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Craft Barn is giving away a TON of goodies!

Every once in a while I get to actually go ready other crafters' blogs and this morning while doing that I came across some awesome blog candy over at The Craft Barn. It's only open until Sept 9th, so hop over there right away!

Birthday Blog Candy Winner Announced!

Scroll down to find the winner announced today, August 4, 2012

Guess what I bought myself for my Birthday? While you're at it try to guess who can't find the place where Blogger wants to find pictures to upload? Ok, first answer is an iPad!!! second answer is me! I can't for the life of me figure out why Blogger won't let me upload pictures from this thing, so ended up emailing the blog candy pic to blogger for this post. Now let's see if it worked. Oh, the deets: 1. Be a follower 2. Leave a comment on this post 3. Please spread the word about my giveaway! 4. Post the candy on your sidebar or send me a link to your other method of sharing. 5. Oh and please make sure you leave your email address if it is not on your blog. 6. Due to the high cost of postage this is open to U.S. residents only. I will leave this open until August 3rd and will use a random number generator to choose the winner. In case the picture doesn't come through and I have to try another method, there are several packages of stickers, journalling tablet, loads of seam binding ribbon, Stampin Up ribbon, micro beads, Sizzlets, Spellbinders impressibilities and much more!



The winner is....... Nana from My Crafting Channel Congratulations!

Sharing the love - more candy!

Well this time it's about a fellow blogger who has an awesome giveaway on her blog. Go check it out:

$150.00 Joann Fabrics Gift Card "250 Follower Giveaway"

 Give Nana a shoutout for me and good luck to you all!

Speaking of Birthdays.... Blog Candy Coming Soon!

Now that I have my step-father-in-law and dad's birthdays out of the way it's time to move on to my own on July 6th. I was trying to come up with some fabulous and significant numbers thing, like hmmm, I was born in 1954, had 184 blog posts, my first blog post was 40 months ago and I have 114 followers (adding the Google Friend Connect and Networked Blogs together), OH and I can retire in 2014. So what's the common number in all of those? Yup #4! Oh hey, I just thought of another 4... the year I graduated from college after a long haul of over ten years on and off .... 1984. What's this got to do with blog candy you say? Well I want to put together something really special to celebrate. Should I do 4 different packages of blog candy? Or maybe a 4 pound package of goodies, or four of each item? Any ideas? Stay tuned because I'll be announcing my decision on my birthday and will post pictures and rules then. Mark your calendars for Friday, July 6th and if you're not already a follower you might as well sign up now!

Pop Up Birthday Card for my Dad

I wanted to make a tactile card for my dad who is legally blind, so put the pedal to the metal... err, how about the fingers to the keyboard and metal to the paper (as in the blade on my machine cutting paper) and created this wonderful Happy Birthday pop up card. I dug through my files for the perfect card that I remembered seeing somewhere and found the svg file by one of my all-time favorite bloggers, Penny Duncan. If you've never heard of her you don't know what you're missing because she is one VERY talented lady! Hop on over to her blog when you have a chance and just drool over her art. She's also got an Etsy shop where you can purchase some of her products and collections.

Dad can see outlines and shadows, so I used a dark background cardstock layered with light shadows. The embellishments are from K&Company and were chosen because they bring back fond memories of camping  with my family as a kid (lantern), how my dad provided direction for my life (compass), how he was always doing something with his hands, sometimes requiring cleaning fluid to clean up; and 49.... well it's just there!

Card for my step-father-in-law's 90th Birthday

Saturday we'll be celebrating my step-father-in-law's 90th Birthday, so I made a special card for the occasion. I bought the DCWV Heirloom Stack a while back and finally pulled it out. I love the vintage and masculine papers included in that stack and hope to make more cards with it soon. The colors remind me of his favorite chair and the decor of their living room.