Shutterfly’s Holiday Card promotion

Bloggers can get 50 free holiday cards from Shutterfly!

Yep it's true!  Click HERE to see how!!

I have used Shutterfly in the past for photo printing and have been very impressed!  The site is very user friendly and the shipping was super fast !  I haven't printed out holiday cards yet but I know that uploading will be really easy and from my experience in the past, the card will look great!!  They have lots of designs and sizes to choose from!  There are also multiple holiday's to pick from!  Click HERE to see the selection of Christmas cards!

Another great thing about Shutterfly, is the fact that if you are not 100% satisfied, they will replace your order or give you a full refund! 

Here are some links to some of Shutterfly's services:

• Christmas cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/Christmas-cards
• Holiday photo cards to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery
• Christmas invitations to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-invitations 
• holiday gift tags to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/christmas-gift-tags 
• birthday invitations to http://www.shutterfly.com/cards-stationery/birthday-invitations
• personalized calendars to http://www.shutterfly.com/calendars 
• Choose your own card/invitation and URL from our Cards & Stationery page

I am excited to try out their personalized Calenders and of course the Holiday photo cards!  Now I am off to take a family picture!  Thanks for stopping by today!

400th Post...And something NOT made out of paper!

Yep this is my 400th post! WOW! I feel like it was just yesterday and Jen was telling me I should start a blog to post my cards! That was already 3 (ish) years ago and 400 posts later, I am here sharing a little DIY project and not something papercrafting related!

So I am super excited...this weekend was the craft show....and there was a garage sale going on at the same time! Of course, I had to go check it out when I found this....

My friend Laura was with me and she is really good at talking me into things so of course I bought it for $10!  All I could see was me, a can of black spray paint and some upholstery!  My furniture in my Living Room/Dining Room/Kitchen is mostly black!  I have had lots of fun with black spray paint because of this!  So I knew this little beauty was going to get a makeover!  Here are a few more pics....

I got a can of black satin spray paint, an old rag, sand paper, some new foam and some clearance upholstery!  Oh and a big staple gun!  And I got to work! 

I cleaned the whole thing with warm water and a old rag, sanded a little and then this....

After this, I took off the very nasty upholstery and added a new foam cushion and some new fabric using a big staple gun!  Easy peasy!  I think it turned out kinda fun for an amateur furniture fixer upper!  :)

And then here it is finished...



Here you can see how will it goes with the black wood furniture I already have!  My dining room table...which I love so much...has black chairs with the oak table!  Love it!  Now this Telephone chair goes so perfectly right under that mirror!  That big huge thing sticking out in my dining room is the chimney from the fireplace downstairs!  Nice, right?  I dislike that thing greatly!  BUT it looks way better than when we moved in!  It was surrounded by HUGE sheving and black formica countertops!  omg was it outdated!

Just a few more shots....



Here are 2 more things I spray painted! This frame to this apple picture and the mirror! They were green and worked well in my old house but they just had to be black for my new house!



So thanks for stopping in on my 400th post!  So exciting!  I have had the chance to get to know so many sweet people and I have appreciated more than you know, all of the comments over the years!  Thank you for following me along on this fun hobby called papercrafting!  (And now home DIY stuff right?) :)

Have a great day!

2 Sketches 4 You-Kazan's Sketch #66

Welcome to a new week with 2 Sketches 4 You! Here is Kazan's lovely sketch this week....

Here is my take on the sketch...



This week our sponsor is CupCards to go Card Kits! They have the cutest card kits! All of the little details in my card today are from a kit! The only thing I added in was the tag stamp and sentiment!

Thanks for coming by today! Have a great one!



Supplies

Stamps: PTI Fillable Frames
Paper: Cupcake Cards-Card Kit including ribbon, snowflake dies, patterned papers and brad!
Ink: True Black

DeNami Christmas Blog Hop

                                                  Welcome to the DeNami Christmas Blog Hop!

Thanks for joining us today!  You probably hopped here from Lori's blog!  If not and you would like to start at the beginning of the hop just go to the DeNami blog HERE! So glad you came by today!  I have a Holiday card to share!  It was such a fun card to make!  I just love Christmas time and all the goodies that paper crafters can make for this time of year!  I am sure you will find lots of holiday inspiration today!!

I stamped the background stamp first in Burnt Umber.  Then I added this fantastic DeNami snowflake in Versamark!  Next, I heat embossed it with clear embossing powder!  To finish off the base of this card, I took some Tim Holtz Tea Dye and Fired Brick Distress Ink and added in some distressing!  (A Jennifer McGuire learned technique!)

The "Happy Holidays" is also a DeNami stamp!  I just love that font!

So your next stop on this hop is the SUPER talented and creative Ayana!  I just love her creations! 

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you have the chance to keep hopping because I know there will be lots of fun projects for you to see today!

Don't forget...DeNami is giving away THREE $20 gift certificates to their store! One gift certificate to a random participant and then TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop!


Have a great day!

Supplies

Stamps: DeNami Snowflake and Happy Holidays sentiment, PTI Text Style, MFT Frame
Paper: DeNami Kraft, PTI Dark Chocolate and Rustic Cream
Ink: Burnt Umber Palette, Versamark, Time Holtz Tea Dye and Fried Brick Distress Ink
Misc: Brown Satin Ribbon, Silver Pearls, MFT Die, Clear embossing powder

B.U.S.Y....Can't I get a little vaca?

A vacation anywhere would be nice!  Or at least I am hoping for a big ole' dose of Calgon-Take-Me-Away! But so far it's a no go! I won't even start to tell you the list of things I have to do until next Thursday! Friday will be my first FREE day though! Can't wait till Friday! Yes I know it is Friday today but I am hanging on for NEXT Friday!

I really shouldn't even be posting here today but I had to stop in with some Craft Fair cards! Super simple Craft Fair cards! I got my assembly-line-card-making on today in a big way! :)

One of my sweet blog friends, Andrea told me the other day that she "mists" her cardstock with water before using the impression plates! LOOK at this huge difference! (Thanks for the tip Andrea!) Well, I can see it IRL but I hope the pictures do it justice....

These are just 2 of several sets I have for sale! I am going tonight to set up and then tomorrow is the big day!  These sets here are in the plastic boxes from PTI!  I have 5 cards and envelopes in one box!  I ATG'd my business card to the back!  I just have to add price tags! 

And another big thanks to Jamie for some great Craft Fair tips!  I have the notebooks I shared on my last post and some post-it note holders!  I will try to post some pics after tomorrow!

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend!