Winner!

During the Operation Write Home spring blog hop, I had 45 comments and today finally got around to throwing you all into a bowl and using choosing a winner for the Tattered Angels alpha chips!

Tereza from Creating Treasures won!  I have emailed you and hopefully you’ll send me your address so I can mail these out to you!  I hope you have fun with them.

Thanks to all of you for checking out my card and commenting during the hop!

Bring on the cake!

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Here’s a cute little birthday card I made recently.  I used a digital stamp from Scrappin Doodles (printed and cut it out).  I sprayed my paper doily with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (love it) and added a touch of sparkle to the birdie with Stickles on his beak and legs (love these the most).  The sentiment I stamped on the sign is from a Hero Arts seneiment set.   I also glued some google eyes to him!  That’s an idea from Jennifer McGuire (love her too!)

What do you think?  Cute, huh?

My last chance effort.

Wanna get a good deal on some cool scrapping supplies?  My Canada trip to deliver the scrapbook my friends and I made to Anita is next week, so this is it!  This is the final weekend of auctions to raise money for my cause.  Everything I have left is on ebay right now up for auctions.  Here’s the page where it shows all my auctions.  Of course, once you’re looking at one of the bundles you can always click on “view sellers other items” if you’re not familiar with ebay.  There’s always a link somewhere to get you to the place to see everything. 

Right now there are books, online classes, memberships, large mixed lots of supplies in themes like Christmas, winter, baby, beach, Disney, teenager, and that’s just to mention a few.  Go check it out and bid generously please! 

For those of you who’ve been bidding and winning my auctions, I thank you so much.  It’s gonna happen.  This trip is a go!  And it’s because of you all helping me and I appreciate it so much.  Any money that’s left is going to be given to Anita for her medical bills, as I’m sure they are astronomical. 

New auctions are up again!

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I have more Making Memories bundles here and here.  The autographed Donna Downey bag is here.  The Fiskars ShapeBoss and a bunch of stencils to go with it is here.  Go check them out and bid away! 

**This is another post detailing donations I’ve received for the auction to try and raise funds for my trip to Canada to deliver Anita’s scrapbook to her.  If you’re a new reader to my blog and don’t know who Anita is, you can read my previous blog post here.  To see other donations I’ve received that will be put up for auction in February and March, you can go to the donations page here.

Adornit Carolee’s coming up

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I’ve got some CUTE Carolee’s Creations/Adornit items to auction off soon.  There are these 2 all-in-one album kits.  They each have 24 patterned papers, 2 diecut sheets, a sticker sheet (that includes 2 alphabet sets), and the album that’s got decorated covers already done. 

I love this first one, the “My Girl” kit.

And here’s what they call the “Beach Album” kit

They also sent 2 packs that have patterned papers and a sheet of diecuts.  This one is a cute bear.

And there’s a cute little garden girl package too.

I  also have 2 pattern books, which are full of projects to make, one called Christmas Joy and one called Pumpkin Harvest.

This is a Ting-A-Ling kit with papers, punch outs, stickers, ribbons, frame, metal letter brads, misc.

The top item is a stack of cardstock strips that you can cut up, ink the edges, and use for titles or embellishments on your pages.  And they sent metal letter brads in white and silver.

I love these cute chipboard word books.  They are STURDY.

Thank you Adornit/Carolee’s Creations for helping my cause with your donations!

**This is another post detailing donations I’ve received for the auction to try and raise funds for my trip to Canada to deliver Anita’s scrapbook to her.  If you’re a new reader to my blog and don’t know who Anita is, you can read my previous blog post here.  To see other donations I’ve received that will be put up for auction in February and March, you can go to the donations page here.

Donna Downey in the house!

Here’s another cool item I will be auctioning off soon, an “INSPIRED” green tote bag from Donna Downey.  It’s her signature green color, kind of a vinyl-ish sort of material, zips closed, nice big shoulder strap, pockets on the outside (velcro closure), also pockets on the inside plus spots for pens or paintbrushes, and a zippered section.  And the best part?  AUTOGRAPHED.  Love that! 

I love Donna and follow her blog regularly.  I’ve been lucky enough to have her come within a 2-hour distance from me and was able to take one of her classes back in 2007.  SO much fun!  Her “Inspired.Artist” event has sold out for the second year again.  She also has video workshops and kits you can purchase on her website here.

 Thanks so much Donna!

** edited to add……this bag is up for auction right now on ebay here.

The color of the bag is really what’s showing in the FIRST PHOTO.  I don’t know what happened with the second shot!  haha

**This is another post detailing donations I’ve received for the auction to try and raise funds for my trip to Canada to deliver Anita’s scrapbook to her.  If you’re a new reader to my blog and don’t know who Anita is, you can read my previous blog post here.  To see other donations I’ve received that will be put up for auction in February and March, you can go to the donations page here.

If you live in Texas…

The Scrapbook Studio is in the Houston/Clear Lake area in Texas, and the owner (Laurie) has generously offered to do a fundraiser crop and donate all the proceeds from that day to Anita.  All because my friend Dona emailed someone she knew (Tami) and then that someone emailed a bunch of people she knew and then here we are.  Such wonderful people are scrapbookers. 

Dona is even making some door prizes for the event.  Tami is donating snacks and door prizes!  Lots of fun to be had here!  The date of this event is March 1 from 1 to 5 p.m.  The Scrapbook Studio’s address is 1849 El Dorado Blvd. in Houston.  The phone number is 281-984-7516.  Go to their website here and look at the photos.  This place is so beautiful!  It has a computer/printer and Cricut for your use and it has an embellishment bar, which I think is so cool, that you can pick embellishments from to use on your layouts, and it’s included in the cost of the crop fee.  Such a neat idea! 

Thank you Dona for contacting all your peeps, and thank you Tami for contacting all your peeps and thank you Laurie of The Scrapbook Studio for offering to host this event.  What a generous gift you have all given to me (and to Anita)!

Tags from Shabby Chic Crafts.

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I got another package with tons of tags to add to my auctions!  They are from Shabby Chic Crafts.  I love this store and have bought tags from them before.  I bought the darling wedding ones (bride and groom) and used those in the wedding album I showed on the blog here (last page).

Aren’t these all just so cool?  I love them!

**Come back to bid on any of the items you’ve seen in my previous posts or this one.  You can subscribe to this blog by filling out your email in the top of the column on the right to receive updates about other donations as they come in and get notification when the auctions goes live. 

**This is another post detailing donations I’ve received for the auction to try and raise funds for my trip to Canada to deliver Anita’s scrapbook to her.  If you’re a new reader to my blog and don’t know who Anita is, you can read my previous blog post here.  To see other donations I’ve received that will be put up for auction in February and March, you can go to the donations page here.

Donation from Paperclipping

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Noell Hyman from Paperclipping has donated a free premium membership to Paperclipping!  I happen to have a membership and I LOVE her video tutorials.  They are so professionally made (by Noell’s hubby!) and she’s so creative and full of neat ideas.  Noell shares tips and tutorials and teaches how to do different techniques, different design principals, shares her beautiful layouts, and lots more.  She has some free videos too on her website, but with the premium membership you get access to tons more.  She also has a newsletter that I subscribe to, which you can sign up for on her website.

With a membership, you get access to all the video archives, plus current members-only videos in HD quality.  You’ll also get discounts on some special-edition project episodes, like her Holiday Altered Book.  She also has a ”schoolwork scrapbook” tutorial (which you can read about here), that I purchased a while back and loved.  I haven’t shown my schoolwork scrapbook project on my blog yet but will do that soon.

She also has a Paperclipping live show every week that you can watch on Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. pacific, which means I have no idea what time to watch it at my house!  haha  You can find more about it here.  If you haven’t seen one of her videos, be sure to go check them out.  Then be sure to come back and bid on the membership (a $42 value).

 Thank you so much Noell and Izzy!

**Come back to bid on any of the items you’ve seen in my previous posts or this one.  You can subscribe to this blog by filling out your email in the top of the column on the right to receive updates about other donations as they come in and get notification when the auctions goes live. 

**This is another post detailing donations I’ve received for the auction to try and raise funds for my trip to Canada to deliver Anita’s scrapbook to her.  If you’re a new reader to my blog and don’t know who Anita is, you can read my previous blog post here.  To see other donations I’ve received that will be put up for auction in February and March, you can go here and here  and here.

New auctions are up!

Last Sunday I put up 4 new auctions on ebay for the Anita fundraiser.  You can see the Karen Foster brad book with lots of brads here.  You can see the Cathy Zielske autographed book here.  The Karen Foster bbq/picnic bundle is here.  And lastly the Sizzix punches/hammer/mat auction is here.

If you haven’t been here before and want to know what auction I’m talking about and who Anita is, go here to read about the auction and then look through January and February posts to see all the other goodies I’ve shown so far for the auction.

**Come back to bid on any of the items you’ve seen in my previous posts or this one.  You can subscribe to this blog by filling out your email in the top of the column on the right to receive updates about other donations as they come in and get notification when the auctions goes live.