What a happy, happy day. Nothing but smiles for you today and some exciting news...here we go!
How about a GIVE-A-WAY! Lime Tart and Odd Bird Planet have a wonderful treat in store---here is a message from Johanna:
"We have a double-double-dose of exciting news for you this month! Not only are the fantabulous Lime Tart kits now also available for shipping directly from the US, the A La Tarte kit this month is filled with things that are especially near-and-dear. The stamps in July's A La Tarte were designed by our very own Teresa Abajo. Teresa is on both the Lime Tart and justjohanna's Odd Bird Planet design teams, so you're probably already familiar with her design work. Her new stamp designs are gorgeous! There's a banner of the cutest little triangle flags, and a matching frame that's perfect for photos, sentiments, addresses, stamp scenes... so many possibilities!
And if that's not goodness enough for you, the papers featured in July's A La Tarte are from the Daisy D's Wonder Years line, designed by Johanna's friend Stephanie DosReis. To celebrate all that is good this month, we have an original painting by Stephanie, which incorporates some Odd Bird Planet stamps, that we'll be GIVING AWAY!"
Hooray! Isn't that painting adorable---I am in awe. Boy, it sure would look sweet in my little girl's room...sigh...nevertheless...I'm out of the running---but you're not! All you have to do is:
Go to http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1101442660947
and register to receive the newsletter, then link the news on your blog if you have one (no problems if you don't) then come back and comment on my blog to say it's been done. I'll pick a winner randomly on the morning of July 10th and away you'll go with this sweet painting---lucky girl!
Also, I have a sneak peek of somethin' pretty pretty for you. Webster's Pages is showing bit of one of their new lines here, and trims and journaling cards are making their debut at CHA too!
Let's see...next on our agenda tonight is to give you all big old "knock the rock"---I saw that several of you entered your beautiful creations in the Paper Crafts Gallery Idol contest---yaaay for you! Now the fun begins. So happy you gave it a shot. I think you're wonderful.
What else to share---this is what I did today.
For my mother-in-law. She is home recovering from shoulder surgery after just having both of her hips replaced all within the last 6 months---she wanted something to make her smile and brighten things up each day---so she picked out the daisies and the containers and let me arrange them---LOVE this color---LOVE these Gerber daisies--they make me smile. Anyway, today the sweetest little package arrived at my door---2 loaves of my favorite bread...Granny Sycamore, and a bottle of Pure Vanilla extract---I'm a simple girl and this was such a kind gesture on my mother-in-law's part. We live about 2 hours away from civilization :)---so it's hard to get some of the simple pleasures here---and anytime she goes out of town she brings me back my favorite bread. The vanilla is to feed my every growing fetish with baking and baking and baking---very thoughtful and certainly reminded me that little things mean so much.
Now...and I promise I'm all done...my sketch cards for the week---
For the Sketch This blog--can you tell what my favorite color combo is lately---red, white, and blue---I'm a patriotic girl through and through. My sweet husband is even more so. The love he has for his country is about the only thing that will bring him to tears...that and running out of Dr. Pepper :) Lots and lots of American Crafts here---paper, ribbon, and rubons.
And, my card for the CPS blog--
All from my beloved Melissa Frances stash---more make-me-happy kind of stuff---those darling fleece hearts are from American Crafts..
If you're in the mood for a little light reading and some pictures to boot---I've created a button tutorial for the CPS blog here.
Man, I'm chatty tonight---time to get to work!
Night.
Melis