new punch I won

Here's a card I made today, using a new punch I just won.  It's fab.  I love it already. And so useful!  I won several others things, but you'll just have to wait and see for those!  This is a card for my little Dahlia's mama who has a birthday coming up real soon, and she loves elephants - so how fitting!

Here's a new card I made for a friend of my older brother - who sometimes has been like a brother to me. I think he'll like the humor - about me always being younger!  I really love this image by Mo - I've used it for so many different things!

Scrappy Chick has some goodies

The Scrappy Chick has some goodies up for grabs for some of her followers, and I'm one who hopes to win!  Some paper, stencils, gift certificate and some stamps - Goodies! for 4 winners.  Worth to trip to her blog to find out how to enter.

Here's my card for the new Challenge over at Digi Darla's.  This one is called, "Festive Flowers" and I found a cute little image for that.  My girlfriend Laura has several gardens, and although a lot of it is produce, she does have flowers too!  And my flower beds have all just been redone (by someone else I may add!) and ready for new plants.  I can hardly wait to get it set up with new stuff.

My sweet Dahlia

This picture was from a few weeks ago. She loves to rough-house around. My son Steven does that with her a lot I think! Here's she's trying to get my toes!

Sweet Dahlia Anne, she's getting so big. She's just 14 months old last week.

Hubby and I are surely enjoying all our visits with her. I've been taking a few videos, so that's one reason there haven't been many pictures of her recently.

Bursting with Buttons

Today's challenge card is using a Digi Darla's image that is so cute! And I hope a clever idea using buttons!

The image is called Dress Shop.

The challenge runs through April 7th so there is plenty of time to join in. Just remember to use a Digi Darla image and buttons!

kristin has a giveaway

Here's what she says:

I am giving away one $100.00 Gift Certificate to Scrapbook.com Superstore to one lucky winner!! Have something on your wish list that you are dieing to purchase? Want any of the new CHA items? Look no further!! You could be the winner of my HUGE $100.00 Give~A~Way!!

In order to be entered into the $100.00 Scrapbook.com Superstore Gift Certificate here is what you need to do!

1.) Become a follower of this blog Kristin Wilson Handmade!

2.) Post about my $100.00 Give~A~Way on your blog.

3.) Leave a comment on this post with a link to your blog post about my $100.00 Give~A~Way.

So, sounds good to me and I love the box she just made - go check it out!!

Artist point of view of "using" their art

Please click the title above and go read this!!

It's the best explanation of how to use images properly and the reasons why! No rant, just clearly written how things work.

Now for my 2 Cents Worth: She explains this so well, I hope more people understand this now. Some artists get rather testy and nasty about it (even if it's for a good reason - no one pays attention then). Then one just remembers the "rants" I think and not the point. This is the best description I've ever read that explains the artist point of view!

Cupcake card

Here's a card I made with the new cupcake image from Birdie Brown. This was on sale, and I just had to get it!!

I love cupcakes, and they are so cute to use for anyone's birthday card. Who doesn't love 'em?!

PLEASE GO VOTE FOR ME!..

I only have a few votes, please go vote for me now!

I entered into this contest months ago, and they've just now advised me that I'm one of the finalists, so please read the note below and go there and vote for me to win some storage things for my crafting space!

When you put this http://www.facebook.com/wayfair into your address bar and hit enter, then on the left column, click on: Worst Workspace Contest, and then -- at least on my screen -- the voting tab is way, way down and doesn't even show up on the initial screen - so just scroll down and then click vote. Another screen will come up and My entry is also way down at the bottom, (says Terri from Indiana) and you need to click on VOTE and then it will ask for your email address for verification (it stops people voting for themselves a lot!)

This ends March 16, so please go vote soon!! Thanks so much.

I could certainly use the prize!

Here's what they wrote:

Dear Worst Workspace Finalist,

Get excited! The voting part of the contest had started on our Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/wayfair

In order to vote you must click on the Worst Workspace Contest tab and like us. Then you will have to enter an email address to vote, and you will be sent an email to verify that address and then you will be allowed to vote once with that email address.

We’ll be running the voting until Friday March 16, 2012, and the person with the most votes at the end of the voting period is guaranteed a spot in the top 5.

Please share this with your friends and family and have fun.

Crafters Reference Candy -WOW!

I love this little Magnolia image, and so I decided to use it for an entry at http://craftersreference.blogspot.com/.

She has some fabulous candy, and I wanna win!!

Go check it out, it runs until March 13.

but don't bother signing up - cause I want to win it.

Think Spring @ Digi Darla's

Here's my card for the Think Spring challenge at Digi Darla's.

This time it is sponsored by Robyn's Fetish.

You get two whole weeks to create whatever you'd like, using a Digi Darla image and the theme of Think Spring! Come on, join in and have a little fun!

Anji's Antics Challenge again

I don't know if this is allowed for the challenge, but I was on a roll today, so I used several more of the images to make cards. My hubby came home from work needing an older gentleman's birthday card, and then a friend's mother just passed away and I needed a sympathy card and I've learned to make more than one of those at a time, and since the challenge ends tonight, I decided to enter these also. If not allowed, I'm sure someone will tell me!

But they are great images, and worked perfectly for me today!

Anji Antics Challenge

Here's a couple Easter cards I made using some of the images from Anji's Antics!

She has wonderful freebies all the time. If you haven't checked them out, you should!

my blog candy winner!!

*** Candy has been claimed and mailed! to the Phillipines!

Here is the candy that will be sent, along with a copy of my son's book - Naked Summer, to the winner of my blog candy........

and the winner is....

Luanne!! of the CraftersReferenceshop.blogspot.com

I will try to send an email, but the winner MUST also respond here on my blog in the comments AND send me their information (mailing address) to: terriavidreader at yahoo dot com.

If I don't hear from the winner with this info by Feb. 22, a new winner will be chosen.

BLOG CANDY TIME!

OK - CANDY is now CLOSED.

I am working with the lists from this time and adding in those who participated before (when I didn't get enough to complete the candy) and will have a winner posted by tomorrow morning! Thanks to all who played.

Just a couple more days to Enter!

Well, I'm giving this Blog Candy another try. I thought for those of you who are suffering through winter, you might like a good read with dreams of summer!

I have a new book, just released this summer, that was written by my oldest son, Andrew Scott. And I'm giving a copy away as blog candy, along with some other crafting goodies that I'm compiling. (I may add a photo of those later)

Now if you signed up for this before when I first tried it as blog candy this summer and then canceled it because not enough people joined in, well your name is on a list and I'll add it again. SO, for those same people, if you want to get a double chance you can also sign up again this time and be entered for the 2nd time, and all others just get one entry! And no matter what, I'll be giving it away this time around as long as 10 people sign up!

This candy runs through Valentine's Day - and I will ship it anywhere. No other requirements, except I'd love to know what book you are currently reading, but it's not required. Please just comment below with a way to reach you should you be the winner!

Digi Darla's Challenge

The new challenge is: Anything but Snow!

And this cute image certainly reflects my wish for that!!

I can't really complain, we haven't had any where near the usual amount of snow here in Indiana - course now that I've said that we'll get tons!

Come over to the challenge and participate. It's fun and there is always a chance at a cute image!

Day 346 Spread the Word

I have a lot of birthdays coming up, so I made a little head start today. And then I saw 346 Spread the Word Challenge at 365 Cards and had to join in!

Go check it out Here.

SwagGrabber

SwagGrabber is at 25,000 Fans – Win 1 of 100 Amazon Gift Cards!
REMINDER – So excited that SwagGrabber has reached 25,000 fans on Facebook. To celebrate I decided to reward 100 readers with an Amazon gift card!

She is offering smallers cards, could reward MORE readers than just one or two. Prizes will be (50) $1.00 gift cards – (20) $5 gift cards – (5) $10 gift cards – (2) $25 gift cards – (1) $50 gift card. Needless to say, your odds are great of winning at least something!

Click “read more” to enter….
PLEASE VERIFY YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS CORRECT- prizes will be automatically sent to it.

To enter simply follow the instructions on the Rafflecopter below. This contest will run until 12:01am 2/4/12. You can gain extra entries for completing the tasks – follow in Twitter, etc. The values of the gift cards will range from $1 to $50 ($300 total value) and the winners will be randomly selected.

Note: you might want to add admin@swaggrabber.com to your address book to ensure your prize doesn’t go into your spam folder. Only the entries on the Rafflecopter will count.

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Prairie Fairy and what I love!

The Prairie Fairy has some candy, and she wants to know what I love - well, tons of things, but my favorite is my little granddaughter who just turned 1 year old a couple weeks ago. She's so adorable. And luckily I get to see her often!

Now go check out the Candy for yourself!