I HAVE A WINNER!!!!

Oh this was too exciting. I am officially hooked on blog candy now!! Laurlynn was the winner of the blog candy, and I decided to have a runner up who will receive a random sampling of some images and that was Paula. Congratulations ladies!

Watch my blog for updates this weekend.

DO YOU HEAR THAT??????

Its the sound of my counter turning over 500 hits on my blog!! How cool is that?

As promised, I've got some blog candy to post. I'm attaching a picture..it will include all of this, but I reserve the right to throw in more stuff at my discretion! Images include Rileys (alot of them), Stampscapes, Penny Black and House Mouse. Also included will be some ribbon, brads, eyelets, giga and mega punches in a variety of SU colors and primas.

All you have to do between now and Friday night (April 4th) at 9pm est is post right here and tell me what your favorite on -line shopping place is and why you love it so much!!! Isn't that painless? I'll choose a random number at 9pm and post the winner here. Good luck girls and may the best lady (or guy I guess) win!!!

How about another baby card??

Seems to be lots of baby fever going around, so I decided to stock up on some baby cards. Wouldn't you know a pregnant co-work bought all of them - I think she's nesting!

Recipe

Hello Baby - TAC

Paper:

Pretty in Pink

White

Berry Bliss

Ink:

Black

Choc Chip

Accessories:

Swiss Dots cb folder

Prismas

Oval punch from SU

SU ribbon White and Pretty in Pink

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my work today. Don't forget about my blog candy which will be posted as soon as I have 500 hits. Also...check out my favorite places over on the left too!

April Fools Day!!

Happy April Fools Day everyone! Hopefully you started your day off right by tricking someone you love! I got dh first thing this morning by telling him the dog "peed" in the bedroom. Got to listen to him rant and rave till he got out of the shower and oh the pride that was on my face when I said "April Fools!" What a way to start the day!!! I proceeded to get both of my kids and several people at work - so it was a fairly productive day.

Featured Stamper Challenge

Yesterday was the first time I've ever done a Featured Stamper Challenge and I loved it! It was so fun to go through scrapnextras gallery and pick a card. She is so talented and it was hard to choose just one.

I finally pulled out all of my new PapertreyInk colors and used them, I can't believe it took me this long.

Recipe:

Paper:

All PapertreyInk

White, Berry Sorbet, Sweet Blush and Pink Patterns

Ink:

Berry Sorbet and Sweet Blush

Stamps:

Riveting

I ran the Sweet Blush piece of paper thru the Swiss Dots cb folder. The ribbon is not Papertrey, can't exactly remember where I got that color from, as I'm getting quite a collection of it.

Dance..Dance..Dance....

My card for today is one I made for my nieces who had a dance competition today. Molly is 7 and Maycee is 5. They dance for Wills Mountain Cloggers, and they took 1st place in the Tap Division and 2nd place in ballet. They were both so excited about their trophies. I hope they love their cards Aunt Jul is sending them.

Recipe:

Stamps:
Image was a PIF image - I believe it is from TAC, The Angel Company.
Boho Backgrounds

Paper:
Pretty in Pink
Chocolate Chip
Rose Red
White

Ink:
Ruby Red

Accessories:
What else, my prismas!
I ran the chocolate chip paper thru the cb folder.

Rainin' Daisies

For today's blog entry I chose a PIF image that I received from Alison (newstampinaddict) its Rainin' Daisies. This is another one of my favorite stamps. I'm finding I have more and more "favorite" stamps each day. I especially liked coloring this one with my prismas, it colored very nicely. Below is my recipe for this card:

Stamps:

Rainin' Daisies

Happy Everything

Itty Bitty Backgrounds

Paper:

Rose Red

Lavendar Lace

White

Accessories:

Prismacolor pencils

Turpenoid

Paper Stumps

Baubles (thanks to my wonderful friend Janice (catcrazy)

Swiss Dots CB folder

Glossy Accents by Ranger

Thanks for stopping by my blog today and checking it out. I'm getting closer and closer to the 500 hit mark, so I need to get my blog candy ready.

Sweet Sniffs of Spring

Ah yes...spring is in the air! I can smell it - at least I'm trying to thru all of this rain! We can't wait until the pool gets open and its nice and hot and we can spend our days/evenings by the pool. Too bad I have to work for a living. Oh how I'd love to be a lady of leisure and just lie poolside for hours at a time! Oh well, time to wake up from that dream....

The card I made today come from a stamp called...noneother than...Sweet Sniffs of Spring!! Isn't he adorable. This puppy is so fun to color.

Recipe: Certainly Celery, Lavendar Lace and white paper. (All SU of course). I used Lavendar Lace ink. The image came from the PIF thread on SCS, I've snagged him from blessingsx3 and also Misse336. I keep snagging him...guess I should soon break down and buy my own puppy! I put the white paper thru my sizzix machine with the swiss dots cb die and used my paper slit punch to do the scallops. The scalloped punch is from SU and then I used the 1-3/8 and the1-1/4" punch - also from SU. I really wanted to do some paper piercing but couldn't find my paper pierces, so I used a thumb tack, worked like a charm.

I'm having a ball with my blog and will be posting blog candy when I hit 500 posts!!! Have a great day and thanks for checking up on me!

New Rileys are here!

Wow, I'm really really loving this guy! This is tractor Riley. Of course coming from a John Deere family, there was no other color to make this tractor except green. Riley is really kickin' up the dust...that reminds me of Kenny Chesney - She Thinks My Tractors Sexy. Did I mention that I love Kenny Chesney?

Anyways, I used chocolate chip, garden green, yoyo yellow and white c/s. I used my distressed stripes cb folder on the chocolate chip and loved how it turned out. Is there any other way to color except prismas?? Cause I'm having trouble working with anything but them. I don't think I've touched my SU markers since I got all of my prismas. I use turpenoid with the stumps and love the way it turns out. The sentiment at the bottom - I printed out on the computer and it say.....driving by...and inside the card it says...with a Birthday Hi!

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog! Be watching soon, I may just get excited and post some blog candy when I hit a couple hundred posts!

Riley....from Hannastamps

Its been a while since I've done anything with my blog. It is so hard to find the time. Although if I'd not spend so much time PIFing on SCS, I may have more time for other things.

This is my latest card I made. Its Riley the Moose and he's enjoying a cup of coffee.