Happy Anniversary TPV!!

Welcome to The Paper Variety's one year anniversary celebration! We will be having 5 daily challenges this week throughout the celebration. And there will be 5 great prizes awarded to 5 random winners. Our theme this week is all about our "favorite things"! Please join us each day to see the great projects that the team came up with.

Today's fun starts with a blog hop. If you have come to my blog from Rachel's blog, you are right on track. If you are just visiting my blog, thank you, but you will want to start at the beginning at The Paper Variety's blog. Our 1st challenge is sponsored by My Favorite Things stamps. Each designer chose an image or stamp to create their project for our hop. Make sure to hop to all 12 designers on this hop and check out the awesome projects that were created using MFT stamps. There are also many dt members also offering blog candy of their own.

Our first of the 5 challenges is to create a paper project including stamps - clear stamps, rubber stamps, image stamps, sentiment stamps. My Favorite Things stamps is awarding a random challenge winner with a $25 gift voucher to their store!

You'll have until Tuesday noon to enter your project TPV for a chance at the voucher prize.

For my project, I created a card. I chose a digital image from MFT called Amanda Baird's Love Birds. These birds are just so cute. I couldn't resist. Thank you, MFT!

I have already given this card to my boyfriend. We have had a tough week, with not much going right. It was a nice pick-me-up for him.

Now, before you head to the next stop on the hop, I have some blog candy to giveaway!

I am offering a $15 Michael's gift card. You do not need to enter the challenges at TPV to win my blog candy, but I do hope that you will help us celebrate by creating a project. To win my blog candy, all you have to do is become a follower and leave a message on this post. I will choose and announce a random winner on Tuesday, September 13. Dont forget, there will be other challenges and prizes daily until Sunday at The Paper Variety inspiring you to use your favorite things! Check out TPV at our Facebook page for an additional giveaway there as well.

To continue on our hop, head over to Sandi's blog. You are going to love the project she created with her MFT stamps.

Birthday Sundaes Challenge #21 and Blog Hop Winner

Wow!!! What an awesome turnout for the Birthday Sundaes Blog Hop!! I hope everyone enjoyed seeing the new team and saying goodbye to those that are moving on. Be sure to check back at BS blog on Wednesday to find out the winner of the grand prize of the blog hop.

The winner of my blog candy was determined by random.org. I had 82 people leave comments on my blog post. Thanks so much. I really enjoyed reading all the very nice comments. Thanks for those of you became new followers. I now have over 100 now!!! Woohoo!!! So the winner of the random number generator is #44, Laurie.

So cute and the colors are great!

Laurie
scrapsbysissy.blogspot.com

August 1, 2011 7:35 AM

Congratulations Laurie!!! Please send me your name and mailing address so that I can get your prize in the mail to you. My email is ssedlak815@gmail.com.


Now it's time to talk about this week's challenge at Birthday Sundaes. We are being sponsored by Gingerloft Digi Stamps. The winner of this week's challenge will get 3 images of their choice. Go check out all of the items that are available.


Our challenge is Birthday Card with a Birthday Sentiment. The design team was given a choice of 3 images to use on their cards. I chose the stacked turtles.


Go check out the wonderful cards the design team created with their image choices. I hope you will join us this week.

My Birthday Sundaes Blog Hop Candy

To continue to the Birthday Sundaes blog hop, click here....

But wait!!!

I am offering blog candy for those leaving a message on my blog hop post. As I promised, here is a photo of the Echo Park 6 x 6 Walk In The Park paper pad and the Prima Mulberry Paper Flowers that I am offering. The flowers really coordinate with some of the papers in the pad well.

So, make sure that you check out the birthday card I created as inspiration for this week's challenge at Birthday Sundaes and continue on with the hop. You can click here for my original blog hop post.

Cakes and Cupcakes Birthday - Birthday Sundaes Blog Hop

Happy Sunday morning everyone!!! Today is very exciting day at Birthday Sundaes. We are introducing the design team for the new term. There are a number of us returning, including me (YAY!!). And there are some exciting new members. We are also saying farewell to those members that are moving on. Their inspiration will be missed.

To celebrate we are having a blog hop. If you just happened to be checking out my blog, you will want to start at the beginning of the hop back at the Birthday Sundaes blog. But if you came from Amy's blog, you are right on track.

There is blog candy being offered on the BS blog for those of you who join this week's challenge and stop by and comment on each member's blog on the hop. I am also offering my own blog candy. I will choose someone randomly from those that leave messages on this post. My candy is a 6 x 6 pad of Echo Park A Walk In The Park paper and a package of Prima Mulberry Paper flowers. I will post a photo and a reminder of the the blog hop on Tuesday.

This week's challenge is Cakes and Cupcakes Birthday. I created my card using a birthday cake. I used some dimensional stickers that I had in my stash, both the cake and the sentiment. I love they way they look.


I hope you will show us your Cakes and Cupcakes birthday cards this week. Be sure to include a birthday sentiment on the front of the card. And to be eligible for the blog candy stop by and comment on each blog on the hop.

So to continue with the hop, please visit the wonderfully talented Jen, for some more birthday inspiration. And just in case you are lost, here is the blog hop order....

Kristie
Michelle
Amber
Kimberly
Sonia
Marlene
Amy
Sue - You are here
Jen
Samantha
Tara
Candice
Maribel
Vivi
Cindy
JoAnn
Tracey (last stop)

There's still a little time to join the fun......

Scrapbook Challenges is having a Birthday Blog Hop. It started on Friday at 10am (MT) and is running through midnight tonight (MT). You still have some time to catch some of the great activities that they planned to celebrate the end of their first your on the ning forum. To start the hop, go to Pamela's blog. She has done such a great job with this hop and all the party activities as well as coordinating such wonderful talent and inspiration at Scrapbook Challenges.

Pamela created a sketch for this celebration. All of the design team members created projects based on this sketch for their blog posts for the hop. What an amazing group of talent. Seeing so many different layouts/cards really made me want to create a layout from this sketch. So I did.

Here is the sketch:



And my layout:
Stew was so impressed with how good Willie was, he decided that he didn't need to stay in the crate during the day when he was 6 months old. That only lasted for about 3 weeks or so. He was getting into things and ultimately broke a glass that was left on a table. So back in the crate. On his 2nd day back in there, one of the big dogs - Lola or Harley - totally killed his Mr. Monkey. Right in front of him, where he couldn't do anything. Poor guy. I can only imagine how bad he felt.

Pamela gave the members of Scrapbook Challenges the opportunity to join in the fun by making a layout and posting the location of the blog post. Check out what other members did.

Great job everyone!!

Blog Hop Winner!!

I hope everyone enjoyed our first Scrappin-n-Chattin Blog Hop. I really enjoyed reading all the wonderful comments about the border punches, my layout and my puppy. Thank you so much for all of the nice things you had to say.

Now to announce the winner of the Martha Stewart Deco Fan punch. The Random Number Generator chose #31.


#31 - Jennyplace2

Congratulation Jenny!!!


Please email me at ssedlak815 at gmail dot com with your address and I will get the punch into the mail to you. I hope you enjoy the set and will share your creations with me.





Thanks again for all who participated in the hop.

Border Punches

Welcome to my blog, The Scrappings of Sue. I hope you are having fun on our blog hop today. If you reached my blog from Theresa's blog, you are in the right place!! If not, you will want to start here, at Abby's blog. You will want to hop in the order outlined in Abby's blog. You will be collecting a secret word from each blog. You can read all the details about this from Abby. Be sure to check out our Yahoo! Group, Scrappin-n-Chattin. We are a great group of talented friends. You will find so much support and inspiration here.


I have so fallen in love with border punches. I have collected quite a number over the past year and try to use them whenever I can. I get very excited when I see a sketch or challenge to use border punches.

I have also fallen in love with combining the use of the corner punches in conjuction with a border punch to create an edge all the way around the page. To make the sizing work, you have to have the paper cut to a specified size. These are the dimensions that are included inside the package:

3.25 inches / 8.25 cm
5 inches / 12.7 cm
6.75 inches / 17.15 cm
8.5 inches / 21.59 cm
10.25 inches / 26.04 cm
12 inches / 30.48 cm

Today I creating a page based on a sketch that I found on Julie Bonner's blog. Here is the sketch:

Although this sketch did not use a border punch, I used one on one of the paper elements. Here is what I used:

My paper is cut into a 10.25" square. This Punch Around the Page set is called Scallop 3 Dot. To begin, punch each corner.

Next, line up one of the corners with the pattern just to the right or left of the punch part of the punch. I always go to the right. Line up the pattern further down on the punch after you make the first punch.

Continue around the page.



And here is the final product.




I am doing a giveaway. How would you like to win a Punch Around the Page of your own? All you have to do is leave a comment on this post and become a follower of my blog. I will do random drawing on Monday morning. The winner will receive this Martha Stewart Deco Fan Punch Around the Page Punch.







So now I have my secret word for you - friendly .



Thanks for visiting. I hope you enjoyed your time at my blog. Now, continue your journey on our blog hop and visit Laura.

~~Sue~~