A very busy weekend for crafters

This weekend is a weekend full of internet activities for Cricut fans.  The Cricut Circle blog launched on October 1st and it is open to everyone for the first week (until October 11th).  On the launch day the designers were introduced and they shared some amazing projects.  Today was a fabulous day of giveaways for Circle members - one each hour for 16 hours!  Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to Jana and ProvoCraft for getting things off to a great start!  You can visit the Cricut Circle blog HERE

Christina (Creations with Christina) held an all day celebration for Word Card Making Day ably assisted by Teri (TeriBeri's Creations).  If you go to THIS POST on Christina's blog you will find links to all of the challenges and giveaways.  You can leave comments to enter the giveaways until October 4th - the challenges have no time limit.

There are also a lot of blog hops going on - here are a few to check out.

Sarah at Pink Cricut organized an Imagine blog hop - I can't wait until my machine arrives so I can try some of the ideas.  There are lots of great prizes - ProvoCraft has donated a Gypsy and six imagine cartridges, Pink by Design is giving away three $20 gift certificates and there are prizes on each of the participating blogs as well.  If you click the blinkie below you can get started hopping!

Halloween is a popular theme for bloggers right now and you can check out lots of ideas and inspiration - Halloween has become such a big holiday for crafting and decorating.

Nicole (Canadian Nickel Scrap'n) organized the "Little Hop of Horrors" which took place on Saturday.  You can still check out all of the projects but I am not sure when comments close for the prizes.  You should start at Barb's blog Haunted Design House - where it is all Halloween all of the time!

Another three day Halloween blog hop  can be found beginning at Jen's blog (Purple Scrapbooker).  This is a three day hop and today is the last day but you can check out the projects from the first two days on each blog that you visit.

 Blog hops are a great way to find new sources of inspiration and see what crafting trends are popular.   I haven't been able to check out all of the blogs in these hops yet but I intend to try!

A few days ago I told you about the Paper Crafts Magazine World Card Making Day Contest with the fabulous prize packages worth over $600 for 20 winners.  This LINK will take you to the details for the contest.

Well...if you don't have the time or the inclination to enter the contest you can try for a chance to win one extra set of the same prizes just by leaving a comment.  Go to the Paper Crafts Connection Blog (here is a LINK to the post) and leave a comment about why you like to make cards.  You should also visit the Paper Crafts Moxie Fab World for more chances to win even more great prizes - comments must be left by midnight October 3rd.

Whew!- so much to see and so many comments to leave - good luck!  I have some fun Halloween projects to share tomorrow - featuring Creative Charms Vintage Halloween Kit.  (There is a sneak peek of one of them at the top of this post).


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Home Again and Blog Hopping

Quite a few of you figured out that we were in Asheville and went to see Biltmore - the largest private home in America which was built by George Vanderbilt (one of the Vanderbilts) and finished in 1895.  Here is a LINK to their website where you can find out all about this very interesting destination.

These photos were taken early this morning by my husband (who is as much of an early bird as I am a night owl!) and then cropped and edited by me.

I am home now for at least a little while after being away for 14 of the last 16 days!  I have lots of exciting things coming up this week.

The first thing I need to let you know about is the Scrappy-Go-Lucky blog hop this week.  The last blog hop was a lot of fun so we are doing another one.  This time you will have the chance to win one of the four new cartridges, Country Life, Happy Hauntings, Rock Princess and Winter Frolic!

There are nine designers involved in the blog hop and each day one designer will show you the card they created in detail.  We were given a color scheme (black, white and silver) and a theme.  You will need to look at all of the cards and try to work out the theme.  Add a comment to Mandy's Original Post on the Scrappy-Go-Lucky blog telling her what you think the theme is and also list your all-time favorite cartridge and why it is your favorite. 

Four lucky winners will be drawn on Wednesday, August 18th - one for each cartridge.  (Remember, Scrappy-Go-Lucky is in Australia so you will need to convert the time from Perth time).

Here is the schedule for the week:

Monday (today) was Mandy, the owner of Scrappy-Go-Lucky.  Here is a LINK to her post on the Scrappy-Go-Lucky blog - be sure to read this to get the background on the blog hop and see what Mandy is doing with the cards we created.

Tuesday - Jane at Scossie Jane

Wednesday - Diane at Capadia Designs (that's me!)

Thursday - Chloe at Chloe and her Clip on Koala

Friday - Tereesa at Up Late 2 Create

Saturday - Amanda at White Ruffles

Sunday - Tracey at Trace Elementz

Monday - Lisa and Tara back at Scrappy-Go-Lucky

Here is a sneak peek of my card...

 

Good luck on the blog hop!

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