I have a WINNER!!!

Thank you so much to everyone who has come over to check out my giveaway's.  and for all of the wonderful comments you have left.  I have a winner this morning for the My Memories Suite Gieaway.  I was lucky enough to get to try out this digital scrapbooking software and I love it.  I know the winner will be very pleased with it.  I will place a discount code on my sidebar for the rest of you that may want to purchase your own copy.  It is so packed full of tools at such a great price to begin with.  so without further ado, Our winner is:

 

 

 abusybee - DoubleClick Connections said...

Super cute lay-outs! My fav is Going Coastal! I am your newest follower!

Yay!!!  Congratulations abusybee, I am so happy to have you as one of my new follower/friends.  Please email me at evascrapslife(at)gmail(dot)com so that I can get your prize to you.

For the Rest of you I can at least offer you this, Get $10 off the purchase price of this awesome scapbooking software and another $10 off digi kit collections purchased in the My Memories store just by using this code at the checkout - STMMMS8366 as your coupon/Promo Code.  I will be placing this in my sidebar for any of you that want it in the future or want to send your friends by so they can save money too.

Everyone come back tomorrow for the Teddy Bear Blog

 Hop and then on Saturday for the Back to school/Fall blog

hop.  I will be in them both and have been working hard

 to share some really fun projects with you all.  Plus there

 will be Blog Candy to share as well, so tell all of your

friends and come join us for the fun. 

Oh yes and I do have one more giveaway going on right now for the Cricut Create a Critter Cartridge, you can find the link for it in my side bar at the top.

Have a wonderful and Crafty Day!!!

Eva :0)

Teddy Bear Blog Hop on Friday

Please make sure you stop by for the awesome


Teddy Bear Blog Hop

on Friday Sept 9, which is National Teddy Bear Day

This is my first Blog Hop as a DT member, please stop by and share some love.

I will have some Candy for you too and so may some of the others.

Here is some History for you on the Teddy Bear

National Teddy Bear Day

(Taken from: http://www.festivology.com/topics/teddy.html)

Teddy bears are, of course, named after US President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt. The name came about after a 1902 hunting expedition. The hunt had found no game, so at the end of the day someone brought out a baby bear and suggested that Roosevelt might like to shoot it instead. Roosevelt understandably felt that this was not exactly sporting and refused. The incident was illustrated in a newspaper cartoon entitled "Drawing the Line" - which also referred to the political situation at the time. An enterprising New York toymaker saw an opportunity and brought out a cute stuffed bear named "Teddy's Bear". The rest, as the say, is history.

Hope to see you here on Friday for this hop, I have some wonderful projects to share with you & Candy to share as well.

Eva :0)

Last day for GIVEAWAY!!! Digital Scrapbooking Suite!!!!

Also don't forget to get signed up for my Cricut Cartridge GIVEAWAY Here

So Today is the very last day for you to get in your comments and follow me to have a chance to win this fabulous software.  My Memories is letting me give away a copy to one of my lucky follower/friends.  Here is a couple of samples of what I made with this fabulicous program.  And it was so easy and fun.

On this first one I imported all of the embellishments from a digi kit I already had, so you are not limited to just buying their kits.  This was very important to me because I have many digi kits already.  The kits they offer are great though and are a wonderful edition to my collection.

This next one I did the first part all in the My Memories Suite and used only free stuff that was already in the program. 

Next I printed as an 8x8 and mounted it to a 12x12 designer paper and embellished with traditional materials. making it into a Hybrid, half digital and half traditional. 

I love making these and get to incorporate both styles this way. Those adorable Turtles are paper piecings from Little scraps of heaven designs.

Click here to go to the original post and get signed up to win this amazing Digital scrapbooking Software.  Entries Close Tonight at 12:00 PM EST

Also please stop back by on Friday, as I will be in my first hop ever, I am so excited!!!  it is the Teddy Bear Blog Hop hosted by Jen's Craft Corner.  Come back to see what I make and be sure to leave me your wonderful comments as I will be offering up some Candy for you!!!

Well thats it for me today...well for now, I will be trying to get a project posted I am working on today if I get it finished up.  It is a special Baby shower gift for my new Great Great Nephew who was born yesterday, he decide to arrive a little early so he wouldn't miss the party!!!  lol

Have a Wonderful and Crafty Day my Friends!!!!

Eva :0)

Giveaway Time, you could be my WINNER!

If you are looking for my Blogaversary Cartridge Giveaway

Click Here

My Memories Suite Software Giveaway!!!

My Memories has been kind enough to sponsor a GIVE-AWAY of one (1)

Memories Suite software download to one of my followers/friends.

It is more than just a digital scrapbooking program, but that part of it is so great!!  I just finished making a quick simple digital page with some of the pictures I took at the zoo with the kiddos last weekend.

I made this entire layout with all of the free stuff already in the program.  And it took me less than 20 minutes, and it came out super cute.  I will be doing plenty more with the rest of my Zoo pics to make a whole album for myself and probably one for my Daughter too since all I have to do is print off another set.

Here it is after I turned it into a hybrid, meaning I printed the digital page at 8x8 in my printer and then pasted it to a 12x12 designer paper, then embellished it with traditional supplies.  These oh so cute Turtles are from  Little scraps of heaven designs, you can read more about how I created the hybrid by clicking here.

You can use this in your card making as well, I love to create my inside sentiments digitally, then print and paste into my card. Or a banner or circle or square with your own personally created digistamp for the front of your card.  This program also lets you add in videos to your digital album,

I can include my zoo videos in this album too, YAY!!!

I am so excited to get some more projects done with My Memories Suite.  Here is another one I did pulling items from digital kits I already own into My Memories Suite, this one is super cute of our Family Vacation at Seaworld San Diego last month, this would look great framed and on the wall!!! or give as a gift!!!

Here is a video for you to learn about this super great digital software.

Welcome to the Family! from Lisa Jurrens on Vimeo.


Ok, Now on to the GIVEAWAY!!!

You could win your very own copy of this awesome software FREE,

My Memories has been kind enough to sponsor a GIVE-AWAY

of one software download of this program to one of my followers/friends. 

Isn’t that AWESOME?   So here is what you do to win:

1. Make sure you are a follower here on my Blog, if you are already

    a follower - just say so in your comment.

2. Go to My Memories and pick out your favorite kit they have there

3. Come back here and leave me a comment which one it is

Thats it.

I will pick a random winner next Wednesday, September 7, 2011 from all of the qualified comments.  Make sure you get your comment in by Tuesday night, September 6, 2011.

and don't forget to become a follower here to be eligible to win.  Good Luck to you all!!!

Oh, but wait - thats not all..........................................

If you can't wait for the giveaway -- and you want to try this super easy digital
Scrapbooking software right now -- I have another TREAT for you.

You can purchase it right now and save yourself $10 PLUS get $10 in free downloads in 

 the My Memories Store just for being an evasscrapsncards follower (That’s like $20 free!) Use STMMMS8366 as your coupon/promo code for your order!

Click here to go order your own software now.

Entries for the giveaway are now CLOSED. Thank you all for entering and I will be drawing a winner in the morning. Good Luck to you all.

Hybrid Layout Plus Giveaway

So I wanted to share with you all the way I sometimes do Hybrid Layouts.  I start out by making a simple design with my photos in the form of a digital layout.  (Original photo below scroll down)  Then I print it out on photo paper in an 8x8 size and cut off all of the white edges.  I place on a full size  12 x 12 patterned paper of some sort.  Then I start creating traditional pieces to go on my full size layout.  This one is from a recent trip to the Zoo with my Daughter and two adorable Grandchildren, it was fun. Here it is as the final Page after adding all of my Traditional pieces.

The traditional pieces I added on are of course the two turtles to begin with.  These both paper piecing files from Little scraps of heaven designs.  The Turtle on the left is from the Jungle & Zoo Pals Set and the Turtle on the right is called valentine-turtle.  There are many good files over there to choose from.  So I cut them on my Cricut Expression using Sure Cuts Alot 2.   I used a Martha

Stewart Punch on the green polka dot paper at top and bottom.  I then used a wavy edge in my paper cutter to add the light green strip over the top.  The letters were fun.  I used a small stamp punch I picked up for a dollar, great buy...for the background in the light green.  Then I used my cuttlebug die set called Baby Face for all of the letters - in dark green to the left and pasted onto the stamp cutouts.

And then the circle dies with a letter in the center were punched in the light green color with the dark green backing it.  I am so happy I bought this set. Then the Admit One Ticket is from a pack of journaling tag set I picked up from Oriental Trading Company.  Oh and the awesome 12x12 paper I chose to put it all on is from a new paper pack I just picked up called Rustic from DCWV...It is a wonderful paper pack.

Below is Digital LO only before I made it into a Hybrid LO.

So you see this is a fabulous use for the Awesome program, My Memories Suite, digital scarpbook software that I am giving away a copy of.  Tomorrow, Sept 7 is the last Day to enter

for your chance to win this.  Click HERE to enter to win before it is too late. follow the simple rules there and thats it.  GOOD LUCK!!!

If you are viewing this after my giveaway or you just want this awesome software right now!

You can purchase it right now and save yourself $10

PLUS get $10 in free downloads in the My Memories

store just for being an evasscrapsncards follower

(That’s like $20 free!) Use STMMMS8366

as your coupon/promo code for your order!

Click here to go order your own software now.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you all get entered in the giveaway in time. 

I also have a Cricut Cartridge Giveaway going on right now for my 6 month Blogaversary

CLICK HERE to head on over to enter in that drawing as well.

Oh one more thing, I will be in my very first Blog Hop this Friday September 9...I hope you all will join me for that. It is the Teddy Bear Blog Hop hosted by Jens Craft Corner

Have a Wonderful and Crafty Day

Eva :0)

Halloween card for the Pediatric Specialty Care

If you are looking for my

Cricut Cartridge Giveaway, Click Here

If you all have not done the

 Labor of Love Halloween Hop - Sharing the ♥ with special needs kids

 Hurry and get over there to check it out!

It was fabulous and for such a great cause.  I am linking up this card

following the hop and will be mailing it out for some child with special needs.

On the hop the DT's all designed awesome Halloween Banners for the kids rooms at the hospital.

We get to help by sending in some fun halloween cards.  I hope you will go hop and link up a card to send in too.  The more cards the more happy little kids!!!

ok, about my card, Black background then layered with a polka dot Halloween paper

from K&Co.  then layered with a purple paper embossed with the cuttlebug folder,

Skeleton scroll.  Then I stamped Boo in the center with Stayz On jet black ink.

I ran some light orange ink over the skeleton embossing.

The pumpkins and ghosts where all cut from Paper Doll Dress Up.

I embossed the big pumpkin with the same folder.  I added stickeles to all

of the vines and tops, gold stickles to the one Jack-o-lantern face.  The other

Jack-o-lantern I added some bright yellow paper behind to look like it is lit up inside.

the ghosts are just inked around the edges with Tim Holtz, walnut stain.  I highlighted

the ghosts faces with a brown marker.  I sure hope some special child smiles really big

when they recieve this card.  I am so happy to be a part of giving them a Happy Halloween.

I have also made this my Halloween swap card to finish of this set of Swap cards that are due.

Here is the inside and I also embossed the envelope with the skeleton scroll folder too.

here is where you will go to link up your card and get the addy to mail in your cards:

http://funkycards.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-feel-love-septmeber.html

I hope you all have a wonderful and Crafty Day!

Eva :0)   

Create A Critter Cartridge Giveaway!!!

It is almost my 6 Month Blogaversary, so I thought a Cartridge Giveaway would be Great.  I have been so lucky and won a lot of things from my friends since I started blogging, even a couple of cartridges.  So I thought it would be fun to give one back and make some new

friends while I am at it.  The Create a Critter was one that I have been wanting for a while now.  When I bought mine, I ordered two so I could give the other away to one of my awesome followers.

I am so happy to have found such a wonderful community of friends and support and might I had such major talent.  I love learning from you all and sharing what I make with you.  So October will be my 6 Month Blogaversary, so lets see how many more friends I can get on my followers list by then.  I will be letting it run through October and choose a winner by random draw on November 1.  One of you will be getting a Brand New, never opened, Create A Critter Cartridge to add to your collection.

So to win this awesome prize you must do the following:

1.  Become a follower/friend  & Leave a comment on this post  *(this one is a must do to win)

    

For 2 extra chances to win:

2.  Post about my giveaway on your blog with a link back to here, come back here

     and leave me a post with the link to your blog.

3.  Post my giveaway on your Blog sidebar with a link back to here to continue to spread the

     news, come back here and leave me a post here with the link.

**only comments on this post will count as an entry.

***You must be a follower of this blog to win.

****Open to everyone, I will ship anywhere!!!

Come back here on Nov 1 to see if you won.  

I will give 1 week for the winner to contact me,

if no contact is made I will draw again.

Good Luck To You All, I wish you could all win!!!

If the blogger button is not working, scroll all the way to top of
blog, click on the word follow at the far left top of blog
to become a follower!!! 

Have a Wonderful and Crafty Day!!!

Eva :0)

Birthday Fishes Joy Fold Card

Hello Crafters, I hope all is well with each and every one of you.  I have been very busy making this card times 6.  Yes that is right 6 times for a card swap I am in.  As I went along making this I kept adding in new things and more layers.  I still have some assembling to do on the other 5 but this one is DONE finally, lol.  I love the way it came out though so it was worth all of the extra efforts over the past two days.  I have to say I am very happy it is almost over though.  I started out wanting to make my first

Joy Fold card, as I recently saw one on a blog hop I hopped and then my imagination took over........

well this is what I came up with.

Sorry I had to use a clip to hold it closed

This adorable fish and fish bowl I recently purchased from

Little scraps of heaven designs. The sand at the bottom I spritz with Tattered Angels

Glimmer Mist -  Vanilla Breeze.  The Tag on the left

is cut from Plantin Schoolbook - Tag 1 page 78.  I took it into Design Studio

and sized the tag to 5" x 2 3/4.  I added some fun fibers to the top.

the Birthday fishes sentiment I did in my Craft Artist, I printed on blue paper

then I lined it all up in sure cuts alot 2 and then cut out the tags around the sentiment.

Is this not too cute? it looks like the little fisherman is fishing in the fish bowl.

Fisherman is cut at 4" from Everyday Paper Dolls, page 70.  The adorable Peachy Keen face

- wide eyed kids, I colored in with white gelly roll and colored gel pens. 

All of his clothes plus the fishing pole are also cute at the same settings.

The fishing line is white embroidery floss.  Then you open the last part and Voila...

There is a sad worm, cut from April Showers at 3/4, on a hook at the end of the fishing

line over looking a pond with a big red fish jumping up out of the waves to get him.

the hook is from Paper Doll Dress Up -  page 17, only it was a hand hook for a pirate.  I cut it at

4" then punched a 1/8" hole in the center and then trimmed around it to give it the look

of a fishing hook.  It actually came out pretty good but the worm covers most of it.  the

water is a blue paper cut at 1 1/4 x 1 3/4 and then corner chomped 1/4".  I then ran it through

cuttlebug, tiny bubbles folder.  The cute little waves are from svgcuts, cut at 2" wide.

the Red Fish is from Everyday Paper Dolls, accesory 3 no shift, cut at 3/4" -  page 70.

I added blue paper with corners chomped behind the fish bowl to leave room to

sign and add a sentiment to the inside of the card.

I have entered into these Challenges
Tuesday throw down - Punny Sentiment

One Stop Craft Challenge - Anything but Square
Patches of Pink - Link Up Party

Thank you so much for stopping by,

I hope you enjoyed your visit today.

Please leave me a comment as we all enjoy

reading them so much.

Happy Crafting,  Eva :0)

I will be doing a giveaway later this evening

so keep a look out for that!!!

Happy Giveaway - Think Pink!!!

IT'S A CELEBRATION SWEET STUFF!!!!!!

You all need to go check out this fab giveaway for a very happy occasion for

Jacque over at Jacque's Magnolia's

here is what you could win

Here is a short caption from her blog:

OH, HAPPY DAY!!!!!!! And a Happy Wednesday to each of you and especially to me!!!! I found out late on Tuesday that the nodules in my chest are all benign and that the breast cancer did NOT metastasize into my chest so I have so much to be thankful for!!! These lungs can breathe a little more freely now!!! And I can't express my tremendous appreciation enough to each of you who kept me in your thoughts and prayers!! Thank you all so much for being there!! Even my oncologist and PA were pleasantly SHOCKED to find out the good news!!! And I am turning cartwheels (just in my mind's eye of course...hahahahhahahaha) over the news!!!!! Some of you have suggested a new picture of me and I guess the time is soon, since I will not be losing my hair again any time soon!!!!! WooooHooooooo!!!!! 

Now go check out the rest of this post and her very awesome blog.

Get linked up to spread this happy news and maybe be the winner of some awesome blogcandy!!!

Jacque's Magnolia's

Thanks for your support, Eva :0)

Butterfly Award - Wow, for Me?

Butterfly Award!

Wow, Karen over at Little Scrap Pieces has given me the butterfly award!

I am so happy & honored to be in her top 10! Thank you so much for the award!

Butterfly Award!

So to receive the award, I need to pass on the 'Butterfly Award' to 10 other bloggers, contact the 10 bloggers to let them know they have been given this award, and I also need to show a link to the person who gave me the 'Butterfly Award', and finally I need to answer several questions. Here goes....

Q1) Name your favorite color?

Purple

Q2) Name your favorite song?

The Breath You Take - George Strait

Q3) Name your favorite dessert?

Strawberry Pineapple Dump Cake

Q4) What wizzes you off at the moment?

The Economy Problems

Q5) Your favorite pet?

Cotton My Puppy Dog (RIP)

Q6) Black or White

Black

Q7) Your biggest fear?

Sharks (lol)

Q8) Best Feature?

My Giving Personality  (I think...lol)

Q9) Everyday attitude?

Lets Create - Create - Create and have fun!!!

Q10) What is perfection?

Treasured Family Moments in Time

Q11) Guilty Pleasure?

Nutty Buddy Bars (Chocolate & PB Waffers)

Q12) When you're upset you?

Clean Stuff

Now I have to pass this award onto 10 others.

Of course It goes back to Karen!

Also it Goes To:

Shen - http://mycuriouscrafts.blogspot.com/

Amy - http://www.lovetocrop.com/

Lisa - http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/

Amy Jo - http://lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com/

Jani - http://www.papercompulsions.blogspot.com/

MJ - http://mysweettater.blogspot.com/

Christy - http://everdaylittlethings.blogspot.com/

Sonia - http://archiving-angel.blogspot.com/

Nancie - http://alittlepieceofmebynancie.blogspot.com/

Hoolie Girl - http://hooliewoodcreations.blogspot.com/

I hope you check out each one of the wonderful crafty ladies blogs' and be inspired!!!

I know I sure have been inspired by each one of them.

Thank You so much for thinking of me with this Awesome, Fantastic Award.

I am so very happy and touched to recieve this!

I hope You all have a wonderful & Crafty Day!!!

Hugs, Eva :0)