Stencil Girl Blog hop sneak peek AND blog hop WINNERS!

Hello!

I am SO SORRY I forgot to pick a winner for last weeks A Flair For Buttons blog hop!

OOPS!

The winner is Staci of  This Black Butterfly!

YAAAYYYY!!!
Thanks for being a long time supporter Staci. I hope you love and use your flair right away!

If you'd like to know who the winner was for the Scrap FX/Ruby Rock It hop please tune into the SFX blog here.

And the SNEAK for Stencil Girl Products:

Art journal page. I also have a scrapbook page. Swing by the see what Nat's
amazing team of mixed media artists did.

Wow- that's 4 blog hops in 5 days!!
BUSY BUSY BUSY!

Hope you are having a great week!
Michelle

Fun with Scrap FX Lanky Alphas!

Hello!
Saturday was World Card Making Day and I celebrated by joining participating in the A Flair For Buttons blog hop.
My winner is Scarlett!
Scarlett please send along your addy to my email address (posted in the "about me" section above right) and you'll get the "In The News" set direct from the shop.
Congrats and thanks for your thoughtful comment!
   
I also want to share a card I made for Scrap FX using my absolute all time favorite alphabet set EVER- Lanky Alphas (item number 2007012).

Materials: Pink Paislee Nantucket paper, Jillibean Soup alphabet paper, Maya Road star straight pin,
Prima chalk ink in Teal, Sakura "Souffle" pen in white, red washi tape 

I'm painting the first alpha when I realize I REALLY like the partly raw look.
"Dipped" furniture was a trend this summer with table legs getting dipped in neon or
metallic paints while leaving the table top (or sometimes just half of the top) in it's original state.
 I added the white highlight as a fun experiment and
LOVED the final result. Teal and red KILL together! LOVE that combo!

I love this set because it's 2 inches tall and about 1 third of an inch thick- great for cards or scrapbook pages as it takes up less space on the page while also making marquee statement impact.

The size also means you can dry emboss on these- they take patterns beautifully.

I love this set of cute cartoon Kitty Cats (item number 2012226) from Scrap FX.
I colored the tongue as a joke to the receiver who loves her pet cat.
Sakura Souffle pens cover dark chipboard perfectly. 

I have several thank you cards that need to get made and go out but my craft time seems to be shrinking- could it be the holidays approaching?
I already hear the incessant jingling of bells.

It's the most wonderful time of the year...

Lola's "cheese" face.
I do not ask that she do this- she learned it from someone else.

Michelle

Weener Weener chikn' deener!!!

My apologies for the title I HAD to! The impulse was strong.

Hello friends- new and old.

Entires for the Paper Issues blog hop closed at 11pm yesterday. Thank you to all who took the time to jump through every single blog! At 32 blogs, it's a HUGE undertaking and we REALLY appreciate it. I took 2 days to do it myself.

The winners are slowly emerging across the land. Paper Issues will post all the winners later today as results come in but please revisit the blogs you joined right NOW- you just might be in for a surprise.

The winner for my lotza Prima and Petaloo flowers prize is Doris P! LOVED your blog title: http://needsareasontoscrap.blogspot.com/

Who needs a reason to scrap? INDEED!!! You, my friend, are a girl after my own heart!!!

Yay Doris! I know my work is a little wonky but I hope you will swing by often. I had a lot of fun reading your blog- your grandbabies are CUUUTE!
Will email you soon and you can send my your addy.

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You know I have to add to this right? This girl CANNOT SHUT UP!

MINI TOOT!!
My work will be featured over at 2 Peas tomorrow September the 20th, 2011! WOOO HOO! I contributed a page for Jen Gallacher's "Stretch Your Sketch" Challenge which goes live on the 20th of very month. I hope you will swing by tomorrow and see what we did.

Here's a SNEAK PEEK:

Jen's sketch was a DOOZY- multiple photos and 4 large shapes.
I made 4  different pages for it and I STILL feel I could have done a better job.
Don't hold it against me Jen!

Thanks to everyone who participated in the blog hop! Don't be a stranger, ya hear!

MuChOs SmOoChEs!

Michelle