Epiphany and Echo Park Blog Hop

Welcome to the Echo Park Paper Co. and Epiphany Crafts Blog Hop! On this hop you'll see the amazing things you can create when you combine Echo Park Paper Co. paper and embellishments with the amazing tools from Epiphany Crafts. Below you will find the blog hop list. Simply hop from one blog to the next to discover entirely new ideas for using these amazing tools with our beautiful products. Leave a comment on each designers' and company's blog to qualify for the drawing for an Epiphany Crafts Heart Button Tool and Heart Button Epoxy stickers, as well as, two collection kits "Yours Truly" and "A Boys' Life" from Echo Park Paper!

We hope you enjoy all the inspiration created by these two amazing teams. Winners will be announced on Friday, February 3rd on the Echo Park Paper blog and the Epiphany Crafts blog. All comments are due before midnight EST on Wednesday, February 1st to qualify for the drawing.

Epiphany has the coolest products-they let you turn patterned paper and pictures into jewlery and epoxies! Here's a picture of one of their cool tools!

And Lucky me! I got to play with some--here's one of the cards I came up with--I'm so in love with that fun char I can hardly stand it!!

Start at Epiphany Crafts blog:       www.epiphanycrafts.com/blog

Then hop to:

Audrey Pettit  http://audreypettit.wordpress.com/

Nicole Martel  http://www.nicolemartel.blogspot.com/

Aly Dosdall  http://alydosdall.blogspot.com/

Keri Babbit  http://kensingtondesign.blogspot.com/

Julie Walton  http://seejuliescrap.blogspot.com/

Rhonda Van Ginkel http://snapwhiz.blogspot.com/

Linda Auclair http://elendae.wordpress.com/

Then onto the EP team:

Wendy Sue Anderson: http://wendysueanderson.blogspot.com/

Leslie Ashe: http://leslieashe.blogspot.com/

Amy Heller: http://www.amyheller.typepad.com/

Jennifer Gallacher: http://jengallacher.blogspot.com/

Kandis Smith: http://www.mycreativetreasury.blogspot.com/

Tamara Tripodi: http://happylifecraftywife.com/

End at:

Echo Park Paper Blog: http://echoparkpaper.blogspot.com/

Hugs,
Kandis

Mr. Sniffles

My poor baby Cooper is getting his top two teeth. They are almost through--and causing him so much pain! Poor kid! Plus his nose is running like no one's business which then causes the cough and the constantly wet shirts from all the drool. I can hear him right now trying to fall asleep. He's such a happy baby that it's hard to see him be so miserable! Hopefully they will come through in the next day or two and he'll be back to his old self! :)

I've got a couple projects from Two Peas to show you...

It's a fun card set using the Sweet Threads BasicGrey and Hero Arts collections:

There are some new Garden Girls this year--so many of them I look up to and admire! I hope you get a chance to check out the Garden and view their amazing work!
Have a wonderful--creative--day! :)
hugs,
Kandis

Winner!

And the LOVELY Yours Truly Echo Park Collection goes to....

Penny said...
I love the heart on this card! Great job! Love Penny
http://scrap-aholic.blogspot.com/

Thanks everyone for participating in the blog hop! It was so much fun to read all your nice comments!
have a wonderful day!
hugs,
Kandis

Yours Truly....

Welcome to the Yours Truly Blog hop!! I'm so excited about this collection by Echo Park--you are going to love it! The whole design team is showcasing the collection--I hope you get the chance to check everyone's work out! :)
Here's a little card I made with it:

Be sure to follow the blog hop list below. Leave a comment on each designers' blog as well as the Echo Park Paper blog to be included in the drawing. ONE winner will be selected to win the "Yours Truly" collection kit.

Wendy Sue Anderson: http://www.wendysueanderson.blogspot.com/
Leslie Ashe: http://elendae.wordpress.com/
Linda Auclair: http://elendae.wordpress.com/
Amy Heller: http://www.amyheller.typepad.com/
**Kandis Smith: http://www.mycreativetreasury.blogspot.com/   
Tamara Tripodi: http://happylifecraftywife.com/
Echo Park Paper: http://www.echoparkpaper.blogspot.com/

Make sure to leave me a comment by  midnight MST,Sunday, January 22 to qualify for the drawing. The winner will be announced on Monday, January 23 on the Echo Park Paper blog so be sure to check back to see if you’ve won! GOOD LUCK!

 Hugs,
Kandis

What we've been up to...

It's nice to be posting again--December was kind of a crazy month for us. I'm sure it was for you too! We not only had Christmas, but we also had my parents over for a week (so fun, I miss them TONS!) and Landen got his Tonsils out. He's doing much better now--he keeps saying his throat is gone, which is his way of saying it doesn't hurt anymore. haha

He really did amazing the day of the surgery. We had to be at the hospital at 5:30 and we waited around for about an hour until the doctor came in. They took him from us and put him in a little wagon and wheeled him back to the room. He didn't even fuss at all. I thought we were going to have a screaming fit!! But only 20 minutes later they called us back--he was finished and starting to wake up. The nurses all said he was doing amazing, that he wasn't even crying. I snuggled up to him on the little hospital bed and waited for him to open his eyes. He didn't cry once. After he woke up a little bit they sent us upstairs to our own room. An hour after surgery he had eaten two slushies, two things of ice cream, a soda, and a popsicle. The nurse said that usually they have a hard time getting tonsil patients to even eat half a slushy all day long. haha--that's my Landen! He's all about the food! They made the mistake of giving us the room next to the snack area. Every time we went on a walk around the hospital floor (which was about every 5 minutes) he would make me grab him some jello, or a pudding, or some cheese. The kid couldn't stop eating! who would have thought? I told the nurse that they were going to need to restock the snack bar when we left! :) He didn't even take a nap. You wouldn't even be able to tell he had surgery. The kid is a machine! We did have a hard time getting him to take his medicine though---I'm not sure why they couldn't make it taste better! So we had a couple hard nights at home, but we are doing good now!!!

 Is it just blogger that makes your pics look so fuzzy? I've sharpened them for the web and resized them and everything and they still don't look like the originals! Does anyone know?

***Oh, and yesterday I said that  you needed to leave a comment to be entered into the giveaway--I misunderstood! You need to subscribe to my blog and then go leave a comment on the Doodlebug Blog post and you'll be entered into the giveaway!! So sorry about that!****

have a wonderful day!
hugs,
Kandis

Sweet Cakes

I was in charge of the Doodlebug Design Blog post today---I got to work with the fun new Sweet Cakes line! It has everything you need to make the perfect layouts or cards! Here's the card I came up with:

And it's time for a giveaway.... leave me a comment and I'll enter you into my giveaway for the new SWEET CAKES Line!!! :) Nothing is better than that!

have a fantastic day!
hugs,
Kandis