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Four - Design Dollies & Everything But the Kitchen Sink

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I made this for two fun girlie's fun challenges.

Leah the Orange's color challenge on Design Dollies this week is baby pink and white.

And Kelly Marie is on the DT for Everything But the Kitchen Sink and they're having a sketch challenge:

Why is it so hard to get a good pic of white??!!  My base paper is white and the pinks are not as "hot" as they appear in these pics.  Most of the lighter pinks are definitely of the "baby" variety.

If you look real close ~squint a bit~, here you can see the title of the layout, "four":

Sorry for the poor pics.  I tried taking this pic in several different kinds of light and it just wouldn't come out.  Oh, well.

Details:  The Paper Company paper; Melissa Frances flat-back adhesive pearls; Michaels ribbons; DMC floss; Making Memories & Clean Colors paint; American Crafts rub ons; unknown pearl trim; thread

Have a great rest of the day. 

Heidi

Black Friday Deals AND Torendi Employee For a Day!!!!

Who's ready to shop!?!

Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year and of course Torendi is going to be involved! Torendi is offering 20% off EVERYTHING in the store! That's right, ANYTHING! Imported items, stamps, paper packs, and even the new kawaii rub-ons!

Friday November 27th - Sunday November 29

Just use coupon code THANKS and the 20% off will automatically be taken off your purchase.

So who wants to go to CHA???

The Torendi girls need your help! We want to "hire" you to come and walk the floors of CHA with us in January and help us decide on what is "trendy" enough for Torendi to stock up on!

How do you apply?

SIMPLE!

Everyone who makes a purchase between NOW and December 21st will automatically be entered for a chance to go to CHA*. Make two purchases, double your chance and so on. It's just that easy! The new "employee" will be announced December 22nd, just in time for some extra holiday cheer!


*(Torendi is not covering airfare, hotel, meals or any other travel expenses. We are just providing you a pass to get into Winter CHA to have some fun with the torendi team!)*

The CHA "VIP" will also get a guest spot on the Torendi blog to tell everyone about the experience, new products, and all the Torendi fun!

The Bold and the Beautiful - Pink Candy, no I mean Ninja Shoppe, I mean, we're all mixed up here!

You all know I'm a loud and proud Pink Ninja!!! 

Well, this week, us Ninja Babies are taking over Candy Shopped Designs!!! 

For this week's challenge, the Pink Ninjas Design Team is swapping places with the Candy Shoppe Designs team.   So, when you hit up the Ninjas blog on Wednesday, don't be alarmed...the CSD girls will be posting their creations over there that day. 

And today, the CSD challenge is all Pink Ninjas.  Check it OUT!  We really rocked the challenge:  The Bold & the Beautiful.  Here's our inspiration:

We were to use at least 3 clashing patterned papers, with a BOLD title, and this color scheme:

Here's my interpretation:

Oh, Yeah!  Definitely MY Kids.

So, whadaya think?  I've got some rockin' skull-filled black, white, and silver DCWV Rock Star Stack paper, some vintage-y, beautiful pink & black Glitz Designs paper; and some sweeeeeeeeet, little girly, lacey, sparkly lollipop DCWV Sweet Stack paper. 

Of course, had to do some fussy cutting.  What day is complete without tedious, unnecessary OCD cutting?  I cut along the guitar border on the Rock Star paper, cut around some of the stars to frame the pics and the skull to disappear the lace border behind, and of course, around the lace border and lollipops.  Sheesh!  I'm obsessed, I tell ya! 

Details:  Paper - DCWV, Glitz Designs; Alpha Stickers - American Crafts, Paper Adventures; Stickles; my trusty Cutterbee scissors!!

So, you simply MUST check out the CSD blog to see what the other Ninjas did.  As expected, THEY ROCKED IT!! 

And I'd love to see you play along with this prompt this week.  Hook your creation up to the CSD blog by December 8 for your chance to win a Vintage Styled Apron from BOOJIBOO!  They're so cute, you just have to play along!!

Have a great day!!

Heidi

SPCC #25 "Home Sweet Home'

It's me again!  Monday's are so chock full of fun, eh?  At least in the virtual scrapping world. 

This week's SPCC color combo is a very unique one:

My initial reaction was, "COOL!"  And then I tried to make something with these colors...LOL.  I don't know why I had such a hard time because I really do absolutely LOVE this combo. 

Of course, my first instinct was to pull a piece of kraft paper as the base, but somewhere along the way I ran across the gorgeous Pink Paislee die cut paper I ended up using because it very closely matched the certainly celery and very vanilla colors.  (And how funny is this??!!!  Both Diana and I used this same piece of paper and posted it to our blogs at the same time!!  Great minds think alike, LOL!  WHY is she all the way across the country from me??)

The pic above better represents the actual color of the layout but this one better shows off the gorgeous die cut paper shape:

This pic also better shows the stitching along the edges of the paper, too.  My first attempt at the stitching resulted in this:

Apparently the first thread I attempted to use was too thick and stiff and it kept freezing my machine and ripped the paper.  Boohoo! 

The adorable house stamp is from jillibean soup.  Both the stamp and the Pink Paislee paper came with my Lil Scrappin Mama October kit which I so loved. 

Details:  Pink Paislee & Stampin' Up! paper; Jillibean Soup & Technique Tuesday stamps; Stampin' Up! ink & twill; Michaels ribbon; Bazzill chipboard; Fiskars border punch; thread; unknown string.

Come on over to the SPCC site to hook up your creation for a chance to win this week's prize from Memories Forever Scrapbooking:

Also, be sure to come on over to SPCC and check out our NEW Design Team Members!!!  We've added a few new ones to the mix!

Have a great day!!

Heidi

Spunky Scrappers "Thankful"

Happy Monday!

This week's prompt on Spunky Scrappers is to scrap what you're thankful for - BUT you can't use the word "thankful" in the title.

I'm thankful for my two little ankle-biters.

OK, yes, technically this is an Easter layout, but it works for this prompt!  I didn't use "thankful", LOL! 

This is a sketch from one of The Studio's charity:water challenges last weekend.  It's made by Scrapbook Calls magazine for Anam Stubbington:

Details:  Paper - DCWV, The Paper Co.; Basic Grey cardstock alpha & trim; SEI buttons; Dymo labeler.

Head on over to the Spunky Scrappers site to see what other members of the Design Team made.  

And check out our NEW MEMBERS of the Design Team!!!  Woohoo!  What a great expanded team! 

Aaaaand, we also have a Spunky blog now!  AND flikr site for YOU to PLAY ALONG WITH US!!!  Aw, come on!  Come play along.  :o)

On another note...do "little things" ever get you just all riled up and you have a hard time moving past them?   I'm just so irritated right now about a message someone wrote on my wall on a ning site that I'm a member.  Someone I don't know.  It said, "Thanks for being a jerk in that chat room."  I've not been on that site's chat room, EVER, nor have I been in a chat room anywhere in ages.  I know that shouldn't bother me, right?  But it just does.  Which irritates me more. 

OK, well, there's my rant for the day.  Grrrrrr.

Here's looking forward to a better rest-of-the-day.

:o)

Heidi

Use What You Have Challenge

I made quite a few layouts last weekend for The Studio's charity:water event that I haven't shared yet.  Here's one of them.

This was for a challenge by Jen Jockish to "Use What You Have" on your craft table.  I could make TONS of layouts with just what I have on my table!  Besides a tray of current fave papers and a bucket of fave stamps, I have a little tray where "extra" stickers, stamped images, ribbon fragments, diecuts, etc. land.  It's overflowing! 

Every embellie you see here except for the letter stickers in "discover" were in this tray:  a couple of Silhouette diecuts I'd painted and heated a while back, some flowers used as masks for mist on my "I Collect Dust" layout, a fragment of my stamp blotter, a ribbon fragment, and a Dymo word that just didn't work out.

These are some die cut "center" pieces (the parts you're supposed to throw away) and a little mirror (in which you can see my camera reflected).

Details:  DCWV paper, Diecuts - Silhouette, Cricut; Michaels ribbon, Dymo tape; Prima flowers; Paint - Ranger, Making Memories ; Stampin' Up! blotter; Hero Arts stamp; StazOn ink; Darice mirror; Glimmer Mist; AdornIt letter stickers; staples.

Thanks for stopping by!

Heidi

It's Saturday...a few things...

Happy Saturday, all! 

Torendi is sponsoring this week's EtsyInspired Challenge #63! 

This week's EtsyInspired shop is Sleepless Imagination.  All you have to do is check out the store and make a project inspired by any item in the Sleepless Imagination shop. 

Not only is Sleepless Imagination offering up a $15 g/c for any cards or prints in her shop but Torendi is giving away this adorable Japanese cupcake stamp to one random winner:

Just link up your creation to the Mr. Linky on HERE by noon Pacific time on Friday 11/27 for your chance to win!

Speaking of deadlines...

Wanna be Sketchy Thursdays' December Guest Design Team Member???

You need to hook up your layout to the comment on THIS POST before 11:59p EST TONIGHT (Saturday, 11/21) to be entered in the voting poll which goes up tomorrow. 

Your LAYOUT (it must be a layout) must be based on the prompt "Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend" AND  on this sketch:

As if being a GDT on Sketchy Thursdays isn't enough incentive, December's GDT will also be the lucky recipient of a kit from Lil Scrappin Mama!! 

Hurry, hurry, hurry!!!  Hope to see your there!

Gotta go get ready for the boy's baseball game. 

- Heidi

New Torendi EXCLUSIVE Rub Ons

O.

M.

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Torendi has just revealed their very own, EXCLUSIVE Rub Ons and they are so stinkin' ADORABLE!! 

All have a Kawaii theme, of course:

Deliciously Kawaii

I Heart Kawaii

A Kawaii Day

Kawaii Phrases

They're available in the Torendi store now!!  (Click on the name to go directly to the item in the store.)  I've already put my order in!

Clowning Around with Sketchy Thursdays

IT'S THURSDAY!!!

Time for Sketchy Thursdays!

Here's my take:

Last year my kids had fun with Daddy painting their faces like clowns.  Today, I had fun with paint!!

If you happen to view this post before I've updated it with detail shots, please come back a little later today...I wanted to get pics in natural light.

Details:  Paper - American Crafts, The Paper Company; Making Memories paint; Cricut die cut; Colorbox ink; Stickopotamus alpha stickers; Michaels ribbon; unknown brads and paint brushes. 

This week's sketch is brought to you by Scrapbook Kit Club.  They're offering up their December Kit of the Month to our lucky winner.  Here's a sneak peek to entice you:

You have until next Wednesday evening (Thanksgiving Eve...you know you'll be up cooking anyway...) to hook up your project to Mr. Linky in the Sketchy Thursdays sidebar for your chance to win this yumminess!

Have a great rest of your day.  It's almost Friday!

Heidi

"four" - Lil Scrappin Mama challenge

Lil Scrappin Mama has their very first Friday Challenge up so I thought I'd give it a go. 

You must use this sketch and include at least one embellie you made:

Here's my interpretation:

All sorts of tags from my daughter's clothes (can you tell we do our part to support Disney?), a Barbie card, a Barbie Mariposa cut out from the DVD cover, and lots of other little "girly" treasures. 

My daughter can't stop petting the mini Tink t-shirt.  That clear acrylic piece next to it says "OH the drama". 

Here you can see my handmade embellie...my Starbucks cupholder butterfly.  Had to cover it with pink mist, glitter, and rhinestones, of course. 

Here's a close up of the Barbie plus my circular element, which happens to be a DVD that didn't record right so now it's fair game for my scrap pages.  The word "four" is covered with some holographic fine pink & purple glitter from Art Glitter.  Yum!

The Lil Scrappin Mama November Kit is up for grabs.  I was fortunate enough to get an October kit and if the November one is half as good as that one, I soooo want it!!! 

Check out the Lil Scrappin Mama site.  They have some great products and amazing inspiration. 

Have a good evening!

Heidi

SPCC #24

Just wanted to shout out that SPCC's newest color challenge is up!

I haven't had a chance to play along yet with this cool combo but hop on over to the SPCC blog to check out what some of the other SP Divas made for your inspiration.  Very inspiring stuff indeed!

- Heidi

Deanne has BLOG CANDY (and it's Cosmo Cricket!)

Deanne of Three Trees {paper} Creations has some super YUMMY blog candy up for grabs until the end of the week! 

The Cosmo Cricket Boyfriend/Earth Love double stack!!!! 

AND there's a runner-up prize:  a Colorbok chipboard snowman book plus 5 studioG Christmas themed stamps!!! 

Head on over to her blog for your chance to win!  And while you're there, check out her amazing creations!  This girl has some talent.  (Oh, p.s. - she's also one of our newest SP Divas!!!! Woot!  Woot!)

- Heidi

Set Your Dreams Free

Happy Monday to you all! 

This week's prompt over on Spunky Scrappers is "free". 

Details:  DCWV paper; KI Memories "bubbles; unknown typewriter key brads; thread.

Head on over to the Spunky sight to see how the rest of the Design Team interpreted the prompt.  We also have a Guest Design Team member this time!!

I'd love to see you play along!

Have a great Monday!

Heidi

The Candy Is GROWING!!! + I'm Being LIFTED + GDT Challenge, + Scrap For a Cause! + A Torendi Sale

Looking for Unity Friday Friends With Flair? 

Scroll Down One Post!

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BLOG CANDY IS GROWING!!

My visitors counter just tipped over 16K!!  Which mean MORE CANDY added to my blog candy pot.

How about a retired Stampin' Up! stamp set this time?? 

All I Have Seen

This is a set of 4 wood-mounted rubber stamps (brand new, unmounted) that is no longer available.  These would make GREAT layout embellies or beautiful cards.  Silhouettes are so hot right now!

So, what're we up to now?  A 147-pc scrapbook set, a beautiful Stampin' Up! Designer Series 12x12 Paper pack, and now a 4-pc stamp set.

Great for family layouts!

Just in time for the winter holidays!

A reminder on how to win this candy:

I will give everyone who comments on THIS ORIGINAL POST by 11:59pm EST November 30 an entry to win this candy, which will be drawn randomly on December 1.

Everyone who is a follower will get an entry also.

And, everyone who posts about my blog candy will get another entry. Please make a unique comment to this original post with the link to where you posted. If you post more than one place (your blog, a forum *where allowed*, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) make a separate comment for each link. I'm leaving it up to you guys to a) give yourselves as many entries as you want by commenting on separate comments - as in, I'm not going to comb thru looking for comments that should count as 2 entries, and b) I'm trusting you guys to not "cheat" for entries - but none of my followers would do that because you are all a great bunch of people, so this is a moot point! LOL!

If you post about my blog candy in your sidebar, come back and comment AGAIN with the link for another entry.

And remember, I'll keep adding to the blog candy pot until 11/30. 

For every 1000 hits, I'll add something else!!  (So at 17K, 18K, etc.)


Aaaand, if I hit 100 followers, I'll kick in something else!

AND, for every 25 followers after that I'll kick in more!!!

CRAZY I tell ya!!

See, the way I see it, yes it's fun to see hits and comments and followers, but for every person who reads this blog I'm also exposing them to all the Design Teams I'm on and great sites and blogs I've got listed in my sidebar so it's a virtual lovefest for everyone involved!!!

So, come one!  Help a girl out helping my favorite blogs and challenges and sites out!!  Spread the word!!  Remember that 70s shampoo commercial?  You tell 2 friends, and she'll tell 2 friends, and she'll tell 2 friends, and so on, and so on, and so on...

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I'M BEING SCRAPLIFTED!!

Jen over on Challenge U 2 is hosting a SCRAPLIFT OF ME this weekend!!

This Layout!

Click for Details.

I'm so excited!!  I am so HONORED!  Pop on over there to play along!! 

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SKETCHY THURSDAYS DECEMBER GUEST DESIGN TEAM CHALLENGE IS UP!

Come, play along with us!!!

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THE STUDIO charity:water WEEKEND EXTRAVAGANZA IS UNDERWAY!!

Challenges posting every 2 hours from now until 2pm EST Sunday!!  EVERY SINGLE CHALLENGE has an unbelieveable prize (that's 25 prizes up for grabs) PLUS there will be a couple overall winners!! 

See THIS POST for details about the amazing charity benefitting from this scrapfest. 

Hop on over to The Studio to begin playing along. 

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TORENDI SALE

The Torendi store is having an awesome sale going on now through 11/16!! 

Japanese imports are 15% off and Japanese stamps are 30% off!! Killer deals!!
 
Look at some of these adorable goodies just waiting to come home to you:
 

Birthday Cake stamps

 

"Fuss" tape - it's almost 2" wide!!!

A Taste of Torendi

And Torendi always offers $5 shipping on all orders.
 
(Psst!  Check out this week's sketch challenge on Sketchy Thursdays...Torendi is our sponsor and they're offering all Sketchy Thursdays followers a 15% of their entire order coupon code!!)


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Whew!  Lots going on!  Thanks for hanging with me to the end of the post! 
 
Have a great weekend! 
 
Heidi

Always Bring Your Own Sunshine

Happy Friday Friends With Flair!!!!

So loving my Unity Stamp Company October KOTM, although I haven't used very many images yet.  I intend to...just haven't had the chance. 

This card is just chock-full of shimmery goodness but it's just not presenting itself here.  Oh, well.

This one isn't much better.  Oh, well.

I went for the Trifecta with this week's Design Dollies challenges on this card - color: black & turquoise; elements: distressing; sketch:

The circle element is covered with crackle medium.  Most everything is either crinkled, crumpled, docked, inked, and/or shredded.  Like the mat?  It's a piece of paper towel hit with some turquoise and black Glimmer Mist.  The black mat is docked all over the edges with the Stampin' Up perferator tool and then I rubbed turquoise Stickles in the marks. 

Details:  Paper - Stampin' Up!, The Paper Company; Unity Stamp Company stamps; Ink - StazOn, ColorBox, VersaMark; Stampendous embossing powder; Prima Flowers; Stampin' Up! distressing tool; Michaels ribbon; Stickles; Marvy Uchida punch; Unknown twine & butterfly bead; Bounty paper towel.

OMG - Did you SEE the new Unity Donna Downey stamp set??!!  How about the T-Shirts?  And there's an amazing 30% off sale going on, too!!!

Hope you have a great Friday and wonderful prospects for the coming weekend!

Heidi

 p.s.  Don't forget, today at 2pm EST The Studio's charity:water weekend extravaganza begins!!  There are challenges posting every 2 hours all weekend long and you will not BELIEVE all the prizes up for grabs.  Check it out!!  (See my post HERE for more details.)

p.p.s.  Sketchy Thursdays is posting their December Guest Design Team Challenge this morning!!

Sketchy Thursdays Goes Torendi

It's time once again for your weekly Sketchy Thursdays sketch fix!

Once again, Diana hits it out of the park!

Here's my interpretation:

As we often stress over on Sketchy Thursdays, our sketches are for your inspiration.  We don't expect you to always copy them literally (although that's perfectly fine, too).  So, as you can see, I flipped a 180 with this weeks sketch. 

My son loves to build things out of all sorts of materials so I went with a mechanical, robot, tools, cogs sort of theme. 

He gets into the intricacies of what he's building so I thought this little toy magnifying glass fit in quite well:

Details:  Paper - DCWV, Cosmo Cricket, Stampin' Up!, The Paper Company; Punches - Stampin' Up!, Marvy Uchida, Crop-a-Dile;  unknown eyelets & magnifying glass. 

Wait til you hear who is the sketch sponsor this week....

Torendi!!  (yea!)  

And just lOOk at what they are offering up to one lucky winner:

A super fun collection of "torendi" products: American Crafts Elle Haute Boxed Ribbon, Bam Pop! Dream Chipboard, and 2 Bam Pop! stamps that are promo stamps and CAN'T BE PURCHASED - not even from Bam Pop! One is the Bam Pop! logo and the other is a jellyfish that matches the ones on their Bam Pop! Vol. 3 Collection (see below)!!!!!

How stinkin' cute are those images??  I sooooo totally want this prize.  But, alas, I am not eligible.  :o(

Check out the Sketchy Thursdays blog for an extra little bit of goodness from Torendi...a coupon code for all ST players!! 

In honor of our sponsor this week, the Sketchy Thursdays DT all tried their hands at a Japanese Pop Culture theme.  Check out all the samples (as well as a couple from the Torendi team, too!). 

Mr. Linky is all ready, just sitting there in the Sketchy Thursdays sidebar just waiting for you to link your amazing projects up! 

Have a happy Thursday!!

Heidi


p.s.  Don't forget the charity:water event happening this weekend over on The Studio starting Friday at 2pm EST. 

There are lots of great challenges and TONS of prizes up for grabs.  Sketchy Thursdays is sponsoring a challenge on Sunday at noon EST with a fun prize!  (Please note that the event is originating from Merry Ol' England so all event times listed on The Studio site are 5 hours ahead of EST.)  Click here to sign up to participate!

Unity Stamps Co. & Donna Downey

Could you ask for a better match??!!  The creativity from both is simply amazing and now they've hooked up to bring you Unity stamps by Donna Downey!! 

Just lOOk at this set:

Makes you drool, huh?  And just lOOk at Donna's website today for some samples that just made my jaw drop!  She combines so many different media for the most stunning results!

Stop by Donna's site today for your chance to win this set!!! 

And then head on over to the Unity blog to check out what the Unity team has done with it, too.  There's also many more chances to win the set over there, too!!! 

Fingers crossed that I'm a lucky winner!!! 

Heidi

Ninja 2009 Song

Woohoo!  It's time for another Pink Ninjas prompt!!!!  This week:  What's your 2009 song?

I know it's really hard to see but my song lyrics are written in the pink swirl with white paint pen.  I really love the boldness of the paper but it makes for bad pictures.  Oh, well.  I know it's cool IRL.  LOL.

The song is Panic Switch by Silversun Pickups. 

The lyrics written in the swirl, "When you see yourself in a crowded room, will you step in line or release the glitch?  Do you think she'll sleep with a panic..."

I had lots of fun stitching again.  And, this is a double-sided paper and the other side looks so cool with the bottom stitching that I think I'm gonna use the backside for another layout!! 

Cool, eh?  Keep an eye out for it!

Make sure you pop on over to the Pink Ninjas blog today to see all the amazing inspiration brought to you by the Design Team. 

This week's prompt was brought to you by this month's Ninja Star Pearl!  Check out the interview with her HERE.

Have a great Wednesday!

Heidi