WOYWW #92 and a little blog candy

A quick WOYWW tonight. I tried to make a quick card tonight after my bunco meeting...thought I had a cutie for you and then I got to looking at my 15 minute "start to finish" card...feeling pretty happy/smug with it when I noticed YIKES...the DP pattern was upside down....So, I tore it apart and gave up for the evening. Will give it another try when I am not so tired. I usually send cards like that to my daughter Erin, She tries to find where I messed up on it...sort of a Hide and Seek type card LOL!

Not much new this week. I did clean up this week, but this is my quick card desk frenzy. I am just not a quick card girl!  You can see a new envelope in the basket...some image RAK's from my friend and fellow WOYWW'er Charlene.  Thanks Charlene!

A quick peek at how I take my pictures. A nice little light box given to me as a gift. I don't know where it came from, sorry. It sure helps. I never worry about day light. I use a free photo editing program from Picasa...I love it..so very easy to use.

Here is the picture of the blog candy I will give out next week on my WOYWW post.  Some pretty My Minds Eye 6x6 Stella Rose Designer paper and some roses too. I bought a bunch of these flowers, and have discovered that I am just not the flower type...I do like paper flowers, but have never used my prima's or any flowers really, so I am  going to give them someone who knows how to use these lovelies!

Just leave me a comment here and let me know what stamping "thing/toy/stuff" you had to have, but have never used! If you are a follower you get an extra entry...be sure to let me know if you are a follower through google or feedblizt.
That's it. Done deal

Sweet!

Another "Sweet" House Mouse card. The challenge over at the House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge is to make a sweet card.  I scrounged up enough of this great DP that I bought from DeNami several years ago to finish this card...(my hoarding habit kicking in LOL)!. 

Can you imagine when these little House Mousies are done with those suckers...what a sticky situation this will be? I remember the days of suckers and icky, sticky fingers stuck together... YUCK...(and those days are back now that I have a grandbaby old enough to eat them)!

I did manage a little stamping this weekend, (not near enough though).  Cherry harvest will be starting this week, which for me means working 7 days a week. Not fun....and totally bites into my crafting time. Hopefully this will be a non-eventful harvest so I can get home to my craftin' room some!

Hope you can find the time to join in on challenge #71-Create Something Sweet, you still have one more week!

Card details:

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Stamps:  Sweet Success HMPR1036, sentiment retired from SU!

Cardstock: Melon Mambo (SU!), DeNami DP

Ink: Memento Black and Copics

Misc: SU! Celery Satin Ribbon, SU! border punch, misc buttons

Whew...Winner of Luigi!

 The winner of my  Luigi  blog candy is Kathy Hering. Thanks to all of you for leaving such wonderful comments!
Kathy, please email me your snail mail address and I will get this in the mail to you!

Blog candy winner!!!

I want to thank you all for leaving such fun comments on my blog candy post! It was so fun to see what everyone listens to for the holidays.

I can tell you that this weekend while I sewed and papercrafted, I listened to the Christmas albums of Josh Groban, Wynonna, James Taylor, Dan Folegberg, Sugarland, Clay Aiken, Kenny Loggins and Danny Archuleta(American Idol). Quite a collection huh?  I finished my sewing project (whew!) and  hope to give it to little Cole this weekend when Gwamma goes to visit! I can't wait!!!

My baking was sort of lame...I think I measured wrong on something...enough said LOL! (These type of cookies land in the "reject" pile and are fair game for the boys to eat! They do grumble, but I bet the cookies will be gone by tomorrow! LOL  I got my pretzels dipped, cashew bark made and just put the Rocky Road in the freezer so I hopefully will stay out of it. All the easy stuff today...except for the reject batch of ginger cookies. I will have to try these again dang it!

The winner of my glittery blog candy is ELENA!  Congrats Elena, I can't wait to see what glittery creation you make with all this!

I have another small but fun blog candy coming up the in the next week..so stay tuned!

Glittery blog candy

A wee bit of blog candy for all my patient readers! I am still here...just been doing a little sewing this week instead of a lot of stamping! I do have a really fun project to show you tomorrow for  3 Clover's Thursday Challenge though...don't miss it!

  I am at almost 50,000 thousand hits! Wowsers! Who would have thunk? I want to thank all of you who come and visit and  take the time to comment! I just get so tickled at every comment! This blog candy is definitely Christmas orientated with lots of glitter from Martha Stewart, Eskimo Kisses DP, pearls, and a Holly Ribbons Cuttlebug embossing folders. I will pick a winner on Sunday, December 6th--so you have a few days to enter. Please enter by leaving a comment on this blog entry and tell me about your favorite Christmas music. Who sings that tune that gets you into the spirit of the season?

I always stamp to music and love all my Christmas tunes!

If you are a follower through blogger or through feedblitz, please include which one  in your comment and I will enter your name twice!

Blog Candy winner!

The winner of my Sweet Rosie stamp from La-La Land Crafts is Charlene!

If you have never been to Charlene's blog, go take a peek at Paper and Ink Playground! Charlene has many, many wonderful creations...and she is a good cookie baker too!

Blog Candy Winner!

The winner of my blog candy tonight is Pam Speidel at Stamping with {Serendipity}! Congrats Pam!

I want to say thank you to all who left a comment. I have had a great time reading all of your comments about your favorite stamping tools! By far the favorite stamping tools you all listed are the Nesties and Cuttlebug and embossing folders!...(until the next new stamping toy comes along) LOL

One year of blogging and 30,000 hits!

It is amazing how quickly a year can go when you are having fun! I have enjoyed sharing all my paper creations, cookies, decorations and best of all my grandson with all my readers.

In appreciation , I would love to give away some fun "stuff" to one of you. Pictured is some Tim Holtz grungeboard...have you ever felt that stuff???...it is COOLOOL (that's how my children said it when they were little), a package of cuttlebug border embossers, Basic Grey cupcake designer 6x6 paper and a clear stamp cupcake stamp set. (ya know, all to coordinate with my new cupcake blog wallpaper LOL)

How to win: Leave me a comment here and tell me about your favorite stamping tool! I love stamping tools and would hate to miss anything LOL! (If you have left a comment on my last 2 cards, you get 2 chances to win!)

Thanks for stopping in and visiting! I am always honored when you take the time to leave a comment on my blog entries!

This blog candy will be open until Thursday April 30th! I will post a winner Thursday night!

And the Winner is..........

Oh goodness, I received so many fun recipes...I went to the store and tried to remember off the top of my head some of the key ingredients to these recipes...not a good thing after a long day at work...I will have to make a LIST! I have to start sampling these goodies in preparation for my Christmas baking!

Thanks to all of you who posted a comment and to all who left recipes( or in Hiedi's case, directions to the store to go buy them LOL !)

Without further delay---------the winner is.............

Debbie Fisher (debbiedee) said...

great candy you are giving away! One of my favorite Christmas treats is Big Red Popcorn. Because it's red, this makes a fun Christmas gift for my dad and brothers...

Big Red Popcorn

5 qt popped popcorn
9 oz pkg red hots
1/2c butter
1/4 c corn syrup
1/2 t. salt

Cook red hots, butter, syrup and salt in microwave. Stir often. Boil 1 minute. Pour over popcorn in grocery sack (paper); stir. Cook (in the paper sack) on high in microwave for 1 minute. Shake and cool.

Debbie---Please send me your address and your blog candy will be in the mail! Thanks to all who played along.

I have some cute $1 Halloween stamps I will be posting as blog candy the first of the week. It will be a short entry time since Halloween is almost upon us, so watch for that the first of the week! Don't blink.

Blog Candy!

I have made some wonderful new friends since I started this blog. This small offering is my way of saying thanks for taking the time to visit! I get so excited over every comment!

I know this picture is not the greatest, but I hope you can see all the goodies I have to share with you! Here's a list of what is in this pile of goodies:

Cuttlebug Swiss dots embossing folder
Cuttlebug Edger embossing folders
Friends sentiment stamp
Some of my new Debbee Mumm fall and holiday paper--oh so pretty!
cherry ribbon-(you know me and cherries LOL)
some little sticky dot "thingies" in fall colors


As you all will soon find out about me...My favorite time of year is Christmas...I start decorating in November, playing Christmas tunes, working on my annual wood Christmas project and baking cookies and candy to give as presents! Unfortunately...not much stamping goes on the busier I get...but I will share my projects and my wonderful recipes with you!

To enter to win my first blog candy, leave me a comment telling me about your favorite Christmas cookie or candy! (and you will be entered twice if you share your recipe!)

I will chose the winner next Saturday, September 27th!

I won some blog candy!

I won some blog candy from Suzanne Dean at ScrapBitz.
I have only entered for blog candy about 3 times...just too lazy I guess, but she had an interesting question for her blog so I had to comment LOL! --and I liked that little round spider web stamp! ( What a dork they say...)

Make sure to go visit Suzanne's blog and see her wonderful art!

Thanks Suzanne.

Speaking of blog candy...my 5,000 visitor mark just clicked over, sooner than I could anticipate. I have some fun stuff to put up for blog candy for all you wonderful blog friends. I just received an order from All That Scraps in anticipation of this blog milestone. A few more things to get together and I will get that posted some time this week...keep your eyes peeled. You might even see a hint somewhere....