It's a contest!

I absolutely adore all the independent brick and mortar stores that I make a habit of visiting to get my scrappy supplies. However, every once in a while, I need something they don't have, or I'm not near a scrappy store. For those occasions, I turn to one of my FAVORITES: Create For Less. They carry a lot of stuff, and are reasonably priced. As a nice "green" touch, they recycle their boxes, so when shipping, I may get a box that originally shipped them some cleaning products or crafty supplies.

The other day, they sent me an email for a contest they're holding. It's a Craft Room Makeover Contest, and they're choosing two winners to receive a $100 gift card. One person will be chosen for the BEST craft room, and another for the WORST craft room. Where does yours fall?

I actually entered to win the best craft room, mostly because I had a picture of my space all nice and tidy from a couple of years ago...I'm letting you know this for two reasons:
1. Don't bother entering for the best room, because I plan on winning! (Just kidding, but if you do enter and win, I might be a teensy bit jealous.)
2. I was finally motivated to start cleaning and organizing my room again. It's been a pit since...oh...Christmas, I guess?!? I've had various stages of mess, but it hasn't been properly cleaned in 6 months. :(

Anyway, I wanted to let all 15 of my loyal followers know about the contest so they can enter! Here's the link to the contest page: Craft Room Makeover Contest.

What are you waiting for!?!? Enter already!

Droooooooool...I Love This!

OK, I admit, it's been a LONG time since I've been really, really excited about something new in the scrapbooking industry. Sure, I enjoy new paper lines as much as (or perhaps more than) the next gal, but I'm positively GIDDY over the new tool from We R Memory Keepers. It's called the Lucky 8 Punch, and MAN...does it do cool stuff! I'm going to give you the link to their website so you can check them all out, but in the meantime, here are a few of the punches:

It looks like the way these bad boys work is that you can cut the outer shape, the inner pattern, or combine and do BOTH, transforming a regular old, boring piece of cardstock into a decorative edged shaped cardstock! Obviously you could do it with patterned paper too! The possibilities have me drooling. (Almost literally.)
Uh, hello?! How many times am I itching for a round die cut?! This is fabulous! I can make it any size I want: 2 inches, 12 inches!!
Seriously elegant. Here's the linky to see them all: Lucky 8 punches

I'm so excited, and I just had to share. The last time I was this crazed was probably when I first saw the Cricut demoed. That brings about a question:

What was the last scrapbooking item that made you positively giddy? Think tools, paper lines, adhesives...whatever.

Leave a comment! I'd love to hear your favorites from the past!