There is a giveaway for the newest kit by Kitty Designs, go here to enter. (Or don't as then I have better chances for winning!)

Giveaway, free kits and new stuff!!

Okay, first of all, there is a fantastic giveaway over on the Made With Love and Glue blog, for one of her fantastic family stitchery projects! I want to win, (so maybe just ignore this part, and definitely don't click on the link or enter yourself!) but here is what it looks like:

Second thing up for today, Mel and Stacey have a new freebie on their blogs, here is the preview:

My layout with Mel's part (template by Janet Phillips):
My layout with Stacey's part:

Also, Sara has this new year in review kit, called 2009 What a Hoot, I just love this kit!! Here is the full preview:My first layout used a template by Arisu:

My second layout, I just love those elements!:

Stacey also has a new kit out this week, called L is for Let's go Sledding! Here is the full preview:

My first layout used a freebie template by Cindy Schneider:

And here is my second:

Whew! Had a little bit to catch up on!! Thanks for looking! Have a great day, and then go scrap it!!

Final giveaway winner!!

Ok, sorry I'm late in posting this, I forgot all about it yesterday! SO the winner of a kit from Sara's store is...commenter #9, Jan. So Jan please let me know which kit you would like, and I'll get you a coupon code! Thanks everyone for your comments and for visiting my blog! Hope you enjoyed it!

Also, I haven't heard from DoggiNo for giveaway #3 for a free kit from Stacey's store, or from Mandy for giveaway #5 for a free kit from Mel Hains store. You have until Monday, November 16th to contact me at cwps29 (at) yahoo (dot) ca, and if I don't hear from you, I'll have to re-draw!! Thanks again to all the generous sponsors of my week of giveaways, and to everyone that entered, have a great weekend!

Sweet Romance, Homestead, and Quick Pages!!

Okay, I'll just go ahead and get the giveaway winner out of the way! Today's draw is for a digital kit from Mel Hains Designs at Scrap That Idea. The winner is...{selected randomly using random.org}...comment #2, Mandy! Please email me at cwps29 (at) yahoo (dot) ca, (no spaces) and let me know which kit you would like as your prize! Congrats!

Next up, are the quick pages I made with Maurine's Sweet Romance kit. I showed you the layouts yesterday (check the post below) and if you haven't snagged this kit yet, you better hurry! It won't stay free forever! Here is the preview for my quick pages:

Just click on the photo below to be taken to download, password is beauty. Same thing here, click on the photo to be taken to download, the password is beauty.And the last one gives you the option of having no word art on it, click on the photo to download, and again, the password is beauty. If you download all three, you'll probably only have to enter the password once. Please let me know if you have any problems downloading!! And next up, is this fantastic kit by Cheri at Dream Big Digi, let me tell you I just loved playing with this kit! It started out as a collab kit with SAHM Scrapper, and ended up huge! I'm sure I cranked out these three layouts in about an hour! Grab it quick, as for a limited time, it's only $2 in her store! Here is the full preview:And here is the preview for SAHM's part:and my first layout, starring my nephew, I just loved the papers and all the elements in this kit! This layout is of my new nephew, using Cheri's part of the kit only:And this one was Chase, just ecstatic that it was snowing {it was early October, so needless to say, I was not as overjoyed}.And this one is my daughter, just being all cute and happy! Love these elements, and the photo mask! This layout used both kits.And here is one last freebie for you! A quick page made from my first layout for you! Hope you like some of my layouts, and please leave a comment if you download! I know you hear it all the time, but I know I for one really like to hear what you think! Click on the image to be taken to the download, and the password is family.Also, we celebrate Remembrance Day in Canada today, so make sure you take a moment to remember all those that have died for us, before us, so we could live in a free country. I found something I find very interesting on Wikipedia (don't you just love Wikipedia??) about the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, check it out if you're interested. I honestly never really gave much thought to the fact that some men went to war and never returned, and that they were possibly just never identified. Lest we forget...

Giveaway Winner!!

Okay, I'll just go ahead and get the giveaway winner out of the way! Today's draw is for a pdf pattern from Make it and Love it, which was giveaway day four. The winner is...{selected randomly using random.org}...comment #1, Becky! Please email me at cwps29 (at) yahoo (dot) ca, (no spaces) and let me know which pattern you would like as your prize! Congrats!!


Also, I'm hosting a template challenge on the Scrap That Idea blog, so make sure to go check it out, and get your layouts uploaded to the gallery, you could win one of Vicki's kits! Short post tonight, I'm tired and today kind of sucked, and there will be a doozy of a post for tomorrow!! G'night~

Giveaway Winners and a Freebie

Hey all, sorry I've been slow in getting the giveaway winners posted, with my Scrap booking retreat this weekend, time for anything else has been limited, which I'm finding is the case a lot lately! So I apologize. And without further ado... (that sounds so lame to me lol)...the winner of the Quilt Taffy giveaway for day one is: comment #2, R. So please email me with your address, and I'll have the wonderful ladies at Quilt Taffy send you the turnover! In all fairness, there were only two entries, so you both had a 50/50 chance of winning!! I also said I would choose the winner for giveaway for day two on Sunday, so the winner of a kit from Vicki's store is comment #17, Marif!! Please email me with your choice of kit, and I'll get you the coupon code to grab your kit! And since today is Monday, I'll do the winner for giveaway day three as well...which is for a kit from Stacey's store. The winner is...{drumroll...} comment #6, DoggiNo, so again, please email me with your choice of kit and I'll get you a coupon code to claim your prize! My email is cwps29 (at) yahoo (dot) ca. No spaces, hehe, trying to fool the spambots! Or you can check my blogger profile to get the address if you don't understand cryptic lol.

Also, Maurine from Let Me Scrapbook has a freebie collab kit available right now on her blog, and guess who her collab is with? The fabulous Nicole of Digi Designs by Nicole, so head on over to Maurine's blog to grab her parts, and then hit Nicole's for her parts as well! Here is a preview to Maurine's part of the kit:

And here are my layouts, isn't that carriage element just too cute? And I love the alpha too:Credits: Sweet Romance kit by Let Me Scrapbook, Template #12 by Colie's Corner.Credits: Sweet Romance by Let Me Scrapbook, H cutout alpha template by Scrapping With Liz.

Please check out these ladies that make these freebies for us!! Both template creators post freebies on their blogs quite often, and so does Maurine! And so do I for that matter. For instance, this Wednesday, there just might be some quick pages made from these layouts!! Come back Wednesday for those! I also wanted to say a special thanks to Corrie and Des from Quilt Taffy, and to Vicki and Stacey from Scrap that Idea for donating the prizes for my first three blogiversary giveaways. Also, thanks to everyone that played along for the giveaways, and thanks for reading my little blog! It makes me happy to know that others enjoy what I blog about enough to bother "following" me. Congrats to the winners, and please note, you guys have a week (approximately knowing me, hehe, well, at least a week) to contact me to claim your prize. SO get on it!! Also, the kit by Maurine and Nicole is only free for a limited time so make sure you snag it before it ends up in their stores! Have a great night everyone :)

Giveaway day 6

I have fun news, this weekend I'm signed up for a Weekend in the Woods Scrapbooking retreat!! It goes from tomorrow night at 4pm til Sunday afternoon at 4pm, and I'm so excited. The only drawback is that I will have no internet access {gasp!! There are still places on the earth with NO internet!?!?} so I won't be able to do the draws for any of the giveaways until probably Monday in all likeliness. So for any of you that entered the very first few, you'll just have to hold out a little bit longer to find out who won, and if you haven't entered those ones yet, you've got a couple extra days to do so.

Now, on to today's giveaway!! It's for a digital kit of your choice from Sara of Sweet Blossom Designs! I absolutely love her kits, you can see this post for a quick view of some of my favorites from her store (and I own every one of them!) Please note that the challenge on that post is over. So all you need to do to enter is check out her store, let me know which kit is your favorite in a comment on this post, and you're in!! Thanks for playing along, I love finding out which ones everyone likes. I think I would have a hard time choosing one favorite kit out of all of her designs! The winner will be chosen at random and posted next Thursday, November 12, 2009. As always, happy scrapping!

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Giveaways all over the place!! And some Twilight

Ok guys, Julie over at Jaybird Quilts is having a 100th post giveaway!! She has several great prizes up for grabs, so hop on over and enter! (Or don't because then I have a better chance of winning!! lol).

It's also day 5 of my blogiversary celebration, and up for grabs today is one of many great digital kits by Mel Hains Designs! I just love Mel's stuff, it's all so funky, and unique! All you need to do to enter is visit her store, and let me know which kit is your favorite in a comment on this post. The winner will be chosen at random and posted next Wednesday, November 11th. Thanks for playing along, and good luck!!

Oh, and I know I shouldn't be getting excited about THIS yet, but I am!! Eclipse!? June 30th, 2010. They've already wrapped production. I'm gonna have to get another countdown widget hehe.
Only 15 more days til New Moon is in theaters! My sister better hurry up and finish reading it so she can come see it with me. (And I know you're reading this so get off the computer and go read that book!) You can see a new (or at least new-er) clip of the movie HERE. This is a photo of Riley from Eclipse, (and if you haven't read this book yet either, you better get on it!!) {cough-cough-my-sister-cough}

Okay, that's all folks! Now scroll down and make sure you enter all my giveaways!

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Giveaway day four!

Hey guys! I totally posted all my craftiness yesterday, which sucks as I craft so little now, I like to spread the crafty goodness over several posts!! I did sign up for the Joy In The New Year challenge over on Jacquie's blog, to hopefully kick myself in the rear and finish (or even start more accurately) some of the quilt kits I've purchased and shoved into my "stock" and then never done anything with. So I've posted the four quilts that I'd like to get done by January 1st, 2010 (sounds so futuristic, 2010!! wow) and hopefully I can get a couple projects cleared out of my cupboard. Anyways, on to today's giveaway, which was the real reason for this post. It's a crafty giveaway, which is sort of what brought on all that talk in the first place!!

The fantastic and uber creative Ashley from Make It and Love It is sponsoring today's giveaway. The prize?? A one of a kind very detailed pdf pattern from her etsy store. All you need to do to enter the giveaway, is visit her etsy store, and leave a comment on this post letting me know what your favorite item is from her store. The winner will be chosen at random next Tuesday, November 10, 2009. And if you've never checked out her blog before and you're crafty in the least, do yourself a favor and go check her out! She has the simplest (and most cost effective) craft ideas and I just love her. She's super talented and sweet to boot!! Thanks for visiting, and good luck!

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Giveaway Day three!! And some crafty business

I am so glad Halloween is over!! Well, more so that the pumpkins are gone lol. I spent twelve hours yesterday in the kitchen doing this to my pumpkins (I had six)!!I made this delicious Citrus Pumpkin Butter out of my Bernardin canning book. I made it a couple of years ago and got rave reviews so I thought I would make it again. All the relatives I can't afford to buy gifts for are getting pumpkin butter instead!!! I'll dress up these jars a bit of course. Then I took the seeds and did this with them:I used a recipe I found on the daily digi. It is the best seed recipe I've found so far, my husband even likes it! They end up tasting candied, with pumpkin spice. So yummy. And here is Chase in his Halloween outfit, he was Flash. Every year he's been a superhero, and the masks never fit, he ends up peeking out at me with one eye. hehe. And here is Rayna as the cutest little ladybug ever. I also made these cute Halloween bags using the pattern I found here. For this one I used my scrap booking program to make an H the size I needed, and printed it off and used it as a template. I cut out the H on the fabric as well as the fusible webbing, and once I had ironed it in place I just stitched around the H before I sewed the pockets onto the bag.I seriously wonder though if one of those bias tape makers would be handy, as I made these straps by hand, and all that folding and ironing takes some time.This one I just used patterned fabric, and used jumbo ric rac for the straps. Much easier, but the pocket came undone after they used it, so next time I would stitch the pockets on first, then add the ric rac after, instead of sewing it all at once like in the pattern. With the ric rac it's hard to tell if you're catching the edge of the material or not.Then I used Modge Podge and tissue to make this cute little pumpkin, like the tutorial I found here or the one here. I used a baby jar instead of a full size jar, and a pipe cleaner for the top instead of painting it, and thought what an appropriate place to put some suckers! I think this would also look cute as a tea light holder, and the light would shine really neatly through the tissue. I'm gonna make a Santa and snowman version too I think. The only thing I noticed was that there was some black stamping printed on the glass of the jar that didn't wash off, and I never noticed it, and it showed through the tissue paper after it dried. Woops. And our pumpkin looks slightly like a pirate, thanks to the black foamy stick on "x" I used for his mouth lol.So that's what I've been up to the last few days. I actually did some crafty stuff!! Ok, and now, what you've all been waiting for! Today's giveaway is a free kit from Stacey's Scraps! All you have to do is visit her store, and leave a comment on this post to let me know which kit is your favorite. And yes, I know it's hard to pick just one!! The winner will be chosen at random next Monday, November 9, 2009. Thanks to Stacey for sponsoring today's giveaway, and as always happy scrapping!! (And make sure you check the posts below for the other giveaways!!)
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Strawberry Kisses, Giveaway day two!!

Hey everyone, check out the new collaboration kit for November from the girls at Scrap That Idea!! It's called Strawberry Kisses and is the sweetest kit! Plus, it's huge. And I love huge kits, especially when they're only $4. This kit is a steal at that price!! And here are my layouts, this first one is Rayna, who chews on everything. I have photos of her chewing on everything from the swing at the park, to my husbands moccasins (totally gross) to the coffee table! The font I used on the date tag is A Little Pot, and the title on the photo frame is Reach for the stars jumbled. This one was so cute, I just love this photo of Chase, he was around 6 months old I think, and loved kissing himself in the mirror. And I don't usually use white as my background paper, so this was a little different for me. I love that ribbon, and the button. The font I used for the date tag was Hotel Coral Essex, and the "kiss me" is word art included in the kit. Vicki is also generously donating today's giveaway!! Up for grabs is one free kit from her store, all you have to do is visit her store, and let me know what your favorite kit is in the comments on this post. Winner will be randomly chosen on Sunday, November 8, 2009. So hop on over there (and check out the Strawberry Kisses collab while you are there!!) And as always, happy scrapping!!

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My Blogiversary!! Giveaways!!

Hey everyone, today is my one year blogiversary! Yes, I know, weird day to start blogging right?! Well, actually I started on the 30th, but I was busy the last couple days! I made some trick or treat bags, using the pattern I found HERE. There is a cute little treat bag pattern HERE that is basically the same. I'll show you pictures later!! I have some digiscrap news to share as well. So first up, I'm going to show you what the giveaway for today is!! The wonderful girls at Quilt Taffy are putting up the prize for today, which is a Christmas themed turnover, great for all kinds of projects! Here is a look at it:
If you want to enter for the giveaway, all you have to do is visit their store over at ebay, and let me know what your favorite item is in the comments. Click on the picture to visit their store:I'll leave the giveaway open til November 7th, and the winner will be drawn at random. Special thanks to Des and Corrie for supplying the giveaway for today!!

Next up, Maureen is having a sale over at her SAS store, so go check that out HERE.

Also, Stacey is releasing F is for Family Reunion and G is for Groovy this weekend, and if you buy them both, you get a super deal!! Click on the preview to be taken to the store. I'll be posting my layouts tomorrow. Hope everyone has a safe and Happy Halloween!
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