This weeks challenge at Papertake is a charity one! Quick Cards made easy magazine are trying to break the record for the worlds biggest handmade card, for BBC Children in Need.
SARAH KAY CHALLENGE BLOG
WHIFF OF JOY CHALLENGE, come join the fun. It's their first challenge and there's some great eye candy being offered to three lucky winners.... It's a WOJ-Oakley in the bathtub stamp. Super cute.
I made this card for a friend who had someone they loved pass recently...entered it into the House Mouse Monday Challenge too.
WHIFF OF JOY IS HAVING A DT TEAM CALL. You have until September 26 to join.. Sorry I'm late posting this but I've been sick. Go HERE to read all about it...I love their stamps by Eliisabeth Bell. Super cute. 
This adorable card and set of stamps was given to me by a friend at All Moments Remembered's forum, Dee...Thank you, Dee!!!
This card I made for the DD of AMR's owner. All magnolia stamps......
This card I made for Aleida Franklin's (ricanlaw) family.
We were given this link to show us what she did with the inchies.
cards and her LO's... Simple beautiful..... Thank you for the inspiration Carole Janson...
Want to win a Sampler Pack (2 of each type of card blank - clear & frosted) before you can buy it?!
This is going to be a quick one - make sure to leave a comment, telling us what you like about the new product, on this post no later than Midnight tomorrow (9/11/2008).
Want an extra "ticket" in the drawing? Post a message on your blog, or a public message board*, about this chance to win. Make sure to leave a direct link to your post in your comment. *Please make sure this post will not violate any TOU's of the board. Public message boards include any MBs that do not require a log in to view posts.
The "fine print":
A winner will be chosen (by a random draw) by Monday the 15th of September and announced on this blog.
To get your "Extra Entry" for posting a message on a blog or MB, you must leave a separate comment with a direct link to your post.
Drawing is open to everyone - U.S. and International
If your comment does not link to a blog with contact information, you must include your email address in your comment- adding spaces is fine.
SUZANNE J. DEAN has some BLOG CANDY on her blog, SCRAP BITZ. The picture at right is the yumminess she is giving away.... The stamp alone, a Whiff Of Joy-Melinda Hugging Heart from the Guardian Angel Series by Elisabeth Bell is to die for.... I own some of the Charlotte & Charlie stamps. So cute and their Christmas ones so I can get started early on my Christmas cards... I'm also waiting for the Guardian Angel Series and the Willow and Oakley set (some were sold out though, so hurry up and go to Whiff Of Joy so you can order some of these gorgeous stamps).... And add (the rest of the blog candy) the pp pack, flowers, stickles, ribbon and jewels... Right there is the making of lots of cards.... So, run to Suzanne's blog Scrap Bitz and do what she requests to be eligible for her blog candy....
Joanna sent me a LO that she did so everyone could see her style....Here's what Joanna said on the day she was my guest. She talks about her style at the end....:
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GINA P CRAFTS (Where my creative juices flow and spill out all over the place) has hit 20K on her blog and is giving some yummo candy to one lucky person.....Since we're all crafters, what better than to give you some items you can craft with?? Here's what you get:
1 - 8x10 frame (holds a 5x7 photo)
1 - full sheet of On Board Accents from SU!
2 - 6x9 board puzzles
1 - mini photo album (see my Christmas in July post for project idea!)
ALSO, I will include a card from this blog so you can see it in person. You never know what you're gonna get, either! Do you like surprises? I do!!
SO, here's how you can get in on the fun:
1. post a comment on this post. NO annonymous entries. One entry per person.
2. share this opportunity with those on your blog, your friends, whatever. Just spread the word! I'll check your blog out too (fun!). And if you're looking at the comment list, be sure to check out other people's blogs that post here. I'm sure everyone loves to have visitors!
3. Either include your email address on your entry or check back here to find out if you've won, and you can email me then. Then I send you the goodies!
So, does that sound like fun? COOL! I'll pick a winner onTuesday, September 9, so keep coming back to find out if you've won!
By Joanna Campbell Slan
As a family, we’ve been working hard on going green. Today my husband David turned the car around (we were carpooling!) a block from home because he realized he’d forgotten to put out our recycling.
Lately, David’s been even greener than I am, and I'm pretty proud of him. His biggest complaint? Styrofoam.
Which got me to thinking. Couldn’t I find a way to use those flimsy containers they give us to take home leftovers? Yes, indeed. I used my Sizzix shadow alphabet set and punched out letters. Then I painted them with acrylic paint. Because the Styrofoam letters are lightweight, they tend to stick to the paint. I used a strip of masking tape, turned sticky side up, to hold the letters down as I dabbed them.
I think they’ll be great for a page I’m planning to celebrate us going apple-picking.
I’m not sure that my new scrapbook heroine Kiki Lowenstein has been bitten by the “go green” bug yet, but after my encouraging experiments with Styrofoam, you can bet I’ll add this tip to the next book in the series. This week is the official launch of Paper, Scissors, Death: A Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-and-Craft Mystery (ISBN: 0-7387-1250-7). I’ll be bringing along my scrapbooks to signings in order to show people that I really do love the craft. One of the albums will be my Happy Father’s Day “trash” album, which is made from cereal boxes. I cut the large flat panels to size, covered them with flattened paper bags, and used parts of Father’s Day cards and envelopes inside. I also glued all sorts of objects—a guitar pick, receipts, the top of a golf ball package, and so on inside the back cover. Stuff I'd rescued from the waste paper can.
You know, archeologists call ancient trash sites “middens,” and these are highly prized because they are rich depositories of clues to cultures. Read more about middens here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden
I figured I’d glue together our very own family midden in the back of David’s Father’s Day album. I’m glad I did. Years from now, we’ll look at it and remember what we ate, what we did, and how we spent a special day together. That’s a memory too precious to toss in the trash.
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To read an excerpt from Paper, Scissors, Death, go to www.youpublish.com/joannaslan
To order your copy—complete with a coupon for 50 Free Digital Prints—go to http://www.amazon.com/Paper-Scissors-Death-Lowenstein-Scrap-N-Craft/dp/0738712507/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220378229&sr=8-1pattimar
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Here's the styrofoam letters that Joanna Slan created for one of her LO's......And if you read on, she'll tell you how she cut them out......Scrapping is Also My Passion—and I Love Going Green with It
By Joanna Campbell Slan
As a family, we’ve been working hard on going green. Today my husband David turned the car around (we were carpooling!) a block from home because he realized he’d forgotten to put out our recycling.
Lately, David’s been even greener than I am, and I'm pretty proud of him. His biggest complaint? Styrofoam.
Which got me to thinking. Couldn’t I find a way to use those flimsy containers they give us to take home leftovers? Yes, indeed. I used my Sizzix shadow alphabet set and punched out letters. Then I painted them with acrylic paint. Because the Styrofoam letters are lightweight, they tend to stick to the paint. I used a strip of masking tape, turned sticky side up, to hold the letters down as I dabbed them.
I think they’ll be great for a page I’m planning to celebrate us going apple-picking.
I’m not sure that my new scrapbook heroine Kiki Lowenstein has been bitten by the “go green” bug yet, but after my encouraging experiments with Styrofoam, you can bet I’ll add this tip to the next book in the series. This week is the official launch of Paper, Scissors, Death: A Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-and-Craft Mystery (ISBN: 0-7387-1250-7). I’ll be bringing along my scrapbooks to signings in order to show people that I really do love the craft. One of the albums will be my Happy Father’s Day “trash” album, which is made from cereal boxes. I cut the large flat panels to size, covered them with flattened paper bags, and used parts of Father’s Day cards and envelopes inside. I also glued all sorts of objects—a guitar pick, receipts, the top of a golf ball package, and so on inside the back cover. Stuff I'd rescued from the waste paper can.
You know, archeologists call ancient trash sites “middens,” and these are highly prized because they are rich depositories of clues to cultures. Read more about middens here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden
I figured I’d glue together our very own family midden in the back of David’s Father’s Day album. I’m glad I did. Years from now, we’ll look at it and remember what we ate, what we did, and how we spent a special day together. That’s a memory too precious to toss in the trash.
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To read an excerpt from Paper, Scissors, Death, go to www.youpublish.com/joannaslan
To order your copy—complete with a coupon for 50 Free Digital Prints—go to http://www.amazon.com/Paper-Scissors-Death-Lowenstein-Scrap-N-Craft/dp/0738712507/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220378229&sr=8-1pattimar
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This card was made for the sketch challenge at House Mouse... 
This post will make me sound so stupid but sometimes since I got my iMac I find this out........ I was trying to copy and paste on blogger. Never could get it to work. It would end up pasting down under the publish post button and not in the post box. With me so far????
So, I emailed a friend at AMR. Crop-a-holic(her blog)/Nicole (her Hampshire Review blog)came back with:
[I have done copy and paste in blogger before. Do you know how to copy and paste at all, is that what you are asking me? You just highlight the area that you want to copy, by holding down the left key on the mouse and running over the text, until it is all highlighted.Then right click, hit copy. Then go to your blog post box where you would type in the text, right click again and hit paste. It takes a few seconds with blogger. ] I find that most times I'm misunderstood.....
LMFAO!!! This was so funny to me! I usually do copy and paste from my file on my tool bar...... and it doesn't work on my iMac with blogger........ Then I thought, I hardly every right click to copy and paste........ Guess what? Tried it and it didn't work............ Then I thought, again. I'll try control with, rt. click, copy and paste......(and yes I always highlight first) no, I'm not that stupid!..........
It worked.....
So, on the 4th you'll see that I've HIGHLIGHTED, HELD THE CONTROLL BUTTON WHILE, RIGHT CLICKING, COPYING AND PASTING!
DEFINITELY A DUH! MOMENT!!
LMFAO!!!
THIS ONE IS FOR THE TILDA & CO CHALLENGE
