True's Blog Candy

True from True's Gift's from the Heart blog is not offering one but two blog candies. To celebrate her becoming a DT for Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot she is offering blog candy 1 (see side bar) with a super nice variety of Cuttlebug embossing folders. If that is not exciting enough, she also just received word that she will be a Detail Sneak Peek Artist for the Clear Dollar Stamp's Design Team. Which means she put together another blog candy (see side bar for blog candy 2) to give away to one of her faithful blog followers.

Congratulations True on your wonderful news! Now blogging friends, take this time to not only check out True's blog candy and enter to win but to also check out all of her wonder papercrafts posted on her blog. Don't forget to leave a comment for her on her blog to show her some love and to send her some congrats.

Steph's Blog Candy

A few weeks ago I saw a link on another person's blog to check out Where'd All My Money Go?! With a blog by that name, I knew I had to check it out and glad that I did. Steph has some wonderful card designs and projects posted to her blog that you are gonna love. She also posts about things happening in life like purchasing a car. Something she has never done before!

Steph also is doing something special from now until August 28th, since she has reached over 25,000 blog hits. She is running a blog candy for a $150 gift card to the place of your choice. All you need to do is post about this blog candy on your blog and then link to her blog for a chance to win.

If you don't have a blog, still go and visit Steph's site as she has some great projects to share with everyone.

Fluttabyz - Blog Candy

I just wanted to let everyone know about Leanne's wonderful blog candy. To celebrate her move to Dubai and more than 5,000 visitors to her blog, she thought she would offer some very tasty candy!

You have two ways of winning. Make a post to your blog and link it to her blog and/or become a follower of Leanne's blog by Sept 1st. Check out Fluttabuyz for your chance to win and to also see some of Leanne's wonderful card creations.

TGF free stamp/set

Just leave a comment whenever you drop in to the TFG blog for a chance to win a free stamp/set of your choice. Winners will be announced the following day.

Leave a comment on the TGF blog for you chance to win!

Fruity Challenge

As part of the cards DT for Scrapbooking and Crafting Friends we were asked to create a fruity card using this cute watermelon & black bird digi stamp from MyGrafico. The digi stamp was inserted into Word, reduced in size, copied several times, and then cut apart. I then colored using Copix markers and enhanced the watermelon seeds with Plaid's Dimensional Magic.

Doesn't the watermelon look good enought to eat?

Misc Cards

Since I haven't posted in a while and I promised some new cards, I figured I would post a few cards that I have made but never got around to posting for previous challenges.

The first card was for a tag challenge. We had to use a tag somewhere on our card. I took a piece of pattern paper and attached it as a pocket to a white card stamped with "happy birthday". The tag was stamped using a Hero Arts "Happy Birthday" stamp and silver ink.

The next challenge was to make a card without using a stamp. This was hard for me, but I managed to use a few die cut flowers with stems & buttons and on pre-printed congrats card.

The last challenge was to use a digi stamp of your choice somewhere on a card. I don't know where I found the digi stamp, it was in my collection of saved downloads. The outside of the card is using the watermelon die cut from Sizzix.

Hope you enjoy!

Awesome Customer Service

You know, people love to share when they get horrible service but hardly ever talk about getting terrific service. So I wanted to share a great experience I had over the weekend.

Just recently I order from Shimmerz and wondered why my order was taking a little longer than normal. They are a family run business and I thought perhaps they went on vacation or someone was sick, but just wanted to double check. Not only did they respond to me within minutes of my inquiry, they discovered it was a problem with PayPal; they never received my order or payment. Well as quickly as that a new order was placed and I received a personal e-mail from the owner Stacey saying they were expiditing my order.

Not only do they have awesome products, but they also have awesome service for their customers. So the next time you receive excellent service from someone, let them know. Or even better, let their manager know how much you appreciate them.