Twinking Tuesday 17: In with the Old

Hi everyone!! I have my Twinkling Tuesday card ready to post finally. But before I get to that, I would like to take a moment and share some little bits of info with you:

1. Monsters are on sale for 50% off today over at Paper Makeup. It's a Super Tuesday sale so if you've been eyeing them, today is a great day to pick them up.

2. Grab your calendar and mark down the next Cuttlebug Challenge event. You don't want to miss it. If you caught our "Luv Bug" event back in February, you know how great that one was. This one is going to top it!! See details below:


That's right - we are giving away over $1,000 in prizes.


Okay, back to Twinkling Tuesday!! This week we were given the challenge: "In with the Old" to use a stamp we had never used before. I would like to say that was a difficult assignment. But, it wasn't: the hard part was deciding which stamp to use!! Can you relate?

I have had this image from Little Paper Shop printed off for a few weeks and decided that she was going to be the lucky stamp to receive some love today. This line of digi stamps are adorable in my opinion. I love their cute little faces. I saw that there are some new ones available now that I am sure will be coming home to my laptop soon!

Last week on the Cuttlebug Challenge blog we paired up with Sheetload to launch their April issue. I loved working with the sketch last week and decided to use it again today. I colored my image with Prismascolors and baby oil. The patterned paper was a bit of scrap left over from a Ten Second Studio class I took on Saturday.

You should try out the sketch this month - there are great prizes at stake.

1. Link your card up by tonight at Cuttlebug Challenge for the chance to win clear and frosted card blanks from Shortcuts.

2. Link your card up at Sheetload for the chance to win one of two sets from The Greeting Farm. I'm going to win one set and it would be sooo cool if you won the second set! (I believe in positive thinking! *grin*)

We would love to see you participate in this week's Twinkling Tuesday challenge. If you do, please use keyword MTTSC17 when uploading at SCS or PCP so we can see them! Stop by the rest of the Twinklettes to see what neglected stamp they used this week!

Bonnie Sharp
Christi Thorsen
Danni Bindel
Darla
Debbie Lee
Heather Schlatter
Jacquie Peifer
Jami Bova
Janna Hull
Jennifer Greco
Jessica Diedrich
Kim
Kimmie Doktor
Rebecca Ednie
Sandra McLean

ETA: Don't forget Heather - of The Best in Life - she is a new addition to our team! I'm so glad she's finally joined us as she is mega talented!!

Be Inspired #25: Sheetload Shortcut Shoutout

Hm - say that three times fast!!! LOL
This week Alicia from Sheetload and Shortcuts is the sponsor over at the Cuttlebug Challenge blog. It's an intersite challenge as the Sheetload team is also revealing the new issue. We were given some of the acetate and frosted blanks to play with this week. I have to say, I thought that I had really good acetate sheets until I got these in the mail. They are a wonderful thickness and emboss beautifully!

I used the Textile folder to emboss the clear card base and eliminated a layer as I really wanted to see through the card. I used my ink pads and waterbrush to color my image before mounting to the Raspberry Tart paper. My sentiment was trimmed closely and added without matting to my card. Two hot pink gems finish it off.

Be sure to visit the Cuttlebug Challenge blog to see what the rest of the team created. You won't be disappointed. You can also view the sketch. Sheetload is providing the prize this week - some wonderful card blanks. Be sure to leave your creation using the sketch in Mr Linky at the CBC blog. And visit the Sheetload blog too to see the new issue and what their team came up with using the same sketch!!

If you haven't taken the survey regarding the Cuttlebug and what you'd love to see in future releases, be sure to do so. Be sure to follow the blog too - one there are 1000 followers, more sneak peeks will be revealed and prizes will be given away!!

Keep scrolling to see my Flutter By work for this week!

ShoutOut to SheetLoad - May 2008

That's right the May 2008 issue of SheetLoad of Cards is up. You can find it HERE.

It's full of really great cards. The sponsor this month is Stamping Bella - just love those stamps. Now, before you think I'm just sharing for the sake of sharing - which, I *am* but....I'm also being a little self-serving here. You see, by letting YOU know about the new issue, I'm being entered into a drawing for a new bella stamp. And it's one I don't have and would really, really like to have! Here's the cool thing - you can do the same thing and maybe *you'll* win - the runner up prize at least, because I am going to claim that Bella stamp for myself. God says to speak things into existence.......but hurry, you need to have it posted by May 11th!

I'd love to share a card with you today - maybe it will happen. My computer is not recognizing my external hard drive today and that is where all my photos are. I started to get down on the floor and de-tangle all the cords and mess with it. But then I realized that I don't really know what all the cords are for and that even though I vacuumed in here recently (2 weeks is recent, right?) that there is corgi hair on the floor and I don't want to mess with it. So I'm going to keep working on the laundry and bringing order to my stamp space = AGAIN!!

Have a beautiful day!!