Costumes

Anyway you look at it....Halloween is fun. You get to dress up and be whoever you want. You get to take a little break from reality and you get rewarded for doing so....with treats. Halloween isn't just for the kiddos either. I like to look back at past Halloweens where I had the chance to dress-up in costumes. Last Halloween I was Wonder Woman. Two years before that I was a Pirate, the year before that I was a Cop and the year before that I was Eve from the Garden of Eden. I've had SO much fun over the years of getting to dress-up. I won't be dressing up this year though....this year is just for the kids. Are you dressing up? If so, what are you going to be?

Scrap it and submit it over at The Pink Ninjas blog. The #22 Prompt is Costumes. Here's what I created: This is also for Mon Scrapbook's current sketch challenge. The winner for that challenge will get a $20 gift certificate to an online scrapbooking store. Go on over and check them out for your chance to win!

Blue Moon Scrapbooking

If you aren't in tune with the GIVEAWAYS going on over at the Blue Moon Scrapbooking blog than you are in for a real treat. My best friend ;) Lisa Shaw is giving away SO many goodies and entering is easy! Go on over and check it out by clicking here.

Skin Marks

The newest challenge for you to play along to over at The Pink Ninjas is called SKIN MARKS and anything goes......

Got a tat you wanna show off? Maybe a beauty mark? or scar? Scrap it and come on over to The Pink Ninjas to show it off!

I SO wanted to scrap my name that's tattoed on my husbands arm but something ended up being wrong with my printer when my computer was acting up.....so I just scrapped the pic. of when I got my 2nd tattoo back in the day. It's a tigers face inside of the butterfly wings. Can you see it?

Mission 0002 and if you were a cartoon character....

Mission Create has another awesome challenge brewing and I managed to use all concepts given again. I used cork alphas for my title "Boo to you!" and as you can tell it is a Halloween themed page. I used the colors orange, green & purple and I stamped the owl image and cut my photo into 2 seperate wallet sized photos. Pretty clever eh? Go on over and check out the challenge. The winner this month will get a prize from Rosa over at The Paper Passion.

p.s. This layout is of my daughter Deja (the Pirate) and her friend on Halloween a couple of years ago 2007.

Also, The Pink Ninjas newest prompt is....Prompt #20-

IF YOU WERE A CARTOON CHARACTER....

This one was EASY for me! LOL

"Don't make me go all Ninja on you!"

This is my Pink Ninja layout for The Pink Ninjas Design Team. Check us rad girlies out sometime and join our fun Challenges!

Scrapbooking Supplies R Us Surprise Giveaway

Could you imagine winning this?Well, you don't need to imagine because right now Scrapbooking Supplies R Us is having a HUGE Giveaway and this photo is just some of the items that are included. So you just possibly....might....be able to win it.

Isn't it beautiful?!

Scrapbooking Supplies R Us people....go check them out now to see all the details!

This giveaway consists of the supplies needed for Irene Tan's Mini Album Tutorial next month. How exciting is that? I love Irene's work and I'm a big fan of hers.

One very lucky winner will win this amazing giveaway and will receive it in time to follow along Irene's tutorial next month. I'm crossing my fingers, arms, legs and toes for this one! LOL

The products consist mostly of the latest releases from Summer CHA and you'll have until 11 October to enter for your chance to win.

By the looks of this sneak peek, why wouldn't you want to enter?!

Mission 001

There's a NEW Challenge Blog out there that I discovered the other day called MISSION CREATE. It looks to me like they are on a mission to INSPIRE in a serious but fun way! Go on over and check them out and participate in their very first Challenge to support them will ya?! We all know that we get our layouts done because of Challenge Blogs....here's one more fun way to complete layouts!

Here's my take to their first Challenge. I used all the concepts given by the Creative Team. My title is 6 WORDS "Duty to God and my country." I used a GLITTER brad (the yellow one in-between the word "Duty"). I followed their SKETCH.... ....and I used PATTERNED PAPER FROM MORE THAN JUST 3 DIFFERENT MANUFACTURERS and here's what I came up with....

I give credit where it's due and on top of getting inspired to create a layout by MISSION CREATE I was also really very inspired by an artist named Celine Navarro and I scraplifted her for this Challenge as well. She is A-ma-zing!!! I completely got my mojo back after visiting her blog. Check her out and see just what I mean. View those videos she has on there too will ya. It will surely put a smile on your face! Oh and....here's the layout I scraplifted from her.... Didn't I tell you she was bad a$$?! I told you!

Fashionably Geek!

Yes folks! FASHIONABLY GEEK is the Challenge being hosted right now over at Candy Shoppe Designs. You won't wanna miss this one! E.A.D. Designs is sponsoring a few samples of their Vinyl Rub-Ons and they are so yummy! Go on over to check out the details. NOW or SOON! The Challenge ends on October 10th so you only have a few days to fit it in. However, it is quite easy....for a geek at least. Here's my take to the Challenge titled "My Pooh!"

THINK PINK and Save the Ta-tas!

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month so wherever you are, whatever your doing....go to 2nd base on yourself and feel your boobies!

Candy Shoppe Designs is hosting a THINK PINK Challenge right now and all you are required to do is create a Paper Creation (it can be a card, a layout, etc.) using pink ribbon. Past creations are acceptable too. It doesn't have to be new.

If the Lollipop Girls like your Paper Creation the best out of all the entries you WIN this Blog Candy from Precocious Paper. Due Date for entries is 19 October so you have lots of time to participate.
If you go on over to Precocious Paper and want to buy anything just mention you were referred by C.S.D. (Candy Shoppe Designs) and you'll get 10% off your purchase. Offer good till 8 October.

Here's my PINK RIBBON layout. This is Eva modeling her Matryoshka Skirt from Wild Olive Kids.

Favorite Drink

Yes, I like Pina Colada's and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into champagne.

The Pink Ninja's Challenge Blog has a Prompt up for you to scrap your fav. drink and mine happens to be Frozen Pina Colada's. Whenever I go out to eat or am near a place that has them I just have to have one. No if's, and's, or butt's about it!

I'm not sure how it all started but I do admit that I act quite spoiled about it all. I'm just glad my husband doesn't mind that much. He understands that he has has cigs....and I need my Pina Colada's. LOL So, I don't complain about all the packs he buys and he doesn't complain about all the cups I buy. ;) Win-Win!

Head on over to the Pink Ninja's Challenge Blog and let us all know what your favorite drink is. Whether it's coffee, hot chocolate, soda, kool-aid, lemonade or even beer! We wanna know!

Creative Scrappers #71

I created this layout for the current Challenge over at Creative Scrappers. A sketch was provided by Karen Gerber and I was totally inspired by it!

The title reads: Marine to the bone

Supplies:

Cardstock: Bazzill Basics

Patterned Paper: Pink Paislee, Fancy Pants

Stickers: Basic Grey

Alphas: Basic Grey, Heidi Swapp.

Here's the Sketch.... Thanks for looking!

I have a few Announcements to stuff into this 1 post tonight....

For one.....your going to see my butt jumping through the air doing some kick a$$ ninja moves cause I.am.a.Pink Ninja now baby! I made it on the team! Woohoo! Expect to see some funky layouts from me for this. My eclectic side is all over this one! Here's my Pink Ninja photo....
Okay, stop laughing! LOL I took a lot of $#!% from my husband already because of it. I didn't think he was going to walk into the bathroom while I had our toddler daughter's too small of a tutu up up one of my legs (because it was too small to fit around me) and covering myself in my 10 year old daughter's pink make-up gook. LOL I swear, he thought I had finally lost it! I had to explain to him (after I finally stopped laughing embarrassingly at myself) that it was simply just for a photo for a New Design Team that I made it on. LOL The things I envision....and the way it slaps me in the face when I least expect it to. LOL Oh well! Check me out on The Pink Ninja's Challenge Blog here.

Other great news.....
Candy Shoppe Designs is hosting some awesome Challenges right now.....and there is SO much Blog Candy to be won.....like always!

Check out the FASHIONABLY GEEK Challenge for a chance to win an awesome Blog Candy Package from E.A.D. Designs!!!

Check out the THINK PINK Challenge for a chance to win an awesome Blog Candy Package from Precocious Paper!!!

and for trying your hand at creating your very own Patterned Paper you'll have your chance at winning another Blog Candy Package!!!

Odds of winning something from Candy Shoppe Designs are GREAT!
So go on by, become a Sweetheart (Follower) and submit your takes to the Challenges!!!

Good Luck!

Addictions

I'm addicted to Twilight. I can watch the movie over and over again .... sometimes a few times a day when I can. I never tire of it! My younger sister kept telling me that the books were even better. So, in my haste to find out I started reading again. I don't think I picked up a book to read since H.S. and I have to admit, my sister was right. The books give you so much more insight and details and it's filled with so much emotion that it makes you feel like you are a part of the story. I read and read and read till I finished Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and then just lastnight I finished reading Breaking Dawn. This was such an amazing series! I never thought of myself as having an addictive personality but I am addicted to Twilight.
I created this layout for The Pink Ninja's ADDICTIONS Challenge. The quotes on the layout read:

-I sleep with a smile because I see you in my dreams.

-Bite Me!

-Hopelessly Addicted.

-Twilight is exactly my brand of heroin.

-Edward prefers Brunettes.

-Yes, I admit I read books about teenage vampires.

and

-Forget Romeo and Juliet. I want a love story like Edward and Bella.

A little bird told me.....

I made these handmade gifts for someone recently who likes bluebirds. The first is an inexpensive Altered Clipboard that I did for the Busy Fashionista Altered Clipboard Challenge
over at Candy Shoppe Designs.I found the clipboard at Walmart for $1 and some change. The red checkered print paper is by Rusty Pickle and I had that on hand already. The yellow blue bird paper I found at Memorable Seasons on sale for $0.20. It's from the Botanical Bliss Collection by Tinkering Ink. I checked out Michael's Clearance section and found a pack of stickers for $0.99. It had a blue bird on one of them and it was dimensional (how I like my stickers). I thought what the heck....even though it may say "grow baby grow" it could work. LOL That's the sticker you see in the bottom right hand corner. I had the pom pom trim on hand already and then I attached some other trims I had on hand and a broken faux flower stem I found in my house and ta-da! A simple handmade project that costed between $3-5!!!

Next is a mini altered mailbox. I picked up the mini mailbox in the Target $1 section. I painted it blue, attached some papers, stickers and trims I had on hand, stuck that chipboard flower to the flag (I had that on hand too!) and got the birds nest at Micheal's for a couple of dollars and glued it snugly next to the flag. Another project completed between $3-5!!!

This baby I am SO proud of. I was internet surfing one day and seen a project like this and thought it was a great idea. So, the do-it-yourself person that I am decided to do do-one-herself. I had the Basic Grey papers on hand already left over from the mini mailbox item I made. I cut out a couple of heart shapes from it and stitched the edges together making sure to leave the top end open to stuff scrappy goodness into it. I also took some ric rac and glued it into the seams to create a prettier edge. I had everything on-hand already for this project so it made things easy. The tulle hanger and flowers are by Prima, the floss by Bazzill, the chipboard by American Crafts and the journaling spot by Heidi Swapp.

SUPER Sweet 16 Blog Hop Challenge

BLOG CANDY Galore is being given away over at Candy Shoppe Designs and on this 16th day of September there will be no exception.

September 16-28 is-

C.S.D.'s SUPER Sweet 16 and we have cause to celebrate BIG by doing a Blog Hop/Challenge and by giving away the "Lollipop Guild Kit" from Studio Calico to 1 LUCKY WINNER!!! Could that be YOU?!? Like I always say....You can't WIN if you don't try.

So, come on over to Candy Shoppe Designs and HOP with us Lollipop Girls.

Here's the tempting Blog Candy in case your still not budging.

The BLOG HOP will start off at Candy Shoppe Designs. You will go through the list of 10 Lollipop Girls (in order) and at each blog they will have a SIMPLE STEP for you to do on your layouts you are to enter for the Challenge at the end of the HOP. It's SO EASY and it will be really FUN! Please visit C.S.D. for the complete rules.

I'm giving SIMPLE STEP 8 which is to ADD at least 3 flowers to any one corner of your photo.

How SIMPLE is that? And it's just that easy!

It's going to be SO much fun to see everyone's different interpretations even though they were all given the same SIMPLE STEPS in the same order. Here's my take to this Challenge.

Hope to see you hopping with us!!!

Lend a Helping hand and be an Angel!

PLEASE READ!!!

We've all had tough times and know first hand that the greatest feeling is when some of the weight has been lifted off your shoulders by someone you would more than likely call an Angel. I'm asking you all to please be an Angel today and lend a helping hand to my dear friend and Sketch Designer of C.S.D., Anam Stubbington. Although you may not know Anam in person I'm sure that you will feel a great deal of satisfaction being able to help someone out in their desperate time of need. Please visit her HERE to read about the situation her and her family are going through right now and try to imagine if it were you and yours. Prayers are nice but financial help is also asked upon as well. Anam is a VERY talented individual in many different areas and she's got a lot of support from other talents as well backing her up with this situation. Please check out her blog to see the many different Auctions going on for her right now and find more ways than 1 where you can help her at this time. Cut back on a couple of things that you don't neccessarily NEED in life and instead donate the money and/or bid on an auction or except a service from Anam herself in turn for your help to make it work for you too. Her family needs this right now and they can't do it on their own. Please help!

Page Maps Sketch Contest

Here's my take to the oh-so inspiring Sketch Contest that Becky is hosting over on Page Maps right now.....
This happens to be my younger brother (in center) walking along the shore in such a picture perfect setting on the famous "North Shore" beach in Hawaii.

This is my NEW favorite layout to date. The colors scream out to me!

If you want your chance at winning the gorgeous "Cotillion" Kit being sponsored by Studio Calico then go on over to Page Maps and create a layout based on this here sketch....That "Cotillion" Kit should surely have you wanting to join in! If you do, GOOD LUCK! From what I've seen so far regarding all the entries it's going to be a tough beat but definately worth the try!

Design Team Work and Delicious Easy2Win Blog Candy

This very yummy "Postcards from Paris" Kit was donated to us over at C.S.D. by our "Special" Guest Designer and September Grand Prize Sponsor - Wendy Rago - Owner of Bad Girls Kits. It is a very easy Blog Candy to win. All you need to do is head on over to Candy Shoppe Designs and become a Sweetheart (Follower) and be an Active Member on the Blog.

I run a POINT SYSTEM and the more ACTIVE you are on the Blog, the better your chance at winning something. We at C.S.D. love giving things away and to prove it....here are a couple of other Blog Candies available to win right now ..... and we just Officially Launched a few days ago! Call us "Sweet" NOT "Crazy!"

And that's not all! There will be many MORE Blog Candy Packages being given away this month as well. So, your chances at winning are high! Be a Sweetheart and come check us out!

Would you care to try your hand at Altering a Clipboard if you were shown how? Have you Altered one or two in the past and have pictures to prove it? Well then that's all you need to do to try to win this "Busy Fashionista" Blog Candy! Easy right?!

If you've never gave it a go before, check out C.S.D.'s "Sweet Tooth" Tutorial on the reasons why you should. Stop on by Candy Shoppe Designs, become a Sweetheart (Follower) and leave a comment under THIS post with a link leading back to your Altered Clipboards -New or Old- We want to see them!

Like this Blog Candy? Would you strip for it? Check out what I mean at Candy Shoppe Designs! CLICK HERE to make your way directly to the posting.

This is a Monochromatic layout I created for my Design Team spot over at Twisted Sketches. It's of my baby girl Eva.

This is my most recent layout I created for Twisted Sketches. The "twist" was to use tape and so I took tape to Deja's photo and took the image off it. I'll be sharing a Tutorial on C.S.D. on how to do that technique as well as how to create the flowers you see here. So, become a Sweetheart (Follower) so you can see how it's done. It's really very easy, otherwise I wouldn't have tackled it myself.

This is my Juicy Couture "SMELL ME" Keepsake Box that I created with a $2 box from Walmart, a couple of papers, trims, blooms and buttons and a Juicy Couture Perfume Ad from one of my Fashion Magazines. A tutorial on how to create the flowers shown here will also be given in the near future on C.S.D.

This so happens to be my ABOUT ME layout for my Lollipop Girl Design Team spot on C.S.D. My Lollipop Girl nickname is "Cherry Lolita" and the quote on the layout reads: "I want it all and I want it smothered in chocolate and whipped cream with a cherry on top!"

And that's all from me for now. Don't forget to check out both Candy Shoppe Designs and Bad Girls Kits! You won't be dissapointed if you do!