Winner!!!!!/ Thank you Card/ More on Exciting News

Happy Monday!!! 

I am so excited you dropped by rather it is your first time or if you are one of my awesome loyal followers.

I hope you all had a terrific weekend, I got to watch family movies this weekend and relax, relaxing of course involves crafting !

First I would like to announce the winner of $25.00 gift card, I know you are waiting!

 How I picked the winner:I entered the number of comments , the total of comments were 21 but the number of single comments were 16 so I choose one of 16.

Sandie Edwards from Delightfully Crazy!!!

 Sandie, email me to collect your prize and congrats!!!

naomiedwards86@yahoo.com

Do you recall the post where I said I have really exciting news!!! I know some of you just can't wait any longer to hear about it (wink,wink) so here it is:

(You know you have to hear the story !!! Just gotta!) 

 It all started with a friendly email from a blogger friend who supported my blog for months as I did hers. Without further adieu meet

 Lisa Decosse over at 

Decosse Dynamite Doodles

Lisa is one of the most amazing people I have ever met in my life in so many ways, I love love love that Lisa can reach out to so many people considering the challenges she has faced and is still facing today. Lisa and I have become such good friends that the men in our lives seriously needs to get to the closest Home Hardware and buy a crow bar to pry us off the phone.
 We started out writing books through email, yes books, a letter just doesn't cut it,  and we continued to build a friendship that has certainly added tremendous joy to our lives.

Through getting to know each other we decide to Collaborate!!!!!!!!!! 

Lisa is a girl of many talents from card making, making digital designs to having a way with words like no other I have ever me.

We are  taking our talents and combining them to give you a new world to enter that will be a place that will bring our crafty selves together. 

Do you remember my New Year's Resolution?

 I am happy to say I have started my blog make over course!!  Lisa and I have been working hard on the Design and layout  to bring something new to the table. Where we are in the beginning process of breaking every little detail down so we cannot elaborate on the specifics yet. What I will say is we are doing something I haven't seen done in any other blog!  eeek!

To thank Lisa for everything!...I created a  card for her:

I embossed the background with my dots embossing folder and inked it with brown corduroy distress ink from Tim Holtz. I used Spellbinders for the center and bottom edge... "Shapabilities - Ironwork Accents" for center and  "Edgeabilities-Mix and Match Classics" for the bottom edge.  The hearts you see is also an insert for the Edgeabilities.

The brown buttons were created by using paper candy!! I used EB7 (Spectrum Noir Pen ) to color the button then added stickles in the center.

Here I used "WORD ART" in   Microsoft Office word , typed "you are an extraordinary friend" and extended the box to make it curved! Give it a try, it was so easy and you get to create your very own personalized sentiment!

I have been making lots of these buttons lately and I love them!!! To make it: use the right size circle punch (or close) to the size of the button from a piece of pattern paper that will suit your project. Add clear glue to the pattern side and adhere to the see through button!

Have a fantastic day!!!!!!