Hello, and welcome to the Holiday II Essentials by Ellen Release Hop! My name is Carolyn Peeler and I'm happy that you've popped by for a visit and am excited to showcase several of the new Essentials by Ellen stamp sets and dies on my post today! You should have arrived here from the blog of ...

Hello, and welcome to the Holiday II Essentials by Ellen Release Hop! I’ll be showcasing several of the new stamp sets and dies on my post today! You should have arrived here from Karolyn Loncon's blog. For my first card today I combined the adorable car/tree image form the Tis The Season Sta...

Hello, and welcome to the Holiday II Essentials by Ellen Release Hop! I’ll be showcasing several of the new stamp sets and dies on my post today (and so will a lot of very talented designers!) ... AND there's a giveaway, so keep reading! GIVEAWAY I get to give away an Essentials by Ellen stamp...

Happy Friday! Making a slow return to blogging with something fun to share today along with some awesome friends, so I hope you enjoy a look at some ideas for using my new Clearly Kelly planner products. It's blog hop day, hooray! It's a special day because the products are now over in the Her...

Hello SCT friends! We have a special treat for you today so we're glad you're here! Recently we had the pleasure of spending a weekend with Ali Edwards at Crop & Create Markham. Her philosophy to memory keeping is about keeping it authentic and keeping it simple. She is real and her way of te...

It's Day Eleven and the inspiration and prizes continue friends! Our sponsors are not done yet! Today we have design team member Summer Fullerton joining us along with amazing prizes from American Crafts and May Arts! A fabulous combination wouldn't you agree? Are you ready? Let's go!!! ...

Good morning SCT friends! It's Day 10 of our "12 days of holiday giving!" and while we don't have ten lords-a-leaping for you, we have some fantastic products to give away! With the vision of ten lords-a-leaping in your minds (sorry for that!) let's sing our favourite song! On the 10th day o...

Good morning and welcome to Day 9 of our annual "12 days of holiday giving!" For these twelve days we have partnered with our design team and our sponsors to celebrate YOU! If you didn't join us for our Day 1 kick off, be sure to start here! Who wouldn't want a brand new Janome sewing mac...

Can you believe it's Day 8 of our "12 days of holiday giving!"? Each day has been filled with wonderful prizes from our sponsors and today's prizes are FANTASTIC! We always say we have the best readers and the best team but we also have to say we have the BEST sponsors too! Let's get ready ...

Good morning! We are so glad you've joined us! We are halfway through our annual "12 days of holiday giving!" and the fun is continuing on friends!!! Today designer Lisa Dickinson is here along with an outstanding prize packge from our friends at BasicGrey and Taylored Expression! A perfec...

It's Day Six and all is well! In fact, it's pretty amazing here. It's a HUGE prize day today! Wait until you see what our sponsors imagined you would love an opportunity to win. If you are just joining us today, be sure to visit Day One HERE and every day in between. We love our sponsors ...

It's Day FIVE friends! We are so excited to see you here each day and hope you'll share this event with all your friends too! It's the giving season right? Well, it sure it around here and each day we are excited to share what our team and sponsors have for you. Today designer Jen Gallach...

Good morning and happy Friday!!! We are always sad when our annual "12 days of holiday giving" comes to a close but what a fun 12 days it's been! Thousands of sweet comments left here for us to read, amazing comments left on our sponsors facebook pages and ours too. It's been the best 12 d...

Hello there everyone! Tis' the season for holiday papercrafting and those of us at October Afternoon know you have been waiting (oh so patiently-thank you!) for this year's December kit to be revealed and for it to be available for purchase so you can get to your holiday creating! We are happy ...

[this post is in Italian and English so grab your cup of coffee and enjoy reading ;)] Ciao a tutte! Ottobre è un mese ricco di sorprese e sono felice di ospitarne una proprio qui, nel mio nuovo happy place di cui sono innamoratissima! :) Non ci sarebbe stato modo migliore se non quello di in...

Happy world card making day everyone! I hope you are enjoying all the amazing crafting inspiration on the SCT blog today. If you are just joining us, be sure to start here! I love sketches and I love a good bird motif so my card this hour uses both. Here is the sketch I used from CardMaps 4.....

We hope you're ready to be inspired! We are so excited to bring you unlimited inspiration this week, featuring our NEW Summer 2014 collections which were revealed to you last week. Soon, you will be able to get these new collections into your hands, and we want to provide you with some inspira...

Reveal week is finally here! This week, we are revealing our FOUR new collections in full! We will also be sharing some project inspiration and hosting win-it-before-you-can-buy-it giveaways as well. Stephanie and her creative team have been hard at work developing these brand new products for y...

Hello, Gentle Blog Readers, This may be close to being one of the very last posts to appear in this hallowed Typepad space. Maybe. I wanted to give you an update on the new cathyzielske.com and here it is: It's getting real close. A few things to keep in mind: 1. I have no idea how the server...

Reveal week is finally here! This week, we are revealing our FOUR new collections in full! We will also be sharing some project inspiration and hosting win-it-before-you-can-buy-it giveaways as well. Stephanie and her creative team have been hard at work developing these brand new products for y...

It’s that time of the year again! Bella Blvd will be debuting FOUR NEW collections for summer at the Mixed Media Buying Event, presented by Sierra Pacific Crafts, in Salt Lake City, July 22nd-July 24th. We could not be more excited to show off our new Summer Release to you! Reveal week is finall...

Home again! I think that was the longest blog break I've ever taken. With graduation, the party, and Hawaii...things were a little bit crazy. Still are, actually. I think unpacking is the worst. Laundry, putting stuff away...getting the sand out of your suitcase. ;) Just a peek of stuff to com...

State track was last Friday. Ian missed, as he had a over-night campout with his Sunday School class. (His teacher is awesome!) Shelby warmed up with a pretty short throw, and then opted not to do her second warm up. Being a freaky-outy mom, I wondered if her elbow had started bothering her. ...

You’ve heard that we have several new mid-release collections in store for you. Well, reveal time is finally here! Starting today and continuing through Friday, we will be revealing our THREE new mini collections in full! We will also be sharing some project inspiration and hosting win-it-before...