A New Year & a Sale!

Hey there, hi there, ho there!! 

I hope everyone had a great holiday! Between Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Years I've been running like crazy! I am ready to settle down now and get back into routine. I think napping will be part of my new routine! *wink*

So every year in my town I coordinate a Holiday Craft & Vendor show. This year was by far the biggest.. with 35 vendors! I spent $700 in advertising alone and I hope everyone did well! It was super stressful. I was pretty much MIA from October through December. I always had something on my mind, but it was a fun day overall and it's been a learning experience. This was our 3rd year. 

It all started 4 years ago. My girlfriend and I were chatting and thought it would be nice to have a craft show in our own town, after all, living where we do in rural North Dakota, we're always driving to go to shows. We put our thinking caps on and committed ourselves to it. The first year was a flop. lol!! 9 vendors and maybe 25 guests haha!! The 2nd year, my girlfriend backed out and I took the reigns. The show did really well. We had 23 vendors and about 300 people total come through. This year I handled all the details on my own again and it was pretty good. 35 vendors and I wasn't able to keep track of the guests, but almost a constant flow until the last hour or so. Plus this was out first year with Road Signs!! I think those made a difference. We had people coming in off the highway to visit, which was great advertising. It was fun, although stressful, but I look forward to this year's show!

 

 In Other News....

  Melissa has started a sale at MelJen's!! It will run for the entire month of January and is good on all digi's in the shop! Be sure to check back every Friday for our new releases!

January - now through the 31st, the entire shop is on sale 20% off. No code needed. Also, every order of $10 or more is entered to win a $50 gift certificate code to my shop. 1 random winner will be chosen & announced on Feb 1st. Multiple orders are good for multiple entries. :-)

  

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Until Next Post, take care my crafty Friends!!

Birthday Invitations!!

Hey Everyone!! It's almost the weekend and isn't it due?? I've had a long week. Lots of deadlines, projects & coordinating my town's craft & vendor fair has not been the easiest of work this year! 

I wanted to share with you all one of my projects. I was asked to design and create birthday party invitations for my daughter's friend. She turned 11 today and is having a birthday celebration next weekend. 

I used UPTOWN GIRL Ava Loves to Celebrate from Stamping Bella, Copics, Verafine Onyx Black for the sentiments & inside detail & lots & lots of paper!

 So, my idea was to create 3 different girls. The hair, dress & cake/gifts would all be different for each girl, but I didn't quite make it. Somehow both of the brunettes ended up with purple dresses. LOL! Don't-cha love it when that happens?! 

So then of course the blonde and red-head ended up swapping colors! :)

 All-in-All they came out super cute and very pretty! 

I totally loved working on these. 

Here's an image of the inside too. I made that match as well! I love colorful, matching insides. I think it really finishes off any card.

Thanks for visiting!! And don't forget to click "Join this site" --->

The more, the merrier! :)   

Sketch it Out * New Release

Play along with us over at MelJen's Blog this week for a sketch Challenge and pick up some new digi's while you're there! 

My Card following the sketch:

New Release Sneak Peek & Inspiration

 
Hope to see you there!!

My Girl's Birthdays!

 Hello Everyone!

So my girl's birthdays are three years and one day apart. This year they turned 10 & 7. I decided this year to celebrate separate days instead of one day for both of them. They really loved that. Here are the cards I made for them. 

For Bri from Mom & Dad

For Bri from Grandma

For Alicia

I will be entering all three cards into the challenge at CMC - Bright, Fun Colors

MelJen's October 5th New Release!

As you all know I am a Design Team Member for MelJen's... and we have a new release today!! Swing by the challenge blog and see what the ladies have created, then pop over to the MelJen's store and get these cute images!! 

 Halloween Cupcake

Nermin the Fox - Trick or Treat

I will be entering Nermin's Trick or Treat Card into the Challenge over at Made Especially! (Halloween with a Banner)

MelJen's has a new Challenge up and running!! Anything Goes this week, so grab a couple of these new images, get creative and join us for your chance to win up to THREE images!!

Black, Purple & Orange

2 Cute for Halloween!

2 Cute is too cute!! 

They've come out with a few new 

Halloween Images and they are so cute I had to play along in their Black, Purple and Orange Challenge!

Come by and visit the blog here and enter your creation in the linky. And there are freebies available too if you'd like one! Candy Corn Bat is super sweet!!

   

Thanks for visiting and I hope you choose to follow my blog! The more, the merrier! :)

Scrap It! At MelJen's

Hello Everyone! It's time for a new Challenge over at MelJen's! Join us and Scrap It! Using scraps and left overs create your challenge entry! Remember to use a MelJen's Image or you'll be scrapped too! ;) 

For my creation I used a new release called Harvest Bounty & I colored it using my Copics. MelJen's has this image available for purchase now along with tons of other affordable and cute digi's, as well as $1. digi's and freebies too! 

 

Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you using up those scraps with us this week!