♥ Photography Tent Giveaway Winner! ♥

So sorry I am late with this! I have had a tooth abscess this week and the pain has made my mind all mush! LOL

                            

The Winner of my Photography Tent is Lori Aragon! Lori, please shoot me an email (keepsakesbymelissa@yahoo.com) with your snail mail addy! :)

Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway! I will be having another giveaway very soon! :)
 
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♥ I don't know what to say... ♥

I am completely blown away by all of your sweet comments, thoughts and prayers! Each one was so uplifting and thoughtful. I really appreciate each and every one! Thank you from the bottom of my heart! You all have definitely helped me renew my faith and helped me through this sad time.

Thank you!!

I wish I could give you all a $50 Visa Card! But unfortunately, I am not related to Donald Trump! :( But I can give away at least 1 for now!! And that winner is....Sally Karr! Sally please shoot me an email with your snail mail addy! {Keepsakesbymelissa@yahoo.com} And I will get that card right out to you!!

I will be having another giveaway very shortly!! And it just might include a $100 Gift card along with many other goodies!! ;)

big, big hugs to all of you....

♥ My Winner{s)!! ♥

Happy Monday everyone! And I mean Happy! Today is the first day in almost a week that I feel good! I had the worst sore throat in my 40 years of life! (Thank you for all the well wishes!!) So, I am so sorry for the delay in posting my Winner! And since I posted this so late, I am having 2 winners!! 1 for my big giveaway and the other winner is for a $25 Gift Certificate to the Simon Says Stamp SuperStore! Thank you so much Heidi for sponsoring it!!

 Ok, now onto my winners!! My Big Giveaway Winner is..........Janette Marcos!

 Congratulations Janette! Please email me at keepsakesbymelissa@yahoo.com and send me your snail mail addy. I will get your goodies out to you asap!!

 And my second winner of the Simon Says Stamp Gift Certificate is......... Lee (CraftyLoops)!

 Congratulations Lee!! Please shoot me an email with your info too!! :)

♥ I wish I could give each and every one of you something! But I will be having many more giveaways in the coming months! In fact, I have one planned just around the corner! And you won't want to miss it!! Trust me!! ;)

 Have a wonderful day!!

♥ Vintage Style ♥ {The Shabby Tea Room} and {My Big Giveaway Winner!!}

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Ready for a fresh week of creating? I know I am! :) This week's challenge at The Shabby Tea Room is called "Vintage Boudoir". Just look at this gorgeous inspiration photo! I could just stare at this photo all day long! Love it! You need to create a card and/or project using the colors from the inspiration photo as well as 1 item related to sewing. Easy peasy!

This week the Shabby Girls got to create with some beautiful digi stamps by our sponsor, Tiffany Doodles. I chose this fun and pretty "Dancing Dress". I printed it out twice, once on some digi paper by Crafty Secrets and once on plain white cardstock. I cut just the dress out of the patterned paper and adhered it over the white cs image. I colored in the sash to match the one in the inspiration photo and added a small flower in the center.

The other papers on the card are by Prima and My Mind's Eye (the vintage New York label). I also added some seam binding, trim, buttons, pearls on my handmade stick pin as well as a mini wooden spool. And the "vintage style" stamp is from a Papertrey ink stamp set.

There will not be just 1 winner to this week's challenge but there will be runner-up's too! Our super fabulous sponsor Tiffany Doodles is giving away the following!

The Grand Prize Winner- 10 Digi's of your choice; 1st Place- 6 Digi's; 2nd Place- 4 Digi's; 3rd Place- 2 Digi's! Wow!

Don't forget to leave some love for the other Shabby Girls too! ;)

♥ Debbie Marcinkiewicz - {TSTR Creator} - Simple Treasures
♥ Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie
♥ Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog
♥ Charlene Cundy - Expressions of Me!
♥ Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

And finally the moment lots of you have been waiting for!! My End of the Year Giveaway Winner!! {Sorry I am just posting this now, I have been having internet issues!} But before I tell you who won, I just wanted you all to know that I will be having another BIG giveaway in just 9 more days! It is my 40th Birthday on the 18th {ughh!} and since this giveaway ran so long, I didn't get to have my Birthday giveaway, so I will start the giveaway on my birthday the 18th! So make sure you come back and see what it is!! Now, Drumroll please......................

My Winner is.... Candy Frankie (Candace F.) Candace please send me an email with your snail mail addy! (keepsakesbymelissa@yahoo.com) If I don't hear from you by the 18th, I will have to pick another winner! Thanks again everyone for stopping by my blog!

Have a wonderful day full of sweet surprises!

Want a piece of CAKE?? ♥ Blogaversary Giveaway!! ♥

♥♥♥ Giveaway now CLOSED! Be back soon with the Winner! ♥♥♥

Well, my Blogaversary is fast approaching!! I can't believe on the 24th my little old blog will be 2 years old! Whew! Time sure flies when you're having fun! So why not celebrate with a great giveaway?!! And since my son will be born (by C-section) on August 26th, I decided to have a BIG celebration! Here we go!!

How about your chance to win a CRICUT CAKE?!! Well here it is!What do you have to do to win it? Well, that's the easy part!

1) Leave me a comment here on this post!
2) Leave a link on your blog to my giveaway. Don't have a blog, just tell me how you will spread the word!

And for a SECOND chance, become a follower/friend of my blog! That's it!

I am so excited about this giveaway!! I just may throw in a Cricut Birthday Cake Cartridge and Cutting Mat too! I am going to leave it open until August 12th, 3pm est! Exactly 2 weeks before my lil' pumpkin arrives! I will then announce the winner shortly after that! Good luck everyone!

I will be next week's Guest Designer over at The Shabby Tea Room! So make sure you come back here on Monday and see my fun project that I made for it and don't forget to visit The Shabby Tea Room for some fun and awesome challenges! I ♥ the Tea Room!! Just the perfect place to enjoy a piece of Cake! {wink}

Have fun!

Hugs.....

♥ Dear to my Heart ♥ A Shabby Tea Room Challenge

This week's challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room is to use a heart as the focal point on your card/project. I decided to make a Valentine's card. Hey, at least I'll be ready for next year!! hehe And a BIG thank you to Debbie and her awesome DT for choosing me as your Week #9 Winner a couple of weeks ago! I really appreciated that! :) I ♥ the Shabby Tea Room! I used some paper by My Mind's Eye, from the Be Loved line. I also used a Maya Road chipboard heart and circle, Melissa Frances Rub-Ons, White Pearl Corsage Pin, Hero Arts Adhesive Red Heart, grosgrain ribbon and some Ultra Fine White Glitter. I'm sure by the time the week is over, I will make another card with this fun challenge! You know me likey my ♥♥♥♥♥'s!!

Now onto my Giveaway Winner! Sorry I am posting this so late. It takes quite awhile to print out all those names and cut them up!! My 4 yr old son chose the following name out of a large bowl!!

Congrats to........ Cyndi Jameson!!......You are my lucky winner of the Sizzix Big Shot machine and Dies!! If I don't hear from you by June 7th, I will have to pick a new winner.

I will be having a REALLY exciting giveaway again real soon, for my July Blogaversary! Want a hint?? Let's just say have you heard about the Cricut Cake? That's all I'm sayin'! ;) Have a wonderful day!!

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♥♥♥ETA: I'm sorry that I left this out! The hearts on the bottom were done by a Martha Stewart edge punch. Thanks for asking everyone and thanks for all the sweet comments! I really appreciate them all! ♥♥♥