Really Reasonable Ribbon's Anniversary Giveaway

Really Reasonable Ribbon's 3rd Anniversary is this month.  They are giving away $100 worth of gift certificates!  To enter, visit their blog at:  http://reasonableribbon.blogspot.com/2012/12/rrr-3-year-blogoversary-giveaway.html for the details!

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great day! 

Too much stuff, too little room....

Happy Tuesday!  Hope everyone is having a great week so far and all of you out there with kiddos have had a great start to the new school year!

I feel like it's Christmas with all of the boxes waiting for me when I get home from work every day. I'm trying to figure out where to put it all (I have taken over the spare bedroom-uh oh!)! 

This past week, I got in:
**The three new lines from Simple Stories (Take a Hike, Harvest Lane and Handmade Holiday)
** Teresa Collins new Christmas Cottage Line
** Little Darlings and Saturated Canary Stamps
** Carta Bella Alphalicious Line

This week, Echo Park Very Merry and a few other goodies.

Check out the website to order any of the wonderful new products www.scrapdidiliumptious.com !

If there is anything you are looking for that you don't see, send me an email and I will see if I can get it!!  mandy@papercraftsandmore.com

Thank you very much for stopping by today.

Have a fantastic week :-)

Mandy

CHA Products are Starting to Arrive!!

As you may know, CHA was a few weeks ago.  I was lucky enough to be able to attend with two wonderful friends.  We were able to look at some awesome new companies' products (Little Darling Stamps, Carta Bella, and many more)  as well as the new releases from our favorite companies (Graphic 45, My Minds Eye, Little Yellow Bicycle and more).  We came away from the show with our brain churning and some wonderful new products on the way. 

The first shipment of new products arrived last week (part of the Prima order) and another shipment arrived this week (Crafter's Companion-- Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers).

So far, I have added over 20 new products to the online store.  We will be receiving shipments from Carta Bella (Alphabet Junction and Christmas Day lines), Some goodies from Glitz Designs, Simple Stories and some other awesome lines/companies' products. 

Be sure to stop by and check out the store www.scrapdidiliumptious.com .  My goal is to get the stuff added within 24 hours of receiving it. 

If you are local and see anything in the store you would like, feel free to email me at mandy@papercraftsandmore.com with your order and I can meet you somewhere so you won't have to pay shipping fees!  (For local customers, I can accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover as well as checks.  For direct website purchases, you may use Pay Pal to pay).

Hope everyone has a wonderful Friday and a fantastic weekend :-) 

Mandy

A Co-Worker's Goodbye

Hello!  Happy "Hump-Day".   I hope everyone is having a great week!

I wanted to share a card I recently created for a co-worker who decided to leave and move back to her home town.  After working with her for a total of about 15 years and knowing her for over 20, I wanted to create a special card for her. 

I used Copics to color and a Mo Manning Digital Stamp.  Thanks for stopping by!

Exciting Times!!

Sorry I have been MIA again!  I have been super busy at my day job and have been staying SUPER busy at nights working on my Scrapdidiliumptious website, upcoming classes I'm working on teaching alongside my wonderful friend, Dolores Johnson (check out her blog at scraphappensbydj.blogspot.com).  I have also been very, very busy thanks to my dear friend Angie of angieenglishphotography.com.  She is a photographer as well as graphic designer.  She does the "whole" package--pictures, creating invitations, etc.  She has entrusted me by sending her clients my way to "complete" (or as she calls it "bling it up") their wedding invitations.  I am meeting with my third bride-to-be on Monday to show her some ideas I have to "bling" up her invitations that Angie has created. 

I'm at a "retreat" weekend with some gals this weekend and am working on putting together some extra invites one of last week's clients needed as well as trying to get the creative juices flowing for Monday's invitation "meet and greet". 

I am working on getting accounts set up with a few more vendor so, I will be able to offer and sell more product from a wide variety of vendors.

Super exciting things coming this way!

Have a fantastic weekend!!!

CutCardStock.com Giveaway

This awesome online store (that just happens to be located here in Indiana), is having a Valentine's Giveaway on their website.  I placed an order for some envelopes a few weeks ago and was super impressed with their awesome customer service and speedy delivery time!

Stop by there to check it out and enter to win!

http://cutcardstock.blogspot.com/

Kiddo Crafting Weekend

This past weekend, my little "niece" came and visited me on Friday night for craft night!  We made her goody bags for her classmates.  We had a blast!  We made Reindeer food and decorated the containers..  Whimsie Doodles had the Reindeer Food Tags available to download for free (www.whimsiedoodles.com).  I printed out some tags from www.scrappindoodles.com  for the Candy Cane holders (LOVE THEM) and we also made M&M treat bags with a Christmas Tree/Scalloped Circle Topper.  

Lauren thought she was big stuff because we stayed up until after midnight working!  We ran out of time and didn't have a chance to make her teachers' gifts.  So, I whipped up something pretty quick Sunday night for her two teacher's and her sister Lilly's two preschool teachers. I was super excited with how they turned out!  My wonderful husband found this app for our Lexmark printer that I can print out handwriting practice paper.  I remembered that and voila--the idea for the treat pails formed!  Lauren's teachers get the ones with cursive and Lilly's teachers get the print.

I purchased this awesome "Teacher" stamp set from My Favorite Things (www.mftstamps.com) that I used on the top of the pail.  I also had some seed packets that I made a sleeve for to use one of the other stamps on it. 

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look! 

I wish everyone a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Hugs,

Mandy

La-La Land Crafts--Sunny Christmas Marci

Memory Making Crafts recently started carrying La-La Land Crafts Stamps and Cindy was offering a special--join the challenge, get a La-La Land Stamp half off if you agreed to create a card and post by today and you get to choose the line of stamps to use for next months challenge.   I chose Sunny Christmas Marci. 

La-La Land also has a customer gallery you can post to and they choose one card a month to win a prize!! So, I'm linking my card to them as well!  ( http://lalalandcrafts.blogspot.com/p/customer-gallery.html)

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!

  http://lalalandcrafts.blogspot.com/p/customer-gallery.html

MIA Again!

Sorry I have been MIA again!  Things have been crazy for me at my daytime job and I have been working a lot of extra hours. I thought that when I only had one job that I would have a TON of spare time on my hands.  Boy was I wrong!  That just opened the door for more challenges and exciting things to be able to happen at my day job.  Everyone that knows me, knows that I'm always up for a challenge! 

I have been able to paper craft a little bit more.  I have joined a card club that has 17 members.  We meet once a month and swap our cards.  There is a designated theme for each month and we make X# of the same cards (one for every member able to attend).  This month's meeting was my initial meeting.  It was a blast.  I'm thankful that my friend, Russell thought of me when a position came open and let me tag along with him!  There are so many talented members of the group and I can't wait to learn new techniques and share everyone's creativity! 

And I used my Cricut Imagine for the first time to make my cards for this month--whoo hoo!  I love the fact I can print paper at the touch of a button!!!

This weekend, my husband and I are going to Cincinnati for a weekend getaway (going to go see the Reds Friday night and then piddle around Saturday and Sunday!).

Next weekend, I get to take a Gamasol blending technique class on Friday night and then a card class from the wonderful, Sarah Spencer, CTMH consultant. 

August 6th, my friend Brittani and I are holding another Crop for a Cause charity scrapbook event.  The chosen charity is Meadowstone Therapeutic Riding Facility located in Franklin, IN.  It is a horse riding center that specializes in helping children and adults with developmental disabilities.  It is owned by a retired husband and wife team that relies soley on donations to stay in business!! We have 6 more spots to fill.  If we can do that, we will have 40 people.  We are so excited!!!

Hopefully I can post more frequently!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed things slow down a bit so that I can fuel my passion--Paper crafting!!!!!

Have a great day!!!

Mandy

Yay!!

My Summer Fun book I shared earlier this week is featured on May Art's Blog for the contest entries today.  Please go visit and "vote" for my project! 

http://www.mayarts.com/blog/


Have a great day!!

Mandy

May Arts Back to the Beach Challenge

A month or so ago, I saw a post on May Arts Facebook wall stating they had a few more spots in their Back to the Beach Challenge.  They wanted  beach themed ideas and asked you email them a list of ribbon you could envision using in your project and what type of project you'd do.  I emailed Bethney with my idea and she responded that I got one of the last spots. 

I was amazed at the ribbon they sent---I got about 12 different ribbons to use in my project.  I submitted it last night and it will be featured on their website blog one day this week.  The winner of the challenge will get 4 spools of ribbon--yippee--more ribbon!!! I'll post the day that I'm on the blog so you can help "vote" :-)

7 Kids --Heart Challenge

I'm entering this card in the 7 Kids Challenge for the week-

For this card, I used my new Tilda with Heart, Copic Markers Spellbinders die, misc I "heart" U stamp and some handmade paper roses.



Valentines Day Cards

Howdy!  Sorry I haven't posted in a while--I've been busy creating!  This post is going to be pretty short--I injured my shoulder and it's pretty painful to do anything that requires my left shoulder/hand so, it's a little hard to type!  Here are the cards I was able to create this past week/ weekend.  I used my an older Stampin' Up stamp, new High Hopes Monkey stamps and my new Magnolia stamps (have a few more cards to create with some more Magnolias).  Let me know what you think :-)

I was going to list these on Etsy but, due to me not being able to type much, I'll have to wait till later to do that--I guess I can list them as Anniversary or "I love you" cards instead of marketing them as Valentine's day!

Have a great day.

Mandy

Scraproom

Good evening!  I spent most of the beginning of the month organizing my scraproom in my spare time.  It was OUT OF HAND! The mess I had.  While I have it somewhat organized, I still have a few hours of intensive organizing to get it to where I want.  Here are the pics I took of what it looked like before I started making a scrappy mess!

Thought I'd share these for now!  Once I get the closet cleaned out and organized, I'll post a picture of that as well ;-) 

Have a great evening! 

Watermark

YAY!! I'm so excited!  I finally learned how to add a watermark to a picture!  And one of my favorite online stamp stores--www.whimsystamps.com offers digital watermarks for only $5!  I was able to find a design that went with my custom "handmade by" stamp that I had ordered from them!  Now I just have to get busy an finish taking pictures and writing descriptions for all of my stuff I have in a box ready for Etsy :-)

Here's my "practice card" that I did my watermark on.  Now I just have to work on my picture taking environment (My DH is going to build me a little "studio" for the stuff to have a picture taken on) :-)

I'm going on Saturday to my childhood neighbor's house so that her wonderful daughter can teach me some photoshop tricks and help me create a new banner for my Etsy shop and blog that matches my business cards :-)  I'm so excited to learn!! 

Better get to bed--have a good night.  Hopefully more to come this weekend :-)

Hello!! Sorry I've been a stranger

Hello everyone!  Sorry it has been so long since I have blogged--things have been crazy.  But, I've been able to quit my part-time job and be abel to focus on my full time job (which I have been putting in extra hours) and on my crafting!!

I'm trying to catch up on all of my blogs and stumbled accross this one that is having a Blogiversary give-a-way!  Check this out!!  http://reasonableribbon.blogspot.com/2011/01/really-reasonable-ribbons-one-year.html#comment-form

Off to the airport to pick up my father-in-law.  Hope to post more tomorrow :-)

New Blog I found

Happy Sunday! 

Check out this awesome new blog I found--she is going to go "live" this Tuesday with Tips and tricks!  Plus she is going to give fabulous giveaway each week :-) 

http://toptiptuesday.blogspot.com/2010/07/welcome-candy.html

Hope everyone is having a fabulous weekend!

Mandy

Sorry it's been so long...

Sorry it's been so long since I've been on here but, I have lost track of time over the past few months!  With work, work, and more work and a few weekend trips here and there, I haven't had much time to scrap or card make and I have been a coloring fool lately and have neglected the scrapbooking I am supposed to be completing for gift giving! 

I have always loved to color as a kid and even as an adult--it is therapeutic to me!  So, when I was introduced to the Copic markers, I was hooked!  Since then I have been Copic Certified and am hopefully going to be able to take the intermediate certification soon!  I have been "collecting" and stamping Magnolia stamps (they are wonderful to color) from Sweden.  My Copic collection has increased to almost all of the colors I want (only a few shy of the about 300 colors that were on my wish list) :-) 

I am attaching a few of my cards I have made using Copics and some new stamps my friends and I have gotten and stamped for each other as well as some other new products such as Flower Soft and some new flowers I have gotten recently!!  (Sorry the picutres aren't organized very well--I'm still learning! )

Hope you all have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by!  My goal is to try and blog at least twice a week until I can get on here more regularly!

Mandy

So much to do so little time!

Sorry I haven't posted in forever! I've been working about 70 hours a week and haven't had time to even clean my scrapbook room up to walk through! 

I was finally able to take a break and escaped for the weekend to the Creative Hideaway retreat for our do-over of our no electricity weekend in February.  It was a FABULOUS weekend!  My goal was to get some scrapbooking done but, I made the mistake of taking my Copic markers and Magnolia and Riley stamps with me.  SO, I ended up making cards all weekend instead.  However, I did get 18 cards made and have been diligently trying to get at least 3 listed a night on Etsy!  I've ended up selling more cards at work than anywhere.  And I was even asked by our secretary to create a card for a wonderful co-worker who is retiring.  I'm going to try and upload a post for that.  Our president asked that I create a professional looking card that some how encororated our company logo into it.  I was frantic trying to figure out how to do this.  But, my wonderful mother had a poem already created that I was able to change a few words to use for the inside wording and I found a card map from Becky Fleck (http://www.pagemaps.com/) that I though would be perfect.  It turned out wonderfully!!

I was able to play with my new MuddPuddles product this weekend that I purchased from CreekBank Creations (http://www.creekbankcreations.com/) and made an awesome few cards using the Mailibu Sand with a High Hopes Stamp and the Golf Green for Riley the Moose Golfer Stamp (I'll have to post the pictures later--they are on a different computer). 

I also ordered some new Spellbinders (on Friday) from Flowers to Flourishes (http://www.flowerstoflourishes/) and they arrived yesterday so, I was able to use them on the above card. 

I was so excited to get so much done (even though it wasn't what I intended to get done)!

Gotta go now--will post more later!

Copic Class

Good morning!  Hope everyone had a wonderful week!  Mine was great.  I was able to take the day off work from my full-time job yesterday and attend a wonderful Copic Class.  I had already been certified but wanted to take the class again to sharpen my skills to be able to work with one of the other certified ladies at my part-time job to make a class curriculum and teach Copic Classes!  I was able to meet some really wonderful ladies as well as learn a few things!!  I brought home a long list of blogs and websites to check out! 

I haven't had much spare time this week to craft anything but, hopefully I can get some more cards made and posted on Etsy in the next few days!  I am secretly hoping it rains all day so that we are "stuck" inside and I can play in the scrapbook room :-)

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!!