One Year of Blogging Candy WINNER

Hello Everyone, how exciting!

I used Random.org to generate a winner – here is a screen print of the result…

Number 31 – that is Anjenic Gibson!

Congratulations Anjenic – please send me an email within the next 14 days at fraser.vicki@hotmail.com along with your snail mail address and I will post it all to you.

As a reminder of what you have won, I took a photo again 

of everything together this evening. couldn't quite fit it all in the veiwfinder!

Original offering was...

• 1 x Hot Pink Hat Box full of random bling, brads and a couple of homemade flowers.
• 1 x Papermania Build a Cupcake Layered Die
• 1 x Kaiser Craft sheet of Rub On borders.
• 1 x Wooden Butterfly
• 7 x Tags for you to decorate
• 1 pack of Handmade Sticker embellies
• 2 x sheets of Sentiment stickers.
• 1 x sheet of mini alphabet stickers
• 4 x sheets of “inchie” style picture stickers
• 1 x Packet of Petaloo Flowers in Lime Green, White & polka dot.

Additions are..

• cupcake stamp set that matches the Cupcake layered die.
• 2 stamp sets for kids
• 1 Copic Sketch Pen YR07
• 6 sheets of specialty papers – card size
• Homemade flower, gold twine & gold glitter
• Nested circle dies

That is some haul of goodies, so congratulations once again to Anjenic. 

I hope you have many hours of crafting fun with this lot!

I would also like to take this opportunity to say a big Thank You to all of the lovely crafty bloggers who have been kind enough to follow me and comment on my cards and crafts. 

I look forward to sharing even more exciting times ahead with my Stampin Up journey and hope that you continue to follow me on my creative path.

Have a great week now and I’ll see you next week with the cards I’ve organised for my first Workshop with Trish – Can’t have Trish spying them early now, can we?

Cheers, Vicki

Baby Card and Last Candy Addition before Draw!

Good Morning,

Just a quick post with lots of pictures as I am late for work…

I made this card for my lovely Neice’s new baby – I’m saving it for when she brings her bubby home as little Isabella was born a wee bit early and is still in hospital. She is perfectly alright, just tiny!

Oh and it’s an Easel Card…Perfect for the challenge at My Time to Craft !

   

With the inside decorated…

and lots of pretty bits.

On to the Candy…

Since this is a Baby’s Card post, I thought I’d throw in these cute little stamps that are perfect for kids cards!

That’s it – today is your last chance to enter this Candy as it is being drawn tonight!

Enter HERE and follow me (it’d be nice to reach 100 followers at least )

Must go to work now, have a great day!

Love Fashion, Candy & Liebster Awards

Hi Everyone,

Well I have a rather large post for you today! 

Three topics in all:-

First up – here is the fourth card that I wanted to share that hadn’t been blogged yet. I don’t know why really, because it’s very pretty. I used some tissues that had the dressmakers stand pattern on them and adhered them with PVA glue to some corrugated cardstock and then rolled back the tissue while it was wet to reveal the corrugations underneath and give a really vintage/shabby feel to it.

I have then embellished with some buttons, ribbons, gems and scraps of lace & ric rac. The sentiments are just cut out letters and some tiny alphas. The whole lot is adhered to a black card base.

While I made this card some time ago, I think it suits the sketch challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches, which looks like this…not far off!

Second item on the agenda…

MY CANDY!

Today I’m adding a single Copic Sketch pen in YR07 – because I seem to have two of them! i may have used it a little, but hardly at all - so it is pretty near full.

I will be drawing this candy on Friday Night 30th March so get on over to My Candy post and put your name into Mr Linky at the bottom of the post for your chance to win!

Also get in and check out everything I have added since Monday - a post a day!

Last but most certainly not least is the Leibster Award

Twice in the last couple of weeks I have been awarded the blog award, most recently from – Jennifer from My Cubby Crafts and before that by Pearl from Kitten Kraftz. I wanted to say thank you to both Pearl & Jennifer not only for the award but for their lovely comments and encouragement on my posts. 

Thank You!

Here is the info on the Liebster Blog award:

This award is to draw attention to those blogs with under 200 followers so as to give others an opportunity to discover them and see why we enjoy following them. To encourage others to follow them as well.
Here are the rules for this award:
1. Show your appreciation to the person who gave you the award by thanking them and linking back to them.
2. Post the award to your blog.
3. Give the award to five other bloggers (with 200 followers or less) that you appreciate and follow.
4. Leave a comment on each of their blogs letting them know that you've chosen them for this award. 
Liebster means "dearest" in German and I would love to share with you just a few of the blogs that I love to follow.

Now to officially hand this award over to another 5 well deserving people who also have blogs with under 200 followers.Here are the blogs I’ve chosen to pass this on to:-

1.  Tammy at http://tammyscrapincorner.blogspot.com.au/ – to say thanks for all your lovely comments and to encourage you in return. I love checking out what you’ve done each week as it’s always so versatile.

2. Mynette from On a Stampage, I love that blog name and Mynettes’ work is fabulous. She also is one of the great minds behind 52 Christmas Card Throwdown of which I am a regular player Well done Mynette for getting so much done and always making comments on my blog to boot!

3. Jacqueline at http://deezinesart.blogspot.com.au/ who is also Mynettes’ partner in crime at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!  Jacqueline has the most amazing cards, she is ingenious with colour and I love her home made pansies!

4.  Cardarian’s Happy Place is a place I visit quite often – she probably doesn’t know it because I’m not always commenting, I just like to check out what’s on her desk for the week! lol Sounds weird I know, but I quite often gain some inspiration from just looking at her workspace. So thank you to Cardarian for the isnpiration I gain from time to time.

5. Robbie at http://inkedx2.blogspot.com.au/ is always giving me inspiration, and she is a Stampin Up demonstrator too! I love that Robbie's blog is so neat and tidy and easy to navigate. I also love what she can do with a bit of ink and card – always beautiful.

So Thank You ladies, grab your Liebster Award above and post away – your turn to carry it on and celebrate 5 more bloggers each!

Well, that’s the end of a mammoth post, not as big as the one that will happen tomorrow night though – the Final Blog Candy Draw – Don’t miss it!

Oh, and follow me if you like, I have some amazing Stampin' Up cards to share with you after my first workshop as a demonstrator on Sunday. So Excited!

Cheers,

Vicki aka CardarTart

Christmas Card with MORE Blog Candy!

Hello Again,

Thanks for coming back! I made this Christmas card last year for my girlfriends’ daughter and while I did do a few in this style and post them at the time, I didn’t actually post this one. (I thought you were probably all sick of them by then!)

Anyway this one is going to be entered in the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown this week which was to use Paper as an embellishment. Not sure that the HO HO HO is an embellishment, but it’s all I’ve got! Either way, it’s still a fun card with that candy cane hanging down in a ribbon sling.

The extra Candy for the Draw that is happening on Friday, March 30th is a selection of specialty papers. I have these coming out my ears as I am addicted to buying the discount packs at the fair.

They are not really large peices, but big enough for card makers. The biggest peice is 12cmx16cm and the smallest is 10cm x 15cm. They are so very pretty though, with velvet on the brown one, glitter on a couple and shimmery flowers on another.
 I just had to share

So get on over to the My Candy post and put your name into the linky list at the bottom of the page for your chance to win them along with everything else in the Blog Candy Bag! 

Only 2 sleeps until it’s drawn!

See you tomorrow with just a bit more.

Cheers, Vicki.

Top Note Box and More Candy!

Hello Again, 

The Top Note box below was made with my good friend Trish and Treasure one day a few months back on a crafting day at her place, just the two of us.

We used the tutorial on split coast stampers for the Heart Box and modified it to suit the Top Note die from Stampin’ Up.

I love the Vintage look of this box. We’ve layered stiff cardboard with white card and then cut the Top Notes. It’s capable of cutting through quite thick items. (note – you can buy a Top Note Die from me if you live in Australia ) 

We made the sides from double sided paper, which was easier to manoeuvre into place than cardstock, and then decorated the box with beautiful papers, lace, ribbon, flowers, pearls and a big blue rhinestone!


Today I have played Tic Tac Toe at Card Crafters Circle and used the combination of Bling / Lace or Ribbon / Die Cuts.

Now, for the daily addition to My Candy…

Keeping in the Vintage theme - This beautiful hand made flower, a vial of gold glitter and about a metre of gold twine should help your project get off to a Vintage look!

Wow, this Candy is getting huge and there’s still 3 days to go and 3 things to add!

If you’d like to be in it to win it – 

- go to Mr Linky at the bottom of this post HERE and then Follow Me!

Well thanks for stopping by, see you tomorrow with some more goodies to share and giveaway

Vicki

Card and Surprise Candy

Hi Everyone,

In view of my commencement as a Stampin’ Up demonstrator, I thought It best to clear the slate so to speak.  So I’m going to post everything that I haven’t already before getting stuck into my Stampin’ Up stuff. Starting with this Double Dutch Fold card…

I’m  also going to Draw My Candy, but not before I add a couple of things to it. I have 5 things to add!

What better way than to do a post a day until Friday and show you all 1 card and add 1 item of Candy to the pile each day until then.

What would be really great – is if you’d follow me and round off my followers to 100.

(At the moment that means 9 followers I’d love to see sign up.)

This Double Dutch fold card opens outwards and upwards. The patterned paper was just asking for one of my hand made flowers.

The little flaps at the bottom are held shut with a little piece of Velcro. A hidden magnet would have been better in hindsight, then you wouldn’t have an odd bit of Velcro sticking out in the middle of the card! lol. Told you there was one reason or another for not having posted these cards already! I'm going to share this card with all the lovely entrants at Make it Monday.

Now for the addition to My Blog Candy….

These  brand new nested Circle Dies are going in the bag for postage to the person who wins! Blog Candy will be drawn on Friday Night the 30th of March 2012 using Random.org If you’d like to win – follow me and put your name into the Linky List on this post HERE!


Thanks for popping by, see you tomorrow :) 

One Year of Blogging CANDY !

Hello Everyone,



It’s now been a year since I started this blog.

How crazy is that! One whole year!

As mentioned in my previous post, I received the new desk (on my 1 year anniversary) that my Mother had given me – the catch was that I had to help her move all her other stuff too!

My whole day was taken up with this task, and the whole next week just slipped by as I attempted to get organised in Girl World each night after work. 

Enough with the excuses – it’s simply taken me 2 weeks to get organised and now my Girl World is complete, and I have some Candy to share with you.

The Candy items are all from my stash, all in new condition, or made by myself in the case of the paper flowers, and I will post them wherever they need to go to get to the winner at my expense.

Here’s a pic of my new desk…


 Pretty cool huh!


and here’s a pic of the Candy I have to give away to one lucky random winner, share it on your blog’s sidebar if you like.








What’s in the Candy, you ask?

• 1 x Hot Pink Hat Box full of random bling, brads and a couple of homemade flowers.
• 1 x Papermania Build a Cupcake Layered Die
• 1 x Kaiser Craft sheet of Rub On borders.
• 1 x Wooden Butterfly
• 7 x Tags for you to decorate
• 1 pack of Handmade Sticker embellies
• 2 x sheets of Sentiment stickers.
• 1 x sheet of mini alphabet stickers
• 4 x sheets of “inchie” style picture stickers
• 1 x Packet of Petaloo Flowers in Lime Green, White & polka dot.

All you need to do to win is…

jump a few hurdles ha no, seriously

Simply 

1. follow me 

2. link up to Mr Linky widget below

3. Leave a comment - if you want to

4. Put me on your sidebar to advertise my candy - if you want to

[edit 25/11/11 - The only thing you need to do to win is get your name into Mr Linky & Follow me ]


Very simple really!


Trish (my very good friend from Trish & Treasure) is so very competitive, and she is very pleased with her Blog Stats and the number of followers she has. (at my last look it was 133)


At this point I would like to thank those of you who do follow me now – as I said to Trish in my own defence – at least my followers are genuinely following me because they like me. You are all welcome to enter this Candy :)


Trish had joined a linky party some time ago where everybody on the list had to follow everybody else and her follower numbers skyrocketed overnight. I deemed this as cheating at the time, but as they say – all is fair and love and war. So now it’s my turn to cheat!


I will draw my Blog Candy as soon as I have the same number of (or more) followers as my lovely cheating friend Trish
GAME ON!!!
edited 21-11-11 - We'll draw it at 133 followers to be fair to Trish :)


ps. to her credit – she is now doing You Tube Tutorials and totally surpassing my abilities. Check her out if you get the chance, she’s amazing!


Well, without further ado,,, here is Mr Linky…