Canada Day Winner and Thanks

The winner of the Canada Day mini kit is skrappykat13 (Katie)!! Congratulations Katie!!  Please let me know how you would like to send me your information in the comments on this blog, I am on twitter as well.  Thanks to everyone who participated and left all the lovely comments about Canada, I enjoyed reading why you all love Canada!

Canada Day Mini Giveaway!

You heard right! To celebrate Canada Day I will be giving away an adorable shabby little mini kit!  All you have to do is leave a comment here at The Sugared Elephant telling me how much you love Canada or what you love most about Canada, it's that easy.  I will be giving a sneak peek of the mini kit on my Ustream channel this morning and comments can be left starting after the show @ 11:30 am CST, the deadline will be midnight July 1rst/2011 and a winner will be randomly selected and announced on Twitter and this blog. Here is quick pic of the mini kit :)

Sneak Peek Mini Kit Giveaway on Ustream

It's Canada Day this week, Friday, July 1rst and I will be kicking it off with a little giveaway.  I will post the details on my blog before Friday and will announce it on Twitter when it's up but......tomorrow morning I will be showing a sneak peek of the mini kit and the details of the giveaway on my Ustream channel @ 9:30 am CST!  So if you would like to have a peek at the shabby, frilly bundle, come join us for some product show and tell, a quick project and the giveaway sneak peek.  It's easy and free to sign up.  Hope to see you there!! http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-sugared-elephant

Something New, Something Blue

These two latest projects were so much fun to create and I was quite happy with how they turned out.  I completed the mixed media postcard as a gift live on Ustream, my first ever recorded stream! I had a great time sharing this with the many wonderful ladies who attended, chatted,and inquired about the process! Here is the link if you want to drop by and check my channel out. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-sugared-elephant

Just Playing

Sharing some recent projects that I have been playing around with, trying to get comfortable and happy with things I finish.  What I mean by this and I am sure many of you might feel the same, is I sometimes struggle with myself when creating something, going back and forth---am I done with this? Do I like it, maybe not? Lol Just decided to let it be and if I choose to change it later than so be it!

Some recent cards I did for a challenge

And some shabby fabric and lace flowers which I am very happy with

Recent Craftiness

Just posting some crafty goodness from the last few weeks I did not get a chance to upload until now.  The weather is finally showing signs of spring and the sun has been shining here for the last couple of days, at last yay!!  I am working on some mini books, layout challenges and altered projects and will post em up when I'm done.  I have also decided to join in on a postcard swap with a group of lovely ladies who I frequently visit on Ustream.  Any special spring projects on the go? Would love to see them, feel free to drop by and leave a comment and link!

A recent page in my art journal, I just wanted to play with pencils and colour, colour, colour!

These are a few cards I did for a challenge at LIITD, cards are not my strongest craft but I am happy with how these turned out.

This little house I did up for a thank you gift to my aunt, who's initial is J, I filled it with some sweet little candles and Lindor chocolate balls.

Blogology

Ok so I have been a very bad blogger and I will deffinately make up for it with some projects, blog candy and awesome links so please forgive me, my blog is young  and I'm still feeling my way around. I hope everyone is getting out of the winter blahs, I know the weather has been just total crap pretty much everywhere.  I'm making myself feel better with some arting and crafting, hoping spring will actually show up!  There is so much inspiration out there that I find just so amazing that I want to have an appreciation day on the blog so stay tuned for some eyecandy in the coming week ahead.

I've been doing a little arting and a little scrapping with a few low key projects for some relaxation and down time. 

These two pages start off a small journal just about creativity and art, this is the journal I like to just try out different techniques and stamps in.

This is a page from my faery themed journal, for me this is just some whimsical, playful fun.

A page I don't even have a title for really, I didn't even intend for this page to go the way it did lol but it's all good, I'm ok with it.

And a quick retro layout I squeezed in some time for, I just loved all these different papers so I fit in as much as I could on the page.