PIF - Blog Candy

PIFs are so awesome aren't they? So, let's keep this moving along. I don't know just yet what will be up for grabs, but I figured I can get the ball rolling in the meantime. Here's what you have to do to enter:

1. Leave a comment on my blog

2. Write a post on your blog announcing the blog candy

3. If you win, you must Pay It Forward with blog candy

Pretty simply, right??

Enter by Sunday and I will use random.org to choose a winner on Monday.

Good luck!

Look What I Got?

I was lucky enough to win a PIF from Loreen's blog. Can you believe what I got? Nice stash, eh? THANKS Loreen! I especially LOVE the little giraffe stamp. Isn't he adorable? She's the owner of the awesome web store, Wish on a Scrap. I just ordered her August contest scrapbook kit and cannot wait to receive it. All she coordinated for the kit is mouthwatering. :o)

And here's a wonderful RAK from none other than Christi Thorsen for winning the Bella Babe contest in July. I love Christi's work and was so thrilled to receive one of her gorgeous cards. Thanks Christi!! 

Not too shabby...

OK, so I found out about Shabby Princess, a digital scrapbook store through a blog candy giveaway over at Scrapin' Mama's. I recently found out about Creative Memories doing this, but thought that it cost way too much. After taking a look around, I saw that there are free scrap kits available so that you can try before you buy. Well, since I have Photoshop, I decided to give it a whirl. What you see is an 8 x 8 scrapbook page. I printed it out at Costco for $1.50 folks!! It came out awesome. Now, I'm a hands on kinda girl, but it would be a nice gift, no? You can make your own book for someone. I actually thought I might make a mini album for my kids. (when I find the time, right?) Could be a nice idea for Christmas. Anyway, have a great day!

Book Candy

I love making bookmarks as gifts. I think it's the perfect little something b/c anyone can use one at any given time. Don't you have a few living in different books lying around the house? I used my ink pads to watercolor the image. There is some sparkle that didn't show up in the photo. For the first time I also sparkle painted some flowers on the background paper. It adds that extra something.
Anyway, I hope I can get to creating more this weekend. Perhaps I can sneak downstairs Sunday morning.
Have a wonderful weekend.

An Award - Moi??

Wow, I am so very happy to have received a blog award by Jacqueline. I'd like to keep it moving along since it made my day, why not make someone else's?
If you'd like to participate, please PIF by doing the following.

1. The winner can put the logo on their blog.

2. Link the person you received your award from (optional, I know some of you are working as design team members)

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4. Put links of those blogs on yours. (optional, I know some of you are working as design team members)

5. Leave a message on the blogs you have nominated.

My Absolute 7 favs (other than those already listed in Jacqueline's blog) are:

http://3peasinapoddesigns.blogspot.com/
http://live-love-laugh-create.blogspot.com/
http://laurenm.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
http://cici510.blogspot.com/
http://pickledpaperdesigns.blogspot.com/
http://thevintagepearl.blogspot.com/
http://michellewooderson.blogspot.com/

Enjoy visiting these wonderfully talented ladies!!

PIF

Loreen owner of Wish on a Scrap is offering a PIF blog candy giveaway. Head on over. She's sure to give out something awesome.

Funky Rockabella

I'm back from vacation. It was our first time away as a family. It was a lot of fun and challenging. Funny/cute stuff that happened:
~kids walking out of the bathroom with the long line of TP following them
~funky dancing in the full length mirrors
~squeezing inside the bottom shelf of the end table
~Maria kissing all of the display teddy bears at Boyd's Bear (I think it's the headquarters so there were a lot of bears)
I'm sure there's more. We had a great time despite some of the frustrations of the kids wanting to walk not holding hands and touching things they are not supposed to, but hey, they're babies.
I also got to visit 2 local scrapbook stores. Those local stores always have awesome paper. It was so very exciting. For the 2nd shop, Mark made me take Maria. Wise tactic on his part. He knew she wouldn't tolerate being in the stroller long. So, I certainly made every noise, sang songs, danced and played peek-a-boo to lengthen my stay. It worked out well, 30 dollars later.
Anyway, I can finally post the card I made for my summer sister since she received it in the mail yesterday. I just love Rockabella. I thought the paper was appropriate, not my typical style, but way cool for her.

Have a great day!!

Another Alert - blog candy

Please visit Suzanne's blog for the chance to win some awesome blog candy. She won the Bella homepage contest for the month of July. It's a beautiful card, go check it out.

Blog Candy Alert

Head on over to Maria's blog for some awesome blog candy.

Mission Accomplished!!

WHEW! DH went over there this morning to claim the gals for me and no luck. Then he went out later and put a note in their mailbox with our home phone number and no luck. So I pushed the kids over about an hour ago and they were all sitting outside having a party (the bellanappers, not the Bellas themselves). I was so relieved to get them. Now I can't wait to play! :o)

OH THE HORROR...

I didn't have my cell phone on all day since I was working from home. I turned it on at around 8:45 pm just before taking a run to the food store. I had a message from a STRANGER. He said he had a UPS package delivered to his house with my name and address. His voice was breaking up, I couldn't hear the address clearly. I panicked and was thinking, what package could it be that he has of...GASP...BELLAS!!! This strange fella has my Bellas. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! The address, what was his address...after listening 3 times, once on speaker phone with my dh listening intently, I think I have the address. OK, it's Friday night, it's not too late to appear in the front of a strange fellas house demanding to hand over da Bellas, right? RIGHT, on with the rescue. Well, I looked, and squinted, and veered my car all over the road. I couldn't see the numbers on any of the houses!! How timely to go blind!! OK, very long story short. I gave up the mission. I couldn't see the house numbers and I wasn't going to walk all over the neighborhood looking although I was very tempted. I will venture out tomorrow morn sometime and hopefully find my Bellas. Sniff, sniff, poor gals must be scared half to death.

OK, I'm NUTS, what can I say. Very tired too so that only adds to this drama.

See ya!

Bella Babe Winner

I had hoped to post earlier in the week, but life gets away from you sometimes. I actually won my very first contest. There was no loot that went with it, but a fabulous title, Bella Babe. When I told my DH I won the Bella Babe contest, he was happy for me, but had to laugh at the title and how excited I was since I blurted it out. Anyway, Kim awarded this to me. Please check out her blog. She's got a fresh perspective on design and leads you to a lot of great places for design ideas and techniques.
I realized after making this card using Rockabella and another I made recently for my summer sister (shh, it's a surprise), that I should have bought her when Stamping Bella was having her free shipping sale. She is soooo much fun. Oh well, I will have to wait for the next sale.
Speaking of Summer Sisters, mine is Dani. She was honored with being asked to join the 3 Little Dreams design team and Kim was asked to be guest designer! Head over to Dani's blog. She's got a great sense of humor and her creations are delightful. I am so lucky to have these girls as inspiration. OK, now I'm getting long winded here. Have a great weekend if I don't post sooner.

Bella scrapbook debut

Since I now have a real scrapbook space (I stole my husband's workbench in the basement), I've been trying to devote sometime to scrapbooking my pregnancy and ALLLLLLL of my kids pictures. I was almost done with the shower when I remembered I had an image swap of Teddybella. Wow, as I was coloring her, I realized how her belly looked just like mine. I was HUGE with 2 kiddos in there. If I went full term, I don't think I would have been able to move. I usually don't mix stamping with scrapping, not sure why, maybe it's the fear of getting ink on something that's not supposed to have it, but I really love her on this page. Anywho...hope you all had a Happy 4th! Have a great weekend.

Blog Candy Giveaway - Wish on a Scrap

Hi everyone!! Please visit Loreen'sblog for an awesome blog candy giveaway!! She's offering a WHOPPING $25 gift certificate to her new company Wish on a Scrap. I've recently learned about her company through another blogger and the contest kits look awesome and are so very reasonably priced especially since the price includes shipping costs!! Check it out soon.

Notice: Full Sheets of New Scrapbook Paper Were Not Harmed

I wanted to make my Bella Sistah a card. She loves to scrapbook, so why not make her a scrapbook card? I masked the balloons on Balloonabella so that she could hold the scrapbook sign. Also, I decided to keep with the scrapbook theme and used my scraps. Everything but the white card was from my scrap pile. I was so excited to dive in to find coordinating colors. Anyway, I hope she likes it. Funny thing is, I just read on her blog that she won a scrapbook contest, so how perfect is that??

Have a great evening.