A HUGE appology...

to the DIE CUT DREAMS CCC BLOG HOPPERS!

I must admit I have had a little too much on the membrane these days! I totally forgot to draw my candy!

SO without further ado the winner is......

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

19 

Timestamp: 2011-02-01 03:53:57 UTC

LISA

Congratulations Lisa. Thanks for hopping my way! Please send me a quick email with your addy please.

xoxoxo

the fairy!

Drumroll please...

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE DIE CUT DREAMS CHRISTMAS CLUB CHALLENGES BLOG HOP!!!! THERE ARE PRIZES TO BE WON!!!!!

First off, I would like to thank everyone who entered the DT call. It is always such a difficult decision to pick just a few of you. As a long time artist, I know that feeling of putting yourself out there and possibly not being chosen. I can't tell you how many professional art competitions I have entered and never even placed in the top 100! Sometimes it has nothing to do with talent. One time I found out I didn't place because you could see some of the wall in my photograph of my painting! I learned to either have it professionally photographed or figure out how to do it professionally myself. I am certainly not saying that if your photos are not taken professionally... just that there are many different things I looked at to help me make my decision.

There are many factors that come into play when choosing. Not only do I take your skills into account, I also consider your over all blog. Is it clean and easy to navigate, and is it easy to find what you are looking for? Is there lots of traffic at your blog? Of course, talent is a component but it is not the only one. If I didn't pick you, it may not have been the quality of your card at all that was the determining factor. Perhaps, all you need to do is enter some challenges and get your work out there so that people find you and come back regularly to see what you are up to! Perusing the blogs I also realized that some of the girls who entered cards ALSO make scrapbook pages so I took that into account as well, knowing that they are able to do both. And of course, I asked the other princesses to give me a hand picking and I sure appreciated their help!

To those of you who were not selected...thank you from the bottom of my heart for entering. I sure appreciate it and loved visiting all of you. I really hope you enjoyed working with my image and would love to see you around again, perhaps over at Fairy Fun Fridays!

Having said all that, I will now announce the brand new fairy princesses!

I decided to round off the team to 14. I realized that if I picked 5 then we would have 13! I know, I know, don't say it, I guess I am kinda silly but anyways.

Without further ado in no particular order here are the new princesses:

KENDRA

SUGARSTAMP

TRACEY

DIONNE 

DORTE

BETTINA

Congrats ladies and welcome to the team!

ALSO.... I have a couple other announcements. I have decided to create a Jr. designer spot. Since there is a Jr. category over at the challenge blog I think it would be nice to have a Jr. designer!

Our JR. DESIGNER is 

MADDIE

My other announcement is:

I have decided to grant a fairy her honorary wings. A wonderful gal who is a friend of mine. We have known each other for years, been to a few crops together, and she has been a loyal supporter since day one. She hasn't always been a blogger but has really taken off in the last few months! I think she is another blogaholic now through and through! He He!

So, DEB, here are your honorary wings sweetie!

Could all the new fairies please email me so that I can send out your invites to the DT blog.

Many thanks again to all who entered!

Please don't be surprised if I don't return your emails right away. I am about to run out the door with my kids to go and enjoy and afternoon of sliding and bonfire and marshmallows with them and some friends! 

HAVE A WONDERFUL SUNDAY AFTERNOON EVERYONE!

Sponsoring DCDCC and a blog hop!

Happy Saturday everyone! Oh have I been looking forward to the weekend!

It is the end of the month and as usual, I am sponsoring the Die Cut Dreams Christmas Club Challenges. That, however is not all! It is their 1st birthday and Susie is celebrating with a blog hop! Lucky little ole me gets to be in on the fun! Whahoooooo!

If you came here from LORI'S blog then you are on the right track, if not, please start HERE. 

The challenge over at DCD is to make a winter themed birthday card and here is mine:

No, I did not draw that cute little Tilda. he he. What I created this time around for the DCD gals are backgrounds for them to use with their Tildas. (They are a bunch of Tilda addicts over there ha ha!). The background I used here is actually from the freebie I sent out to my subscribers for Christmas. I just took ole St. Nick out. It is called Woodland background and is available now in the store for $3.00.

 My papers are K&Company, colored with copics and prismas and I added some liquid applique to her fluffy parts on her snowsuit.

I embossed the sentiment on and a bit of glitter for good measure, few foamy snowflakes!

And here is my candy. All you have to do to be entered into my candy is leave a comment here at this post. Each one of the DT members has candy posted at their blogs as well so make sure you leave a comment at every one of the stops!

Here is the hop list in case you are lost.

Susie

Karen

Sara

Becca

Chrissy

Trisha

Lori

Roberta from Prairie fairy

Evgenia

Lynne

And lastly go back to the DCD blog and leave a comment on the hop post telling us you entered the Hop and you have visited all the DT Blogs!!

The Blog Hop prizes will be drawn next Sunday 30th Jan on all the individual blogs so remember to go to the DCD blog to see if you won.

Now you need to hop on over to EVGENIA'S blog to see her fabby creation! Don't forget to leave a comment too please.

xoxo

Thanks to all who tried out...

I just want to send out a big thank you to everyone who tried out for the DT! I will be spending the weekend agonizing over choices and I will make the announcement on Sunday.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

xo

the fairy!

We're having a Design Team call...

That's right! We are a having a DT call, but our lovely fairy princesses are not leaving us. We are just adding to the family!

What we are looking for is 5 new FAIRY PRINCESSES to invite to our little meadow.

What are we looking for?

Well, I have recently started including both PNG and JPG formats of my images in purchases. One of the main reasons why is for digital scrapbookers to use! While I am not excluding those of you who are card makers from entering, I would like to see some traditional as well as digital scrapbookers added to the team. You will of course need to have your own personal blog that you post to regularly.

What is expected from you?

1. You will be required to create ONE project every other friday for the Fairy Fun Fridays challenge blog following the challenge requirements for each specific challenge and post it to your own personal blog.

2. You would be required to participate in any occasional special events or blog hops. 

3. On the fridays between the challenge posts, one or more of the fairy princesses create a second project for that specific challenge to post on that friday, just as a reminder of what the challenge is and to spotlight that/those princesses on the challenge blog. Each member is required to take a turn making a midway post and once each princess has taken her turn, we start a new cycle.

THAT'S IT!

We are a pretty easy going gang and close like a family! We have a private blog that we post to and visit each other which you will be invited to.

HOW TO ENTER:

I am posting a freebie which I would like you to use to create a project with. Anything you like! If you are a digital scrapbooker and would like the colored PNG versions as well just email me and I will send them to you.  I would however love to see any digital scrapbookers who know how to digitally color PNG images themselves as well, so I will include the uncolored PNGS with the colored ones too!

Since Valentines is just around the corner I have given you a Valentine themed image to use. Feel free however to make it any theme you like!

PS. PLEASE DO NOT post my image on your blog, just a link back to my blog! Thank you!

POST your creation on your blog and include a little write up on the DT call for me and add a link back here. Then I would like you to enter a DIRECT LINK to your creation in the linky below. Make sure it is a DIRECT LINK please so that I don't have to search your blog to find it please and thanks!

Not sure how to do that? Just make sure that once you have completed your post click on view post not view blog once it is published. Then you will have the direct URL to that specific post in your browser window up above. Copy and paste that into the url section in the linky.

I will come to visit you! Watch for me!

Best of luck to all!

Key to my heart...

Happy friday evening everyone! I am so glad the weekend is here. I feel like an absentee blogger these days. I had some big plans for the shop this year but those are on hold now, for a bit anyways. I had some exciting news and it is something that is going to take up some of my free time until March. I was one of two artists chosen to do a public art installation, which is a big deal for me. I am so honored and so very excited. This means I have already been working out some samples and doing some painting and that unfortunately leaves less time for my digital world. I am using some of my image files in a somewhat radical way in my work however and I will post about it when my samples are finished. I do however have a new release for you today and I actually added a couple other new images a week ago but just added them quickly to the side bar rather than post about them. I will post them all for you here and now!

Hope you like them!

Vintage lock and key

is $4.00

Gilly here actually comes with two vintage frames. Click the link to see them!

Valentines Gillian

is $4.50

Key to my Heart

is $3.00

All files come in jpg and png format for digital scrapbooking! Image files also come with a full resolution colored png for super quick and easy scrapbooking!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

xoxo

the fairy!