Blog Candy Winner!

Hi All!

Just a quick post to announce the winner of my blog candy! Thanks to all who participated, I really appreciate all the well wishes and kind comments. I also love the great ideas and color combos. I'll be trying lots of them!

The winner is, as chosen by random.org...
Here are your random numbers: 15
Timestamp: 2008-06-28 12:46:33 UTC

That's Diane who said:
Woohoo! Congrats on all your hits Denise! That's great!!My fav color combo,hmmmmm!!! Apple green and any other bright color,like bright blue,orange,pink.I love cheery colors for this time of year especially.Thanks for a chance at your awesome candy!!!Oh btw,you can come camping with us if you want,lol!

Way to go Diane, contact me with your mailing info and I'll get those goodies out to you ASAP!

Thanks again everyone! Have a fabulous weekend. Be sure to check out the challenge on STAMP SOMETHING and play along for a chance to win some fabby red, white, and blue blog candy!

Anything But a Card Somethings!

Happy Friday All!

There's a great new challenge posted on STAMP SOMETHING this morning. It's a very different challenge than what we usually do too. Our very own design team member Melissa created a fabulous "red, white, and blue anything but a card" challenge in honor of the 4th of July!

I will admit this was a tough challenge for me, I always make cards so I had to really think hard about what to make. I decided to raid my stamp closet and this is what I came up with. It's a metal bucket which has been stamped with white Staz-On ink, then ribbon was wrapped around and I hole punched with the Cropadile to thread ribbon through and then finally added a sticky cut star with glitter.

Inside there are wrapped nugget candies and star lollipops. The stars are just paper that I punched with my star punch. The large star is a piece of chipboard cover in DSP. There you have it, a cute little table centerpiece for your holiday BBQ!

Thanks for looking! Hop on over and check out the samples made by the design team and then go on and stamp something, but remember it must be red, white, and blue and no cards allowed! :) Happy Stamping!

Oh and remember too, you have until midnight ET tonight to enter into my blog candy chance, details are in a couple posts below. :)

Terrific Tuesday Fashion Inspiration Challenge

Happy Tuesday!

It's time for the Terrific Tuesday Challenge over on Cindy's Blog. This month her challenge was to use fashion for inspiration when creating a card. At first I was stumped, but then I remembered the dress I recently got for a wedding I'm going to later this summer. It's a simple white dress with brown roses and splashes of turquoise. Here's a photo of it ----->

I kept my card quite simple. I used the same colors as the dress with the same basic design. I chose Close to Cocoa, Tempting Turquoise, and White. I did have to change the flowers, I don't own any rose stamps. I used my Embrace Life stamps from Stampin' Up! and the sentiment is from All Holidays, also Stampin' Up!. I added some glitter to the center flower for some sparkle.

I hope you'll hop on over to Cindy's Blog and check out the other samples using fashion as inspiration. Give this challenge a try too!

Oh and I have blog candy up for grabs, scroll down to see the details, you have until midnight ET, Friday June 27th! So far there are some fantastic color combo ideas, thanks to all who have shared. :)

Happy Stamping! :)

Blog Candy Time!!

Happy Monday Everyone!

Hope the weekend was enjoyable for you! I've finished all my wedding invites and finally got to relax a bit yesterday. I'm thrilled to have those projects done and crossed off my "to-do" list.

Now, as promised I have some blog candy up for grabs! My counter recently rolled over 15,000 hits, which I can't believe. THANKS to ALL of you! It's been greating getting to know so many people from all over the world.

I had been waiting for some goodies to arrive from Stampin' Up! and they finally did on Friday. So, here's what I have for you.... A hostess prints pack of designer paper, a versamarker and white EP, a "hand stamped" stamp, and a packet of non SU! eyelets.

Now for your part.... to enter into my blog candy drawing, you just need to comment on this post telling us your favorite color combinations. I'm always looking for new ideas and I'm sure there are tons out there.

I will leave this blog candy chance open until midnight ET on Friday, June 27th. I will use random.org to select the winner and will announce who that winner is first thing Saturday morning, June 28th. Good luck to everyone. This drawing is open to all of my visitors! :)