Slow going....

Oh my....I thought for sure by now we would be at 150 posts! Ok, I am going to throw out an additional incentive..................

I challenge each of you to see how many people you can send to my blog to post in the thread below to reach the 150 mark. Make sure when they post, they post your screen name as well. The person that gets the most people to post on the thread below will win a little prize from me. I will still do a random draw for the halloween stamps!

Ok, on your mark, get set, go!

Giveaway fun!

So it is fall........I can feel it in the crisp and cool mornings! With fall comes the fun of baking and the smell of fresh picked apples. Then in the middle of it all there is Halloween. How fun! All the children dressing in costume with parties and trick or treating! Anyway, I want everyone to have fun with halloween. Have you seen the new Heidi Grace Halloween line? It is delightful and fun! This set of stamps coordinates with the line. You can see papers and embellishments for this line here http://www.acherryontop.com/company/heidi_grace_designs/line/halloween

So in honor of getting everyone enthused, I have this fun set of stamps to give way! So here is the deal:

Post a comment to this giveaway thread. Once there are 150 posts I will choose a random winner. You can send anyone you want to post to help reach the 150 mark I will need to choose the winner. BUT....you can only post once! So if we reach 150 posts tomorrow, I will draw tomorrow. So the faster we meet the 150 post goal, the faster the drawing will take place. Send every crafter you know!

Want to win?

Ok, keep checking my blog because in a couple of days I am going to be giving something away! Yep, something free......something fun.......something you will like! And tell everyone you know to begin watching my blog for the announcement because I am going to do the 100 blog post again! Watch for details coming soon...........

From halloween to Christmas!

Ok, I know I just posted a little halloween project and not to skip over any holidays, but I like to plan ahead.

Each year my husband and I host a cocktail party for his employees. This will be our third year and I must keep up the tradition of creating the 21 invitations by hand! I found out last year that several of the women keep the card because they love my work and can't part with it! So now I feel pressured to create designs they will like!

Anyway, the photo above is what I was playing with today. Take a look and leave me a comment letting me know what you think. I'll make it easy..you can pick from one of the comments below!

a) I love it, go with it!

b) Um, it needs some work but not bad

c) Dump the whole thing and start over!

Trick or Treat!!!

So I am busy getting ready for halloween. I was thinking today of what crafty little item I can create for my daughter to take to her preschool class for their halloween party. Well, I decided I was going to create sucker covers!

Very simple and fun! I used the new Cloud 9 Designs Halloween Fun collection. I simply cut patterned cardstock the width to fit the sucker and then created a double length. You will see the black striped cardstock is not yet folded. So then you score, fold and then I opened it back up and used my Fiskars eyelet setter to pop a hole in the center as shown. I took my Round the corner squeeze punch and rounded the top corners. Next you slide your sucker stick through the hole, add adhesive on the inside at the top and secure. Then you embellish the outside using the many fun embellishments that come with this line! I added a bit of curling ribbon at the bottom.

Very simple and very cute. I know the kids will love it!

Fiskars Crafts

Hey all!

As many of you know I recently made the Design Team for Fiskars Crafts. (www.fiskarscrafts.com)

Anyway, just a tip to begin watching the website! Right now you can see a sneak peek of a project I created that will be up this month on the site........so stay tuned!

Gearing up for Halloween!

Well it is that time of year! Time to begin thinking about halloween. Each year there is a tradition at our house that our daughter goes out trick or treating with daddy and when they come back she rings our doorbell for her final trick or treat stop! Each year I do something special up for her. So I had this cute little gable box and the brand spankin' new Cloud 9 Designs Halloween fun line and decided to create her special box that I will fill with treats closer to halloween!

This was easy to do as I started with a blank gable box. You just cut paper to fit the 4 panels and then trace around the rounded side panels and front panel and cut inside the lines a little so a white edge trim shows around the piece when attached. Then I simple used embellishments and ribbon to decorate. Fast and easy!