Happy Thanksgiving!

Feel free to download and print these little "count your blessings sheets" for your own personal use. It would be fun to fill them out with your little ones. (You can read more about this project here.)

I hope you have a very happy Thanksgiving! See you next week...

Holiday Blog Hop Winners!

And the winners of a pack of 10 personalized Holiday Thank You notes from Cardstore.com are:

Bonggamom
Lacey
5Ludwigs
Lilly

To claim your prize, just visit my collection from Cardstore.com and choose any of my designs, send an e-mail to cardgirl@cardstore.com with the design and customization you want along with your shipping address and Cardstore.com will send you your gift.

Thanks for blog hopping with us! I loved seeing what so many artists are up to and I hope you did, too.

Yet ANOTHER Give Away...

It must be that time of year because I am involved in yet another give away! This time it's to help get the word out about the International Sanctuary online shop through the Designing Moms blog. You can click here to read the post and enter the give away (open until Friday). Good luck! And do consider iSanctuary for some of your holiday shopping - they make great gifts!

Blog Hop Give Away Reminder

First of all, I cannot thank you enough for all of the kind comments that have been left in regards to the give away. Next time I'm having a bad day, I will just read your kind remarks for a little boost of encouragement. :) Thank you so much!

Tomorrow is the last day to enter to win any of the gifts that the artists are giving away for the Holiday Blog Hop. You have until midnight on the 23rd to enter in the drawing by leaving your comments in one (or all) of the Blog Hop Posts. The winners will be announced on the 24th.

Click here to enter to win a pack of my Cardstore.com designs by leaving a comment at the end of the post. Visit the rest of the artists to do the same (they are giving away some really great work and have some very inspirational things to share on their blog)

Terri Conrad
Brenda Pinnick
Joyce Shelton
Phyllis Dobbs
Cherish Flieder
Joy Hall
Barbara Johansen Newman
Sharyn Sowell

Thanks s much for your support!

New Product from Cardstore.com: Boxed Stationery Sets

I just wanted to let you know that Cardstore.com is now offering boxed sets of stationery! I think it makes a perfect gift. I am thrilled to have my scarf girl as one of the choices. Click here to see the entire collection including some of the work from talented designers like Delphine, February 13 Creative, Anvil Modern Paperie, Ink and Paper, and more.



For these boxed sets as well as for all of the Cardstore.com designs, this discount code applies: FRIEND15 (expires on 12/31/09)

Be sure to visit the Cardstyle blog for a complete list of the give aways going on right now (including two of my personal favorites: the Holiday Blog Hop and Designing Moms)

You can't win if you don't play. :)

Spoonflower

What is a girl to do when she has handmade cards to design that need to include a specific type of fabric embellishment and she just can't find it in the marketplace? Why design her OWN fabric patterns, that's what!

I am so excited to finally have an excuse to try my hand at Spoonflower, which is an amazing company that allows every day folk to design their own fabric patterns. They have a very user friendly system and great customer service. I already ordered and received my first sample swatch for the project I'm working on and was so impressed with the quality. I can't wait to share the end result with you.

In the meantime, I found out (via the Spoonflower newsletter today) that they are doing a fabric calendar design contest. I have included a few of my favorites to share.





The first fabric panel is by the Cottage Industrialist. The next one is by Antony Briggs. The last design is by Michelle Brusegaard. Aren't they all fabulous?

Cardstyle Guest Blog

I was the guest blogger on the Cardstyle blog yesterday and thought I would share the link here. You can learn how I made this EASY Thanksgiving card in bulk with my two year old. Click here to see the post.