Spotlight Saturday

Good Morning and happy weekend!!! I am happy it's here even though I have to work a few hours today and tomorrow. I am happy it's here because Monday will be the start of the 4th week left in this semester. Ahhhhh, so happy to be (almost) done. :-)

Well today I have a beautiful card to share with you from our Delightful Guest Designer, Diana. She was awesome and created 5 projects for us since there were 5 Saturdays this month. :-)


Look at this card, isn't it gorgeous?? I want to thank Diana for joining us this month!! I hope you were inspired by all of her beautiful creations, both cards and LO's!! :-)

Today is the last day to submit your projects for our DT call. It ends tonight. The new team will be chosen and announced by the end of the week.

Tomorrow the new sketch challenge will be posted and the kits will officially go on sale over at Artful Delight. The kits are selling fast so be sure to make your purchase soon, before they all sell out!

Hope everyone has a delightful Saturday, I will be back in the morning! :-)

Winner!!!

Good Morning and TGIF!!!! I am just popping in real quick to announce the winner of the giveaway I had going on this week. I LOVED reading all your comments about how many boxes you would need to pack your craft stuff. In all fairness I didn't specify box size but it was amazing to see how much stuff everyone else has. I know I don't have much but I feel overwhelmed with what I have sometimes.....I couldn't imagine having double or triple that. I wouldn't know what to do with myself. LOL!!!

But anywho.....the winner thanks to random.org is comment #27.......

Paige said...

OMG, what a good question! Craft stuff is not light, so I would need way more than 30 boxes so I could still lift them! I'll say 45 conservatively!

March 27, 2012 1:40 PM

.....Paige from She Who Must Stamp.....

Congrats Paige!!! If you could please email me your snail mail I can get your package of goodies in the mail to you!!! :-)

leeanne@artfuldelight.com

Well I am off to work on those cards that I had someone order. She changed her order to 36 cards. YIKES, it sure has kept me busy. Then I am off to meet up with June to help her move more stuff. It was so AWESOME to meet her yesterday!!!

Have a good day everyone!!! :-)

Bring on the happy

Happy Wednesday!! I am super excited this morning because today I get to check out classes for Summer and the class I REALLY want to take and the class Tony and I both need to take is totally offered in the Summer. This is totally AWESOME!!

I really loved reading all your comments about your craft space. 30 boxes is certainly not a lot when moving a house but we are seriously getting rid of EVERYTHING!!! We really didn't have much to begin with because we have moved so much that we just got tired of buying stuff just to get rid of when we moved OR have to deal with moving.

As far as my craft stuff goes, I am trying to convince myself the LESS is MORE. I mean each month I get my choice of an Artful Delight card or scrapbook kit to play with plus any other little things I chose to pick up. I don't get much time to craft now and I am not sure how much that will change when we move, I will just exchange school with work and probably be just as busy as I am now. Although I think half the reason I don't craft as much now is I just don't have the space. My craft area is my kitchen/dining room table and stuff is all over the place. In order to craft I would have to spend 30+ minutes just cleaning space, then another 15-30 minutes searching through all my stuff to find what I want to use to craft. Just seems like a lot of work. BUT maybe once we move and I have a dedicated space to craft, all my stuff organized then I won't feel so overwhelmed. I would still like to limit my paper crafting purchases to a min, other than buying "tools"(you can never have enough of those), ya know punches, dies, embossing folders, etc.....I want to keep the actual paper and embellishments to a minimum. Let's see how that goes. LOL!!!

It is almost the end of another month and I just can't believe it. I have a few more projects to share with you that our Delightful Designers created using our March kit. Today's project was created by June using our (sold out) March card kit.

JUNE

Love that pinwheel. Super sweet card!! Well I am also excited, I finally get to (officially) meet June tomorrow. We only live about 40 minutes from each other but have never met. I offered to help her move so me and my kids will be heading out to her house tomorrow. SUPER excited.

Well that's all for today. If you haven't entered my giveaway, be sure to get in on the action, the giveaway will close tomorrow at noon. Click here to enter. (not sure if the link will work, it doesn't look like Blogger is letting me attach a link) Let me just leave you with the URL just in case. http://artfuldelight.blogspot.com/2012/03/i-sure-do-love-giveaways.html (just copy and paste in your browser box) :-)

I sure do love giveaways.....

Good Morning!! I am in the mood for a giveaway. How about you?? I have another random box of goodies to giveaway. It will be filled with a lot of awesome-ness. :-) Most of the stuff I giveaway is extras from past kits. Plus I am going through my stash and getting rid of stuff I never used or barely used. I am moving over the summer and I guess I need to get rid of some stuff. I packed some stuff that I don't use much since I just don't have that much time to craft and I already have about 6-7 boxes packed and that is just the stuff I DON'T use every time I craft.

Let's see, leave me a comment and tell me if you were to pack your craft space, how many boxes do you think you will have. LOL!! Is 6-7 boxes filled with stuff I don't use regularly a little much?

We have to keep our moving stuff to a minimum because we are hiring a company to move our stuff. And to be able to afford it we have to get rid of......well 95% of our household belongings. Now this isn't that bad because most of our stuff is mish-mashed from Tony's house and my house prior to us getting together. So I think of this as a fresh start and I am super excited. BUT that means that I can only have approx. 30 boxes. That isn't very much when so far about 1/3 of that is my craft stuff. hahahahaha!!

Anywho, leave me a comment to enter the giveaway. I will close this giveaway on Thursday at noon.

I will be back tomorrow with another project from our Delightful Designer using our March card kit. :-)

Castle Deco

Good Morning and Happy Monday. Back to school this week. I am so ready to get this over with. LOL!!

Today's LO is created by our Delightful Designer, Julie, using our March scrapbook kit.

JULIE

LOVE the bright and colorful pictures and all the embellishments she used. For more details about this LO, please visit Julie's blog.

Did you see our April kit reveal yesterday? Click here if you didn't. I will have more inspiration for you this week from our Delightful Designers using our March kit.

If you would like to pre-order either of our April kits please send me an email. leeanne@artfuldelight.com - They will officially go on sale on our website on April 1 but there are only a very few kits left already.

March 25th which means the reveal of another fabulous kit

Hello my friends. So sorry I am posting this so late, I was hoping the sun would come out so I could get some good pictures but alas it did not.

I am going to reveal both out scrapbook and card kits for April. I will also announce with winner of our sketch challenge. We had double the amount of entries we normally have so I am SUPER excited.

First let's reveal the kits, shall we.

SCRAPBOOK KIT

this kit will include

Pink Paislee - Indigo Bleu collection - 12x12 sheet (1 each)
Denim
Calico
Tweed
Burlap
Poplin

Pink Paislee - Prairie Hill collection - 12x12 sheet (1 each)
Spool
Hilltop
Sun Spot
Country Meadow

Lily Bee Design - Double Dutch collection - 12x12 sheet (1 each)
Marigold
Sand
Marmalade
Hopscotch

Coordinating Cardstock - Bazzill 12x12 sheets (2 each)
Natural
Splash
Candle
Sun Coral (not shown)

Embellishments - size and color may vary per kit
1 package - American Crafts Thickers - Fellow
1 - "Sunshine" die cut - FabScraps
1 spool/5 yards - American Crafts Ribbon - Denim
1 package - Pink Paislee Indigo Bleu collection - Chat Clouds (41 pcs)
3 - Prima Flowers - Tattered Treasures Barley
1 sheet - Lily Bee Design - Double Dutch stickers (52 pcs)
5 - Pink Paislee Indigo Bleu collection - Boutique Trinkets (brads and buttons)
1 package - Pink Paislee Prairie Hill collection - Chipboard Pop Stickers (32 pcs) -not shown

CARD KIT

this kit will include

Pink Paislee - Indigo Bleu collection - 6x6 sheet (2 each)
Denim
Calico
Tweed
Burlap
Poplin

Pink Paislee - Prairie Hill collection - 6x6 sheet (2 each)
Spool
Hilltop
Sun Spot
Country Meadow

Lily Bee Design - Double Dutch collection - 6x6 sheet (2 each)
Marigold
Sand
Marmalade
Hopscotch

Coordinating Cardstock - Bazzill 8 1/2x11 sheets (2 each)
Natural
Splash
Candle
Sun Coral

Embellishments - size and color may vary per kit
1 package - EK Success 3D-Dots adhesive
1 spool/5 yards - American Crafts Ribbon - Denim
20 pcs - Pink Paislee Indigo Bleu collection - Chat Clouds
1 sheet - Lily Bee Design - Double Dutch stickers (52 pcs)
1 package - Pink Paislee Indigo Bleu collection - Boutique Trinkets (brads and buttons)
1 stamp set - Hero Arts Clings - Framed Messages
1 stamp set - 3x4 Paper Smooches - Cut Loose (not shown)

And now for the winner of our March sketch challenge. The winner is #4:

.......Charlotte Brochu from Scrapsational ....happenings in my world........

Congratulationss Charlotte, please email me your mailing info so I can send your prize. leeanne@artfuldelight.com

That's all for today. What do you think of the kits? See you back here tomorrow for more crafty goodness from our Delightful Designers using our March kit.

Spotlight Saturday

Good Morning my friends. I hope your weekend is off to a good start. I woke up at 5:30 and got to work on my homework. I am almost done with one of my assignments. I started to not be able to concentrate around 6:30 when I knew there could be a possibility that my kids would wake. When I know that it is too early for them to wake I can focus, as soon as I think they could wake that is all I can think about and I can't focus on my school work. Oh well, I still have 5 more days to finish. I am certain I will get it done. A few more early mornings and I will be in good shape. AND as of Monday I only have 5 more weeks of school (with the exception of the 2 classes I need to take this summer but they will be super easy classes so I am not stressed at all).

Today is another Spotlight Saturday featuring our guest designer, Diana. We are lucky this month to have 5 Saturday's so Diana will also join us next week. :-)

DIANA

Beautiful card, love the soft pink, black, and white together. For more details about this card please visit Diana's blog.

I will announce the winner of this month's sketch challenge tomorrow with the reveal of our April kits.

Do you agree that CHA-W had some amazing releases?? Well you should agree, lol, because some of these new products are super hard to get. I just don't think manufacturers can make these products fast enough to keep up with the excitement from all of us crafters. :-) I am excited each month to be able to share with you some of the hottest products out there but I hope that you bear with me on getting the kits to you. I still have yet to get my kits to my DT because I am waiting on some last minute items that have been out of stock forever. LOL!! Debbie has put together another amazing kit for April and I have seen what she has for May and I already can't wait to reveal that one too. LOL!!

I should have no problem getting kits out by the 1st but there may be a delay in sharing the inspiration from our design team.

Kids At Play

TGIF my friends. :-) What are your plans for the weekend? Mine, well since I didn't do any homework all week since I was on Spring Break, I will now spend the next 6 days working through my homework. It really isn't that bad actually, I only have 2 assignments (long ones, but only 2) and I already finished half of one by getting up early this morning. Not too early, I got up at 5, washed the kitchen floor and then got to work. So in less than an hour I got through half of one of my assignments. I also have to work a couple hours tomorrow but that's about it. :-) Oh and I have to make 21 cards for a special order. Remember this card I posted back in February?

The lady wants 21 of these but she wants it to say "just because." Thankfully most of this is cut with my trusty Silhouette. :-)

Here is one of the photos from our family day out on Wednesday. This is our FIRST family photo as a family of 6.

I will probably scrap this and make a frame and put it in there. :-)

Today is the last day to enter your project for our sketch challenge. You are playing along for your chance to win our April scrapbook kit. :-) Upload your project in the sidebar before 11:59pm EST for your chance to win.


And now for our projects created by our Delightful Designer, Kelly.

KELLY

I love the distressed edges and all the detail. For more detail about this LO please visit Kelly's blog.

That's all for today, be sure to stop by tomorrow for another Spotlight Saturday. :-)

Make A Wish

Good Morning!! Even though it was a bit gloomy yesterday, my family and I had a wonderful day!! I can't wait to be able to spend days like that every week.

I have a wonderful family photo to share but it is on Tony's phone so I will have to wait until he sends it to me. :-) I honestly think that is the first family photo we have taken, WOW, that is really bad. BUT it was a pretty good one so I will accept that. :-)

Today's LO is absolutely fabulous. Our Delightful Designer, Debbie created it using our March scrapbook kit.

DEBBIE

I love all the little details!! Just fabulous. For more details about this LO, please visit Debbie's blog.

A couple reminders, tomorrow is the last day to enter our sketch challenge and have a chance to win our April scrapbook kit. :-) Use the sketch and create a card or LO and upload your project in the sidebar by tomorrow, March 23rd for your chance to win.

Also there is about a week left to get in your submission for our DT call. The new term will begin May 1 and end in October. You will receive one of our monthly kits each month to play with and share your creativity. If you are interested in being a part of our team, click here for more details.

Have a wonderful day, it is supposed to be 80 degrees here today. Will I really need to put on my air in the middle of March???? LOL!! :-)

You're in my thoughts

Good Morning my friends. Tony has the day off today so we decided to go spend the day outside with the family. I have a job interview the first thing this morning and then we will head out. It should be a decent day, weather wise. Not too hot and not too cold. I am going to try and enjoy the day, Spring Break is half over and I have some homework that needs to be completed by next week. So after today I need to get busy. LOL!

I have a fabulous card to share with you today that our Delightful Designer, June, has created using our March card kit. The card kits are sold out but we still have some scrapbook kits available. :-)

Love the wood grain paper with the bird. Just fabulous. For more details and inspiration, please visit June's blog.

Just a few reminders, our monthly sketch challenge ends in just a few days on the 23rd. Create a project using this months sketch and upload it in the sidebar by the 23rd for your chance to win our April scrapbook kit.

Also there is just over a week left to get in your submissions in for our DT call. Click here for details.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day!! :-)

Sunday Through Today, I Love You

Good Morning and Happy Monday. Today is the first day of my Spring Break. I should be super excited but it is supposed to rain all week. :-(

Tony has off today and we were supposed to hang out, play outside with the kids, etc but that probably won't happen since it is pretty gloomy outside. Maybe I will get to craft today, who knows. LOL!!


But on to the fun stuff. Today I have a super cute LO to share with you that our Delightful Designer, Julie created using our March scrapbook kit.

JULIE

I think the hexagon paper is my favorite in this kit. So many cute and creative ideas have come from that paper. If you would like to purchase a March scrapbook kit, click here. We also have previous kits still available at a discounted rate. :-)

Be sure to stop by Julie's blog for more details about this LO and a TON more inspiration. :-)

Spotlight Saturday

Good Morning my friends. We are back today with another Spotlight Saturday featuring Diana from Design by Diana.

DIANA

Diana used our March scrapbook kit to create this fabulous LO!! The papers Diana chose match the photos so perfectly. :-) Super cute LO. For more details, please visit Diana's blog.

That's all for today, I hope you have all have a wonderful day!!! :-)

Cutest Baby Ever

TGIF again!!!! I feel like I just posted it was Friday. Are these weeks flying by or what? :-) I am officially on Spring Break. YAY!!! I will spend my week doing homework and potty training my youngest. :-)

Today I have a super cute, super creative LO to share with you that our Delightful Designer, Kelly created using our March scrapbook kit. :-)

I LOVE this LO, Kelly's use of that pattern paper is so creative!! For more details about this LO please visit Kelly's blog.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. I will be back tomorrow with another Spotlight Saturday. :-)

Live & Laugh

Good Morning!! It is another peaceful morning here with birds chirping, warm coffee, and a quiet house. It won't last much longer though, I expect the kids to wake very soon.

As I mentioned the other I was able to craft and make a LO. Not only did I create a LO but it was using a photo of myself. Whoa!!! I used our March scrapbook kit to create this LO.

LEEANNE

Most of the hexagons I cut out individually, distressed the edges and inked them with some distress ink. The tree branch was cut using my Silhouette Cameo. I used the stamp set that was included in the March card kit to stamp the "Live and Laugh" on some of the Mist-ables trim that was included in the February scrapbook kit (we still have some available at a discounted price).

Everything on this LO was included in the March kit except the Mist-ables trim.

Don't forget about our design team call we have going on for our next term. Click here for more details.

You mean the world to me - This Week

Good Morning and Happy Wednesday!! The weather here in Virginia has absolutely been delightful. I LOVE it!! Today it should be about 80 degrees. :-)


Today I have two projects to share with you. The first one is a card that our Delightful Designer June created and I absolutely LOVE the papers and colors she chose. The second project is a LO that our Delightful Designer Julie created. Love the spritzing and papers Julie used. And that photo is beautiful!!! Both amazing projects!! June used our March card kit (which is sold out) and Julie used our March scrapbook kit.

JUNE

JULIE

For more details about these project please visit Julie's and June's blogs.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BRIAN AND JULIE!!!

It was so nice to wake this morning and have some coffee, fold some laundry, and watch some Grey's Anatomy. The birds are so happy outside too, they are chirping louder than the volume on my TV. LOL!! Well off to get my day started! :-)

Blossoms

Good Morning my friends! Today is supposed to be an absolutely beautiful day and I am excited. :-)

I have a beautiful LO to share with you that our Delightful Designer, Debbie, created using our March scrapbook kit. :-)

DEBBIE

I LOVE all the layers and those beautiful photos. For more details about this LO, please visit Debbie's blog.


I was able to craft yesterday so I will have a LO to share with you later in the week. I have a bunch of projects to share with you this week so I will squeeze mine in somewhere. LOL!! I feel crafty now so I am going to try and craft more this week. I love all the inspiration we are able to share with you here, I hope you are inspired!

Remember This

YAY, Happy Monday!! Only one week until I am on Spring Break and then I only have about 5 weeks left of classes. YIKES, time is going to fly by and I am SUPER DUPER excited!! So I was up this morning at 3:45am to work on a project for my tax class. Oh yeah, nothing more fun that preparing a fake tax return, and not your typical individual return, nope it was a corporation return. Those are SO not fun!!! I worked on it for about 2 hours before I decided I had enough for the time being. LOL!! It's not due until tomorrow night so I have time to work on it.

Let's get to the fun crafty stuff that you came here for though!! Today I am sharing with you a LO that our Delightful Designer, Julie, created using our March scrapbook kit.

Our March card kits are sold out and we have one scrapbook kit left. We also have some "older" kits left and they have been discounted off our already super low price, check it out here and here. :-)

JULIE

I love how she did this LO. She actually used one of the pattern papers included in the kit for placement of the pictures, so awesome!! :-)

For more details about this LO please visit Julie's blog. :-)

There is still time to enter this month's sketch challenge for your chance to win our April scrapbook kit. Use the sketch in the sidebar and link your project (in the sidebar) by March 23rd for your chance to win.

Also there is about 2 weeks left to get in your submissions for our current DT call. Click here for more details!!! :-)

Adore

Good Morning my friends. Did you remember to set you clocks ahead? I am super excited that this week we are supposed to have some absolutely beautiful weather. I hope it carries in to the next week too because that is when I will be on Spring Break. BUT this week I plan to get my kids outside to play. They have been cooped up in the house way too long. And since I don't work today I will be taking them outside today too. YIPPEEE!!

Today I have a super cute LO to share with you that our Delightful Designer, Julie, created using our March monthly kit.

JULIE

Ok first of all, is her daughter Brookie just not absolutely ADORABLE!!!! Sweet Brookie!! I am super excited that when we move later this year I will live about 30 minutes (maybe less) from Julie and I will get to meet her and her daughter!!! YIPPEEE!!

Well Julie had this LO posted yesterday but I still wanted to share this with all of you. Please visit Julie's blog, she truly is an inspiration with how much amazing work she can get done each day. Yesterday she posted 3 LO's. Sheesh I am lucky to get one LO done a month. LOL! I think my problem is since I only have a small window of opportunity to craft I try to create my LO in my head before I even start. Because if I just went to my craft supplies I wouldn't know where to begin. So I "create" this LO in my head, anticipating anything that may or may not work well together. So in my head my LO isn't quite done, lol!! I think with my limited craft time I should stick to sketches for inspiration.

Anywho, I should go finish my coffee before my kids wake up. I expect today will be a long day, I feel really tired. I went to bed way too late last night to have woken up so early today.

I hope you all enjoy your Sunday!!!

Spotlight Saturday

Hello my friends!!! It is Saturday which means we have another project from our March Guest Designer, Diana from Design by Diana.

DIANA

Super cute LO!! I love all the elements she used in the LO!! For more details, please visit Diana's blog. I have really been itchin' to craft. I just can't seem to find the time but I am going to go now and try to get something created, I don't really have anything I have to do. :-)

Hope you have a wonderful Saturday!! :-)

Future Artist

TGIF my friends!! I am actually a little excited about this weekend. I don't work tonight and I only work Saturday night. I have off on Sunday and it is supposed to be a beautiful day!!! I can take my kids outside to play or go to the park since Nicki will be home to help out. I plan on doing a little painting around the house this weekend and organizing whatever I have left from my online yard sales I have been doing. Plus I am all caught up on my homework, I only have classes next week and then it is Spring Break and after that there is only 5 weeks left of school. WAHOOOOOO!!!!

So today I have another fabulous LO to share with you that our Delightful Designer, Kelly created using our March scrapbook kit.

KELLY

Super cute photo and the LO is fabulous. For more details about this LO please visit Kelly's blog.

Just a few reminders going in to the weekend.

• We have a DT call going on right now, if you are interested in receiving an Artful Delight kit each month to play with and help promote then click here for more details on how to submit your projects. The DT call runs through the month of March so you do have time to get it submitted.
• Also we have our current sketch challenge running now. Use the sketch in the sidebar to create your project (it can be a card or LO) and upload it (in the sidebar) by March 23rd for your chance to win our April scrapbook kit. I have had some questions in the past about whether you need to use and AD kit as well and NO you do not, that is not a requirement. If you have an AD kit though I would love to see what you created. :-)
  

That's it for today, see you back here tomorrow for another Spotlight Saturday. Enjoy your Friday!!

Capture The Joy Of Summer and giveaway winner announced

Good Morning my friends!!! I am so happy this week is almost over. I don't have to work much this weekend so I am excited to get some things done around the house since my daughter will be home.

Today I have an absolutely fabulous LO to share with you that our Delightful Designer, Debbie, created using our March scrapbook kit. There is only ONE scrapbook kit left, so if you are thinking about buying it I would do it quick. These kits have been selling fast!!

DEBBIE

GORGEOUS !!! EVERYTHING about this LO is fabulous!!! :-) For more details about this LO please visit Debbie's blog.

And I also have the winner of my giveaway to announce.

The winner is: #20

Annette said...

awesome...love a fun giveaway...thanks for the chance to win... Happy Sunday

March 4, 2012 10:45 AM

..........ANNETTE from My Clever Creations..............

Alright, well that's it for today. It should be a nice day here in Virginia so I am hoping to get my kids outside to play. :-)