Exciting News!!

Good morning, everyone!! I am so nervously excited as I write this post. Please bare with me as it might be long but well worth sticking around for! I have been a stay at home mom for the past 10 years to my wonderful, amazing, exasperating and beautiful four children thanks to my generous and hard-working husband! He works from sun-up to sun-down, many times 6-7 days a week to allow me to stay at home and take care of our children. I have wanted for some time to contribute financially to take some of the stress and burden off of my husband's shoulders. 

I have been working on a secret for some time ( a lot longer than expected, lol) and my husband and I are both very excited to share with the scrapbook world that I am opening an internet-based scrapbook store! I have a passion for crafting and what better way to help our family but to surround myself with something that I love!

I would like to introduce you all to my baby:

scrapbookmaven.com

I hope you all can stop in and take a stroll around. I would love to hear any feedback you all have!

In honor of my new venture, I am offering a 15% discount off any orders made during my Grand Opening Weekend!
All you need to do is use coupon code maven2014 and you will save 15% on all products in your cart. I even have some items already at a discount, so you can double up the savings!!
Offer ends California time (Pacific) Sunday, March 2 at midnight.

All shipping terms can be found on the top menu of the Scrapbook Maven site. I offer flat rate shipping to the contiguous U.S. as well as free shipping for orders over $75. I also offer discounts for International customers!

I am so excited and I am sure I am leaving important things out, but I really wanted to let you all know of my wonderful blessing made possible by my husband and generous family members.

Here is a card I have made to share some of the fun goodies Scrapbook Maven has to offer!

The focal stamp is a digital download from Mo's Digital Pencil called Lil' Ballerina, isn't she so sweet?!

Copics used:

Hair-E50,53,55,57,59

Skin-E000,00,21,13, R20,22

Pink-RV000,91,93,95

Tights- C0,W1,3,5

If you have made it this far, know that I thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Danielle:)

Scrapbook Maven Supplies Used:

Maja Spring Basics 2nd of May

Maja Spring Basics 3rd of May

Prima PRINCESS Brads

Prima Mini Sachet in Rose

Prima PRINCESS Wood Embellishents

InLinkz.com

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Papertake Weekly (Sketch #64)

A Creative Romance (Bingo: Pink, pearls and flowers)

Craftitude (Anything Goes)

Crafty Catz (Anything Goes)

Sister Act (Anything Goes)

4 Krafty Girlz (Anything Goes)

Aud Sentiment (Any sentiment for a girl)

DL Art (Girl or Lady image)

Little Miss Muffet (Anything Goes)

Inklings and Yarn (Anything Goes)

Little Red Wagon (Spring)

Penny's Paper Crafty (Guy and/or girl)

Simon Says Stamp (Pearls)

Stampavie and More (Anything but Square)

CMC (anything Goes)

Little Irish Dancer

We are celebrating my son's 8th birthday this evening, so this will be a short and sweet post! I was feeling like another St. Paddy's Day card after seeing this sweet image at Mo's Digital Pencil, Little Irish Dancer.

The sentiment is one that comes with Paddy, another super cute St. Patrick's Day/Irish image.

I will be back later to add all the Copic colors for anyone interested!

Copics:

Skin-E000,00,21,13, R20,22

Hair-E00,13,15,18,59

Green-YG03,63,67

Yellow-Y11,15,E00

Thanks for taking a peek!

Danielle:)

Challenges I'd like to enter:

ABC Challenge-Flowers

Emerald Faeries-Banner

Card and Scrap-Celebration

Card Makin Mamas- 3 or more layers

Craftitude-A.G.

Crafty Catz- Cream, Green +1

Simply Create Too- St. Patrick's

Sister Act- Anything Goes

The Stamping Boutique- Use punch or die cut

4 Krafty Girlz- Anything Goes

Crafty Ribbons- Anything Goes

CMC- Anything Goes

Whimsy Stamps Design Team Call

There is a Whimsy Stamps DT call going on at the Whimsy Inspirations Blog and I thought I'd throw my name into the hat as they have some great artists, including one of my favorites-Sylvia Zet! I have entered many of their challenges on the Challenge Blog with little success, lol, but admire all the beautiful projects on both blogs never-the-less!

It would be a real treat to be a part of the Whimsy Team!

Here are three cards I'd like to share showing my style:

Using Sylvia Zet's Hazel

Mo's Teen Fairy Pia

Mo's Carolers Three

Good luck to all who enter!

Danielle:)