PCS Gift Certificate Winner

Good morning everyone :O) I wanted to publish a quick post to announce the winner of the $5 Pink Cat Studios gift certificate. I didn't have a lot of participants (2 to be exact) but I believe that's my fault for not advertising the prize through PCS or Lauren's blog. Either way, I used random.org to generate my winner, and it returned #1...LeAnne Pugliese. Who incidentally is offering some blog candy on her site right now! Check it out and leave her a comment telling her what your favorite stamping technique is to enter :O)

Thank you to everyone who supported the PCS Weiman Wrangler and the Weiman family fundraisers! We raised $1479 for the PCS Weiman Wrangler's fundraiser and over $500 for the family! I am so touched by the generosity of our stamping community. You are so compassionate and generous...it tugs at my heart strings. Both are such worthy causes...I'm proud to be a part of this community.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope to have some eye candy later today or early this week for you. I'm going on vacation again the 2nd through the 7th, but I plan to play along with Lauren's challenge one way or another :O) So...until then. Have a GREAT stamp-filled weekend!!

My Time to Color Challenge...Digi Style :O)

Okay...so I had a dilemma this week. I left my home in VA for a trip to PA on Tuesday evening. We aren't headed back to VA until Saturday afternoon...and I didn't have my card for the color challenge started! Much less finished :) So I was thinking I would have to sit out this weekend. BUT, it occurred to me after I arrived in PA and destressed, that the images our team is using this weekend are DIGITAL! Who needs a paper cutter, cs and ink when you have a digital image to play with? Well, I do to make a good card, but I thought I would challenge myself with NOT using anything tangible. If anything, to give you something to check out for the challenge :O)

DISCLAIMER! I'm NOT a digital scrapbooker and have never touched this stuff until now. HUGE thanks to Jen Tapler for giving me some digital advice and tips :O) She is a digi queen! Some day I'll learn to add shadows and the cool, fancy stuff...but for now, this is it. I found the stars, metal brads and ribbon FREE on Free Digital Scrapbooking. Pretty cool, huh?

I created my patterned paper using the two sentiments in the PCS Weiman Wranglers set. I simply recolored the "Howdy" and used the horseshoe from the "You're Amazing" sentiment. I arbitrarily rotated the images randomly and ended up with some cool patterned paper. Neat, huh? The plaid paper is actually "try before you buy" PTI paper.

Okay, so I KNOW this card is ULTRA simple, but I truly had very little time to work on it in PA. Next week I promise something MUCH more detailed!

So, with all that, we would LOVE for you to play along with the color challenge today (MTCC03) and if you want to go that extra mile, you could join our team in using the Weiman Wranglers set!