Blog Hop Winner :-)

Hi everyone.  Thank you so much for joining me on the Hiding in My Craft Room

 Valentine's Day Blog Hop.

As promised, I used Brian.son to pick a winner and she is ....

Sammi

 from Sammibug's Scrapshack

Congratulations!!!

Thank you for playing along and for becoming my
 newest follower :-)

Please email me at lenfon@msn.com with your details, within the next week,

and I will get the goodies in the mail to you.

Here is the pic of the candy you won ...

I can't wait to see the wonderful creations you'll make :-)

Till next time,

Happy Crafting

MS-150 Bike Ride and a Card

Hi everyone, I'm so proud of my hubby and I would like to share the reason with you.  He rode the MS150 bicycle ride from Houston to Austin this weekend in order to raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. The ride took place over two days, 83 miles (134 km) on Saturday and 66 miles (106 km) on Sunday.  Not only did he decide to join this worthwhile ride very late, but the last 6 weeks he had been fighting a bout of vertigo and therefore unable to get any rides in, in order to get fitter. Yet he did it - Way to go Hubby!!! :)

I made him a card from Brian and I and we got him his favourite dessert too - Tiramisu.  Here are a few pics I would like to share with you ...

So here is a photo of hubby crossing the finish line in Austin, Texas.

 

This is the card I came up with for him.  I used the cricut Dude cartridge to make all the cuts for the rider. I embossed the silver paper with the cuttlebug diamond plate folder and used a MS punch for the border.  Added a few black brads and voila, done!

 

This is what I did for the inside.  It was a bit of a joke - since this ride seemed to be a breeze for him, in my personal message on the card, I told him that next year, I want to see something a little more extreme :) like the rider in the front of the card.  I also told him how extremely proud we are of him.

 

That is it for today. We had a very enjoyable weekend. We drove from Pearland to Austin to be there for my hubby and visited the Capitol Building while waiting for him to arrive. 

 

Until next time,

Lena

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Pro-Markers Give Away

Hi everyone,
I wanted to let you all know that Enfys from Going Buggy has a wonderful give away of Pro-Markers.  You can win all the colours!  Yup, that's right ... a full set!  There is also a place in her post that you can get to in order to download the colour chart.  You have to see the beautiful colours ... they really are stunning.  It would make such an awesome early Christmas gift!
Well, to get a chance to win you need to go here and join in the fun!  Good luck!
Hugs,
Lena

ProMarkers

As you all know, from my previous posts, I'm not that great at colouring in. I can stay within the lines and that is about it. :-) Enfys at http://www.going-buggy.blogspot.com/ is having a promarkers give away. I've been looking at these markers and have been very tempted to buy them, but since I know my limited talent for colouring in, I haven't ordered them yet. I think that maybe if I actually won some, I would be more tempted to use them. I would probably have to take a class but have seen there a few online videos that are very helpful and then like anything else in life, practice would make it perfect. I hope! If you are interested in learning about these markers then visit the Letraset website at http://www.letraset.com and if you want to see some great art work done using these markers,then you need to visit Enfy's blog (link above).