I won!???...

Oh my!!! I don't want to brag or toot my own horn too much *blushes* but I am so excited that I have to share!!!.... :-D
I entered Melanie's contest on her blog http://melaniemuenchinger.blogspot.com/2008/05/for-your-considerationhip-hop-entries.html , using her new stamps set, just for the fun of it, and ended up in a tie with talented Donna (http://stampamaniac.blogspot.com/) who is winning for the third time in a row, (and it's well deserved!).
I kind of have to pinch myself to believe it. Of those 12 entries all were fabulous, and I honestly didn't think I stood a chance, so I was shocked to see people vote for my card. I can't even tell you the boost for my ego, this really made my day to see people loving what I do. I guess we all need a little recognition sometimes!! ;-)
So I'm enjoying my little minute of "fame" ;-) , and I swear I'll get back down to earth in a minute! LOL
Meanwhile the little zebra is mine! *grin* The timing is perfect since I am not buying stamps this month (I was already lucky enough to get stamps for Mother's day!... ;-) )

Thanks to anyone who gave me their vote, isn't it funny that they don't even read my blog?
Now let me go on with my day with a big grin on my face....

Lizzie Anne Contest

I told you a few posts ago, about the Lizzie Anne contest.

I don't own any Lizzie Anne stamps (yet, LOL!) and it was the only requirement of the contest. The cards will be donated to Cards for Cancer afterwards.

So Lauren very kindly offered to send me some stamped images of my choice... They arrived yesterday and my card was in the mail this morning. Phew, now that was some deadline!! I hope my card makes it on time!....

I already told you I don't make holiday cards (yet) so I wanted to make one for a change...

I had the vision in my head, so when the images arrived I went right to work. And I already had my background ready, (thanks to playing with my Cuttlebug the day before...).I cut the window (that was the hardest part!!) with my X-acto blade to show the blue paper behind where I drew snowflakes with my watercolor pencil, and I added this tiny little snowman in the low corner... Of course the window is popped on double-sided foam tape, which you can't see from my lousy pic....

The big snowman is also on foam. I didn't have colored Stickles so I decided to use my daughter's 3D glue pens. What a sticky mess, the mittens took forever to dry!! :-S Looks like there is a reason why they make adult versions of that stuff!! LOL

I used gold glitter glue to stiffen the little thread that was holding my mittens so that they don't fall on each other (and stick to each other!).

As usual by clicking on the pic you get a huge version that will enable you to see details if you wish...

I kind of like the result, even though it is a "childish" card (but winter holidays are all about childhood memories for me), but given the time it took (2 hours?) I am nowhere near starting to make that kind of cards in a mass production! Or I would have to start January 1st to have them ready for the following December... I keep telling myself that once I am more experienced I will work faster but so far I am a slow learner! LOL!

ETA: I just checked the winners'cards on Lizzie Anne website... Waow!!!

There was obviously no way I could have been up there but it was a fun experience all the same!... ;-)

The scrapbooking contest

There's a cool new scrapbooking store that opened not too far from here and the owner, Sonja, had a contest a few weeks ago.

She had prepared some kits containing each : 1 sheet of decorative paper, 1 sheet of plain cardstock, 1 embellishment, 2 to 4 pics of her kids.

The requirement was to use everything that was in the kit, we were free to add to that...
I was the 1st one to pick up a kit and I was drown to this beautiful pink paper. The cardstock was white and the embellishment in my kit was a little bottle of stickles! (Glitter glue).

This is the pic of the "finished product"!

There were only 8 contestants and one didn't finish for the deadline so we were only 7. The customers of the store voted...and I was number 3!

I was very happy! I won a magazine and a store discount and am planning to buy a heating tool with it! :-) I have been eying it for a while now, I want to learn how to emboss stamps!...

The funny thing is, I was never a glitter kind of girl, but since I used the Stickles I am crazy about it and use them all the time!! This just goes to show that you never know!!....(especially in scrapbooking!!)....