Thanks for stopping by the Lucky Girl Blog Party!!!

Thanks for joining me for another installment of our Lucky Girl Monthly Blog Party!

If you're just joining us, be sure to stop by the main blog and follow the party through each of our designer's blogs for tons of inspiration and chances to win scrappy RAKs by clicking here.

This month we got to play with this delicious kit,
Summer Vacation:

I LOVE this kit! OK, so I'll admit that I'm probably a little biased, seeing as I actually put the kit together... but still. I think this is one of my favorite assortment of products bundled in one happy little spot that I've seen in a long time. I was able - with some creative cutting - to get five fully embellished layouts and a set of three cards out of the kit - that's about $3.75 per project! Not too bad when the typical scrapbook page cost between $7-$12 each, and a normal store-bought greeting card is around $3.99. Plus, I still have some leftovers for other projects. Gotta love when your buck stretches so far, right?!

Are you a Lucky Girl? Get full kit details and purchasing information is available by visiting our store at www.luckygirlcrafts.com

Lucky Girl monthly kits are a great value at only $30/month + shipping.
Annual subscriptions will be offered for $28/month + shipping with bigger discounts for annual pre-paid subscriptions available!
Shipping is available world-wide, so no matter where you are, you can be a Lucky Girl!

The LUCKY GIRL BLOG PARTY runs Thursday, July 1 through Saturday, July 4
Scroll on for more details...

Each day of the Blog Party, our incredibly talented, amazingly awesome design team will be posting a new project for you that was created with the July kit – Summer Vacation! Oh, and did I mention that each Lucky Girl has MYSTERY PRIZES to give away, with a GRAND PRIZE on the main blog?

Here's my first project, a fun layout for my nearly 11-year-old son Andrew's baby album using only ONE sheet of Pink Paislee double-sided patterned paper, a strip of 4"x12" Cranberry American Crafts cardstock (halved), and a 4-3/4"x9" block of Denim American Crafts cardstock.



Here's how I was able to stretch my Pink Paislee Starlight - Spark double sided patterned paper:


I cut out a 2"x12" strip and flipped the pattern over to incorporate those fun and bright stripes. I reattached the reversed patterned paper with two 2"x12" strips that had been punched with the Fiskars Threading Water border punch.

This layout also includes:
Alphas: Pink Paislee Expressions Weathered Wood chipboard alphas; Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type alphas and Jenni Bowlin Play Date banner stickers
Embellishments: (All American Crafts) Grosgrain Checkered Ribbon; Pearl Brad; Journaling Sticker

Find artwork & inspiration for our latest kit, Summer Vacation, by following the party to these amazing designers…

Raechelle (next on the hop)

Kim

Who wants some CANDY?! Follow these simple steps to win a surprise Lucky Girl goody bag featuring an assortment of scrappy awesomeness!

How to win my Blog Party Candy:

1) Earn 5 entries for purchasing a Lucky Girl Kit. Earn 15 entries for purchasing an annual subscription!
2) Share the details of the Lucky Girl Crafts Blog Party on your blog, Twitter, Facebook or MySpace account with a link back here. Post a comment here with a link to your shared post.
3) Sign up as a follower - if you happen to be inspired by my work! - for an extra entry.
4) Post a comment here with your favorite sweet-summertime memory.

Winners will be announced the week of July 5 with five days to claim your prize!

Visit us again tomorrow for more scrappy inspiration and more chances to WIN!

Have you seen what Prima's giving away?! HOLY MOLY!

Prima - my hand-down most FAVORITE ever embellisment manufacturer is giving away two huge prizes packed with Prima awesomeness to go with their Big Surprise....
I spy blingy swirls, awesome pearls, flowers, stamps and more. Seriously, I think I just drooled on my keyboard. Ain't no thing.
Who wouldn't want to be so lucky as to win all of that slice of scrappy heaven?! Lucky day, lucky day! And because I really want to win, I'm sharing the news with you:
For your chance to win, spread the Prima love on your blog, Facebook or other site that you frequent (as long as it's OK with the site's TOU) and post a link to the Prima blog here.
Two very lucky winners will be picked - one US and one international - and named on the Prima blog this Thursday, March 4.
I'd say good luck, but I want to be the lucky one... bwahahahaha!!! Just kidding - really though, if by some chance I do happen to win, I promise to spread the joy and give away a little Prima RAK. Pinky swear!!!
Scrap happy, friends!

Giving out a little BLOG CANDY love!

This blog candy is now closed. Congratulations to Julie for winning my first every blog candy. Keep watching here for more chances to win in the future!

To celebrating getting more than 1100 hits and to thank all of you for being so loving and supportive these last few months, I'd like to share a little *love*!

Enter to win all of these fun things in my BLOG CANDY giveaway!


* Close To My Heart MyAcrylix D-Sized Stamp Set - "Be Yourself"
* Pack of Close To My Heart Clear Sparkles
* 3-D Gel Stickers from Cloud 9 Design
* 3 yards American Crafts Elements Premium Double-Sided Grosgrain Ribbon (striped on one side, solid on the reverse)
* 2 Yards of Black & White Stitched Grosgrain from Ribbon Trends
* Double Sided Metal Word Charms from All My Memories
* Metallic Green Gelly Roll Pen
* Plus a fun assortment of buttons, beads and flowers from lots of different places!

Sounds fun, right?

Here's how you enter (bear with me as this is my first-ever blog candy giveaway!):

Earn 1 entry when you leave a little "love" on my blog about your favorite project I've featured
Earn 1 entry for joining my followers
Earn 1 entry for a track back from your blog to mine

Current followers will be put in the drawing automatically!

I will put all entries on a ticket to be drawn by one of my kiddos on or around July 3rd.

Thanks for being so awesome! Good luck to you all!!!