My First Ever Blog Candy!

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I’m not a blog candy kind of girl.  Meaning you won’t see me giving stuff away constantly in order to create traffic to my blog.  I would rather give you tutorials you can use.  But I stayed up way to late last night and I slept in this morning and find myself having two of these beautiful stamp sets Comfort & Peace from Gina K. Designs.  A gal only needs one set so the other one I am giving away as my first ever blog candy.  So leave a comment on this post telling me the things you would like to see in the future on my blog.  I will have my husband, Russ draw a random number tomorrow morning and that number will receive this set for free! 

Fair enough, I got to sleep in this morning and you have a chance at a beautiful free Gina K. Designs stamp set.

Hey, have a fabulous Friday!

Until my next post. . . . .

Michelle

288 thoughts on “My First Ever Blog Candy!”

  1. Lyn S's avatar Lyn S

    I’m only a recent reader of your blog, but I love what I’ve seen so far. Love how you give the step-by-step photos, especially of your sponging and brayering. Just keep ’em coming!

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  2. Beth Van Brunt's avatar Beth Van Brunt

    I know you are looking for some good solid feed back but your blog is great. The talent you have for writing the tutorials is fantastic. The steps are so packed with information and tips for creating cards. You have already suggested the video and that would just blow everyone away. The only thing I can think of right now would be, and only because it has been introduced on your blog, is additional information on your artwork pieces. If I come up with a brain storm later, perhaps after coffee, I’ll be back.

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  3. Linda L's avatar Linda L

    The only thing I can think of to improve what is already a fabulous resource is a video tutorial so we can actually see “live” the action…you sponging brayering etc etc. Glad you enjoyed a sleep in!!

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  4. yvonne w.'s avatar yvonne w.

    I agree with Linda L. a video on brayering, sponging and such would be the best! I’ve wanted to see you in action for some time now. thanks again for all that you do!!!

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  5. Juliana's avatar Juliana

    I guess I would join the masses and say a video tutorial, too.
    I enjoy your blog through an RSS feed so I don’t make it to your site all of the time, but I do read it and try to absorb some to try to add to my own style.

    Thank for producing all of the great tutorials so far!!!

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  6. Angie J's avatar Angie J

    I have just started reading your blog but love everything I have see so far. Your tutorials are great! I am not sure what I would like to see in the future just keep those tutorials coming. 🙂

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  7. Jesse 'Inkyhive''s avatar Jesse 'Inkyhive'

    I, so enjoy your blog, as to me it is my kind of stamping.
    I am not sure what you can do to improve, just keep doing what you are doing. I have your page set up as my homepage address, so I won’t miss a thing.
    Thank you, for sharing!

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  8. Connie's avatar Connie

    Your talent is unbelieveable!! Not sure you can do any better than you already have done! Like everyone else only a live video could change the way we view your tutorials. BUT your tutorials are very easy to follow and I find them very interesting! I haven’t got the tools to try what you do but someday!!!!!

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  9. Tamara's avatar Tamara

    Glad you got to sleep in. We all need that sometimes. I would just like to encourage you to continue feeding your followers. I wake up every morning excited to see what you have created for us. Thanks for a chance a blog candy. Have a great day. See you tomorrow….

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  10. Heidi's avatar Heidi

    Michelle,

    Your cards are beautiful. My husband likes to look over my shoulder whenever I am surfing your blog. He asked me yesterday why I don’t try doing a card like yours. Maybe I’ll give it a shot this weekend.

    You are wonderfully talented – thanks for sharing it with us!

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  11. Joanne L's avatar Joanne L

    Your tutorials are fantastic! Visiting your blog is the first thing I do every morning. My only suggestion would be to provide video. It would be great to see you in action. I also like when you show us the artwork that inspired your cards. I must say you have taught me to look at art in a totally different way! I hope you get your much needed rest!

    Joanne L.

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  12. Phyllis Gunn's avatar Phyllis Gunn

    Oh, Oh, Russ, pick me, pick me!!! Michelle, I would like to see a tutorial on using piercing tools and using the Stampamagig. I’ve just about got the brayering down except I do have a question regarding that; in a set I purchased many moons ago, it contains several different kinds of brayers. A rubber one, clear plastic and I can’t remember the others. What could I use them for???? Echoing all the other comments, thank you so much for the time you take to make your tutorials. You should feel really blessed to know how much pleasure and joy you have brought to many by sharing a God given talent.

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  13. Theresa's avatar Theresa

    It is hard to come up with what more I would like to see. Your tutorials are amazing. I don’t know how you manage to come up with something new so often. I like the idea of an occasional video tut as has already been mentioned.

    I generally view your blog in a reader, so rarely comment, but reading it is one of my daily treats. Thanks for sharing your talent.

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  14. SueB's avatar SueB

    I just shared your blog with a couple stamping buddies yesterday due to the tutorials! We were on our way to a Mega Meet held in Michigan this week, and met at my house. Thanx for being a constant souce of inspiration … and the chance for some t’riffic blog candy!

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  15. LateBlossom's avatar LateBlossom

    Your tutorials are wonderful, and I’m actually expecting to overcome my fear of the sponge any day now! Thank you for putting all the time and effort into making them.

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  16. Cynthia's avatar Cynthia

    I just love all your work. A video would be wonderful too. I just can’t get that brayer thing. I also really enjoyed the flower vase card you made when you punched out the large ovals. More like that would be great. What ever you do I love. Cynthia

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  18. Peggy Parenteau's avatar Peggy Parenteau

    Hi Michele, I appreciate so much your tutorials. I’ve been experiementing and have had some great results. Keep ’em coming! A video would be great to watch. You are such an inspiration, thank you for sharing your beautiful gifts. Thanks for a chance to win this great stamp set. Happy day, Peg

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  20. askagain's avatar askagain

    Just keep the tutorials coming! Your step by step instructions are SOOOOO helpful and have helped to make me a better stamper! Thank you so much. Anjou

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  21. Linda Collins's avatar Linda Collins

    Michelle,

    Your blog is the the candy..I love your tutorials and I love that Ican print them out so that I can follow your directions step by step. Video would be nice but I fear it will be harder to follow. I love your Goddess stamp. You have also done a card with squirrels on it and I have yet to figure out how you worked in the background. Did you emboss the squirrels first? You are so clever. Sleep in as much as you want. I just love the set you choose for your give-away.
    Linda

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  22. Amber H.'s avatar Amber H.

    Michelle,

    What can I say? Love your stuff and enjoy seeing how you do it all. Don’t think there is anything more I could tell you to add as you cover it all. If I would happen to win the set but don’t freak out if I don’t answer right away. Going away for the weekend and may not have internet! Can’t wait to see what you come up with next.

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  23. Yvonne's avatar Yvonne

    I just found your site recently and LOVE your sunsets, in fact our stamping group is getting together today and I can’t wait to show them what I’ve learned from your tutuorials! Thanks for sharing your great talent!

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  25. Donelda's avatar Donelda

    Oh Michelle, I am so happy that you don’t worry about giving stuff away but focus on your tutorials!! I love your blog (and clearly many others do as well) just the way it is!! Keep giving those tutorials, it’s the “secrets of your work” that we need to make us think we can create anything as close as your works of art!! I have already learned so much from you! Thank You!!!

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  26. Jackie W.'s avatar Jackie W.

    I LOVE your blog and visit every post even without the candy! I do have a question…when I first started brayering I was trying to get it smooth, which I do like and I think I’ve gotten pretty good at that, but when I look at some of your cards you often have the vertical lines in them. Do you do that on purpose for a certain “look”? Because I really like that, too! That is a very nice set you’re giving away! And thanks so much for the tutorials – I love them!

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  27. Claudia P.'s avatar Claudia P.

    Your blog and artwork is totally AWESOME. I wished I was half as good as you are. One thing I would be interested in seeing is if you are still selling your pastel paintings and what you’ ask for them. Then I have to agree with the others video tutorial would be nice, but I would totally understand if would not do that, because I would hate to do it myself…
    Great job with everything you do!

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  28. Nancy's avatar Nancy

    Michelle, the Brayer Queen! I love all of your work and you have inspired me to try brayering (is that a word?). Can’t quite get my brayer to work as well as yours, maybe we could swap. A lot of people are asking for videos here, but I prefer your tutorials that way they are so I can take my time and study each step. Thanks for sharing all of your great work with us!

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  30. Elizabeth S's avatar Elizabeth S

    Michelle,
    I found your site about a month ago and I think the tutorials are great the way the are I just need to get over my brayer fear and go for it. Everytime I have used a brayers I get uneven lines but your tutorials have shown me to just play, play and play more. Now I just need to find the time. I know you asked what to add but I like your blog just the way it is.

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  31. Debra Hogg's avatar Debra Hogg

    Really – you do such an beautiful job doing what you do all ready, maybe a tuturiol but I can catch what you do and say just throught your work. I’m not to computer friendly and I’m afriad I won’t be able to view it cuz sometime I don’t think my computer is update enought to view others who have done this as well.

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  32. Brenda's avatar Brenda

    I love your blog, you do such beautiful cards. I find it hard to think of anyway to improve upon what you already do. I enjoy coming here everyday to see what you have posted. Thank you for sharing your creations and with such wonderful instructions. I also would like to thank you for offering great candy. Glad you were able to sleep in enjoy your day.

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  33. BB's avatar BB

    It’s my first time here. I’m definitely subscribing to you via reader! I love your tutorials…they’re very detailed and helpful! Thanks so much for your effort in sharing!!!
    x

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  34. Carol's avatar Carol

    Michelle, you already do so much hard work to give us these fabulous tutorials – we should be giving YOU free stamps as a thank-you! I’m glad you’re enjoying a well-deserved sleep-in 🙂
    I can’t think of anything I’d request, because you already cover a multitude of subject material. I am in total awe of your talents and thank you for sharing them with your readers:)

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  35. dtstampz's avatar dtstampz

    I just love your step-by-step tutorials–it’s so encouraging for stampers like me who view your gorgeous cards and think, “Oh, I could never do that”…. I really enjoy seeing how you combine and blend colors, so that’s what I’d love to see more of! Thanks for sharing your work with us.

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  36. fran's avatar fran

    I have learned so much from your blog and the wonderful step by step instructions. I’d just like to see you continue to do what you do! It’s great!

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  37. Dalla's avatar Dalla

    I found your cards on SCS. Not knowing at first about you, I always picked your card as my favorite. Now, with your blog, I can still pick your cards as my favorites. Thanks so much for your creativity,

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  38. Brenda (happybee)'s avatar Brenda (happybee)

    I love your tutorials Michelle. I have made so many B-U-tee-ful cards using your techniques. I print out the ones I really want to try and I keep them in a binder. I think you have added so much to the stamping community as a whole. You are a wonderful teacher and I too would love to see you in action via video. I have the hardest time trying to get the line out left by the brayer so seeing that in action how you actually do it would be most helpful. I look forward to your latest creation everyday. Keep up the great work for all of us addicts. (:

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  39. Nicki Lundeen's avatar Nicki Lundeen

    I don’t have anything that I would add to your blog – just keep doing what you are doing presently. I am amazed each day I view your blog. Your talent blows me away! Thanks for the opportunity to win this beautiful stamp set.

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  40. Karen Gladney's avatar Karen Gladney

    Michelle:

    I visit your blog on a daily basis and just love your tutorials. One of these days I will go and buy a brayer and try your techniques. For now I just love to adorn your cards.

    I can’t think of anything that I would like to see other than what you have been doing already.

    You are so creative. Tks for the sharing.

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  41. pegg's avatar pegg

    I love seeing your step by step tutorials – it’s watching something come alive! I would love for you to maybe give tips on how to create a scene with different stamps. You make it look easy but when I am sitting at my desk, I don’t know where to start! I have a very limited creative mind!! 🙂

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  42. Amy McNulty's avatar Amy McNulty

    Your blog is wonderful! I visit it every day to see what new technique I can learn! I just have one question: How do you get your brayer edges so soft? Every time I try, it leaves a hard ink line on the paper where the edge of the brayer rolled.

    Thanks for sharing your artistry with us!!

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  44. Peggy Maier's avatar Peggy Maier

    I love your blog & read it every day – it’s amazing what you do with that brayer! Thanks for a chance to win (I could use a good sympathy set!)

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  45. KALYBER's avatar KALYBER

    I am always AWED by your work and now by your generosity. Your tutorials are really helpful and having this set would be too. I don’t have many stamps that I can use on sympathy and illness cards and find myself in increasing need for such things. Thanks for all you do.
    RUSS PULL MY NUMBER PLEASE ; )

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  46. Lora Lee's avatar Lora Lee

    Your tutorials are simply amazing – that you share your abilities – priceless. Your artwork (your cards are worthy of framing) is beautiful, the depth of color that you achieve and then show us how to do it ourselves! I will never tire of seeing your tutorials. (Maybe one of these days I’ll be brave enough to actually follow one, LOL)

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  47. SandyOR's avatar SandyOR

    You use of color simply overwhelms me! You inspire me to get out of my prim little box and start using COLOR! Thanks for sharing your wonderful talent.

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  48. Ann C.'s avatar Ann C.

    What I enjoy about your blog is watching your creative thinking process in action as you take pictures step by step. Even when you show how you decide to add some more or change something as you are going along, it shows the process….so just keep doing what you are doing! When you have an idea for a card, I just love to watch it come together! The sympathy set looks very versatile, now that you have shown us many ways to use the elements in different ways.

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  49. Danelle's avatar Danelle

    I’ve actually never used a brayer before (gasp!)… but after visiting your site, it’s on my “to-buy” list. 🙂 I’m not sure if you’ve already covered this or not, but I’d love to hear some tips for beginners. I’ve heard from others that using a brayer takes some time to get used to in order for the images to look good – so what do we need to do/know to help get started? Is the trick trying to get the brayer inked evenly? I’m a brayer “wannabe” and am just curious about some elementary answers. Thanks so much!

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  50. Gabriela Duclos's avatar Gabriela Duclos

    I love me some BLOG CANDY!!

    Your blog rocks, I love the tutorials. I am always in awe of your work. Thanks for sharing your creations with us.

    Gaby
    Canada

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