Three Cheers for Chairs & The Guest Design Winner is...

Happy National Scrapbooking Day everyone! How many of you will be hanging out in your scrapy retreats playing along with the oodles of on-line and blog challenges this weekend? Or how many of you will meet up with friends at your local scrapbook store or invite pals to your home for some crafty fun? Leave me a comment about your plans for the big weekend and on Monday I will draw a name for the next Digital Doodles stamp that arrives at Two Peas in a Bucket on Tuesday. How does that sound?

Now for a crafty share. If you follow my blog you know I'm a HUGE fan of the Silhouette die cutter! Last week the designers at Silhouette came out with some fun chair die cuts that I was dying to make a project with. Then I saw that Moxie Fab World issued a 'Three Cheers for Chairs' challenge and I couldn't resist. It's not often I make the time to do a little project that's not related to my Digital Creative Team position at Two Peas or having something to do with my new Digital Doodles stamps. Oh, but it was so much fun! Here's the card I made.

How adorable is this chair die cut?!?!?! And do you LOVE the papers I used? They are part of the 'Thrift Shop' from October Afternoon. I just love the patterns and colors.

Now to announce the winner of my Guest Design contest for Digital Doodles Club members. Thank you so much for playing along ladies! I had a lot of fun seeing your entries! And now I actually have to choose a winner. So hard for me because they all deserve to win! You know, I think they will all win a Digital Doodles stamp of your choice! So if you played along this week leave me a comment with the stamp of your choice. The winner of the latest stamp, arriving at Two Peas in a Bucket  next Tuesday and the Design Team spot goes to...

Sylvia Nelson for this amazing sunflower shaped card made in honor of her father who would have been 95 today! Congratulations Sylvia! You did an amazing job with this card and I'm sure your father LOVES it! On Tuesday I will send you the latest Digital Doodle for your Design Team project. Sylvia's card will appear here on Tuesday, May 11, 2010, so look for that.

Well, I'm off to get scrappy with some assignments. I'll have some fun new things to show you on Monday using the latest digital kits from Two Peas in a Bucket. Until then, have a super weekend everyone! :) Kathy

Supplies

Chair-ished

Card Stock:  Bazzill Basics

Patterned Paper:  October Afternoon
Chair & Oval Die Cuts:  Silhouette
Tag Punches:  Ek Success for Stampin' Up

Thread:  Coats & Clark

Adhesive Pearl:  Mark Richards

Ribbon:  Blue Bird Lane

Crochet Flowers:  Stash

On the Cover!

I've been crafting all my life and got into paper crafting in 2001; then in 2002 I started my own wholesale card business, Card-Blanc. For this reason I am an idea book junkie and subscribe to about every magazine in the industry. I LOVE looking at and drooling over all the gorgeous cards, scrapbook pages and home decor projects and I often think that some of my creations could be in these magazines and idea books too.

This past New Year's Eve I made a resolution to get serious and start submitting my work. For some reason, I had thought that I would be discovered or something, that someone would just stumble across my work and publish it. Right! After submitting some of my cards I got a call for one of my Thanksgiving cards to be published by Scrapbook Trends magazine! I was so excited and couldn't wait until November when I would actually see my first card in print. However, a couple weeks later, the creative editor of CARDS magazine e-mailed to say that she had seen one of my Halloween cards in my galley over at Two Peas in a Bucket and wanted to know if I still had the card and if I'd send it in for publishing! Wow, sometimes you can be 'discovered' and now I had two cards that would be published! Hot dog!

Yesterday I thought it was close enough to October to see if CARDS had come out with their Halloween issue so I went to Archiver's to check. Imagine my surprise when there on the shelf was the issue I went looking for and my card was on the cover! I could hardly believe it or contain my enthusiasm! Thank you Alisha Gordon for recognizing my work and having faith enough in it to put it on the cover!