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. Debi Pippin's avatar Debi Pippin

    You are a true Artist! I love to check your blog daily just because you are an inspiration and I love your style so much. Keep doing what you are doing because I have learned alot from your beautiful tutorials. I had never sponged or brayered until I started watching your tutorials and I love it. Thanks for sharing yourself and your talent with us. I really like the scenery type cards.
    Debi Pippin
    canoemom@tampabay.rr.com

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  2. Veee's avatar Veee

    I have become an addicted stamper, thanks to your tutorials. I cannot telll you how much I appreciate them and the fact that I am now producing results I am actually proud of. I don’t usually care about blog candy but I love that set. There are too many times when those sentiments are needed. I think you have already heard me so I am being a terrible nag, please forgive me, but I would appreciate the size of the card. If you could see me trying to figure it out on my own you would be ROFL.

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  3. Ann Maniaci's avatar Ann Maniaci

    The only thing I think I want to see is more of the same. You really are an artist and I appreciate you sharing the steps on how you got to the finished card. Just trying your techniques is making me a better stamper, and I really thank you for that.
    Ann

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  4. Pam J's avatar Pam J

    Hi, I love your tutorials. Then are very helpful. I check in often to see what you have created. Blog candy is nice but your beautiful art work and generous time creating the tutorial’s is what brings me back to your blog.
    Thank you for making my work so much better.

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  5. mnhyrkas's avatar mnhyrkas

    I love what you are already doing on your blog. It’s so interesting to read about the creative process- like what’s going on in your head as you are creating. I’m just here hoping some of your talent and creativity will rub off on me! You are truly an artist and thanks for sharing. I appreciate the time and effort that it takes to stop and take pics along the way, then upload them to the blog. Thanks!

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  6. Laci's avatar Laci

    Hi! I only recently started checking out your blog, but I love it! Your step by step tutorials are great. Your work is amazing!

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  8. Denise's avatar Denise

    Your creations are amazing and I just want to see more of them. I’m in awe every time you have one and I always “star” it so I can go back to it. Thanks so much for your detailed entries!!

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  9. Kim Ross's avatar Kim Ross

    My only suggestion is: More of the same, please! Your work is wonderful and I really appreciate your generosity in showing us step by step how to do each technique. THANK YOU!! 🙂

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  11. Inkylin's avatar Inkylin

    Michelle since I have discovered your blog I have been here daily. Your tutorials are amazing to say the least. Sent me on a hunt for my Versa marker pen in my stamp room. Never did find it though. Thank you for sharing your wonderful stamping style with us.

    -*Linda*-

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  12. michelle's avatar michelle

    Hi,
    I love your blog and your unique technique. I like to see all the different ways you apply your style to different themes.

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  13. Julie Lansdowne's avatar Julie Lansdowne

    Your blog is just wonderful the way it is!!! Why fix something that isn’t broken.
    Thank you so very much for sharing your talent with me. You inspire me so much and
    I’ve found that I love “chalking” with ink now!!! Have a wonderful weekend.

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  14. Tara's avatar Tara

    I have to sound like everybody else who sent in a comment and say I totally love what you do right now. I look forward to each and every tutorial you do, & they’re so– easy to follow. I agree w/ one of the other ladies about using your puches as a spring board for some projects, loved that vase one as well. That enables me to see different uses for everyday items. Thanx for the chance at this lovely set of stamps, that’s very kind of you. Have a great weekend!

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  15. Mary Sue Bancroft's avatar Mary Sue Bancroft

    I can not think of one thing I’d change on your blog. Yours is such a change from all the others out there and I think it’s just fabulous. I only recently stumbled upon yours and was just awe struck at your creativity and thought the tutorial style is so unique and valuable to those of us who strive to venture in the area that you excel. Keep it coming!

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  16. Carol R's avatar Carol R

    Hi Michelle, I think you deserve a lie in!! LOL for all the work you do for us and it should be us that gives you something not the other way around. The only thing that could top what you are doing now would be a video. I have found actually seeing the techniques in motion somehow actually make things click into place. A sort of ‘oh that’s how you do it’ moment. I look forward every day to see your creations. Many many thanks.

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  17. Laurie Helgason's avatar Laurie Helgason

    I would like to see you at my house, for a play date with stamps.

    Your tutorials are great. I can’t think of anything on your blog to improve.

    The new Gina K. Designs set, Comfort and Peace is beautiful. Sympathy cards are one of the more difficult cards to create but easier with the right stamp set.

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  18. Gidget-Trish's avatar Gidget-Trish

    Hi Michelle…and Russ! 😀
    You do a fabulous job teaching your methods in your tutorials and of course, a video to see the actual brayering process in action would be great. I, personally, would love to learn how you decide what you are going to create each day. The variety in your creations just amazes me so I’d love to learn how you come up with these ideas and the process you go through to decide what colours to use, what size paper to use, what scene you’ll create….etc. I know it would be hard to describe the creative process but just a glimpse into your mind would be exciting. Thanks for all you do! Russ, I’d sure like to win that stamp set!!!! 😉
    Happy Mother’s Day,
    Trish

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  19. Donna's avatar Donna

    I love this set. My sister works for Hospice and I make all the cards for them to use. It would be perfect!!

    I would like to see more of the same. Your blog is an inspiration and I am completely in love with your color combinations, techniques, and amazing ability to work with ink. I cannot imagine all the time you put into each card.

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  20. Anne's avatar Anne

    Thanks for sharing your tutorials with us- I visit everyday. As much as I’ve been trying hard to brayer and stamp like you I have so much more to learn. So I’ll just keep drooling at your work and praying that one day I’ll get something right. Have you ever thought of making a video? I enjoy your blog just the way it is.

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  21. Jean's avatar Jean

    Michelle I have been to your blog numerous times, but today for the first time I am going to follow one of the tutorials. I can’t wait, I love them and just keep doing it your way! I do love the chance for the candy too. Thanks so much for all the work and effort you put forth for us.

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  22. Deb Neerman's avatar Deb Neerman

    Thanks so much for all your wonderful tutorials … I’ve learned so much! In fact, I save every one of your email’s (I’m subscribed via email), for reference.

    One thing I’D like to see: How the HECK do you clean your brayer?!?

    And how long does it take to master the brayer?!? I’m brayer-challenged …

    Thanks for all the inspiration … oh, and the chance to win, too!

    ~Hugs, Deb
    debkneer@aol.com

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  23. Allison's avatar Allison

    You don’t need to do anything else…those tutorials you write are so detailed with all those pictures, I often think it must have taken you all day to get them written up! Thanks for sharing your talent with us…I keep trying but have yet to produce my own “Zindorf”.

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  24. Kerry J's avatar Kerry J

    I just love your blog! I am so excited when you show up on my google reader. I love seeing you incorporate the colouring and shading into your tutorials – I have already learned a lot that way. Thanks for the chance to win – I love that Gina K. set!

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  25. Michelle T.'s avatar Michelle T.

    I love your blog and have been visiting since I first found the world of stamping blogs this January. I really appreciate the step-by-step instructions and the photos of all the supplies!

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  26. MSBetsyZ's avatar MSBetsyZ

    What fun to read through all these comments, lol! I hate to be a bore, but I, too, would love to see an occasional video. I stress “occasional,” though. I really love your tutorials just the way they are…step by step with pictures along the way.

    I guess what I love about them is that you’re not doing some complicated “technique.” It’s a melding of various simple things that somehow turn into beauty, lol! I can’t remember what I was working on recently, but I all of a sudden had the thought to go over an image with my versamarker, lol! These things you show are easy to work into my projects, unlike some of the hugely complicated techniques out there…they’re do-able for most of us.

    Russ, if you draw my name, throw it back, please, lol! I won this set from Gina K. the night it was released. It’s a fantastic set and any of these girls would be thrilled to win…

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  27. Mary Jo Price-Williams's avatar Mary Jo Price-Williams

    I too would rather you do tutorials! But since you are offering this up and it just happens to be one of my favorites from Gina K (although I don’t yet own any — gasp!!!) I thought I would give it a shot. Thanks for you wonderful inspiration you are a very talented lady and I am thankful that you like to share!

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  28. Lisa's avatar Lisa

    I love your work and tutorials! If there was one thing I would like to see on your blog, is a step by step on how you use your brayer. I still get a big lines going across my cards and can’t blend them out.
    Thank you for sharing your talent with all of us.

    Lisa

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  29. StampinCathy's avatar StampinCathy

    I just love your creative and inspiring artwork. I love your easy to follow tutorials. I love any kind of techniques, altered items, and really anything handmade. Thanks for a chance at this sweet stamp set.

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  30. Amy's avatar Amy

    Thanks for sharing all the fantastic, step-by-step tutorials. You have really demystified the whole process for me! Please don’t change a thing 🙂

    Fabulous blog candy; thanks for sharing!

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  31. buzzy's avatar buzzy

    I really appreciate how you combine stamps to make a scene and I find myself looking at stamps differently now. You have a delightful style!

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  32. Cheryl Horton's avatar Cheryl Horton

    Michelle,

    Wow, is still all I can say! I so appreciate your tutorials. I’ve been crafting for many years but what you do with ink is amazing! It’s so true that you never stop learning! As for what I would like to see on your blog in the future is for you to just keep doing what you like cause I feel that we, the viewers, always benefit from that and gain a ton of information! So thanks for the amazing tutorials and just keep on playing and sharing. THANK YOU!!!
    Cheryl

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  33. online queen's avatar online queen

    Your talent with inks is mind boggling to me! Every morning, your site is the first place I go for inspiration! I can’t tell you how many times I have printed out your tutorials in order to try my own hand – only rarely does my work come even close to your results! Please don’t stop inspiring!!!

    Terry

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  34. Mary Jo N's avatar Mary Jo N

    Oh I just love your cards. I never used my brayer until I found your blog! I still haven’t mastered your techniques yet, so I too would love to see one in video.
    Thanks for your great blog.

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  35. Jannette D's avatar Jannette D

    I’m just floored with what you bring to your tutorials. You do make it look easy and I’ve actually tried to do what you do. My clear embossing powder has been getting alot more action now. As for what I’d like to see is just keep doing what your doing, it’s great! I keep pushing myself to go “outside” my comfort zone and you are the inspiration for that. Thank you.

    Jannette D.

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  36. Alyssa's avatar Alyssa

    Ooh! I just love the flower images in this set…gorgeous! I recently added you to my favorites list because your cards are AMAZING! The fact that you take the time to show every step with a tutorial is even more mind boggling to me, but I love it! Video tutorials would be kind of cool to see, but really, if you just keep doing what you’re doing, I’m sure we will all stick around 🙂 Thanks for the chance!

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  37. Sharon in NE's avatar Sharon in NE

    I’m afraid you may not appreciate my answer…I have no suggestions. I come here everyday anxiously waiting to see what you’ve created and I am never disappointed. (Okay, for those days that you take off, sure, I’m a little disappointed, but you need to have some time away and see, I didn’t shrivel up during your last break.)

    I’m looking forward to seeing a video of your marvelous wonders, other than that, you just keep up the great work.

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  38. Susan Tomko's avatar Susan Tomko

    You have given me courage to pull out my brayer. Your work is beautiful, and I cannot give a suggestion. I thank you for your inspiring work.

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  39. Jessica's avatar Jessica

    I love reading your blog, as I am in awe of your beautiful cards. What I’d like to see is some ideas for using your favourite techniques, but on a simple card. I’m just too chicken to try one right from the start, so I’d like to work up to it.

    Anyway, thanks for the chance at that beautiful Gina K set!

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  41. Diane's avatar Diane

    I do like your blog a lot but there is a little repetiveness right now. How about something along the lines of why to use what type of ink pad when? Or using stamps in an unusual way.

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  43. Annapurna's avatar Annapurna

    I have this set, so you can take me out of the drawing, but I am curious to know how you ended up with two of the same set. Does that happen when you have too many stamps and forget that you had and it and go buy another 🙂

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  44. Karen's avatar Karen

    Michelle,

    You know the old adage -“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” That’s the way I feel about your blog. I was so happy when I found your blog. Not only have I learned new techniques, I’ve even learned of a few products I haven’t known about or used. Thanks for sharing your time and talent. It has to take a lot of time to do the tutorials. That is “candy” enough! But then to be giving away a set of stamps! Wow. Thanks for sharing!

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  45. Rita's avatar Rita

    I have learned so much from your tutorials, I can’t thank you enough for creating these & teaching me & others how to go to the next level of creating. You gave us the knowledge now all we need to do is create! Thanks again!
    I would love to see a hawaiian scene with the Imaginese Hula penguin stamps that sell for just $1. that would be awesome!

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  47. Debi C's avatar Debi C

    I love everything about your blog already! I couldn’t even think of anything else you could add! Your work is fabulous – I love the way you blend colors and shade/shadow. You create ART!

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  48. Charmaine's avatar Charmaine

    WOW, how generous of you! What do I want to see more of on your blog? Just more of the same GORGEOUS things that you create! Those scenes and backgrounds you create are just STUNNING! So, you don’t have to change a thing for me! 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win!

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  49. Lisa's avatar Lisa

    Thanks for the blog candy opportunity. As far as tutorials, wow, I can’t imagine there is anything you can do to improve yours! They are outstanding.

    How about a glimpse into your organizational items? Since it seems you have “everything” there is to have, how do you store it all?

    Thanks so much for your generosity! (Time and stamps).

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  50. June Kurosaka's avatar June Kurosaka

    I love all of your tutorials. Your blog is one of the first I go to each day because I learn a lot from you. I can’t ask more from you… I love the step-by-step instructions you provide. Thanks.

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