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...

Liz Chidester
Marcia Dehn Nix  <---- ME
Monika Wright  <-------Go HERE next.
Ivanka Lentle
Christine Meyer
Jamie Cripps
Erin Morehouse
Melissa Elsner
Jodi Wilton
Sarah Hill 
Laurel Seabrook
Carrie Walz
Jen Matott
Jan Tatomir
Jennifer Haggerty
Kerri Yarus
Ashley Nguyen Newell
Cathy Harper
Malika Kelly
Lynn Shokoples
Kris Berc
Julie Tucker Wolek
Rhonda VanGinkel
Savannah O'Gwynn
Audrey Yeager
Katrina Hunt 

Happy Hopping! and a Happy New Year everyone.