Let's Kick Cancer's Butt! - and a GIVEAWAY

Today is World Card Making Day ... tomorrow is my Birthday.  I always secretly believed that they picked this weekend for World Card Making Day, so I absolutely HAD to spend my birthday weekend making cards ... and so that is what I will be doing today (because there are lots of prizes ... and prizes are like presents).

I also like to give presents (seriously, I like to give them more than I like to receive them ... just ask my family ... I'm weird that way).  So I filled an entire MEDIUM FLAT RATE BOX with stamps (seriously, there are a lot of stamps) for one lucky winner.  It includes all of my retired Essentials by Ellen stamps and lots of others that are ready to move on to a new crafty home (I see a couple of large Hero Arts backgrounds and some brand new Kitchen Sink Stamps at the top of the pile).  I'm heading to New York City next week to hang out with Lauren (my favorite birthday present), so I'll pick a winner a week from SUNDAY (October 14th) when I return.

So what do you have to do to be eligible for this beautiful box to come live with you ... just leave a comment telling me one of your favorite Autumn Memories.  Fall is also my favorite time of the year, and some of my favorite memories involve the Maple Leaf Festival in my home town ... riding on floats or marching in the parade, the Band Festival, and just seeing the beautiful Maple Leaves in full splendor.

I started with the October Challenge at Paper Smooches is a Sketch (personally I love that Kim's sketches are still hand-drawn).

I'm still making encouragement cards for a co-worker and this one features Paper Smooches Hope Stamp Set (remember, Lauren & I are each donating $2 for every PINK for the CURE Christmas Card you Link-up at Jingle Belles).

 

I used a strip of Gel Press done on navy cardstock for the vertical piece in the sketch and then trimmed bits of two designer paper scraps that were on my studio table.

I also am focusing on making cards with Never Been Used Stamps in my studio (after my Junkiefest purchases this summer, I still have quite a pile).  I used this Cassette Tape from Darkroom Door to make a card for their Facebook World Card Making Day Challenge.

I added an SRM Sticker on the Cassette Tape and then lots of other bits and bobs using the sketch from Atlantic Hearts Sketches.

Remember ... favorite Autumn Memory comment for a chance to win the box-o-stamps.

And ... in case you don't have a MISTI ... or already have a MISTI and need a second or third (because seriously, everyone needs multiple MISTIs), there's an awesome sale at My Sweet Petunia.

 

Comments

[Carla Burgess]

As soon as you said autumn memory, I knew it had to get to the Maple Leaf Festival. Every year I think about going and dragging my family to Taco Town (which my older daughters thought was disgusting when I took them).

[Chark]

Homecoming dance and parade when I was in hs. The football game was incidental lol. Love the cards!

[Jean Marmo]

What a fabulous box! My autumn memories include taking the kids to the farm for the annual pumpkin hunt. All those fun times spent searching for the perfect one! Also the times just spent hiking on trails picking up pretty fall leaves and shuffling our feet through them. But, mostly I remember the leaf piles and the kids being buried in them. I kind of miss those days!!!

[Beverly Sizemore]

Now I know how they came up with World Card Makers Day's date....your birthday weekend! Makes perfect sense NOW. ;) Hard to choose just one favorite Autumn memory but in younger days it would have been getting "floats" decorated week of homecoming and of course the homecoming dance. But older memories involve my daughters and helping them find their Halloween costumes plus taking them trick or treating. Fun times! AND happy birthday! Enjoy a piece of birthday cake...cause birthday calories don't count! ;)

[Debbie Hutchinson]

Happy Birthday and Happy World Card Making Day - a great combination! I've lived most of my life in Central TX and we don't have a real Autumn here, but one year we lived in TN during the fall and I worked in a town about an hour's drive from where we lived. I loved making that drive and seeing the beautiful fall colors in the leaves on the trees and the smell of burning leaves after people would rake up their yards. It was lovely, but I didn't care for the winter that followed! I was delighted to move back to TX in the Spring!

[Becky Green]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! WHAT A POST, SO FULL!!! LOVE your cards & I even saw something I haven't tried! LOL LOVE your cards & all of the elements!

My Favorite memories of Fall is our Wedding of course; This month is our 32 Anniversary! And another memory is the Roscoe Village Apple Butter Stir'n Festival in Roscoe Village, Ohio. Such a treat to step back in time with their festival when we'd go. Lots of vendors with time period treats for us! Dulcimers, Candles, food, Apple Butter on-sight being made! Everything hand made! Music from the time, and those that work the festival dressed in time period clothing! SUCH A TREAT!!!

[Cindy Holmes]

Happy Belated Birthday to ya!My favorite Autumn memory? Hmmmm? I would have to say our family every year when our boys were little we would take them to this amazing huge pumpkin patch farm! It was a huge event! We would ride in the back of this tractor on a trailer down to this huge pumpkin patch where the boys would pick out their own pumpkins! and then back up where there were all kinds of fun activities and food for the kids to do and see and also eat! HaHa!Those were the days!

[Angie]

Hope your birthday was awesome! Love your designs! I always remember fall because my first child was born in Oct. and every year as fall would approach and the pumpkin patches started appearing, my son would get so excited about his upcoming bday. Still to this day every time I see a pumpkin, I think of that little guy. (that little guy is 35 now) Such sweet memories!! Thanks for the chance to win, you are so generous to offer this prize!