Blog CANDY!!! (mine this time!)

I am getting close to 10,000 visitors so it is time to start some blog candy!!! All you have to do is post on your blog about my blog candy (include a link back to my blog) and you will be entered to win some GREAT stuff! The more people that check out my blog, the sooner I will hit 10,000! Crazy - that seemed soo far away when I hit my first 1000!!! LOL

I have just started collecting items for the candy, once I have it all together, I will post a photo!!! It will be AWESOME, as my "THANK YOU" to you all who have taken the time to read my entries, leave me such fabulous comments, and actually come back for more!!! LOL

Have a great day!!

EDITED TO ADD: If you don't have a blog, that's ok too! Just leave me a comment here with your email address and you will still have a chance to win!!!

Bee thanking you.....

I made this card for my sister Cindy and her family for having us out at their cottage last week. Her kitchen is going to be decorated with yellow/black/bumblebees so I thought this was appropriate for her! The base is yo-yo yellow and the stamp is from Stampendous. The flowers are from my "collection" of primas & the black brad is from the Dollar Store! I used Crystal stickles on the bee and the flowers and crystal effects on his wings. I scalloped the bottom of the card with my corner rounder. This card is
5 1/4" x 5 1/4"

Thanks for stopping by!!! :)

A couple High Hopes cards....

My jungle stamps from High Hopes were feeling a bit neglected so I thought I would sit and colour a whole bunch. I finally got to use them up. This first card is Stretch the giraffe. The card base is Really Rust and the other layer is More Mustard - sponged with Really Rust ink and run through the Cuttlebug with the Mesh folder. I used a jumbo eyelet with a Fire rhinestone brad inside (both from SU). Stretch is coloured with koh-i-nor pencils and gamsol. The sentiment is also from High Hopes and is inked with Really Rust.
This is Samson, also from High Hopes. He is coloured with koh-i-noor pencils and gamsol too. The card base is Garden Green and the DP is from Arctic Frog - Lilly Pad collection. The sentiment is also from High Hopes and was inked in Garden Green. I used a jumbo eyelet (SU) and some green thread I had in my scraps bin! This card is 5 1/4" x 5 1/4"

Retro Funky Tilda

This is a 6 x 6 card - thought I would try a different size card! The base is Taken with Teal (SU) and the DP is from TAC (Frutti Fusion). I also used Elegant Eggplant paper and Taken with Teal ribbon. The primas are from my HUGE collection! The rhinestone brads & others are from Michael's. I paper pieced her dress and coloured the rest of her with SU markers. The skin tone is a Tombow marker I just picked up on a recent "road trip" with my friend Lorinna (HI!!) After I took the picture, I realized she was "floating" so I added some grass under her feet.

A few pics from my trip!

Here are a few pics of my trip to BC. We were on Shuswap Lake. So much fun!! My sister and her husband have built a "cottage" out there, and spend most of their summer on the lake! Here is their cottage - not a bad little shack eh? They are so lucky!!!
This was our first "pit" stop in Golden, BC. This is me, my nephew, my sister Cary and their dog Sunny.
Here's me in the boat!
This is Margaret Falls, it was a little hike to it, but it was so gorgeous!!!
This is my sister Cindy and her son, trying to get to the cave in the middle of Margaret Falls....crazy! That was as far as they made it!! LOL This is my niece feeding a llama at a farm. They had little bags of feed for the animals.
Bear cub paw print on their garbage bin. We never saw a bear but apparently there were 2 Moms and they each had 3 cubs...glad we never ran into them!!!
This is me swimming from the boat to this really cool waterfall. We walked around it for a bit, exploring, but the water was COLD!!!! Brrrrrr Here is the waterfall we swam to. Neat eh? There were so many cool places to explore along the lakes - it was fun!!! We went to a Corn Maze in Salmon Arm, BC. It was incredible - 10 acres of corn, with a maze cut through it. It was pretty neat but the mosquitoes were terrible!!!

Hope you enjoyed the photos!!! :) Thanks for visiting!!!

I've been tagged!!

I received this fab award from my good friend Deb. Deb & I met in our SBS4 sisters group, and we started a yahoo group together for our sisters..it is so fun to work with her!! She is such a kind spirit!!! Thank you so much, I am thrilled to receive it from someone as talented as you!!!

Here are the rules
1. Only 5 people allowed.

2. 4 have to be dedicated followers of your blog

3. One has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.

4. You must link back to whoever gave you the award.

Quite simple really it is a way of saying thank you to those who take time out for wonderful comments to boost your day. I REALLY wish I could award this to everyone...but I'm only allowed 5...but in my mind, you are ALL winners of this award!!! :)

So I award it to:

1. Tracy - she has become one of my closest friends online, I just wish we lived closer!!! She is also a fairly new blogger but her stuff is FAB, so go check her out!!!

2. Kelly L - she too has become one of my closest friends online - wish we could just hop the fence and stamp together! SO talented this girl is!!! Kelly is also one of my SBS4 sisters.

3. Marcia - another talented SBS4 sister, lives in Australia, so she is WAY across the pond from me!! Marcia always leaves such heartwarming comments on my blog!!

4. Kristy - Amazingly talented scrapbooker.....love all her layouts! Kristy also lives in Australia, and always leaves such kind and sweet comments too!!!

5. Seleise - another SBS4 sister, who always has a kind comment for me! You are truly an angel Seleise!! Seleise was featured in the newest TAC catalogue so you KNOW she is talented!!

I'm home!!! and THANK YOU!!!!

What a trip!! It was so fun, but I'm exhausted!!! The weather was great the first 4 days, then it was cloudy and overcast..but that didn't stop us from hitting the lake!!! We got a few wicked storms at night, but that just made the water warmer!!! I sure missed home, Tim, Brick and Tux!! Brick was so happy to see me, I got a zillion kisses!! I had about 257 emails to check, lots of snail mail, and am now starting to hit the blogs! I have to find my camera, upload 230 pictures I took, and then I will post some!! Glad to be home, and itching to CREATE again soon!!!

Thank you to all who have left comments on my blog while I was away, it was so heart warming to come home and read them all....you gals are the BESTEST!!!! I promise I WILL get back to blogging as soon as I get a good night sleep in my own bed without my 7 year old niece talking in her sleep all night long, and my 4 year old niece screaming out in the middle of the night!! (ACK!!)

Nighty Night!!!

Rainy Day thoughts and a golfer's notebook

Another notebook with Tilda! This image was given to me awhile ago too, but I think I must have her now too!! LOL The paper is Soft Sky Designer Series Paper (SU) & the hydrangea flowers are from Prima (I got them at Michael's...I'm soooo happy they are carrying flowers now!!) I used a storybook alphabet I've had for ages and added stickles to all the rain drops.
Thought I better make a "masculine" notebook & since I had an extra golfer image from the monthly swap, I decided to use him. The paper is from Creative Memories & the blue stripe is actually ON the paper...cool eh?? I coloured the golfer with my koh-i-noor pencils and gamsol. I didn't add any sentiments cuz you know MEN.....won't use it if it's too girly!!! LOL

Tilda with bluebells

I know the flowers aren't blue bells but they reminded me of the flowers that I used to pick for my Mom when I was little. Out at our cabin, they grew like crazy in the hills around us. We used to go for walks and I'd bring her back a bunch of blue bells and a bunch of Black Eyed Susans. She still has the ugly white plastic vase that she used to put them in....lol!!! The card base is Bashful Blue, the DP is Basic Grey (I think) and the ribbon is a scrap piece of baby blue. I coloured her with prismas and gamsol.

Another Rosy Tilda

Another card for the monthly swap I explained in the last post - I should have just posted these together...ahhh well!!!! Same paper, same DP, same stamp. I added Old Olive polytwill ribbon to a piece of Hodgepodge hardware, stamped the word Cherish and attached it. She is coloured with prismas and gamsol as well!!

If all posts go as planned, I am laying on the beach in Sunny British Columbia enjoying a cold bevvy and playing with my nieces and nephews in the water!!! Wheeee!!!!