happy new year & an update to red carpet giveaway

hello! i hope everyone is enjoying their holiday season as much as i am.
i'm planning to post a video on the december red carpet giveaway prize. which will show off all the great loot we're giving away. also it'll announce the extention to this months giveaway. the new end date will be Jan 15th, which will give me enough time to enjoy the holidays and get back to posting a little more regularly.
well that's all for now. . .see you in 2010!
Happy New Year!

SCAT's Red Carpet and SCAT's biggest GIVEAWAY ever!

it's the most wonderful time of the year! i love the holidays, and christmas has topped my favorite's list since i was a kid.
this month's Red Carpet Scrap-Star created one of the most beautiful christmas cards i've ever seen. check out the interview to learn a little bit more about Daniela's scrap-style.

how long have you been scrapbooking/cardmaking
a little more than a year

what was your last scrap purchase?
We R Memory Keepers Crop-a-Dile Corner Chomper

name 3 adjectives to describe your style
clean, symmetric, (with a touch of) shiny

name 3 items you cannot scrap without?
ribbon, rhinestones, embossing powder (lately)

below is one of Daniela's favorite christmas cards. what can i say there's so much about it that i love. i'm so into rhinestones right now, the background stamp is adorable. i love how she used the ribbon, and of course the traditional christmas colors really set the holiday mood. she's so talented. :)









I love this card because I love working with simple layouts, adding one or two embellishments, like rhinestones or buttons.

as promised this giveaway is going to be bigger and better than any Red Carpet giveaway so far. (not quite hard since i only started red carpet giveaway's two months ago-but that's not the point, LOL!)
stamps, ribbon, stickers, rub ons, and more! trust me when i tell you, you want to win this prize, and it's super simple. check out Daniela's blog and come back here and leave a comment telling me what your favorite holiday is and why. you have till December 30th at 12pm PST.

I'M AN AUNTIE!!!!!

i'm a little backed up on my blogging but i have good reason. . . i'm an AUNTIE :) for the first time.

woooo-hoooooo!!!!!!!!!
i'm so excited. this kid is going to be so spoiled. i only have one brother, and i don't have any kids. so this is my parents first grandchild, and my first nephew. he just got here last night. and i can't wait to get off work and get back to the hospital today!

i was planning to post the Red Carpet interview/giveaway for December today, and i may or may not have time. but it'll be up by Monday for sure.

c ya later! well i guess not see you later more like blog ya later since i don't actually SEE you guys. sooooo. . .
blog ya later!

GIVEAWAY ALERT! check this out. . .

one of my favorite bloggers, Jenn Biederman, is having a giveaway! what a great stash- hero arts & purple onion design stamps-what scrapper wouldn't want win this!

as happy as i am to share this info with all of you, i seriously hope i win. :)

check out her blog HERE for your chance at this great prize.

Red Carpet Giveaway WINNER!

one of these day's i'm going to try using one of those random number selectors that i see bloggers use to pick their winners. until then i think my system works quite well. i turn to my husband and say
"babe, pick a number between 1 & 18"
"why?"
"just because"
"what's it for?"
"to pick a winner for my blog?"
"what do i win for picking the number?"
"a happy wife,"
"11"
doesn't get more random than that! so far the system's working pretty well.

and this months Red Carpet Giveaway Winner . . .Jackie!
Jackie said...

Nancy's work is beautiful and this Thanksgiving cards is just adorable! I've been enjoying her work on the Hero Arts Flickr Group for a while.

and when i went to check out her blog i realized she'd created a card that i totally fell in love with when i saw it on flickr. this girls got talent! i hope she can put this HA stamp to good use. Jackie there's a link to email you on your blog so I'll email you to get your address.

thank you all for participating, let's all congratulate Jackie & get ready for the December Red Carpet Giveaway, since it's Christmas time i'm planning on doing a SUPER HUGE GIVEAWAY!

faux stitch mania!

ok i went nuts with a white gel pen, and had a lot of fun making this card. isn't the lil teddy bead adorable? proving my theory that those santa hat stickers can make anything Christmas-y :)

this card is what i like to call vintage shawnte-style since i didn't use any stamping on it. and i didn't start using stamps until i started cardmaking, so anytime i work without stamps it's like going back to my scrap-roots.


so what do i use when i don't use stamps? stickers, stickers, and more stickers. the teddy, santa hat, presents, and snowflakes are all stickers. (the deck the halls is actually an american crafts rub-on)i used a coluzzle to cut the circle around the teddy bear, martha stewards dimensional adhesive to pop that panel up.

thanks for looking.

lucy's color challenge

Lucy's having her first color challenge.The challenge: use the colors soft pink, aqua blue, and kraft cardstock.
I didn't have a lot of kraft cardstock, but i still wanted to participate in the challenge. I love color challenges, they're a challenge but you have so many style/technique options.


this is Lucy's first challenge, and its just for the joy of scrapping not for a prize. and it'll be open until December 1st.



I knew i wanted to make a circle card cause i'm loving my coluzzle right now. i decided to go with a tone on tone look for the background, so i used colorbox chalk ink in orchid pastel on the pink cardstock, and colorbox chalk ink in mint blue on the aqua cardstock with hero arts dot flourish border stamp. i used die cuts with a view rub on stitching on the background. i used fiskars corner rounder on a small piece of kraft cardstock to give it a label look. I used martha stewarts 3 in 1 butterfly punch, and recollections rhinestones on the the butterflies. the flower is a colorbok chipboard flower (that i got in the sale bin at Michael's for $1) then used a marvy white gel pen to do faux stitching on the label and around the base of the card. the thanks stamp is from hero arts trees, birds and messages set.

i had a lot of fun making this card, i'm so glad lucy started doing challenges i look forward to her next color challenge, thank you so much for looking :)