Oops! Oh No! Blog Candy Winner

Oops, oh no!  I didn't get a chance to announce the blog candy winner this weekend.  Sorry, I was so late .

The winning comment is:

Kristen said...

I guess if I had to pick one it would be MacGyver. I tend to create for, rather than create because. I'm working on a style. Maybe one day! Great Prize and congratulations on all your views.

January 13, 2013 at 11:06 AM

Kristen please email me your address at michellena317@comcast (dot) net

A 100K Glitzy Blog Candy!

 I was so excited to see that my little blog has past 100,000 views! I think you all really like it when I talk about Copics ;0)

 I wanted to share my excitement over this milestone with all of my followers by doing a blog candy giveaway.  In order to enter you must be a follower of my blog.  

The Blog Candy giveaway will include everything pictured above.

• 2 Glitz Design stamp sets (Hello Friend and Yours Truly)
• Vintage Blue trim
• Vintage Blue Glitzers
• Vintage Blue Epoxy Word Stickers
• Vintage Blue Giant Rhinestones
• American Crafts Premium Brown polkadot grosgrain ribbon
• My Minds Eye Lost & Found Rosy 6x6 paper pad
• Recollections Beige Adhesive Pearls

To enter please leave a comment answering the following question:

What kind of crafter are you?

A) NEOPHYTE-  inspired to craft by brand new goodies!  You can't wait to get your hands on the latest greatest newest released supplies.

B) CLEAN & SIMPLE CLASSIC- likes to craft with the basic tried and true supplies keeping things clean and simple and classic.

C)  MACGYVER- can create with whatever supplies you have on hand or anything you find laying around

I have come to the realization that I am a Neophyte crafter.  I feel most inspired when I get something brand spankin' new to play with.  I definitely want to become a Macgyver so that I can use up my existing stash and stay on budget for 2013.


I will randomly select a winner from the comments received on January 26th!  

Candy Winner and Traveling Colors

1st order of business today is announcing my Blog Candy winner.  The lucky winner is #4 Mancy!  Please email me at michellena @ si dot rr dot com with your address so I can mail out your candy.  


 I finally had a chance to make a completed card.  I was packing for my vacation next week to the Jersey Shore, but I decided I just had to do at least one project. This cute Saturated Canary image reminded me of me trying to pack up my Copics to take on vacation.   I have had this digi, Traveling Colors done since the Copic Marker Europe birthday celebration and never got around to making a card out of it.  I saw this cute paper from Basic Grey Clippings and thought it looked finished enough to mount my image on.  A fussy cut and few embellies later my card was done.

Supplies-
Digi stamp- Traveling Colors Saturated Canary
Basic Grey Clippings
Epoxy Sticker Glitz Design
Recollections embellishments
Copics- B000 G00 B41 B45 B32 B34 BG11 BG32 70 T1 T3 T5 E00 E21 E51 E81 E84 E87 E89 E31 E35 E37 E39

150 Follower Blog Candy Reminder

 Today is the last day to enter to win my blog candy.  Please leave a comment on the original post before midnight.   I will announce the winner tomorrow.

150 Follower Blog Candy!

Sorry I have been so quiet lately.  I have been sick so no mojo for my crafting.  Boo!  Even with my absence I have hit 150 followers and I am so happy that I want to share some candy with all of you.  This candy is open to anyone who is a follower of my blog.  Please leave a comment on this post and I will choose a random winner next Saturday.  

The candy will be:

Aislinn Adams Impression Obsession floral stamp

Echo Park Everyday Eclectic 6x6 Paper Pad

Basic Grey Paper Cottage 6x9 Paper Pad

Copic Markers- B91 B93 B95 YG11 E13

Distress Marker Brushed Corduroy

Memento Danube Blue and Bahama Blue Dew Drop Dye Inks

3 Dye Ink Spots

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to knock something off my bucket list.  I went to the NJ Festival of Ballooning and actually went up in a hot air balloon.  I was so scared because I am afraid of heights but I didn't let that stop me.  It was such an amazing experience.  Words cannot describe it!  The views were so beautiful.  I highly recommend doing it if you get a chance. And the bonus is I now have some amazing photos to scrapbook and I can use all of the Hot Air Balloon stamps and scrapbook paper I have been hoarding!

Blog Candy and Vampires...Oh My!

Happy Weekend everyone! So glad it is finally here.

First, I would like to say thank you to everyone for their lovely comments and welcome to all my new followers and visitors too! I have had over 800 visits to my blog this week and that means so much to me!


Without further ado...the winner of the blog candy is....

Tina who said...
Wow! Sorry to hear about all the mix up, but thank you so much for sharing with us ;) My fingers crossed

Congratulations Tina! Please email me at michellena317@comcast dot net with your address and I will send your candy out on Monday.

Has anyone else been bitten with this whole Vampire craze? I am currently reading the Sookie Stackhouse novels... (The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris). I can't seem to get enough vamps.. Twillight and the Vampire Diaries... now I am reading all the different books... Morganville Vampires, My Blood Approves, House of Night...etc. Anyone know of any other good ones I should be reading? In the meantime, now I can make cards with them too...


Have you seen the cool new Vampire themed digi stamps from Tiddly Inks? I just ordered some and can't wait to print them up and color them. You can see the whole release here on the Tiddly Inks blog.

Image belongs to Tiddly Inks.


Finally, I want to share an update on last weeks crafty goals.

1) Figure out how to thread a bobbin so I can use my Sew Mini again- DID IT!!!
2) Try airbrushing clouds with my Copics (Sort of DID IT! Did some sponging with masked clouds...came out really well. Will share tomorrow.)
3) Make ribbon flowers out of Glubers (DIDN'T EVEN DO IT!)

4) Read my Shadows & Shading book by Marianne Walker (DID HALF OF IT!)


So this weeks Craft Goals are:
1) Ribbon flowers from Glubers
2) Finish reading Shadows and Shading
3) Sewing on Cards

Blog Candy Reminder

Hello Everyone! Happy Friday. I hope everyone is having a wonderful week. Can't wait until the end of the day for the weekend to begin. How does that joke go...

"I don't mind coming to work, but this 8 hour wait to go home is bull@#$%!"
Quick update on the blog candy. I will be doing the blog candy drawing tomorrow afternoon. I am throwing in one more Copic Sketch Marker- N5.

Blog Candy:
1 BG000 Copic Sketch Marker
1 Empty Copic Sketch Marker (you can fill this with any color refill or colorless blender solution)
1 Custom E23 Copic Sketch Marker ( I filled this myself with equal parts E21 and E25 refill ink)
1 E35 Copic Ciao Marker
1 G40 Copic Various Ink Refill
1 C1 Copic Various Ink Refill
1 Kaisercraft Up Up and Away Paper Pad
1 Shadows and Shading book by Marianne Walker
Some 1/4 sheets of Boise HD Color Copy Cover .80 lb cardstock for you to try
1 N5 Copic Sketch Marker

Rules: To win you must-
1) Have a US Mailing Address
2) Be a follower of my blog
3) Leave me a comment on the original blog candy post, scroll down or click the link to go there.

I will select and post the random winner tomorrow August 13th around 12pm EST.

Blog Candy!!!!

Ok, so we have all made the occasional mistake and purchased a dupe of something we already had, right? Well, I had some assistance on this particular blunder. Allow me to share with you the saga of how the United States Postal Service did me wrong. Right before the Aug. 1st Copic price increase, I decided to order 1 Copic marker and a few refills. Well of course I decided to order from a lovely online store called I Heart Papers. Great store, great lady who owns it, local to me...she is in New Jersey. I figure I am doing a great thing ordering there because I want to support local small business owners as often as possible. Well I decided to order $50 worth of things from the store to qualify for free shipping. I don't really understand the way of the human mind and how this saved me any money. It didn't, all I did was order things I didn't actually need. I decided to add on two things that I have coveted for a while now... the Kaisercraft Up Up and Away paper pad and the Shadows and Shading Book by Marianne Walker.

Well $50 bucks later my order ships and 2, yes I said 2 days later I got a delivery confirmation that my package was delivered to my home. Great you say, well no, not great. I got home from work and there was no package. Darn it... I am running all kinds of mail theft, "the garbage men threw it out" scenarios in my head. Well I waited several days and no package shows up. I chalked this one up to LOST and decided to re-order my items from another store before the price increase... So now those things came three days later and now I have my book and my paper pad and my markers and my refills...blah blah except the next store sent me the wrong marker color. I ordered a T5 and got an N5. I have no luck!!! It would be ok if I didn't already have one of those. Dupe! So now let's fast forward exactly one week and what shows up today slightly damaged and tattered in my mailbox....yes that is right my original lost I Heart Papers order. UGH!!! MORE DUPES!!!! Now I know I could sell all of this on eBay and make my money back but.... I have decided that my misfortune...will be your Blog Candy! I will do a Follower Appreciation Blog Candy as a thanks to all of you Lovelies who follow my blog. It means a lot to me to share creatively with all of you. Blog Candy: 1 BG000 Copic Sketch Marker 1 Empty Copic Sketch Marker (you can fill this with any color refill or colorless blender solution) 1 Custom E23 Copic Sketch Marker ( I filled this myself with equal parts E21 and E25 refill ink) 1 E35 Copic Ciao Marker 1 G40 Copic Various Ink Refill 1 C1 Copic Various Ink Refill 1 Kaisercraft Up Up and Away Paper Pad 1 Shadows and Shading book by Marianne Walker Some 1/4 sheets of Boise HD Color Copy Cover .80 lb cardstock for you to try I may throw in one more Copic Sketch Marker -N5 if the store I ordered from is not willing to replace it for me. Rules: To win you must- 1) Have a US Mailing Address 2) Be a follower of my blog 3) Leave me a comment on this post I will select and post the random winner August 13th around 12pm EST.

Green Copic Color Combinations and blog candy

Happy Tuesday! I was unable to make a halloween card last night...I tried, I really did. Had an image all colored, had paper and cardstock measured and cut...but I just wasn't feeling the mojo... Maybe something will come to me today... in the meantime...

There is some blog candy over at Spesch Stamps...these are some great images that Tracey had made into rubber. She is so excited that she is giving away 4 stamps to a random winner.

There was a question posted over on Splitcoast Stampers regarding favorite green copic combinations. I figured I would post some of mine. My most favorite...are the army green- YG93 YG95 YG97 and the light evergreen G21 G24 G28.

Here are some other green experiments:

First Ever Spesch Stamps Christmas Blog Hop

Happy Friday! No card for you today but two cool things for you to check out on your travels through bloggy land.

1) Spesch Stamps is having their first ever Christmas Blog Hop... you can check it out here-
there are blog candy/prizes to be won!

2) There is a great new video on coloring faces and adding makeup on your image- by Kelly Booth over on the Color Me Copic blog here

There is a new challenge using her technique with a prize of Xpress It Blending Card!

Happy World Card Making Day!

Happy World Card Making Day! Just what I needed, an excuse to make cards all day. Well I am trying to be good. I promised myself that I could craft all day if I did two things first: straighten up my desk -aka make it usable as a desk, and do some laundry. Well happy to report it is not even 10 am and I have straightened my desk and cleared a 12 x 12 space to work and I have started one load of wash! Woo hoo! I am going to run to Tuesday Morning to look for the Breast Cancer Awareness xyron machine and then I will be back and get to stamping!

My prize from the Color Me Copic challenge I won has arrived. The wonderful Susana from SCACD was amazing enough to swap out the prize of an Ice White Viva Decor Pearl Pen for a Gold one since I already have the white. I just mounted the Winter Susan Elisabeth Bell stamp on EZ Mount and she is ready to be inked! Thanks again to Susana and the gals at Color Me Copic for your generosity!!!!

Happy WCMD!!! Enjoy!

Elisabeth Bell Blog Candy

Oooh! Did you see the fabby candy over at Elisabeth Bell's blog. It is in honor of the Company Spotlight on Susana's Art and Card Design....

There are actually TWO pieces of Candy - one set from myself and one set from Susana - that one lucky winner receives! Offered by the generous Susana herself, here is what one lucky winner will receive:Candy #A From me: Elisabeth Bell for SCACD’s Sampler #5 (that’s SEVEN stamps) PLUS I Will Leave the Light On (making it EIGHT stamps) which I will mail out to the winnerPLUSCandy #B From Susana: 1 (one) Elisabeth Bell for SCACD Sampler of the winner's choice (which is around SEVEN stamps) which will be sent out via the wonderful Susana!That is a total of around FIFTEEN Elisabeth Bell for SCACD stamps to one SUPER LUCKY winner!!

Pop over to Elisabeth's blog and enter to win!

Not too late for candy...

Have you seen Amy Young's incredible blog candy? She is so amazingly generous all the time but this candy celebrating her anniversary takes the cake. I have been fortunate enough to have won one of her card kits for a Sweet November stamp release in the past and omg was that chock full of goodies! Amy is amazing - the way she puts all the paper and embellishments together. Just love her style. Hurry- go check out the details of her fab blog candy here. You don't want to miss out on a chance to win all the amazing paper and stamps she is offering... Sweet November, Simply Betty, Lil Lolita, The Greeting Farm...etc! Candy is open until September 3rd.
PS- I have lots of images colored up...just haven't had a chance to make any finished cards yet... will be posting up sometime this week.

Jodi's Birthday Candy!

Jodi of Inked Inspirations has some BIG Birthday candy!! She is giving away 5 different prizes. You will have until Midnight July 31st (PST)to participate. Check out the deets over on her blog.

Salt Water Blog Candy

Remember that Salt Water Taffy you got from vacations at the shore when you were a kid? Well this ain't taffy...but it is just as sweet (without all the calories). Amy Young is doing blog candy for her new Sweet November Stamps Mermaids line...they are so beautiful, I can't even stand it. I will definitely be picking up all of these beauties next monday...but if you are lucky enough you can win them. Hop on over to Amy's blog for the deets...
A Thousand Sheets of Paper
I was lucky enough to win Ginger Fairy when Amy did that blog candy and that kit was amazing... There were so many goodies, I still have half of it left...

and yes, I am working on a card..I got the images colored but haven't figured out the rest...it is a very special card for my Grandparents 60th wedding anniversary...yes I said 60 YEARS!!!
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Have you seen Debbie's Birthday candy over at Passion For Crafts? It is a really sweet kit that includes copics. You can check it out here: http://passionforcrafts.blogspot.com/

Spesch Candy Alert!

Woo Hoo! Look at Tracey's awesome candy at Spesch Stamps. They are celebrating the opening of the new store. For any of you in my Color Me Creative Copic Class 3 who saw my homework with the cute little girl holding the bunny that was a Spesch digistamp called Bonnie and you can win the clear stamp version in this candy. And Tracey's store is where it came from. Anyway... hop on over to see the details and enter to win this awesome candy.

Pretty Kitty and Blog Candy Winner

Ok! It is time to reveal the winner of the Blog Candy.... drumroll please...

Random Integer Generator
Here are your random numbers: 4
Timestamp: 2010-04-30 14:34:51 UTC

Comment number 4 was from Sande!

Sande said...
Love you blog and your work.Would love to win the 'candy'.
April 26, 2010 5:40 PM

Well Sande...you have won the candy!!! Please email me at michellena317@comcast.net with your mailing address.

As for today's card... I saw this adorable image from Pink Cat Studio and thought it was perfect for Mother's Day. I was trying to do a clean and simple card...but with me nothing can ever be simple. I simply must fill in every inch of open space on a card with something. I definately need to give some of my cards a Make Under! I think this one is pretty simple for me though.

Recipe: Kitty Fashionista digi from Pink Cat Studio, PTI Plum Pudding Sweet Blush Lavender Moon Kraft and Stampers Select White cardstock and Dotty Biscotti designer paper, Lavender Moon satin ribbon, Prima leather flower embellishment, Smooch Illuminate paint, CAC Pinafore computer font, Kaisercraft Pearls, Nestabilities Labels One, corner rounder, Copics- Eyes: BG23 BG15 BG49 Hat: Y26 Y21 YR24 Kitty: C3 C5 C7 Purse/Flower trim on Hat:R81 R83 R85