New offer on My Blog Candy

This Blog candy is now closed, the winners have been drawn, claimed their prizes and they have already been shipped out, thank you all for your inquirers.

The Day is finally here.  I have the Blog candy winners.  As stated, I was going to award one to a USA follower and one to an international follower so  .....

The USA winner is:

Jessica Kittelson from Fort Bragg North Carolina

The International winner is:

Jeanet van der Lee from the Netherlands.

Ladies, I have already send you an e-mail privately of your win.  Please reply within 3 days to that e-mail with your mailing address so I can get those off to you, after three days if I do not hear from you, I will need to award that to someone else. 

I want to thank you all of entering the give-away, I appreciate your following and hope that you will stay with me.  I am thinking of  Christmas Candy - naughty or nice????  SO STAY tuned for that.  

Also I wanted to let you know what else I have been up to, I have been working on a BLOG store, I think the construction workers have gone home for the evening and you can get your own preview-and shop if you like.  You can find my NEW Era of Vintage Store here   Thank you all.  See you soon ~ Blessings, Jane 

Bet you have been wondering if I forgot about my blog candy offer, NOPE, I am not THAT forgetful .  First off I was/am somewhat surprised of the interest in the blog candy, I don't know if it was the interest in the stamped images or the MS edge punch or both, most likely BOTH, LOL so . . . . here's the NEW deal.  It just so happens that I stamped TWO sets of stamped images while I stamped this one set, I stamped an additional set for myself to use, no sense in stamping only once, either way I still need to clean my stamps, right?  SO I have another set I am going to give away too PLUS, this past Friday I stopped in at my local craft store and YES, I looked for another MS Stars edge punch for you and they had one, so I am pleased to be offering you this:

I am going to be giving away TWO sets of this same blog candy.  Secondly, it appears that there are both USA and international followers that I have and I AM happy to see that so ONE will be going to my USA followers and ONE to my international followers, I will be looking at your profiles to get that information and do the best I can with that.   So although you will need to wait another 2 weeks to find out, you also will be increasing your chances because now there are two of them.

The same rules apply:  You must become a visible follower .... 
          That's it.

If you have commented on this offer already, please only one entry.  New followers can comment here, I will of course be using both blog posts to random draw the winner.  Thank You and I hope that this is worth your wait.  Blessings,   Jane

Altered Magnet, Thank you.

Hello and Welcome, the tutorial today is a altered Magnet as shown above.

This is the Magnet I bought at Michael's in one of their bins and I decided to alter it.

I just so happened to have this paper pad at home, the stamp and felt embellishments. You can use anything you have on hand.

I have to say I fully expected to use my circle cutter for this but I decided to see if these scalloped circle paper punches would fit on this Magnet and to my surprise they did. This purple one is cutting my larger of the two circles. Since my picture is somewhat blurry, the product is a Marvy Uchida paper punch.

This is the smaller of the circle that I am now punching out, and this will go on the top of the larger circle.

Here they both are, cut out.

I first stamped 'Thank you' with my stamp from the above photo with a green stazon ink pad. I then glued on the larger one to the Magnet and then the smaller one onto that.

I am now going to be decorating my Magnet with these felt embellishments.

I am done, this is now on my refrigerator - actually my lower level freezer since my refrigerator is black. You can use other stamps or written words on your Magnet. For example for children's artwork or schoolwork, '"You're a star" .. have fun with it.

Thank you all for stopping by,~ Jane, "The Paper Affair".

MMSC27, Pretty and feminine.

Hello and Welcome,

On with our Sponsor information and then the details on my showcased card.

At Midnight Madness our monthly sponsor is Michelle's Scrapbook and you can find her wonderful products here at her store.


Our weekly sponsor is Michelle Perkett with her wonderful digi designs, you can find the Art of Michelle Perkett at her  Esty Store right here.

This card is so ready for anything, something stamped on the inside will transform it into whatever you need it to be.  The vase center stage is a stamp I recently purchased at Michaels craft store.  I colored it and glossed it in areas and added white half pearls, I also stamped the swirls on each side of the vase the embossed the design to add extra interest as well as in two of the corners.  I think this is a very feminine card with the pinks and lighter blues and the flower blossoms.   What do you think?

Thank you again for your stopping by.  My blog candy is still open, if you are interested in it, please sign up now as it will be closing soon.  Have a great day/evening.   Blessings, Jane

A Guy Birthday Card *Oh Nuts *

I am going to a guy "Surprise" Birthday party this weekend.  Inside it 'says "Another Birthday?"  I am also entering this into several challenges.   The sketch is for the 'A spoonful of Sugar" Challenge
and since this is a GUY card I am linking this up to The Polkadoodle Challenge which the requirements is a guy card with three brads which are in the upper left corner.   What better type of card to put TWINE on then a guy card?  Well, twine (which is run through the button) is the requirement for this weeks challenge at The Bellichallenge.

For my last challenge is for colorthrowdown.  I am missing the color durango which is a shade of rust but I used yellow for my star, I hope that they will accept my card there. I also want to let you know that this is a stamp a past sponsor, DRS designs gifted to Midnight Madness and I am using and loving it yet again.  Ok, you all KNOW I rarely enter a challenge other than my Midnight Madness SO I am somewhat proud of myself.   Anyways, hope the Birthday Boy likes his card and I am sure the party will be lots of fun.   Tell me followers, what are you thinking about this card?    LOL, Have a great day.  ~ Jane

MMSC # 26, Holiday Wreath Shimmer and Shine Card

Hello and Welcome,

Another week has come and gone and I hope it finds you well.  At Midnight Madness our monthly sponsor is Michelle's Scrapbook and you can find her wonderful products here at her store.


Our weekly sponsor is Heather Ellis at Digi Stamp Characters and you can find her at her Esty Store right here.

I handstamped this wreath image and colored it and added some clear  gloss for a little shimmer and shine and used a glitter pen on the bunches of grapes and added many gems in the corners.  Peeking out from the wreath is some glittery gold foliage and I used some wonderful wood paper which I think went very well with the image and design/style of the card.  It is very stunning in person.

I also entered this wreath in Our Daily Bread, Holiday Shimmer card.  What a fun challenge because it sure is fun to add shimmer and shine to a Holiday card!  The challenge is going on  right now at ODBD.

 

A side view.

I added several extra photos of this card, if you like you can view the inside and handmade envelope, I have this listed on ebay.

Thank you again for joining us at Midnight Madness, we enjoy your support.  Please note my blog candy offer has been extending for two more weeks if you are interested and have not already, please sign up now.  Have a great day, Blessings ~ Jane

My first song on my blog is for a good blogging friend of mine..

that is going through a bad time and it's for all you women that feel you are climbing a mountain or you just fell off of one.  "I am woman, hear me roar". 

My Jaimie Cates card, send Jaimie some HOPE

Here is the card I am going to be sending out to Jaime, I hope that I can find some words that can offer her some comfort to her and her family during this horrific time. To find out more information on this tradegy and the Blop Hop for hope for Jaimie, please Click on here.
 

Here is some information about what happened:

"On October 4^th, 4 teenagers armed with knives broke into a home in a small town in New Hampshire. Alone and sleeping inside were a mother and her 11 year old daughter. These 4 boys broke into this home with the intent to rob and kill anyone inside. They stabbed the mom, Kimberly Cates, to death and left her daughter, Jaimie, for dead in their driveway. It was a completely random act, their home was chosen only due to its secluded surroundings."
Our hope is that everyone hopping around today will stop for a moment and think about Jaimie and her father and what life must be like for them now. One moment in time has changed their lives forever. We are asking that everyone reading this message please take a moment to make a card and send it off to Jaimie. You can make something very simple or much more involved, but please share some words of hope and love and let her know that people do care and want the best for her. Please send your card to the address below:

Jaimie Cates
c/o Mont Vernon Fire Station
Main Street
Mont Vernon, NH 03057
United States