Christmas in July & Miscellaneous Winnings & Giveaways

I am so ELATED and smiling all day after receiving this package. Today I received my big order from All That Scraps in my mailbox. I ordered over $200 worth of rubber stamps and designer paper. Yikes, I did ask hubby and he said ok and I usually don't make such a big order, but All That Scraps were have 25% off last week, so I couldn't resist. I ordered over 16 Magnolia stamps. I haven't order any Magnolia stamps for awhile now, last time I ordered was the club kit (fall kit) which was directly through Magnolia in Sweden. I also purchased 5 Whiff of Joy and 2 TGF (Ebony and Hugh) which looked like Alice and Jasper from Twilight. I went to see Eclipse with my husband (so sweet of him since he has no interest in the movie or book) and it was great. I can't wait till New Dawn comes out. This is one of my BIGGEST purchase ever for rubber stamps. I purchased over 20 rubber stamps. I have to say that right after I got the package, I started to mount them in EZ-mount for the WoJ and cut the rubber from TGF. Good thing the Magnolia's are all trimmed and mounted otherwise, I will be spending hours cutting.

I want to mention that I made Top 3 at Paper Sundaes for last week's challenge (birthday), you can see the badge on the side bar. I just won $20 gift certificate for Stamp and Create Challenge #2. I just found out that I won the Bella send a card at Stamp Something. Please continue to send cards to Bella. You can get Bella's address at Erin's blog and she is giving a grand prize away on July 20th. Stamp Something, Paper Sundaes and Stamp and Create are having new challenges, come join the fun. I am super lucky and happy this week =). YEAH!!! Super great week for me. I don't know if I will have time to play any of the challenges this week before leaving for vacation. I am taking a stamping class this Sunday to celebrate A Muse A Palooza 2010.

Whiff of Joy is having its day 7, stamp per day giveaways. All you have to do is promote this giveaway and enter your name.

Crystal is have Thrusday Trades (Swaps), this week is Martha Stewart lattice, leaf, and hole punches. Crystal is having a blog candy from her last week's trade. If you like to trade with her or enter your name for the blog candy, just click on my side bar to get to her blog.

Paper Sundaes Blog Hop with a PRIZE!

Paper Sundaes is having a celebration to feature their sensational sponor calendar - packed full for 201o. They wanted to thank all of their sponors, followers, challenge participants, and visitors with a prize. There are 7 ways to win this prize. Check out Paper Sundaes blog for instructions on how to win this new Hanglar & Stanglar stamp:

Paper Sundaes Challenge 12

I haven't won any Wags n' Whiskers stamps, so I am entering into the Paper Sundaes' challenge to try to get some free Wags n' Whiskers stamps. I just adore those new released stamps, they are so darn cute. I will continue to play until I win some new released Wags n' Whiskers stamp otherwise I will just have to shell out some money to get them.

This week's challenge for Paper Sundaes is a sketch from Christine. Here is my card. I used Hambo stamps for the image and the sentiment. I had it for awhile now and haven't have time to play with it. This stamp and the saying is just hilarious. I finally inked it up couple of days ago. Stamped on Gina K Pure Luxury 120lbs white cardstock. I love Gina K's PL cs, they are just fabuluous especially this 120lbs, super thick, no leaks through the back and it is very smooth to color with Copics. Did I tell you I am addicted to those Copic markers? I need to buy more colors, but will wait until have a a little more spending more. The designer paper is from DCWV - Boy Nursery and Scenic Route.

I am giving this to my office manager's husband. He helps us with all the repairs at the clinic, so I thought this card is just so fitting. I didn't stamp inside the card because I need to ask my office manager if she wants me to stamp a birthday saying inside. Here is the inside of the card.

Onto more personal news, I took my cat, Lay into the vet for a dental cleaning. This is first teeth cleaning after 13 yrs. We should have done it earlier, but after his brother's experience with the dental cleaning about 5 yrs ago, it scared us, because that vet gave him too much anesthesia and almost killed him. This vet we have been using for 2 yrs now and the veteranarians are great, very knowledgeable especially since Lay is diabetic. Lay also got 2 extractions and off course tons of tartar removed and hopefully his breath will smell better. Lay is recovering really well.

Deeds:

stamps: Hambo stamps

ink: Memento Tuxedo black, Stazon Gray, Copic markers

paper: Gina K PL white, PTI chocolate, DCWV dp and green cs, AMUSE wood dp, demin blue - unknown

accessories: Nestabilities, brads, ribbon, spica pen

Blog Challenges

Good morning Tuesday. This is going to be a quick post as I need to take my cat, Kutsu to the vet. He hasn't been feeling well. I took him to the vet last Thursday and they said he has minor asthma, so they gave him a shot & said it should work for 5 days & then his asthma should slowly disappear. Well, its been 5 days and last night he kept sneezing like crazy. I call the vet this morning to get an appointment.

I wanted to play with more blog challenges this year. This is the card I finish yesterday night. Sorry about the bad photos, I taken them last night around 12AM. I missed up at the end when I was trying to glue the twine around the sentiment and the glue pour out everywhere including on the card. It is hard to see it on the photograph, but you can see it in real life. I will have to improvise the card to hide the mistake on the card when I am mailing it out. I wanted to play Anyways, this is a Wags 'n Whiskers's stamp and this week's challenge is to use Hearts on the Wags 'n Whiskers's blog challenge. Also, Stamp and Create is sponoring the first sketch challenge on Paper Sundaes. I used the sketch and the hearts for this card. I colored the image w/prisma with OMS. I have been playing w/my copics so much lately, my prisma pencils are feeling neglected. I used my old stash of designer papers I had for years. I want to mention that Stamps and Create carries Wags 'n Whiskers and is currently one of my favorite online craft stores. They carried all the stamping company's I love like Whiff of Joy, Stampavie, The Greeting Farms, and etc. They currently has the Stampavie pre-orders which are just adorable. Also, their stamps are usually 10% to 20% off and free shipping for purchases over $55. Before I say "good bye" for today, I want to thank Lacey, owner of Stamps and Create for the free heart charms (the charm I used on this card). They are beautiful, I love them.

Deeds:

Stamp: Wags 'n Whiskers; sentiment - unknown

Ink: Memento Black, Ice Blue Colorbox chalk

Paper: Gina K pure luxury base cardstock; DCWV; unknow dp

Accessories: Prisma color pencils, OMS, oval & scallop oval nestabilities; heart buttons; Twine; heart charm