I Should Have Bought A Lottery Ticket

last week... because apparently I was very lucky!

On Wednesday last week, I was selected by the official Silhouette blog to win a $25 GC to their store, out of a little over 100 entries!  In case you don't know, the Silhouette is a digital cutter.  I did a project using the machine here.  I was excited to win because I had been wanting to download the various holiday shapes to make cards with.

On Friday, it was announced on the Paislee Press (Liz Tamanaha) blog that I won the Totally Rad Action 2:  The Revenge set of photo actions!  This was out of over 500 entries.  I could not believe it when I saw that I was the one randomly picked!  I actually left my desk and went over to Todd and jumped up and down!  It was a very generous giveaway from Paislee Press and Doug Boutwell of Totally Rad Actions.  I just got my actions today and let me show you what I've done with them.



I really love a bunch of the photo actions. They are really easy to run and adjust. I can't wait to play more with them when I have more time. :)

Speaking of Liz and Paislee Press, she was a guest blogger at Ella Publishing's blog today.  She has a tutorial for a Giving Thanks Mini album and a free download of the journaling templates.  The album looks easy and fun to do.  I want to do one when I have time!

And then... on Sunday I received a message on Facebook from the fabulous Randi Oh.  She is a designer (Studio Oh) at Scrapbook Graphics.  She picked me, out of everyone on her FB fan page, to receive a free kit!  How generous is Randi?!  And how lucky am I?? 

I picked Randi's gorgeous kit, Bella Joy Merry Christmas.

I can't wait to scrap with it! The kit is HUGE and full of yummy colors and rich elements!

So that's been my very lucky week.  I told Todd I should have bought a lottery ticket.  Or maybe Peppermint told me I should have bought a lottery ticket.  I can't remember now... all the excitement has clouded my brain,  ha ha.

Today's photo:


Todd enjoys giving me art supplies and hobby supplies as gifts. He really encourages me in my artsy fartsy endeavors! One Christmas, he gave me crayons, coloring pencils, and a bunch of super-cool grown-up coloring books. They had intricate geometric patterns, and even stain glass window designs on vellum paper that you can color. I appreciate Todd's thoughtfulness so much. So really, I already am the MOST LUCKY person in the world to be married to Todd. :)