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Is It December Already?!

Is It December Already?!

First of, all, thanks for joining me with last month’s card frenzy. As soon as this posts, one last reminder for anyone who’d like a card in the mail will be heading out. Hopefully you’ve already signed up for my mailing list!

Secondly, there was a little giveaway for a few window cards, and the lovely Libby Weirs has won that.

30 days of cards || noexcusescrapbooking.com

Thirdly, how can it possibly be December?

Does it feel like December snuck up on you? It feels like it snuck up on me!

What does this month hold in store? Let’s see…

I’m participating in 12 Days of Christmas Cards with Carole Cassel, who has a wonderful site teaching Paintshop Pro for scrapbookers.

My oldest will be putting up a Christmas related post next week, since he’s job shadowing his father in the morning, and myself in the afternoon. How’s that for a school project?

I haven’t done a PL update in ages, so that will be showing up as well.

And a December Daily? Probably not. There’s just a bit too much going on for me to do that as well. I’ll use my PL to capture the holiday memories.

My birthday is this month, and I’ll be raiding my stash for a giveaway.

And, this month is the two year anniversary of this blog, so we’ll be doing a bit of retrospective of favorite old posts as well.

So, this month is busy. But then again, isn’t every month?

What do you have planned for the month?

 

Everything But the Kitchen Sink

Everything But the Kitchen Sink

Today’s card feels like I threw everything but the kitchen sink into it. We’ve got alcohol inks, punches, dimensional glue and pop up windows here. It could be a grand mess of a card, but I think it works.

Let’s start with the outside.

spaceship card || noexcusescrapbooking.com

Here, a spaceship is stamped and colored and fussy cut, and mounted on pop dots over the background. The background was created by pouncing alcohol inks in stream slate and pearl on glossy coated cardstock. I used a metallic ink to stamp some stars on the background, and also added a few tiny punched stars in a gold foil tissue paper. I really like how it came out personally.

The interior features another of those stamped transparencies I showed you earlier this week.

spaceship interior || noexcusescrapbooking.com

 

And a pop up window! How’s that for fancy? šŸ˜‰

I used my Creative Memories oval cutter to trim the transparency to an oval that fit within the window. The card parts were part of a set I got years ago, and they’ve been gathering dust for ages.

Putting this together made me realize I’d rather design my own window card than use a prepared set, so I’ve got a set of ten cards left that I can give away. If you’d like them for yourself, leave a comment below, and I’ll pick someone to sendĀ them to.

As a reminder, I am sending out these cards to those of you on my mailing list who send me your addresses. First step to getting one of these cards? Sign up above for my mailing list!

I love giving the post office work.

Supplies used: (affiliate links)

copic sketch markers
adirondack alcohol inks
marvy re-inkers

Birthday and Christmas Winners!

Birthday and Christmas Winners!

I hope your New Year is starting off well. I’ve got some winners for you:

Winners of the mini kit:

Country Chicken

Jodie M

Gee Zee

TrailmixyMel C

Jennifer Loftfield

Elizabeth Berzas Kratzer

Winner of the Origami Owl Scrapbook themed necklace:

Jodie M

Please email me at heather at noexcusescrapbooking dot com with the subject line mini kit or OO winner, and your complete address, and I’ll get your presents out to you, as soon as I dig myself out from underneath all this snow.

Thanks so much for celebrating my birthday with me!

Happy Birthday Hoot Loot!

Happy Birthday Hoot Loot!

***ETA: the giveaway is now closed. The winner will be announced shortly! Thanks for playing along!***

How would you like to wear a little bling that declares your love of scrapbooking for all to see?

I’ve got one Origami Owl scrapbook themed locket for one lucky reader. It includes one medium sized silver locket, a silver 24-26″ 2mm rolo chain, and camera, palette, scissors, and april heart birthstone charms.

Origami Owl scrapbook themed locket

Just leave a comment below by January first. I’ll pick a winner on the second.

For all those wonderful people out there who may like a necklace of their own, but don’t win this one, I have a discount for you. Just browse my Origami Owl website, and email a list of the items you want to heather@noexcusescrapbooking.comĀ  and I’ll give you 10% off the retail price. Just make sure you email me first. If you don’t email me, I won’t be able to give you a discount.

Thank you so much for visiting me on my birthday!

Don’t forget to check out the rest of this week’s giveaways:

Scrappy Sticker Inspiration

How to use pearl powders video tutorial

Mini digi-kit

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

***ETA: The Giveaway is now closed! Winners will be announced shortly! Thanks for playing along!***

I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday!

To celebrate Christmas, my birthday, and the blog’s one year anniversary, I’ve got four giveaways for you this week.

Today’s giveaway is a little bit of scrappy fun for six random readers. Just leave a comment below for a chance to win one of these mini sets.

Christmas giveaway

It’s just paper and a set of stickers, and each set is slightly different, but I think you’ll find these stickers very inspiring. You may even want to do something like what I did with them:

reasons why

This is a very simple layout, but it is one of my very favorites, because it was so much fun to make.

So leave a comment below by January first, and I’ll pick six commenters to get a mini kit.

mini kit close up

You know you want to use those stickers, don’t you?!

Come back tomorrow for more scrappy giveaways!