Getting Cricky Blog Hop Reminder!

Happy Thursday, everyone! I wanted to remind you to stop back tomorrow night for the Getting Cricky All About Fall Blog Hop, starting at 9 pm EST! The Getting Cricky design team plus a special guest will be showcasing fabulous and creative projects featuring K Andrew Design's awesome stamps! I will have blog candy plus a special offer to all of my wonderful followers! You won't want to miss this :)

All of Kristal's stamps are made in the USA and a portion of the proceeds of every stamp set sold directly benefits charity. Her three newest sets: Scripture Sayings, Winter Wishes and Fall-O-Ween are all larger stamp sets:

Click HERE to see all of K Andrew Designs stamp sets and to purchase your own stamps! I hope to see you back here tomorrow :)

Butterfly Award!

I am so sorry it has taken me so long to get this posted. I know you all are as tired of hearing about my computer problems as I am of typing them, but I kept a draft post and listed each time someone gave me this award. I was trying to post it from my brand new computer on Saturday night when my cursor started jumping around the document. I tried to go back and get it and it deleted the entire post! And then stinkin blogger autosaved so I lost everything! Pretty sure I shed a tear or two! So I have had to go back through my emails and try to find the names again. I sincerely apologize if I left anyone out who gave this to me. If so PLEASE let me know and I will publicly thank you and apologize!

I truly have the best blogger buddies in all of bloggerland and I am so grateful for all of you! I want to say a great big thank you to the following friends for gifting me with the Butterfly Award! Each and every one of them is truly amazing and creative and so super-talented and I hope you will visit their blogs to see what I mean! You will not be sorry!! So a huge thank you to (in the order the award was received):

Amy - Redheaded Crafter
Pam - Craftycards4u2
Susan - Cricut and Grasshopper
Sherrie - Sherrie Scraps With Passion
Amy - Amy's Crafting Space
Shelly - My Paper Love
Diana - DL.Art
Eva - Eva's Scraps N'Cards
Karen - Crafted With Love by Karen
Maribel - I Love Scrappin
Jayne - Jayne Designs
Kelly - Kelly's Crafty Life
Nita - Nita Notes
Sugarlips - Sugarlips Sassy Surprises
Brenda - Creativity is Only a State of Mind
Paula - PVCreations2010
Letillia - Diva of 5
Melanie - In Love With A Bug
Jo - JoBoogie Stamping

To receive this award, I need to: answer several questions, award this 'Butterfly Award' to 10 other bloggers, contact the 10 bloggers to let them know they have been given this award, and I also need to show a link to the person who gave me the 'Butterfly Award'.  So here goes...

Q1) Name your favorite colour?
Blue

Q2) Name your favorite song?
Oooh, so many, but right now: Say Goodbye by Katherine McPhee, Jar of Hearts by Christina Perri, Dancing by Elisa, Holding On and Letting Go by Ross Copperman and Cathedrals by Jump Little Children (sorry, I couldn't pick just one!)

Q3) Name your favorite dessert?
Strawberry Shortcake

Q4) What wizzes you off at the moment?
Rude, inconsiderate people and Microsoft. I had to get a new computer because of all the problems with Vista, so I get one and two days later, they launch another new operating system! Grr...I am sooo not happy with Microsoft right now...

Q5) Your favorite pet?
I'm a dog person but I haven't been able emotionally to get another since I had to put my baby, Dakota, to sleep after 15 years ago. I have three semi-feral cats whose momma had them here and then abandoned them: Shadow, Cali and Calypso. Calypso is the sweetest of all of them, lets me pet her, runs to me when I come home, talks constantly and so wants to be an indoor cat :)

Q6) Black or White
Black for clothing

Q7) Your biggest fear?
Illness striking my family; snakes

Q8) Best Feature?
My sense of humor

Q9) Everyday attitude?
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference

Q10) What is perfection?
The ocean

Q11) Guilty Pleasure?
DWTS, SYTYCD and red wine

Q12) When you're upset you?
Brood, write want I want to say in my head, imagine sending it and then let it go...either that or call my mom :)

Now I have to pass this award along. This is always the hardest part for me. Everyone deserves it, and I have a huge hang-up about not wanting to hurt anyone's feelings or for anyone to feel left out. But in keeping with the rules, I am passing it along to the following, starting with the amazing friends who gave it to me! Ladies, you do not need to post this again, just know that I want you to have it from me because I am so very thankful for you and so inspired by you! (In alphabetical order:)

Amy - Amy's Crafting Space
Amy - Redheaded Crafter
Brenda - Creativity is Only a State of Mind
Diana - DL.Art
Eva - Eva's Scraps N'Cards
Jayne - Jayne Designs
Jo - JoBoogie Stamping
Karen - Crafted With Love by Karen
Kelly - Kelly's Crafty Life
Letillia - Diva of 5
Maribel - I Love Scrappin
Melanie - In Love With A Bug
Nita - Nita Notes
Pam - Craftycards4u2
Paula - PVCreations2010
Shelly - My Paper Love
Sherrie - Sherrie Scraps With Passion
Sugarlips - Sugarlips Sassy Surprises
Susan - Cricut and Grasshopper

And also to some old friends and some new (in alphabetical order):
Amy - Love to Crop
Arlene - Waterdots
Becky - Squirly Girl Creations
Carri - DoubleClick Connections - AKA ABusyBee
Cindy - Cindy's Little Creations
Cindy Lou - ScrappinC
Chloe - Chloe And Her Clip On Koalas
Diana - Daisylove Creations
Diane - A Day in the Live of Horsebunny
Dina - Crazy for Cricut
Elaine - Expressions by Elaine
Gloria - Girlia's Cards
Janis - Pause Dream Enjoy
Jenni - My Lollipop Garden
Jessica - Jessica's Craft Shaque
Karen - Kaleidoscope Sparkles
Kathy - The 3 E's Blog
Linda - Hands to Work, Heart to Love
Linda - Welcome to Scrapbooking and More
Lori - Reflections From Granny
Melissa - Created by Sunshine Honeybee
Norma - PinkBlingCrafter
Rez - Karezma Kreations
Shannon - My-O-Scrappin
Shen - My Curious Crafts
Sonia - Cards, Crafts and Kids Projects

I hope you will visit each of these fabulous crafters to see their amazing work! I am inspired by them daily!! Thank you so much for stopping by tonight :)

Live Your Dreams

FOR MY 6 MONTH BLOGAVERSARY GIVEAWAY, CLICK HERE!

Happy Wednesday, everyone! Wow, the week is half over already. I hope you are having a good one!

I managed a little time in my craft room today. I'm so behind on challenges. I have a card to enter into a couple today.

For this easel card, I used paper from the DCWV Music Stack. I cut the rocker chick from Rock Princess at 5 1/2". I gotta say, layers are so much easier the larger the cut! I attached her with a homemade wobble so she can rock out to the music! The background embossing folder is the Tim Holtz Sizzex music folder. The tag is from Spellbinders and I inked the edges with Tim Holtz walnut distress ink and attached it with foam tape. The sentiment is a mix and match from two different K Andrew Designs stamp sets. I used "Live" from Positive Thoughts, and taped over the rest of the sentiment. "Your" is from Winged Things, and again I taped over the rest of the sentiment. "Dreams" is also from Winged Things. These stamps are so awesome and versatile, the possibilities are endless! Click HERE to see all of her fabulous stamps or to purchase your own sets!

I am entering the card in the following challenges:

• Paper Playtime Challenge #55 - Easel/Pedestal Card
• Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog Challenge #77 - Make Some Music
• You Had Me At Craft - Made it Myself Mondays

Thanks so much for stopping by! Don't forget to enter my six month blogaversary giveaway and have a great evening :)

Six Month Blogaversary Giveaway!!

Happy Tuesday, everyone! Today is my six month blogaversary! Wow, I can't believe how fast time flies! I still remember trying to decide if I should even create a blog. I thought, who would want to follow me? I am so glad I did...I have met so many amazing people and I am so thankful for each and every one of my followers! I appreciate you so very much, and you inspire me daily! I wanted to do something special to thank you!

This is just a small token of my affection (my budget was severely limited by the new computer that I got on Friday and have spent the last two days on the phone with tech support trying to figure out why the cursor randomly jumps around the page! Grr...so frustrating! I haven't been able to craft in three days!!) But, I'm just 70 away from 700 followers, so if I hit 700, I'll dig into my savings and add even more candy! So spread the word :)

All you have to do to be eligible to win is:

1. Be a follower, and
2. Leave a comment on this post with a way to contact you
3. For an additional entry, tell your friends! Post this on your blog or sidebar or Facebook and then come back and leave another comment with a link to the post

That's it! The giveaway will be open until midnight EST on October 12th. I will use random.org to pick a winner on the 13th. Oohh, October 13th just sounds spooky, doesn't it? It's not even a Friday!

Besides my blogaversary, I want to celebrate two other exciting events! One, I just redesigned my blog! It's been a long, hard process and I'm still working on all the little tweaks like section headers and a new button, but I wanted to debut the look on my blogaversary. I finally figured out how to do the top pic with clickable links, which was so stinkin' time consuming, but I will be able to add a gallery and tutorials soon.

Also, I am so excited to announce that I am going to be published in Scrapbook News and Review, the world's largest online scrapbooking magazine!! This was the first time I've ever submitted to a magazine and they picked both the cards I submitted! The call was for sympathy cards, which I have a hard time doing, but I used the new K Andrew Designs Sympathetic Sayings Stamp Set, which has such amazing sentiments...it made making the card easy! Click HERE to purchase your own set of these fabulous stamps!

 

Thank you so much for stopping by, GOOD LUCK, and thank you again for following me! *HUGS*