Bev's Whiff of Joy Blog Candy

Bev is offering the above Whiff of Joy blog candy with some other yummy goodies. Checkout her blog and take your time admiring all her handiwork cause there's lots to admire. Bev will draw a winner on Dec. 4th.

Artfully Ila's Blog Candy

Checkout Ila' blog here for wonderful inspiration and for a chance to win some High Hopes and Magnolia stamps. Doesn't it all look just yummy and wait til you feast your eyes on her creations! Ila will draw a winner on Dec. 3rd. Congratulations on your 100,000 hits Ila!

Kristine's Blog Candy

Here's 1 of the 2 prizes Kristine is giving away to celebrate her blogoversary. She is one very talented lady so visit her blog here. Congratulations Kristine!

Kari's Blog Candy

Kari's sponsoring this wonderful blog candy. Do you see the gorgeous new Papilio stamp?! Checkout Kari's blog here for more inspiration.

Award

A big hug and thank you to Bernie at Craftyb for giving me this award a few days ago. You are the best! Receiving this award has been the highlight of my week.

The rules for passing this award are:

1) Winner may put award on their blog;
2) Put a link to the person who sent this award to you.
3) Nominate 5 blogs.
4) Put links to their blogs.
5) Leave a message for your nominees.

Nominating is always the hard part because there are soooo many of you that are sooo talented. I'd like to pass this award onto Jeanette, Carole, Rach, Aud & Claudia.

Support for Cancer Research

I'm very slowly getting back into the swing of things but I won't be posting everyday. My time is split between school, work, homework, piano, swimming, basketball, hockey, housework and finally slowly organizing my craft materials. My hobby/obsession has overtaken 3 rooms in the house and I've got to get everything into 1 and in an orderly fashion - what a job!

Onto today's card: The picture was taken really really late last night and the weather is so dreary today that this is the best I could do in a rush. Isn't the new Tilda Ice/Ballet Princess from Magnolia's 2008 Pink Collection just adorable? Funny story about this Tilda - I went shopping at the Town Scrapper about 2 weeks ago but didn't come home with this Tilda. Well, you should have heard my girls. They were so disappointed I didn't take them along cause I was assured this Tilda was no. 1 on their list of 'must haves' - lol. Good thing Phebe still had 1 so I went back to pick Tilda up and bring her home for my girls - ok for me too. This is 1 card in a series of 5 that I'll be donating to Phebe to raise money for the fight against Cancer. Such a worthwhile cause and helping in this small way makes me feel like I'm contributing somehow.

It took me a long while to come up with the idea to use these flourishes (Sissix die) to frame a seat for Tilda. I'm pleased with the simplicity of the card and hope you like it too.

Thanks for stopping by and for your kind supportive comments.

Hugs,
Maria

Bernie's Blog Candy

A short post today to let you know about my friend Bernie's wonderful blog candy here. She is a super sweet lady whose blog I visit regularly. Hop on over to her blog Craftyb to say hello. Make sure to have a cup of tea on hand so you can take your time ooohing at her beautiful creations.

Happy Sunday. Hugs,
Maria

Blog Candy

Elaine over at My Creative Corner is celebrating her 40th birthday by giving away some ProMarkers. How generous is that? These are great markers and they would find my home very welcoming. Pop over to say hi to Elaine and view her wonderful creations.