Hyper-copic-lating...

...before you pick up the phone and call 911 on my behalf, let me just make it clear that it is not a medical term and I am not in any kind of medical emergency! *LOL* Although it sure FEELS like it!

I have just completed my COPIC order!

I just could NOT pass this up - Oozak.com is having a MAJOR Copic sale! I pondered sharing this information with everyone because then maybe they'd be all sold out of the colours I had to leave behind when I'm ready to place my next order next week! HAHAHAHA...but you know I can't keep secrets from you, so there it is! Un-freaking-believable! I'm not even going to say it...but I am SO excited! Especially since my Copic Certification application was accepted and all set and ready to go in March. How cool is it that I'll get to bring my OWN COPICs? That is just awesome. Of course, now I'll have to sell myself...HAHAHA, okay, I'm just kidding, I won't take that sentence any further....just remembered that my mom subscribed to my blog last week...*giggles*

I can barely type my fingers are shaking! And I thought I was excited about the Nesties. This definitely takes the cake, tops the big one, puts the cherry on top, blah blah blah. It's AWESOME! Take it from me, I have been looking all over for these, searching every single website I could find, price comparing, putting them in my cart, taking them out of my cart...etc., etc., I would definitely be the worst kind of silly if I let these pass me by without at least getting some! I am hoping that I'll be able to place another order in the next week or so - heck, I'll just keep trying until the price change takes place in March!

So take it from me and my ranting/raving - Oozak isn't giving me anything extra to go on and on about them (although that would be a pretty good bonus...LOL) but I just can't wait to get my hot little hands on these!

Here's the damage (or blessing, if you really think about it!):

SKETCH

1. B60 - Pale Blue Gray
2. B99 - Agate
3. BV00 - Iridescent Mauve
4. BV11 - Soft Violet
5. BV25 - Grayish Violet
6. BV29 - Slate
7. C0 - Cool Gray #0
8. C10 - Cool Gray #10
9. E00 - Skin White
10. E33 - Sand
11. E31 - Brick Beige
12. E47 - Dark Brown
13. E74 - Cocoa Brown
14. R02 - Flesh
15. R46 - Strong Red
16. Y11 - Pale Yellow
17. Y18 - Lightning Yellow
18. YR00 - Silk
19. 110 - Special Black
20. B28 - Royal Blue
21. B21 - Baby Blue

CIAO

1. 0 - Colorless Blender
2. B95 - Light Grayish Cobalt
3. B97 - Night Blue
4. E02 - Fruit Pink
5. E08 - Brown
6. E29 - Burnt Umber
7. C5 - Cool Gray #5
8. E49 - Dark Bark
9. G14 - Apple Green
10. G99 - Olive
11. R85 - Rose Red
12. R05 - Salmon Red
13. R11 - Pale Cherry Pink
14. RV13 - Tender Pink
15. RV95 - Baby Blossoms
16. RV29 - Crimson
17. Y06 - Yellow
18. V000 - Heath
19. V06 - Lavender
20. V95 - Light Grape
21. Y38 - Honey
22. B24 - Sky
23. E21 - Baby Skin Pink
24. E35 - Chamois
25. E50 - Egg Shell
26. R59 - Cardinal
27. W5 - Warm Gray #5
28. Y02 - Canary Yellow
29. YR61 - Yellowish Skin Pink
30. YR68 - Orange
31. C9 - Cool Gray #9

Woo-hoo!!! Don't ask me if I know if these colours will go together or whether or not I really know how to use them! Who cares! I'm getting them and WILL know how to use them eventually! Don't even ask me why I got Sketches and Ciaos...*LOL* I really like Sketch, but when I was placing my order, the numbers kept getting higher and I had to stop...until I remembered that Ciao's are slightly less in price and I thought I'd be able to pick up some of the colours I left behind in the Sketch category. Ah well, it doesn't matter, I'll soon be able to find out and tell the difference myself.

Happy COPIC day, everyone!

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Wishy-washy...

...where, oh where are my wishes?! I've wished for SO many things since CHA (bad, enabling CHA!) and it has led to the accumulation of more things for me in the past week or so!

I thought it would be fun to look back at my earlier wish-lists when I first started papercrafting to see how far I've come...(or how broke I've gotten, whichever way you choose to look at it!)

My Wishlist #1
More cartridges - Paper Doll, Stretch, Alphalicious and Fabulous Finds and Doodle Charm being at the top - but really, I would say ALL of them
Nestabilities - Scalloped circles - both sizes, but again, I would say ALL of them
Cricut Expressions - I put this third on the list considering I haven't even gotten my Baby Bug yet...I thought I would give it a fair chance before I start lusting after the E...
More Stickles - when they come in lots of different colours, well...then I want them ALL!
More Cuttlebug embossing folders - because you just need them ALL!
ATG - haven't gotten the fever for this yet, but I know it's only a matter of time...
Design Studio - from what I've heard so far, it sounds a bit intimidating, but I shall CONQUER it...once I get it...
STAMPS! - Penny Black, Stampendous, House Mouse and basically ALL those cute little stamps everyone seems to have! But I could always use more!
Secret Sister - Lurking the secret brother/sister boards is like how people can't get enough of reality shows. I love looking through and looking at all the fabulous things everyone is getting. I haven't signed up yet because I want to make absolutely sure I'll be able to devote 100% to it, but everyone is just so great.
Random stuff - so I can be ready for a secret sister and also so I can start doing some RAKs!

Wishlist #2
More carts - Walk in my Garden (is that what it's called?)
Nestabilities - mostly the small and large scalloped circles
Cricut Design Studio
Cricut Expressions
Radiant Rain (or distress inks and perfect pearls to make my own) Unnecessary
Distress Inks
Perfect Pearls
Twinkling H20's
Mini Misters
MORE stamps (I think I've been able to acquire quite a few Studio G stamps and some House Mouse - but you can never have enough stamps!)
MORE paper (different textures - I think Bazzill is quite popular?)
More random things like stickers and embellies, etc. for RAKs (I must learn to not want to keep them all the time!)

*LOL* Well, it looks like I"m doing a pretty good job on getting things crossed off my checklist! Obviously there are things there that I didn't really have to scratch off, because, I mean...when do you REALLY have enough stamps? NEVER! Same goes for paper and fun little embellies! And now, especially after seeing the new releases at CHA, my list of course has gotten longer even though I've managed to cross a few things off! It's a bitter, never-ending cycle - only bitter because I have no money! HAHAHAHA...

But besides buying things and getting a little bit of crafting in, here's a little progress on my scraproom overhaul:

Ooooh!!! Doesn't it look so PRETTY!!! I feel just as contrary as Mary with all my Stickles all in a row!

The top shelf is my little mason jars full of embellies from the dollar store. Second and third rows are all my glitter-anythings...Stickles, Martha's, Studio G's...so PRETTY! The other rows are my acrylic dabbers, distress inks and powders, crackle paints, and Studio G ink pads - all from Marti over at Pez-a-Doodle Designs!

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Spring flowers...

...am I ever ready to see them! I am so tired of this SNOW!

Maybe that's why I keep turning to my Flower Soft. It makes it feel just a little bit closer to Spring and warm weather! According to the weather forecast, it's supposed to go up to plus six (in Celsius) this Friday! I can't WAIT, so to celebrate the warm weather coming, here's a little Spring-y looking baby card:

I'm sorry this post is a little on the short side! I've got a little puppy who keeps jumping up on me, insisting that I pay attention to him or else he'll chew up my shoes again!

Materials:
(All products and materials are from Pez-a-Doodle Designs unless otherwise stated)
Stamp: Victorian Flower Carriage by Uptown Rubber Stamps (Scribe's Nook)
Ink: Adirondack black ink
DP: Bo Bunny (Pezzy's Picks)
Accessories/Embellishments: Flower Soft, chipboard tag (Dollarama), ribbon (Michaels)
Techniques: Coloring with (Reeves) watercolor pencils, water and generic paint brush

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I Heart You...

...there is nothing like a card full of prettiness to turn a frown upside down.

It's just one of those days, lemme tell ya! But here's a card that pretty much made itself last night! I was really happy with how it all came together as I was pretty much working off the top of my head.

I think working in a clean scraproom is definitely an asset - which is too bad, since after last night's creation station, it's not as clean as it was right before I started! Oops! A friend of mine had come over the other night to help with the scraproom overhaul and she made me promise to employ the 'make-and-clean' strategy since I'm more of a 'make-and-leave-it' kind of creator. We'll just keep her out of the scraproom until I get that stuff cleaned up, I guess! *LOL*

Anywho, on to the prettiness:

I can't get over how much I love how this turned out! After all the fussiness of cutting out the stamped images, it was pretty much stick and go from there! Thanks for looking!

Materials:
All materials from Pez-a-Doodle Designs unless otherwise stated.
Stamps: Studio G (sentiment), Autumn Leaves (Wal-Mart), Inkadinkadoo
Ink: Memento Ink
DP: Bo Bunny (Pezzy's Picks line)
Accessories/Embellishments: Martha Stewart Lace Punch (Michaels), chipboard ribbon slider (Dollarama), Inkssentials white gel pen, Stickles

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Oh, wherefore art thou...

...MONEY? But shopping, oh how I've MISSED YOU! It's been too long...but I can see that I have made up for it in only a couple of days! Ay-yay-yay...

CHA is such an enabler...but here we go:

*SQUEALS* Do you SEE THOSE?! Those, my dear friends, are NESTABILITIES! Do you know how long I've been wanting these? And now, I'm finally getting them!

After seeing the Spellbinders booth and seeing the demos, I knew they were a must-have-now. I've been holding off on them for so long thinking that I could do what they can do myself, but it's just not the same. I've seen how great they can make any project look. So nice and cleanly embossed lines or pretty little scallops. What took me so long? (Well, I know why it took me so long...but Terri aka terrikrafts from The Board is making it SO easy. I wish I had met her sooner. She is such a doll to deal with and she actually took the trouble to weigh my entire order and then each one separately to see which would be the most economical in shipping! Plus, you just can't beat her prices! I've got her contact information if you're looking for it - don't hesitate to ask, I don't bite! So that's my first order from her and she's getting the new ones in as well, and oh my-my-my, do I need to get a few more jobs! *LOL*

Okay...and then there's:

Oh, I want to go home now and play! But there it is: flock assortment FOR ME! Fuzzy hearts, duckies and flowers, here I COME! I can't WAIT to try this out...it's a miracle I haven't opened the package already, but I'm right in the middle of a complete scraproom overhaul that I would totally lose them if I even tried to take them out of their package now. But like I'd like to believe, all the best things are worth the wait, and it'll definitely be worth it to wait until my scraproom is spic and span and beautiful to start making MORE fun things in it (and probably more mess, but who am I kidding, we all know that...)

So fun new goodies just WAITING to be used and turned into prettiful creations, but for now, I leave you with my scraproom "before" pictures *winces*:

But ask me to find something for you and I'll have it *snaps* just like that! *LOL*

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Confession #11...

...wow, it's been a while since I've done one of these! But I was sorely reminded of it when I went to do a little blog-hopping this morning at work before start time.

I'm really sorry for those of you this applies to, I don't mean anything by it and it just might help with your traffic...but I SERIOUSLY have a hard time with blogs that have music. ANY kind of music, but with the loud, fast kind of music. I mean, even if I like the song, I still don't like blogs with music. Especially if I want to have peeks at blogs here at work and on my break, it practically makes me jump out of my seat when music starts blaring out of my usually quiet speakers.

But it's not even when I'm not work...when I look at blogs at home, too. I don't know, I think I just find it a little bit distracting and takes attention away from what I'm coming to see, which is crafty ideas and creations, etc. Plus, as much as I enjoy the music that I listen to, I don't normally choose to force it upon anyone else either. And sometimes the blogs who have playlists, it takes me forever to find the little dashboard so I can press stop! While I do stay and complete my visit at blogs with music, it does shorten the length of time that I choose to stay - especially when there's no option for me to stop the music. *shrugs* Just my own little confession/preference...maybe others feel the same and maybe not. Just a thought though if you have it and want to keep it...make it easier for me to find the stop button! :)

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Valentine Words...

...there's nothing like finishing off a Monday than by getting your mojo going! And what better way than to participate in Mojo Monday's first Monday of the month contest!

This is pretty much my first time participating in anything, so I am very excited to just have something to contribute! *LoL*

Here we go:

The Mojo Monday sketch for today!

And my take on the sketch, a la Valentine's Day...

Well...I'm sure I could have done more with it, but I still LOVE how it turned out! I had started it last night without even thinking about the challenge and luckily, it worked out with just a little bit of tweaking. Sooo, here's the 411 on the card du jour!

All products and materials from Pez-a-Doodle Designs unless otherwise stated
Stamps: Studio G (Holiday Series)
Paper: Bo Bunny DP from Pezzy's Picks line at PaDD
Embellishments: Foam hearts from Dollarama
Other: Flower Soft (dyed to match using Alcohol Inks from PaDD) and Martha Stewart edge punch (Michaels)

Thanks for looking!

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Pretty in Purple...

...bonjour mon cheries!

I thought I would try out a little bit of the romantic language as we move into the most romantic month of the year!

I've been digging around in the scraproom shoving things around to make little bits of desk room for me and can I just say how much of a disaster it is in there?! I think it's definitely time to get onto another scraproom overhaul - and this one will be HUGE! There's so much more things to make room for - especially when my Nesties come in! *squeals* Oh Terri, I just can't wait!

I also went trolling around a bit at a couple of my LSS! Coming back from CHA has not only inspired my imagination and creativity (I HOPE) but also my wallet! It was just too torturous to be around all those fun goodies and NOT be able to buy them ASAP! How could they do that to a girl, I ask you?

So far, despite all my awesome other goodies, I've been having so much fun with my Scor-Pal and Flower Soft! I think I really want to get a handle of it and all that I can do with it before I move on to something else (*whispers* I've finally got my hands on the Doodlebug fun flock sample pack and I can not WAIT to try it out!)

So anywho...here is my card for today! Because of the awesome things I can do while playing around with my Scor-Pal, I kept it pretty minimalistic.

I know it's more purple flower soft, I swear that I do have more colours, but for some reason, I always feel like I gravitate to the colour! It's my FAVOURITE, what can I say? Currently, I'm not even sure what occasion this card can be used for, but I think I will leave it pretty generic. I've been putting together a big treasure box full of different cards for my mom since last Mother's Day, and this will go in there to be used however she would like! I think a bridal shower card, or a fancy birthday card!

I used just plain ol' cardstock and prettied it up with diagonal scores from my Scor-Pal and stamped my image (it's a pretty flowery dress stamp from Stamping Bella) in archival ink. I dotted each flower with glue and outlined the flared part of the dress and sprinkled my lavender Flower Soft all over. Once the flower soft was off the dress, I used my lavender Martha Stewart glitter for some more added prettiness of course and lined the 'buttons' with Diamond Stickles! I pop-dotted it onto my scored card and put a little square crystal at each place the scores interlaced...and voila! Finished product!

All materials and products are available from Marti over at Pez-a-Doodle Designs. You can check those out and other way cool projects and products any time you're looking for fun new things to try out or become more familiar with!

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CHA Ultimate Giveaway WINNER!

...Hel-looooo ALL! It's 2:36 in the morning and I am STILL awake! CHA is still with me as we speak...I just can't get to sleep - all the different things are still running through my head, especially...

My CHA ULTIMATE Giveaway and the WINNER!

I apologize I was a little behind in choosing my winner, but it was SO AWESOME to go through all your comments and thoughts and suggestions and questions! I am still trying to answer them all or get back to you if you had comments, so please be patient with me!

So...my WINNER of the CHA ULTIMATE Giveaway, who posted on every single 'Confessions of a CHA Convention-er' posts was...

RENEE!!!

*SQUEALS* CONGRATULATIONS! Renee, thanks SO much for 'coming with me' on my first ever trip to CHA (or first ever trip all alone, for that matter) and for taking part in all the CHA festivities! I hope that you had just as much fun as I did discovering all the new things CHA had to offer and had a great time meeting a bunch of new people with me! I'm sorry that we weren't able to meet in person, but who knows, maybe next year!

I am so happy for you for being the Tim Holtz Advantis line winner of my CHA Ultimate Giveaway courtesy of Pez-a-Doodle Designs!

Just as a reminder, the Advantis line will not be released and available for shipping from Ranger until mid-to-end March and will ship to you AS SOON as Marti from Pez-a-Doodle Designs receives it! I'm sorry that I couldn't choose EVERYONE to win something, but there is SURE to be more fun and fancy giveaways for me to host in the future (especially with Marti's/Hampton Arts' Studio G contests to come!) so please stay tuned! And don't forget to check Marti's blog and my DT sister Christine's blog for more fun giveaways going on RIGHT NOW! If you would still like to try out and have fun with the new Ranger releases or any of the new products that Marti is now carrying or has for pre-order at her store, please pop on over and have a look >> Pez-a-Doodle Designs <<!

Renee, please E-Mail me ASAP so that we can get your information on file! The next time we know anything about your prize, you will be the next to know!

Again, thank you EVERYONE for tagging along with me on my trip. I hope that I was able to really make you feel like you were there and part of the action, and I hope that I will see more of you next year at CHA 2010! All your comments and thoughts and funny contributions brought me so much smiles and laughs and most definitely kept me from feeling home-sick or lonely! I hope that you'll stay with me on my upcoming adventures and forays into the crafting world and I look forward to getting to know more of you!

Up next for me is more FLOWER SOFT fun...I can't WAIT to dive completely head-first into this fluffy fun and we'll see what comes of it, huh? Let's GO!

DISCLAIMER: Just some more information on how the winner was chosen based in accordance with the contest rules (set by myself) and the random integer generator. Twenty-nine posters posted on each 'Confessions of a CHA Convention-er' post. These posters were listed in numerical order according to posting and a random integer between the numbers one and twenty-nine was generated. The winning number generated being TWENTY-TWO (22). Please be advised that the rules and contest guidelines were created by myself and the winner was chosen in the most random and un-biased way so as to provide each entrant an equal opportunity to win.

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Go to GIVEAWAY!

...well, if you're not sick of giveaways yet (*gasp* how could sick and giveaways ever be in the same sentence? you ask!) and didn't get a chance to win Marti's fabulous Polka-Dot-Pie stamp line, my DT sister Christine is giving away another TWO sets on her blog! *squeals* Apparently I can't win this one either (*LOL*) but who am I to begrudge another fabulous lady from her chance to win!?

All you need to do is leave a comment >> HERE << by midnight tonight (EST) and you're in the draw! Good luck everyone and happy Friday. I'm taking today off (as much as I can keep myself away) as The Mister has informed me that he has planned to take me hostage the whole day today since we haven't seen each other or spent more than five minutes alone together since even before I left! He's taking me to the movies - to see Confessions of a Shopaholic, no less! And I asked if we could stop by our LSS and he said YES! Such a good man...

Don't you fret though, I will be back and rarin' to go. Before you know it you'll be so sick of me! (*gasp* How could sick and me ever be in the same sentence?!?!) Marti's keeping me on my toes with so many fun new things going on!

If you haven't seen yet, for those of you who have been wanting to try Flower Soft, Marti's giving away a starter box on her blog, so you might want to have a little peek-a-boo over there to see what's what!

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