Last Day of April, A Fun Rainy Day Card

For the Relay For Life Challenge 2 Prizes click HERE

Good Monday Morning Ladies!

Hope you all had a good weekend!  Hope everyone has plenty of mojo as we go into this new week with lots to do!  Cinco De Mayo is Saturday, do you have your cards made?  Mother's Day is May 13th!  Time to get busy!  Louie's birthday is this coming Thursday, did you make him a card?  Since today is the last day of April, I wanted to take the opportunity to have one last "Singing and Dancing in the Rain Card"

The sentiment says "Anyone who thinks Sunshine is pure happiness has never danced in the Rain"

I LOVE that! And I love this sweet little stamp that was so much fun to color!  She is by Heather Valentin from the Lil Ragamuffins - Emily, Rainy Day.  If you would like to purchase here click HERE

Hope you have a wonderful last day of April.  Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs!

Recipe for card:
Digital Stamp - Scrapbook Stamp Society - http://scrapbookstampsociety.com/index.php
Digital Sentiment - from friend
Paper - from stash
Banner Ribbon from Michael's
Cut with Spellbinders Nestabilities Big Scalloped Squared

Challenges:

http://addicted-to-stamps.blogspot.com/2012/03/april-blog-candy.html

Giving Back Some Mojo

For the Relay for Life Card Challenge 2 Prizes Click  HERE


Hello Friends,

I have received reports from around the globe that mojo is missing from many of my scrapbook friends!  This is an EMERGENCY and calls for drastic procedures!  If you are missing your mojo, it is time to act now.  OK, I will now give back mojo to anyone who is missing it.  I can only do this once, so please make sure you are prepared to receive it before we start.  Are you ready?  Stand straight and tall in front of your computer.  Now say the following words ~Bow Chicka Bow Wow ~ you must say these magic words three times!

I have placed the magic crown upon my head and I have the magic mojo wand.  These were made by Lisa of Indy Mermaid, she is one of the greatest in our cardmaking/scrapbooking community.  Her mojo is VERY powerful.  http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/

Ok I am ready to throw MOJO at you!

How do you feel?  Can you feel the desire to create suddenly running through you?

If this has worked and your mojo is back.  Please stop by my friend Heather's blog at Fresh Brewed and tell her Chriss America Real said "Bow Chicka Bow Wow" this will insure that you keep your mojo for a very long time!  http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.com/

A Card For My Sweetheart

For the Relay for Life Challenge 2 Prizes Please Click HERE

Hello My Friends!

Life is so very strange.  I had a sad, mixed up, bad thing happen to me recently...I won't go into the details but it was something that really hurt my feelings and made me feel so bad about not only myself but some people that I dearly love.  Just when I was at my lowest point, my husband stepped in and reminded me "who I am" some of you are probably too young to remember the James Taylor Song  "Something In The Way She Moves" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoevtZiVR4k but if you change it to "Something In The Way He Moves" it describes my husband.  We have been married for nearly 35 years, together for 38 years and he is my rock.  When I get lost among the "craziness" of this world, he comes and finds me and pulls me back into his loving arms until I can find myself again.  Thank you Matt, I love you more than words can say.

So, I was making Matt a thank you card ~ it says "You Are My Sunshine" because he sings that song to me all the time.  I received an e-mail from one of my friends.  She knows that I have been waiting and waiting for the Cricut Embossing Tool to come out and she sent me to this link.  http://bugjuiced.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-card-and-challenge-with-giveaway.html she is having a card challenge to make a blue & yellow card...I WAS MAKING A BLUE AND YELLOW CARD! Wow!  How cool is that?  Here is my card for my sweetheart!

I sure do hope you have someone in your life that comes and pulls you away from the drama and reminds you of "who you are" Have a great weekend!

Challenges:
http://bugjuiced.blogspot.com/2012/04/new-card-and-challenge-with-giveaway.html

TWO Relay For Life Card Challenge 2 PRIZES

Good Morning Ladies!

Hi, Chriss popping back in here for a comment - a follower told me that she didn't have time to make cards but she wanted to know if she could donate to Relay for Life and still be in the drawing for the prizes...that seems reasonable to me.  So, for every $5.00 you donate you will be entered into the drawing one time.  Please send me a message and let me know you have donated.  Click on the "Contact" button at the top of the page or e-mail me at america57@comcast.net to donate go HERE


I am just so thrilled with the prizes that are available to TWO lucky winners of our Relay for Life Card Challenge 2.  When Lisa Mensing at www.thepaperparade.com got in touch with me and told me how impressed she was with the number of gals that sent cards in from all over the country when we did Relay for Life Card Challenge 1 and said she would like to offer a prize, I never dreamed it was going to be such a fantastic prize.  I want to keep it...no Chriss...must raise money for charity...show your friends the nice prize...OK, here it is!

Look at all this beautiful stuff!  It is KaiserKraft's Nan's Favourites. If you would like to get a closer look at these yummy papers click HERE but not only is there paper, there are stamps, recipe cards, journal cards, die cut elements and a 6x6 pad.  I LOVE it!

So that is one prize, here is the other prize.  This prize was donated by the gals I crop with every two weeks.

It is the Cricut Cartridge "Best of 2010"  I own this one and it is very good!

Please place this picture of the prize on your sidebar.

  Please place this picture of the prize on your sidebar.

So how do you win these prizes?  Make me some cards!  I am going to sell your handmade cards at Relay for Life to raise money for cancer.  If you don't know about Relay for Life, please click HERE

Each Card you send me is one entry into the drawing.  All cards must be postmarked by Thursday, May 31, 2012.

• Please Follow My Blog
• Please post this prize on the sidebar of your blog...spread the word!
• Please post about this on your facebook page or anyplace else you can think
• Any cards not sold will be donated to Calvert Hospice and Calvert Senior Center
• Please, PLEASE if you can, send a matching envelope with your cards!

Mail your cards to:

Chriss America Real
3303 Prowse Road
Chesapeake Beach, MD  20732

Delightful Challenge Paper Piecing/$15.00 Gift Certificate toThe Robin's Nest

Good Morning Ladies!

It is a Delightful Challenge Day here on my blog.  I just love Digital Delights and the whole group of Design Team ladies that I work with!  What a wonderful, caring, kind group of ladies and they are so very talented!  This week, our fun challenge was Paper Piecing.  I love Paper Piecing, I enjoy getting my scissors and making those tiny cuts!  So here is my card.

This card was just so much fun to make!  I used the Digital Delights Stamp NEW CAR with the sentiment stamp Oh I Thought You Wanted A New Card! and Fabulous 50's Digital Paper Pack - Route 66

Come on over to http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/ and check out the other Design Team Members work and then join us in the fun!  You could win a $15.00 gift certificate from The Robin's Nest.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today!

Hugs,

Recipe for this card:
New Car Digital Stamp - Digital Delights by Looby Loo
Sentiment - Digital Delights by Looby Loo
Digital Paper -  Digital Delights by Looby Loo
Pink Paper -Bazzill
Coloring - Copic Markers
Stickels
ribbon from my stash

Challenges:

 http://mymumscraftshopchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/ - The Great Outdoors
http://paperprettiesblog.blogspot.ca/ - Clean & Simple

A Winner/A Layout

Hello Ladies,

Sorry I am so late in posting today...I just feel sad.  Every once in awhile it hits me that my parents are both gone, my husbands parents are both gone and I suddenly feel so all alone in the world.  I miss having some other place that I can go to that still feels like home.  You know how you go to your parents house and even if they have moved into a smaller place, or different place from where you grew up, they are still surrounded by their things and it feels like "home".  I miss that.  I now see when my grown children come to visit us how important this little house is to them.  It is their childhood, good and bad.  I will keep for them as long as I can.

Speaking of keeping things.  My mom-in-law gave me an album of pictures of my husband before she passed away.  It is in terrible shape.  The pages are brown and falling apart, the pictures are starting to fade, so with the help of my very best cyber friends from Let's Scrap http://letsscrap.ning.com/ I have started re-making the album and I am going to give it to my husband for either his birthday (May 28th) or Father's Day, depending on when I finish.  Here is a layout of his newborn baby picture...isn't he adorable?

I used the sketch 3-8-10 from Let's Scrap http://letsscrap.ning.com/ the paper is by Graphic 45 and it is called "Little Darlings" as most of you know, their paper is so busy! I had to cut out a piece of it that "flowed" and put it along the bottom of the picture. The yellow paper is a page that I cut at a scrapbook store. They had the new Lucky 8 punches they were giving demo's I couldn't afford to buy one but I got to keep the paper! The wooden carriage and diaper pin are from KiaserCraft, I sprayed them with Tattered Angels in blue, gold and then pearl to give them an antique look. I really enjoyed making this page. I can't wait for Matt to see what I have done...oh I forgot to tell you about the picture! All I had was a very small wallet sized print of this picture. I used my Epson Artisan 810 to restore it and blow it up to 4x7. 


And now the winner of the flower candy from yesterday....Vanessa B!  Vanessa, please send me an e-mail at america57@comcast.net with your address and I will send the flowers right out to you!


Thanks for stopping by today!


Hugs

Who Wants Candy?

Good Morning Ladies,

Last October, I was going around visiting other blogs and I came across Shannon's Blog My Scrappy Creations and discovered her beautiful hand made flowers that she sells on Etsy.  We started chatting and she said she would send me some of her flowers so that I could make a card and also give away some of her flowers on my blog.  She asked me what kind of flowers I would like and since it was fall, I said mums.  The flowers never arrived.  We couldn't understand it because she sent out flowers to other people and they arrived...sigh...I have very weird mail delivery.  I received an invitation to my nieces baby shower two months after her baby was born.  So about a week 1/2 ago, the flowers suddenly showed up!  Where have they been?  Who knows!  So here is my card.  When I saw the google eyes I had to do this card.  This is a little poem my mom used to recite. I don't know who wrote it, if you know, please let me know.

Here are the flowers you could win.

Here is what you must do to win these flowers:

1 As always become a follower of my blog
2. Leave me a comment on my blog
3 Go to Shannon's blog and tell her "Chriss at http://www.chrissandlou.blogspot.com/" sent me
4. Shannon's blog address is - http://www.shannonleffew.blogspot.com/ while you are there, take a look at the beautiful products she sells on Etsy.  Wow!

Hugs,

Sympathy Card

Good Morning Ladies,

Sadly I had to make a sympathy card for my husband's best friend.  His mother passed away yesterday.  When I make a sympathy card, I like to keep it very simple.  I had the idea of a tree.  I put "digital tree stamp" into google search and it sent me to MS Mygrafico and a free stamp called "Lonely Tree" http://www.mygrafico.com/freebies/free-lonely-tree-digital-stamp/prod_2630.html  I colored a little rainbow of hope in the corner of the tree to remind that love surrounds us all even in the darkest saddest times of our lives.

The sentiment says "Death leaves heartache no one can heal, Love leaves a memory no one can steal."  I also put a little angel wing charm on the side.
The paper is a prize that I won from my good friend Lisa at http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/.  Thank you Lisa!  Thank you for stopping by and visiting with me today.  Hope you have a good day!

Hugs!

Pink By Design Silhouette Cameo Giveaway

Hello Ladies!


Pink By Design is giving away a  Silhouette Cameo!  I sure would LOVE to win one!  To check out this giveaway please go to http://www.pinkbydesignstore.com/Cameo-Giveaway-Win-a-Silhouette-Cameo-no-purchase-necessary.html

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Chriss

Exciting Relay For Life Card Challenge 2 News!

My Friends,

I am so excited!  Yesterday I received a message from my friend Lisa Mensing at www.thepaperparade.com,  She told me how much she admired your hard work putting together these cards for Relay for Life and told me that she would like to sponsor a prize!  The prize that she has put together is fantastic!   It is Kaisercraft's Nan's Favourites! She has  put together 6 double-sided 12x12 papers, 1 12x12 die-cut paper, Journal tags, recipe cards, 6.5" Paper Pad, Die-Cut elements, and the stamp set that goes with that! WOW!  She is sending the whole package to me today and I will post a photo of it when I receive  it but if you just can't wait to see what you could win go to www.thepaperparade.com and take a look!  So we now have TWO prizes to give away.  If you aren't familiar with the Relay for Life Card Challenge 2 please go http://www.chrissandlou.blogspot.com/2012/04/relay-for-life-card-challenge-2.html  Have a great weekend and I hope you get some cards made for this wonderful cause!

Hugs!

Delightful Challenge Weekly Challenge - A Sketch

For the Relay for Life Card Challenge 2 Click HEREl

Good Morning Ladies,

Welcome to the Delightful Challenge Weekly Challenge.  This week you will need to follow a sketch.  Here is my card.

In case you wondered, yes this is what I look like when I clean my house!  I enjoy wearing a tiara with a bow on top and my duster and broom twinkle with magic.  That is how I get my house so clean so fast!  This is the adorable Time To Clean Set I just love it!   I am going to send it to my BFF Joanne because we tease each other about the messiness of our scrapbook rooms all the time.  This is a great, fun, jokey card to send to your scrapbook pal if they have a messy scrapbook room (don't we all).

Okay so to see the sketch go to Delightful Challenges, go to  http://delightfulsketches.blogspot.com/

We are being sponsored by

I hope you will stop by all of the Design Teams blogs and give them some love, they all work so hard and come join us and make a card.  We have so much fun with Digital Delights by Looby Loo, there is always something happening!

Recipe For My Card:

Time to Clean Digital Stamp Set by Digital Delights by Looby Loo
Spellbinders Ovals Large
Home paper by doodle bug design
Bazzill Borders
Stickell
Copic Markers

Challenges:

 http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.com/ - FBC 92 (Funny/Humor)

Relay for Life Card Challenge 2

Hello Ladies!

It is time for the Relay for Life Card Challenge 2.  Congratulations to Heather Dennis who won the first card challenge.  We have a very nice prize for the 2nd card challenge it is a Cricut Cartridge Best Images of 2010
If you thought about entering the first challenge but just didn't have time here is your second chance.

If you would like to know more about the charity Relay for Life please click HERE.  So I am part of a team that is raising money for Relay for Life.  I had the idea of selling handmade cards to raise the money.  I asked my followers to send me handmade cards and boy did you gals step up!  You sent me 131 cards from around the country!  Wow!  So lets keep going.  Here are the Rules:

1.  You must be a follower of my blog.
2.  You must post this candy on the sidebar of your blog.
3.  Each card that you send is one entry.

It is that simple.  All Cards must be postmarked by Thursday, May 31st.  If you would like to see the last drawing please click HERE.  Good Luck to everyone and thank you so much for all of your help!  This has been a wonderful project!

Please Mail Your Cards to:

Mrs. Chriss America Real
3303 Prowse Road
Chesapeake Beach, MD  20732

Hugs,

Monday, Monday!

Hello Ladies,

Sorry to say that my meniere's disease is back and I am struggling with vertigo, so this is going to have to be a short post today.  No project, too sick.  I won some candy!  Whoo hoo!   From my new friend Lawren at http://ahobby-holic.blogspot.com/  Happy Blog-a-versary Lawren and thank you so much for the candy!

I hope to be back tomorrow.

Hugs,

Winner of the Relay for Life Card Challenge!

Good Morning!

Why are there so many people visiting my blog today?  Oh that's right!  It's Friday the 13th and time for the big announcement...who won the Relay for Life Card Challenge.  First, I want to tell you all how grateful I am that you sent me so many cards!  131 cards to be exact!  I thank you in the name of all of the people who are fighting cancer and all who have passed on from cancer.

So because so many of you sent multiple cards, I decided to write your name on a slip of paper for each card you sent, put them in a hat and draw one name.

Of course I needed some help from my co-blogger Lou....

And he got a little help from his dad...

Wait a minute, your head is getting a little far in there!

Wooo Hooo!  The winner is Heather~ congratulations Heather Dennis~ You won~

A handmade Tape Glider Holder that you can decorate to match your scrapbook room & a Advanced Tape Glider with two refills!

Now, if you did not win, don't despair, my husband has decided he want to make more of these Tape Glider Holders, so if you would like to order one from me, send me an e-mail at america57@comcast.net.  The price is going to be $12.50 plus shipping and that money will go to Relay for Life.

Also, we are going to have a 2nd Giveaway thanks to my generous Cropping Group.  They have donated a Cricut Cartridge

It is The Best Images of 2010.  Everyone that has already sent cards will be entered in this drawing too!  If you haven't sent me cards and you wish you had, start making them girl!  I will announce the start of the new contest next week!  The more cards you send, the bigger chance you have of winning!

Next week, I am going to be giving away some really pretty handmade flowers to one lucky follower, so please come back for that.

Hope you have a great weekend, thanks for stopping by!

Hugs,

Delightful Challenge "Stitching"/Win Gift Certificate from Scrappy Land

Good Morning Ladies,

It is another Delightful Challenge Thursday.  Today the Design Team would like to challenge you to use stitching on your card (real or faux).  Stop by The Delightful Challenge Blog and check out the wonderful work the Design Team has created this week.  Here is my card.

Join us in the challenge and you could win a gift card from:

So come play along with us!

Recipe for card:

Briley & her balloons stamp from Digital Delights by Looby Loo
Circus Sentiment from Digital Delights by Looby Loo
Cricut Cartridge Tags, Bags & Boxes 2 - Heart Card
Paper- K&Company Confetti
Copic Markers
Purple Twine

Challenges:

http://digitaltuesdaychallenge.blogspot.com/ - #155 Birthdays
http://stampwithfun.blogspot.com/ - Challenge 156
http://anythingchallenge.blogspot.com/

Relay For Life Card News and A Card

Hello Ladies,

Sorry I am posting so late.  I have been having a little trouble with Meniere's Disease today.  Hope it doesn't last for long.  Here is a card I colored last week and put together this morning.  The Digital Stamp was free from off the web and now I can't remember where I found it, sorry.

 Paper Playtime is having a contest called "April Showers" where they want you to use an umbrella, I thought this would be perfect for this contest.

Ok, now to talk about the Relay for Life Card Challenge.  I know that you are all anxiously awaiting to hear who won the prize.  BUT I want to wait (to be fair to everyone) to make sure that all of the cards have arrived.  I received a ton of cards on Saturday.

But I want to make sure that all of the cards postmarked by April 6th have arrived.  So I think I will probably announce the winner on Friday?

Ok, here is some big exciting news!  The gals that I do my scrapbooking with saw all of your beautiful cards and they were just overwhelmed!  I am very happy to say that I sold quite a few of your cards to them.  They aren't card makers, they only do scrapbook pages.  Anyway, they got together and donated a NEW PRIZE for me to give to another lucky winner.  So I am going to have a Relay for Life Card contest 2 but everyone that entered the first contest will be eligible to win this prize.

Yes, that is Cricut Best Images of 2010.  Thank you so much to my croppin' buddies for donating this wonderful prize!  Good luck to all of my wonderful friends who have stepped up and donated your cards to this wonderful charity.  At last count we had 123 cards!

Recipe for my card:

Digital Stamp
Cricut Cart -  Tags, Bags, Boxes & More Card - Page 30
Cricut Cart -George Oval Shape
Spellbinders Oval Shapes
Sizzix Embossing
Copic Markers
Prima Flowers

Challenges:

http://paperplaytime.blogspot.com/ - Challenge #71 April Showers
http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/ - Challenge #60 Pastels
http://www.cinspirations.blogspot.com/ - Challenge 158 Color Scheme

Pixie Dust Design Team Challenge

Hello Ladies,

Today is my turn at the over at the Pixie Dust Paperie.  The Design Team Challenge this month was "Fly Away With Me" oh this was a fun one!  If I could have you all fly away with me, I would take you to Paris!

To go to Pixie Dust Paperie and see all of the Design Teams work click HERE
I want to tell you about something really cool that is going on over at Pixie Dust Paperie right now.  Kristy is clearing out her inventory to make room for more and she is selling these HUGE Grab Boxes of Embellishments valued at $184.64 for only $93.00...wow, what a great deal!  If you would like to find out more about it go here HERE.

Thank you all for visiting me today, I hope you have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Fresh Brewed Birthday Challenge

Hello Ladies,

I have a very good  friend named Heather at Fresh Brewed Designs.  She is so much fun!  The whole blog is fun!  If you haven't been to the blog yet, I highly suggest you get over there and see the fun stamps and enjoy the wonderful Design Team she has working for her.  If you would like to see the blog go Here.  Heather is having a Birthday Challenge and of course she is giving away some yummy candy!  Here is the card I made for her.  I used the digital stamp that she made for her daughter's 10th birthday.  I used the color purple because Heather loves purple.

I hope you will forgive me for the rest of this blog, I have copied Heather's blog and I am pasting it here.  It is Good Friday and I am super busy. Gals, this will be a fun contest to enter.  I just LOVE Heather!   I want to wish you all a Very Blessed Easter!  Hope you get lots of chocolate!

Birthday Blog Candy (From Heather's Blog)

Thank you so much for stopping in to help celebrate my birthday with me.

This is the first time I have offered blog candy for my birthday.... I usually like to keep it a secret so no one feels like they HAVE to send me something. I just love and appreciate you all so much, just having you here and seeing your cards, comments and chatting is all I need!!! I was so blessed last year with a HUGE Surprise. I was given a birthday blog hop in my honor. Oh it was AMAZING and touched my heart SO very much. So I figure the secret is out and my birthday is known... lol... so why not celebrate it by sharing some goodies with you all!!!

This candy is a SURPRISE!!! and the surprise will get bigger with more participation.
Here are the SIMPLE rules / guidelines about the many ways you can enter to win the SURPRISE candy (NOT to US residents only - anyone is allowed to enter!)

1.  Leave a comment for me here to get your name in the draw once
2. Add our BLOG HOP BADGE (found in the sidebar of this blog) to your blog and come back leaving your blog link saying your name and HOP (example Heather HOP)
3. Add our Birthday Badge (found above)  to your sidebar to your blog and come back leaving your blog link saying your name and CANDY (example Heather CANDY)
4. Create a card / project using a FBD image. Post it to your blog  with the surprise blog candy badge and link to this post. Come back HERE  linking saying your name and FBD (example Heather FBD)
5. You can create as many projects and enter as many times as you wish BUT YOU HAVE TO MENTION IT IS FOR MY BIRTHDAY BLOG CANDY in your post AND ADD THE BADGE to your post as well.
6. Like us on Facebook and come back with a link saying your name and FBOOK (example Heather FBook) 

ANYONE CAN PLAY!!! Even the FBD DT can try to win the birthday blog candy.... it is a surprise to them too!!! :)) They had no idea! As long as your project follows the rules and is NOT one of  your regular scheduled DT posts.

I have two stamps and a few little goodies in the package now (valuing $18)... but have other fun things I am dying to add to it including a set of Spellbinder nestabilities... but you have to play along to win!!! The nesties and a pic will be added after we see 10 cards linked. Then another fabby prize will be added with the next 5 participants and so on!!! After 20 people enter with a FBD project the entire package will valued over $50!!! 

 Share with your friends! The more people who play, the more goodies that are added to the prezzie!!!

A Digital Delight Thursday/$45 Prize From Penny Black

Good Morning Ladies,

Digital Delights by Looby Loo has new digital stamps in the store today and the Design Team has really out done themselves...except for me...sigh...I am not very happy with the way my project turned out.  This is one of the cutest set of stamps that Wendy has ever released it is called Delightful Oz.  I had a vision in my head of what my card would look like and I don't like the way it turned out.  Here it is.

But there is some good news!  All the rest of the Design Team did a fantastic job so please stop by and see what they created! To go to the Delightful Challenge Blog click Here And if you play along with us this week (The theme is fantasy) you could win a fantastic prize from our new sponsor Penny Black.  $45 worth of in-stock images~ I love Penny Black!

To purchase this fantastic stamp set please click  Here Hope you have a wonderful day!

Hugs,

Another Easter Card

Good Afternoon Ladies,

This is my 2nd Blog Entry Today!  I am going Easter Card Crazy!  If you would like to see my first Easter card go click here I have been looking for something to really challenge my Copic Coloring Skills.  A friend suggested that I go to Scrapbook Stamp Society and have a look at their digital stamps.  I found this digital stamp and it really challenged me!  It took me two hours to color it!  I have some kind of stomach flu Or it is my Meniere's disease acting differently so this was the perfect thing to distract me from being sick.  Here is my card.

I just LOVE her!  If you would like to see more of Scrapbook Stamp Society please go Here
and if you would like to buy this stamp go Here 
This stamp was so much fun to color, I know I will be coloring more of their stamps in the future!

Thanks for Stopping By!

Recipe for Card:

Digital Stamp by Digi Doodle
Bazzill Green Paper
Bazzill Light Orange Paper
Blue Ribbon from Stash
Flowers from Stash

Challenges:

http://addicted-to-stamps.blogspot.com/2012/03/april-blog-candy.html - April Blog Candy Giveaway 1
http://freshbreweddesigns.blogspot.com/ - Tie It Up!
 http://www.cinspirations.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-157-easter.html - Challenge 157
http://thepapershelter.blogspot.com/2012/04/challenge-time.html - Anything Goes (Easter In Mind)
http://www.papersundaes.blogspot.com/2012/04/paper-sundaes-challenge-114-happy.html - Easter

Bunny Fun

Hello Ladies,

Today I would like to show you the card I made for my son Brian & his sweetheart for Easter.  I used the Cricut Cartridge Tags, Bags, Boxes & More to cut the card.  It is the Heart Box Card on Page 54.  The inside of the card is a McMahon Five Digi Card called Bunny Fun.

Can you tell I had a lot of fun coloring this card?

I really like this digital stamp!  Here is a closer look.

The Easter Greeting Sentiment is from Digital Delights by Looby Loo.

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a great day!


Recipe for card:

Tages, Bags Boxes & More 2 Cricut Cartridge - Page 54
Bazzill Yellow Paper
Bazzill Pink Paper
Copic Markers
Delightful Sentiment - Easter Greetings
Martha Stewart Punch

Challenges:

http://www.gettingcricky.com/2012/03/simply-sunday-challenge-easter.html - Easter Blessings
http://cutecardthursday.blogspot.com/2012/03/challenge-210-happy-easter.html

More Cards And A Blog Hop Winner!

To Read About the Relay for Life Card Contest Please Click Right Here cards for this first challenge must be postmarked by April 6th.

Good Morning Ladies!

I was so happy when I opened my mailbox today and found all of these cards from my blog pal Julie.  They are so beautiful, I had to show them off!

Thank you so much Julie!  And I have some exciting news!  Someone has donated another great prize for me to give away when this card challenge ends!  So if you can't make the April 6th deadline, don't worry, another great prize is going to be offered from April 7- May.....something...we will have to see.

The blog hop yesterday was great.  Thanks to all who participated.  Let's ask Mr. Random.org who won the blog candy.  Random.org says number 2 Colleen!  Congrats Colleen!  Please send me an e-mail message with your name and address and I will send the candy out to you right away! america57@comcast.net

Have a great day!

Hugs!

Autism Awareness Blog Hop ~ with a prize!

To read about the card contest for Relay for Life please click Right Here.  Cards for this first contest must be postmarked by April 6th.  Stay tuned 2nd contest and another prize is on it's way!


Good Morning Ladies,


Welcome to the Autism Awareness Blog Hop.  If you are stopping here from the talented  Zenita - ScrappnwithZ blog than you are in the right place.  If you get lost you can always start at the beginning with my good friend Cori at createdbycori who has worked for months to bring together this group of ladies for World Autism Awareness Day.

Today, people all over the world will "light it up blue" to shine a light on Autism.   Today I am thinking about several of my girlfriends who have children with Autism, they are my heroes.


Here is my card:

The sentiment reads ~ " We know God wants His best for us, we just don't know how difficult His best will be".


I always have to give away a little candy for my blog hops, so here is some for you.

To win this candy, please become a follower of my blog and leave me a comment telling me that you are a follower. If you are already a follower, just leave me a message saying hi.  I will announce the winner on Tuesday, April 3rd.


Ok, your next stop on the blog hop is the super talented Colleen Creations by Colleen
Hugs!


Recipe for Card:
Bazzill Navy Blue Paper
Bazzill White Paper
"A Child's Year" Cricut Cartridge
Spellbinders M-Bossabilities (Design A)
Spellbinders Nestabilities Beaded Ovals
Spellbinders Nestabilites Classic Ovals Large
Little clothes pin
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