Thursday, December 27, 2012

Top Ten of 2012 Blog Hop - Plus a Giveaway!!!

Hello blogging friends! Happy Holidays to you all!! Be sure to check out my GIVEAWAY at the end.

This was really hard to narrow my favorites down to 10. I keep thinking of other layouts and projects I've done that should be on this list, lol. As you will see, even though I occasionally make cards, they are not among my favorites. I have almost all layouts here. Here are my Top Ten Projects of 2012 ...

10. I love this picture of my niece Natalie celebrating Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The paper is some old Rusty Pickle. I created this one with one of Karan Gerber's fabulous sketches for Sketchabilities.

9. This one I created for Little Yellow Bicycle using the lovely Once Upon a Christmas collection. Check out my other projects on my post here. I was really hard to pick which of these was my favorite.


8. The Paradise collection from Little Yellow Bicycle was one of my favorites of 2012. I created this one as a guest designer for Artful Delight. Please check out their scrapbook and card kits, Amazing!!!

7. This Gingerbread mini album was so much fun to make! Created for a Quick Quotes and Clear Scraps blog hop.

6. This is another Quick Quotes project made for a Helmar blog hop. You can see more of my candles on my full blog post here if interested... helmar-blog-hop.  This was an amazing Thanksgiving centerpiece!




5. This is yet another Quick Quotes project. It made the cover of Scrapstreet magazine last April. I just love this picture of my daughter and our foster dog.

4. This is another Sketchabilities layout created with the My Mind's Eye Sweet Caroline collection that I was lucky enough to win.

3. and this is the layout that won me those My Mind's Eye goodies! Another favorite collection of mine this past year, My Mind's Eye Be Amazing.

2. I love the paint drips and splashes on this layout, as if the mud was dripping right off this photo! This layout was created with another Artful Delight. kit.

1. and my favorite layout of 2012 which was also published in the last issue of Scrapstreet magazine....
This layout was also created with an Artful Delight. kit using the Summer Fresh Simple Stories collection. Another favorite collection of mine for 2012! I am linking this up at Sassy Scrappers and if I am lucky, it will win me a guest designer spot :)

And now for the GIVEAWAY (open internationally)
I am so thrilled to be part of the Imaginisce Design team for 2013, so I thought it fitting I giveaway some of my favorite tools. Included in this pile is a petal roller and some precut flowers, an i-Rock with lots of crystals and metal gems, some more flowers and a mask for creating swirls with the gems, a tray for sorting through the gems, and a lighted tweezers.

Here is what you need to do to win...
1. Be a follower of my blog so you can see if you won or not.
2. Leave me a comment telling me which of these projects you like the best.

For a bonus entry, repost my giveaway on your blog or facebook page and leave me another comment with a link to your post.

You have until 12:00am (Central time) on Jan 5th to enter. I will draw a winner on Jan 5th and post it on my blog. Good luck!

There are lots of other giveaways on this hop! Plus some really awesome inspiration.
Here is the list of blog hop participates in case you have arrived here and want to start at the beginning...

64 comments:

  1. Love them all but my favorite is the "make me happy" layout! :)

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  2. I am so glad that you linked to other works of yours and am amazed at the depth to all your creations! Keep going back to your niece and Mardi Gras - great composition!

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  3. LOve your projects! Can't decide if I like "Happy" better or the bird ornament. Lots of inspiration here.

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  4. OMYGOSH!!! These are all BEAUTIFUL!!!! I am LOVING the feathers on the first two projects!!! GORGEOUS!!!

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  5. Love your style...#3 is my most favorite!

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  6. What wonderful projects. While the bird ornament is one of my favorite shown, when I clicked to see more, just had to smile at the NDSU layout. It is always so much fun finding other scrappers blogs from this general area. :D

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  7. My favorite is also your favorite! Love the cluster of Simple Stories goodies you used on that beautiful layout! All your projects are simply delightful! Thanks for sharing! And thanks for the chance to win some Imaginisce goodies! :)

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  8. Such lovely projects, Marcia! If forced to pick a favorite :) it would have to be the Stay Happy layout- love every single thing about it! :) Hoping 2013 brings you lots of creative mojo and much health and happiness too!

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  9. Gorgeous projects, I love the little bird the best. Love those feathers!!

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  10. Gorgeous projects! I am a new follower!

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  11. So many fun projects! I'm a new follower but have admired your work before from Artful Delight- I love the mud run layout- it's my favorite above!

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  12. So beautiful and love all your layouts..Thanks for sharing:)))

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  13. All your projects are amazing, the layouts are gorgeous and impossible to choose a favorite, but I'm going with number 2. I just finished a Color Me Rad color run and someday want to do a mud run! I love the layout and the picture, such a fun design!

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  14. It's a toss up between 4 and 7. $ is adorable and 7 is intreging. I have been thinking about doing a mud run and you make it look so fun and glam

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  15. I love all your creations, but "Be You" is definitely my fav! Just amazing.

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  16. I'm just hopping along and wanted to tell you I love all your projects. What a fun hop.

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  17. I'm a follower and I love your gingerbread mini album. thanks for a chance to win!

    bdcampers@msn.com

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  18. So many great projects to choose from, but my favorite is too cute. Looking forward to seeing your creations in 2013.

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  19. Wow, these are all so good. Really love the bird ornament and the Mud Run layout. Fantastic stuff!

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  20. love the pear partridge, the one with Sketchabilities layout created with the My Mind's Eye Sweet Caroline collection and the one with the hexagons. awesome.

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  21. adore your style. My favorite is the Simple Stories Summer Fresh...just gorgeous!

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  22. These are all amazing but I think I like the simplicity of "Stay Happy"

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  23. Truly amazing work but Oh I love the mud one, so creative!

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  24. Great projects! I think #3 is my favorite, I love that MME collection!

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  25. These are all so great! I think I love the last one best! Such great papers!!!!!

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  26. LOVE all of your projects! If I have to choose a fav it would be the mud run page! LOVE the mud dripping down the page!

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  27. I also shared the blog entry on Facebook. Thanks for the chance to win such a great prize!

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  28. Love your projects Marcia! You are one talented lady!! I love the old school Rusty Pickle paper! I still have some stashed away myself! LOL

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  29. Your projects are all amazing. I love the BE You layout. It is one I would love to lift for my boy. I love the MME and still have some of it left. Great job on all you do.

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  30. Can I have two favorites? I like the gingerbread album and the thankful candle. All your projects are fabulous.
    I am a follower.
    slrdowney at hotmail dot com

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  31. Wow! I can see how these are your favorites!! I love the one using the Sketchabilities sketch and MME products -super cute!!

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  32. Gorgeous projects! LOVE the MME layout!! :)

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  33. OH MY OH MY! You have blown me away with your amazing LOs and designs! I LOVE that first LO--those feathers really add to the page!! And that birdie ornament--SOOOOOO cute! LOVE everything:) <3

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  34. Absolutely beautiful! You have such diversity with your layouts and yet there is always a common ground. I LOVE that last one too. Beautiful combination of papers and embellishments.

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  35. I love the Mardi Gras Layout the best (I think!)

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  36. Wow! I can see why you had a hard time picking YOUR top 10 but to ask me to pick just one of these as a fav ... not fair!! :) I think that bird ornament is my favourite, actually. LOVE the feathers!! SO beautiful!! And the Margi Gras layout and the Muddy Girls one ... all so lovely!! I'm now a follower. Must get such gorgeousness in my Reading List!!

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  37. #1 is my favourite but they are all wonderful!

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  38. I love them all, but my favorite is the Mardi Gras layout. And I'm now a follower

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  39. I really can't do it - can't choose a favourite - they are all so brilliant. The gingerbread book is cool though but then again I love the bird too. Sigh - just too hard.
    Ann xxx

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  40. These are all FAB layouts and projects! I think ONE of my favorites is "dirty girl mud run"...just love the energy of the page and the pink and brown is too cute!

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  41. Love all of them, but if i had to pick a favorite i would have to say the Gingerbread mini album! Huge fan of minis!!! I am also a new follower :)

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  42. It's really hard to choose because I just love all of them. I'd have to say my favorite it the Wags and Wiskers layout. I have two bunnies so I'm just a sucker for furry babies!

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  43. wow so many great projects its hard to choose just one...but I would have to go with the Partridge...its just so cute and I can see it hanging in my house lol I'm a new follower...and thank you for posting on my blog...that's how I found yours!

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  44. I re-posted your giveaway on my blog...
    here is the post
    http://cherishedmementos.blogspot.com/2012/12/giveaway-over-at-one-scarp-at-time.html
    thank you!

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  45. I subscribe by email and I love the third layout...very hard to do a masculine layout with all the detail but you did it splendidly.

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  46. OMG! I LOVE them all, but I think it is a toss up for number 5 and number one to be my absolute favorites!

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  47. Love that "too cute" layout, it is just precious. following you for more inspirations and posted to fb here: http://www.facebook.com/suzanne.k.vaughan

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  48. I so agree with your no. 1 choice. I love everything about it, the colours, the position of the embellies. etc. It doesn't surprise me that you were published in Scrapstreet. Your style is also similar to Liz Chidester, whose style I also adore. I try to copy you girls' layouts, but soemhow never pull it off. Hopefully by following your blog I get the hang of it!

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  49. I love the collection and colors used in the Stay Happy layout!

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  50. My fav is the Muddy Girl layout. Thanks!

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  51. Marcia, these are wonderful!!! And I do share that love of LYB with you!!! Happy New Year! Hugs, Katrina

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  52. Beautiful layouts! It's really hard to chose a favorite from these but I think I like the simplicity of the "be you" layout! Happy New Year!

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  53. Your projects are all lovely, but I do like that candle so much!

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  54. Marcia -- Love all of these, especially loved your Thanksgiving centerpiece so very much! Always such a treat to see your work and these top 10 are no exception -- fabulous!!!

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  55. Dirty Girl Mud Run is AWESOME!!! Love your style! Awesome work!

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  56. My fav is the You Make Me Happy layout. Love the colors and the fun banner!
    I am now a follower:)

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  57. Wow, all of these are fabulous. If I had to pick just one it would be #4. I love the colors and that sweet baby photo. Thank you so much for the chance.

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  58. I shared on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/#!/tonya.hopkins.52

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  59. Wow, how could I choose only 1, I love them all!! Well, I choose Wags and Whiskers!

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  60. I love tat you shared projects and layouts! My fav is # 4 , a.though 2 and 1 are up there, too! Happy new year!

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  62. All of your projects are BEAUTIFUL! My favorite is "Mardi Gras". I love your embellishments. I especially love the papers you used for this LO. Thanks for sharing. Awesome color combo!!!P.S. Great give away!!

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