We have a winner!

Time to pick a winner for my 100th challenge blog candy! I had a great response! Thanks to everyone who played along and another big thanks to all of my crafty blogger friends who played along with the blog hop!

So I went over to Random.org and it said:

The winner is Betty Wright and she played along with these two cards! Congrats! I'll be in touch to get your snail mail address!

I'll be back later today with my regular Random Amusing Challenge!

Thanks again and have a great week!

Glenda

Random Amusing Challenge #100

It is challenge #100 and it's time to celebrate! We are going to celebrate in a big way. Several of my fabulous, crafty blogging friends are playing along with my challenge so please be sure to hop over to all of their blogs and give them some love! In addition, there is major blog candy!

The challenge is to use red on your card. You had to know that was going to happen as red is my favourite colour! I trust you'll have no problem with it. Use as much or as little of it as you like. Incorporate it by using paper, ink, ribbon, embellishments, whatever you like! You must play along with the challenge in order to be eligible to win the blog candy. If you play along, please leave a comment here and please link back here from your post. I've set up a link tool so please put your entry in there! If you upload to an online gallery, please use the keyword GRAC100. You have until midnight Pacific Time on January 23rd to play along and you can play along as many times as you like. The winner will be randomly chosen and announced on January 24th. Thanks to Erica and Tina for playing along last week.

Here are all of my fabulous friends who are playing along with my challenge. Please head over and give them some love. Thanks so much to all of these fabulous ladies for playing! Feel so lucky to have a great group of talented ladies joining me today.

• Allison Fillo is Stampin' When I Can
• Allison Miles at Card Metaphors
• Beate Johns is Fresh & Fun
• Belinda Chang Langner at Bleu Bella Designs
• Carly Robertson at Paper in Bloom
• Cheiron Brandon is enjoying My Crafty Life
• Chris Sather at Catt's Scratching Post
• Dawn Stein at Lavender Giraffe
• Donna Hitz is the Frozen Stamper
• Elena Shacochis at The Stamping Shac
• Geeta Suggs, a.k.a. The Crafty Engineer
• Jenn Shurkus, a.k.a {creative chick}
• Jennie Moczan is Simply Caffeinated
• Jill Grace, a.k.a Creative Grace and family
• Joan Jeffery at JJ Creations
• June Gibbons is Perfect Like a Curl
• Kamila Younkman is in Little Scraps of Heaven
• Krystie Lee Hersch is enjoying a Cupcake Martini
• Meghan Fahey is Driven to Ink
• Michelle Clark is creating Sparkle Designs
• Michelle Mathey at Pigment of My Imagination
• Michelle Woerner likes to Stop and Stamp the Roses
• Nance Lempinen-Leedy at Canopy Crafts
• Silke Ledlow at My Life
• Teresa Kline likes to Enjoy the Virginia Sunshine

Here's my card...

Here's a look at the blog candy. It includes A Muse paper and stamps, Flower Soft, Washi Tape, some of the goodies (from Nikki Sivils, Dear Lizzy, Studio Calico and more) I received from Paper Crafts (I wanted to share the wealth!) and other random bits from my craft room!

Hope you have a chance to play along this week! Have a great week and thanks for stopping by. I always appreciate it!

Glenda

Card details:
Feel the joy - 4.25"x5.5"
Stamps: Unity Dream Tree and Feel the Joy
Papers: A Muse white card stock, SU! Basic Black, Echo Park Wintertime - Red Swirls
Ink: SU! Real Red, A Muse black dye ink
Accessories: A Muse black pretty pearls, buttons, PTI Pure Poppy Baker's twine

Random Amusing Challenge 85

Happy Monday! Hope you had a great weekend and a great World Card Making Day. My apologies for the late post... I have been busy prepping for my class at Scrapbook Parade tonight.

The challenge for this week is to do some stitching/sewing on your card or project. It can be real or faux, whatever strikes your fancy. I actually managed to clear off a large enough corner on my craft table to leave my sewing machine set up so I have real stitching on my card. If you upload to an online gallery, please use the keyword GRAC85. If you play along, please leave a comment here and link back to this post from your post. Thanks to Martha, Dori, Katie and one of my crafty girls Jo for playing along last week!

On to the winner of my World Card Making Day Blog Candy. Random. org picked...

Comment #6 is Susie!!! Susie - I will send you an email soon and get your snail mail address.

Have a great week and hope you have time to play along with my challenge! Thanks for stopping by.

Glenda

Card details:
Best wishes - 4.25"x4.25"
Stamps: A Muse Artstamps Wild Rose Branch and Best wishes FL
Ink: Memento Pear Tart and Rich Cocoa, Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Frayed Burlap
Paper: Crate Paper Brook ‘Wild Flowers’ (brown patterned paper), A Muse Artstamps Natural White and Orange Crush
Accessories: sewing machine, cream thread, Basic Grey Button, sponge, A Muse Artstamps Ivory and Chocolate Pretty pearls, paper piercer

All A Muse products can be found here.
(p.s. I know there were 21 comments but Jo's second comment was for my challenge and Jen took her name out of the running...hence the 19)

Happy World Card Making Day (pssst...there's blog candy!)

Happy World Card Making Day! (When I told him, my hubby said "Really? I guess there is a day for everything!") Be sure to make at least one card today! I'm busy with a bunch of other things today (will try to make one card at least) so had my friends Joanna and Liz over last night and we had dinner and made cards. Just celebrated a bit early! Got a few cards made and had lots of laughs, thanks ladies! Be sure to keep reading this whole post to find out about some blog candy you can win!

This first card is for Betsy Veldman's Card Creations Inspiration Challenge (I picked Julie Cameron's card on page 126 and turned it into a Christmas card), the Moxie Fab Word Jolly Holly Challenge and for the Moxie Fab World Offset Scallops Challenge. Thanks to Betsy and Cath for great challenges!

This is for the Embellish Magazine Stamped Background Colour Challenge. I went for a subtle VersaMark background using the A Muse Clear Frames Set. One thing that the picture doesn't show is the shimmer on the white shimmer couture paper. It looks amazing with the dry embossing!

Teri Anderson also put out a challenge on Facebook to use orange or yellow on a thank you card. Splitcoast Stampers has Hope You Can Cling To Challenges for Breast Cancer Month and this one fits for Lori's 'Bring in the Brown' Challenge. I love the patterned paper on this next card, even though it has pink (not my favourite colour) on it. This is also based on Teri's sketch on page 9 of Go-To Sketches Magazine.

ETA - I actually got time to make a card today! It's for SCS Inspiration Challenge 252 (I was inspired by the pattern on this wallpaper) and Rae Barthel's WCMD sketch. Now I have to clean up and get busy with my other non-card making stuff!

Now....in celebration of World Card Making Day....if you comment on this post, you can win some A Muse blog candy from me! You have until tomorrow (October 3rd) at midnight Pacific time to comment!

Have a great day! Check out the WCMD Blog Hop courtesy of Paper Crafts Magazine! If you are looking for some inspiration, check out my challenge from Monday, this month's A Muse Lounge Challenge, and this week's Color Dare!

Thanks for dropping by!

Glenda

Card details:
Merry, Merry, Merry- 4.25"x5.5"
Stamps: A Muse Elegant Winter Clear Set and Lots of Flakes Bl, PTI Communique Curves (designed by my good friend Alli Miles)
Paper: A Muse Natural White and Espresso Shimmer Couture, Bo Bunny (red), SU! Wild Wasabi and Kraft
Ink: VersaMark, Memento Rhubarb Stalk, Bamboo Leaves and Rich Cocoa
Accessories: A Muse Ivory pretty pearls, paper piercer, Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Embossing folder, Cuttlebug, SU! Scallop edge punch

Thanks script - 4.25"x4.25"
Stamps: A Muse Clear Frames Set and thanks script
Paper: A Muse White Shimmer Couture, Papaya, and White, SU! Basic Black and Basic Grey
Ink: A Muse black dye ink, VersaMark
Accessories: A Muse white and black sheer ribbon, EK Success corner rounder punch, D'Vine Swirls Cuttlebug embossing folder, Cuttlebug, Basic Grey buttons

Big Thanks - 4.25"x4.25"
Stamps: A Muse Big Thanks
Paper: A Muse Natural White, Crate Paper (patterned paper), SU! Chocolate Chip
Ink: SU! Tangerine Tango
Accessories: A Muse French Roast sheer ribbon, A Muse chocolate chip pretty pearls, Basic Grey button, EK Success corner rounder punch, 7gyspies Avignon tissue tape

Thank you for everything - 4.25"x4.25"
Stamps: A Muse Thank you for everything
Paper: A Muse White and Swiss Red, Basic Grey Wander
Ink: Memento Bamboo Leaves, SU! NIght of Navy
Accessories: Making Memories button stickers, SU! natural hemp twine, brads, sponge, Scallop blade for Marvy Trimming buddy, SU! mini library clip

And the winner is....

(chosen randomly of course)....MINDYBOO! Congrats on winning my blog candy from my 300th blog post! Please email me with your snail mail address (you can get to it through my profile).

Thanks to everyone who played along and thanks to everyone who stops by my blog. I really appreciate it.

We were on a little holiday this weekend so I don't have anything to share today. I'll be back soon with some crafty goodness. If you are looking for my challenge... it's here. Here's a photo from our road trip though... this is a view from the ferry....

Have a great week.

Glenda

Card Style: Shabby & Vintage

A few of reminders:
- You can win sweet BLOG CANDY on my 300th blog post.

- My Random Amusing Challenge is here.

Moxie Fab World is running four Card Style challenges - Shabby & Vintage, Fun & Cute, Classy & Elegant and Clean & Graphic. I'm doing all four challenges and starting off with the most difficult and moving towards the easiest. The hardest for me is Shabby & Vintage so here's my shot at it. Forgive me, it's not fabulous but like I said, this is a tough one for me.

Thanks for stopping by, I always appreciate it. I'll be back with Fun & Cute tomorrow. Be sure to enter to win my BLOG CANDY.

Glenda

Card Details:
Merci - 4.25"x4.25"
Stamps: A Muse Merci Fl and Wild Rose Branch
Paper: Melissa Frances Designer Paper, SU! Kraft, scrap of lined paper
Ink: Distress Ink - Aged Mahogany and Walnut Stain, VersaMagic Spanish Olive and Jumbo Java
Accessories: Heidi Swapp Distressing Tool, Tim Holtz mini fasteners, sponge, EK Success Binding Edge Punch, SU! Fibers

Random Amusing Challenge 75

Before I get on to this week's challenge, a few things to mention:

- You can win sweet BLOG CANDY on my 300th blog post.

- I am teaching a Christmas Tags class at Scrappers' Anonymous on Wednesday. Details here (scroll down).

My challenge this week is to put ric rac, patterned paper and bling on your card. If you play along, please leave a comment and link back to this post in your post. If you upload to an online gallery, use the key word GRAC75.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a great week and are able to play along with my challenge. Be sure to enter to win the BLOG CANDY!

By the way, just finished the book The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson... what a fabulous book. Highly recommend it - couldn't put it down all weekend.

Glenda

Card details:
Bonjour - 3.5"x5"
Stamps: A Muse Jasmine Silhouette, Bonjour Fl
Paper: A Muse white note card and Green Petite gingham, Xerox Color Expressions Elite white card stock
Ink: VersaMagic Mango Madness, Tea Leaves and Jumbo Java
Accessories: A Muse White pretty pearls, My Mind's Eye Lush Ric Rac, Marvy pink scallop oval punch , Scor Buddy

300th blog post... treat time...

Yes, there are treats to but business first. This card is for the Moxie Fab World Trigger Tuesday Challenge for this week. Thanks Cath for another great challenge.

Still can't believe this is post #300! Seriously? Really? I was a reluctant blogger at first but have definitely learned to like it. It has helped me keep my sanity over the last six months while I've been out of work. Thanks to all of you who stop by! I appreciate all my followers, every hit and every comment. It's what makes blogging worth while. So on to the blog candy, cause I know that's why you are here... I'm going to make you work for it, just a little bit. You can get your name in the draw up to three times and this is how:

- leave a comment about something or someone you are grateful for

- become a follower of my blog and leave a comment saying 'follower' (if you are already a follower that counts too but you have to leave a comment)

- mention my blog candy (and include a link back to this post) on your blog and then come back here and leave a comment saying 'blogged it'

So up for grabs is an A Muse mug, an A*MUSE*A*PALOOZA canvas tote bag, some A Muse stamps, some A Muse pearls, some A Muse paper and whatever else I decide to throw in. You are eligible to enter until 11:59 Pacific time on August 2nd, 2010. Good luck!

I've also been playing along with the Dare to Be Dirty Challenges on Splitcoast Stampers. Check out my gallery to see what else I've been up to!

I am teaching at Scrappers' Anonymous next week so be sure to check out my class schedule for more details!

Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by! I'm very grateful!

Glenda

Card details:
Life is Good - 4.25"x5.5"
Stamps: A Muse Life is good and Scalloped line
Paper: A Muse French Roast, Espresso Shimmer Courture, Vintage Red, Orange Petite Gingham, Kitchen Yellow and white
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories: A Muse Chocolate Pretty Pearls, Fiskars Crimper, EK Success 1 inch and 1 1/4 inch circle punches, SU! natural hemp twine

Random Amusing Challenge #52 - Blog Candy time

Wow - hard to believe this is challenge #52! Thanks to everyone who has played along over the last year. So, as a little little treat, I am giving away some blog candy!

First off, thanks to all who played along with the A Muse PJ party on Saturday. It was a blast!

Thanks to the following fabulous ladies who played along with my sketch challenge last week: Colleen, Michelle, Jill, Jennie, Novell, and Cheiron.

So, for this special challenge, I'm going to make you work a bit. The challenge is two fold: make a clean and simple card and combine it with another challenge. It can be from Splitcoast Stampers, my favourite the Weekend Sketch Challenge, one of my old challenges or from any other place (blog, craft site, etc). Doesn't even have to be a current challenge. Just anything you can find! The 'other challenge' for my card is the Weekend Sketch Challenge #89.

So there are some rules for the challenge:
- you need to leave a comment here so I know you've played
- you need to link back to this post when you post your card
- you need to link to the 'other challenge' when you post your card
- can use A Muse but it's not 100% necessary
- one entry per person
- enter no later than 11:59 Pacific time Sunday January 31st, 2010
- if you upload to Splitcoast Stampers, please use the keyword GRAC52

Oh right, I haven't mentioned what's up for grabs! Well...
- modern wood block stamp
- please join us stamp
- twinkle stickers
- clear stickers
- samples of each shimmer couture paper
- samples of ribbon
- whatever else falls into the package when I send it!

Hope you can play along! Please feel free to tell your friends to play along too! The more the merrier.

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by!
Glenda

Card details:
Stamps: A Muse thanks script
Paper: A Muse white note card, Espresso shimmer couture, Lime damask shimmer couture
Ink: Brilliance Coffee Bean
Accessories: A Muse white pearls, A Muse Lime sheer ribbon, Marvy blue oval punch, Marvy pink scallop oval punch

Random Amusing Challenge #20 & BLOG CANDY

I hope everyone had a good weekend. We were very self indulgent but also very productive. Gotta like that.

Must mention that I am doing a Make n' Take at the Crop for Kenya on May 30th. Scrappers' Anonymous and Treasured Memories will be there too! If you are intersted in attending, please contact Stephanie Cave.

So there's supposed to be something happening today... anyone remember? Hmmm... I'm coming up blank... must have relaxed too much on the weekend....

Oh wait...it's coming back to me...something about a treat (was I going to mention the cinnamon buns I made on Saturday)...no.... was it to mention about the new plants I put in yesterday (that's a treat for me)....

Ok, fine... here it is.... BLOG CANDY time! To celebrate my 20th challenge, I've decided to give away some treats...included in the package will be:
- A Muse hello stamp, note cards, twinkle stickers, some pink tutu and lime sheer ribbon, and samples of the clear stickers
- Stickles from Treasured Memories Scrapbooking (next class this Saturday, April 18)
- Buttons from Scrappers' Anonymous (next class this Sunday, April 19)
- Silver diamond clips from Crafty Capers (next class is Sunday, May 31)
- pink brads

The challenge this week is simple... make a card in 20 minutes (or less). I made my card for this week in 10 minutes. What do you think? Love A Muse's long grass with the mini flower.

So to be qualified to win the blog candy, here is what you have to do (I'm not usually big on rules but this involves winning stuff so must be specific):
1. Make a card in 20 minutes - I'm trusting you on this one!
2. Post your card link as a comment on this post. Entries in the A Muse Lounge won't count. You must put your entry number on your post. Blogger doesn't number the comments. If you post to Splitcoast Stampers, please use the keyword GRAC20.
3. Please mention the blog candy when you post your card and link back here so everyone can play along. Thanks!
4. You don't have to use A Muse stuff on your card this time. Some people don't have any A Muse stuff yet (shocking I know).
5. Post your card by 7:00 pm Pacific time on Sunday April 19. That's 7 pm in Long Beach, California, 8 pm in Regina, Saskatchewan, 9 pm in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 10 pm in Youngsville, North Carolina, 11 pm in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 4 am April 20 in Brugges, Belgium, 5 am April 20 in Petra, Jordan, 10 am April 20 on the Great Wall of China and 12 pm April 20 on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The winner will be chosen at random after the deadline.

Thanks to these fabulous ladies for playing last week! This weekly challenge (and the blog candy) wouldn't happen if it weren't for all these creative people playing along! Check out their amazing "scrappy" work.
Anne, Cheiron, Kerry, Michelle, Donna, Dawn, Debbie, Becky, and Analyn.

Have fun playing along! Hope you have a very creative week... be sure to smile and be thankful for how fortunate you are... Glenda

Card details:
Stamps: A Muse long grass, mini flower, and hi, friend.
Paper: A Muse Kitchen Yellow and Grass, vanilla and black card stock
Ink: A Muse black dye ink, Memento Lady Bug and Cantaloupe, SU! Old Olive
Accessories: A Muse Swiss Red and Papaya stitched grosgrain ribbon, Spica gold and red sparkle pens