Please help out a great cause

I am posting this for my sister and my son. My sister is running this blog candy for donations to St. Baldrick's. My 17-year old son is shaving his head....eek. I hope it grows back for graduation. Please check out this link for the details.

http://kaputkrafts.typepad.com/kaput_krafts/2009/02/bald-is-beautiful.html

Who knows, you may win some craft supplies for helping children with cancer. There is no prize involved for Ryan except for the satisfaction to say that he raised more than my nephew did last year. Please feel free to link my sister's post to your blog and spread the word to help raise money to stop childhood cancer. I will let you all know his progress. Thanks everyone!!

Late but new cards

Hello everyone out there in blogland. I am finally posting some cards that I made. These cards were made for our monthly swaps, which I am embarassed to say, I was way behind in. I am trying my best to catch and keep up. These cards went postal to the November and December rainees. I don't have a large readership (I currently don't have one at all) so I am not worried that they will see them before they arrive. In the event that they do, I apologize. At least they won't know what color they get...lol.

The Thanksgiving card uses a Magnolia stamp. I don't know what it is called. I wasn't thinking when I created the cards. I didn't make a formal "recipe" for making them. I tried to color them with copic markers. I can see I need a lot more practice. I tried a technique my sister suggested (I have to get caught up on the card making techie lingo too). I dabbed the cuttlebug folder with orange ink before running it through my sizzix machine to get the colored background effect. I guess it looks okay. One is different...can you spot the difference?

What does everyone do? When faced with a multiple swap, do you make all the cards the same or do you make different cards for all? Up until now I have been making them all the same except for different colors. I think I will have to change that. If I make each one different completely, I can use up more of the stamps that I have and I won't feel like I am neglecting any.

The Christmas card is made using a stamp from MFT. All four cards were the same, however the clothes were colored differently, as for the decorations on the tree. I don't think they turned out too bad. I didn't use copics on these except to color the flesh parts. I know I cheated. I would love to know what you think.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope to have more to post in the next few days.

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Kerry's Blog Candy

Kerry is offering some blog candy in honor of her blogoversary. Way to go Kerry!! She is being VERY generous. What are you still doing here? Go to her blog and enter.

http://threecloversdesigns.blogspot.com/2009/01/blogoversary-blog-yummies.html

Blog Candy Giveaway

Here is a link to Michelle's blog who is giving away some Valentine's day blog candy. Hurry you only have until January 15th to enter http://donkeysmiles.blogspot.com/2009/01/valentine-blog-candy.html

See what I got?

I am so excited. I got home from work yesterday and discovered that my telephone line and my internet service were both back functioning. I was without service since Saturday. Those being out really put a damper on my plans. Well anywho, I open my emails and I am going through some 3,000 messages I received and what do I see? I received an award from Susan. (gotta make sure I am thanking the correct one...lol) This really made my day. I was smiling from ear to ear. I never thought I would have gotten an award let alone from someone with all that talent. Thank you Susan!! http://www.stampingtink.blogspot.com/ I hope I am doing this right. I have to thank Danni for helping me get this set up. I don't know what I would do without you guys. Now....who to link it to? Everytime I go blog-searching I see so much talent and I am a tad jealous of all of you that you have the determination to create. I am working on it I swear to it. Don't lose your faith in me.









The only one I can think of is my sister Wendi http://www.kaputkrafts.tyepad.com/










Here are the rules:

-Put the award on your blog

-Link the person you received your award from

-You can give the award to how many as you want

-Put links of those blogs on yours

-Leave a message on the blogs you have nominated.



There are a lot of wonderful crafters that are so deserving of this award but Susan already picked them. I don't want them to have to do this twice.

Happy New Year!!

Well it seems like my one of my many New Year resolutions has already fallen by the wayside. I wanted to blog more. I hope to create some later. I will then be able to post. I am just posting now to let you all know (not that many read this) that I am still alive and wish you all a Happy 2009!