Blog Candy Winner!!!!

This is it! Number 3 is the winner of my little blog candy... shown on this post. Here's Bev's comment:

Savor the Journey said... Happy 1st Blogaversary!

BTW, I love the way you've stated your resolutions ... "baby steps". Maybe this is the nudge I've needed to put my own in 'writing'. Primarily, my focus is on fitness & weight loss this year. Everything else is gravy if I can just stick with my new exercize goals and weight loss - reasonable expectations - not dramatic.

Now let's get out there and get started! Happy 2009!~Bev 1/2/09 8:28 PM

So Bev, please send me your address and I will get this off to you promptly! And good luck on continuing with your fitness goals!

Be sure to visit Bev's blog Savor the Journey, she is an incredible artist! Happy stamping!

Desiree

A fancy heart!

Getting ready for Valentine's??? I am not much into Valentine's Day because I don't have a love interest. Though it is fun to make a few cards for my kids and my girly friends. I also sell a few to the guys at work.

So here is the first one for this year. I found this fabulous Fancy Pants paper at my local scrapbook store Arts and Scraps. If you are in the Portland Metro area I don't think this store can be beat. Denise is wonderfully talented and offers classes almost every Saturday.

Anyway, I purchased a "few" things and came home ready to make some Valentine's goodies. I followed a sketch from Verve and it also required hardware. I also added three little red heart brads. My little piece of hardware is the heart charm. You can see it better on the close up below. The card base is Baja Blue and the layer behind the designer paper is Pink Pirouette.

Don't forget to take a look at this post for my blog candy!!!! Still time to enter and the odds of winning are really good! Thanks for visiting! Stop by again soon!

Celebrate You... I mean ME!!!!

I am still excited to be blogging for a whole year! What a commitment - although I am not as good as many of my favortie bloggers who post many times a week. Maybe I'll get better at that.

Here is a card that I made with the same Fancy Pants paper used for my blog candy (still time to get in on that one) and on my banner - which didn't turn out fabulous but it's better than nothing. I can't figure out why it isn't fitting because it is the exact pixels it's supposed to be. HMMM!

Back to the card.... I used Basic Grey, So Safron and Very Vanilla. The stamp is from the Party Hearty set. The brads are from my stash as are the little paper flowers. Of course I used a sketch, it's from Poetic Artistry's sketch book.

I think I'll add this card to the blog candy. I made two. One for me and one for you. Thanks for visiting!!!

Happy NEW YEAR!!!!

...and happy blogoversary to me, heeheehee!!! Did I really start blogging a year ago today? And a year ago today I am sure that I made resolutions, of course I can't remember them now. Kolette and Jason Hall, in their first audio for the Life Well Crafted class talked about breaking down your lofty resolutions into smaller baby steps.... yes, we can all do small baby steps and then by the end of the year we'll have met our goal/fulfilled our resolution.

So I would love to hear about your resolution and the first small baby step you will take to making your resolution happen. From the comments that are posted between now and next Thursday at midnight, I'll use random.org to pick a winner of my very first BLOG CANDY!

My three resolutions are regarding finances, weight loss/exercise, and being single. So my three baby steps for January are:

• get cash on payday to use as my spending money and not use my check card
• take a look at eHarmony, just a look
• walk to work on Fridays

So starts the new year!!! Here is my blog candy: a hostess level 1 stamp set called Punches Three. It coordinates with the scallop square punch and wide oval punch from SU! Also a cute vanilla scented candle decorated with Fancy Pants paper and ribbon from my stash.

Thanks for visiting!!!