Triduum has begun

Hi Everyone:
Today starts the 3 most Holly days in Christianity, starting with the Lord Supper, then Good Friday, Saturday Easter Virgil..

Easter is going to be low key this year due to my sister being in Iraq, please keep the troops and their families in your prayers...:)

Don't forget to enter the shakerbox 25.00 GC giveaway.

To win the kit in the post below you have until wend next week.

There are so many challenge blogs now, which ones are your favorite?

I'm going to leave you with a gift and please if you download leave a message.
Free Word art freebie

What to do with the word art? you can print it on transparencies and use on your lo, you can use it for cards, lo, use it on a digital lay out for your digital scrapbooking.

Here's a preview




















this link is good for 7 days only, so enjoy!
http://download.yousendit.com/59D5D93F7497B6DF

Have a great day everyone,
Maggie

Lucky Wedn!

Hi Everyone:
Happy Humph day it's a fantastic day of sunshine, wind and the temp is finally down to the high 70's, the past few days it has been in the high 80's. I'm not complaining I just wish we had more kewl temp.

Today is a lucky day for 5 winners. I will be giving away 5 of the Calico Vert Kit at Scrapinstyle TV. Take your scrapbooking to a new height by using a digital kit, you can create a digital scrapbooking lo, or altered projects and use stamps Here are some examples below.

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Link this kit on your blog, then come back and leave us a link
and we will select 5 winners. How easy is that?

Here are some ideas to do with the kit..
Hybrid Purse by me




















Andrea's Card



















Lay out from Nikki Cleary




















Hybrid mini album








































Hybrid card from Ellen















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Have a great day everyone, don't forget to link back here to win!
Maggie

Can you use $25.00 GC?

Happy Monday!
Did you have a great weekend? It was a great weekend of scrapping.
First can you use a $25.00 GC? Theshakerbox.com is giving 1 away.

If you have not been to theshakerbox take a look around they have great challenges and their kits are full of craft goodness.
The kits are available mid month on the 15th..
how to win here

Every Monday I am going to share with you how I incorporate stamping into my lay outs.
I'm going to call it Stamping Mondays, what do you think?

This is a pic of my Trip to Edam, Holland. A beautiful town that is approx 15 minutes by bus from Amsterdam city centre

For this lo I use Stamping up and inkadinkado which is becoming my favorite at this moment..
I use the World traverler to invoke an actual stamps on a postcard to add whimsy.
I challenge you to get those stamps out and get your creativity going :)

Here's the lo,
Have a spectacular day,
Maggie

Sunday's Ramblings

Morning Everyone:
Today is Palm Sunday as such the church was pack, and after mass it was a great opportunity to see people I've not seen for a while and reconnect.

My friend Melodie told me about this book, and I file it away as 1 of the books I need to get to someday.

It's the memory keeper's daughter.
You can read more and excerpt from the author here

I'm interested to find out if anyone else has read it?




















The diving Bell and the butterfly
I just finished reading this book. I chose this one because of the poignant way it was written. The author suffered a stroke and the only way this book could be written is by him blinking if a letter was chosen correctly, then the painstaking way, his assistance will put the letters together
to form a word, then the word will become a sentence, and it took 3 years of putting words together to form this outstanding book.

If you read nothing else this year, this is it..
It's also a movie here
Excerpt here














Check the forum here for more book selection and the book club at Flaire..
Here's a lo I created using pics from my trip to Holland 2 years ago.
I've always luv the Queen &Company felt, but I couldn't bring myself to use it as a mask, so I use the next best thing.

The negative I use as a mask then spray w/archiver mist then use it as an element.... I'm really happy w/the way it turns out, I wanted to try a kitschy look but elegant instead of freestyle..

Have a wonderful Sunday,
Maggie