Blog Bon-Bon Winners!

Sorry for taking so long to post this...I'm finally starting to get caught up again! It's been a crazy week around here, but Julia is still on her ausflug (field trip) with Kindergarten so it's been pretty quiet, and I took yesterday off to just rest after driving over 1000 miles in 4 days. I decided I needed it!

So, the winners are post #1 and #15:

#1

Cheryl said...

Happy Birthday to you. Wish I were there to have some of that luscious chocolate cake with you!! the rhubarb crunch doesn't sound bad either. thanks for giving us the gifts altho you give us a gift with every post! HB!!!!
Cheryl Sims

4/15/2008 01:00:00 PM

wins the Serenity Now set

and #15

michvan said...

Happy Birthday!!! Hope you and Amy have a wonderful time in Champagne!!! Love how your card turned out, too . . . might have to get the Swiss dots folder myself, not sure if I can wait to use it til you get back! ;)

Hugs,
Michelle

gets the Ride 'Em Cowgirl set!

Congrats ladies!! Cheryl, please email me your snail mail address and I'll get this out right away. Michelle...I have yours darlin'! ;-)

Ok...Prettie Wednesday is coming up next!

CC162 Watering Can and Birthday Blog Bonbons!!

German Phrase of the Day: Um 10 Uhr habe ich einen Termin. = I have an appointment at 10am. Actually, I don't...but this is one of the last phrases from last year's calendar. I'm running out of ideas, so if you all have things you'd like to know how to say in German please leave a comment and I'll get it translated (and checked!) for my phrase of the day.

Sorry I'm so late with my post...it's been a little crazy here. It's my birthday, and I had a friend fly in from the US this afternoon. It's been a great day and lots of fun. I made myself a chocolate Devil's Food cake with nice sweet buttercream frosting that turned out perfect, and a very sweet friend even brought me some yummy Rhubarb Crumble (thank you Mirta!!)

In honor of my day, I have some blog bonbons for you all. Christie recently sent me a few duplicate stamp sets, so I have an extra Ride 'em Cowgirl and an extra Serenity Now! set. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and I will draw 2 lucky winners when I get back from my weekend trip to the Champagne region of France with my girlfriend Sunday night (it will probably end up being Monday morning before I draw the name...so you have a little extra time.) Easy peasy!! :-) Oh...and while you're at it, pick up some more MFT stamps for 10% off and help a wonderful family in need - you can read more about it on Kim's blog!!

On to my card. I started coloring this image last night, but then got tired and didn't finish the card. So this morning after taking Julia to school I saw today's color challenge and thought it would be perfect for this card. I just had to finish coloring the flower on the image with the Guava and Blush and then put the card together. I stamped on whisper white, which really is not a great paper to watercolor on. The color from the crayons moves TOO much on this paper...so I'm not totally happy with it. But, I just love this image from the new Paper Pretties set Simply Special and HAD to use it.

I used Groovy Guava, Blush BLossom and Basic Gray papers, and my Swiss Dot CB folder (LOVE that one!) along with some double-stitched Guava ribbon. I stamped and mounted the image for the inside...and I like how it looks!

Hope you all have a great day, and don't forget to register to win one of 2 stamp sets - my birthday present to you!!

Supplies: (all supplies from SU! unless noted)
Stamps: Simply Special from Paper Pretties
CS: Whisper White, Basic Gray, Blush Blossom, Groovy Guava
Ink: brilliance graphite black
Acc: SU! watercolor crayons, aquapainter, Swiss Dot CB folder, double-stitched groovy guava ribbon

TFL!

50K Blog BonBons!!

I finally got past the 50K mark! Hooray!! :-) And, I'm coming up on my 1 year blogiversary in just one month. What better way to celebrate than with Blog BonBons?!?

Included in this package is:
1. 2 Michael's Clear Stamp sets
2. 1 small acrylic block
3. A few yards of some striped grosgrain ribbon, pink and purple.
4. Some glittery patterned paper from DCWV glitter stack
5. Some Crystal stickers, 4 sizes of rounds.
6. 1 sheet of snowflake stickers for creating stained glass effects (see this post for an example)
7. 1 sheet of Christmas shimmery clear stickers - an example will be coming!
8. A few Genuine German Beer Deckels (chipboard coasters!)
9. Accents & Elements tin from spring mini catalog - unopened!
10. Both Way Blossoms stamp set (minus the wood, sorry!) This was a hostess set in the 06-07 SU! Idea Book and Catalog...and was used for the card in this post. This is a new uncut set.
11. And as always...some yummy European Chocolates!! :-) Gotta have chocolate!!

So...to win this plethora of stamping goodies, please leave a comment on THIS POST telling me what you like to listen to when you are stamping. I listen to my ipod...and it depends on my mood which playlist I start, but it can range from Dixie Chicks to Sarah McLachlin to REM to Queen, and a thousand options in between! I think I need to create a special Stampin' playlist!! :-)

This is open to anyone...I will ship anywhere in the world. I will select a winner using random.org when we get back from Istanbul on Monday morning, November 5th. So please enter by 8am European Standard Time (GMT +1) on the 5th. For the time-zone impaired, that's 2am EST, 11pm PST on the 4th! :-)

Good luck, can't wait to read about your favorite stampin tunes!
TFL!
-Jana