And the winner is....

#18 ~ kathinka!!!!!! Congrats!! Give me your address so I can get your Cool Beans set out to you!!! If I don't hear from you after 3 days, I'll have random.org pick a new number! Thanks so much to all who played!!!!

Only one more day...

for you to comment to try and win this Cool Beans set from Elzybells!!!! Read the post BELOW for details on how to win!!!!!!!!

card info: stamps ~ elzybells UK set Cool Beans. paper ~ bashful, red, ww, dp. ink ~ black. access. ~ piercer, button, crystal effects, ribbon, brad, markers, pop dots.

hugs,

Coffee, beaches and Elzybells!!!

Those are a few of my favorite things!!

And here are a few of my favorite cards I've made using

Elzybell stamps. Speaking of Elzybells, have you stopped by

the blog lately to check out the BIRTHDAY specials???!!! Run there now --->>>ELZYBELLS. And Elizabeth has been sweet enough to let us give out some extra blog candy of our own!!

What do you have to do??? Well, leave me a comment on this post for a chance to win! Also, if you post a link to the Elzybell blog on your own blog, you'll be entered twice!!! And I guess you'd like to know what you'll win, right??!!! The clear set called *Cool Beans*. Here's a link, so you know which set it is exactly: COOLBEANS.

I'll leave the blog candy open until Friday, the 19th, at 6pm CST.

Don't forget to comment and if you post the Elzy link on your blog, post another comment to let me know so you can be entered twice!!

Have a good one!!

Birthday celebration time!!!

No, not for me!! It's the 1 year anniversary of the Elzbell Blog!!! Elizabeth has some *fantastic* things going on this month! She's already kicked off the festivities with an ***awesome*** special, which you can read about HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have a great one!

A recycling Elzybell challenge

Hiya! This weeks' challenge was "recycling" and were to interpret that however we wished. Soooo, my recycled things are the ribbon ~ under the Party Teds it says "making memories" because it was wrapped around a Making Memories Christmas gift I got in 2007! And also the bits of dp you see are from a project I worked on almost 2 mths ago. Those should count, right?! Aren't these Party Teds the sweetest?! Ok, so I say that all the time, but it's true! This is a 4x4 card. I also added the "just for you" sentiment to the inside and colored the stars around it w/ my celery and garden green markers to match the dp. Hope ya likey and check out what the rest of the DT made! Oh, and I may have gotten the hang of my copics ~ am I right that shorter strokes work better than longer ones? The left ted was colored using longer strokes and the right ted was colored using shorter strokes. (different colors, of course) Maybe it's me, but I think right ted is blended better. Ok, I'm rambling! Oh, and I sponged the sky and grass for the Flourishes blog challenge!

Thanks so much for all the thoughts and prayers regarding my Mawmaw. The service was beautiful, the boys behaved wonderfully and it was nice seeing some family that I hadn't seen in probably 20 years.

card info: stamps ~ elzybells UK. paper ~ celery, ww, garden green, lime rickey by basic grey. ink ~ black. access. ~ copics, SU markers, sponges, piercer, glitter pen, ribbon.

hugs,

Mawmaw has moved on to a better place

My mawmaw (which means "grandma" in southern talk, incase ya didn't know), passed away yesterday morning. She was 86 and in her words, had lived a good life. She had been sick for several weeks. We had gone to visit her when she first when in the hospital a few weeks ago. I'm so glad we got to see her. I wish my boys had been able to know her better, but am grateful that we had been able to visit her more recently. She had 6 children and survived 2 husbands. She was a tough ol' bird, as I like to say. She'd tell it like it was and never held back. I loved her cajun accent (no, I don't have one...) and her gumbo was out of this world! The pic above was taken Christmas Eve 2007 (that's me w/ my oldest son). She helped raise me that first few years of my life since my mom was a rather young mother. I can't imagine her not being around anymore. She's just one of those people who you just felt would be around forever. She was and will always be such an important person in our family. She lost her house in Katrina and was never the same. It's hard when you've had something for over 40 or more years and suddenly it's taken away from you. We'll all miss you so much, Mawmaw!

I'm sure you came here looking for Elzy sneak peeks, but for obvious reasons, I don't have anything for you today. I'll try to work on something later because stamping is therapy for me and boy, could I use some therapy right now. I'm sure the rest of the Elzybelles have lots of goodies for you to drool over, so please go check them out. And after that, go call your mawmaw/grandma/grannie/memaw and tell her how important she's been in your life!!

2nd day of Elzybell sneak peeks!!!

So, whatcha think? Was it worthy of all my hype?! Well, I've been rather mojo -less for a while now, and this card makes me feel like I'm getting in a groove again! I used my own color combo and my own sketch! Usually I'm searching on SCS or through hundreds of blogs til I find something that inspires me. Now, to the important stuff ~ this image! OMWord, how cute, huh?!!! I'm lovin' this Angel Teddy! (duh!) I cut her out and she's up on dimensionals. The image also has a little swirly star thing above her head, but that was way too hard to cut out, so I just left it out altogether. Her wings were colored w/ my gold Koh-I-Noor pencil (thanks, Elizabeth!!!), as are all of the stars on the wings and sentiment. Nice and shimmery! The teddy was watercolored, then I shadowed w/ my caramel SU marker and added highlights w/ a white gel pen. The dp is from a retired SU pack, having a brain fart on the name.

Totally off topic here ~ I just watched the Grey's Anatomy season finale and OMWORD!!! How can they leave us hanging like that! And I sooooo knew that was George! AACCKKKKK!!!

Back to your regularly scheduled programming~~~~~

Now please go check out what the rest of the girls have done!! And, as always, your comments are greatly appreciated!!!

card info: stamps ~ elzybells UK. paper ~ saffron, choc, ww, SU dp. ink ~ choc, black, cocoa. access. ~ ribbon, border punch, nesties, coluzzle, markers, piercer, gold kohinoor pencil.