Winner & More

First off without delay.... The winner of the Ippity stamps is #22

patty w said...

You do lovely work ! Love the sisters page alot !
Just now getting here, it kept saying service unavailable earlier !
signing up to follow ..
patty 2832

Well Patty I guess it was lucky that the service was unavailable earlier since it made you the winner lol.  Send me your snail mail address at sgray110 at gmail dot com & I'll get your stamps out right away.

Thanks so much to EVERYONE who left such sweet comments over the weekend.  It sure was a great hop with so much inspiration that I'm dying to get to my table and start creating.  I really enjoyed visiting all of your blogs - Fiskateers rock creativity.

Next I thought I would share some things I'm excited about in the scrappy world....

If you haven't already I hope you will join us for the Paperclipping.com Monthly Challenge.  Winner will be spotlighted in the internationally read newsletter that Noell publishes.  See all details in the community forum here.

I love all things Teresa Collins - she is one of the sweetest people in the world.  She is going to be interviewed on Sudie TV tonight.  If you don't know Sudie she is a Fiskateer who has a weekly live web scrapbooking show.  See details here & tune in at 9:30 pm eastern time to hear what's going on with Teresa.

Who doesn't love Prima.... I saw a post about a Prima Idea Book & had to share.  They are having a giveaway on their blog for a copy.  Check it out here.

And finally I wanted to a sneak peak of the School Time mini album I designed & kits will be sold at EMI Scrapbooking in Cumming GA or order & will be shipped to you.  Crate Paper knocked it out of the park with all their lines that are available.  I loved this School Spirit line.  Thanks Susan for the opportunity to create for you.  I love your store, you are such a great friend & have a wonderful family.  (sorry gushing but it's true)

That's it for today... thanks for stopping by & remember do something creative.

Fiskateers Orange Blog Hop

Welcome to our weekend blog hop.  If you've come to my blog from Fiskateer  Marianne then have been hopping along with us.  But I'm sure you will like to start from the beginning so head on over to the Fiskateers blog. Take your time thru the weekend & visit all the blogs.  There are some amazing projects showcased on them.  I'm sure you will be bookmarking or following many blogs along the hop to come back again and again.  Thanks to Debby Lewis for organizing the hop.  So have you been inspired so far.  There are so many creative gals in the Fiskateers group.  I've met so many great people in the Fiskateers group.  


For those of you who don't know me... My name is Suz Gray & I'm known on the web as "craftysuz".  I got that name at age 8 because I would ask for craft kits from the Sears Catalog at Christmas & was always making something.  I'm Fiskateer number 6135.   I'm a longtime scrapbooker.  I have many albums created before there was an industry.  I love anything paper and have enjoyed evolving; developing my style.  I also love to make cards & enjoy sending some of them to Operation Write Home which is an organization that supplies blank handmade cards to our deployed military.  Making cards has caused me to have a "stamp addiction".  To fund my "habit" I sell {ippity} by Unity Stamps here.  All of them are on sale with free shipping.


Sorry for the quality of the photos my so took my DSLR to work so I was stuck with the little old point & shoot at the my LSS & I wasn't used to the lighting there so there are some shadows.  


This is new Fancy Pants Lilac House.  I use my micro point Fiskars scissors to fussy cut images from paper & of course my Fiskars Trimmer..  I'm always using the decorative border punches (I can't believe I didn't use them on any of these pages lol).

No girly layout is complete without some Prima Flowers.

I like stamping on inexpensive canvas from the fabric store.

Echo Park Paper is a new scrapbook company that is stirring up quite the buzz right now.  Here's a page about my best friend Lori & her kitty using their products.

I love the bright colors & banner

The last page I would like to share is a heritage page using an old photo of my grandmother.  She loved fashion.  The new My Mind's Eye is just gorgeous & oh so elegant.  It was perfect for this page.

The flower was made with vintage 1920's hand dyed silk ribbon that I've been saving for just the right story to tell.  It's a perfect match for the MME papers..

**** Woops I forgot to post my giveaway when I was working on this at 1 AM lol... leave a comment & I'll use random number generator to pick a winner.  Prize is Ippity stamp set A Little Buggy MSRP $18.  Comments posted prior to 11:59 PM EST on Sunday, September 12th will be in the drawing.  Follow me & leave another comment for an extra chance..  All comments made before 11 am will auto get 2 entries since I lost my mind and didn't have this posted lol

Well I've kept you long enough.  I hope you will come back & visit again. Now off you go to Jennifer Priest's blog.  She has some beautiful inspiration for you.


Thanks so much for hopping along with us.  Have a wonderful weekend & remember to do something creative....

Fiskateers

I am a member of the Fiskateers. I haven't been a member very long but it's been a great experience. Everyone I've met online & in person has been so nice, friendly, helpful, enthusiastic, inspiring, creative, I could just go on forever with the adjectives....

I think people get intimidated about joining since it's not a type in your name & password then you're in kind of forum/group. I hesitated at first too. All you do have to email one of the 4 gals on the main page & reply back to their email to gain access & create an account. Yes it's a bit different but it's so worth it. The people really make the Fiskateers site a fantastic place.

I hope you will join in the fun over at Fiskateers. Click here to visit the site.
There is an online crop going on today so now is the perfect time to see what's going on.

Made My Day

Yesterday I was still feeling really sick but better than the weekend. I was online checking email & popping in on some of my favorite sites... I am now Fiskateer number 6135 (Thanks Debby & Sudie for encouraging me to join - it's not a click & you're in site but very worth joining)

I saw MY name on the 2peas pub board! Noell (from Paperclipping) is just too sweet she tooted me in this post. Apparently one of you clicked on the sidebar link & purchased a premium membership. Well I was their first member who earned a commission (they started that reward about a week or so ago). So whoever you are thank you so much. I promoted Noell before the commission because I have gotten so much out of watching the videos & the community/live show has blessed me with some wonderful creative friendships. So I just wanted to share the sweet words Noell wrote about me...

Hey, ladies, I gotta toot for my girl, CraftySuz because she's done so much over at Paperclipping.com recently. Here's the list of her recent toot-worthy successes: She was the first to make a commission from Paperclipping's new affiliate program, which we just started! Woo-hoo, that was fast! She won the monthly Paperclipping Challenge for the second time. She was asked to be one of our two coordinators/judges of our monthly challenges (and she accepted). Thanks for letting me toot for Susan--she's every community's dream because she's always active and involved and welcomes others. Plus, she's a very talented scrapbooker. Congrats, Suz!

I hope you saw my post over the weekend & checked out the blogs I nominated for the award Kim gave me last week. They are all really awesome. I've been such a good blogger lately making so many posts I didn't want it to get lost in the masses... me making too many posts ha - too funny.

I go back to the doctor later today for more tests. Hopefully the stone is out so I can get this behind me. Everyone in the ER was very nice & took great care of me but I sure don't want to go back again any time soon. I guess having nothing weird in the refrigerator or dishwasher is a good sign. (If you didn't read that post check it out here - I'm still shaking my head lol)

The weather here is nice. Later this week we will be sunny & in the high 70's! I know some of you are still having snow & cold weather waiting for spring to come for good. What's the weather like where you are?

I'm going to add all those who commented in the last couple days to my basket (I am having my hubby double check to make sure I have EVERY ONE of you) for another drawing tonight for some of my favorite Sizzix dies (if you win & don't have a die cutting machine let me know & I can sub a stamp set that's not worth as much but you at least it will be something you can use). Reading back what I wrote it sounds like the dies are used because they're my favorites but they aren't I bought extras of ones I like so they are NEW lol.

I really appreciate each one of you who has taken an interest in my blog & sent me such sweet comments. You really encourage me & I enjoy visiting your blogs too for inspiration.

Hope you have a wonderful day. I'll have photos tomorrow I promise. I owe you photos of RAK prizes & I have a couple new layouts to show off. Thanks for putting up with the spazzy sicko lately.

Don't forget to leave a comment for another entry into my month long RAK contest for more details see this post If you haven't already done it sign up as a follower for more entries.