My April 29th Free Fiskars Demo

I am doing a Fiskars demo at my LSS tomorrow from 12-2PM. It is one of there featured events leading up to National Scrapbook Day May 2nd.

I am going to feature the Scalloped Squeeze Punches with the coordinating clear stamp sets. We will make a card as shown above. The other picture shows the tools that I will be demonstrating. I hope you can stop by. It is Free too!!

Oh My Gosh!!!

I was just nominated for this Brilliante Weblog award from Kim . I am so honored and excited she sent me this award. Thank you so much Kim . I had no idea you even knew of my blog but I am a frequent visitor of yours for sure. I am truly touched.

Check out Kim's blog. She is a very talented CTMH consultant. I have her blog listed in my Blog list or just go to Clearly Inspired to see fantastic projects, ideas and inspiration.

BLOG CANDY ALERTS

BLOG CANDY ALERTS

1. Debbie at Passions for crafts is offering some Blog candy pictured above for her Blogoversary. The winner will be chosen on April 30th.

2. Jeanette is offering this Blog candy. Winner will be chosen April 27th.

3. Kim's Blog candy Winner will be chosen May 2nd.

4. Tracie also has some great Blog candy. She will chose a winner on May 5th.

You won't believe this....

Remember my post on the Fiskars Warehouse Sale Giveaway I posted that Lisa Falduto was having? Well she picked a winner and one of my very own Followers and special friend was chosen!!!
Sandi Fiskateer #4159 was the WINNER!!! Congratulations Sandi!!
Sandi stopped by my blog and read the post I had written and checked it out. WOW she won.

Thanks Sandi for being one of my faithful Followers and Congratulations again on winning this fantastic prize. I'm so excited for you.

Blog Candy Check it out!!!

You will want to stop by Tammy's Place not only to see all the wonderful projects and inspiration she has to offer but she has a great Blog Candy prize she is offering right now. But hurry it closes on April 30Th.
I think you will enjoy her site as much as I do. Have FUN!!

I hope you like it!

I've been trying to learn a few more things on how to make my blog with features that are appealing and an interesting look. I have been playing around and have come up with this version for now. Let me know what you think. I am still learning and may make more changes but I am going to try this out for now.

Leave me acomment on what you think.
Thanks so much for visiting my blog.

I got an AWARD!!!

When life gives you lemons....make lemonade! -

This is really cool! I won an award! The Lemonade Stand award was from Sara. The Lemonade Stand Award is for being a blogger who shows great attitude and gratitude.



To pick up the Lemonade Stand Award:-

• Comment on this blog.
• Cut and paste the award logo and use it in your own blog.
• Nominate 5 to 10 blogs you feel show great attitude and gratitude.
• Link to your nominees within your blog post.
• Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award.
• Link back to the person who gave you the award to show your appreciation.

I have chosen thes top 5 to receive this award:

1. Miss Creative- I follow her blog and find loads of fun projects she has done.
2.Mellissa- I just love her work and she has a tutorial right now for a looped bow. Plus lot's of amazing works of art.
3.Vickie- She deserves this award for sure. She has so much to offer and is very helpful and generous with her projects. She is not one to be missed.
4.Wendy- Check her out!! Fun Stuff and great talent and inspiration is found here.
5.Debby- A fellow Fiskateer and very talented and creative crafter. She has a little bit of everything to interest everyone who stops by. You won't want to miss her talents.

Congratulations to all of you from me. I feel you all deserve this award from the bottom of my heart.

Want a chance to win a prize?

Well what you need to do is go to www.finkerdoodles.blogspot.com and check out Sara's blog. While you are there you will see she is having a give away for a great prize. She has some cute projects to see too!! Be sure and stop by and see what she has been up to.

Sara has recently become a CFD (Certified Fiskars Demonstrator) and I want to congratulate her on that also.

Cupcake Gift Card Holder

There is a very talented CTMH consultant Tresa Black has figured out how to make this Cupcake as a Gift card Holder

You can view her video to make one of these here

http://www.youtube.com/user/thestampgoddess

Well I fell in love with it and knew I had to try it. It is a little time consuming but rewarding at the completion of it. I plan on making some more trying different colors for the frosting etc. It sure beats giving a gift card in one of those generic paper sleeves!!!

I hope you like it as much as I do. Thanks so much Tresa!!

Scallop Card

I had another birthday card to make for this month so I decided to try this Scallop Card. This was another fun card to make. Your message comes out using any 2 of the scallops. I used Rub-ons for the happy Birthday and some embellishments I had to decorate the front.

Flower Pot Card

I found this card on the Internet. I think it was at SCS. Anyway it looked like a fun card to make and I had some birthday cards to make so this is what I made. I made the first one for my daughter and the second one for my sister. There birthdays were April 15Th and 16Th. I had fun with this design. I used my Cricut to cut out the flowers, a Martha Stewart border punch Doily Lace for the edge of the Flower Pot. The Happy Birthday is a CTMH stamp set called Happy Birthday.

My Easter Cards

Easter Cards (I had to wait until everyone got their cards before I could post them)

Here are some of my Easter Cards I made. I used my Cricut Expressions and the cut files I got from Wanda over at http://myscraphappyplace.blogspot.com/ It was so fun to cut the Chick out and then put together a card. I used a retired CTMH stamp for the inside saying.

This card was made using the same Chick as above but made on a smaller card

This was so much fun!! I love these Stair Step Cards

Card Recipe:

I used the following CTMH stamp sets

Bunny Love

Speckled Eggs

March Word Puzzle

CTMH paper flowers with Create A Shade Pearl Paint.

Martha Stewart border picket fence punch

Nestibilities for the scallop circles

A misc stamp for the Happy Easter.

The paper is CTMH from the Emporium pack.

I used the following technique on the paper flowers. I started with white flowers. I used my CTMH markers and colored each of the flowers. Insert a brad. Then I took the Pearl Paint and brushed it over each of the flowers including the brads. Let dry and you have a nice pearlized look .

The CTMH ink and marker colors used were Heavenly blue, Lilac Mist, Sunny Yellow, Hollyhock, Key lime, Desert sand and Chocolate. I think that was all of them.

This was another card made using the Cricut and a cut file from Wanda as mentioned above. I love the Chicky legs hanging over the edge. This also was made using the Cuttlebug and one of my Fiskars Texture plates to make the design in the basket.

I hope you enjoyed seeing these even though Easter is over.

Next FREE Fiskars Demo

I wanted to mention I am planning on doing another Fiskar's Demo on April 29th 12-2PM at Pages in Progress in Tucson AZ. It will be part of there kickoff of activities leading up to National Scrapbook Day May 2nd.

If all goes well I will be showing you all how to use the new Scalloped Punches with the coordinating clear stamps that go with them.

Fiskars has made Circles, Squares, Ovals, and Hearts in the punches and then the same shapes in the stamps. It should be a lot of Fun. Stop by and try them out with me. We will make a card using these products. I hope tp see you there.

Fiskars Warehouse Sale Giveaway

There was a Fiskar's Warehouse sale and Lisa Falduto who was recently a Guest on the Fiskater Blog is having a drawing for some lucky person to win a wonderful prize package she has put together from her trip to the sale. Check it out at the link below.

http://lisafalduto.blogspot.com/2009/04/fiskars-warehouse-sale.html

Fiskars Oval Border Punch

Remember a while back I posted about the Fiskars Oval Border Punch? I was having difficulty in getting a consistent nice oval when I was done. Well another fellow Fiskateer Debby #2852 has done a video showing how she has figured out how to do these Oval punches. Here is the link for you to go check it out. http://debbysdares.blogspot.com/2009/04/fiskars-friday-on-thursday_09.html

I haven't tried her method yet but plan to as soon as I have a chance. I think she may have figured out the last part of the puzzle for me in making these ovals. Let me know what you think if you go over there. I would love to know how many people own these Oval border punches and haven't been able to use them or if you have do you have any additional info to add??

BlogorveBlog Candysary Candy

Over at Stardust Gems and Ribbons she is celebrating her first year of blogging. She is having a wonderful BLog Candy contest that you can check out here. Stop over and check it out.

http://stardustgemsandribbon.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/blogoversary-candy/

Remember Back...

Remember back on March 24th I posted about receiving a wonderful surprise in the mail? Well I did finally figure out who did this wonderful RAK to me. It was a fellow Fiskateer Sandy Wilkins. Thank you so very much Sandy!! You are so sweet. You really cheered me up and put a Big Smile on my face and warmth in my heart.
Sandy is a beautiful person and a good friend. She teaches classes every Tuesday at the same LSS that I do my Demo's at. (Pages in Progress) You need to sign up in advance to take them but if you are in this area you might want to check it out. Sandy is very talented and teaches you many different techniques and tricks. One of my friends went to the class today so I will see if I can borrow her project to post for you all to get a little idea of what you might do at one of Sandy's classes. You need to contact her directly so I will ask her if I can post a way of contacting her.

See you all tomorrow.

Fiskars Demo Wed April 8th

I just wanted to let you know I will be doing a Fiskars Demo tomorrow Wed April 8th at Pages In Progress in Tucson AZ. I am going to be featuring the Limited Edition Spring squeeze punches and we will be making a cute Spring/Easter card. We will use Get Crackin' and Chicky Baby.

I will try to get some pictures to post tomorrow when I get home.

Check Out Score It week....

It's Score It Week at 365 Cards!!! starting April 12th

Today's challenge at 365 Cards(Day 37) is to use a piece of chip and then make it match you card.

Then on Sunday 365 Cards will be starting there Score It week. The DT willl be using the scoring technique and having a special challenge instead of a sketch. You can check the Score It week and the chipboard challenge here http://365cards.blogspot.com/2009/04/day-37-do-it-yourself.html

I hope to get my Chipboard card done soon.

Swing cards

These are what you call "Swing Cards" They are very easy to make but I think have a nice impact. I used 3x 4/14CTMH cardstock and stamp in both of them. They are just using different colors. The top portion swings open to reveal the message. It swings on a brad that is inserted through all 3 pieces of paper.

The Card:

Base is cut at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.

2 pieces cut at 3 x 4 1/4 for front amethyst and key lime 1st card and sunflower and key lime 2nd card

Sentiment--2 x 2 1/4 white, 2 1/4 x 2 5/8 lilac mist, 2 1/2 x 2 7/8 blush

Stamp on white 2 x 2 1/4 piece

Happy Birthday Stair Step Card

I have been waiting to post this because it was a SECRET for a while now. But it isn't anymore so here it is. I had wanted to try the stair step card and when the call came out for birthday cards to celebrate Fiskars 360th Birthday!! by making a card and sending it.

So I decided to make this card using the orange and green Fiskars colors. You can find the post about this here: http://www.fiskateers.com/blog/2009/03/27/wondering-where-your-card-is/

I am proud to be Fiskateer #324. Happy Birthday Fiskars!!

Some more 3x3 cards

Here are a couple more 3x3 cards. I love making them these little cards for some reason. Anyway hope you enjoy. I'm sure there will be more in the days to come. These are primarily CTMH products.

I have the name of the WINNER

I announced earlier the winner of my very first blog candy is Scrapalooza.
Well I now have her name so wanted to give her the proper Congratulations.
It is Misty Kenner Fiskateer #5856.

We Have A WINNER!!!

I had placed a Blog Candy contest on my blog when I added the Follower feature. I said that I would do a random pick om April 1st from everyone who signed up to be one of my Followers . Drum Roll please........ The winner is scrapalooza!!!
Please contact me so I can get your prize to you. Leave a comment under this post letting me know how I can reach you. Congratulations!!
A Very BIG Thank you to everyone who signed up. I really do appreciate you wanting to stop by my blog. and see what I have been up to.