I can't believe that this summer I reached 1000 posts (this post is actually 1005!)! So for this HUGE accomplishment I have a little giveaway- actually it will be several giveaways this summer but today starts the FIRST!
If you follow my blog you know that I LOVE stamping! So today I have a very fun stamp for you. It is from Some Odd Girl and it is Balloon Kaylee. Kaylee is just one of my all time faves and the Happy Birthday sentiment is so awesome. I use it all the time on cards and layouts. I have a brand new stamp for you.
To win this awesome stamp set here is what you need to do! There are several things to get you more entries!
1. Follow this blog and leave a comment saying that you follow it.
2. "Like" Siehled with a Kiss Facebook page and come back here and leave a comment saying that you liked it.
3. Subscribe to my You Tube Channel and come back here saying you did.
4. Refer a friend and if they sign up to any of these you get a chance. Come back here and tell me who signed up.
So the giveaway starts today and goes to Tuesday (7/30/14) at 12:00 p.m. est. I will then announce the winner on Wednesday!
Thanks so much for joining me! I will be back tomorrow with a fun card/mini album from Some Odd Girl. Have a wonderful and crafty day!
mp
Happy Wednesday,
Wow , I just can't believe that this is my 500th post. I started my blog 2 years ago and I have had a super fun time every day! I want to say Thank You to all my followers and people who stop by every day and leave such kind comments. You all are really really the best. You totally make my day when I read the wonderful comments. I thank you so much!!!! So for all you I have some giveaways that will be going on for the rest of the week.
Today's giveaway is 2 packs of Flair
There is a new company called Paper Play Studio and the Flair buttons are so fun. (I am getting nothing from this company I just like the flair!) I have been including a little bit of Flair on my pages lately. So if you would like a chance to win there are a couple of ways:
1. follow my blog and let me know in the comments
2. leave a comment
3. Head over to my Facebook page Siehled With A Kiss and "like" it and then come back here and tell me you did.
4. Spread the word about the giveaway somewhere and come back here and let me know.
I will announce the winner on Sunday July 22, 2012.
I will have another little giveaway on my Facebook page later today! Do you like Jillibean Soup??? Well, head on over there later today to see the fun giveaway!
Now for today's project! As I was reading some blogs the other day I came across another fun challenge. Basic Grey has a challenge going on to include a doily on your project. I hardly ever use doilies and I thought this would be fun for me.
Once again I broke into my stash (can you see I have been trying to clear out my stash) and found the fun birthday collection. I made 2 doilies using my Silhouette. There were so many to pick in their store. Since I don't usually use doilies on my boy pages it was really fun checking out the store. I fell in love with so many.
I love this photo of Michael as he was trying to blow out his candles on his cupcake cake.
Thanks so much for stopping by today for my 500th post! I will be back tomorrow with another new project. Remember to stop by my facebook page Siehled With a Kiss for another fun giveaway! See you later.
Some of you might not know that I love making sketches for my crafting. I carry a sketch pad in my purse so that whenever I think of something I can jot it down. I usually then put these sketches into my computer and I have a file base of about 100 or more sketches. I use these sketches for my classes that I teach, for my challenges over at Burlap and Buttercups , and for my personal use. So with the My Memories software I thought about making a sketch for you all. I usually don't post many of my sketches here so I thought I would today, and here it is:
Using the My Memories software was so EASY to create this sketch. It was so fun and I knew I just had to share it! I also thought that if you wanted to use this sketch you could and then post a link on yesterday's blog post you could get another entry to win the amazing My Memories Suite 3 software package. How easy is that? You have until December 3rd to enter the contest. Remember to go HERE to leave your link.
Thanks so much for stopping by. I will be back tomorrow with a card. See you all then!
-mp
Several weeks ago My Memories Suite contacted me to try their digital scrapbooking software and to try it out for a couple of weeks. At first I was a bit reluctant because I am NOT that technical. I decided to investigate a bit before I said yes. I was able to find that My Memories Suite is rated #1 by Amazon and Top Ten Reviews. My interest was peeked. I then went to youtube.com and found this video:
Ok I was hooked. I wanted to try it.
Downloading the software was so easy. It took just a couple of minutes. Once it was loaded I was ready to go. There are more videos on youtube that show you step by step but I really wanted to see if a non techie could figure this out because I have had photoshop elements for months and I can't seem to do anything with it.
Once I opened the software there was a choice- create you own page or use one of the designer templates. I decided to create my own page. It took me just a couple of minutes to create my first page. The tool bar is so easily marked with Background Paper, Text, Shape, Embellishments etc. that I simply built the page with the preloaded papers and embellishments. I was so happy to see that in the embellishments there were buttons--buttons are my favorite embellie!
For my first attempt at digital scrapbooking here is my layout.
Now I have to admit that my first attempt is not the greatest layout I have ever made BUT I literally made this layout in 20 minutes. It was so EASY to use and navigate within the software. I have to say I was hooked! I wanted to explore the software even more. Over the next couple of days I am going to show you my progression using the software. I literally spent a total of 2 hours learning the software and browsing their store where there are TONS of free paper kits and embellishments to add to your software. I think you will be amazed when I reveal my final projects. The are simply amazing and again it took me just 2 hours to be able to make professional looking digital scrapbook pages.
My Review: This is a must have product if you ever wanted to try digital scrapbooking. I had tried Photoshop but I just couldn't understand it but with this software you can try digital scrapbooking and it is a snap! I made scrapbook pages and cards using this software and I loved it! It was so fun to put together a card in literally 5 minutes and print it out on my home printer. I was so excited to see that in their shop there were tons of freebies. I downloaded a couple and loved the designer paper collections. They were awesome. ( I will be showing those papers later this week.) I can see why this software program is the #1 selling program on Amazon.
Now the wonderful people at My Memories also gave me ONE software package to give away to ONE lucky winner from my blog. They also gave me a promotional code to display on my blog where you will be able to save $10 off the purchase of My Memories Suite Software. That brings the price down to only $29.95--that is AWESOME! Plus you will receive a gift card for $10 to use in their store. How awesome is that!
Here is how you can enter to win- there will be multiple ways to enter!
1. Follow my blog- tell me in the comment section on this post.
2. Follow my Facebook page - Siehled With A Kiss and come back here to tell me.
3. Post about this amazing giveaway on your blog or facebook page and leave a link in the comments
4. Head on over to the My Memories website and check out the free kits and new kits. See which kits you like and come back and leave me a comment telling me what you liked.
4. Head on over to facebook and sign up to "like" them. Once they have 10,000 fans they are giving away an Ipad and come back to tell me in the comments that you follow them.
5. Make a layout using the sketch that I created using the software and come back here and link it up here on this post. (the sketch will be revealed tomorrow on my blog).
You have until December 3rd at Midnight to enter to win this amazing giveaway! Be sure to check back everyday this week to see more of my creations using this awesome software program!
Thanks so much for stopping by. I will be back tomorrow with a free sketch that I created using the software. See you then!
Can you believe the weekend is over already? It went by so fast but then again we were booked for almost every minute of the weekend. Friday was my crop. Saturday I was up and at the grocery at 7:30 and had to be back home for Jack's swim lesson at 9:00. Then I needed to unpack my crop bag and then it was time for Jack's little birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. He was able to invite 2 friends (oh yea I forgot to mention that Jack turned 6 last week). We then met friends for dinner with the kids. Sunday I had lunch for the grandmothers and we had a little party just family for Jack. My aunt died this week as well and we had the visitation and today we have the funeral and wake. As you can see I barely had a chance to do anything else--I did sneak in a bit of crafting though but it was done at weird hours.
Well as I mentioned last week. I have really been busy at the store. I found out Friday that Vicki wants me to teach a card class using my 5 Doodlebug Halloween cards. Here is a link to two of them. HERE I love doodlebug so this will be really fun. Then I set the dates for my sketch classes. See over at the right for the schedule and then I set up the times to get trained on using type pad. I was offered the job and accepted the position of blog and facebook manager and writer of my local scrapstore, Simply Scrapbooks. I am sooooo excited. I have some big plans so it should be a lot of fun. I will still be part of the teaching staff and design team staff. I now will be able to pull all of these 3 things together and get the blog and facebook going. If you are in the Dayton/Kettering area--keep checking back here because we will be having contests on facebook and everything. Should be really fun!!!!
With me accepting this job, plus managing my teaching job (yup the one that pays the bills-hehehehehe) and family I am going to be busy!!! I am going to step back a bit from my personal blog. Don't worry I will still be here every week but not every day. I will need to develop a balance of things. I know that I am really stretching myself but this was a great opportunity and I didn't want to pass it up. Since I am highly organized I just need to find that groove to make it all work. I know it may take me a couple of weeks but I know I can do it.
Now on to the fun stuff!!!!! I mentioned that once we reach 150 followers I will be having a giveaway --or actually several giveaways. The first one features the entire collection pack of Echo Park's Summer Days!
I know we are heading into fall but if you are like me you still have TONS of summer photos just waiting to be scrapped!
Here's how to win!
1. follow my blog
2. leave a comment on this post
3. spread the work about this blog and giveaway on your blog, facebook page or email friends and then come back here and tell me!
4. refer a friend--have your friend say where they heard it and you get another chance to win!
So that is at least 4 ways to enter. You have till Thursday to enter. I will announce the winner on Friday!
Thanks so much for stopping by! I will be back tomorrow with a new project. See you all then!
-mp
Happy Monday,
Wow what a weekend we had. On Saturday we were gone the entire day. We left at 10:00 in the morning and we got back at 8:00 that night. It was such a fun day. The town that I grew up in and where my mom still lives had their big festival. It starts with a parade and then at the high school stadium they have rides and games. I always meet my high school friends and we all go with our families. It is just a day of fun. Then on Sunday we stayed home all day but what could go wrong did go wrong. I tried to print pictures- my printer acted funny, I tried to cut some die cuts-my silhouette acted funny, I tried to get my blog together for the week-my internet was down for most the day. So I just stepped away and we all went on a 2 mile walk and bike ride. It was so fun. I was able to get a layout finished and photographed and brought in the store. So I felt good about that. I am entering some challenges this week and tried to get them all wrapped up.
I hope you all had a great weekend. Did you do anything fun?
GIVEAWAY!!!!!!!
Well as promised I have a little Giveaway for you all. I have 3 (15 yards each) of twine from the Twinery. The colors are Maraschino, Lilac, and Pink Sorbet. They are sooooo pretty.
All you have to do to win is:
1) follow my blog
2) leave a comment
Good luck! You have till Thursday to enter! The colors are sooo pretty! You can have 2 chances to win if you leave a comment that you follow and another comment about whatever.
Spring Fun!
This is a layout that I did using the Jillibean Soup line Dutch Mustard.
I just love this line so much! It just makes me happy.
supplies
cardstock-kraft
paper-jillibean soup
tools-ek success, silhouette
I hope everyone has a fantastic day! I will be back tomorrow with a new layout. See you then!
Well we made it through another week. Instead of being happy about this I am sad because my spring break is over. I did accomplish a bunch but not as much as I would have liked to but still overall I am pleased with the work that I got done.
Several weeks ago Pam over at Observations of an Ordinary Life sent me a beautiful thank you card. Pam won my Michael's giveaway and she sent me this great card. I love happy mail and this just made me so happy! Thanks back at you Pam!
Well one of the things that I have been doing is going through my stash (yet again). My lss is having their big garage sale and I am going to put some stuff in it to sell, and I found these two things and thought I would have just a quick little GIVEAWAY today. It is just something little, but I want to say thanks to all of you who make my day! I thank you all for taking the time to write such wonderful comments. It really means a bunch to me. SO for a quick little GIVEAWAY I have a Basic Grey bling lady bug sticker and Close to My Heart little stamp set. Both have never been used before. The Little stamp set is of flowers and a butterfly. They are way too cute!
To win this little prize all you have to do is:
1. follow my blog
2. leave a comment by midnight tonight
I will announce the winner on Saturday! I will use random.org ! So let's get to it!
Have a great weekend and I will be back on Monday with a week of new layouts. I finished my goal and I finally finished Christmas. So next week will be a week of Christmas! Thanks for stopping by!
I am a wife, mother of 2 wonderful boys, teacher, and avid scrapbooker and card maker. I am a member of the Simply Scrapbooks deisgn team in kettering, ohio
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