Aged to Perfection **April MFTeaser**

Good morning!! Whew - what a week - and it's only Tuesday!! I ended up with both of my boys home sick yesterday - yikes! We spent the morning at the Dr. and found out that my oldest son Andrew had never gotten over the Strep throat he had last week and that my youngest son Calvin ended up with it too - I guess I'm glad we caught it early in the week - our Spring Break starts on Friday and I would hate for them to be sick on their break and not enjoy it. I do have a teaser for you today of the new MFT "Girls Night Out" set being released tomorrow - this set is just fabulous - not only do you get this gorgeous main image and a ton of great sentiments - but there are wine glasses, a martini glass and a margarita glass in it too - lots of great images for a perfect girls night out!! I chose to use the main image for my card and go with a vintage wine feel to it - I paper pieced their clothes and colored the rest of the image with Copics. I pieced my background together to look like an old-fashioned wine cellar - I started with the dark brown base - then criss crossed 1/2 in. thick tan strips of cardstocks on it - cut the excess off at the edges and then placed brads where they criss-crossed. I finished off the cards with some Primas and a couple of branch pieces cut from the Martha Stewart branch punch. There is lots of exciting stuff happening over on the MFT forum this week...

My Favorite Things (www.mftstamps.com) is having a New Release Cocktail Party on Wednesday, April 1st from 9-10 PM EASTERN. This month there are 4 new sets being released! Head over to the MFT forum HERE to find out all the details and to find out how YOU can be the next MFT Guest Designer. We hope to see you there on Wednesday night!! And don't forget to vote for your favorite MFT Idol starting tonight at 10 PM EST - check this thread for more details - the top 8 will be featuring the new "Girls Night Out" set in their projects!! Thanks so much for stoppping by!!

Missing You Bunches **April MFTeaser**

Happy Monday!! Are you ready for some MFTeasers??? April is packed full of FABULOUS new releases from MFT and today I have a card made with the newest Flopsey to share with you!! This set is called "Flopsey's Flowers" and is absolutely adorable!! Now the image itself is actually only one Flopsey holding flowers - but I wanted to do a bunch of Flopsey's to go with the sentiment - so I made 3 masks of Flopsey holding the flowers and stamped a group of Flopseys! The image was stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored in with Copics. The patterned paper is from the 6X6 MFT Stephanie Fizer Summer paper pak - I love this print and it's just perfect for this new Flopsey! The sentiment is from the new Flopsey set as well. I punched some flowers out of matching cardstock and added some little gemstones to the centers of them. I did a little bit of machine stitching around the edge of my card as well. And as always...

My Favorite Things (www.mftstamps.com) is having a New Release Cocktail Party on Wednesday, April 1st from 9-10 PM EASTERN. This month there are 4 new sets (one of which will benefit a very special charity ;) ) being released! Head over to the MFT forum HERE to find out all the details and to find out how YOU can be the next MFT Guest Designer. We hope to see you there on Wednesday night! Don't forget that the Top 8 in the MFT Idol contest will be showing off their best "performances" this Tuesday night at 10 PM EST over in the MFT forum - the voting opens then - so be sure to hop on over to the MFT forum and vote for your favorites - this week they'll be showing off the brand new Who's That Girl? set!!!

BLOG CANDY WINNER!!

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Tracey said...
Love your card Candice!! The Changitos are adorable!! Thanks for the chance to win some of my own. xx

YAY!! Congrats Tracey - please e-mail me your snail mail address to candicelighty@sbcglobal.net so I can get your goodies out to you! Thanks to everyone who left comments - you guys are the best!! I hope you will all pop back in on Monday - the April MFTeasers start on Monday and these new sets are just AWESOME - can't wait to share them all with you!! Have a wonderful weekend!!

Have you voted for your MFT Idol yet????

Happy Wednesday!! So while the President's news conference put American Idol on hold last night - the MFT Idol voting is in full swing!!! If you haven't voted for your fave yet - you can do so here. The girls REALLY outdid themselves this week - so be sure to head over and check out their creations and leave 'em some love too! The theme this week was masking - which I used on today's card (this is also for today's sketch challenge - you can view the sketch here) - I masked my shoes and the front table to create this little window scene. *Sigh*...I wonder how much those red pumps in the window are...hee hee...like I actually have a need for shoes like that anymore - LMBO!! This was such a cool sketch to work with - it's so nice and balanced. The shoes, tables and sentiment are from the MFT "Window Shopping" set - colored in with Copics and accented with a white gel pen. The awning is from the MFT "Meet Me at the Cafe" set - I find myself using this awning a lot - it's fun to combine with other MFT sets!! All DP is from the My Mind's Eye Out and About glitter stack - I kept that "diamond" theme in the papaer and did some decorative scoring on the blue base of the card with my Scor-Pal as well. I accented the corners of the card with some red Hero Arts gemstones.

Thanks SO much for stopping by - don't forget to vote for your favorite MFT Idol and my blog candy is still going on as well - see the post below for that!!

Greetings from the Changitos plus **BLOG CANDY**!!!

Greetings and Happy Monday everyone!! So I'd thought I'd start out the week with a little love for my Changito stamps and offer up some sweet blog candy in honor of the start of Spring and the fact that last week I reached 30,000 hits on my blog!!! It's really thanks to all of you - you all make blogging SO much fun and I can't tell you how much I appreciate all the sweet comments you leave too - it really brightens my day and so I am hoping this blog candy will brighten one of your days too!! First - let me tell you about the card I have for you today - I recently bought the "Car Changito" cling mount stamp at Archiver's and for some reason - I kept thinking it looked like a taxi - LOL - you guys know me and the way my mind seems to twist things around sometimes. So - I added the word "taxi" and a number to the front license plate using Doodlebug Simply Sweet rub-on letters - colored it yellow - masked it in front of the cityscape from the MFT "Going Places" set - and BOOM - instant taxi - hee hee...OK - well maybe not so instant - but it was fun to make this little city scene. The die cut cityscape behind the image was cut using one of those old Sizzix border dies (yeah - had to wipe the dust off of those) and I embossed the yellow panel with the CB "Traffic Jam" embossing folder. The decorative edge at the bottom was done using the Martha Stewart Checkerboard edge punch and the sentiment is from the MFT "Sassy Sayings" set. Now - onto the blog candy....here is what is up for grabs...

I am offering one brand new in package Stampendous "Changito Hop" stamp set - this is the Easter Changito clear set and it is exclusive to Archiver's - so it can be hard to find if you don't have a Archiver's near you. I'm also offering some spring-y colored ribbon and a pak of assorted flower brads. All you have to do is leave a comment on this post to be entered to win my blog candy - you have until this Friday (March 27th) at noon to be entered to win - on Friday - I will draw one random name from the comments left to win the blog candy!! Easy peasy - oh - and if you are leaving a comment under an Anonymous ID - please be sure to leave an e-mail address so I can contact you if you are the winner!! Thanks to all of you for your support!! Don't forget to leave me a comment for your chance to win and please spread the word if you know of anyone who would love a chance to own a set of these adorable little monkeys!!

A Big Burly Moose!

I'm back for one more post today!! I'm trying to get caught up on a couple of challenges today and this is for the Friday Hanna Stamps challenge - today's challenge is to use Embossing on your card - you can view the challenge here. I chose to dry emboss on my card using the Cuttlebug "Branches" embossing folder on my brown panel - and what a perfect folder for our Lumberjack Riley!! I stamped some trees in SU! Old Olive ink and cut them out for the background as well (they are from the MFT "Nature Calls" set). I decided to make my Riley a big more rough and rugged by adding some scruff to his face with my Copic Multiliner pen - hee hee...Stampin' Di did this on one of her Rileys and I just thought it looked adorable - thanks for the inspiration Di!! I also drew and colored some clothes on him - I was thinking that "The Naked Woodsman" sounded a lot like a Monty Python sketch gone wrong so I decided that maybe he needed some clothes too - LOL!! I colored him in with Copics. The sentiment was done with Doodlebug Simply Sweet mini rub-on letters - I love these - I get them in the $1.99 bin and Archiver's - the font is great and they are perfect for when you can't quite find that sentiment you are looking for in your stamp collection.

Also - I wanted to let everyone know that if you haven't seen the list of blog candy winners for last Friday's Good Luck Blog Hop - Kristi has it posted here. Check it out and if you haven't PM'ed Kristi with your deets and you are a winner - make sure you do so she can get your goodies out to you!! And speaking of blog candy - thanks to all my wonderful readers - I went over 30,000 hits this week - WOO HOO!!! As a thank you - I've got a SWEET surprise up my sleeve for next week - so check back then!! Have an awesome weekend!!

Soakin' Up the Sun on Celebrate MFT Day!

TGIF!!!!!! I've never been so happy to see a Friday in my life - holy crow - what a week!! Both my oldest son and I came down with a case of Strep Throat (add Tonsilitis as well to my diagnosis) - geesh - serves me right probably - I had just commented last Friday to one of my friends that my family had made it thru the winter with exactly one trip to the Dr. and then BAM! - we all get sick - LOL!! Andrew is MUCH better thankfully - he's been back in school - I am still having some issues with my left tonsil - but the infection was pretty deep in it - so I am hoping it'll be all better over the weekend. So anywho - that at least explains why I've been pretty quiet this week - I did manage to get my blog hop post up (and still managed hardly any typos in my feverish fog - LOL) - but it feels good to have a bit more energy to be stamping this morning!! This is my card for Celebrate MFT Day as well as Cindy's MFT sketch challenge this week - you can view Cindy's awesome sketch here - I did have to flip the sketch in order to get my Who's Those Girlies to be floating in the right direction! ;) I used the "Hit the Beach" set for my card as it is MUCH rather what I'd be doing today - I know - it's the first day of Spring - feels like Winter and I'm making a card about Summer - LOL - go figure - a girl can dream though, can't she? The card really started with the image - I had been wanting to do some skin color combo tests on the new coloring paper coming soon to MFT (STAY TUNED - you guys are gonna LOVE this stuff!!!) - and let me just say - it just goes to show how really awesome the Copics blend on this paper. Skin tones can be tricky to blend - and they blended beautifully on this new paper!! It was so much fun to color WTG? in different skin tones - after all - that is what makes this world beautiful and she is our "every woman", kwim?? So anywho - I stamped my girls at random angles to make them sort of look like they are lounging around the pool - hmmm...do you think they are gossiping?? Must be - I know that's what we do at our neighborhood pool - LMBO!! I used patterned paper from the 2008 DCWV Summer Stack - I punched one of the orange slices out of the paper with my circle nesties to use as an embellie to display my sentiment on. I cut a couple of leaves out of the paper as well. I added some little ribbon accents to the image as well. Thanks SO much for stopping by - hope you all have a wonderful Friday and that you'll swing by the MFT forum and Celebrate MFT with us today!!