Oh My Crafts $25 gift card giveaway via Lil' Luna

The blog, Lil' Luna, posted a Valentine's banner project along with a giveaway for a $25.00 gift card to Oh My Crafts!

I just have to add that Oh My Crafts is THE place to order paper crafting supplies and tools! I order all of my vinyl there to use with my electronic die-cutting machine. I cannot begin to say enough good things about this company's extremely reasonable prices, sales, and availability of coupon codes. There are almost always at least 3 coupon codes available all the time depending on the amount of your purchase. I love that they provide coupons even for smaller orders like $20 instead of only providing coupons for purchases over $50, $75, or $100 like many other retailers. The coupon codes usually range from 10-25 % off for total purchases of any size for the 10% off code and 25% off for orders over $75-$100 usually. They are so generous! Also, though I haven't ordered vinyl from anyone else, their packaging has to be 2nd to none. When purchasing vinyl by the sheet, instead of the vinyl being rolled in tubes, the vinyl is flat, shrink wrapped tightly so it doesn't slide around and braced by a thick piece of corrugated cardboard. Then the stack of vinyl and cardboard is shrink wrapped together as well to keep everything in place. T his is all safe inside an outer packaging cardboard box that is slightly longer and wider than the vinyl in dimension. This box is great for storing your large sheets of vinyl in horizontally after removing from the shrink wrap to keep them flat and from bending or rolling up. I absolutely love their wide variety of vinyl colors available also. 12 x 24 vinyl sheets are usually $1.75 but sometimes go on sale for as low as $0.99. Bundles are available which of course reduce the price per sheet cost to you. They sell transfer tape sheets and squeegee tools for applying your vinyl projects. Some value bundles of vinyl include a squeegee or two.

There are five ways to enter for this giveaway. You can follow Oh My Crafts on Facebook, follow Lil' Luna on feedburner, follow Lil' Luna on Facebook, follow Lil' Luna on Pinterest, and blog, Facebook, or Tweet about this giveaway. Under the Valentine's banner and Oh My Crafts giveaway post on the Lil' Luna blog Make a separate comment for each entry method. The giveaway was posted yesterday, February 3rd and will end next Thursday, February 9th.

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My Pink Stamper Blog Hop challenge: Show My Style and Favorite Thing

I created this card for the birthday of a friend's daughter who just turned 6. Her parents did a room makeover for her birthday. The room theme is peace signs, and the color scheme is mostly the shades of brown, pink, and blue you see in this card. I wanted her to be able to display the card in her new room and have it fit right in. I absolutely love to make cards! My favorite Cricut cartridge is A Child's Year because I really love the card feature, especially the scalloped cards. I love the color combos of pink and brown and blue and brown, but had never brought the 3 colors together in one project before. My new favorite tool is the Cuttlebug machine. This card is my very first project using the Cuttlebug and I couldn't be happier with the results. The embossed cardstock just brings the whole design to the next level and makes for a more professional look. I hand stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment in chocolate brown ink and heat embossed it, then I applied the blue cardstock with pink brads. I used foam pop dots to mount the pink cardstock to the card and to add dimension. Heat embossing is my "thing" so this card definitely showcases my style well.



I made this autograph page/wall hanging for the party guests to sign. It is 12 x 12 and the center brown scalloped rectangle is 7 inches high. The design was inspired by the quilt in her new bedding set. I hand-cut the little patterned paper pieces to decorate the peace sign and used pigment ink markers to draw the little peace sign and flower patterns in the white "quilted" pieces on the peace sign.

I made these pocket cards for one of my friend's moms to give to her coworkers. She's on a "teacher team" and wanted to give them something to help motivate them as they go back to work before the school year starts. These pocket cards can be placed on any water bottle or other bottle beverage. If you do bottled water, you can place a packet of sugar free drink mix in the pocket. I gave similar cards to my son's teachers and I placed individually wrapped granola bars in the pockets of the cards in addition to the drink mix.

I used the Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut cartridge to cut the graduate, school bus, and road. I stamped and heat embossed the bus driver and kids on the bus on a neutral sand colored bazill basic cardstock. I printed and heat embossed the other sentiments on the card on vellum. The background blue and green cardstocks are Die Cuts with a View. The black and yellow card stocks are smooth and from an 8.5 x 11 Recollections brand Halloween multipack from Michael's. I also stamped the sentiment flag "Go Team" on yellow cardstock flat enclosure cards for her to write a note to each of her coworkers to motivate them for the new school year. She loved them and her coworkers did too!

My Pink Stamper NSD Kids Challenge #12

This fun train card is perfect for any little boy who loves trains! I'm submitting this train card for My Pink Stamper's NSD Challenge # 12, make something "Kid" themed. I think the bright primary colors of this card, the whimsical train, and sentiment "All aboard for fun" all capture the spirit of being a kid and having fun!

My Pink Stamper NSD Cupcake Challenge # 1

The always amazing Robyn of My Pink Stamper is currently hosting a series of giveaways in celebration of National Scrapbook Day. The Grand Prize is a Cricut Imagine machine, but there are 12 giveaways you can enter through Monday by completing 1-12 project challenges and posting your project to her site. Link to your project that you post on your blog in order to enter a given challenge post on her site.

I created this pink and brown themed cupcake birthday card for challenge/giveaway #1- anything cupcake! I used the textured brown cardstock to mimic the texture and appearance of a traditional cupcake wrapper. This is such a fun card design I will use again and again!

Craft-E-Corner Giveaway Tuesday- Straight from the Nest cartridge!

Visit Craft-E-Corner's blog for a chance to win the awesome Straight from the Nest Cricut cartridge! This one looks really cute! If you or someone you know has a Cricut but you don't have this cartridge, please visit her blog by midnight CST 4/27/2011 and leave a comment on the giveaway post for a chance to win!

My Pink Stamper Cricut Expression 2 giveaway!!

Robyn of My Pink Stamper is giving away a new Cricut Expression 2 on her blog! The winner will be announced Monday night. Please visit her blog and/or Facebook page to get the details for all the ways you can enter to win. You can comment on her blog & FB posts as well as make posts on your own FB page or blog, and then go back to her blog and make a new comment for each post you have made to FB/blogs. This is very exciting. Good luck to all!