Anything Goes Bella Challenge!

My friend, Lynn, celebrated her 40th birthday last week....HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY LYNN! Lynn is also a Bella Queen and her challenge this past week was the Anything Goes Bella Challenge! That means a 3-D project with lots of bling and of course a Bella! Woo-Hoo....I love paper crafting and making everything so I got my mind going....and this is what I came up with: Oh yes....it's a hot cocoa packet mug holder! Isn't Lattebella so cute with her hot cocoa! I prefer chai...but I am going to be selling hot cocoa holders like this at the craft show on Sunday....so I guess we will go with hot cocoa today! Hee hee! In real life this is actually VERY sparkly! I love bling and sparkles! There is star dust stickles on Bellas flower in her hair, on her mug, and her shoes....but the picture doesn't show that real well! There is pink taffy glitter mist all over the chocolate colored mug too! It sparkles all over the place! Papers for this creation are from my Wish On A Scrap October kit....man I love these papers!

Wish me luck with Lynn's Challenge!

**Sorry I can't remember who's blog I saw the mug on...or I would definitely give credit where credit is due! If it's you....please let me know, and I will add your name in here! :) ***

THANK YOU to my dear friends and family!

I want to personally thank each and everyone one of you who voted for my Harley Davidson card this past week! With all of your help....I WON!!!! Woo-Hoo! I couldn't have done it without each and every one of you! Sending out BIG HUGS to all of you!!!!

Yesterday my mom came over and we crafted for 10 1/2 hours straight! Crazy...no?! The craft fair I have been referring to all summer and fall is almost here! Sunday (Nov. 2nd) is the BIG day! Eeeekkk! I still have a bunch of projects to make! My mom was so wonderful to help me make nugget tins and decorate Hershey candy bars yesterday! I didn't take any pictures b/c after our marathon of crafting I was exhausted! I will have some pictures for you this week though! Let me just tell you....you will NOT want to miss these.....my mom and I even surprised ourselves with our creativity!

Thanks again!

Hugs~ Kim

Cuttlebug Camp!

My friend Trudi is the creator of the Cuttlebug Challenge Blog! This weekend there is a Cuttlebug Camp going on over in Cuttlebug Challenge World. Trudi contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I would mind being a part of her Camp! Of course I couldn't pass that up!!!

I decided to share my Cuttlebug Beaded Fun tutorial for the Camp! There are many other fabulous challenges scheduled for the weekend with prizes.....so hop on over and check it out, and have GREAT fun playing along!!!! I can't wait to see what everyone creates!

Please, Keep Voting!

I want to send a BIG THANK YOU AND HUGS out to everyone who is voting for me and my Harley Davidson card on TA's blog sketch challenge!

Votes are accepted until 6 PM Friday, and you can vote more than once.....but only one time per day, so please keep up the votes! I GREATLY appreciate them!!!! click here and vote for my entry! I am Blog Entry #3 Kim (the Harley Davidson card)!

Also please check out Nikki's blog candy for her 30K hits and breast cancer awareness!

Need Your Help!

Hi everyone~ My friend TA is running a blog sketch challenge on her blog! Entries were to be recieved by this weekend and voting for the entries start TODAY! I entered my Harley Davidson card that you can see here. This is where I need your help! The winner is being chosen based on whoever gets the most votes for their card! I would GREATLY appreciate it if you could all go to this blog and vote for my entry! I am Blog Entry #3 Kim (the Harley Davidson card)! The winner is being announced on Friday!

I thank you all in advance for your help!!!!

And since you are all helping me out....I want to inform you of my friend Rach's blog candy! She is giving away a Whiff of Joy fun bundle! Head to her site and say hello! Tell her I sent you! This girl is so talented you will be amazed! I am in awe everything I go and see her blog!

Stationary Set & Blog Candy Alert

I was so inspired by Adela when she posted her fabulous creation....I just had to try making one of these card gift boxes for myself! What a great gift this makes! My mom loved the project...guess what she will be getting for a gift in the future. I am hoping people like them at the craft show coming up in a few weeks! I personally love this one because it is pink and brown!

Inside are 6 cards, with customized envelopes, sentiments, stamps, and chocolates! Gotta love chocolate...it goes good with EVERYTHING!

I applied glue dots on the back of the sentiments so that the receiver can just pop the sentiment on whatever card they would like to give away.
I want to thank Adela again for sharing her creation with her friends in blogger land! She is a very talented lady so make sure you go and visit her blog!

On a side note: If you love the Whiff of Joy stamps that I have been using lately, head over to Scrapmumur's blog for a chance to win a Melinda stamp!

Julie is also celebrating her 1 yr. blog anniversary so stop by and sign up for her Stampin' Up yummy blog candy!

Poppet is giving away a TON of fun candy!!! She is celebrating her new look to her blog! Stop by and tell her how nice it is!

I WON and A Present for a GREAT Friend!

Oh My Goodness! I can't believe it....I played along with Leanne's Embellaishment challenge last week and I just found out this morning I won! Thank you to everyone who notified me of my winnings! That was so nice to wake up to messages from all of my friends! You are all the greatest! Life wouldn't be as wonderful without all of my AWESOME blogging friends!!! You can see my winning card HERE. Thank you Leanne for putting together such a fun challenge!

Next is a present that I made for my friend Jacquie! She sends me such wonderful cards all of the time that really perk up my day.....I was sending her daughter a personalized card and bookmark which you can see HERE. I also wanted to send Jacquie a little something so since I know she recieved it now I can show all of you! I made her a card folder holder with papers from my Wish On A Scrap Sept. Kit. I had this sentiment stamp laying around that fit PERFECT with the paper! Used my nesties to cut out the sentiment oval!

Then I made Jacquie some persnalized card to place in the folder. I just love my Stampin' Up Baroque Motif set! The big swirl is my ULTIMATE favorite stamp!!!! I used my lovely letters to stamp the J and the ring around the J is from my JustRite Stamper that I purchaed from Loreen at Wish On A Scrap! I am so glad Jacquie loved her surprise!
I am off to do laundry for the day! ICK!!! I will talk to all of you later!