Grand Prize Drawing and Cute Card

Hello!

It is finally here..you have been waiting all month to see who the winner is for my Blog drawing celebrating my 20 years with Close To My Heart!  Thank you for those who have shared my blog, the sweet comments and the encouragement that you have given me!  This has been a great experience and I look forward to continue to posting my creations!

The Grand Prize winner is  Brenda Atteberry! You will be receiving the Handwritten Print alphabet worth 29.95, the 2X2 Acrylix block worth 6.50 and a stamp pad worth 5.95!  I will be contacting you to let you know and ask what color of stamp pad you would like! Congratulations!

I also drew two more people to get a handmade card from me!  They are Suzan DeVore and Lynette Merrill!!  I will get to work on them soon!

OK..Now I get to post a cute card that I made this weekend. Even though Colorado is having some beautiful weather lately and we have no snow now, we will!  And this is a fun card to just send to someone to brighten their day! Especially on those dreary winter days!

I used the Flakey Friends Stamp set
I used the snowflakes and winter cheer message from the Polar Bear Holiday stamp set

On Crystal blue card stock I stamped a few snowflakes with Crystal blue ink.  I also embossed with silver embossing powder, those same snowflakes on the "sky" and on the snow "hill" I did white embossing powder.  I colored the dots on the snowman's scarf, the nose and the arms with our beautiful ShinHanart markers..love those markers!  

I added some black sparkles for the coal and finished it off with the Metallic bakers twine!  Here is a list of products used in case you need to make this fun card:

Crystal Blue ink pad
Crystal Blue Cardstock
Versamark pad for Embossing
White Embossing Powder
Silver Embossing Powder
Marker for the dots
Marker for the arms
Marker for the nose
Sparkles for the coal
Metallic Baker's Twine

Hope you enjoyed this.  Check back in a few days and I will try to post another creation!  Hugs to all!

Cards I am sending out

Good Afternoon!  I just finished the cards that I am sending out to those who commented on my blog, shared my blog etc and were the lucky winners to get a hand stamped card!  I was not going to post the card but then I figured that those of you who didn't win, might want to know what the card looked like.   I will be sending these out in the mail:

The fun thing about this card is that I didn't have to cut out any of the flowers etc. by hand!  Our Cricut cartridges cut out the 'thanks' and cut out the flowers, even the leaves and the middle of the flowers.  All I had to do is stamp the images cut out and attach to the card!  How cool is that!

I used Pretty Petals Stamp set. I used the Art Philosoply Collection to cut out the flowers.
I used Artfully Sent Collection to cut the Thanks out.

I used our brand new Vine Embossing Folder from our new Close To My Heart Seasonal Expressions Magazine that went live on December 1st!

If you want to see the New Expressions Magazine go to my website:
http://marianqcreations.ctmh.com/

I used Sorbet Stamp pad and Glacier Stamp Pad and Pear Stamp Pad.  
I added some cute Gold Sequins for embellishments to finish the card off!  

Now remember you still have a few days to share my blog and comment on it before I do the Grand Prize drawing this weekend!  I have had fun making the cards and doing the drawings! I am looking forward to doing even more cards etc.  Have a great day!  Hugs!