Angel of Blog Candy!!!

Happy Tuesday everyone! Not such a great day here in VA unfortunately. The weather is stormy AGAIN and my cat had to have surgery last night. After what was supposed to be a routine vet visit to get antibiotics for a urinary infection my vet decided to take an x-ray just "in case". If you read my blog regularly you know that my "grumpy bear" Poncho cat was hospitalized 2 1/2 months ago for a urinary blockage and had to be hospitalized for 2 days. Well, guess what showed up on his x-ray--the animal hospital had left the catheter tube in his bladder!! Can you believe it, lets just say I was shocked and very angry. Our poor cat all this time has been in pain and now has to have surgery that he shouldn't have to have---I'm so angry and upset. After losing 2 of our animals last year I am just totally paranoid about the vet anyway and to find out that the animal hospital we entrusted our animals to did this---ughh... Anyway, sorry to bend your ear about this but I'm so upset that I'm a total disaster today--and ya know how much I love my animals cuz' they're my other "children but with fur".

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Onto better stuff--I have BLOG CANDY to post today! Yahoo!! The very lovely and generous Katharina Frei (owner of Whiff of Joy) gave everyone on the DT a different stamp to offer up for candy this month and since I'm pretty darn close to 20,000 hits I'm celebrating that too!!! I will have links all month long to my WOJ DT sistah's blogs when they have their candy up for grabs for ya too! My stamp is from the Guardian Angels series by Elisabeth Bell called "Melinda Hugging Heart"--isn't she a doll! The "candy" includes:

-1 unmounted Whiff of Joy "Melinda Hugging Heart" stamp

-6x6 Basic Grey "Stella Ruby" dp pad (lovee this paper--my bella sistah sent me some and its so elegant)

-1 roll of pink/polka dotted ribbon

-1 bottle of pink Stickles

-1 pkg of Prima flowers

-1 pkg of rhinestone/jewels

To win all you have to do is post a link onto your blog about the "Whiff of Joy candy" to mine (if you don't have a blog, dontcha worry about it, enter anyway) and answer the following question:

"What is your favorite movie of all time and why?" Cuz' ya know I like to know stuff about everyone--lol!! I will announce the winner on Friday afternoon (9/12) so your entries and links need to be in by this Thursday evening at 11 pm (EST)--okay!!

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My card today also features the same stamp I'm offering up (the blog candy stamp is not used, lol). I really wanted to color this angel in some "non-traditional" colors to show ya the versatility of it. You don't have to always make her pink and she doesn't have to be used just for "love" or Valentines Day. I used my K&Co "Blue Awning" dp to base my colors on--I love the navy blue in this paper paired with limey green and cream. She's colored w/ my Copics and cut out & popped up. I used my nesties to cut out the ovals and the "ribbon" is paper ribbon by K&Company--it actually comes in colors (the reverse side of this is rust) but I needed cream so I flipped it over. I layered a bunch of Primas together and attached around. And of course there is just a few Stickles on her wings and hairband--the hearts have pink liquid pearls on them to raise them up. The sentiment comes from Verve Stamps "Beautiful You" stamp set--if you haven't checked this set out you should, its lovely!

And you probably know by now if you visited Verve's blog yesterday that I'm one of their Guest Designer Diva's this month for their new releases--yippee! I love me my Verve stamp sets--what could be better ya know!! The sets this month rock!! Check out the Verve link in SCS to see all the DT projects, just type in verveSEPT08 in their search button--wait till you see what I made (hint...you can wear it)!! The release party is tonight at 10 pm (EST) so come and join us for a chat and to see the new sets in their entirety---you can chat w/ me too, hee hee!!

So enough about me and I've prepared you all with your to-do lists today (check out Whiff of Joy, enter blog candy, and chat w/ me at Verve's party on SCS tonite) LOL!!! Hope to chat w/ you all later...

Suzanne