CANCER AWARENESS BLOG HOP(E)

A BLOG HOP(E) FOR THE CAUSE

Welcome to our Cancer Awareness Blog Hop(e) to raise awareness.

This group of gals/guys.... most of us don't even know one another.... have banned together because of a blog request created by Michelle over on her blog Inside My Own Private Idaho to create a Blog Hop(e) to raise awareness amongst our paper craft friends and family. Thanks Michelle!!

Hop on through and view the cards and projects created by these wonderful ladies/gents. Get inspired and remember....mark your calendars....no matter your age it is sooo important to do your monthly Breast Self Exam. Here is a terrific link to register to receive your monthly, BSE Reminder ,in your e-mail. I have been doing it for a couple of years and find it very helpful. On a side note...most of us think of Breast Health as being a singularly female issue, however, my bestest buddy growing up had his issues with Breast Health and had a lump or two removed from his breast..ahem...chest...sorry buddy...several years ago...so...for those guys out there reading this...you might want to look into this for yourselves as well!!

Let me tell you a little about my card today. I used Sunshine's Stamps Boobie Bunny and sentiment October is: for the card since they were created to raise awareness regarding Breast Health Month. I have paper pieced Boobie Bunny and coloured her with my Bic's and Sharpies. I have used my Sakura Jelly Roll Clear Pen on her lips and the Breast Health Ribbons on her dress and ears. I also added teenie, tiny adhesive rhinestones to her earrings.

The designer paper is from a pad I picked up recently at Michael's. It is from Amanda Blu and its her Beatrix Manor paper pad...I really like this paper because its so nice and bright and is two sided. There is also a little bit of bling on the paper itself to add just the right amount of sparkle. The two papers used on the card are simply the coordinating sides of the same piece.

I used my Memento Dew Drop Angel Pink ink with a sponge dauber on Boobie Bunny and on the die cut inside the card. I outlined the October is: sentiment with one of my Sharpies. The ribbon is from Michael's and the brad in the center is from the Dollar Store. The flowers are a present from one of my wonderful stamping buddies in PA - they are Bazzill Wings - Bitty Blossoms. Finally, I used my hearts border punch from Martha Stewart on the inside paper to give it a little oomph and the inside sentiment is Sunshine's Stamps Feed Your Faith sentiment, again created as inspiration for our Boobie Bunny cards. Hope you like this card and it makes you smile a little when you see her. I am going to pop her in the mail along with the link for the BSE Reminder to one of my girlfriends.

Here is the list of wonderful gals/guys who are taking part in today's Cancer Awareness Blog Hop(e)! Hop on through and please leave comments to let us know you were here! It's so nice to hear what you all have to say!

Michelle in Boise - -

Tiffany Johnson - -

Kelly Marie - -

Heather Lee-Reppen - -

Ashley Nguyen Newell - -

Ryann Salamon - -

Anita Hovey - -

Aimee - -

Vickie Y - -

Amy Duff - -

Jill Dunn - -

Molly Ritterbeck - -

Kerri Michaud - -

Melinda W - -

Tami Grandi - -

Sunshine - - THIS IS ME!!

Charlene - - GO HERE NEXT!!

Keri Lee Sereika - -

Sarah Martina - -

Stephanie Muzzulin - -

Roni - -

Anita - -

Libby Hickson - -

Martha - -

Cassie - -

Laura K. - -

Thanks for stopping by my blog! I hope to see you again really soon!!

Sunshine ; ^)

NEW BUNNY'S ARE HERE!!

IT'S THE ATTACK OF THE BUNNIES..WELL NOT REALLY...THEY'RE TOO CUTE TO ATTACK!! THEY MIGHT TICKLE YOUR FUNNY BONE THOUGH!


It's one of those days again! New Release Day! We are introducing 3 new Bunnies this week and boy are they cute!! We have:

Red Hot Bunny

Gardener Bunny

Nerd Bunny

Click on the images to hop to our shop...hop on over to Sunshine's Stamps to get more information on our new images. Sunshine's Dream Team will be creating new cards and projects starting this weekend featuring these new images as well as some of the images that we released last week during our Grand Opening Event.

Thanks for stopping by!

Sunshine :0)

WOO! HOO!

SUNSHINE'S STAMPS IS HAVING THEIR

GRAND OPENING EVENT TODAY!!

We are very happy to point you toward our sister blog Sunshine's Stamps to take part in their Grand Opening Event activities! Here is a sneak peak of what you are going to see!

Thanks for stopping by! Now hop on over to Sunshine's Stamps blog and have a little fun! The event is open between October 17th (today) - October 20th!

Hugz to one and all!!

Sunshine:)

LOOK WHAT I MADE!

THE CRAFT FREE DROUGHT IS OVER!!

It finally happened! I found my mojo! It wasn't under the couch. It wasn't under the bed. It wasn't in the mailbox (though many lovely things come to my mailbox! LOL) It was at STAPLES!! Robbie and I went to Staples to buy some ink for our printer...we were out and I couldn't print a thing! DISASTER!! How can I print my wonderful creations without ink???

We picked up the ink cartridges at the store and started looking around and what did I find?? I found a Kodak Printer, scanner, fax, photo printer all in one! The ink cartridges for the other printer came to $70 before taxes...the cartridges for this printer combined (Black and colour)....are you ready for it??!! $25!!! I fool you not! $25 for both cartridges! SOLD!!! The printer was on sale $100 off! and what we will save in ink over the next 6 months will pay for the $200 it did cost us!

The added benefit of buying the printer??? I found my MOJO!!! I made a card that I can't show you yet...sorry...really, I would love to show you but I can't!! I will show you on the weekend!!***SNICKER*** I'm such a tease!! ROFL!!

But I did make this!! It features our newest image that we are going to be giving away FREE this weekend!! Why are we giving it away free you ask??!! We are finally having our Online Store's Grand Opening Event! Our in-store special for this weekend - from October 17th 8AM - October 20th 9PM (Central Time) : Buy any two images and receive our Autumn Wreath image for FREE!! The image will be put in our store for sale on October 21st, so be sure to get it while it's free!!

We are also having a Mini Blog Hop with our Sunshine's Dream Team! Mystery Blog Candy where you have to leave a comment on each of the participating blogs because no one but ME knows which blog I will be choosing to pick the winner from!!

We are having a challenge too! Tami will be hosting a challenge on her blog - The Journey of Life

Be sure to hop to Tami's blog and take part in the fun challenge she has planned! It's going to be fun AND the winner if going to get to choose 3 free images from our store!! How fun is that??!!

Here is a picture of the mini clipboard I made tonight and broke my 6 week creative drought!!! There is more information on the project over on Sunshine's Stamps blog and more pics too!

Thanks for stopping by everyone! I hope you save the date October 17th 8AM Central Time - October 20th 9PM Central Time to take part in our fun and games!! Enter our challenge, comment on the blogs and become a follower if you aren't already! We look forward to seeing you all there!!

Thanks for stopping by~!

Hugz to one and all!

Sunshine:)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM WINNIPEG

THE HUMOUR IS LONG GONE!!

The bird is in the oven, the stuffing is getting all crispy on top! The veggies are ready to cook and the pumpkin pie is done! and....the snow is falling hard again!! We lost a lot of the snow yesterday and overnight...apparently that is not to be...more snow is falling to fill it all back in!

The leaves are still holding on, on our tree. There are a couple of birch tree's on the street that were totally green three days ago and are now gold and the leaves are falling fast!! I told hubby it must be kind of like a person who see's something horrific and wakes up with white hair the next morning!!! The confusion!!

As you can see the flakes are nice and big! However, as I write this the flakes are getting finer...as sure sign it is going to stick around a bit! ***Sigh*** I cannot begin to tell you how I am so not ready for WINTER to begin NOW!! I had a hard enough time last winter with the snow arriving the first week of NOVEMBER but...the first week of OCTOBER...I think there will be sunbeds in my future to keep the winter gloomies away.

To all of my Canadian friends and family, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! I hope you don't have the snow we have and can enjoy being outside on this wonderful long weekend!!

Thanks for stopping by everyone! The next post will have all the exciting information on Sunshine's Stamps Grand Opening Event and the deets!!!

Sunshine:)

THE JOKES OVER MOTHER NATURE!!

GOOD MORNING WINNIPEG

This is the display that Mother Nature put on here in Winnipeg yesterday afternoon and continued on until midnight! YUP! Midnight! I can't wait to turn on the news and find out how many fender benders happened in Winnipeg yesterday!! Ready for snow on October 9th...I DON'T THINK SO!!!

Again..let me remind you...this tree sheds it's leaves in the Autumn...apparently it's confused...what is it supposed to do with it's leaves if Autumn is cut short due to Winter tripping in on the light fantastic in early October?? Oh the fun!! How exactly does one rake leaves in the snow???

YES! That is snow weighing down the side of the tree! OMG! Can you just hear the birds that live in that tree...and there is a whole famdamily living in there!! Someone was getting grief for leaving the door open last night! I bet papa bird is a smidgen cranky this morning after being hen pecked last night to get all that snow off the front door step!! We are going to have to put the bird feeder out there right away...how exactly do you find itty bitty food when its covered in heavy sticky snow?!! Mother Nature Sucks!!!

This is what is left of my front garden. There are petunia's and begonia's buried under there!! No, really! There are!! Not to mention the long lush grass! OY!! Wonder if we will be able to get out there to get that final Fall mowing done??!! They say...its supposed to warm up next week??!! Do I believe them?? Not sure...juries out...we got snow the first week of November last year and the dang stuff stayed until MAY!!!

My theory has changed and I think that Mother Nature and Jack Frost are in cahoots!! I think they are having a clandestine affair and this is the result!! Like they could get together and we wouldn't end up getting the side effects of it!! Jeez!! I think there should be a meeting of the the Headless Horseman, the Thanksgiving Turkey, Santa, the Elves, Cupid, the Easter Bunny, the MOLENATOR, and any other SUPER POWER we regularly call upon to make our holidays great and hold a coup! Mother Nature needs to be taken down a peg or two...maybe she should be reduced to traffic reports for clouds for a while to get her perspective back! And Jack...oh Jaaaaa aack!! I think he should be sent to Tahiti and made to sit in a beach chair with no sunblock for a few days!!! Oh that will thaw him out a smick!!

Who's with me??!! Lets go get 'em!!! Mess with us will you!! We will not be ignored!!! OK, so...who knows the MOLENATOR"S phone number???

Thanks for listening!!

Sunshine with chance of thawing ;)

IT'S SNOWING!! IT'S OCTOBER 9TH??!!

WHAT IS MOTHER NATURE THINKING???

See this tree? It should have no leaves when the snow falls...see the ground...barely any leaves!! Hardly supposed to snow today now is it??!!

See this tree? This is the tree that Robbie is going to climb like a monkey to get the Christmas lights up in BEFORE the snow comes!! Hardly time for it to snow today, now is it??!!

See this grass??? It hasn't had it winter mowing yet! Its still long and lush! It needs to be cut short for the winter...hardly seems like it should have snowed today!!

OK Mother Nature..we need to have a chat! I know we live in Winnipeg, often referred to as WINTERPEG...but this is a LITTLE extreme don't you think??!! If you're bored, there are places in the world that could use a nice gentle shower, or a sunny day to do their shopping or how about a sunny day or two so the farmers can finish their harvest...LAY OFF the SNOW lady!! "Nuf is "Enuf!!" Winter begins on the calendar in December...we expect you here in WINTERPEG in November...that's early enough!! Go pick on someone your own size!! Isn't Jack Frost on the naughty list right now!! Go bug him!! Shoot some sunshine up his behind!! NO MORE SNOW in WINTERPEG this MONTH!!

Jeez!!! Thanks for stopping by for my rant!!

Sunshine:) with a chance of FLURRIES!!!!

NEW COMPETITION BLOG

Hi All:

Check out this new competition blog hosted by my AWESOME web master Gina!! Gina has her own line of digi stamp images and she is running a wonderful competition to name her latest image! Hop on over to her blog and enter the competition!

Click on the picture to hop to the competition page. Good luck to all entrants and may the best name win!!

Thanks for stopping by.

Sunshine:)

THE MANY FACES OF ©SUNNY BUNNY!!!!

Introducing our absolutely wonderfully, precocious, whimsical signature Sunshine's Stamps image.....©SUNNY BUNNY!!! ©Sunny Bunny has MANY faces and can be altered to suit EVERY holiday or occasion. Here are the many faces of ©sunny Bunny....so far!!

***CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO HOP TO OUR SHOP****

FRANKEN' BUNNY

©WITCHY BUNNY

©BITIN' BUNNY

©WEEWY SCAAAWEY BUNNY

©BUCCANEAR BUNNY 1 (YUP...WE HAVE MORE OF THIS ONE!)

©JACK O' BUNNY

AND.........THE ORIGINAL....NEVER DUPLICATED....NEVER SEEN BEFORE....

©SUNNY BUNNY!!!!

AND TO SUPPORT OCTOBER'S BREAST HEALTH MONTH....INTRODUCING....

©BOOBIE BUNNY!!!

Head on over to our shop and check our new "SENTIMENTS" section for awesome new sentiments to go with ©SUNNY BUNNY and our other images!!! All sentiments are only $1.00 each! Well, I hope that you are as excited about our new images as I am!! Just wait and see the wonderful new ©Sunny Bunny's we have coming up....AND...WAIT THERE'S MORE.....have an idea for ©Sunny Bunny? Just e-mail us at valleysunshine@hotmail.com with your suggestions...we will see what we can do for you!! How cool is that!??!!! Thanks for stopping by everyone! Off to the stamp room I go!!

Sunshine:)

NEW MAGNOLIA STORE DOWN UNDER

MAGNOLIA DOWN UNDER IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS


HOW TO WIN?
Click on the pic to hop to her blog!

The Candy Recipe is…

• Magnolia Stamp - Kitchen
• Magnolia Stamp - Christmas Tree
• Magnolia Stamp - Tilda with Strawberry Bucket
• Magnolia Stamp - Santa is Coming to Town
• Kaisercraft Rhinestones x 3
• Kaisercraft Pearls x 4
• Kaisercraft Rhinestone word - Friends.
• Remember when Chipboard Owl
• Remember When Chipboard Bird
• Remember When Chipboard Birds on Branch
• Remember When Chipboard Label
• Bulk lot packet of Ribbon, burgundy, purple, pink, green with white dots and yellow.
• Maya Road Red and Orange Suede Stitched Blossoms
• Stampin’ Up! packet of Felt Flowers
• 6 Pink Gem Brads
• 10 pink Paper Roses
• Craft Affair Papercraft Brads
• Prima Rose - Center Kisses.
• 1 meter of lace
• 1 meter of Stampin’ Up! Striped Ribbon
• 1 meter of white lace like ribbon.
• 1 meter of in colour Stampin’ Up! Kiwi Kiss
• 1 meter of in colour Stampin’ Up! Baja Breeze
• 1 meter of in colour Stampin’ Up! Pink Pirouette
• 1 meter of in colour Stampin’ Up! Pacific Point
• 1 meter of in colour Stampin’ Up! Riding Hood Red
• 1 meter of in colour Stampin’ Up! Tangerine Tango
• 1 meter of Stampin’ Up! Barely Banana
• 1 meter of Stampin’ Up! Certainly Celery
• Stampin’ Up! Build A Brad
• Prima - Gallery Roses
• Prima - Pack of 4 Roses
• Prima - Pack of 4 Roses
• Prima - Trellis Roses Lemon Creme
• Stampin’ Up! Trio Flower Punch
• 2crafty Chipboard Boarder
• X-Press It Tape
• Pearl Head Pins
• Packet 10 Autumn Leaves.

HOW TO APPLY….

Your all asking? This candy applies to WORLDWIDE…..

• You MUST put the candy on your blog, with a link back to mine either a blog post or in your candy sidebar.
• You MUST add the store logo to your blog.
• Leave your link in Mr Linky with the post or blog that you have added the candy to.

HOW easy is that? I will delete any links that do not follow the above requirements or that I deem to