Gorgeous Card - Just in time for Fall!

You have to check this card out - found it this morning while I was checking out the results of the Paper Smooches Blog Hop - isn't it gorgeous?!?!?!?!

http://justgivemestamps.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/09/caseing-moe.html#tpe-action-posted-6a00d83548bc0253ef015435b50dc0970c

Paper Smooches Blog Hop

Check out the chance to win *THREE* *FREE* stamp sets from the very talented Kim Hughes at Paper Smooches. I just opened up the first sets that I had bought in the summer and made some fun cards - forgot to take a picture of them before I sent them away for a swap that I was in :( Maybe someone in the swap will send me one in the mail!!!!

But anyways - the sneek peeks on the DT's blogs are SUPER CUTE! So hop on over!

http://papersmooches.blogspot.com/

Oh My Crafts and Cricut

They can't sell them anymore???? What's up????
I just logged on because I am looking to upgrade to a Cricut expression or Cricut create - I just realized, with my new Art Philosophy Cartridge from CTMH, that my 'little' cricut doesn't cut anything smaller than 1" - the other ones go down to 0.25" and up from there in increments of 0.25". I thought they just went bigger. There are lots of options with this cartridge and the coordinating stamp sets for smaller items and I want to access them all!!! So if not Oh My Crafts - then where???????

Have a great day!

Here is a totally sweet and simple layout from Leigh that you can totally scraplift this weekend!
http://scrappingeverydaymiracles.blogspot.com/2011/09/friday-praise-post_09.html?showComment=1316185937304#c6225142110916561073

Special offer for CTMH this month!

We have an awesome offer for September - a DOUBLE D-sized stamp set - FREE with a purchase of $82 to celebrate National Stamping Month!!!! I'll be putting an order in mid-September so if you want anything - let me know!!!

Our Stamp of the Month is super cute too! Check it out!

Winner!!!

Lara S. is the winner of my little contest!! Thanks for playing along!!!

Giveaway!!!

I have to confess that I have a guilty habit (pleasure) of buying magazines - any kind - gossip rags, beauty and fashion mags, home decorating, fitness and of course - scrapbooking ones! In fact, just before I went on holidays, I picked up the current copy of Scrapbooks etc - one of my perennial faves! I like it so much I even subscribe to it!!! So that means I now have 2 copies!!

So if you want one of these, just leave a comment here by September 1st telling me what you like about the new catty and its yours!!!!

New Ida Book For CTMH Fall/Winter 2011 Is Here!!!

And the Cricut cartridge and coordinating chipboard and stamps are better than I ever dreamed!!!

So some of the highlites include cardstock-weight patterend paper, smaller more affordable paper packs, lower pricing to qualify for the SOTM (but no free option for the SOTM), cardstock 'shade' packs (but that means that we lost the single color pack cardstock except for a couple in each 'family'), rub on's, felt and canvas shapes instead of sticker packs with some of the paper packs.

One downside is (in my opinion) is that CTMH took away the 'color code' at the top of each page. I found that very helpful when I was trying to 'scraplift' a project or layout. Now it is a bit of a guessing game or I have to log into the consultant site and look it up in a recipe file that we have.

So all in all I am very excited about this catalogue - can't wait to share it with you! There is a great special on for August 15th to September 30th - stay tuned!!!