Bella Blvd Challenge Week

Monday's Challenge: Use cute cuts on your project. Here I used the adorable witch from Too Cute to Spook.


Monday's Challenge: Use cute cuts on your project. Here I used the adorable witch from Too Cute to Spook.

Tuesday's Challenge: Use pattern papers from 4 or more collections. Here I used papers from Family Dynamix, Finally Fall, Sweet Celebration and Christmas Wishes.

Wednesday's Challenge: Use pattern paper as an embellishment. I used my Cricut to die cut the adorable cupcake for this card:

Thursday's Challenge: Use border strip paper. Here I used the drinks, music notes and party border strip from the Socialite collection.

Saturday's Challenge: Use punched circles. I chose to punch my circles from the flip side of Volleyball from the Making the Team collection which had a variety of circle motifs already.

Thanks for visiting today,

Carol

World Card Making Day Blog Hop Winners!

I want to thank everyone who visited my blog during the WCMD Blog Hop and became a Follower. I really appreciate you taking the time to stop by and leave comments.





Now on to the winners:

The winner of the surprise box of crafting goodies is.....

AmyJ Feb 17, 2012 08:43 AM
I am now a follower. I Love your cards especially the animals....tooo cute. Thanks for the inspiration.

And the winner of the Paper Crafts Magazine March/April 2012 Issue is....

Carmen Feb 19, 2012 10.16AM
I'm now a follower. I love the sneakers card- very cute.

Ladies, please email me (ciaoitalia2007@gmail.com) with your full name and address so I can get those prizes out to you. (Remember: Only US adresses are eligible for the prize box due to shipping costs)

Have a blessed day!

I am the DIva Weekly Challenge #58

If you are here for the World Card Making Blog Hop please scroll down.

For my regular readers this post is a bit different. Recently, I have been exploring other areas of art, including art journaling, drawing and Zentangle. Zentangle, ia a way of creating beautiful images using repetitive patterns that is both fun and relaxing. You can learn more about it here: http://www.zentangle.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=99.

This week I am participating in a Zentangle Challenge on the I am the Diva Blog, http://iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com/2012/02/weekly-challenge-58.html, in honor of the Four Diamonds Fund for cancer patients at Penn State Hershey's Childrens Hospital.

Have a blessed day,

Carol

Basic Grey Use Up Your Scraps Challenge

If you are here for the World Card Making Day Blog Hop, scroll down.

Basic Grey's weekly challenge is to use up your scraps. I just got the new Piccadilly collection and did not really have any scraps yet. So I decided to use a piece of the packaging as my scrap. On the cover of the packaging there are small pictures of each of the patten papers in the pack. I cut a piece of this to make my card front. Now that really is getting my money's worth out of the entire collection pack.


Thanks for stopping by,
Carol

World Card Making Day Winners Blog Hop

Welcome to ScrapHappy Studio and the World Card Making Day Winners Blog Hop! I am glad that you are visiting today. There will be prizes along the way, so, be sure to leave comments for all the participants to increase your chance of winning some goodies!

You should have arrived from the lovely Becky Olsen's Blog.

First off, I would like to thank Paper Crafts and the many sponsors of the contest for such a fabulous honor and wonderful prize package! Believe me, it was just like Christmas when I opened my prize boxes! So fun!

I want to share my WCMD winning entry, in case you have not yet seen it in the March/April 2012 Issue of Paper Crafts Magazine. My card, Hello Foxy, was one of four winners in the Hello/Thinking of You category. I have never won anything like this contest before and was so thrilled when I was informed.

I have been making cards for awhile and began to submit my work for publication about two years ago. I have had one other project published by Paper Crafts Magazine in the 2011 Special Issue, Holiday Cards & More Vol. 6. Here's a picture of that project, a Christmas Stocking garland.


I have also had some projects published in other publications and I thought I would share a few of those with you today as well. I love my Cricut Expression (oh, and the Zing Die Cutting machine I won too!) and I make a lot of cards with the adorable images available. Here's some that were published last year:

If you love this craft as much as I do, I encourage you to submit your projects to magazines and contests. I do not paper craft to win contests or be published but it sure is exciting when it happens, so give it a try.

I hope you enjoyed seeing what I've been up to in my studio. I do have a surprise box of crafting goodies for one lucky commenter and a copy of the March/April Issue of Paper Crafts Magazine for another, where you can see all the winning entries and some other fab projects as well.

Here's what you need to do to have a chance to win:

1. Become a Follower of my blog.

2. Leave a comment on today's post, let me know you are a Follower.

3. Comments close on Monday, February 20th at 11:59 PM PST.

4. Sorry, but due to shipping costs, only US addresses are eligible to win my prize box. Anyone is eligible to receive the complimentary copy of Paper Crafts Magazine.
5. The winners will be posted on my blog on Wednesday, February 22. Winners will need to contact me so that I can get the prizes shipped.

Thanks for stopping by, have a blessed day,
Carol

Now onto your next stop, the fabulous Julie Day

Here's the fulll blog hop order in case you get lost along the way.

Paper CraftsAlyssa ScritchfieldAmber DaigreBecky OlsenCarol BloombergJulie DayKelley EubanksKelly RasmussenLaurie WillisonLisa PetrellaPatricia FolchertSavannah O'GwynnSharon DunnStephanie WashburnTerri DavenportTifany DeGoughTrinh ArrietaVanessa MenhornVeronica Zalis
Wendy Frederick

OR

Paper Crafts - http://www.papercraftsconnection.com/Alyssa Scritchfield - http://critterlyss.blogspot.comAmber Daigre - damasklove.blogspot.comBecky Olsen - http://lifeasathreeleggeddog.blogspot.com/Carol Bloomberg - http://scraphappystudio.blogspot.comJulie Day - www.daydesigns.blogspot.comKelley Eubanks - http://www.myfrontporch-kelley.blogspot.comKelly Rasmussen - http://krcreations.blogspot.com/Laurie Willison - www.soapboxcreations.blogspot.comLisa Petrella - http://bellalistona.blogspot.comPatricia Folchert - www.patriciasperspectives.blogspot.comSavannah O'Gwynn - http://savannahland2.blogspot.com/ {Including Linda Dreiling’s project and giveaway}Sharon Dunn - http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharon_d_from_canada/Stephanie Washburn - http://sweetstephcardcreations.blogspot.com/Terri Davenport - http://terridavenport.blogspot.comTifany DeGough - http://inkblotsbytrd.blogspot.com/Trinh Arrieta - www.cardediem.comVanessa Menhorn - http://wingsofabutterfly-vanessa.blogspot.com/Veronica Zalis - http://lk2thestarz.blogspot.comWendy Frederick - http://happystampingdesigns.blogspot.com/