Flaunt It Friday Challenge

Hello my crafty friends. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I can't believe that tomorrow will be 2011...wow! I have already started a list of things I want to accomplish this year. I have never done that before, so it has been kind of fun:) Do any of you set goals for the year? I would love to hear about them. I will share some of mine in an upcoming post, but for now it is time for another Flaunt it Friday's Challenge. This week we had to use the martini glass from the From My Kitchen Cartridge.  I don't have that cartridge so I used the martini glass from the Smiley Cards Cartridge (one of the free cartridge downloads for the gyspsy).  I decided to make a little recipe book of different martini drinks.

I used acetate for the front cover of the mini. I cut it out larger than the actual pages of the inside of the book, just to give it a bit of a different look. I used thickers for the title and added a little bling on the side of the page.

These are a few pages from inside the book. They are 4x4 coasters that I covered with designer paper.  I only paid fifty cents for a pack of twenty! I used my Preserves cartridge to cut out all the fruit and stamped the little faces using the Peachy Keen Happy Lashes Assortment set. I painted the top portion of all three glasses with Tim Holtz clear crackle paint. For all of these fruity drinks, you are suppose to add sugar to the rim of the glass, so I added Diamond Dust to get a sugary effect.

I cut the pockets and cards from the Preserves cartridge. Each of them pull out and has the recipe for the martini written on it. I used rings to bind the book, and added some ribbon to them. I hope you enjoyed my project for today. Please be sure to check out http://flauntitfridays.blogspot.com to see what the rest of the talented DT has created using this cut. Remember, if you do not have the From My Kitchen Cartridge you can use a different cart with a similar cut. Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

Hello crafty friends. I hope everyone is having a spectacular day. I was up till 4:30am wrapping presents and baking cookies. Here are my two girls baking away

The fifteen year old thought it would be cute to cover their faces with flower. Hmmm you would think my two year old would be the one throwing flower around. They had lots of fun though. I love to see them bond, it is hard sometimes because of the huge age gap. But this definitely was some great bonding time. I love how the little one is holding onto to the older ones arm...so sweet. Here is the end result of just a few out of the 200 hundred cookies we made:

Pretty, and they tasted good too. We all woke up around 10am this morning and had a ball opening presents.

Santa was very good to the kids and they loved all their gifts. He even left one for me

I am so excited about my imagine and I can't wait to play with it. My husband totally surprised me with this one:) We are all getting ready to sit down and eat dinner now..then it will be round two with the gifts from my parents. I can't believe the day is almost over, so much preparing goes into this day and then it is over with a blink of an eye. I am trying to cherish every last moment with my family. I hope everyone has a day filled with love and happiness.

Holiday Cheer

Hello crafty friends. How does that song go...it is the most wonderful time of the year! Around here we are singing a little bit of a different tune...something like this...it is the most wonderful time of the year, but also the time of the year when the kiddos get sick, running nose, fever, croupy cough. We were woken in the wee hours of the morning yesterday by our two year old burning up with a fever and all of the other fun stuff that goes with it. I only have 70% of my shopping done and NO wrapping done as of yet. Today I am busy working on holiday cards, and will only break this afternoon to run Emily to the Dr. Here is one I just finished:

It won't be long now till Santa is on your roof top and sliding down the chimney with toys in toy:) Here is what I used
Carts: Smiley Cards, and Simply Charmed
SU Cardstock and DCWV Tis The Season Stack
SU Ink: Pacific Point and Real Red
Flock for Santa beard, Liquid Applique and Diamond Dust for the snow on the Chimney
Tim Holtz Burlap Distress Folder for the bricks
Pink by Design (Pink Cricut) for Sentiment and The Paper Company Journaling Clear Stamps for the tag
The little toys are embellishments from A company called Dressed Up (I think)
Fibers
I hope you are all enjoying your day! Is anyone else in Holiday panic mode, or am I all alone? Holiday Cheer to you and yours.

Flaunt It Friday's Challenge

Good morning crafters. Welcome back to another Flaunt it Friday's Challenge. For those of you who are new to my blog, I am a design team member for a brand new challenge blog called Flaunt it Fridays. You can visit the blog here. Every Friday we create a new project using a cricut cut that one of the DT chooses. This week we had to use the cup from the Simply Charmed Cartridge on page 48 (updated..I originally had pg 21 the cup is actually PAGE 48 it would be cut 21 on your key pad)  Here is my card for this week:

The cup was cut at 3 inches on pink cardstock. I then hand cut out a piece of velum to layer on top. I inked it with Stampin' Up Daffodil Delight, and Melon Mambo. If you ever had a glass of freshly made Raspberry Lemonade then you know the Raspberry tends to gather at the top and sides of the glass. This was my attempt to re-create that look. I added Diamond Dust to the top of the glass to make it look like crushed ice. Stickles was added to the straw. The lemons were cut from the same page as the cup, embossed with the Swiss Dots folder in my cuttlebug and inked with Color Box pigment ink. The Peachy Keen faces are from the Everyday Paper Doll Assortment set. I used a pair of wavy edged scissors to cut the pink layer under the cup. Does anyone use those anymore? When I first started paper crafting I thought those were a MUST have so I bought a Friskars set of 20, and this is actually the first time I used them. The sentiment is a Studio G stamp stamped with Studio G pigment ink..both found in the dollar bin at Micheals. It reads "when life give you lemons make lemonade then drink up.  To see the rest of the team's super talented designs head on over to http://www.flauntitfridays.blogspot.com. We hope that you will join in on the challenge, if you don't have this cartridge you can use a similar cut. This month Dorcas, from http://4craftyangels.blogspot.com has donated Dinosaur Tracks for a grand prize given at the end of the month. Thank you for stopping by and have a great weekend.

Whimsical Wednesday Challenge

Good afternoon crafters. Just wanted to let everyone know that Jess and I will start back with Whimsical Wednesday Challenge in the new year. We have scheduled the first one to be on January 5. Things are crazy right now. Today we are decorating the house and the tree. We are hoping to get out some time today to start the shopping. Hopefully all the gifts will be purchased by the end of the weekend. I am also trying to get out all the packages to the winners of the blog hop and past challenges. I am so behind. Between my knee surgery, and my sister in laws passing, everything kind of just gone haywire. Thank you all for being patient with me. I appreciate you all, and LOVE all your comments. Is anyone as behind as I am???? Here are some felt and fabric flowers I made a few weeks back but never posted. I am going to use them as embellishments for some holiday minis that I am trying to finish up as Christmas gift...they might get done by next Christmas at this point.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day:)!

Blog Hop Winners

Hello crafters. Thanks you all for coming out for the Holly Jolly Blog Hop. I hope that you were inspired and got some great holiday gift ideas. I still have not started my shopping, and of course now I got hit with a horrible sinus infection. Here is the list of winner. Please contact me at sar342@aol.com with your address so I can get your winnings to you

Micheals alterable frame, bag of diamond dust and Tim Holtz adage tickets: Amanda Villarreal

Scrapadabadoo package: Flowerdisco

$15.00 Peachy Keen gift certificate: Cindylu2u

Pink By Design Holiday Stamp Set: Lillian Child

Scrap Package that I am putting together: Angela R

Congratulations to you all! Thank you to our sponsors www.scrapadabadoo.com and http://www.pinkcricut.com. Thanks to all the ladies that made such special projects for this blog hop. They were all wonderful!

Holly Jolly Blog Hop

Good morning crafters. Welcome to our second day of the Holly Jolly Blog Hop. This hop is all about hand made holiday gift ideas. If you did not get a chance to visit all the blogs last night you can click http://www.alwayscrafting.com/2010/12/holly-jolly-blog-hop_10.html to get to the original post. All I can say about the projects yesterday is WOW, the ladies made amazing projects! I hope that you all enjoyed them, and got some great holiday gift ideas. Thank you all for doing such a great job and for your participation. For today's project I altered a clothes pin. This is another gift for my mom. I made one similar last month with my favorite paper pack EVER. My mom came over for a visit and almost walked out the door with it.....I could not part with it and told her if she was super nice to me maybe, just maybe she might be opening one up on Christmas day. So here it is....

I purchased the clothes pin at my local craft store for $4.99, it measures 9X2 inches. Each side is decorated differently, this way she can turn it around if she gets bored of one side. I  covered in the Halloween In Wonderland paper pack, by Graphic 45. I inked all the paper with Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip. I used Mod Podge to glue down all the paper. What is really cool about the ink is when it gets a little wet from the glue, or even water, it turns to a Mahogany color. I used Tim Holtz Hinge Clips, Philosophy Tags, and Sprocket gears. The letters are Tim Holtz Grunge Board, colored with alcohol inks. It spells out your late! The charm that is hanging says altered. The little swirls are also Tim Holtz Grunge Board, painted with crackle paint. This is a really easy project and lots of fun to make. You can alter it however you like. You could even use your cricut and spruce it up with your favorite cuts:) It is functional too you can use it to hold a photo, note cards, etc. Now here is the gift bag I made that I am going to put the frame from yesterday and the clothes pin in

This is just a brown kraft gift bag, covered with pattered paper. I used Winter Woodland for the snowman, quick kutz die for the snowflakes, Winter Frolic for the snow mounds. I used the swiss dots embossing folder for the snowman and Divine swirls for the snow mounds. They are painted with crackle paint and glittered up with stickles. Let is snow is just some chipboard letters that I used stickles on.

Blog candy anyone? I am going to put together a package with some of my favorite scrapping goodies. It will be a little of this a little of that. All you have to do is leave a comment under this post. Today our sponsor is Sarah from http://www.pinkcricut.com/. She will be donating one of her holiday stamp sets for a grand prize. I just got the Christmas Wishes and I love them! Thank you Sarah for sponsoring us today. I also own her Simply Everything Stamp Set and I love those to. They are my go to set!  To qualify for the stamp set please leave a comment under all the ladies projects for today. You have till midnight on Sunday to leave a comment.  I will be announcing all the winners on Monday. Make sure to check out all the projects from last night and leave comments under those post to qualify for the other two grand prizes. One is from our other sponsor www.scrapadabadoo.com, and the other one is from me:) Go check it out.  Below is three quick 4x4 cards I made using Sarah's Christmas Wishes set. My daughter wanted me to make "simple" little note cards to give to her favorite teachers.

 The card with the stocking says "The stockings were hung by the chimney with care". The gingerbread man card says "Happy holidays, and the snowman card says "Baby its cold outside". I am sorry you can't see the sentiment that well, but you will have to trust me that it is very pretty!


Thank you for stopping by and I hope you all have a wonderful safe holiday season.

Now here is the list of talented crafters in the blog hop

You are here http://www.alwayscrafting.com
Glora: http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com
Carri: http://doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com
Deb: http://bugjuiced.blogspot.com
Kristal: http;//www.kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com
Marianne: http;//paperorfabric.blogspot.com
Erika: http://cricutlove1.blogspot.com
Margie: http://bellabugcreations.blogspot.com
Sandy: http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com
Jess: http://myscrapdiary-jess.blogspot.com

Click on the badge to get to Glora's blog

Holly Jolly Blog Hop

Good evening crafters, and welcome to the two day Holly Jolly Blog Hop. I am glad you are here with us tonight. A big shout out and thanks to all the ladies that agreed to participate, they are all so talented. My co-host Jess, http://myscrapdiary-jess.blogspot.com and I thought it would be fun to do a blog hop with hand made gift ideas. What better a gift to give than something hand made that can be cherished for a lifetime. With Christmas only 13 days away, I know I could use some ideas and inspiration. I have not even started shopping yet, YIKES. I better get on the ball. Here is my first holiday gift idea........

an altered frame. Since my younger sister passed away three years ago, I try to always buy a gift to give my parents, and her daughter that will remind them of her. I am not sure that remind is the right word, because we think of her everyday. I guess it is just my way of keeping her spirit alive during the holidays. This is the first year that I am crafting so it was so exciting to actually be able to make a gift! I could alter it to include some of the things my sister loved. Just a few of the things my sister LOVED was butterflies, the color purple, angels, and flowers. I paid $1.99 for this frame at Micheals. I started off by spraying the frame with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist,Haunted Shadows. When you spray an item like this I found it best to take a paper towel and dab (do not rub) to pull up the excess liquid. I added a little trim on each side of the frame (distressed with SU chocolate chip and added Mod Podge). I then cut the butterfly out from Indie Art. I cut two layers (for each of the butterflies) one in the black out feature using dark purple cardstock, and then the top layer was cut out using the main creative feature button, with the Christmas Past, by Graphic 45, designer paper pack. All the papers in The Christmas Past pack is double sided, so for the butterfly I used the side with the Angels on it, and then the opposite side with the flowers for the trim on each side of the frame. I distressed the butterflies with SU Chocolate Chip ink and then coated them with Mod Podge to make them a bit stronger. The flowers are die cut from Sizzix Dies, inked with Tim Holtz Distress inks, and then coated with Diamond Dust to add a glittery effect. I added the Tim Holtz Adage Tickets and some Prima Bling. There you have it, a pretty personalized gift. It took me a little over an hour. I found this easy to create because I was inspired by things that my sister loved. Sometimes when I just try to sit and make something it does not flow as easy, I have to remember to always use some sort of inspiration. Does that make sense?
Here is the picture that is going to go into this frame. I need to take it to have it printed long ways...my printer is not cooperating:( This is my a picture of my mom and sister taken at her last birthday, a month before she passed.

How about some blog candy? Just leave me a comment telling me what your favorite crafting item is and I will pick one winner using random.org. Please do not forget to leave me your e-mail address so I can contact you. I will be giving away a bag of Diamand Dust (this stuff is so much fun), the same frame I used for this project, and a package of Tim Holtz Adage Tickets. There is also a grand prize that is has been donated by http://www.scrapadabadoo.com. They will be putting together a package of scrapping goodies that is sure to be fantastic. Thanks to Carol and Barrie for sponsoring our blog hop:) Love you ladies! In order to qualify for that giveaway, please stop at every blog and leave a comment. Jess is finishing the hop off and has another grand prize that we will be giving away. You have to go to her blog to find out what it is and leave a comment letting her know you visited all our blogs:) She also has crafted up a fun holiday gift idea. You have until midnight on Sunday night to leave a comment, I will announce the winners on Monday.  In case you get lost, below is the complete order of the blog hop participants:)

Do not forget to come back tomorrow at 9:00am for more holiday gift ideas and more blog candy:)

 Tomorrow Sarah from http://www.pinkcricut.com will be sponsoring our hop. She will be donating on of her new Christmas Stamp Set:) Thank you Sarah..you are a doll! 

You are here http://www.alwayscrafting.com
Glora: http://glorascrafts.blogspot.com
Carri: http://doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com
Deb: http://bugjuiced.blogspot.com
Kristal: http://www.kandrewdesigns.blogspot.com
Marianne: http://paperorfabric.blogspot.com
Erika: http://cricutlove1.blogspot.com
Margie: http://bellabugcreations.blogspot.com
Sandy: http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com
Jess: http://myscrapdiary-jess.blogspot.com

Thanks to Jess, you can click on this cute badge to get to the talented Glora' blog:)

Flaunt It Friday Challenge

Hello crafters. Welcome back to the second Flaunt It Fridays Challenge. This week we had to create something using the sled from Paper Doll Dress Up, page 46. I am working on a Christmas mini album for my mom. I took this opportunity to use the sled and make this the first page in the album:

I used the Christmas Past, by Graphic 45 to cover the the album. I cut the sled out at 5 inches (the album is 6X6. This cut is an accessory, so I had to cut it out three separate times in the colors I wanted to use. The blade on the sled is silver glitter paper, I am not sure why it looks white in the picture. I added gold Perfect Pearls to the outer portion of the sled, and for the middle part I used the Christmas Past, Graphic 45 paper pack. The sled is only glued down at the bottom, so that a photo can be slipped behind it. The presents are cut out from Winter Frolic 3 inches. I distressed them with Stampin' Up Chocolate Chip ink and added gold Stickles. The presents are also removable and the back can be used for journaling or a photo. The deer is cut out in chip board with a Tim Holtz Sizzix die, Reindeer Flight. I embossed her with the Burlap embossing folder from Tim Holtz, and painted her with Tim Holtz Fire Brick Red Crackle Paint also from Tim Holtz. I added some gold Stickles for her collar. The 25 is numbers from Tim Holtz Mixed Mini's Grunge Board set. I painted them with Antique Gold Rub and Buff. I hope you have enjoyed my project for this week. Head on over to the http://flauntitfridays.blogspot.com challenge blog to see the rest of the Design Teams creations and to join in the fun. If you do not have this cartridge you can use another one with a similar cut. Have fun:)

Don't forget to return here tonight at 7:30pm for the Holly Jolly Blog hop and Saturday at 9:00am for a second day of holiday gift ideas.

Whimsical Wednesday Winners and A Blog Hop

Hello crafters. Since this week is our blog hop we are not going to have our Whimsical Wednesday Challenge. We will be back next week. Thanks to all who have joined us over last couple of weeks. I hope more and more will join in each week.

Winners

The winner for the past three challenges is Pink Bling Crafter

The winner from the comments last Wednesday is: Sharon C

Congratulations!! Please contact me with a week with your addy so I can get your stuff to you.

Don't forget to come back Friday and Saturday for our Holly Jolly Blog hop! There is going to be great gift ideas. We all could use some of those this time of year. Also, some fun blog candy and a Grand Prize from http://www.scrapadabadoo.com.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great rest of the week.

Stampin' Up Christmas Card and Winner of Blog Hop Candy

Good morning crafters! Thank you all for stopping by and supporting the grand opening of Flaunt it Fridays. I read each and every one of your comments, and I was amazed. Everyone was so super sweet and so excited about the new blog. All of your comments mean so much to me, and they inspire me to keep creating. You still have time to visit the http://www.flauntitfridays.blogspot.com blog to join in the challenge for this week.  Now onto the winner of the blog hop. I used random.org and the winner is Gabby from GabbyCreates. Congrats....I will contact you shortly.

So I can't believe Christmas will be here in a few weeks. Time to start cracking down with the Christmas cards.

This card is fairly simple to make and easy to mass produce. Here is the supplies you will need

Stampin' Up Holiday Mini: French Foliage Stamp Set for the Pointesetta (stamps 6 of the small leaves and cut out for the read leaves and 2 of the big leaves for the green leaves) for the center I used the 1/16 hand held hole punch
Stampin' Up Holiday Mini: Bright Christmas for the Sentiment
Stampin' Up: Top Note Die
Stampin' Up: Patterened Paper Jolly Holiday
Stampin' Up: Solid Cardstock Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Real Red and Daffodil Delight
Stampin' Up Ink: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip, and Basic Black

You can browse the Stampin' Up Catalogs by clicking the shop 24/7 button on the top of my blog. If you have any questions please contact me:).

Only four days left to the Holly Jolly Blog Hop. I am so excited about the talented ladies that are participating. There will be lot's of holiday gift ideas and blog candy along the way. So mark your calendars for December 10 and 11 and join us for some jolly fun. There will also be a grand prize donated from my friends over at http://www.scrapadabadoo.com.

Don't forget about Jess's and I Whimsical Wednesday Challenge. You still have time to join in here. We have also added extra blog candy for those of you who simply leave a comment giving us suggestions for upcoming challenges. I will use random.org to to chose the winner and will announce it on Wednesday. Thanks to all my followers who have been with me for a while and to all my new ones too. Happy you can join me on this crafting journey:)

Flaunt It Friday's Grand Opening Blog Hop

Hello Crafters!  I am so excited about today and this new journey. I was so honored when Sandra from http://365daysofcricut.blogspot.com and Janis from http://pausedreamenjoy.blogspot.com asked me to be a part of their Design Team for their new challenge blog, http://flauntitfridays.blogspot.com. The designers are so talented, and such a bunch of sweet ladies. We thank you for joining us and hope that you will join us in the Flaunt It Friday Challenges.

Flaunt It Fridays 

Sandra 

Janis 

Theresa 

Amanda 

Christine 

Me 

Jess

Ruthie

Dorcas

Laurel

Raven

 To kick off the new blog we are having a blog hop, you should have arrived here from Christina's blog. If you have lost your way you should go and start at the Flaunt It Friday Blog. This week we had to work with the snowman from the Winter Frolic Cartridge on page 29. I decided to make a gift tag

This is my first shot at a gift tag. I think it came out pretty cute.

My friend asked me to make her fifty tags for a Christmas party she is having, so I chose to keep it fairly simple. With this one I cut the snowman out three times so I could paper pierce and layer him. I won't be doing that with the rest of the 49:). I don't know why I did not take a picture so you could see a side view, but trust me there is a lot of layers and demension. I applied Liquid Applique so she looks like she was actually made from snow. I stamped the the actual tag with some different sized snowflakes for a background. Of course every girl needs her bling, so I added some to her earmuffs and gloves.
Supplies:
Winter Frolic-Snowman 3 inches cut 3 times. I cut the head of off the top layer and pop dotted up the lower portion
Plantin School Book: Tag 5.5 inches
Pattern Card Stock: Martha Stewart Holidays Collection
Solid Cardstock: Stampin' Up
Background Stamps: Martha Stewart Holidays Collection
Sentiment: Simply Everything-Pink By Design (Sarah from Pink Cricut)
Stampin' Up Ink: Craft Whisper White, Pacific Point, Real Red
Liquid Applique: For the snow effect
Fibers, Bling, and Prima Pearls for the eyes

For our second project we could use any cut from the Winter Frolic Cartridge. I used the Ginger Bread girl from page 34, to add some cuteness to the gift card holder. Here are some photos and a little direction on how to make one yourself.

First start with your cardstock cut at 6X51/4. On the 5 1/4 inch side score each end at 3/4. Then on the 6 inch side score at 1 1/4 and 3 3/4. Once you are done scoring cut the 3/4 corners out. You gift card holder should look like this.

Now you can use your bone fold and fold at the score lines and add adhesive to the flaps.

I added a belly band, 1X9, to keep it secured in place. Embellish as desired.

I added the gingerbread girl to the belly band with pop dots. There you have it a simple, cute gift card holder. I will be making a bunch of these since it seems like everyone just wants gift cards:)
Supplies:
Winter Frolic: Ginger Bread Girl 3 inches
Patterned Cardstock: DCWV Tis The Season
Solid Cardstock: Stampin' Up
Glitter Glue: Martha Stewart
Face: Peachy Keen Critter Faces Medium
To/From: Rocollections-Merry Merry Clear Stamp Set
Ribbon, White Gel Pen for Stitching

I hope that you enjoyed all the projects today, and have been inspired. Remember to leave comments on all the blogs along the way, and leave a second comment on the Flaunt It Fridays Blog to qualify for the giveaways. Peachy Keen Stamps and Market Street Stamps are our sponsors this week and have donated stamps sets for the grand prize.


I am also offering some blog candy. Please leave a comment, you don't have to be a follower, only do so if you like my blog. I will use random.org and announce the winner on Monday. Here is my blog candy

Thanks again for stopping bye. Your next stop is the talented Jess.

Whimsical Wednesday Challenge With Jess

Good morning crafters. I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I feel like I was gone forever, and it was so frustrating not having any access to the Internet. This week Jess and I decided to do an anything goes project. Before I left for Erie, PA, I had set some auto post to go up while I was away. While I was working on the last post, blogger went down so I was not able to post the little treat bags I made for my nieces for Thanksgiving.

I saw these cute Digi Stamps on Melissa's blog and I knew they would be perfect to put on a little bag. Click here  to see what Mellisa did with these adorable stamps. This was the first time I worked with digital stamps and it was really fun. Here is a close up of the images

The images are Meljens Designs and can be purchased here http://whimsystamps.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=13_18/. I finally pulled out my small set of Prisma Colored Pencils. All I can say is I am hooked. On black Friday I ran out to Micheals and bought the big set of Prisma Colored Pencils and I will be using them a lot. I think for my first time the images look pretty good. I think the hardest part was cutting them out. I have to keep practicing. 

I kept this treat bag fairly simple since I had to make so many of them. I used Microsoft Word to size the images and then printed them out on Stampin' Up Whisper White Card Stock. I used my Crop A Dial to punch the holes in the lunch bag and ran some ribbon through them. I added a Cinnamon stick for a little interest, and it smells good too. Even though this was kept fairly simple, I still think it is a cute little bag perfect for some candies and other goodies.

I have no sneak peak for you this week from Jess...so you are going to have to head on over to her blog to see what she has created for you http://myscrapdiary-jess.blogspot.com. Note..Jess project is now up...you have to go see it, totally amazing!:) We are going to be giving away an I-Rock this week. In order to qualify please become a follower of both blogs and leave us each a comment with suggestions for our upcoming challenges. We want you all to join in, so tell us what kind of challenges interest you:) You do not have to join the challenge to qulify for this give away.

Now onto some other things. I am a Designer for a new challenge blog, http://flauntitfridays.blogspot.com/  that the super talented Sandy and Janis created. This Friday is the Grand Opening and we will be kicking it off with a blog hop. In the meantime, head on over to Flaunt It Fridays to learn more about what we will be up to every week, and to meet all of the designers. Be sure to become a follower, and leave a comment, to be eligible for the Peachy Keen stamp set. Winner will be announced on Friday.

And of course don't forget about the Jolly Holly Blog hop on December 10 and 11. Ten talented ladies will be bringing you holiday gift ideas, along with some other fun ideas to package up your gifts. There will be lots of fun blog candy and a grand prize package filled with scrapping goodies that Carol and Barrie from http://www.scrapadabadoo.com/ will be putting together.

Now back to the challenge. Here are the guidelines for this week and the requirements to be eligible for the challenge give away:

1.Anything goes this week 
2. Please put in your post that you entered your project into this challenge with a link to my blog
3. Stop by Jess's blog and leave a comment under her post for this challenge
4.Link your project to Mr. Linky by next Tuesday (December 7) at midnight

After three challenges I will pick one winner (the next winner will be announced on December 8  for the challenge weeks of 11/10, 11/17, and 12/1. All the names will be combined from all three challenges, if you enter all three challenges then your name will be entered three separate times.  At this time I am only shipping to the US. I will also be announcing the winner of the extra giveaway (I-Rock) on December 8.