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Monday, January 30, 2012

New Hop and Michelle's Anniversary Blog Hop Winners

I hope everyone had fun on Michelle's Anniversary Blog Hop. I know I did.

I also want to tell you all to come back Feb. 25 & 26 for my One Anniversary SVG Blog Hop. Every stop (and I don't like huge hops so there will be maybe 10 stops) will have a card/card related SVG file for you. So if you have SCAL or MTC this would be a good time to get some great files. 

But now on the important part.....the winners of Michelle's Anniversary Blog Hop.

We need to send a big Congrats to all the winners.

Day 3 - Sue D
Day 2 - Sher
Day 1 - Emily

and of course a big Congratulations to Michelle and Happy Blog-o-versary!

If you did not see my message in your mail box please email me at susanslomski@yahoo.com

Congrats again to all the winners.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Welcome to Day Three of Michelle's Anniversary Blog Hop


Welcome to day three of the Michelle's First Anniversary Blog Hop. We are helping Michelle celebrate with the theme of Snowmen! You should have arrived here from Heather's blog, Houses Built of Cards. If you just happened to stumble upon this hop, please be sure to go back to Michelle's Blog, Scrapbooking SOS to start at the beginning.

I owe you all a big apology. I had an extremely bad night and  for some reason thought yesterday was the last day and of course today is. You can imagine my horror now that I just got up and came here to pick the winner of the blog candy and found the hop had another day to go.

I didn't do another snowman project for the hop but I do have one I would like to show you I did in the past.


Yes, this was one of Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas but I just loved the way it came out and played with the colors and ink. I didn't have the stains or stamps that were required to make his but you would like to see what it was suppose to look like as well as how to make it then click here.

Now for some blog candy. How about this set of Fiskars Home Sweet Home Stamps?



How to win.
1. Be a follower.
2. Leave me a comment on this post with a way to contact you if you win.
3.Visit My Nook Blog and leave a comment under “Remembering the Bookstore” either about my memories or one of your own. Just so you know, this in no way “helps me win” the contest I entered the story in, I am simply curious about what you have to say on the subject. You do not need to follow My Nook Blog only this one to be eligible to win the candy. (Of course I would love it if you followed both.)

I thank you for hopping by and I hope you enjoyed your visit. Don't forget to stop on back tomorrow to see another project and have another chance to win another candy.
Your next hop is over to Cindy's blog…. My Creative Life.

In case you get lost during your way, here is the line-up.
1. Michelle O'Driscoll (Me)  - ScrapbookingSOS.blogspot.com
2. Darlene - ScrappyGoLucky.blogspot.com
3. Divinity - http://www.scrap-n-patch.blogspot.com/
8. Sue in CT - http://sueinct.blogspot.com/....................(You are here!!!!)
9. Cindy deRosier - http://www.cindyderosier.com
10. Jean - http://pagesintime.blogspot.com/
11. Marianne - 
http://mylifeincraft.blogspot.com/
12. Joyce (with a great sketch and challenge) - 
1ashjoy.blogspot.com
13. Emily Kincke - 
http://emily.kincke.com/portfolio/posts
14. Back to Me (Michelle)ScrapbookingSOS.blogspot.com

Friday, January 27, 2012

Welcome to Day Two of Michelle's Anniversary Blog Hop


Welcome to day two of the Michelle's First Anniversary Blog Hop. We are helping Michelle celebrate with the theme of Snowmen! You should have arrived here from Heather's blog, Houses Built of Cards. If you just happened to stumble upon this hop, please be sure to go back to Michelle's Blog, Scrapbooking SOS to start at the beginning.


Today I did a 6x6 card keeping in the snowman theme...



Recipe:
Georgia-Pacific Cardstock (white)
Cardstock from the shelf of JoAnn's (white and blue)
Michael Miller Memories Cotton Fabric Paper (green)
SVG File I made (Matte)
Sentiments Stamp - unknown
Inkadinkado Stamp (two pine trees on right)
Stamps by Judith (pine branches on left)
See-D's Stamps (snowman)
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink
Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Evergreen Bough
Snowflake Punch - Marvy
Snowflake Brad
Stickles - Gold, Crystal
Glossy Accents
Copic Markers - Y02, YR09, B0000, B000, C1, C3, E17, G05, R29, 100

Unfortunately you can not tell that the snowflakes have Stickles that shine so bright (they almost look off white in the picture) nor can you tell the words (matte) have Glossy Accents on them which look like they were in an ice storm. The green background fabric paper also glistens with gold sparkles which the snowman's band around his hat matches. I'm really sorry you can't see how this card shines.

Now on to the blog candy....I hope you enjoyed my card and like my SVG File. I am sure you can think of other ways of using it than I did. How about using it on a page for a picture Matte? Journal Matte? Whatever you think of for a use, try it out. Look on the left sidebar for my free files and download  the "Winter SVG" file.

I am sure you all don't have SCAL or MTC so how about some real blog candy? 

Fiskars Perfect Blend Stamp Set.


How to win.
1. Be a follower.
2. Leave me a comment on this post with a way to contact you if you win.
3.Visit My Nook Blog and leave a comment under “Remembering the Bookstore” either about my memories or one of your own. Just so you know, this in no way “helps me win” the contest I entered the story in, I am simply curious about what you have to say on the subject. You do not need to follow My Nook Blog only this one to be eligible to win the candy. (Of course I would love it if you followed both.)

I do apologize as my link to my other blog didn't work earlier yesterday. I do have the link working now. If you haven't gone there yet, you have until midnight tonight to leave your comment/story as the hop will end at that time and I will call the winners.

I thank you for hopping by and I hope you enjoyed your visit. Don't forget to stop on back tomorrow to see if your a winner of the candy (you have 3 days to claim it if you didn't leave me a way to contact you). If you did leave me your email address than no worries....I will contact you by email. Please respond in 3 days.

Your next hop is over to Cindy's blog…. My Creative Life.

In case you get lost during your way, here is the line-up.
1. Michelle O'Driscoll (Me)  - ScrapbookingSOS.blogspot.com
2. Darlene - ScrappyGoLucky.blogspot.com
3. Divinity - http://www.scrap-n-patch.blogspot.com/
8. Sue in CT - http://sueinct.blogspot.com/....................(You are here!!!!)
9. Cindy deRosier - http://www.cindyderosier.com
10. Jean - http://pagesintime.blogspot.com/
11. Marianne - 
http://mylifeincraft.blogspot.com/
12. Joyce (with a great sketch and challenge) - 
1ashjoy.blogspot.com
13. Emily Kincke - 
http://emily.kincke.com/portfolio/posts
14. Back to Me (Michelle)ScrapbookingSOS.blogspot.com





Thursday, January 26, 2012

Welcome to Day One of Michelle's Anniversary Blog Hop



Welcome to day one of the Michelle's First Anniversary Blog Hop. We are helping Michelle celebrate with the theme of Snowmen! You should have arrived here from Heather's blog, Houses Built of Cards. If you just happened to stumble upon this hop, please be sure to go back to Michelle's Blog, Scrapbooking SOS to start at the beginning.

For my project I did this page…


Recipe:
Sizzix Die - Snowman. Sign
Cardstock from my stash
Background Paper from Coredinations
Liquid Applique
White Paint
Snow-Tex
Crystal Snow
Glossy Accents
Brown Marker
Holly Punch
Snowflake Punch
Brads

I hope you liked the pages I have done for day one of this hop. Of course I am sure you would like some candy too. Our theme may be snowmen but the next holiday is Valentine's Day and I found these stamps that I thought would go nicely.

How to win.
1. Be a follower.
2. Leave me a comment on this post with a way to contact you if you win.
3.Visit My Nook Blog and leave a comment under “Remembering the Bookstore” either about my memories or one of your own. Just so you know, this in no way “helps me win” the contest I entered the story in, I am simply curious about what you have to say on the subject. You do not need to follow My Nook Blog only this one to be eligible to win the candy. (Of course I would love it if you followed both.)

I thank you for hopping by and I hope you enjoyed your visit. Don't forget to stop on back tomorrow to see another project and have another chance to win another candy.
Your next hop is over to Cindy's blog…. My Creative Life.

In case you get lost during your way, here is the line-up.
1. Michelle O'Driscoll (Me)  - ScrapbookingSOS.blogspot.com
2. Darlene - ScrappyGoLucky.blogspot.com
3. Divinity - http://www.scrap-n-patch.blogspot.com/
8. Sue in CT - http://sueinct.blogspot.com/....................(You are here!!!!)
9. Cindy deRosier - http://www.cindyderosier.com
10. Jean - http://pagesintime.blogspot.com/
11. Marianne - 
http://mylifeincraft.blogspot.com/
12. Joyce (with a great sketch and challenge) - 
1ashjoy.blogspot.com
13. Emily Kincke - 
http://emily.kincke.com/portfolio/posts
14. Back to Me (Michelle)ScrapbookingSOS.blogspot.com



Blog Hop Starts Tomorrow!!!!

Remember to come join the fun and win some candy along the way!

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Playing With My New Camera Again

I hope everyone likes birds as much as I do. I know that is all I seem to be taking pictures of but I am still playing with my camera. Birds are great to take pictures of because everyone knows what they look like and how big they are so when I say I took the pictures from 40 feet away you can visualize in your mind what the bird would look like from that distance.
I caught two Blue Jays in a tree about 40 feet away. All I did to the pictures is crop them and two of them I lightened a little because of my angle and the dark sky (it was a rainy day) two of the pictures came out a little darker than I like.




Monday, January 23, 2012

The Ferret Page

Here is a Liftateer page I did using Fiskateer Rian's layout as inspiration. Although mine does not look like her's I did use the three photos in a row across the page and to make sure I did some story/explaination on it just as she had done on her layout. I did type mine where she handwritten hers which was on the top of the page but that is ok. It is the "elements" that I had lifted and not the exact layout or way she did hers (copy) that I used.





Recipe:
White Cardstock 12x12 from my stash.
White Cardstock from Georgia-Pacific for journal, title and date plus matting on the pregnancy test strip.
K&Company Cuddly Friends Printed Embossed Vellum. 
Purple-ish Cardstock from my scrap stash.
George and Basic Shapes Cricut Cartridge for title and date.
Computer printed for journal.


Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Card Lifters wk 19 lifting Marianne 6701

Recipe:
Card Stock from my stash
Stamp - Happy Birthday (unknown)
Stamp - Pot of Sunflowers (Stampin Up)
Sticker - Sunny Sunflower by Jolee's Boutique (Sunflower head on border)
Ink - Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Evergreen Bough (edge of circle)
Ink - Memento, Tuxedo Black (Happy Birthday)
Ink - Tim Holtz, Distress Ink, Old Paper (color glass beads)
Glass Beads - Tiny Glass Marbles & Bead Accents by Halcraft USA
                      (center of sunflowers in pot)
Glues - Xyron (for paper) and Beacon, Gem Tack (for glass beads)
Punches - Corner Punch and Fiskars Border Punch - Kaleidoscope
Perfect Pearl Pen by Viva - Cream (accents near the pot of Sunflowers)
Copic Markers: C1, C2, C3, G02, G05, E15, E17, R29, YR02, Y02

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Stamp Give-a-way by Viva Las Vagastamps


You Can Win a Stamper's Sampler!


Wanta win a prize. How about a sampler package of Miricle Tape valued at $50?

Than visit: http://vivalas.blogspot.com/2012/01/you-can-win-stampers-sampler.html

Bookmarker

I made a cute bookmarker for little gifts that can be added to cards or whatever. I was going to add my Inlinkz to list all I used to make it but it does not like IE. Since I am "borrowing" my DH's laptop until we get a new desktop (if you recall the desktop died several months ago) I don't want to add new browsers and all kinds of stuff to his laptop so I will do my best to list them "the old fashion way". You can find all the material I used at Cutters Creek except the calender that I used on the back. I got that from the template downloads that Cat posted on Splitcoaststampers. If you are not a member of Splitcoaststampers then you should be. It is free and the amount of information that is shared there is unbelievable. Ok, enough talk...lets get to my bookmarker.




Just wanted to add that these are a good way to use all the scraps you have.

Recipe:
Copic Markers: E15, E17, E47, G02, G05, Y02, YR02, R29, BG05, C1, C2, C3.
Stamps: (on front) Birds with Birdhouse and Sunflower in Pot -Stamping Up,
             Butterfly on back-Recollections, Word "Love" is one I picked up from the dollar bin in Micheal's.
Paper: From my scrap bag.
Embossing Folder: Sizzix from Stamping Up.
Calendar: From Cat on Splitcoaststampers.
Ink: Memento-Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress Ink-Evergreen Bough.
Die: Sizzix-Tim Holtz Alterations-Ornamental
Border Punches: Fiskars-Grass Boarder Punch and Fiskars-Kaleidoscope Border Punch.
Punch-Fiskars-Circle Lever Punch.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Michelle's First Anniversary Blog Hop


Can you believe when I was getting ready for Michelle's Anniversary that I realized Feb. is mine too?
So save the date for Michelle's Anniversary Blog Hop and remember to check back often as I will be doing something special for mine sometime during the month of February.

Friday, January 6, 2012

This Layout Needs No Explaining

(This Layout was done for Liftateers. I was inspired by Tanya 5407 of Fiskateers.)

Monday, January 2, 2012

Special Card I Made

Here is a special card I made for my DIL. She found out she was pregnant recently and tomorrow (Tuesday) she is going to the Dr. for her first ultrasound and hear the heartbeat. She wanted me to go with her so I can hear it too. I am so excited.....so I made this card to give them after the appointment.

What you don't see is on the inside on the other side of card is the date (tomorrow's) and I put a red heart on this side of the the inside right after "of your baby's heart" which is bigger so it also is after "for the first time". I also wrote a personal note on the bottom and signed it.

These are not my SVG's so I can't offer them directly to you however if you go to this site and download the silhouettes you can turn them into SVGs. Also, this card I made for Card Lifters. I was inspired by Fiskateer No_Mom 1637.