Today *might* be your day... *giveaway* time

Happy Friday! I hope it's your day... and, it's my day, over at Paper Made Bakery.  Here's a sneak...

I realized that this is my 800th blog post... WHAT??? That's crazy.  Can't believe it!  So I decided to do a little *giveaway*!  I'm giving away the Paper Made Bakery March Kit, Signs & Symbols. Bright colours, washi tape, cute stamps, buttons and wood veneers... a bunch of my favourite things!

You have until Sunday night, April 14th at 10 PM, Pacific Daylight time to enter.  You just have to leave me a comment and tell me a random fact about yourself.  My random fact about myself? I would love to swim with a whale shark... it's on my to do list!  Here are a few more random facts...

Hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Thanks so much for stopping by.
Glenda

Missing out

Happy Monday!  I'm missing out on the Paper Made Bakery blog hop and kit reveal today because my kit didn't come in the mail. :(  That doesn't mean you have to miss out though.  Be sure to click over to Paper Made Bakery and check out the amazing new kit!  You can enter to win some goodies below!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Have a great day,

Glenda

Two winners!

Time to draw for the Seasons Givings Blog hop:

My first winner for the Travel giveaway never claimed it and I had no way of contacting her so I'm drawing another:

I have sent emails to both of the winners.  Congratulations ladies!
Have a great week,
Glenda

Seasons Givings Blog Hop

 

Happy 2013 and welcome to the Seasons Givings Blog Hop!  This hop is going to be a little bit different, in the fact that every single person on the list below, is giving something away.  All you need to do, is go to their blog, and leave a comment.  Really, really easy.

So, this is what I am giving away.  I have a bunch of 'extras' from my Jillibean Soup card kits as well as some other goodies, including the Jan/Feb issue of Paper Crafts Magazine!  There is paper, stamps and embellishments! You have until Saturday, January 5th, midnight Pacific time to comment and win!  Be sure to check back on January 6th to see if you've won.

Now grab a cup of coffee, or tea, or maybe some hot chocolate, whatever your favorite is, and start hopping.

Here is to starting off the year 2013 in a fun way!

Paper Crafts Magazine

Kelly Marie Alvarez/Lawn Fawn

Unity Design Team

Avocado Arts

GinaK Designs

Latisha Yoast

Lee Murphy

Laurie Schmidlin

AJ Otto

Michelle Woerner

Jocelyn Olson

Cindy Lawrence

Amy Tsuruta

Jessie Rone

Karen Baker

Lori Tecler

Jodi Collins

Kim Kesti

Tosha Leyendekker

Lisa Henke 

Tonya Dirk

Ann Cox

Jimmi Mayo

Cristal (Pinky) Hobbs

Vera W. Yates

Jennifer Gallacher

Emily Leiphart

Lori Craig

Melody Rupple

Kim Hughes/Paper Smooches

Lynnette Kauffman

Beate Johns

Ashley Marcu

Becky Olsen

Jessica Diedrich

Alice Wertz

Joanne Basile

Carolyn King

Teri Anderson

Isha Gupta

Melissa Mann

Lydia Fiedler

Beth Pingry

Jaclyn Miller

Glenda Wyatt (you are here!)

Julia Stainton

Angie Blom

Sharon Harnist

Karolyn Loncon

Julie Overby

Tenia Nelson

Emily Branch

Windy Robinson

Keri Sereika

Thanks so much for stopping by!  All the best to you and your family for 2013!

Glenda

Card details:

Happy New Year - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps:  PTI Communique Curves, A Muse Studio tini time

Paper: white card stock

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Hero Arts Cerulean

Accessories: Xyron Create a Sticker, Martha Steward Green Beryl glitter, A Muse Studio star twinkle sticker, Scor Buddy

And the winner is...

I'm a little bit late posting this today but had to go get our Christmas tree.  I know, super late, but it's fabulous and it was cheap!

Let's see who Random.org picked for my travel giveaway....

Congratulations Sandi!  Please email me your snail mail address so I can mail the stuff out to you!  You can find my email address through my profile information in the sidebar.  You have 10 days to contact me or I will redraw.

Thanks to everyone for entering!

Glenda

For the love of travel giveaway....

It's my turn for "My Favourite Things" over at the Card Maker blog.  As you may know, I love, love, love travel themed products so that's what I am talking about today.  Here is a sneak peak of one of the cards...

As an extra bonus, some generous sponsors have donated some fabulous travel products for a fantastic giveaway!  Here's what I have up for grabs:

Avocado Arts

Zip n By to Say Hi stamp set

Coordinating digital die cuts for the Zip N Buy Stamp Set 

Smitten With You

BoBunny

Sampling from Detour collection

My Favorite Things Clear Stamps

Die-namics You Move Me and Stamp Set

Heidi Swapp

Product pack of from No Limits

Ormulu

Sampling of Tree Hugger Collection

Paper Smooches

Get Outta Town stamp set

Unity Stamp Company

Travel Notes

Destination Happiness

On this Journey Together

To be entered for this giveaway, tell me where you would like to go on your next vacation.  I have so many places on my list but I think Thailand, Laos and Cambodia are next on my list!  You have until midnight, Pacific time on Sunday December 23rd to enter.

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great week.  Wishing you love and peace in this time of chaos.

Glenda

WCMD winner!

The winner of my World Card Making Day prize.... Perpetual Bliss from Paper Smooches... is....

 

Congratulations Miriam!  I'll be emailing you to get your details very soon.
Have a great day,
Glenda

Thankful for World Card Making Day - *giveaway alert*

Happy World Card Making Day!  One of the best days of the year!  I'm going to do my best to get a couple of cards done today and I hope you can too.   I'm participating in the Paper Crafts Magazine's blog tour.  For the complete list of blogs, click here.

It is Thanksgiving here this weekend so I thought it would be appropriate to share a thank you card.  I'm using the Qwick Qwips set from Paper Smooches to make this modern and funky thank you card.  The care incorporates a bunch of my favourite things - red/kraft/black/white colour combo, washi tape, veneers, postage stamp dies, patterned paper and mini staples.

To celebrate WCMD and say thanks for stopping by, I'm doing a little giveaway. I'll randomly draw a name from the comments to win a the Paper Smooches Perpetual Bliss stampset. You don't need to be a follower (although that would be nice, too!), but you'll need to comment to win. Please comment by Wednesday night, midnight Pacific time (10/10).  ETA - if you are posting anonymous comments, please be sure to include your email address so I can contact you if you win!

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you have a creative day!

Glenda

Card details:

hey thx - 4.25"x5.5"

Stamps: Paper Smooches Qwick Qwips

Paper: A Muse Studio Red Chevron, white and black card stock

Ink: Stampin’ Up! Real Red, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Studio Calico veneers, Tim Holtz mini fastener, (washi tape) Queen & Co washi tape,  Jillibean Soup envelope, Spellbinders Postage Stamp Nestabilities, ProvoCraft Cuttlebug, Copic Lipstick Red marker, Memento Tuxedo Black marker

We have a winner

My "100 followers" winner is:

Congrats Priya!  I've sent you an email.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend,
Glenda

Travel, treats (a.k.a. giveaway) and thanks

First off, Happy Thanksgiving to my many American friends! We celebrate Thanksgiving in October in Canada and I was lucky enough to spend it with several of my family members.  Wherever you are, I hope you are spending it with the people you love. {Note: this is going to be a long post, be sure to read all the way to the bottom, it will be worth it... there *might* be a giveaway at the end!}.

I recently spent almost two weeks in New Mexico with my hubby (who was on a work trip).  Thought I would share some of highlights through some photos I took (warning: photo overload ahead).  For the full group of photos, check out this flickr set.

We started in Albuquerque which has a fabulous little Old Town.  Love the colours and design.

It is on historic Route 66 and there are some fabulous signs, both neon and traditional.

All along the way, we ate amazing spicy food (green and red chiles - YUM!), drank locally made wine and sampled several of the local microbreweries.  Hitting local microbreweries is something we try to do everywhere we travel.  Sometimes it's not a successful venture... this time it was...

We had a weekend to drive around a bit so we stopped at the Carlsbad Caverns (AMAZING!)...

...a quick stop in Roswell, because we are science geeks...

...the Valley of Fires (amazing lava flow - 3 km wide and 32 km long)...

...the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge...

...the Very Large Array, centre of radio astronomy (because we are very large geeks)...

...the Rio Grande Gorge... we stood on the bridge near Taos, 200 metres above the river... wow...

Settled down again in Santa Fe, centre of art, food (including home-made guacamole - YUM!!!) and colour...

I'm working on doing a page for my blog that has travel recommendations (food, drinks, hotels, crafty shops, tourist stops).  I'll let you know when it's up.

Now on to the exciting part of this post.  I've reached 100 followers so I think it's time for a GIVEAWAY!  Now, I'm still gathering things together for this so the final box will have even more than is in the photo!  The only thing you have to do is leave a comment here on this post and tell me what you are thankful for.  If you are not a follower, I would love for you to become one (see the right side bar) but it's not a requirement to win. I will pick a random winner next Friday, December 2nd, Saturday, December 3rd.  A big thank you to all of my followers and all of those who leave sweet comments.

Have a great day.  Thanks for stopping by.

Glenda