After giving everyone who earned it their extra numbers, we ended up with a total of 24 entries for the blog candy. The winner is:
Send me an email with your address Carol and I'll get the goodies shipped off to you. Thanks everyone for playing along and for all your good wishes. I appreciate all of you so much for sticking with me on this crafty journey.
Better late than never ....
To celebrate getting 40k+ hits and hitting the 750+ mark in number of posts, as promised I'm going to be offering up some blog candy. Here it is:
It's going to be short and sweet - leave a comment and tell me what kinds of things you'd like to see more of on this blog and get a chance to win. I'll pick a winner using random.org on Friday, April 23.
Thanks for visiting!
~chris
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Okay, I didn't exactly get an overwhelming response on my latest blog candy offering - 3 participants. So, I am going to give all three some candy! I have been adding to the pot over the last week or so and I'm just going to randomly put stuff in three boxes, seal them up and mix them up and put labels on them. Congrats and HUGE thank yous go out to Diane, Curt and Carol for stepping up to the plate and making some cards for Pat's Children's Hospital Valentine card drive. You are all three super-stars in my book!
Thanks!
~chris
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It's almost exactly a month late, but here's my celebration blog candy for my 2 year blogoversary!
Congratulations on all the hits!! Fun, isn't it? Your blog is FABULOUS!!! You have wonderful, new and refreshing ideas! Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing!
I had a total of 30 comments and Random.org selected #22 -Wanda. said...
Congratulations Wanda! Please send me your snail mail address and I'll get this shipped off to you!
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Finally, the long promised blog candy. I am still not able to believe that I have had over 30K hits on this blog! Thanks so much for your support of what I do! There's so much wonderful talent out there and I feel honored that you come and visit me as often as you do and leave such wonderful comments. Speaking of comments - that's all you need to do to win this candy. On the 10th I'll use random.org to pick one. I had a comment numbering thingy on here and it worked for about a day, so I'll be back to square one. I ask that you only leave one to make it fair all around. As always, I'll add a bit more to it before it heads out the door on its way - probably something I have made that you might like!
This is a card for this week's Mojo Monday sketch challenge and I also played along in Sharon's Stamp Simply #103 challenge to "stamp over it" - stamp your sentiment over your stamped image. Card base is Dusty Durango, image panels are Very Vanilla layered on Soft Suede that was stamped with the Weathered background stamp. The main image panel was cut with my nesties and layered on Crushed Curry. The background and sentiment stamps are from one of my all time favorite sets (unfortunately now retired) called With Gratitude. The acorns and the oak leaf are from Autumn Splendor in the new Holiday Mini catalog and the little flourishes are from the Charming set, also in the mini. The main image is stamped in Dusty Durango and shadowed with Crushed Curry. The sentiment and the flourishes were stamped with Soft Suede and the acorns are Crushed Curry.
Thanks so much for visiting today and also for your continued support over the last year and a little!
~chris
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To celebrate reaching 500+ posts and 25k+ hits, I'm going to give away a little candy!
I think I'll make it a little more open this time around - you get one chance for a comment left on this post and another if you post it on your blog and come back and leave me a link! I will draw a name on Wednesday, June 17.
This post will stay at the top of my blog, so if you want to see what I'm up to day to day, just scroll down!
Thanks for visiting and thanks so much for all of your support and encouragement over this past year+! I really appreciate you all!
~chris
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Okay ... finally here it is!
To celebrate my wedding anniversary and my ddl's birthday (on v-day), my birthday (sometime this month) and my blog reaching 15k hits (hopefully this week) I am offering up this little bit of candy. I will add something special if my blog actually does reach 15k this week so tell all your friends to visit and enter to win! I was going to ask you to do something to win it, but if you are even half as busy as I am - well forget that. So just leave a comment - just one though please and I will have my Monday night gals pick a winner next Monday night.
I'll be back a bit later to post some birthday cards I made today and hopefully my Mojo Monday card as well!
Edited to add: Thanks to Regina from Germany who gave me some instructions, this post will stay at the top of my blog until Monday when we draw the winner.
Thanks for visiting!
~chris
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The very first challenge I ever did was one of Julee's Mojo Monday sketch challenges. If you get a chance you should check out her blog - Poetic Artistry - she's just amazing! I love doing challenges now and do them as often as I can. I find that it really pushes me to try new things, to think about things from another perspective. This is Julee's sketch challenge this week and in keeping with the program to get ready for Valentine's day, I thought it would be appropriate to use the new Love You Much bundle and the new Raspberry Tart paper from Stampin' Up! The card base is Pretty in Pink and the contrast color is Elegant Eggplant. I colored the stamp with my markers and I like how it turned out.
In culling comments to print and put into the bowl for Friday's blog candy drawing, I discovered that my blogoversary post was post #300 so today I'm going to add two items into the package of candy to celebrate that milestone. Actually, I'm just looking for good reasons to celebrate and that fit the bill just fine! I'm not averaging a post a day for this first year, but there were some days with more than one and some days with none and it will probably continue that way for the next year too. My schedule is sometimes pretty hectic! At any rate, here's the candy additions for today.
There's a bunch of 6x6 designer paper from folks like Papertrey, 7 Gypsies and Basic Grey and a bottle of yellow-orange daisies from Daisy Doodles.
Thanks so much for visiting and I hope you all have a very safe and Happy New Year! DH and I are going to keep with our long-time tradition and just stay home and have crab legs and watch a movie. If it's snowy and cold and it's not a red polution day, we may even have a fire in the fireplace. Haven't used the fireplace much lately between polution days and not wanting to take chances with the grandkids, but I do enjoy having one so we'll see how it goes.
Stay safe and warm!
~chris
I "blurf" alot of blogs and the NMBS blog (No More Bad Swaps) is one I read regularly. I've never done one of their challenges before, but I thought I'd give this one a try. These are love note size - 3 x 3 and I will make a box for them from a template that you can get by clicking on the link over to the right. I struggled with the monogram trying circles and squares and finally came up with this one. The card base is Pink Pirouette and the dp is Ivory Floral from Paper Adventures. The stamps are from Together Forever for the medallion and Lovely Letters alphabet for the initial, both from Stampin' Up! I used my 2" scallop circle punch for the medallion and a 1 1/4" circle punch for the letter.
Here is today's blog candy addition. I got a couple of these Pearlescent Watercolor paint pads from My Favorite Things and they are wonderful. It's like having Pearl-ex already made into a water color cake for you! No measuring or mixing required. Just wet and paint. The colors are great and very sparkly!
Remember, there will be a new addition to the original candy package every day till Friday so be sure to come back and visit to get some additional chances to win!
Thanks for visiting!
~chris
This is the card I made for my dh for xmas. The map paper is from Christina Renee from a paper kit called Out to Sea which is ON SALE right now for only $1.75! She has some wonderful designs there and I highly recommend her store and her blog.
My dh is an avid sailor and I like to use sailing and boating images on the cards I make for him. This one is from Winds of Grace. The card base is Always Artichoke and the sentiment is embossed with copper ep.
Now for today's addition to the blog candy! This is a block of patterned paper from Stampin' Up! and it is a hostess benefit in the current catalog so it can't be purchased. You will get it along with all the rest of the candy if you are the lucky winner drawn on Friday, January 2. Just leave me a comment on this post. I will be posting new candy each day until the 2nd, so come back tomorrow and get another chance to win.
I can't tell you how much the words of encouragement mean to me. This blog has become a true source of joy for me and I thank you all for coming and visiting, staying awhile and letting me know that you've been here.
Thanks!
~chris
Here's another card using the Love You Much set. I saw a couple of cards with the scalloped envelope on the front and I really wanted to give it a try. What do you think? (Sally, would you like to do this at your party?)
Recipe:
Stamps: Love You Much, Short & Sweet
Paper: Pretty in Pink, pink dp from SU prints pack, Whisper White, Real Red
Ink: Real Red, Pretty in Pink
Accessories: punches, cuttlebug folder, SU hearts punch, scalloped envelope die and Big Shot
Okay, so tomorrow is my blogoversary and this weekend my blog rolled over 12k hits - so let's celebrate! Here is my plan.
This is the base candy package. Every day starting tomorrow, Monday, December 29, and going till Friday, January 2, I will add one item to this package. You can post one entry per day by leaving me a comment (that's a total of 6 chances to win - counting today). I haven't done it like this before, so hopefully it won't turn into a mess. If you have ever won candy from me before, you know that I usually throw in a few extras anyway and I will probably do that this time too.
Nobody has had any comments on how the blog looks after it's facelift - maybe I'm the only one who can see it the new way? I'm still working on it as I really want to put my own background together and redo the banner so that it is more reflective of my own style. I know that there are some wonderful folks out there who will do a marvelous job of putting these things together for me, but I really am determined to figure this out for myself. I'm a d*(& webmaster for goodness sake, I should be able to do this!
Well I think I've been long winded enough for tonight. I have a thoughts/prayers request for you tonight. Allison (Stampin' When I Can) gave birth to a beautiful baby girl - Avery Judith - on Christmas. Avery has some heart issues and is needing surgery. Please say a few prayers and send some good thoughts towards Canada and keep them in your thoughts and prayers over the next few weeks. Thanks so much!
~chris
Denise Lynn over at Stampin with Denise is celebrating her blogoversary in style! Go on over and check out her celebration candy and check out her wonderful blog while you're there visiting. I get so much wonderful inspiration from Denise. Check out my post tomorrow where I'll feature a wonderful gift idea that I got from a pif that she sent me.
To celebrate passing the 7000 hit mark, I thought I'd offer up a little blog candy. I really appreciate each and every one of you that visit my blog. I'm not always the greatest at putting stuff up every day like some folks are, I find that some days the energy runs out before the "to do" list is even close to complete. I appreciate that you guys hang in there and come to visit regularly any way. Thanks!
Just leave a comment on this post and I will let random.org pick a winner on Friday, August 15. Up for grabs are a couple of coaster frames made by yours truly, a really cute stamp and some dollar bin items from Target for Baby Boy, Baby Girl and Wedding that contain some ribbon, charms, buttons, etc. in cute little boxes. As usual, if you post a link to this candy on your blog, just come back and leave me another post giving me the link and you'll have an extra chance to win.
Again, thanks so much for coming to visit, I really do appreciate you. Hopefully, the mojo and some time will free up this week and I'll get some fun stuff posted. Downline meeting on Thursday, but we aren't swapping. I'm doing a make and take though along with two other super stampers, so I'll put those up to show you Thursday or Friday. Am trying to clean up my craft room so that I can have somewhere to put all the new stuff I plan to order from the new SU catalog! My wish list just keeps getting longer and longer. There is just so much incredible stuff in the new catalog. Click on the catalog link on the right after Monday, August 11 and take a look for yourself. There are also many other great things going on at SU - like online ordering, SU partnering up with Sizzix, and lots of really great specials. I'm going to be working on my SU website over the coming weeks and I'll let you know when you can go and take a look at everything that's happening. It's so exciting!
Till later ~ chris
As promised, to celebrate my visitor counter reaching 5000 hits, I want to give away some blog candy to say thanks to everyone for spending some time with me here on my blog. I appreciate each and every one of you! Just leave a comment on this post and I will draw a winner on Monday, June 9. If you have a blog and link up to my blog, come back and leave me a comment with a link to your blog and you will get two chances to win!
Thanks again for visiting and for all your encouraging words. I appreciate you all!
~chris
Here's some blog candy to help me celebrate 100 posts and 4000 hits on my blog. Thanks so much to all of you who have visited over the last few months that I have been doing this. I'm having so much fun and have made so many wonderful new cyber-friends. Just leave me a comment on this post telling me what your favorite online resource is for inspiration in your stamping and scrapbooking. Thanks again for visiting! I'll use random.org to choose a winner on Wednesday, April 30!
~chris
I made it to 3000 hits! WOW! Never thought it would happen. To celebrate I am offering the blog candy pictured above. Just leave a comment on this post and on Wednesday, April 2 I will use random.org to pick a winner. Thanks so much for visiting!
~chris
While waiting for three folks to sign up for last week's blog candy pif, I got another pif package in the mail. I now have five of the packages pictured above ready and waiting for someone to claim them. Meggie is already in, how about you? The only thing you need to do is make up your own little gift package and either post it on your blog or pick three friends and make them a gift of it with instructions that they are to pass on the creative energy to three more folks. It is so much fun! I got a wonderful package from Mary and another from Denise. Just send me an email at the address on the right side of my blog, or leave me a comment with a way to contact you and your goodies will be on their way!
Thanks so much for visiting my blog. I'm getting close to the 3k hits mark so watch for some more special blog candy coming up soon.
~chris
Okay bloggers ... check out this fantastic package I got in the mail from Mary. Isn't it great. Here's the deal. The first three folks who comment on this blog and let me know that they want to play will get a similar type of package from me. The agreement is that you will then send a package to three other folks. If you don't have a blog and still want to play, you can just pick three folks you want to "pay it forward" to and send them something to spark their creativity and tell them to pass it along to three more folks. This is my first pif challenge and I need your help to keep it going. Just let me know you want to play and send me an email (there's a link in that right hand column down the page aways) and give me your snail mail address and your surprise package will be on it's way to you.
Thanks for playing and for helping me keep this going! ~chris
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