clothes because desert nights can get really cold!  

Okay, I'm off to the post office.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Candy has candy!!

Candy has Candy!!! lol  Candy at Candy's Craft Corner has an awesome candy giveaway on her blog to celebrate reaching 400 followers.  You need to rush over and join in!!!  Her blog is cool and you are going to be happy to stopped by and checked things out.