~Friday Winner & More Garden Party Fun~

**REMINDER** Tomorrow is the Clear Scraps Blog Hop!!!!

Good morning my friends,

it has been a crazy busy week, I am happy to see the light at the end

of the tunnel ♥

I have a winner today for the Cottage Christmas embellishment package,

and more Garden Party fun from Imaginisce.

I made this card last night for a friend....

This Garden Party line is awesome, I just adore it!

Everything except the tulle/title is Imaginisce.

I even used my i-bond to glue the tulle down.

I also used my Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro for the actual card making.

I hope your week is going well.

I have to be honest I am a bit down today as my friend Amber just

passed away. Pray for the Goddard family ♥

I only found out this morning and she was such an inspiration to me.

We shared a love of fabric and style. Thanks Amber for your

caring friendship, I will miss you my friend.

Ok enough of me and my chatter....

On to the WINNER!!!!!!!

Joy said...

Your chickens are adorable! We always buy eggs from a farm down the road from us, and they have free-range chickens. I was watching them one day, and I couldn't believe how cute they were!!! Sorry, I digress, back to Christmas scrapping - uh, haven't done any yet! I need to get started! So your prize will do me good - LOL!

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Joy please email me or Facebook me your address so I can get this out right away!

My boys are home today and I am off to cook some breakfast.

Much love to all

~Thank you for you amazing support and always stopping by~

~Pinky~

~Happy Crafty Hump Day~

♥Good morning my awesome crafty friends♥

If you did not know today is the Garden Party release party for Imaginisce!

You are going to adore this line...what I love the most is...it has

Pink but it also have BLUE! *YEA*

Make sure you go check it out because there will be alot of prizes of course!

If you were not aware, I blog for Clear Scraps, well I organize it anyways LOL

So I decided to combine my love of acrylic and my love of Imaginisce

for this fun spring layout. You know I really have loved working

with Imaginisce this year, what an amazing opportunity and company.

I know my blog followers have become very familiar with them as well.

I would love for you all to become just as familiar with Clear Scraps,

they are not as big but what an amazing company they are!

Of course also getting to know Glue Arts has been wonderful, I used

there awesome ribbon adhesive for the vintage lace on this LO.

I love the scrap journey with my blog friends♥ I am so blessed

to have you all as friends and to be able to have so much fun with work.

Oh and I will, yes I WILL be at Chicago CHA 2011!

I will be there every day, so be sure to let me know if you are going.

I* am tickled Pink about it!♥

Ok Go check out the release party...then go check out Clear Scraps this week.

I have a feeling some new opportunities are coming up this week

so stay tuned...and don't forget about the Gypsy giveaway and the

Cottage Christmas giveaway from yesterday too!

~Happy Hump Day everyone,

Happy Holidays too~

~Pinky~

~Chicken Update, Christmas Lights, & Giveaway Part Deux~

Good morning my amazingly crafty friends!

It is just freezing here in TN, I mean it's cold even for the chickens.

My boys had a snow day yesterday and drove me crazy because it

was far to cold to even go outside, those poor boys.

I thought today I would share a couple family photos/stories.

A glimpse of my Christmas Lights outside...and maybe even a Christmas GIVEAWAY!

Oh and do not forget about the Gypsy GIVEAWAY HERE courtesy of

Provocraft and the Cricut Circle ♥

First of all my poor sweet chickens, you know chickens are fine

in the cold weather but the most common cause of death

in the cold is dehydration. To prevent this we all work together and take

shifts going out with warm water and changing the water.

*until we can get a water warmer* So I have spent the last few

days changing out water. I was so happy the kids were home to do it yesterday!

Here they are huddled under a heat lamp where

they spend pretty much day and night right now.

It was snowing on Sunday evening and I snapped this picture

it was 40+ MPH wind and -3 wind chill...so the pictures are not

perfect but i have my fingers left LOL

So happy hubby got the lights up before the storm.

You know we live out int he country and NO ONE puts lights

up except for us, but I can't help it. I am sorry but the kids love it

and by golly so do I! :) It might not be practical but it's fun.

I did notice 2 days after we put up lights the neighbor put one net light

on their bush, they have 3 girls I bet they were bugging dad for lights LOL

I had to share this last photo.

We went to a gingerbread house making party on Sunday afternoon

this is what my middle son Justice brought home.

Originally I had thought...well he is more mathematical so maybe the

creative side is with his brother....let me tell you how WRONG I was LOL

He sat me down and said "Momma, I had the PERFECT house, mom it was

so perfect, everything looked awesome...but then the crackers started to break

and I kept breaking cracker after cracker...so I decided...My house was

hit with a HUGE BLIZZARD and it blew the whole house down...

and you know what? A green gummi bear lived inside and he DIED..

see? There he is buried in the snow mom" then he giggled hysterically! LOL

Boys...oh sweet funny boys...they crack me up. I won't ever forget that.

Anyways enough of my gabbing today...are you asleep yet??

I am LOL

I have a fun little giveaway today....

I don't have a picture because I am so tired and it's dark. But it's

a fun little package of embellishments from the

Imaginisce Cottage Christmas line...perfect for Christmas!

Did you see yesterday they were giving away a Cricut Cake?

Better go check it out! :)

Leave a comment here about your Christmas scrapping and on

Friday a random winner will be drawn! :)

Oh and I have been playing with my Imagine so I have projects to

share this week as well! Just get my kids to school and we will be set! *wink*

Ok have a beautiful Tuesday everyone!

~Thank you all for stopping by~

~Love Pinky~

~Monday is here, why not craft?!~

♥ Good morning my crafty friends ♥

It is Monday and I feel it LOL

I have been scrapping so many Christmas layouts and all those

pictures, so I decided to take a little break from that and dig into my

Garden Party papers from Imaginisce....it was a perfectly lovely break.

I like to mix it up and not get stuck in one season when I scrap.

I love this new line, they even have MESH BRADS in this line and plenty

of flowers, chipboard, die cuts. It is a beautiful line for sure ♥

On these butterflies I used the Glue Arts Ribbon Adhesive and it worked perfectly

those thin strip is perfect for the body of the butterfly!

I love how they mixed the blues and green in with the pinks.

I used my XL Monarch Butterfly Punch, I really want to find the small

one but it is always sold out in my stores *sigh*

I am not ready for spring quite yet but it makes me happy to scrap it.

Oh and guess what? This week Imaginisce will be sharing many of the

Garden Party projects and I am sure you will be able to win some *wink*

so be sure to check the Imaginisce Blog out all week!

I hope your Monday is amazing!

~Happy Holidays~

~Pinky~

~Gypsy GIVEAWAY Come Celebrate The Holidays With Me~

♥ Good morning my amazingly talented crafty friends ♥

I have a special giveaway today straight from the Cricut Circle.

You know I gave away 2 Gypsy's this year and I saved one for

Christmas time!! I wanted to give one away right at the holidays,

just in time for Christmas!

Provocraft is an AMAZING company, and I am so blessed to

design with them on the Cricut Circle Magazine.

I am overwhelmed by their generosity and kindness.

I am so blessed to work with companies who truly do care.

In the spirit of kindness and the holidays from my family in TN

to your families all over the world....

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

There are no strings to this giveaway....

I would LOVE for you to be a follower but it is not required ♥

Just leave a comment about your holidays

I mean anything you want to share...does not have to be elaborate.

This truly is a RANDOM DRAWING.

I would LOVE for you to share with your friends and on all

message boards and media sites (even Facebook).

But it is not required, it would be nice ♥

On December 19th I will randomly choose a WINNER! :)

And ship it out priority right away!

So be sure to check back so I can ship it same day!

Happy Holidays my friends, you all make my life so much richer

and you all have enabled me to share these amazing gifts throughout the year.

~Love Pinky~

~Christmas Traditions Layout & BOGO Sale~

♥Good morning my amazingly crafty friends♥

I had a fun night last night, I FINALLY set up my Imagine...

well ok hubby did but still it is done! I even printed up a couple

tags to work with on my next LO!

He cleaned up and organized while I scrapped this page.

I needed a picture to scrap for the new Noel Mignon challenge contest,

so I dug through my old Christmas pictures. This is one of my favorite all time photos

of the boys with dad right before Christmas.

We had just moved to TN and it was a wonderful experience

you want to know the funny part? Neither one of us can remember where

this darn Christmas tree farm is LOL We have tried to find it

and we both come up blank.

Anyways I used the new Echo Park paper (or maybe it is old?) and some vintage

crocheted lace, with those AWESHUM snowflakes from Imaginisce, and my

handy dandy Glue Arts Ribbon Adhesive.

If you wonder why I am always listing the items I used,

it is because I do get alot of emails about it, and if you want to make

a page for yourself then you have the ingredients on hand ♥

Plus if I love a product I am not going to lie to ya, I will tell you it rocks!

Journaling:

The best gift I have ever received for Christmas, was not anything that could be given in a box. It was a FAMILY, a real family.

My first Christmas with my husband, we stayed up all night in each other’s arms talking until we fell asleep at dawn on the couch, then woke up an hour later with our son opening gifts.

Every year it is the same story, we are so excited putting out the

special gifts and watching the lights on the tree.

We talk about family , friends and events of the year, our lives before

and our lives now, our children, our losses, our joys.

It all comes up on Christmas Eve.

I never had a real family and for me that is the best gift I could ever receive.

Spending those moments in anticipation of the children’s excitement the

next morning with someone I love knowing we are a true family.

One more thing...TODAY ONLY!

If you buy one kit you get one FREE just pay extra shipping! :)

Here is the LINK for the Mini Kit

http://blueyecicle.blogspot.com/p/winterchristmas-album-acrylic-class-kit.html

That's it for me today, I am going to have cupcakes with friends

later on and try to dig up a sausage breakfast casserole recipe for dinner!

Happy Friday everyone!

~Thank YOU for popping by~

~Have a beautiful day~

~Pinky~

~Blog Hop WINNER & Coffee Cake~

Good morning!

It is a frigid 13 degrees this morning and I feel it♥

Last night hubby worked late so I decided to make a Sour Cream Coffee Cake

while I waited for him to get home. I woke up early (6am) with the

intention of taking a picture and sharing the recipe.

But I woke up to this LOL

So...I guess it was a hit. It's been a long time since I made it

but generally I make it around Christmas for Christmas morning.

I thought I would share my recipe :)

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup melted butter
• 1 cups white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 
  
• Topping/Middle layer:
• 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/3 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

This is for an 8X8 Pan, but I make 1 1/2 recipe for my 13X9 pan

Mix all wet ingredients, blend well, then slowly add dry.

Pour half into pan, then coat with half of topping.

Carefully dollop rest of batter on top, coat again with remaining

sugar topping. Bake for 40-50 minutes at 325.

It really is a good coffee cake and the entire family loves it! :)

Ok on to the winner of yesterday's GLUE ARTS package!

curlyqmosaics said...

Wow! Such a cute, festive banner! Thanks dearly for sharing! (BTW, I love your blog banner at the top, super unique!)

Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Please email me your address so I can pass it on to Glue Arts

and once again I want to THANK Glue Arts for hosting the GIVEAWAY!

You guys totally rock!

That's it for me today, I finished decorating now I need to craft!

~Happy Thursday everyone~

~Thank YOU for playing with me this week!~

♥Pinky♥

~The First Samantha Walker Blog Hop!

Good morning my amazing friends, if you have arrived here this morning

you have arrived at the very first Samantha Walker Designs BLOG HOP!

I am #2 on the list....the first stop is the ever famous

Samantha Walker of course!

This is a fun blog hop with the new Creative Team.

I am so blessed to be a part of.

Today I made a special project and a full video tutorial.

My project is hand made garland but it's not just garland

it is also a Christmas Card Holder.

In my house we are having a "Country Christmas" theme this year

so I wanted many of the decorations to be handmade, you know

the usual but with a Pinky POP, so I came up with this idea.

Each tree has a clothespin on the back for handing your Christmas cards

It was so fun to make, I made it with the boys, they LOVED it!

Everything from the garland to the cards are from the Samantha Walker lines

she has everything from fabric to paper and they all seem to flow together

I hope you enjoy this project as much as I did making it.

Here is a full step by step video on how to make your own! :)

Your next stop on the Blog Hop HOP is...

Jennifer Beason!

Just click the logo to land on her blog!

Thanks for stopping by today.

I know Samantha will have a prize but I also wanted to offer a prize on this blog!

Glue Arts is an amazing company that really makes me happy

They are so generous and always so kind...they have offered up a PRIZE PACKAGE

A Glue Glider Pro, their 3-D Combo Pac (as seen in the video)

& one of my favorites...their Ribbon Adhesive

Thank YOU GLUE ARTS *I hope you fan them on Facebook*

leave a comment and I will randomly choose

a winner of the amazingly generous Glue Arts Package!

~Happy Monday everyone~

~Pinky~

~Quick Update & Features Before Tomorrow's BIG Blog Hop!~

Good morning!!!

How is your week flowing so far?

My week has been filled with decorating the house....

which is always a good thing.

In the Hobbs home we decorate from top to bottom,

it is our tradition to decorate the ceilings....

I know it's alot of work but hubby

LOVES it, I am not lying, he gets done and says "We need to find something

to decorate the ceilings all year because it looks so awesome"

I love that he is so appreciative of the decorating efforts ♥

The whole family gets in on the action....

We have a Country Christmas theme this year...in reds and creams

I have a couple quick updates *in case you missed anything...

Debby featured me and my family

traditions for the holidays on her blog today

http://debbysdares.blogspot.com/2010/12/its-pink-home-for-holidays-on-day-7.html

Yesterday is was a HUGE GIVEAWAY on my blog and IMAGINISCE

http://www.imaginisceblog.com/2010/12/welcome-to-6th-day-of-imaginisces-12.html

And Sunday was the Samantha Walker feature

http://samanthaleewalker.blogspot.com/2010/12/introducing-creative-team-member_05.html

And tomorrow is a ♥BRAND NEW VIDEO TUTORIAL♥
Hand made garland/Christmas Card Holder

You do NOT want to miss it, I worked hard on it and I love it.

If you love vintage/country style you are in for a treat.

Also the first Samantha Walker Blog Hop...

so please stay tuned tomorrow :) ♥

Now I am off to finish the house and hopefully do a craft or 5.

~Have a wonderful and peaceful day~

~Pinky~

~Imaginisce Guest Blog With Super Cool Prizes!~

♥Good morning all my amazing crafty friends♥

Today I am guest blogging on Imaginisce's blog

so I wont' share the full project but I will tell you that

there is a HUGE prize package!

Here is a sneak peek of the project and there is a printable template

for you to make your own if you want :)

Now go check out the blog and comment away!

I am posting a picture of the GIVEAWAY below.

A BRAND NEW ibond the coolest tool on the planet!

and the entire Cottage Christmas Collection! You do NOT want to miss this!

Imaginisce has amazing giveaways and today is no different.

Cool tools and beautiful papers too!

Drop by Imaginisce (Day 6) and leave a little comment, then come

back and leave one here and a random winner will be drawn after

the amazing DT finish the 12 days of Christmas.

On the edges I used the ColorBox Scarlett ink (loves it♥)

Have you seen their new blinkie for the holidays?

Thanks for hanging out with me today,

See y'all next time!

~Pinky~

~Some Fun Party Pictures & Scrap N' Tote Winner!~

Good morning my awesome online friends ♥

*side note* Please go check out the feature on Samantha Walker today!

http://samanthaleewalker.blogspot.com/2010/12/introducing-creative-team-member_05.html

♥ It's me! ♥

I had an amazing time last night with great local friends

at a Christmas party. Good friends, good times and good fun!

Remember those cupcake ornaments I was making yesterday?

They were for a house warming gift for a dear friend.

This is how I wrapped them up for presentation.

I used a real muffin tin so she would have a baking pan to top it off!

At the party we set up a photograph station for couples to get

their photos taken by the tree.

This is my awesome friend Adrienne with her hubby Aron

(I know they won't mind being on the blog LOL)

Here I am getting ready for the party with the new top I made!

It has a white furry bottom like Santa, I felt so cute!

Here is my friend Melissa with her hubby. I think the picture station

was a fun idea and I so wish I had been worrying less about

everyone else and snapped a shot of me and my hubby! LOL

It was a wonderful evening, I am so very blessed.

We even had a White Elephant *Dirty Santa* exchange.

I came home with a beautiful snowman trivet! *YEA*

Ok I know enough chattering Pinky! WHO WON THE PRIZE!

I put all the names into random.org and this is the winner!

jennyrb78 said...

Great video. This looks like an awesome product to store cartridges. Thanks for showing us this great product!

Sunday, November 28, 2010

So Jenny please email or Facebook me your address,

it might take a few weeks because it's a HUGE box!

Stay tuned tomorrow because I am GUEST BLOGGING on Imaginisce

and there is a HUGE PRIZE!!!!!!!!!

~Happy Sunday~

~Thank you for popping by♥~

~Pinky~

~♥A Very Merry & Yummy Saturday To You♥~

*Don't forget tomorrow is the Scrap N' Tote WINNER and

Monday is the Imaginisce Blog with GIVEAWAY*

♥Good morning my amazingly delicious crafty friends♥

This week my friend Jan was making cupcake ornaments

and I had never felt the need to make them before...but she got me

curious about them. So I decided to start checking out sites and

I loved what I saw. BUT I wanted to tweek them and make

them my own instead of just following directions.

This is what I came up with.

They still look handmade, they are light and pretty,

but they are not as messy and some recipes I found, and not

as simple as others...I sort of made a happy medium.

Now hubby is not to happy with the incredible amount of PINK

glitter all over my house right now LOL

But I do love the results! :)

What do you think?? Is a video tutorial in order?

I am not really sure yet...I want to know what you all think.

If you all want one I will make it...but if you think

the cupcake idea is overdone I will just pass it and move on LOL

I do have a video coming up Wednesday with hand made garland

and a Christmas Card holder, also a new video for another Christmas

ornament, my annual one.

As I type I think I might have to do another one for these too LOL

Well it is cold and I have to finish prepping for tonight's party.

I made the fudge last night and so much food this week.

~Happy Saturday everyone~

~Once again THANK YOU for popping by~

~Pinky~

~Scrapping with vintage lace & acrylic~

Good morning!!!!

It's a beautiful and very cold day today. I love it,

I am so ready for snow....hopefully it will soon then I will

feel ready for Christmas.

This week we are slowly but surely decorating and I am

feeling the holiday spirit for sure ♥

I love mixing old and new scrap products like

acrylic and vintage lace...I think it adds such a lovely

touch and it reminds me of my grandmother and history.

I made this layout at Tally Scrappers for a contest to win chocolate LOL

For the base I used a 12X12 Clear Scraps acrylic page then I cut

out the Hambly Doily Overlay and placed it on the acrylic, then covered it in lace.

I also love adding Platinum Paint to my layouts when I

do vintage looking pages. I used the Folk Art Metallic Taupe

paint because it looks just like Platinum.

I also spritzed the journaling spots with Spun Sugar Smooch

for a more aged vintage look with shimmer.♥

I love the new Extreme Tac adhesive from Glue Arts for the acrylic too

it stays on, it does NOT yellow and crack like the glues I have used

and it sticks really hard which is what I need, I like my pages to last!

I wish I could have captured all the detail on this layout.

I used almost a whole box of flowers from Imaginisce, I love

how they layered and the tulle flowers in the box.

I also used the i-rock and the swirls template that is so hard to find.

♥Ohh La La♥

The double lace was from my friend Gloria,

I have such amazing supportive friends including my online buddies

I am so very blessed to have so many friends who are so wonderful.

Ok I am off to bake the day away, we have

a party coming up on Saturday so I need to get it done!

The list is...

Caramel Corn (3 batches!) ♥

Cookies

Fudge

Brownies

Jell-o shots

I better get busy!!!

Happy Thursday everyone

~Have a beautiful day~

~Pinky~

~It's the 1st! Blog Hop, Sketch, & Prizes Too!~

Good morning my crafty friends!♥

I love working with Imaginisce, and especially on the first

when they do the Blog Hop and sketch challenge.

You know if you play along you could win big!

This month's sketch is by the amazing Liz Qualman

and it;s a fun sketch for sure!

Go to the Imaginisce Blog to check it out.

Here is my version ♥

I have so many snow pictures from last year, I am exited to scrap them.

For this project I used the Cottage Christmas line from Imaginisce,

my Glue Arts Glue Glider Pro, and Ribbon Adhesive,

My Cricut Expression and the Winter Frolic Cartridge (Snowflakes)

and my Imaginisce i-rock tool (for the gems)

The sketch was so fun and inspiring, I hope you play along.

Remember if you leave a comment here you could win!

Imaginisce always has amazing prizes!

~Happy scrapping today~

~ Thank You for popping by~

~Pinky~