Lots and lots of cards...

that you won't be seeing in Paper Crafts magazine that is.

Last week was the submission deadline for Paper Crafts Go to Sketches for Card Makers. Can you believe they received almost 2760 cards? Can you believe out of those cards they only publish 288? That is a huge cut and a lot of amazing cards that won't make it into the magazine. I submitted 7 and unfortunately none of them made it :(

Since I wasn't alone someone had the great idea to link up all the cards that didn't make it. How fun is that? I have loved seeing eveyone's cards and they were definitely good enough to be in that issue! It all starts on Dr. Amber's Blog HERE.

And here are two of my cards that I submitted-

Now for an update on the giveaway I mentioned last week. I am still sorting through stuff in my scrapbook room. So far I have a huge stack of 12 x 12 papers, rubons, stickers, brads and ribbons that I will be giving away this week. Just a few more things to sort through and I'll post all the details!

Thanks for coming by today!

Card Inspiration Challenge

Hello sweeties! I hope everyone had a great Valentine's day!

My husband and I don't exchange gifts so I was surprised to receive from him two frames (one with a pic of us and one with a pic of the girls), a box of Fannie Mae Pixies (I quickly figured out they were 3 points each on the points plus system) and two bouquets of flowers. He told me now they would fill up my vase better. Besides the yelling and tantrums from Frances that have become our usual routine now I would say it was a pretty good night :)

This weekend I found out that my card was chosen for the member appreciation challenge at My Scrapbook Nook. Yay!!! I don't think that I mentioned that I was chosen as a guest designer during their last design team call yet. I am super excited to be a guest dt member because their kits are the BEST! Not only was my card the inspiration, but the guest dt'ers were asked to create examples. So I was able to create an example card too.

Here is the card that was chosen. I created this for Nikki Sivils using the "My Friend Birdie" line a few months ago.

And herer is my  lift on it. I used the February Nook kit and this was my very first time using Webster's Pages. The paper is so pretty I almost had a panic attack cutting it! Everything was from the Feb. kit except the ribbon and jewels.

You can play along with this challege and see the rest of the DT's cards on the message board. I would love to see your take on the inspiration card.

Thanks for stopping by!!