Blog Candy to Share

Ok people, I can't seem to make time enough to make cards or scrapbook yet, but I am keeping up on several blogs and hoarding inspiration.  So I have come across several blog candy links that I would like to share:

This first one is from Bea and ends on February 07, 2011.  Enter early as her time zone might be drastically different :)  These Sugar Nellies are so sweet!  Here is the link: 
http://beacaronaskort.blogspot.com/2011/01/blogcandy.html

Next, this is not actually blog candy yet :) but I saw this on a blog I follow "Disney Dreamer Designs" - I don't know how to highlight that name so you can just click on it - This is regarding a month-long birthday party for another lovely lady:

I wanted to make all of you aware of a really cool, month long celebration coming up over on Karel's blog -- One by One the Flamingos are Stealing my Sanity starting tomorrow, February 1st!  It is going to be a celebration for her 55th birthday and every day she has something special planned with some AWESOME giveaways!!!  If you are not already a follower, I suggest you hop on over there and become one so that you do not miss a single day of fun! 

 

One By One the Flamingos are Stealing My Sanity - - My Life in Pink by Karelj



I also happen to follow this amazing blog and you should check it out - sounds like there is going to be a lot of excitement there for the next while :)  http://www.karelj.blogspot.com/  that is the link to her blog. 

 

 

 

 

Ok, one more, I think I have this on my sidebar but it is worth mentioning here.  Nicole is planning to draw for this on February 07, 2011.  She keeps ADDING to it so the picture probably isn't even the whole thing.  She also has a great blog - go for the blog not just the candy!  She has all kinds of stuff on her blog like pages where you can link your blog to hers and get more hits for your own blog, a page to post candy, all kinds of fun stuff!  so check it out!  http://canadiannickelscrapn.blogspot.com/2011/01/huge-giveaway.html

 

 

 

Ok, that is all for now.  Have fun checking out these blogs.  Remember to become a follower if you like what you see and I think you will :)

Roberts Giveway! Bo Bunny!!!

THIS IS COPIED FROM THE ROBERTS BLOG:

BONUS GIVEAWAY! - Bo Bunny

Tomorrow on Studio 5, Brett Lund is featuring these projects, using Bo Bunny™ scrapbook supplies. (Click the link to see the projects and instructions.) We'll post video of his segment if you miss it or live outside Utah.

Because Brett & Bo Bunny rock, Bo Bunny is sponsoring a giveaway on our blog! It's worth over $250, and is FILLED with all of Bo Bunny's fantastic products and scrapbook supplies.

Oh yeah, I am loving this!

 

One Ginormous Giveaway!

Estee over at One Ginormous Adventure is doing an awesome giveaway for having reached her 400th blog post (I will probably never get there :)  So check it out - tell her I sent you :) 

and here is the link : http://because-estee-says-so.blogspot.com/ 

Lots of yummies!  

Maya Road New Catalog Release!

Oh you have got to check this out!  Maya Road is coming out with a new catalog and the new things are FABULOUS!  Go to this link to check it out and enter to win a $35 prize pack! 

http://mayaroad.typepad.com/mayaroad/

Imaginisce is having a giveaway!

CHA Sneak Peek: Berrylicious, Little Cutie and Happy Camper

Click the link below to get a sneak peak at these new amazing collections.  There is a chance to win one of them! 

Check it out - http://www.imaginisceblog.com/2011/01/cha-sneak-peek-berrylicious-little.html

March of the Snowmen Blog Hop

I have been following this blog hop today and it has been so much fun - lots of blog candy and great inspiration! 

Along the way, I ran across some special blog candy I wanted to post about - Kim at Angel at my Door has made this beautiful victorian notebook for blog candy as part of the hop.  The hop in itself has been fun but the chance of winning this beautiful notebook makes it even better!  Go check it out!  If you go to Kim's blog, there is a list of participating blogs.  Here is her link - http://angelatmydoor.blogspot.com/2011/01/march-of-snowmen-blog-hop.html

Cricutology Giveaway!

Have been informed about another giveaway!  I just love those, don't you?  This is from Janice at Cricutology.  It is a Sizzix Boutique - she has a little video showing how it works and she compares it to the CuddleBug but it costs about a third as much.  It does not cut but it will take the Cuddlebug embossing plates.  Not sure what else it will do, but I am going to definitely check it out :) 

Here is the link - http://cricutology.blogspot.com/search/label/100%20followers%20giveaway

Why am I not crafting and posting?

In case anyone is wondering why I am posting all these things for others but not posting any crafty goodness of my own...  I have been busy working on my annual treat to myself.  Let me explain - every March at our local middle school, they perform a musical.  I have been volunteering to help with the musical since my oldest daughter was there for 7th and 8th grade.  Now my youngest daughter is there in 7th grade but she is not in the play.  Both of my girls are helping with backstage, props and helping the kids learn their lines.  This will be my 5th play - I could not give it up the last two years when  I had no children at the school :)  I started out doing props when Layna was in 7th for Seussical and continued with props when she was in 8th for Beauty and the Beast but that year I also started being "on book" which meant that I was there every day helping the kids with their lines, following along with the script and feeding them lines if needed.  Then came Peter Pan (how could I resist?) and then Wizard of Oz last year.  I have been "on book" ever since but last year I was kind of an assistant director.  I never planned to be any kind of director and have never had theater experience, but over the years I guess I have kind of grown into the position.  This year we are doing The Sound of Music!  Our main director is fabulous - she teaches dance at the school - and the theater/music teacher helps also and then there is me :)  We have a whole crew of ladies that help with costumes, a bunch of people that help with scenery, a budget you would not even believe.  I love it!  I could never be a director - the kids would walk all over me and we would never have a production - but I love what I do.  I have been doing more directing this year - Nanette (the director) has really involved me in decisions and asks my opinion about scenes and such.  It is a lot of fun, but does not leave me much time for crafting.  I am working on some props for the play - made a little book for Brigitta with chipboard covers and sketch paper that I covered with paper and made it look like a little French book - but most of the props have been rented so I am mainly doing directing and helping the kids.  We start rehearsals right after Christmas break and go every day Monday thru Friday after school for 2-1/2 hours and on Saturdays from 9-1.  So I have been pretty busy but I can't give it up!  We have the scenery already and we rented it from the Utah Festival Opera - oh it is so beautiful!  I will post some pictures as we get going. 

Here are some pictures from the last few years:

Beauty and the Beast

My daughter Layna as Cindy Lou Who for Seussical (she will kill me if she sees this)

Wizard of Oz

Munchkin Land

Dorothy's house in Kansas

Yes, we flew the witch! 

 Don't have many pictures to share.  Most I have saved onto CDs and removed from my computer.  I always make a scrapbook of the plays although I am always behind!  I usually finish one just in time for the next one to start, but as of right now, I am still working on Peter Pan and have not started Wizard of Oz. 

So, after about the middle of March, maybe I will have time to do join some challenges and such.  In the meantime, I have just enough time to read the blogs I follow and do some hopping which is very fun too :)

Take care and God Bless

The Twinery - New Colors and Giveaway!!!

Oh my - look at these yummy new colors from the Twinery!  They are having 25% off sale right now - even on the new colors!  AND they are having a fabulous giveaway!  Check it out - here is the link  http://dandylicioushair.blogspot.com/2011/01/2011-craft-room-clean-out-giveaway.html



Fun Giveaway at Dandylicious Creates

I was directed to this blog and thought I would share it with all my blogger buddies!  It sounds like a fabulous idea!  Basically she is drawing at each time she reaches a "25 marker" so when she hits 50 followers, 75 followers, 100 followers!  She has a ton of stuff and the prizes will be a surprise package containing some of the things from her pictures. 

Here is the link:  http://dandylicioushair.blogspot.com/2011/01/2011-craft-room-clean-out-giveaway.html

Go check it out! 

Blog Candy at Grace's Scrap Attic

Because she has reached 100 followers (yay Grace), Grace is giving away a cricut cartridge.  Please visit her blog (click on her blinkie in the right side of my blog) for all the details. 

The Prize: a Cricut Cartridge!!!
You will be able to choose one of the fallowing:

Winter Woodland
Songbird
Wall Decor and More

Sounds like fun! 

Blog Candy from Pat's Scraps

Pat from Pat's Scraps will be giving away this fabulous blog candy as soon as she reaches 100 followers!  Let's help her out shall we? 

Blog Candy from Jacqui at Cats Whiskers - ends at midnight on Jan 22

http://jacqui47.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-candy-and-some-pictures-of-rosie.html

Blog Candy!

Melissa over at Disney Dreamer Designs is giving away 2 cricut cartridges! 

LoveStruck cartridge - for 20,000 visitors to her blog - way to go Melissa!

Cricut Lite Cupcake Wrappers - for 400 followers!  Yeah Melissa! 

This contest is open until January 21 at 11:59 pm EST (that means 10:00 pm for me).  Click on her blinkie to the right and it should take you right to her blog! 

Elsa's Birthday Giveaway!

Anyone want to win the Happy Haunting Cartridge for Cricut?  Elsa from CricutLvr is giving one away for her birthday on January 27th!  You can click on her blinkie to the right to get to her blog!  I love her projects!  Check them out!

I joined Scrapbook Challenges

Tonight I ran into a blog hop by Scrapbook Challenges and thought I would share this web site.  It looks like fun.  New sketches and challenges all the time and you can win prizes.  This blog hop runs until midnight tonight MT so I kind of doubt this post will be in time for you all to hop, but still a site worth checking into! On this hop tonight, you can actually pots a project of your own and then add to a list and then everyone can hop to your blog also.  I will not get anything done probably since is it almost 7 and my craft room is in such disarray (so what else is new).  But I did become a new member and it should be fun! 

Now I am going to add the links (I hope)
Link for Scrapbook Challenges:  http://scrapbookchallenges.ning.com/
Link to the beginning blog for this hop - lots of amazing prizes!  http://www.pamelasworldofscrap.blogspot.com/

and the link for the "hop on" board if you want to add a post to the blog hop  http://scrapbookchallenges.ning.com/forum/topics/2011-seasons-of-ch...

Ok, hope I did that right! 

Giveaway from Pretty Pink Posh!

Hopefully I will do this right - trying to add a link to a giveaway at Pretty Pink Posh.  Fun giveaway for a $40 Gift Certificate to one of several on-line stores including Two Peas in a Bucket, Gina K Designs, and severa others!  Sounds like a great giveaway to me!



Ok, there is the picture - now lets try for the link LOL

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Ok, I know this is my 3rd post today, but I am trying to catch up :) I promised I would post some pictures of the bags that I made at Christmas time and I never could figure out how to add them. So today my new friend from WAM Family explained to me how to do it so here they are - better late than never right? So I started out with a Baker's dozen of white bags and another BD of kraft bags 8 x 10 inches. These were to be used for neighbor and friend gifts - homemade jam which I decorated the jar lids with paper and ribbon but did not take pictures. I bought 3 paper pads 12 x 12 inches and created about 10 bags. I also made 3 wine boxes using a pattern from Paper Crafts Cards and More 2010 but forgot to take pictures :(

This was the first bag I made using paper from K&Company - I bought a Specialty Paper Christmas Pad - I just love this paper.  Kind of hard to tell in the picture but it is white with shiny silver pattern.  The top of the bag is red with a white pattern with siliver deer.  I made the little tag with a silver jingle bell at the top and "snowball ribbon" that I bought at Walmart. 

This is a plaque I made getting inspiration for it from the Paper Crafts Cards and More that came out in December 2010.  I again used the red paper with white design and silver deer from K&Company.  I cut the Joy with my Cricut using metallic silver paper - cannot remember the brand - and used a silver ribbon for the bow.  This was actually the first project.  I made the bag above for this as a gift to take to my Bunco gift exchange. 

Along with the plaque, I crocheted this scarf using really soft and fluffy baby yarn - not sure what it was off hand but I thought it was so beautiful and fluffy!  My bunco friend Tammy loved getting it at the gift exchange.

The original bag I made for the plaque and scarf was too small so I made another.  It is pretty much the same as the one on the top, but I added the word Joy as a coordinating gift bag.

This bag was one of my favorites.  The green paper is from Colorbok.  The paper at the top is from Anna Griffin - the Holiday Traditions 12 x 12 paper pad.  It is a gorgeous red and cream with some green that matched the base green and the cream parts were flocked.  I used my Designer Templates from Kiwi Lane Designs to make the cut on that gorgeous paper.  The template is 12 inches long like my paper and as my bag was 8 inches across, I used the extra little pieces for tags.  I added some pretty lace I bought at WalMart.  I wish these pictures were better :)

Well this picture is better at least . This paper is also from the Anna Griffin Holiday Traditions paper pack - would you believe this is one paper front and bag - what a great contrast for my bag! 

Last one I have a picture of - Back to the K&Company paper - both of these are from the same pad - again front and back of one paper.  The main paper has glittery stuff on it so the snowflakes are sparkly.  The saying on the tag is from an old SU stamp set - it says "Snowflakes are falling, winter is calling".  I think the stamp set is called Winter is Calling but not sure.  It is one of my favorites winter stamp sets. 

Besides paper crafting, I am an artist wannabe. I have been trying to oil paint for about 10 years now, maybe longer. I have been to lots of workshops with my mentor Doug Braithwaite, but I can't seem to find time or make time in between to practice so not sure I am getting anywhere. One of my resolutions this year is to paint more. I am planning to go on a 10 day "traveling workshop" with Doug and his wife and 10 students around southern Utah painting! I am so excited for that trip. It is in September 2 days before my birthday! So the paintings - The first one is in Spring Glen, UT of the old "Blue Hills Dairy". This is only a small part of the dairy, but I love to paint the buildings here. This painting I did August 2010. The middle painting was done in June 2010 on Boulder Mountain near Torrey, UT. This won 3rd place in the Amateur division for the Helper Arts Festival painting competition in August 2010. Both of these paintings were entered into the competition. The last painting was painted in August, 2009 in Helper near the studio where I stay. I call it "A Slice of Helper" (my friend Bryan suggested that name). It has the trains in front and to the right of the coal car, there is a pinkish building - that is the studio. I love that old rusty water tower too. This picture just depicts Helper to me with the trains, the coal and the art studio. This painting took 1st place in the amateur division for 2009. I am pretty proud of it. I will try to post some other paintings as I get more painting in this year!

Some of my son's art that I promised a long time ago... The cathedrals are about 5 x 5 inches done in pen - that is his preferred medium although I am slowly getting him into some oil painting!