I've been busy this week!

I finished my day job early this week so I had time to play. My niece just turned 16 and my uncle will be 80 so I made them both cards (thanks to Pinterest of course). The cake card uses an old SOTM Celebrate with Cake. The balloon card featured the recently retired True Love, last year's Operation Smile set.

Here is an actual original, second one this year! I'll say it came from Divine Intervention because the saying was on a church bulletin board. I used the August stamp of the month "School Year" S1708. I wanted to show how it could be used for less school-type items. I also used some of our new Basics colors. The frame is Toffee. The stamping was done in Heather and everything was edged in Espresso. The Ruby plaid is from the Jack paper pack and the bear inside is from the Jack cardmaking and Thin Cuts set. The inside sentiment comes from one of the sets included with the Flower Market Cricut Collection.

Here are some layouts that feature the Enchantment Fundamentals and All-Star Complements. It's a good thing I am not caught up on my scrapbooking...I was able to find pictures that fit fairly well. They weren't even what I was originally thinking I would use! (This concludes my thinking out of the box for 2017.) The last picture shows the flip flaps I added to "Teamwork."

Give Away Winner and Retired List

And the winner is...Courtney!! I'm sure she'll Celebrate With Cake for winning the stamp set.

The CTMH Corporate Office recently announced a list of products that will retiring These items will no longer be available after July 31, and are available while supplies last.

Here's a printable list that I will update as often as possible as things sell out.

Here's the list in a nutshell...

Page 16 #AllTheAlbums

Page 18-91 All the workshop kits, paper packs, compliments and matching accessories (as expected)

Page 112- 115 all PML cards except gold & silver overlays

Page 120-121 Cricut Collections Art Philosophy, Artiste, Artfully Sent

Page 123 all the embossing folders except Confetti and Confetti Stars

Page 126-127 Instalife albums, cards and roller stamps. NOT the Memory Protectors

Page 129 both Cut Above kits (expected, stamps are on the retiring stamp list)

Page 130-133 all of the Designer Creations and Designed Decor items

Page 137 the four style sheets

Page 140-41 the red hearts, white stars; all the right page items except sequins and bitty sparkles

Page 142 shimmer trim in pink, Aqua, blue, purple, bronze only

Page 143 the older four colors of EXTRA thick twine

Page 144 everything except the calendar

Page 145 the separate envelopes only

Page 150 the three border punches and the two Base and Bling adhesives

Page 153 the Rolling Tote

Here's the list of retiring stamps from a few months ago.

It's time for a blog give-away!

There's a lot to celebrate this month. National Scrapbooking Month, of course, Mother's Day and Memorial Day are familiar to most people. Some holidays are lesser know like May Day and the tradition of giving May Day baskets or flowers.

Here's a few other's you might not be familiar with (from checkiday.com):

May 1 - May Day
May 2 - National Truffle Day (I hope it's the chocolate kind!)
May 3 - National Teacher Day
May 4 - Intergalactic Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you!)
May 5 - Ascension Day
May 6 - National Nurses Day
May 7 - NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING DAY
May 8 - Mother's Day
May 9 -Hurray for Buttons Day
May 10 - National Small Business Day
May 11 - Hostess Cupcake Day
May 12 - National Nutty Fudge Day
May 13 - National Apple Pie Day
May 14 - National Miniature Golf Day
May 15 - Pentecost
May 16 - World Baking Day
May 17 - National Cherry Cobbler  Day
May 18 - Accounting Day
May 19 - National Devil's Food Cake Day
May 20 - Pick Strawberries Day
May 21 - National Learn to Swim Day
May 22 - National Vanilla Pudding Day
May 23 - World Turtle Day
May 24 - Brother's Day
May 25 - National Tap Dance Day
May 26 - National Cherry Dessert Day
May 27 - Cellophane Tape Day
May 28 - International Hamburger Day
May 29 - Indianapolis 500
May 30 - Memorial Day
May 31 - National Macaroon Day

There are several opportunities here for photo ops, layouts, cards and some great ideas for goodies at our next crop! There's one more reason to celebrate this month and that's my birthday! I thought it was so apropos that May's Stamp of the Month included the "Happy Birthday" sentiment that I'm giving YOU the gift. I'm giving away a Celebrate With Cake stamp set.

There are many ways to enter:

• Comment on this post "Enter Me"
• Follow my blog (either you already are following or you are a new follower, all are welcome), then comment "Blog Follower"
• Attend this month's crop, then comment "Attended Crop"
• Attend this month's $5 Friday, then comment "$5 Friday"
• Like my business Facebook page, then comment "Liked" (current or new)
• Follow me on Pinterest, then comment "Pinterest Follower" (current or new follower)
• Place an order (April 29-May 31), then comment "Ordered"
• And don't forget to share! Tweet, post, etc. then comment "Shared" (one share entry per person)

You must comment to THIS POST for each entry because I'll be using the comment list and a random number generator to choose the winner in June. If you're the winner, don't forget to Celebrate With Cake!