A birthday cat...

Hi there!

I've read that "moving meditation" is good for you. Some people knit, others paper piece. I fall into the latter group. It's relaxing and fun, what can I say?  The chair and lamp are from the Comfy Cozy set at Unity stamps and the little owl is from their January '10 KOTM. Maddie the cat, though, is making her debut on my blog today. I got her from Lydia at Understand Blue (she modeled her after the real Maddie). I can just imagine the mischief she'll get into. Today, she's appearing on my Hope You Can Cling To Challenge #12 (making a birthday card with paper piecing). Only the owl knows for sure if her case is water tight. What do you think? You can find all the deets in my SCS Gallery.

Oh....and.....gee.....were you checking back to see who won yesterday's blinkie prize? Using Random.org, the winner is......

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dclouser said...

What an amazing card! So creative and inspiring. Congrats on having the blinkie this week!

Congrats, Debbie! Let Jimmi know that you won this week's blinkie prize by emailing her at jimmi.mayo@gmail.com Give her your full name and address so she can get it to you!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)

FWF Blog Hopping at Unity

Another Friday, another fun Friends With Flair hop starting at Unity's blog. Remember to keep your eye out for the "Flair Located Here" blinkie because when you leave some love on that blog, you are automatically entered to win a prize package!

When I saw last week's card sample for the FWF Challenge #48, the doily inspired me. It reminded me of a tablecloth so I dragged out Little Owl again for more fun. This time he's whipping up his Thanksgiving dinner (notice the apron). But you can bet he won't be serving turkey! So this year, in addition to being thankful for his friends and family, he's thankful for his veggies, too. Lol. I had a lot of fun setting his holiday table. Deets can be found on my SCS Gallery.

Are you still with me? Good because.....(drum roll).... I have the blinkie! Your loyalty to this post has been rewarded (hee hee). Just leave me a little love and you'll be entered in the random drawing tomorrow morning for the prize package.

Don't stop now, though. Lots of blogs to still visit and get inspiration from. Have a wonderful weekend....I'll be working on more Hope You Can Cling To challenges.... *smile*

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)

One more challenge card...

Is it midnight yet? Lol. My Friends With Flair Blog Hop post is coming by 9am EST tomorrow. 'Til then I just wanted to sneak in another Hope You Can Cling To challenge card. This one was to use ribbon and you can say I did. I'm hoping this little Suzi Blu cheerleader (from Unity--available through Limelight Papercrafts) will bring good cheer to someone's day. Thanks for looking. As usual, the card deets can be found in my SCS Gallery. Come back for the blog hop!

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)

Another challenge card or two

I'm hooked on another set of challenges through the Hope You Can Cling To forum (see sidebar). This set is a little more daunting. One for every day of October and I joined it on the 24th??? We'll see how many I get done... Lol.

Here's my second one, the HYCCT25 button challenge. I hope to get a couple more done today so check back if you're curious!

This one uses a sweet set from Unity called Along for the Ride. Deets are on my SCS Gallery, as usual.

Thanks for looking!

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)

Hope You Can Cling To Challenge and WOYWW72

Splitcoast Stampers (SCS) is hosting a forum called Hope You Can Cling To. Its purpose is to generate cards (through challenges) to send to the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX to benefit patients being treated for breast cancer and their families. HYCCT Challenge #24 was to use a girl image and the color pink. I love my Suzi Blu girl stamps so out this one came. Her dress just had to be pink and I gave her a layered petticoat to add a little frill. I find it fun to put different stamp sets together and this card uses four different Unity sets. Deets can be found on my SCS Gallery, but I have to tell you that her skirt is actually a large corner stamp! I keep coming back to my Once Upon a Time DP by DCWV when using these girl stamps because it's so fairy tale inspiring.

For my What's On Your Workspace Wednesday friends, here's my desk after making this card and my craft closet close-up is evidence that I finally organized my Unity stamps (but, whoa, the weight on those shelves is making me look bad! Lol). I have an up-to-date notebook with all the images so now I can browse through it and know where to find the stamp I want. The desk is still chaos that only I can maneuver, but that's the way I roll!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)

Happy H{ippity} Hop Day

Hello!
Back from vacay and what did I do? Entered the H{ippity} Hop at the eleventh hour, of course! Lol. That's how craft-deprived I was. Couldn't wait to get back to the craft desk...

These beauties are from Ippity's Fishy Philosophy set. I knew right away that I wanted them to swim in and out of the seaweed in the ocean so I used acetate to accomplish that. I stamped the seaweed with StazOn, colored in the leaves with a Bic Mark-It marker in Key Lime, then paper pieced the fish. Two to swim under the acetate on cool water DP and one lovely to swim above it. I stamped more ocean plants on the front of the card with Versamark Dazzle in Champagne. More deets can be found in my SCS Gallery. Hope you like it!

Join the blog hop here. There will be a random drawing of a comment on one of the blogs for a prize, so be sure to leave love wherever you go!
Happy day to you,

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)

Friday - Friends With Flair Blog Hop

Hello, again. Still away but thought I'd submit this for my FWF Blog Hop. It was a card I made for a Unity challenge that asked for stamping on fabric. I think the country linen I chose was a little too coarse for the ink but it worked okay for the postcard image, just not the sentiment. Had to paper piece that on. I used a great postcard background paper from K&Co and even snipped an extra stamp image to put on my postcard. I tried to come up with the most common name of street and city (I've heard the name Springfield is the most popular city name in the US!) All the deets can be found in my SCS Gallery. Wanna know a fun little fact that will get your blog hop juices flowing? The sentiment I used was from my blinkie prize package! I won back in August and was just overjoyed to get my prize! Now, click here to join this week's blog hop because if you leave a comment on the blog with the blinkie that say's "You've found it!", you'll be entered to win a prize package of your own!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Cindy (aka Scrapcollectr)