Flashback Friday 9.0 Highlights!

Hi ya!!!!

Just wanted to pop in quickly and remind you that Flashback Friday 9.0 ends THIS Friday at 11:59 pm PST!!!!

Would love to see you link up!!!!

Wanted to leave you with another fab entry in the 

**first card you have posted with a window cut into the front of the card**

Radwa linked up her FUN rabbit card...you have to go check out her blog to see how many windows this sweet card has!!!

Flashback Friday 9.0 Highlights!

Hello!

I thought I'd sneak in here and randomly pick a couple projects that have been uploaded for Flashback Friday's window challenge...

First up is this pretty card by Arielle~SnappyStamper 

 

Check out all the fun windows she has on this card!  Sooo very clever and the colors are super!!!

Next is Ashley N Newell!

Now how fun is this pop up card?!  You just gotta read the story behind the card....very SWEET.

Keep them coming ladies!!!!!!

Flashback Friday 9.0!!!

Okay, I know I ALWAYS say this at the start of a new challenge but #9?!!!!  

I'm so very thrilled to tell you that I have

Julie Peterson, Stampin’ Up! independent demonstrator

as our Flashback Friday 9.0 Sponsor!!!

Check out the SWEET prize package:

Stampin' Up Sweet Stitches Designer Series Paper

Stampin' Up Sweet Stitches Rub-Ons

This is my FAVORITE line up in the newest mini.....how can you resist it?


My new Guest Designer is the Dynamite Jana!

Hi, I’m Jana Dee. I am a mom to 3 girls (2 teens and an 11 year old). I am married to a great guy. He makes me laugh and keeps me connected to reality. Because I need it.

I don’t have an art background. No formal training. I wasn’t allowed to take art classes in school because my parents steered me toward math and sciences. I have an engineering degree, but switched over to finance because the engineers where I work travel for months at a time, and I like being home with my kiddos. Although, now that there are 2 teenage girls, maybe I should rethink that whole traveling thing. Just kidding. I love my life. Most days.

I have ALWAYS loved to make things. My husband and I share a creative space. We converted the formal living room and dining room into his Hobby Room (he makes model airplanes) and my Studio (I make really big messes). So he kind of “gets me”. Cutting and glueing are in my blood. I can be found on any given night with inky fingers, or paint on my arm, or glitter on my forehead. My kids have grown to accept this. Sometimes they even play with me. I love it when they do. I am not the world’s greatest artist just waiting to be found. I create things because I love it. I really love it when I can create useful things.

This week I picked a card. Because they are fun to make, beautiful things and they are useful. Win-win-win. 

Here is the first card I posted with a window cut into the front of the card, which happens to be this weeks challenge:

Yahooooooo Jana!!!!!  What a FUN challenge and sheesh, could it get any cuter with a cupcake and the color orange, I don't think so:)

So there you go my friends, Flashback Friday 9.0's challenge is:

**first card you have posted with a window cut into the front of the card**

So I searched my bloggie archives and found this to be MY first window card:

originally posted December 2007

Hmmmm....not bad:)  Scary thing is, I still have that Paper Zone pink stuff and probably the K&CO paper too!!!

Soooooo...there you have it!!!!  Can't wait to see what you link up!!!!

 

Flashback Friday 8.0 Winner!!!

I wanted to do a big Flashback Friday shout out to our Super Sponsor of 8.0:

Nikki Sivils!!!!

Check out the sampling of the prize that the Flashback Friday 8.0 winner will receive....

A big bloggie woot woot to the oh-so-lovely Karin!

What a fun 3D Challenge...I loved seeing everybody's projects!  I was truly inspired!

We had a great turnout for 8.0....I used Random.org to pick the winner.  So what does the winner win?  Winner Win...say that 10x really fast....

They will receive:

Nikki Sivils Prize Package

Guest Designer for Flashback Friday 9.0

Pick the challenge for Flashback Friday 9.0

Now how fun is that?

Ready?

The winner of Flashback Friday 8.0 and the Guest Designer for Flashback Friday 9.0 is:

Jana D!!!!!!!

Yahoooooooooooooooo Jana!!!!!!

This gal didn't just post one fab project but two fab projects...I'm highlighting her paper project...check out here blog for the other magnificent 3D project that she linked.

Okay ladies....thanks sooo much for playing along....I hope that you had fun with the challenge, I certainly did.  If you haven't had a chance to check out the linkies, you really should...they are all so wonderfully inspirational!!!!!

We'll be back on Friday, March 11th with Flashback Friday 9.0....there is a FAB new Sponsor lined up and for those of you that know Jana....you'll know that she'll pick a FUN new challenge!

reminder about Flashback Friday 8.0...

Just a quick reminder that Flashback Friday 8.0 is wrapping up tonight at 11:59 pm PST!!!!

Have you had a chance to click on the linkies?  I thought I'd share one last random 3D project that was posted:

Now how clever is this??!!!!!  Thanks to the lovely Jennifer that shared her wonderful Cake project!!!

Woot Woot to Nikki Sivils, who is our Flashback Friday 8.0 sponsor!!!

Also, a huge bloggie shout out to the fabbie Karin who picked the fun 3D challenge and has joined me in Flashback Friday 8.0 as my Guest Designer!

YOU could be the Guest Designer for Flashback Friday 9.0 that also gets to pick the next challenge and is the lucky duck that wins the Nikki Sivils prize package...all you gotta do is link up and cross your fingers that random.org picks ya:)

The winner will be posted Saturday morning:)

Thanks to everybody for the wonderful support!!!



flashback friday 8.0 highlights!

Well, can you believe that there is only 1 more week for the Flashback Friday 8.0 Challenge?

My Guest Designer, Karin, certainly picked a fun 3D Challenge!

I've been so impressed with the projects...I decided to use random.org to pick out a couple to highlight...and to inspire:)

Nancy of The Trinket Collector shared this gorgeous project:

I know, I gasped too!  It is like a fairy tale shoe...sooooo pretty...the delicate touches are perfect!

Amy of Amy's Bobbles had this fun altered jar to share:

Pickled Fingers...gotta love that!

Tammy of The Stampers Cottage posted this fun album:

Such a classic color combo and one of my favs too!!!!

Soooo much fun and sooo many inspiring projects!

Why don't you join in the fun....you could win a great prize package from our Flashback Friday 8.0 Sponsor, Nikki Sivils...

The winner of Flashback Friday 8.0, ala random.org, also becomes the Guest Designer for Flashback Friday 9.0 and picks the Challenge!!!

Tons'o Fun...sooooo link up!

Flashback Friday 8.0!!!

I'm sooo very thrilled to announce the unveiling of Flashback Friday 8.0!!!!!

A big shout out to ALL of you that help make the challenges fun with your participation and lovely comments....

I'm super happy to reveal that Nikki Sivils is our Sponsor for Flashback Friday 8.0!!!!

Check out this f-a-b-u-l-o-u-s Prize Package:

Goodies from Nikki's Sugar Cookie Line!!!!!!

Make sure you check out the Nikki Sivils blog for TONS of inspiration...she has a killer Design Team...chock full of super TALENT!!!!

Thank you soooooooooo much for the Sponsorship!!!!!!!!!

Next up is my wonderful Guest Designer for Flashback Friday 8.0:

Karin!!!!

 Hi!

  I'm Karin Åkesdotter (Peppermintpatty) with my dear husband Mikael and wonderful son Ted:

 I have been doing arts and crafts, sewing, drawing, painting, papercrafting etc. etc. for as long as I can remember - driving my mum crazy with new projects every day!   So it was no surprise that I chose that path for my career and studied arts and crafts with a focus on textiles for 5 years at a university and have now been teaching textile crafts/needle work for 15 years ( 0-: - time flies).

It was not until last August that I began blogging about my papercrafting. It all started when I saw a cute little altered birdhouse at our local scrapbooking store and went home to see if I could find a template on the internet.  I hit something called Papertrey Ink and a whole new world of bloghops, challenges, color cues etc. opened up to me.   I think I entered my first challenge in late August 2010 and screamed with delight after getting my first comment (HI and thanks Amy Kolling if you're reading this (-:) and after that I was TOTALLY hooked!!!

So my suggestion for this month's challenge is: 

***First 3D project ever***

Here's my birdhouse:

Woooooooo hoooooooooo for Karin....good grief could that bird house be any c-u-t-e-r??!!!!

Such a fun challenge....3 D projects.....I can't wait to see what you all share....

Here's mine:

This is a project that posted in November 2007...I think that peeps really didn't notice my altered tin, but were more interested in the Haiku Bunny image:)  Pretty sure I haven't inked it up since...2007...haha....

Anywho's back to the 3 D project, it was my first altered altoid tin and ugh, check out my snazzy cutting {not to mention the photog}...YIPES..makes me C-R-I-N-G-E...a little giftie set for my Momma...the tin was filled with Starbucks cards...she gets them every year for her birthday and Christmas...might sound boring but the woman goes there 7 days a week!  {this is where I insert that my coffee addiction comes naturally...I blame my Momma....okay so she sits in Starbucks for a couple hours and nurses 1 cup of drip {maybe if she's living on the edge she'll have 2 cups} and reads her book....me on the other hand would have probably slugged down SEVERAL cups of drip in a couple hours...}

Okay....show us what you got!!!!!