WHOO HOO today is the day, Yup that’s right it’s the release day for Marvin the Bat, Marvin with Candy Apple and Marvin Trick or Treat and they are all available for purchase in the store as of right now!  So get in quickly RUN don’t walk as Debbie would say, hehe!

BUT there is more, did you love all three cuties, I sure DID, well Marina has decided to have a special and offer all 3 images for a limited time…..

Marvin 3 Digi Set $10.00

Have a STAMPING Fabulous Day….

Good Afternoon All,

Well I will be back soon with cards and more, but I just had to let you all know that Tickled Pink Stamps is looking for a celebrity guest for our new release of Lil Lolita Stamps coming SOON….  Want to know more?  OF course you do, jump on over HERE….. to read all the details.

Also I HAD to put word verification back on my blog.  I was getting NO lie 100-200 spam comments a DAY!  And I am thinking it was the cause of missing emails and sending some emails to spam a lot instead of my inbox.  It was causing all sorts of troubles and I now have over 3000 spam comments to delete and with my word press I can only delete 20 at a time, so long process!  I am so sorry as I know it can be annoying but since popping it back on, no spam, whoo hoo and emails are slowly running as normal, still some that get to spam instead of my inbox but should all be sorted soon.

Be back soon with The Stamping Bazaar and All That Scraps!

WHOO HOO Bring on DAY TWO of  our first blog hop at The Stamping Bazaar. Marina is just absolutely talented PLUS and using her images so much FUN and they are perfect for any animal/critter/furry friend lover out there.  So if you have come from Emma and Susan aka Two Pink Ladies then you are on the right track.  But if you want to start from the start then please go HERE…. to The Stamping Bazaar Blog….

Here are a few details you will NOT want to miss….

• All Marvin digis will be going on sale on Saturday, September 4th, at 12:00am EST. Mark it in your calendar or set your alarm hehe you will NOT want to miss this release!  Don’t know the exact time?  You can do so by clicking HERE….
• There are of course giveaways to be WON whoo hoo.  And you can find out all about them at The Stamping Bazaar Store Blog HERE….. Be sure to leave a comment to be in it to WIN it!
• This is the MAJOR one, well in my eyes hehe!  There will be a chance to win ALL 3 images, yup I did say all 3 at The Stamping Bazaar Face Book page HERE…. you have to like it to be in it!

So now here is my creation using the ADORABLE Marvin with Candy Apple!

Stamps : Marvin with Candy Apple and Amy R Sentiments…

Papers : Cardstock Black, White, Green, Purple and Kraft.  Papers : October Afternoon.

Distress Inks : Marvin : Black Soot, Mouth : Fired Brick and Aged Mahogany. Toffee Apple : Fired Brick, Aged Mahogany, Peeled Pain and Shabby Shutters, Toffee Apple Stick : Antique Linen, Brushed Cordury and Vintage Photo.  Sentiment : Shabby Shutters and Purple

Other : Magnolia Tilda Lace Die, Spellbinders Nestabilites Label 4, Pumpkin, Fuschia Ribbon, Orange and White Check Ribbon, Ghost, Black Rhinestones, Green Thread and Glo Skulls…

NOW go and hop on over to Kristen HERE…. and continue on your hopping way….  Or here is the blog hop list….

I will be back shortly with a NEW All That Scraps Preview….. WHAT a month for gorgeous NEW stamps!

OH wow are you as excited as Marina, The Stamping Bazaar Design Team Gals and I are for our first blog hop from The Stamping Bazaar. You will really NOT want to miss this.  So if you have come from Emma and Susan aka Two Pink Ladies then you are on the right track.  But if you want to start from the start then please go HERE…. to The Stamping Bazaar Blog….

Here are a few details you will NOT want to miss….

• All Marvin digis will be going on sale on Saturday, September 4th, at 12:00am EST. Mark it in your calendar or set your alarm hehe you will NOT want to miss this release!  Don’t know the exact time?  You can do so by clicking HERE….
• There are of course giveaways to be WON whoo hoo.  And you can find out all about them at The Stamping Bazaar Store Blog HERE….. Be sure to leave a comment to be in it to WIN it!
• This is the MAJOR one, well in my eyes hehe!  There will be a chance to win ALL 3 images, yup I did say all 3 at The Stamping Bazaar Face Book page HERE….

So now here is my creation using the ADORABLE Marvin the Bat!

Stamps : Marvin and SU! Letters.

Papers : Cardstock Black and Kraft.  Papers : October Afternoon, Graphic 65, Magnolia Halloween paper and Water colour Paper.

The Cutting Cafe : Witch Hat

Distress Inks : Marvin – Black Soot, Cheeks and Mouth – Fired Brick and Aged Mahogany….

Other : Magnolia Tilda Lace Die, Spellbinders Nestabilites Label 4, Orange ribbon, Black Ribbon, Orange and White Check Ribbon, Orange Rhinestones and Glo Skulls…

NOW go and hop on over to Kristen HERE…. and continue on your hopping way….

I will be back shortly with a NEW All That Scraps Preview….. WHAT a month for gorgeous NEW stamps!

Good afternoon Everyone,

Well I have been a bit MIA lately and this is due to us selling our house, well in the middle of selling it!  We found a house last week that is perfect for us, and best of all guess what………….It has a CRAFT ROOM WOOT WOOT…..  Was a winner in my eyes, hehe, but that’s not the only reason, it a perfect family home.  And so we have been doing a bit to this one we live in now to try and sell it asap.  All weekend we worked on it, even my bones were aching I think, hehe!  But we are all so excited, but a lot of work and what not still to come with re-painting etc.  Have already had 2 people come and look through so good signs!

Before I get onto my card I do have a little devastating news to share, well to me it is, Hubby rang me after our offer got approved as we had to start cleaning this one asap and he said ……………….he  said ……………… sniffs ……………. cries …………… blows nose loudly…………….that my craft area was clutter and I had to pack it all up ………………CRIES HARDER ……………… So I got one MASSIVE tub and anything I could fit in there I got to keep and will pop away when people come through the house.  But clutter pfft doesn’t know art in the making lol!  But I must admit since then I have the cleanest desk I have ever seen and get so much done but still manage to make it look like a bomb site in 5 min and can’t find a blood thing!

I did make this card the other week and was struggling so much with the idea in my head was just simpley NOT coming out and when in doubt…………….CASE, hehe so I did!  I cased my own card I made with a Lil Lolita and mixed it up a little, and I think Nancy is just the sweetest thing and you can get yours HERE…. Right NOW, she was released yesterday.

I am in a race for time to start getting dinner ready so will pop the info on what I used later tonight…..

AND did you see….. you must had, you can’t miss her, look who’s coming to The Stamping Bazaar soon…

Her name is Louisa the Lioness.  Seriously HOW cute is she!  She reminds me a bit of my daughter Kira, in an animal way, is that making sense lol, causes she looks like a little girl just wanting to have fun and that is my Kira all over!

THERE is more about The Stamping Bazaar……. We are all SUPAH excited to be having our very first hop!  It starts on the 1st and there are 3 adorale new images and you have a chance to win, so be sure not to miss that!  Also coming soon a new Hansel stamp which I personally can not WAIT for this one as I just LOVE Hansel and he’s adorable face, and a brand new critter, another girl whoo hoo go girl power hehe and it’s a ……..KANGAROO, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie Oi, Oi, Oi, hehe!

So there you have it, some news to share.  I will be back soon with MORE….

Good Afternoon,

Well as you know I love to talk and for the people that I have met or spoken with on the phone could confirm this as well.  But there are somethings in my life I find very hard to talk about and one in particular…….  Which is I have a brother, he passed away in a car accident just shy of his 18th birthday in 2003.  His name is Shane, and after having some what of a break down on his birthday last year I have since been able to have photos of him around the house and speak about him on the odd occasion, it’s not that I don’t want to, but the pain when I do, it just eats away at me.  Since cardmaking every year I have wanted to make a card for him for his birthday, but nothing really stood out and being as sensitive as it is I wanted to make something perfect.  See the thing about my brother is this…….

• He was SO tall,
• He was an amazing basketball player and played for the Jr. Melbourne Tigers and went to China because of it.
• He had a laugh that you could only laugh at, so loud and he didn’t care.
• He absolutely adored his niece *my daughter Kira* and would had done anything for her. 
• All his clothing, EVEN his socks had to a brand name, nike, adidas etc…… Drove me MAD hehe, always having to have the best of everything, but he was a perfectionist in that ways and that is why I knew his card would have to be PERFECT or more so the perfect image.
• He cared for his family more than ANY thing in the world.

When I asked Marina she was only too happy and I really can not thank her enough for this and what she has done for not only myself but for my family as well, that now claim they want me to make them one *rolls eyes*  THANK YOU so much Marina.

When I wanted to make this I had all these ideas.  Shane’s team were black, yellow and red…….soooooo not my colours to work with but I just KNEW they were the colours to use and then I hit a brick wall and I think it was because of this, always so hard to look outside your little comfort box you have around yourself and after trying and trying I decided a sketch was in order, I just could not help it, it wasn’t working.  So I used a sketch from Sweet Spot as they have amazing sketchers, and here is what I came up with…..

I have had that Tigers pom pom for I don’t know how long and the little wooden Micheal Jordon figure is out of wood and was given as some type of trophy when Shane was in China, one of his many his pride and joys.

Shane would had been 25 on the 30th September this year.  Not a day goes by where he’s not in my thoughts and I miss him dearly.  His basketball number was 8 and I was not meant to be due for another week and I had Heidi on the 8th of March 2006 and then Chloe was WAY to early and was born on the 8th of July 2007.  Both on the 8th and I think a certain someone had something to do with that.  Losing someone makes you question everything you have ever believed in, but you know what?  I have stopped and just relised that everything happens for a reason, why that reason is I truly have NO idea, but Shane was an organ donor and saved lives and while losing him doesn’t make that any easier, he would be so proud to know he helped save lives as he always loved to give and make someones day…..

You want to know what else?!  You have a chance to WIN him for yourself…. HERE….. I wasn’t going to have him as a give away, but I know he would had loved to think he made another persons day…..

Thank you for reading a bit about my brother…..

Shane 30.09.1985 – 03.05.2003

Good Afternoon Everyone,

Have you all seen the CUTE TO BOOT digi give away over at The Stamping Bazaar…

You have until Thursday, August 19th at 11:00pm EST.  All you have to do is leave a comment HERE…. Horus will offically be released on Friday, so if you miss him on the giveaway you can still purchase him the next day!

EXCITING THINGS TO COME TO THE STAMPING BAZAAR…..

• Our first blog hop ever, featuring a brand-new critter for Halloween that you’re bound to fall in love with!
• The release of a very, very special design, soon to be introduced on a post by ME, something very special to me and am so grateful Marina helped me out with it.
  
• The release of Sammy with Ball DIGI as soon as the rubber arrives (any day now!)
• The release of both Bikkie rubber stamps…
• And the introduction of a cute little hedgehog lady, Nancy, she is sooooo cute!
  

All this and much more is coming very soon to The Stamping Bazaar….

Hi there,

Well I am so sorry I did say Friday the 13th and things just did not go to plan.  When I picked up Kira from camp she lost her voice WHOO HOO kidding well kinda hehehe, but when we got home she got worse plus being so supah tired from camp itself.  So we were a house full of germs!  And I only just got Heidi back to bed, YUP 1 am here and Chloe has woken over 5 times……  So yes bed for me right after this post, hopefully to sleep, poor kids!

Thank you to all that entered my candy and that left me sweet comments, means so much to me and I love reading them…… So I used random.org and the number that it came out with was………..

#77 - Ingrid Peters

Whoo hoo, congratulations Ingrid, email me kelliewinnell at yahoo dot com dot au and I can get them shipped out to you soon!

Don’t forget tomorrow is the end of my BIG candy HERE….. If you haven’t entered yet be sure you do!

Night xx *or morning hehe*

Good Evening Everyone,

WOW can I just start by saying a HUGE thank you to everyone that emailed, sent cards and left comments to wish me a happy birthday.  I am so touched and honoured and all of the above.  When I have showed my family and no crafting friends they are all blown away, just like me.  A truly BIG THANK YOU….

Of course as you know how lucky am I, to have my very own stamp Kellita and then to have all the TPS and LLB girls do a blog hop using her WOW it was amazing.  The reaction when I seen the card Kristy gave me was priceless as some of you have seen as she filmed me and loaded it to facebook!  Thank you for making my day absolutely amazing!  One I will never forget.  Thank you sooooo much to all the TPS girls and LLB for sending me cards and gifts and making me feel so SUPAH special!  And a BIG thank you to Debbie and Princess for organising the gorgeous Kellita and a BIG thank you to Christina for drawing me so spunky!  AND another HUGE thank you to Princess for driving all the way her first time to see me in my little town and brining YUMMY cake and spending the day with me, I am truly lucky to have met you!

NOW news and candies galore!  Started this last night and got soooooo tired, was snuggled in bed watching one Harry Potter after the other.  But I am so excited to share with you that …….

The Stamping Bazaar have now released the CUTE to boot Bikkie!  There is not one but TWO of him, you can get yours HERE…..  But for now look, aren’t they just the cutest thing you ever did see…..

OK so onto a candy!  Amy Young in celebrating and BOY is she ever!  Here are a few details from her blog with a picture….. 

That’s a lot of paper, huh? Perhaps just a bit crazy to send all to one person, so I’m breaking it apart into five candies of 200 sheets each. And the fun doesn’t stop there! I couldn’t celebrate a wonderful, exciting, surprising and simply amazing year of stamping and blogging without throwing some stamps into the mix as well! So I have collected stamps from all of my most favorite companies into one MEGA CANDY! Wanna know who all is included? There is:

• Sweet November Coral Reefweaver, Chanter Heartsong, Coriander Fairy and Darby & Penelope
• CC Designs Lil Emma Bug, Cherry Emma and Halloween Hansel
• The Greeting Farm Miss Anya Dressy set, Fairy Chloe and Fairy Eva
• Tickled Pink Lil Lolita Ivy and 60’s Mod Ivy
• Simply Betty Stamps Lola and Miller
• Stamping Bella Maisy Ketto
• Christy Croll Appley bowl Huggabug (since I couldn’t include one of her fab Tiddly inks digis)
• My Favorite Things Pure Innocence Fairy Girl
• Sugar Nellie Gorjuss Girl “Just a girl”
• Kraftin‘ Kimmie Drucilla and lots of little extras
• Lili of the Valley Tiptoe fairy…

Have you been over to the All That Scraps blog recently?  NO…… Well don’t walk RUN over HERE….. and check out the amazing previews the All That Scraps gals have come up with using the NEW kit coming out August 6th “Take a Seat” 

Do you looooove back ground stamps?  Do you love digital stamps?   Then this design team call is for YOU!  Zoe over at Make it Crafty is having a DT call.  You can check out all the info HERE….

Well don’t forget that I have 2 candies still going, one with HEAPS of stamps and the other with the GORGEOUS The Stamping Bazaar stamps that are limited and so you don’t want to miss them!

Well there was more but am about to have dinner and have drawn a memory blank!?  I will be back soon with photos of a BUNCH of cards, non mine hehe!