OMG OMG OMG Toot Toot Toot!

I know how much all of you can appreciate the wonderful news that I have just received. I wish I knew how to type my girlie scream of excitement!! OK, I just received an email from the Associate Editor of Paper Crafts magazine. As some of you may know the magazine is doing a spin off of American Idol called "Gallery Idol". Well out of 774 submissions I have been chosen and I am in the top 20! Aaaaaahhhhh! I need to make a card and post it on Monday July 7th. You can go here to check out the deets Gallery Idol. I hope you will check out my entry and hopefully fingers crossed I will have your vote as well. My cards are posted under my username, PASdreambig.
Thank you so much as always for all of your support and for stopping by!
BIG HUGS!!
UPDATE 7.8.08: voting actually starts on July 9th at noon MST and runs through July 11th at noon MST. So "fans" can cast their votes on their favorite card at that time. Those with the most votes will move on to round two. Aaaaah the pressure! I didn't sleep at all last night of course.

My Little Drummer Girl

Last Thursday was a good day, one thing that I can share for now anyway is that our daughter Aly was on the front page of the "Your Hub" section of Denver's newspaper. I made this page in honor of her news paper debut. Aly was at an African percussion concert and one of the drummers let her bang on his djembe. Pretty cool huh!
I will share the rest of my good news in the next few weeks...ooh sneaky huh! Have a super rest of your weekend.
Thanks for stopping by!

Friday Card Flick "Adorable", An Award and Tagged again!

This week's FCF is really short and very simple. Check out the website that I get my die cut frames, cards, shapes and boxes from
Creative Cuts and More
They totally ROCK! Hope you enjoy!

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On a different note...

Wow what an honor, Kim from Stamping In the Rain has sent me the Arte y Pico award. Kim is so inspiring and I always come away from her blog with a new idea! Thanks Kim for thinking of me :)

Here are the rules for the award:

1. You pick five blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also contribute to the blogging community, no matter what language.

2. Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone. Remember to leave the person a comment or email to let them know they received the award.

3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and the link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.

4. Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of Arte y Pico blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.

So here are my five picks this time:

1. "The Artistic Avenger"

2. "A Day In the Life of the Paper Poppy"

3. "Bits & Pieces"

4. "Chloe-Jill Designs"

5."Traveling Mama"

Kim also tagged me so here are 7 random facts about myself:
1. I can touch my tongue to my nose, yes very talented
2. I have two little brothers, well I am the little one now (short that is)
3. My eyes are really hazel (not brown!)
4. I love hockey
5. My favorite movie is "Sixteen Candles" (oh sexy girlfriend!)
6. I love 1965 mustangs and 1970's big honkin' ford pick-up trucks
7. My favorite of the BR 31 flavors of ice cream is pink bubble gum only without the actual gum in it....is that random enough for ya???
Consider yourself tagged if you actually read through this whole post. BoooWaa ha ha! Yes I am a dork!

Yes, another challenge card

I so missed Kristina Werner's challenge last week, because it got so hectic with the garage sale and bloggers party on Saturday. I had to jump on board this week especially since it is week number 13 and HELLO 13 is my favorite number. The colors for this Color Inspiration Challenge are River Rock, White, Regal Rose, Purely Pomegranate, and Wild Wasabi. This card was originally suppose to be just a circle card, but when I was cutting my River Rock piece with my Coluzzle I managed to only get the top layer on the one side. I decided to go with it and add a pocket to the inside for a gift card. The pocket is just the left over piece from the white circle I cut out. Yeah...happy mistake! Everything I used on this card is from Stampin' UP! well except for the Souffle Pen by Sakura. Love that pen!!
Thanks for stopping by and see you tomorrow for my Friday Card Flick, yes... its back!!

CPS Challenge 70

Finally finally I was able to get a card done for a CPS challenge. It has been a couple of weeks and I have missed playing along. This card was another one that I kinda threw a bunch of pieces out on the table and went with whatever caught my eye. Everything except the bright yellow flower, which is a "bloom-let" from Eye-Lets Etc, the Stampin' UP! Soft Sky card stock, clear button and Target black satin ribbon is all by Making Memories. Wow after typing all of that I realized how much is on this card.
I hope to get some cleaning done around the house today, although I may meet up with a couple of close friends for an ice cream or something. I miss not seeing my girlfriends from the kids school when we are on summer break. It will be nice to catch up.
Have a super day!!
As always thanks for stopping by!

Girl

Here is my version of Kazan's sketch from 2 Sketches 4 You this week. I had just picked up a box of baby themed chipboard pieces made by DCWV on clearance at JoAnns. Gotta love a bargain and bonus, they are so super cute!! The lavender paper is from Cricut and the pink daisy paper is from Eye-Lets Etc. I added some of those cute little button brads from Making Memories to the chipboard flowers and stars for a little more texture. Once again used my Souffle pens to add the tiny dots down the scalloped piece of white card stock and faux stitching around the edges. The sentiment is a vellum sticker by EK Success. You will be happy to know that this card only took me two hours to make ha ha!
Thanks for stopping by.

Finally...a card!

Thank you all for being patient while I was a little quiet here at Paper Askew. I will have a FCF this Friday for sure, thanks for missing it last week.
I have been in my studio all day woo hoo and I am so happy to be posting again! Wanted to get some challenges and sketches done for the week. This card I started making on Saturday night during my bloggers party and finally finished it today for Caardvarks "Pink Challenge". I am loving Thickers, is there such a thing as a Thicker-holic? I seriously love these fun blinged up letters. The other pieces are from Making Memories, just little paper pieces which are fun. I also used my white Souffle pen to do some faux stitching. The flowers or "bloom-lets" are from Eye-Lets Etc.
We had such a good time at the bloggers party, here is a picture of the actual bloggers who were able to make it. From left to right Kazan, Ginger, ME, Dawn & Jen (thanks Jen for the picture). We kept looking at each other to see what one another was creating. I think Kazan had the most eyes on her, she is such a laugh riot!! Everyone is SO sweet and I absolutely LOVE being a part of our blogging community. We paper craft bloggers & readers ROCK!!
Gotta run, thanks for stopping by!

A Lazy Sunday & I need it!!

I am completely pooped out! Who knew having a garage sale was so much work. Friday was a good day, but Saturday just stunk!! I hate having to pack everything back up and find a place for it again until we can either donate some of it or wait for another sale. PLUS I had to get things ready for my bloggers party which was last night. I will share some pictures from the party later this week. WE had such a good time and laughed a lot!
SO, for today I will share a few things about myself because, I have been tagged by Laura. Thanks Laura :)


The rules of the game: Each player answers the questions themselves. At the end of the post the player then tags 4 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment letting them know that they've been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you've posted your answers.

Ten years ago....
I was 25 year old SAHM with 1 little boy, Tyler was only 18 months, living in a very small town in Northern Colorado. Most likely watching Blues Clues and baking something. I baked a lot more back then.

Five things on today's "to do list"
Maybe some laundry, put all my junk away from the garage sale, unload my car from last nights party, maybe film a FCF for this coming week, & most likely sit and be lazy for the rest of the day!
Snacks I enjoy
I enjoy Starbucks Mocha Frapps the FROZEN kind and peanut butter M&Ms. Nice combo huh!

Things I would do if I was a millionaire
I would take my family on a nice vacation, buy a smallish house (less house, less to clean...always thinking I am) with a grand stamp room and a robot to do all the laundry.

Places I have lived
I was born in Iowa, grew up and lived in Colorado since I was about 18 months old.

I am tagging...
Dawn
Jen
Chloe
Karie
Thanks ladies:)

Happy Hump Day

Wednesday already...yikes! I am getting ready for not only a garage sale this weekend but my Colorado Bloggers Party as well, so this post will be short. This is a card that I really just threw together. I had picked up some chipboard & metal pieces from Making Memories and pretty much designed the card around them. I sanded the butterfly just a little to give it those streaks, thought it gave it a little more texture. I had to use a stamp somewhere, so I used my Baroque Motifs flourish with real red in the upper left corner. Thats about it...thanks for stopping by!!

Inspiration Challenge #4 gallery & winner

Here is the gallery of talented paper crafters who played along with this months Inspiration Challenge. Everyone did an amazing job and it was so hard to pick just one person. Thank you everyone for playing and a big Thank YOU to Carrie for a great picture this month. Carrie's card is absolutely gorgeous, did you see it? It is my turn next month to choose an inspirational photo so please come back and play starting July 12th.
Here you go:

Carrie

Pennie

Donna

Cat

Stephanie

Stef

Chloe

Oh and the winner this month is Donna. I really felt like that bath tub could be found in the corner of the room in the photo. Great job Donna!! Thanks again everyone for playing along!!
Hugs,
Pam