At the Beach

April 22nd, 2008

Don’t forget, two blog candies this week — both will be closed Friday, April 25, at 4 p.m. You can participate in both if you like, just leave a comment.

Digi Blog: $10 gift certificate to The DigiChick
Stamp set: H&M new May release

At the Beach Here’s a LO that I did using a hodge podge of paper. I used Sassafrass’s new paper for the clouds, SEI for one of the circles, K&Company, and misc. others. I also used H&M stamps (coming April 25th) for the turtle and the seashell behind it.

I did some doodling because I wanted to try Daring Cardmaker’s tutorial on this topic. I like it, kind of fun and I still have some white space too — or green space {::SMILES}. You can see a more detail picture in my Flickr gallery.

M was about 4-mo when we were at Ventura Beach. Hubby was on temporary duty at Edwards AFB for 3.5 months. We visited at least once a month. To me, it was kind of like vacation — with free accommodations, ha! We were glad when the duty was over though and M had to relearn to know her daddy again. Because of this assignment (and dad was on night shift before leaving for CA), M became distant with her daddy. She was about two when or maybe older when they got closer (dad was gone again when she was 14-mo for another four months). Before that, everything was mom. I’d be cooking and carrying her because she didn’t want anything to do with dad. Now she’s great with him although on many occasions she’d rather be with me than dad. Ah… the military life.

Digi Blog Candy Because…

April 21st, 2008

I Am a DigiChick Hybrid CT. Yeah!!! I am so excited to be one of The Digi Chick’s Hybrid CT. This is my first permanent position at a big digi store. What will I do? Create hybrid, a combo of digital and traditional, craft — so either card, scrapbook page, or altered. What will I use? New and fun products from the designers at TDC. WOWSER!!! I’ll also be working with other very talented ladies, some are also CTs at other big stores, e.g. Prima Hybrid (yes, the company that sells those cute flowers). So yes, I didn’t make it to Scrap Artist or A Million Memories but I kept trying (Yes, want to be in a CT? While having fun creating keep trying and submit, submit, submit!) and now I’m a CT at TDC doing what I love most — paper and digi. I plan on using all sorts of media, stamps and ink included, into my work.

EDIT: You can be anywhere in the world to participate — I just need your email address if you win and the GC will arrive in your email box.

To share my excitement, I have another blog candy… $10 gift certificate to TDC! Just post a comment before Friday, April 25, 4 p.m. CST and let me know why you visit and if you’re here for my tuts, let me know what others you’d like to see. I am planning on doing PSE6 for Mac after this semester is over (May!) - if this is something that will be of interest to you. Let me know!

Like the other blog candy, the M randomizer will choose the winner {::SMILES}.

Stampin’ Blog Candy and News

April 21st, 2008

$5 H&MLet me start with H&M Stamps’ coupon. They’re opening their store to you April 25th. That’s this coming Friday! To celebrate, Heather the owner, is offering the first 200 customers a $5 coupon on their purchase of $25 or more. Just plop in this coupon code at checkout: HMDT42508. Isn’t this nice?

Next, I have a blog candy courtesy of H&M stamps. Yeah!!! What will you get? Well, you get to pick one of the following three that will be released May 25th. If you are the winner, keep this date in mind too, your stamp set will not be sent until then. The stamps are called ADINO Day…Celebrate the Day…and It’s Picnic Time.

H&M Dino

H&M Celebrate

Picnic

If you’re curious about the quality, picky me can tell you that these stamps do very well on Stampin’ Up! classic ink pads. The results are great clean and crisp images. They’re not like some of those store bought ones. There’s no grabbing your eraser and rubbing the stamps. H&M Stamps work right out of the box. This is high quality stuff.

So come on, post a comment by Friday, April 25th, 4 p.m. CST. What do you need to post… hmm…. well, since this is my first blog candy, I’d like to know why you visit my blog… is it for the cards, the scrapbooking, the tutorials, or just because {::SMILES} and what you’d like to see more of. Tomorrow, I’ll show you a (at least I think) special creation using one of the stamp set that will be release Friday. How will the winner be picked? By the M randomizer — ha ha… yeah, this was M’s job at the scrap event a few weekends ago. She loved it.