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noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:59:00 +0000

Hi everyone WELCOME to my Crazy4Challenges challenge.

Before I tell you about today's challenge we have a couple of announcements to make. First off, it is with much sadness that we say farewell to Maria Bell from our Design Team, Maria was a valued member of our team and we will miss her.

Joining us this week is our newest member of the C4C Design Team .... Kelli Hull. I am sure you will love her as much as we do :) Welcome KJ!!!~

Today’s challenge: Layer it on. Lots and lots of layers and embellies. What better way to layer up then with MFT dies!!~

Hugs Cindy xoxo

Riley Blog Hop!!~

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:55:00 +0000

Hi everyone, are you ready for a Riley blog hop!!! To start at the beginning of the hop, check out The Riley & Company Blog. You can win some FREE rubber! Just start on Riley's Blog, leave a comment and follow along!

Baby Blocks Riley

Hot Air Balloon Riley

Make sure to leave comments on each blog hop site during the blog hop! Each designer will be randomly drawing a name from each set of comments. The winner get a FREE new release stamp of their choice!

You can purchases these stamps, right now tonight at Riley and Company!
Now that you have seen my SWEET Riley’s it is time to hop on over to see Frances!~

All dies are from MFT!!~

Hugs Cindy XOXO

CCEE {Riley Inspired}

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:13:00 +0000

We would like to introduce you to three more new members of CCEE Stampers. We are so excited to have them join the team! Welcome ....

It’s a special day for all Aussies today as it is Australia Day! It is on this day in 1788 that the First Fleet arrived at Sydney Cove. This day is special to us, just like the 4th of July is special to those of you who live in the USA! As you know Frances is from Australia and has given us this Challenge. … use the colors green and gold on your card; create a beach scene (we love our beaches); use Australian Animals; Tongs (you wear on your feet btw) or anything else that you think would relate to Australia!.

I went with the Green and Gold, not sure if they have Moose's in Australia but I doubt it.

It is Day 5 of our Riley sneak peeks in readiness of the of the new Riley stamps that will be available from Riley and Company this coming Thursday 26th January. This time round we have 12 new Riley’s being released.

For my card today I used Yoga Riley.

The rest of the Riley and Company Design Team will also be sharing their cards they have created with you this week, so don’t forget to check them out too (You can find a list of the Design Team members on my side bar). We also have a Guest Designer this release who is Jamie Rogers Moore so check out her blog too!

Hugs Cindy xoxo

Shoe Shopping Sophie

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:42:00 +0000

It is Day 4 of our Riley sneak peeks in readiness of the of the new Riley stamps that will be available from Riley and Company this coming Thursday 26th January. This time round we have 12 new Riley’s being released.

For my card today I used Shoe Shopping Sophie, a girl after my own heart !!~

Hugs Cindy xxoo

A Riley Challenge

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:26:00 +0000

It’s challenge time again over on the Riley and Company blog. Today we want to see a FUN FUNNY card/project. I find my card FUN and FUNNY cause we Women know how to EXPRESS Ourselves!!~ Hope you can play along.

I used Shopping Sophia, she is going to Shop till she Drops!!~ Sophia will be available this coming Thursday 26th January along with 11 other new Riley’s being released at Riley and Company!!~

Hugs Cindy XXOO

Timeless Tuesday #153

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:55:00 +0000

Hello everyone, and welcome to Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge, FTTC153! Today we are making Center Step Card’s. These cards are so FUN and easy to do using my Dear Friend Frances’ Tutorial!! Center Step Card.

For my card today I used Heartlines, such BEAUTIFUL sentiments. I added lace pearls and a Spellbinder edge. We would love to see your Step Card.

Don't forget to check out what our Fabulous Team has Created ~ Cindy, Maki, Heather,Tammy, Beate ,Mona and our Jan. Guest Designer Cheryl Lea.

Thanks for stopping by!! Hugs Cindy xxoo

Inspiration Monday {Love is in the Air}

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Heart Balloon Marci Digi

Copics:
Hair: E51, Y23
Skin: E00, E11, R20
Pinks: RV95, RV34
Blues: BG01, BG11

Hi everyone, Happy Happy Monday!! Welcome to another Inspiration Monday. Every Monday and Friday La-La Land Crafts Design Team will be bringing you a new inspirational theme. Todays Inspiration is Love is in the Air!!~ We love to see your La-La Land Crafts creations, so just link them up to the Customer Gallery and you will have a chance to win a prize!!~

Hugs Cindy xoo

Riley

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:10:00 +0000

It is day 2 of our Riley sneak peeks in readiness of the of the new Riley stamps that will be available from Riley and Company this coming Thursday 26th January. This time round we have 12 new Riley’s being released.

For my card today I used Sewing Sophie !!~

Hugs Cindy XXOO

A New Riley Release

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Hi everyone today starts the beginning of the sneak peeks of the new Riley stamps that will be available from Riley and Company this coming Thursday 26th January. We have 12 new Riley’s being released. What Fun.

For my card today I used Reading Riley!!~

Hugs Cindy XXOO

C4C

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:27:00 +0000

Hi everyone WELCOME to my Crazy4Challenges challenge. Our challenge is to make a card for a child. Today we are sponsored by MFT. I have used the SWEET Pure Innocence - Being Cute Is What I Do!!. Hope you can play along.

Hugs Cindy XXOO

CCEE

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Mod Marci Digi Scene

Copics
Skin : E00, E11, R20
Hair: E51, Y21
Grey, W1, W3, W5
Pinks: R43, R32

Hi everyone, welcome to a FUN CCEE Challenge. Before we get onto this week's challenge we have one more new member to introduce to you this week, which is Brandi Wiggins . We will be introducing the remainder of the new members next week. WELCOME Brandi!!~

This week I Frances is back with another challenge for you. Chinese New Year is celebrated on January 23rd this year and it is the Year of the Dragon … so for this week's challenge either use a Dragon on your card or find out what animal relates to your birthday year in the Chinese Zodiac and create a card using that animal. You can find out what year correspondence to what animal here on Wikipedia. I am the Year of the Dog!!~

I couldn’t resist making another card for La-La Land Crafts Inspiration Monday. Using your Favorite Things. Some of my favorite things are any Marci stamps, and my Dies, as you can see I used alot of them!!~ My new favorite is Heartland America Large by Cheery Lynn

Hugs Cindy xxoo

Timeless Tuesday!!~

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:19:00 +0000

Hello everyone, and welcome to Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge, FTTC152! Today we want to see, Tags, Bags Boxes and More. Also please add a Valentine Theme!!~

I used a box, I had on hand, no idea where I got it. My Spellbinder Classic Heart holds a sentiment from Love Sweet Love. I framed it with Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Heart , added some Pearls-pearl, and a bit of stitching.

Please make sure to view all the beautiful samples the team has created Silke, Maki, Heather, Tammy, Beate, Mona and our Jan. Guest Designer Cheryl Lea.

Hugs Cindy XXOO

Inspiration Monday {Favorite Things}

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 03:46:00 +0000

Saluting Luka

Copics used
Blues: B00,BG10
Pants E33, E35
Skin: E00, E11, R20
Hair E51, Y21

Hi everyone, Happy Happy Monday!! Welcome to another Inspiration Monday. Every Monday and Friday La-La Land Crafts Design Team will be bringing you a new inspirational theme. Todays Inspiration is Your Favorite Things. I have made two cards for this challenge, I have so many things I love so I couldn’t make just one card. (I have another I will show you on Thursday.) First and foremost of my Favorites’ are La-La Land Crafts stamps. I also love buying kits, but I’m very very bad and hoard them saving them for good!!~ But today I used one featuring, Basic Grey/Out of Print.

We love to see your La-La Land Crafts creations, so just link them up to the Customer Gallery and you will have a chance to win a prize!!~

Hugs Cindy XXOO

Crazy4Challenges -- C4C119

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Hi everyone WELCOME to a Crazy4Challenges challenge.

This week's challenge is an easy one.

Monochromatic card in the blues.

If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C119. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.

Hugs Cindy XXOO

SWEET Love!!~

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:46:00 +0000

Hi all and welcome to the final day of Flourishes' Release Week! And, guess what? If you like what you've seen on our designers' blogs, I'm happy to report that all three of Flourishes' new sets for January are in the Flourishes store!! Just click HERE to see for yourself! On to today's special treat! This next set is just that --- a sweet treat for those you love! Want to see what I mean??

Introducing....

Love, Sweet Love offers a sweet way to honor your Valentine! From a cookie bouquet to a beautiful box of chocolates, to a basket of flowers complete with a darling, heart-adorned love note, this set illustrated by Marcella Hawley is sure to warm your heart. This 4 by 6" set even comes with 3 beautifully scripted sentiments to tell your love how you feel! The Flourishes DT has been busy at work trying to sweeten up some Valentine creations with this set!

Would you like to win the Love, Sweet Love set? All you need to do is leave some love in the form of a comment on the blogs below! Why? You need to try to figure out…..

DID YOU KNOW YOU COULD WIN OUR ENTIRE JANUARY RELEASE? Have you checked out our New Year Challenge? Just click HERE to find out how to play! You can also play in our Noon Time Challenges! Check out yesterday’s noon time challenge – The Year of the Dragon Challenge. Or, how about the 2-0-1-2 Challenge HERE? All challenges will close this Friday at 5 PM EST and winners will be announced Saturday in our Winner’s Circle blog post! So get those fingers inky and good luck!

Today I used two of my Cherry Lynn doily dies, along with some stitching and pearls. Coloring is done with Copics.

Copic Sketch Copper Collection

Copic Sketch Dahlia Collection

Hugs Cindy XXOO

Heartlines

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:58:00 +0000

It’s day two of the sneak peeks for Flourishes' January Release and we hope that you’ve enjoyed the offerings so far! This next set is about creating a note or two for those friends that you truly care about -- both near and far! The good news is, while these sentiments are from the heart, their messages are good not only for Valentine's Day, but the whole year through!

Introducing…

This 4 by 3" set -- called Heartlines -- is a perfect addition to any of Flourishes images to send some love this Valentine's Day! Four artistically scripted sentiments perfect for friends and Valentines! This set even offers a darling row of hearts to add as a border, box or accent! Flourishes' ever-so-talented design team has showed off this set in true creative form!

Want to win this set? All you need to do is leave some love in the form of a comment on the blogs below! Why? You need to try to figure out…..

DID YOU KNOW YOU COULD WIN OUR ENTIRE JANUARY RELEASE? Have you checked out our New Year Challenge? Just click HERE to find out how to play!

You can also play in our Noon Time Challenges! Check out yesterday’s noon time challenge – The Year of the Dragon Challenge. Or, you could check back today at noon for another special, fast-paced challenge designed to spark creativity and give you another chance to win some wonderful goodies! All challenges will close this Friday at 5 PM ESTand winners will be announced Saturday in our Winner’s Circle blog post! So get those fingers inky and good luck! Can’t wait until all of our sets are revealed Friday morning? Well, you can pre-order them now if you like what you see on our designers’ blogs! Just click HERE. You’ll also see that we are offering our special New Release Bundle again – 10% off if you purchase all of our stamp sets in one bundle!

I LOVE this Heartlines set, it works so well any spellbinder dies. I added some Pearls, Twine, and a bit of stitching.

Hugs Cindy XXOO

CCEE

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:52:00 +0000

Hi everyone, welcome to a FUN CCEE Challenge.

Before I get onto our challenge for today, I wanted to fill you all in on some changes that are happening on the CCEE Stampers blog. It's a new year and sometimes that means changes, we didn't announce them last week as we hadn't got everything sorted out but we are starting to now.

First up Tosh Leyendekker who is the one who got us all together in the first place about 5 years ago is taking a break. She isn't leaving completely (we wouldn't let her ;) .... she will remain as a special guest designer and participate every so often. (We LOVE you Tosh!!!~)

The other news we have is that we are expanding, we have decided to increase the number of Design Team members from 6 members to 12. This will happen over the next month as some of our new members need to get organized.

Today we would like to introduce the first of our new Design Team members ...

Anne Harmon, and Vicky Gould. Welcome girls I’m so EXCITED to have you join us!~

You guessed it today’s challenge is a sketch given to us by Frances. If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword CCEE1202. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Inlinkz so that everyone else can see it too.

I used SWEET Stroller Riley on my sketch card. Thanks Frances for the FUN sketch design!!~

Hugs Cindy XXOO

From The Heart

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Hello and welcome to day one of Flourishes' fabulous sneak peeks for January! We have three new sets coming your way designed to deliver a little love to someone else's life! The calendar might say winter but we're sure these Valentine sets will WARM your heart!

This classic set -- called From the Heart -- penned by Becky Fleck offers an antique flavor for Valentine's Day! An ornate heart stands as a focal point and is a perfect companion to Spellbinders Classic Heart Nestabilities die (S4-136) and Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Heart Nestabilities Dies (S4-137). A curled banner is the perfect accent -- allowing a few of the sentiments to be stamped inside! Would you like to win this set? All you need to do is leave some love in the form of a comment on the blogs below! Why? You need to try to figure out…..

One of the ladies on our link list below will be picking a name from the comments on her blog post today. We don’t know which one it is… so the more blogs you leave comments on, the more chances you have to win!
Barbara Anders
Julie Koerber
Cindy Lawrence
Christine Okken
Danielle Kennedy
Dawn Burnworth
Stacy Morgan
Tammy Hershberger
Sharon Doolittle
Heather Jensen
Mona Pendleton
Cindy Haffner
Jan Marie

I embossed my image with Gold EP, added some PEARLS, Crochet Lace, and Twine. I finished my card off with some stitching around the edges.

DID YOU KNOW YOU COULD WIN OUR ENTIRE JANUARY RELEASE? Have you checked out our A New Year Challenge? Just click HERE to find out how to play! You can also play in our Noon Time Challenges this week! To do that, all you need to do is check in -- right here on the Flourishes blog Wednesday and Thursday at noon! These fast-paced challenges are designed to spark creativity and give you another chance to win some wonderful goodies! All challenges will close this Friday at 5 PM EST and winners will be announced Saturday in our Winner’s Circle blog post! So get those fingers inky and good luck!
Can’t wait until all of our sets are revealed Friday morning? Well, you can pre-order them now if you like what you see on our designers’ blogs! Just click HERE. You’ll also see that we are offering our special New Release Bundle again – 10% off if you purchase all four stamp sets in one bundle!
Thanks all for stopping by! We’ll see you tomorrow with another FABULOUS new set.

Hugs Cindy xxoo

Timeless Tuesday

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:31:00 +0000

Hello everyone, and welcome to Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge, FTTC151! Today is an Inspirational Challenge, what inspires you!!~ I was inspired with the pink and greens from this photo.

For today’s sample I used the BEAUTIFUL Lenten Rose stamp set, framed with a spellbinder die. I also added some PEARLS, and GLITTER. Paper by My Mind's Eye – Blush.

Copic Sketch Meadow Collection

Copic Sketch Dahlia Collection

Please make sure to view all the beautiful samples the team has created Silke ,Maki, Heather,Tammy, Beate, Mona and our Jan. Guest Designer Cheryl Lea.

Hugs Cindy xxoo

A Riley Challenge!~

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:54:00 +0000

It’s challenge time again over on the Riley and Company blog. Today is all about WINTER FUN!! We want to see how Riley is enjoying the Winter!!~

Here I have Ice Fishing Riley and Percy, relaxing on the ice doing a bit of Fishing. Too cute!!~ Once you have created your card/project come back here and place a comment with a link to your card/project so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword RILEY0112. We can't wait to see what you create!
Hugs Cindy xxoo

Inspiration Monday ~Make a scene!!~

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Baking Marci

Copics
Skin: E00, E11, R20
Hair: E35, E33
Red: R24, R46
Greens G21, G82

I used SWEET Baking Marci and put her in front of a corner shopping center. We love to see your La-La Land Crafts creations, so just link them up to the Customer Gallery and you will have a chance to win a prize!!~

Hugs Cindy XXOO

C4C

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Hi everyone WELCOME to my Crazy4Challenges challenge. After a brief holiday hiatus, the Crazies are back and ready to play!!

New year….new ‘toys’…..new techniques. Do or use something NEW on your card/project.

If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C118. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.

I bought lots of new dies over the holiday's and my favorites are my Cherry Lynn doilies. One of my newest ones is Kiwi Spirit Doily. So PRETTY. I also purchased the Miniature Rose die. The base of my card is made with Cherry Lynn’s French Flair - Scalloped LG Stackers Nesting Dies and French Flair Classic - LG Silver Stackers. I can’t wait to see what new dies they come out with this month!!~

Hugs Cindy XXOO

CCEE

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:01:00 +0000

Hi everyone, welcome to a FUN CCEE Challenge.

Yesterday 4th January was Jakob Grimm’s birthday … he was born in 1785 and was responsible for many of the popular fairy tales that we enjoy today including Cinderella, Snow White; Sleeping Beauty; Hansel and Gretel; Rapunzel and many more found in Grimm’s Fairy Tales. So our challenge today is to create a card using one of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales as your inspiration … don’t forget to tell us which one you chose. If you need any help in finding a Grimm's Fairy Tale, you can find a whole list of them on Wikipedia.

I used Princess Marci, she fits any Fairytale this involves a Princess!! If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword CCEE1201. Don't forget to come back here and link it on Inlinkz so that everyone else can see it too.

Hugs Cindy XXOO

Timeless Tuesday!!~

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 04:35:00 +0000

Hello everyone, and welcome to Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge, FTTC150! Today we are creating a Tri-fold card, showcasing a beautiful Flourishes image and sentiment. Here is Beate’s FABULOUS tutorial: Trifold Card

I used the BEAUTIFUL Pears set, I just LOVE this Sentiiment and flower!!~ We hope you will play along with us!!~

Please make sure to view all the beautiful samples the team has created Silke ,Maki, Heather,Tammy, Beate, Mona and our Jan. Guest Designer Cheryl Lea.

Hugs Cindy XXOO

Inspiration Monday

noreply@blogger.com (Cindy Haffner) — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0000

Checkout the sale at La-La Land!

Sweetheart Marci Digi Scene 1

Colors:
Skin: E00, E11, R20
Hair: E50, Y21
Grays: W1, W3, W5
Pinks: R85, R83, RV34, RV21

Hi everyone Welcome to a Color Challenge from La-La Land Crafts Blog. Today we are using the colors: Pink, Black and White. I have used the Sweetheart Marci Digi Scene . You can buy this as a digi or you can purchase Sweetheart Marc, Heart Chair and Panda and make your own scene. I like have the digi cause all the work is done for me, but I also like having the individual stamps to use on their own.

We love to see your La-La Land Crafts creations, so just link them up to the Customer Gallery and you will have a chance to win a prize!!~

My heart die is Cherry Lynn’s Heartland America XL and my postage dies are Scalloped LG Stackers Nesting Dies from Cherry Lynn.

Hugs Cindy XXOO