Blog Candy Winner!!!

This is my second post for today, if you are looking for my take on Tim's July Tag or my entry in the Collage Monthly Creative Challenge, please scroll down! Thank you!

Thank you so much for playing along for the Frosted Designs July Blog Hop 'Quotes' Challenge! Over at FD, they have announced the 2 winners for the overall hop who won some great prizes! Just case you were playing along and you didn't have time to check that out...the post is here. Congrats to Leah and Bridget!! 

Okay, now for the winner of my blog candy... I really enjoyed reading all your comments and hopefully getting some new followers to my blog and fb page, I will be checking out all of your blogs in the coming days. As promised, Random.org chose the winner:

True Random Number GeneratorMin: Max: 

Result:

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That means that Joefil Cate, you are the blog candy winner!!! Congrats! Please email me your address within the next few days so I may get this package off to you! You won't be disappointed with the goodness...I have also included some 12x12 papers that aren't pictured here! 

Welcome to the Frosted Designs 'Quote' Blog Hop~ July 26- July 31

Welcome to the Frosted Designs Quote Blog Hop!

We are so glad you could join us!!!

You should have joined me from Sandee's blog, don't worry, there's a list at the end in case you get lost along your way! There are 7 wonderful and incredibly talented hosts 

that will inspire you, along with

2 awesome sponsors!!!!

 Our first sponsor is Artful Delight.

Artful Delight is a monthly scrapbooking and card kit club designed to bring you the latest and greatest scrapbook products.  Our kits are jammed packed with fabulous pattern paper, coordinating cardstock, chipboard shapes, ribbon, buttons, stickers, and so much more from manufacturers like Pink Paislee, Fancy Pants, Crate Paper, American Crafts, Basic Grey, Tim Holtz, and Graphic 45, just to name a few. We try to keep scrappers and card makers in mind when creating our kits.  Allowing our kits to have to most versatility.  Our scrapbook kits will allow you to create at least 4-5 layouts.

Artful Delight monthly kits are offered at an amazing single monthly price , and  at 3 and 6 month subscriptions, our 6 month subscription will give you the best value. We offer shipping to the US, Canada and Internationally.  (For Canadian and International orders please email leeanne@artfuldelight.com)

One lucky winner will receive their choice of Artful Delight's August Scrapbook kit or card kit.

Our second sponsor is Words or Whatever.

 Words or Whatever was created as a subsidiary company to NEIL'S TIMBER SIGNS after purchasing a laser engraving machine.  Words or Whatever is run by Suzanne and Neil Webster on the lovely Central Coast of NSW.

We can cut chipboard in both 1.2mm and 1.8mm, MDF from 3mm to 25mm thick, acrylic, felt and cardstock.  We specialise in custom orders that have no minimum quantities.  Please don't hesitate to contact us with your requests.  We can also provide custom made items exclusive to individual stores at no extra charge.  Do you want something in particular?  Well just ask us!!  This means you can offer this service to your customers so they can order their children's names or individual titles for their pages.

One lucky winner will receive their choice of 15 pieces of chipboard.

So without further ado, here are the details of the blog hop!!!!

1. You need to hop to every blog on the list.

2. Leave a comment on the Frosted Designs blog telling us that you completed the hop.

3. Complete a Quote project and link it up to the inlinkz on this post!  

Your project must contain all or part of this quote:

"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."  Author:  Laura Ingalls Wilder

For my project using this amazing quote, I decided to step out of my regular project of layouts and do a chipboard mini album! I had some fantastic pictures from our first trip to Cannon Beach, Oregon last month and it just reminded me of this quote. The simple things in life- sun, sand, waves crashing, salt water taffy, good local seafood. That is why I decided to take on this project! It took me a little longer than I had planned but I am really happy with the way it turned out! Check out my photos here! WARNING: THERE ARE ALOT! LOL

If I had the time I would sit here and list all the products and items I used, maybe one day I will go back and add them all! It was so much fun jumping back into making minis! I feel some major mojo going on right now!;) And as a thank you to my loyal followers and new friends, I am giving away a little rak of my own...check it out:

Lots of fun embellishments in here, even some homemade tags and also a few things I put together myself. I realize its kind of a girly color palette so sorry if you have boys :( 

All you have to do to be entered to win this fun stuff (plus a few more things not pictured- like paper!!!) is

#1 leave a comment on this post about whether you are a faithful reader or new friend, also with your email included so I may contact you afterwards

#2 be a follower of my blog on blogger or google plus

#3 Please go "LIKE' my fb page: https://www.facebook.com/vvcrafts

The winner will be drawn by Random.org on August 1st! Good Luck and Happy Hopping!!

Your next stop on the hop is Joni: http://www.joniparkerstuff.blogspot.com/

 If you get lost on the way here is the order of the blog hop:

Debbie  http://lovelifeslittlepleasures.blogspot.com/

Sandee  http://inthehillsofnorthcarolina.blogspot.com/

Katie http://www.vintagevixencrafts.blogspot.com/- you are here

Joni  http://www.joniparkerstuff.blogspot.com/

Tamra   http://www.tamrascraftypapercreations.blogspot.com/

Lydia  http://www.kiwimumscraps.blogspot.com/

Anita  http://theflamingochronicals.blogspot.com/

Artful Delight  http://artfuldelight.blogspot.com

Words of Whatever Facebook Page(pleaselike) 

http://www.facebook.com/messages/1449051252#!/wordsorwhatever?fref=ts

Frosted Designs "Quotes" Blog Hop July 26- July 31st

Hi there blogger friends!

I am very excited to announce that there will be a third blog hop hosted by Frosted Designs' awesome Design Team coming up in just 12 short days! The Design Team over at Frosted Designs are a talented bunch of ladies that will be hosting.  There will be some wonderful prizes up for grabs!!!!

Our third and final blog hop will kick off at the end of July, and will be running from July 26th to July 31st, so make sure to mark your calendars and be ready to make some beautiful scrapbook projects, and of course win some AWESOME prizes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will be giving away a small rak of my own, so stay tuned for projects and how you will can enter to win!!! :) It's gonna be a good one! 

Frosted Designs May Blog Hop!!!

Hi there blogger friends!

I am very excited to announce that there will be three blog hops hosted by Frosted Designs' awesome Design Team.  

The Design Team over at Frosted Designs are a talented bunch of ladies that will be hosting.  There will be some wonderful prizes up for grabs!!!!

The first one will kick off at the end of May, and will be running from May, 31st to June, 5th, so make sure to mark your calendars and be ready to make some beautiful scrapbook projects, and of course win some AWESOME prizes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

black&yellow......this ones for you CJB!

Hi everyone! I am in an exceptionally good mood tonight....for several reasons. For one, I just poured myself a nice glass of Merlot...for two I finished my LO for the Get Picky Birthday Blog Hop Challenge last night, and for three, I start my 10-day vacation in 9 days!!! YEAH!!! Can't wait for it to get here. This weekend we have a friend from Chicago staying with us so I have lots of little house projects to finish up...pretty much just cleaning and straightening...one major project I have left though is sewing couch cushions for our sleeper sofa that I have decided to recover. Hoping I can finish that tomorrow at work. Well any-who, enough of my babbling on. I did manage to finish this layout last night pretty late ( I think I was up until 2:30am) I don't know why I couldn't sleep...I went to Micheal's to exchange some stuff and I saw these cute satin yellow flowers with feathers and they really inspired me..from there I just pulled together a few new things and papers I already had and VOILA! A layout I'm extremely happy with! Especially since it features wedding photos I took at one of my best friends' weddings, Crystal and Chris :) on June 13,2009. I have been wanting to scrap them for a while just never really had an idea for them. I hope she likes the LO.... all I know is I freaking LOVE the color scheme...black, white, yellow, cream, brown, olive, and tan. It totally works and it's not a normal color scheme for a wedding layout. This was the original sketch from Get Picky, and this is what I did!

Here are some pics:

Basically I used the sketch above and added a third photo instead. Also my circle is smaller than the original sketch, but other than that I stayed pretty true to it. I added thicker paper strips along the bottoms of the photos as well. Other techniques I used are inking, and also for the fabric flower I made it from a scrap of fabric, twisting it around ( 2 long strips) then putting a large paper circle on the bottom with large glue dots to hold it together. I found that the fabric itself was a little too white, so I distressed inked it with Tim Holtz' in tea dye. Also I liked how the edges of it were kind of frayed. These pictures really don't do justice to how beautiful this LO is in person!!! Here are some closies:

I hope everyone enjoys their evening! I know I sure will...going to eat some of this yummy lasagna and salad and drink my wine while Jimmy watches the world series... then probably get going on another challenge!!! Feeling creative again after this post ;) Until next time my lovelies:) ~VV

Supply List:

Basic Grey Paper and stickers "Origins' Collection

1 Black paisley photo mat from Creative Memories Halloween 2010 pack

American Crafts- Elegant Vinyl Embellishments 'Townhouse' black&white

Jolee's boutique dimensional stickers- small yellow satin feather flowers

Colorbox Chalk Inks (cat eyes) Chestnut and Butterscotch

Tim Holtz Distress Inks 'Tea Dye'

Scrap of black&white damask upholstery fabric

vintage buttons

stick-on pearls

black tulle

white sticker letters- K&Company