Crop for Oklahoma

I am pleased to announce that Cheeky Chic Scrapbooking will be hosting an online crop on June 15th to benefit the victims of the Oklahoma tornado tragedy through the United Way. The cost will be $15 dollars and all proceeds will be donated directly to the United Way of Oklahoma.

During the online crop there will be challenges hosted by a variety of scrapbookers including myself, Becky Fleck, Lisa Pace, Stephanie Howell, Cathy Zielske, Mary Ann Jenkins, Juliana Michaels, Julie Overby and more. There will also be some fantastic prizes being given away from our generous sponsors including: Bo Bunny, Jillibean Soup, Little Yellow Bicycle, The Paper Bakery Kit Club, Pink Paislee, Fancy Pants, Bella Blvd, SRM Stickers, May Arts, Echo Park and more!

There will be a challenge every hour, on the hour, from 8am EST - 6pm (or maybe later) plus challenges from some big names in the scrapbooking arena with a full week to complete the challenges you pick. You will have tons of chances to win some great prizes. Oh, and did I mention a drawing will be held for a big prize from the first fifty people to donate?

Please think about joining us for a fun day of cropping, games, and prizes for a good cause. We know the people affected by these tragedies will be eternally grateful for your love and support!

Lifestyles to “Die” For

Welcome to Paper Issues Lifestyles to “die” for!  You should have arrived here from Holly’s blog, but if this is your first stop, be sure to head over to Paper Issues to start at the beginning!

This issue is sponsored by the ever fabulous Lifestyle Crafts, maker of dies, washi sheets, and more. 

Check out this card I made with some Lifestyle Crafts goodness:

See all those fun polka dots?  That’s a washi SHEET.  Yeah, like tape only bigger.  So cool!

The tags on the side are all cut from Lifestyle Crafts dies on my Epic6. 

These fold over tabs under the clip are their dies too! 

Next up on the hop is JoAnn!

Now it’s your turn to link up Lifestyle Crafts and/or die projects… show ‘em if ya got ‘em!

Want to win one of SEVEN Lifestyle Crafts prize packs with dies and a washi sheet?  Each blog on the hop will be giving one away, plus one on the Paper Issues blog too. 

1. Like Lifestyle Crafts on Facebook {tell them we sent you}
2. Like Paper Issues on Facebook
3. Leave me a comment

Good luck and thanks for playing along!

Winner, Winner!

Wowsers! I can’t thank you guys enough for all the fantastic comments during the PaperHaus hop.  I am overwhelmed by your responses and truly every one of them makes me smile. 

And now for the giveaway winner!

langeatheart said...

I love Pink Paislee and I love what you did with it! Your layout is adorable so it the little one :) TFS!
http://mybeaner.blogspot.ca

If this is you please email me with your address so I can send out your goodies!

And if this is NOT you… the good news is that while compiling this giveaway I found lots of other things to give away so keep an eye out for another one soon!

The PaperHaus Spring Fling Blog Hop!

Hello and Welcome to the PaperHaus Spring Fling Blog Hop! We are excited that you joined us in celebrating the release of the Spring Issue of PaperHaus Magazine! We can’t wait to share all of the amazing projects and inspiration in it with you! Please take some time to Like us on Facebook.

To kick things off around here I am showing you this Spring Fling appropriate page I did using Pink Paislee’s gorgeous new collections, Cottage Farms and Hope Chest:

Read more about my layout on the Pink Paislee blog.

And to really get the party started I am hosting this giveaway… all this glorious loot could be yours for the low, low price of a comment! BONUS entry if you’re a follower and say so! The winner will be posted at the end of the hop on March 8th. 

And now on to Anna Sigga!

Follow the rest of the hop to see more spring inspiration and lots more giveaways!
PaperHaus Blog
Frank Garcia
Ivana Camdzic
Trina McClune
Jodie Lee
Lisa Gregory
Stacey Young
Maiko Kosugi
Fun Stampers Journey
The Piece by Piece
Corri Garza
Shellye McDaniel
DeeDee Catron
Audrey Yeager
Sabrina Alery
Patricia Roebuck
Jess Mutty – you are here!
Anna Sigga
Susan Tutt
Rommel Okuma
Bente Fagerberg
Izzy Anderson
Jennifer Grace
Christina Heeren
Gina Rodgers
Lori Hairston
Paper Issues
Peg Hewitt
Georgia Heald
Leah Crowe
Jodi Baune
Heather Leopard
Diana Fisher
Kate Vickers
Sarah Andreotti
Leah Farquharson
Cathi O'Neill
Missy Gener
Marilyn Rivera
Julianne McKenna
Vivan Keh
Jelissa Mei
Sara Zenger
Emilia van den Heuvel
Linda Brun
Lisa Duke
---> TO PAPERHAUS FACEBOOK

A Haus Warming Party!

This is it! The first issue of PaperHaus Magazine is about to go live on September 1st and we’re going to be partying all week at the PaperHaus blog and on contributor blogs as well. Join us for peeks at an awesome digital magazine that will knock your socks off, personal and manufacturer giveaways, and inspiring projects.

The blog hop both starts and ends at the PaperHaus blog so please bounce on over there first if you’re just hearing of this hop from me.  The details on the BIG giveaways, a contest, and the new issue will be there.

PaperHaus
Frank Garcia
Christina Colón
Paper Issues
Jodie Lee
Missy Gener
Peg Hewitt
Jodi Williams Baune
Carrie Walz
Lowri McNabb
Lori Hairston
Diana Fisher
Aimee Maddern
Izzy Anderson
Jess Mutty (you are here!)
Christina Heeren
Corri Garza
Sabrina Alery
Sarah Andreotti
Shellye McDaniel 
Jamie Dougherty
Kate Vickers
Kristy Dalman  
Melissa Priest
PaperHaus

In honor of the launch of this fabulous new magazine I whipped up a couple of cards.  A “thanks” to all of you for visiting this week and helping to make this magazine a huge success and a balloon to “launch” us up and away into a bright future!

 

Both cards are made with the Time for Spring collection from Fancy Pants. 

 

Balloon and clouds cut with the Silhouette.

And of course I wouldn’t leave you without a RAK giveaway for this momentous event!  Leave a comment and follow my blog to be entered to win this prize pack from me.  All winners will be announced on the PaperHaus blog on September 2nd and I will also announce my winner here. 


Remember you have ALL week to hit up the blog list!  Many of the blogs have amazing prizes up for grabs and ALL of them are filled with creativity.  Please join us in our enthusiasm for PaperHaus Magazine!

May 4 x 4: Pink Paislee Edition

Hello readers! About a month ago I started thinking about an idea I’ve seen done by other designers and in magazines where a group of scrappers all use the same handful of products and see what different pages they can come up with. How fun would it be to do this with some of the designers I am close to, I thought!

So, I got on the horn (otherwise known as Facebook) and rallied the troops: Meg Aaron, Christina Colón, and Dawn Perkins. They are some seriously talented chicks and I knew they would rock this challenge!

Here are “The Rules”:
- We must use the same four products: two papers and two embellishments.
- We can only use one of each sheet of paper.
- We can use unlimited basics (card stock, ribbon, alphas, mists, etc.) as long as the four main products are the focus.
- We cannot share our finished pages with each other until we are all done so that we do not influence each others’ design choices.

Our four products were a mash-up of Pink Paislee’s Soiree and Daily Junque collections:



And here is what we came up with. Click on the page photos to visit these ladies’ blogs!

I chose to use a white background so that I could stretch my patterned paper more. I loved the border of the Daily Junque paper so I fussy cut it and used the reverse gray side in the center.

I created a folded half circle element with the tissue paper.

And I cut the blue circle paper into strips and sewed them down the middle. I left them slightly popped up for a bit of texture.

Meg used the Soiree note cards in such a clever way! I love the clean grid background and how her black mats really ground and unite everything!


Christina got funky with the awesome floral print and a misted gray background. And how cute is that hand made tissue “celebrate” accent!?


Dawn chose to use the blue paper for her background and made an *adorable* banner from the Soiree cards! How perfect is this photo for these colors!?


I was tickled to see how perfect this little experiment turned out. Our layouts are all so different but fabulous in their own ways! We loved doing this so much that we decided to make it a monthly challenge and rotate “hosting”. So stay tuned for the next 4 x 4!

And now it is YOUR turn!

Do you want to win this sweeeeeeet prize?



You get TWO entries into the drawing if you use *two or more* of the same products we used to make a layout.
OR
You get ONE entry if you don’t have the same products but you scraplift one of our pages.

Post a link to your completed layout in the comments section by June 17th for your chance to win! If you scraplift please let us know which layout you chose to lift. This is open to winners in the continental US.

A Mother’s Day Giveaway!

In honor of Mother’s Day I am offering up My Old Stuff Kit #6 as a giveaway.  It has pretty florals in Spring shades and although the contents are not new,  they are completely unused and ready for you to create with!

For one entry: just comment on this post… something related to Mother’s Day!  What you’re doing, how much you love you mom, etc.

For a second entry: become a follower of my blog!  If you are already a follower you automatically get a second entry. 

Entries from the continental US only, please!

Have a Happy Mother’s Day everyone!!

My Old Stuff Kit #5

Technically it IS still February, the month of love!  So this next kit up for grabs is a love themed kit put together from my “old” papers and embellishments.  It’s all unused and just waiting for you to turn it into something beautiful! 

There are two ways to enter:
1. Leave a comment on this post.
2. Become a follower or already be one!  Please let me know if you are a follower in your comment and I will give you a second entry into the drawing. 

It’s that easy!  I will give you all till Tuesday evening to enter and then I will draw a random winner.  Continental US entries only, please!

I'm back... with a winner!

Ok so it took me a little time to recover from the cruise. I needed a vacation from vacation! I know, I know, you're crying me a river, right?

The trip was fabulous, despite some crazy high seas from all the tropical storms out in the Caribbean and we spent a lot of time sipping fun drinks, eating way too much food, and watching the 24 hour circus that happens aboard a cruise ship. St. Thomas was fun and St. Maarten was beautiful. Right about now I am missing this:


Now I'm back to the daily grind. My husband is starting a new job this week, Owen is getting his back molars and walking all over the place, and I have a mountain of laundry to wash and a lot of first birthday party projects on my horizon. Someone pass me a Rum Runner, please!?

Thanks to all of you who have been patient about my last giveaway. Drumroll, please!

The winner of Kit #2 (the Halloween kit) is: ScrapbookMary!

ScrapbookMary, please use the link to contact me on the side bar and send me your name and address and I will mail the kit out to you ASAP!

Congrats!

My Old Stuff - Kit #1!

The Great Scrap Room transformation of 2010 caused me to go through every inch of my scrappy stash. Wow, that's a lot of stuff! ::blush::

I have too much. There, I've admitted it! So how do we handle this dilemma? Well, I give some of my stuff to YOU, of course! It's a win-win, really. You get some of my older (but still awesome!) product and I make some room on my shelves. For more product. Wait a minute...

Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. ;-)

Over the next few months (I am ashamed to tell you exactly how many of these kits there are...) I will be giving away kits of goodies. This month, for this Autumn-friendly September Kit, I want you to leave a comment and give me a recipe for your favorite apple dish. As I mentioned in the previous post we have an abundance of crisp apples and I live for this time of year just for the apple recipes alone. I will eat them ten ways from Sunday and not be tired of them.

The kit includes products from My Mind's Eye, Cosmo Cricket, Die Cuts With a View, Creative Imaginations, Daisy D's, Heidi Swapp and more.

So copy and paste a favorite... or link me up to something you found online... just give me a reason to get in the kitchen by Friday!

One lucky winner will be drawn to win the kit!

**Please, I can only pay shipping to winners from the continental US!**

Welcome to the Scrap that Baby's Sweet Summertime blog hop!!

Thank you so much for hopping along on our first ever blog hop!

If you didnt come from Kelly's blog or you popped upon this blog and didn't realize we were blog hopping you need to go to Scrap That Baby and start the HOP! You will need to comment on ALL of the blogs to be eligible for the grand prizes listed on the main site! Plus, so many of our awesome designers are giving away a prize on their blogs as well. You will not want to miss out. There are MANY MANY chances to win!

Our theme for this blog hop is SWEET SUMMERTIME!! The members of our design team will all be sharing fantastic summer projects, stories, tips or ideas for keeping cool and having fun in the summer with a baby along.

Here are a few of my ideas:

- I'm starting with a layout of my boy on his first Independence Day! For many, the 4th of July is a true icon of summer. Every year my best friend and I make plans together and last year we were both pregnant and blissfully envisioning our perfect family, double baby celebration. Well, babies sure do have minds of their own! Owen had a ball until about five minutes before the fireworks when he had a total meltdown. We packed up and by the time we hit the parking lot he was completely calm again and we paused to see the fireworks, which he thought were pretty fascinating. Despite the evening not going according to plan I still got some awesome photos of my little guy in his adorable (and so fitting) Little Firecracker onesie:

- Next up: kitchen stuff! Anyone who knows me knows that I love to be in the kitchen... and that I HATE the heat and that means I'm in a real pickle in the summertime! When it is hot out I just can't take the heat and I get out of the kitchen. What's a cook to do? A lot of crock pot cooking and grilling.

One of my favorite ways to grill is using foil packets. This idea is borrowed from campers, boaters, and RVers everywhere. Try salmon, dill, butter and some lemon slices in a double wrapped foil packet. YUM! Or the classic potatoes, carrots, onions, butter, salt and pepper. Those little crispy bits that stick to the foil are fought over in this house!

- What to drink on these dog days of summer? How about a little Blueberry Lemonade Spritzer! I came up with this after I had juice leftover from making Owen's pureed blueberries.

1. Cook fresh blueberries over medium heat until they burst.
2. Strain juice from the berries (save berries for jam, babyfood (!), or other recipes).
3. Fill a pitcher with homemade or store bought lemonade and add the blueberry juice... it will be a beautiful color!
4. When you are ready to serve: pour until the glass is about 2/3 of the way full and top with any clear sparkling beverage such as 7-Up or fizzy water.
5. Garnish with lemon slices and a few whole blueberries.

Bonus! Add some citrus flavored vodka, champagne, or prosecco for an awesome adult cocktail!


- Finally, ANY season is a good one for a giveaway, right?! To win this Maya Road trio of fun chipboard, felt buttons, and ribbons all you have to do is be/become a follower of my blog and leave your blog hop comment! Wednesday I will choose from the followers who played along.

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Our blog hop runs from today, August 18th until August 22nd. Invite your friends to play for extra entries. You must comment on all the blogs for a chance at the main prize!

The Scrap that Baby blog will be drawing for prizes on Wednesday August 25th! .

The next stop on the blog hop is Heather!

A RAK for Crop Weekend!

ACherryOnTop.com is one hopping site this weekend due to another amazing weekend crop event! Join us for fast paced fun games, creative challenges, Fast Scraps, Bingo, and of course... prizes and points a-plenty!

I would also love it if you join me for my Special Days Mini Album class on Sunday at 2pm EST! We always have a blast in my classes!

In honor of crop weekend I'm RAKing this assortment of ribbon! All you have to do is guess how many ribbons are in the bowl and I will send the ribbons to the person with the closest guess.

HINT: Most of the ribbons are a pretty good length...

Please leave your guess in a comment and also tell me either your ACOT screen name or another way to reach you if you're the winner!

(clicking the photos will bring them up larger)

Win a Calendar Layouts Kit!

I just happen to have a few kits left from a recent class on calendar layouts! If you would be interested in winning a kit that includes all the supplies and instructions needed to complete these two calendar layouts (using your own photos, of course) listen up! :-)



So what do you have to do?

Simply:
1) leave me a comment and
2) become a "follower" of my blog!

I will draw a name in one week on Monday, March 30th.

If you are interested in buying a kit please PM me as "ScrapGoo" on acherryontop.com