Happy New Year friends! How blessed we are to be on the brink of a new year of 2012. Hard to believe, isn’t it? I think we all step forward with the hope that we’ll make improvements in our life, with our faith, with our families and relationships and in our finances. I do too and as I think about the days and weeks to come I’m so thankful for the hope that a new year brings. To celebrate, I thought I would share some of my goodies with you. I haven’t done this in a while so I’m excited to finally have some blog candy. Starting today, you can leave one comment on this post every day until midnight on January 5th, on Friday, January 6th I’ll pick a winner. In your comment share what your crafting goal is for the year – inquiring minds want to know!! Share a different goal each day!
Thank you so much for your kind words throughout the year. The readers here are my inspiration to craft every day. I hope that the dies, sweet sentiment stamps and scripture that you see here inspire you in a positive and giving way. Bless you all!
Happy New Year Becca! Ever since I found your blog about six months ago I have to check it every day to see what you have come up with. You are one amazing person and so inspirational!
One of my crafting goals is to master the Becca Bows!!! I have to go to the video every time I want to make a bow and pause and start it until I finally get it!!! I don’t know if it is that the mind is going (or already gone LOL) or it is just a long time in between bows but I can’t seem to remember what to do! I do hope 2012 is a much better year for you. God Bless you and thanks for sharing your wonderful talent with us.
Becca~Love your blog and all the inspiring and beautiful cards you share with us! Thank You
Oh, maybe I’ll be your first comment of the New Year — how fun!!!
My first crafting goal of 2012 is to learn to use my prize from 2011 — a Boss Kut Gazelle digital diecutting machine that arrived on December 22nd! I’m a lucky girl and I plan to make them proud of who was sooo lucky as to win their generous prize — with me luck!!! ;!)
Happy 2012 everyone!!!
Great candy…! My crafty goal for this year is to improve on my colouring technique especially colouring the hair, face and bear image.
Happy New Year Becca! Here’s wishing you good health and much happiness in 2012. One of my crafting goals for this year is to get my craft room organized, so I can actually have room on my table to make my cards!
Happy New Year to my sweet BFF! I love you very much!
Happy New Year. I want to be able to complete more layouts.
Happy New Year! I have a lot of new embossing folders that haven’t been used. I hope to give all of them a try soon.
Hi Becca, happy new year! My goal for 2012 is to finish organizing my new crafting space and staying organized. Then getting on with crafting teams as a designer!
Love your work!
I want to try more new techniques and make cards to have on hand for Birthdays and weddings and thank-yous. To have the personal touch.
Happy New Year Becca, thanks for the chance to be in the draw for your lovely prizes.
Happy New Year Becca
My goal is to move my craft room into a bigger room that my daughter and son in law and their 3 childern occupy they are moveing out after living with for 5 years time to start off the new year right!
Sending you thoughts for a Happy New Year Becca and many blessings for 2012!
Crafting Goal #1 for me for 2012 is to USE what I have….so many of my stamps have never seen ink!
Jan
One of my goals is to be on a Design Team! Happy New Year Becca!
Happy New Year Becca…I hope this is an amazing year for you…my stamping/crafting goals for this year include entering more challenges…and posting more to my blog…
Hugs to you…
Have a Blessed Day. Thank you for sharing all your wonderful work. I look foward to all the wonderful New things you have to share with me and the rest of your blog followers in the new Year.
You are the one who inspires me! My stamping friends and I have a weekly creative session and we never fail to discuss your creations in great detail, emulating your wonderful techniques and color combinations.
That said, my main goal this year is to clean out and organize my craft room…which I have done! I finished today with the major upheaval, including lining cupboard backs (they showed the dry wall…ugh!) with vintage fabric that my dear mother-in-law had given me years ago. I have a dozen or more large boxes of crafting materials that I will be selling at a craft fair in February….my extras shall be someone else’s treasure, right? I am so excited to see my favorite space in the house turn into something that reflects my love of stamping and paper crafting.
Thanks for this opportunity to share something with you as you have shared with me so many times.
Happy New Year, Becca! You are an inspiration as an artist and as a wonderful person!
Happy new year Becca. My goal this year would to be spending more time creating cards and less time on Facebook. :)
Hi Becca! Love your blog! Goal is to CLEAN MY CRAFT SPACE!!! Then I will make everything I see!! LOL!! Many blessings to you.
Becca thanks for the chance at this wonderful candy. I just got the Grand Calibur & would love these dies & one can never have too many flowers. Those are gorgeous. One of my goals for this year is to finish more cards. I start so many of them but seem to get sidetracked easily & don’t get many posted. This year I plan to be more organized … Fingers crossed it will happen. Happy new year & I’m wishing the very best to you.
Hugs, Janie
Becca I wish you a Happy and Blessed New Year!!! Filled with life’s blog candy!!!!
My crafting goals this year are many… One is to work on xmas cards all year so i can actually send more than a mere dozen handmade cards… my list contains approx 150 names… that small amount just didn’t work this year!!! Many a friend was disappointed… I did use a similar design to one of your cards with a Christmas tree on the front inside of a frame with ribbon on the sides… they were gorgeous!!!
Happy New Year Becca… continued luck with your fantastic blog!
Kathy
May the New Year be filled with peace, joy and blessings from the Lord. I enjoy you delightful cards and am always in awe of your creations. My goal is to do more scrapbooking this year and to incorporate more layering in my work like you do. Thanks for the wonderful prizes and a chance to win.
My best wishes for you in 2012 Becca! My goal this year is to get a handle on all my paper…OH MY!
Happy New Year to you too, Becca! Such lovely candy, thank you for your generosity. One of my goals for this year is to try and have at least one project published. That’s my biggest goal. Talk to you tomorrow.
How do I find your Blog? Would love to see this everyday.
please advise,
God Bless,
Joyce Anderson
Fun stuff! My goal is to continue playing with all my “fun stuff”. Having all the “stuff” is what makes this hobby fun. But my stamping attempts are still not all that pleasing to me…so I will continue playing with that technique.
How do I find you Blog?
Would love to read this everyday.
please advise,
Joyce Anderson
Your are such an inspiration to create something beautiful. My biggest goal right now is to clean my craft room so I can use the stuff I have. I love creating. The top of my project list is the huge flowers for the wedding in Feb.
May God bless you in great ways this year.
My first goal is to have a stock of cards for every occasion so I can grab one at a moments notice.
One of my crafting goals for this year is to use my long-purchased stamps and haven’t gotten around to using. I intend to frame some of them as oppose to the usual cardmaking! Thanks for a chance to win Becca! Happy New Year-have a blessed one!!
A happy and healthy New Year to you Becca! You are awesome. One of my goals for the new year is to spend less time reading about and more time doing. That applies to my card making primarily but also to other aspects of my life.
So many crafting goals for 2012! I’ll begin with my goal to catch up on my scrapbooking. I’m sure I’ll have a new one to add each day, I have so many. Happy New Year to you, Becca, and may many blessings come your way!
Much happiness to you in the new year, Becca!
One crafting goal of mine for 2012 is to clear my stamping desk so I’ll have more than about a 8″ x 8″ space to actually stamp on!! Somehow all kinds of things end up on my desk, so I have little room to actually stamp!
Happy New Year and thank you for your generous spirit– that which you share with every post is such a wonderful gift to everyone.
Happy New Year Becca, your cards are just the greatest and I learn a lot from you. Thanks for the chance to win the candy.
Rene from OZ xo
My crafting goal is to definitely tackle more projects and maybe try to enter a submission in a magazine…maybe…LOL
You have been an inspration to me so many times this last year. Thank you. Your faith, your creativity, and your willingness to share provides me with so much on which to base my life. My wish for you is that God continues to provide you with alll that you need in your daily life. Carole
Happy New Year Becca! Thank you for the chance to win some awesome blog candy. My goal this year is to use the products I have at the moment before I buy anything new….hmmm….this will be a challange! May your 2012 be blessed with family & friends & memories!
Karen M.
My goal for 2012 is to create a scrapbook for our first grandbaby that is due end of March. Thanks for the chance to win such a nice prize.
Happy 2012 to you. Thank you for sharing such amazing talent.
In 2012 I vow to actually take the time to craft. In previous years I craft sporatically and regret it. I admit that at times I make excuses to not craft…. room is too messy, son needs me at his game, laundry/dishes/cleaning to do. In 2012 I WILL craft at least once a week. Needed to maintain my sanity.
Thanks for this opportunity, Becca. Stay strong.
MK
Love your style. I follow every day. Have to get my fix! I have even pinned you to my Pinterest board. Hope 2012 is good for you!
Hyvää Uutta vuotta 2012! Aivan ihana blogi ja lahja!
Minun vuoteni meni melkein koko ajan askarrellen ja kortteja tehden–voikos parempaa toivoa !
My wish for you my friend…… God’s Will….. For it is perfect and right…. Hugs….. Denice
So sweet of you! One goal is to make a mini scrapbook. I don’t know why but the small size is intimidating lol. Thank you :)
Happy 2012 to you, sweet lady! My goal in 2012 is to start scrapbooking again! After the birth of my third child things got too crazy for me. Now that baby #4 is 5 years old and still has no baby book, I am determined to get things caught up! I’m starting with the “current” stuff and working my way back!
After giving up teaching altogether, my hope is that I can just craft for the sheer pleasure of it and not have to meet deadlines or use particular products. I want to encourage and lift up others with my crafting plus I want to sit along side everyone else in classes to be encouraged and uplifted myself – to share that whole experience from a different prespective.
I love your work, and hope thsg someday I would be as creative as you are
Happy New Year! I hope to find more time to craft this next year!
Happy New Year Becca, I truly appreciate your talent and creativity. You have a personal, unique, recognizable style. Thanks for the chance to win such a nice price. My goal this year is to finish all the projects I have started and all the ones I will start – no more UFOs (UnFinished Objects) in my basket!! ;-)
My goal is to create “outside of the box” for me. In doing so I am going to use dies more often and stamp things other than flowers (my fave).
Thx, for the opportunity.
My goal is to use up all the great items I have bought after watching great ideas on the web. I endeavour to use them at least once before I plan to buy any more!!LOL
I would like to get my “glitter on”‘ I have never used it before and would like to find out what all can be done with it.
Sharon L
I feel like belting out the” Fiiiiive Goooooold Rings” of the Partridge in a Pear Tree Christmas song, 5 days and 5 rings, a goal for each . . . . so here goes.
For my first Gold Ring ushering in the New Year with a Goal to revisit some of the gems and goodies I already have in my crafting stash; be re-inspired to use them by looking at them differently (as Becca makes us all do!!!!) using my new dies and stamps to bring it all to life as well as release some of those things that I have loved so much that I was reluctant to part with them.
Happy New Year Becca! I’m wishing you good health and much happiness in 2012.
My goal for this year is to use what I have and do more colouring practice with my copics.
Happy New Year Becca, God Bless you in the new year.
I hope in the new year craft wise is to include more ribbons on my cards. I love embellishments and forget the ribbons and I have quite a few.
Wow how awesome love the Candy. My caft goal is to finish off the attic so i can have the space for crafting. We have a 1939 house that is under major renovation.
Happy New Year!! Throughout the year I put little pieces of paper into a “Blessings Box” with things that I’m thankful for from time to time. It may be a sunset I see or a flower blooming, or it may be that I’m blessed to have such a wonderful family. And in 2011 especially I’ve been thankful that some health issues that have occurred turned out to be not as frightening as I first thought and I’m thankful for a wonderful doctor who is watching ‘it’ closely. Every New Year’s Eve at midnight I bring out the blessings box and read the notes I’ve written throughout the year. It’s a wonderful reminder of all the good that has happened in the past year. As far as crafting goes, my goal is to get back to doing what I love–scrapbooking the pictures of the times of our lives. My health scare has taught me to do it now and not put it off for we don’t know when we will be called home. Again, Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year!! Wishing you a happy and healthy one!
My number one goal has GOT to be cleaning up and organizing my craft space! So much stuff all over the place that I can’t craft at all!
I will add to my list of goals all wekk…I could go on and on about this!
Love ya! Thanks so much for all you have done to inspire us throughout the year!
Sue Brailey
I lost my mother and brother in 2011 so am hoping for a happier 2012. Crafting has helped get me through this difficult time, mum loved looking at my cards. Finally made a great bow by using your tutorial, so hoping to learn much more this coming year.
#1 Goal: Scrap more for myself in the coming year
Happy New Year. It’s time to re-arrange and organize the craft room and let go of some of the things I don’t need anymore. My goal is to create everyday, have gifts on hand way ahead of time, so I don’t have to panic and try to do one in 5 minutes. I also want to spend more time with my granddaughters showing them craft projects to make and to inspire them to paint out side of the box. I would like us to make gifts for nursing homes and children’s hospitals and let the girls go with me to give them out… I guess- Pay it forward” is the main goal in 2012.
Cindy
Happy New Year, Becca!! May the Lord bring many blessings to you in 2012!
1. I have several crafting goals this new year! First, I’ll tackle painting, distressing and antiquing two pieces of furniture. They both have decorative carvings so I expect the techniques to highlight the lovely details and give them a great faux patina.
Happy New Year. Thank you so much 4 a wonderful year of inspiration. Take care & God Bless.
One of my craft goals this year is to make more cards. I buy a lot of crafting supplies and don’t use enough of them. So, my goal is to start making cards more often and more of them and use up a lot of my goodies. My husband built a nice crafting area for me a few months ago and I need to make better use of it. I don’t have a whole room for crafting so my space is tight, but I need to use it more since he worked so hard to build it for me.
Happy New Year Becca!! I hope next year is smoother for you.
My crafting goals are to expand my Copic coloring skills and try using sketches. I have never used a sketch.
I also want to include time for my other hobby which is making Temari. Temari is a Japanese form of embroidery on a ball. For the past three years I have been a “Charlie One Note”. All I have done in crafting is make cards. This Christmas I made a Temari for my son that he wanted me to make for him. I forgot how relaxing stitching can be. Plus it doesn’t make a mess LOL
I will continue to make cards, but in the coming year I want to be a little more diversified in my crafting. I would love to win your generous Blog Candy!! I have a new Grand Calibur . Happy New Year
Happy New Year, Becca. I hope this year will find you in better health. My goal for January is to do more organizing in my craft room. Since I have an entire room all to my crafts, I need to take advantage and put it to good use. Wish me luck because I am not an organized person by nature.
Happy New year Becca! This year I’m going to try to start and complete one project at a time. I’m ADD and its so hard for me to stay on task. Hoping to change that this year!
thanks for all the inspiration and motivation you provide !!! God bless you!
Peg
My goal crafting wise is to try and find new ideas and incorporate them into my card making. I love challenges and using new items helps keep me current.
Candy Meyers
I guess my first goal should be to keep my craft room clean so I can be more productive.
Hi Becca. Happy New Year!! May this be a year of renewal in all aspects of our lives.
This year I want to learn how to crochet flowers. I always love the flowers that I see on cards and on scrapbook pages and instead of buying them, I want to learn how to make them.
That is one of my goals for 2012.
Thanks for the chance to win some blog candy!
Happy New Years to you and thank you for all the inspiration! Love your blog!
First goal, just like everyone before me, is to get that craft room organized. I’ve never organized it before, so it is going to be a big project. I just keep getting stuff and shoving it in any available spot. So now I an going to make myself NOT stamp until I organize!
My goal is to get my craft room clean and functional. I say this every year, and it gets better, but I think I still have a few more days of organizing to do to get it at a more functional stage. Thanks for this chance at the giveaway. Happy New Year, and I hope your foot gets fixed!
I am starting a course to learn how to do art journaling as I would like to be come more proficient in it.
Hi Becca, I am in Australia and an enormous fan of your beautiful work. I attend a card group each week and my friends all have a bow maker (courtesy of my hubbie) and only one of the 15 have mastered the bows. Most of them save their ribbons for me to tie their bows each week (at times up to 30 bows). They always have the excuse their bows don’t look as good as mine. We had an hour lesson one day to go step by step. I am known by my bows on my cards at the post office where I sell my craft. I have been told the comments are Robyn’s turn this month love the bows & butterflies. I wish you much love & happiness for 2012 and many wonderful blessings. Robyn South West Rocks 2431 New South Wales.
Happy New Year Becca!!! My first goal is to get my craft space better organized and user friendly… Thanks for the chance at an awesome prize…
Happy New Year Becca, to you & yours!
I love the way you are able to work ribbon and your own hand-made flowers into your projects. My goal is to be more patient and keep working on the flowers so I can make my own .Not only will it make the project special, but it will help my efforts on my budget.
Thank you so much for all you do!
My crafty goal is to “DO IT”…it’s easy for me to look at other people’s projects and think “oh I’ll never be as good as them!” But, I won’t know until I try it, right? Happy New Year, Becca!
Love your creativity and videos. My goal is to convert a spare bedroom into my craft room. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Becca, thanks for giving us the opportunity to win some blog candy. My crafting goal is to blog more. I make cards all the time and I don’t take time to share my nice cards.
Hi Becca,
One of my goals is to clean up my craft room. It’s become the leftover Christmas room and I have lots to do and I want my space back! Selfish, I know, but I have things to scrap. A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do.
Happy New Year. My biggie goal is to make a scrapbook for my sister of her son’s wedding a couple of months ago. This will be a major challenge for me but I’m determined to do it!
Happy New Year! My goal is to get my supplies organized and to donate items I won’t be using. thanks for all the wonderful cards you make and share with us.
Last year was all about organization and I have to say I really accomplished a lot. And though that is an on going task, this year will be all about productivity. I have so many projects planned and am sure all the new storage and organization I have worked so hard on this last year will make it easier to accomplish this years goals. My other goal is getting my blog up and running. I have been procrastinating in that area long enough. Since the granddaughters are almost two, hopefully they will allow Gramma out of their sit for a few minutes here and there to accomplish some of my goals. Of course, family will always come first, but even I need a break now and then. They are getting better about playing independantly and of course there is always nap time. Happy New Year and thanks for your generousity of super blog candy. You are simply the most thoughtful and generous person I know.
Marcie
Happy New Year Becca! Your blog is truly inspiring. Each project constructed perfectly with layers of of beautiful papers and fabulous die cuts. My goal this year to make better use of the supplies I have. It’s hard to resist all the latest papers and dies but I need to use what I have in different ways…..Wish me luck!
happy new year… i’m gonna clean up that scraproom
My goal for 2012 is to finish projects that are started and use up some of the paper I am hoarding, Thanks for all your tutorials and ideas that gave me inspiration!
bonne année a tous la santé est le principal a la vie
et tout ce qui va avec ! affections de la France
chantal
Happy New Year to Becca and thank you for all the inspiration! Love your blog!
Becca you never cease to amaze me in your ability to create. My goal for 2012 is to be patient with me. I am not doing that very well and have to be patient in my creating. Mydad was an animator for Disney in the 30’s and 40’s, etc. and I cannot never live up to his example. I admire you so.
Lauren
PS Good health, peace and everything good for you and your family.
Becca another wonderful give away! My goal in 2012 is to touch more people’s lives with my cards. A lot of my creations go to nursing home patients and I want to continue to do that!
One of my goals is to use the wonderful goodies that I’ve been collecting. If you only knew how many spellbinder sets I’ve bought after seeing one of your cards!
Hi Becca, My goal for 2012 is to try different things/styles and new toys. Also to try some of the wonderful cards that you have shown us how you do them. toys permitting of course. And to try and share my love of craft with others.
Happy New Year.
Hugs Trish.
Happy New Year once again. My first crafting goal is to get my craft supplies organized.
Becca, Thanks for another wonderful year of beautiful creations. My goal is to try to find more time to encourage and inspire others in this wonderful paper-crafting world.
My crafting goal is to be more timely. I will strive to send birthday & other cards out on time instead of belated
Happy New Year! Thank you for sharing your tutorials and creations! My crafting goal for the year is to try new techniques and improve. Thank you for the chance to win your very generous blog candy!
I love your blog candy, Becca. Thanks for the opportunity. My crafting goal is to make more than one card at a time. It makes more sense if I’m making one to just make 5 or so… That way I’ll have a variety to choose from for those last minute gifts.
My first goal to craft this year is canvas of my father who passed awayat the end of November. I want to ceate something really special for my mum to help remeber him.
p.s. I adore your work!! You’re such a gifted lady and so inspiring.
My goal this year – for crafting and life is to “Simplify and live with purpose”. I so want my crafting to be a blessing to others and therefore I will increase my card ministry, as well as the number of free classes I offer to women at our church and kids at the local school. God is so good and I want to share His love. Blessings to you, Becca, in 2012 – prayers for peace and renewed health!
Hi Becca,
A Happy New wondefulYear to you and all your followers.
Hmmm so many new things I want to master…but for today it has to be BOWS!!! My dear Dad was ambidextrous and taught me lefthanded….now I tie them with a bit of both…and it is not a pretty sight!!!
I wish you God’s Blessings for 2012.
Hugs,
Sandra
xxx
APPY NEW YEAR BECCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! thank you so much for this change!!!!!! sory for my english i’m italian ;) your blog candy is very beautifullllllll ? i love your blog & your card! hugs CIAO! SARA
Hi Becca! Thank you for the opportunity to win some sweet candy! I would say that my first goal for 2012 would be to be selected for a special Design Team. I don’t apply for many … have only been selected once … so I think I need to improve my work to improve my chances of selection. That’s Goal #1.
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Happy and Healthy New Year! My goal will be to use my still new in the shelve lying stamps for 2012.
My goal is to get all my yarn from my knitting days sold and then get my craft room cleaned and organized. What a mess it is right now!
I hope to find more time to craft this year.
Hi Becca
Here’s wishing you a happy new year and may it bring all that you wish for. As you were my inspiration to start my own blog, my crafting goal this year is to experiment and try new techniques and share them with the crafting community. As someone who suffers from Social Phobia, being part of a community has made such a difference in my life and I’d like you to know that you were part of this. Thank you for sharing your incredible talents. You truly are in inspiration.
Best wishes for 2012
Debbi
Hi Becca
Your candy looks so fab. Just the inspiration I need to sort my desk out. Praying for you that your surgery comes soon.
Cathy
Happy New Year Becca
Wishing you and yours all the best in 2010.
My main goal is to put into effect all the great organizational tips I have read about. My craft room is in need of a major overhaul ;-)
Hugs & Smiles
Wishing you a Very Happy New Year Becca. My goal is to grt back into my cardmaking…in Nov 2011 our Special Needs went into Community Living and I think she took my mojo with her. I’ve been so worried about her since ashe left that I just haven’t been able to concentrate on any thing. I will be visiting your blog every day as you always give me such inspiration and I thank you for that.
God bless
Love Sheila xx
Happy 2012!
Thank You Becca on this giveaway opportunity.
You’re a great inspiration to us all.
Goal #1. I’m not much into coloring / shading my images so like to get working on that technique more.
ColleenB.
Texas
Happy New Year Becca. My goal for this year is to get more cards made ahead of time so I don’t get so stressed making them at the last minute. I also want to get my craft room more organized so I can be a bit more proficient when I do find the time to craft cards.
My goal is to use what I have before buying more – easy to say, hard to do with all the fun new stuff coming out!
Happy New Year to everyone! Becca – what a great way to start the new year with wonderful blog candy. One of my goals this year is to actually play in my craftroom more and make some of the projects on my list.
Sooo many comments! You are a star!!!!
May the new year bring you new health and may your muse sing.
My goal is the learn a new technique at least once a week so I can expand my creativity.
One of my crafting goals for the year is to tidy up after each project! Last evening I looked into my craft room and all I could say was ‘Oh dear!’
Thank you Becca for the chance to win this New Year Candy.
ps Happy New Year to you. I hope it brings you health and success.
Happy New Year Becca! My first goal of the year is to get more organized! I have yet to find the “perfect” system for me. Thanks for a chance at this great candy!
My goals for 2012….hmm number one isn’t craft related at all. I want to be more patient with my mother. She is more and more like a 2 yr old every day. So I have to remember that even though she looks like an old lady… in her mind she’s a little girl.
My birthday is the 7th…It would be so cool to win the lovely candy you have for us! Thanks for the chance!
Jessica
This year as far as my crafting, I want to send all my church family handmade birthday cards, Easter cards and. Christmas cards. I have not been doing this to my satisfaction. This year will be different
I’m already ordering a stamp set and die from ODB.
My first goal is to use the items that have been tucked away and that have unused…
Best of wishes for the New Year!
My goal this year is to finish all unfinished projects. That could /should take me all year!!
I want to make a better effort to get more cards mailed this year! Thanks for this wonderful giveaway, & for the beauty you share on your blog!
My main goal for 2012 is to strive to be a better person! Always room for improvement there!
Thank you for the opportunity to win this beautiful blog candy and wishing you the best year for 2012!
Happy New Year! My first goal is to get my cardmaking/sewing “stuff” better organized! Thank you for sharing your wonderful inspiration with all of us. May your burdens be less in 2012!
Jenny L.
My goal is to slow down and enjoy each and everyday to the fullest. I have so many events happening in 2012 (new grandaughter, weddings of 2 of my children, and a daughter graduating from med school) and I want to not get so caught up in all the work required that I lose sight of the wonderful events.
Happy New Year Becca! My crafting goals for 2012 are to actually COMPLETE my projects, keep my supplies organized, try to use what I already have and encourage my recipients to recycle my cards or packagings. Thank you for your inspiration. Best Wishes to you for 2012!!
Barb
One of my scrapping goals in 2012 is to incorporate more scripture in my layouts and cards. Love your site!!
Happy New Year Becca!!! Much happiness and health!!! Well, my crafting goal is to produce more things and have much time available to do it! Kind regards!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hope that you health improves. You are wonderful inspiration in crafting and in sharing your faith. Thank you for a chance to win your blog candy.
My goal for 2012 is to complete more cards in advance so that I’m not always rushing at the last moment to make one or worst yet have to run out and purchase one.
Happy New Year Becca! I haven’t thought about a crafty goal until now, I guess one good goal would be to try some new paper crafting techniques.
Goal number one is to get organized.
Happy New Year !!
My goal for 2012 must be … hmmm … making a LOT of cards in lovely colors … I want to make a LOT of scraps this year :)
Thanks for the chance to win :)
Been checking your blog every day since I discovered it about a month ago; you do beautiful work!! My goal this year is to plan ahead a bit better so I’m not in a rush at the last minute (ie: start thinking Valentines now!) and to actually make fewer, higher quality cards. I sometimes get rushed, so I end up pasting together something that is less than stellar. And lastly, not get discouraged if my first attempt doesn’t come out right; I can try again!
One of my goals in 2012 is to use those marvelous paper crafting items I have bought already before I splurge again on new things.Thanks for the chance for a great treat from you. Happy New Year and may it be filled with wonderful blessings!
Happy New Year Becca. Love your inspiration….. Besides being able to make bows like you do…….. I want to try to actually USE my DSP instead of just looking at it!!! Thanks for your generosity.
Awesome RAK!!! Thank you for the opportunity!! I feel very blessed to be able to see your amazing talent in action and your blog is one I check daily for inspiration!! One of my goals is to use my new stamps and dies on every layout, card and altered project that I create this year.
Happy New Year!
Thank You For your Inspiration !
God Bless You !
Happy New Year Becca!!! Here’s to a better year. My crafting goal would be to make my cards ahead of time instead of waiting until the last minute.
My goal is to emulate your creative and boyant spirit. Happy New Year!
My crafting goal for 2012 is to incorporate more of what I have already purchased into my projects. If you’re like me, I have that stash of gorgeous paper that I keep “saving” because I just can’t bring myself to cut into it.
Wishing you and yours a blessed New Year.
Hi Becka,
Thanks for chance to win, my crafting goal is to start to use more stamps!
hugs Gailx
Happy New Year, Becca! May it be one filled with joy and moments that make you go “Wow! Life is good!”. My personal crafting goal is to be more organized – getting things done sooner rather than later and to put things away when I finish using them!
Happy New Year, Becca…thank you so much for all the inspiration you give on each of your posts and of course your cards.
My crafting New year resolution is to create at least 1 card every day. (not to miss a day without creating something) It’s gonna be tough (especially when life sometimes gets in a way) but sure can do it with a lil’ dose of perseverance. Thanks for the chance to win your candy….God Bless!
Girl you always give us so much inspiration and I so thank you for that. I always love the way you use your SB dies hon.
My goal this year is to try to get more done. I work so many long hours but i do have to say when I craft it does so relax me.
Happy New Year to you dear and hope this year brings lots of good health and lots of crafting fun. Hugs
So sorry spelt your name wrong!
please forgive me…………………Gailx
I’m not going to say that my goal is to organize my craft room because that is an ongoing goal. However, I am going to aim at inventory control. The goal is to not purchase duplicates of things I already have. Also, I am going to try to get together with my daughter at least once a month to scrapbook some pages of my adorable grandsons.
I love everything that you do on your blog it is a real inspiration. I had a lousy 2011 like you I lost someone close to me so I am hoping that 2012 will be much better.
Happy New Year! My first crafting goal is to get more organized. Have a blessed 2012.
Peggy Allen
One of my goals for this year is to do my birthday cards one month ahead of when I should mail them…it will be nice to not be rushing to do them the day before their due!!! Happy New Year!!!
Happy new year Becca! Hope its a good one. I have quite a few crafting goals some of which are to use some of the gorgeous papers I have instead of just looking at them, and to use stamps I haven’t used yet. None of these will stop me adding to my stash though. Well it would be silly not to really! :)
Hi Becca, my goal for the year is to improve the quality of my cards. I have come a long way since starting to make cards but there is still a lot to learn. Have a Happy New Year. Dianne
One crafting goal for 2012 is to craft more throughout the year. Happy New Year.
Happy New Year! I’m praying you’ll have a wonderful, rewarding year with lots of happiness and many new creations to share with us.
My goal for the new year is to get better organized (time wise) so I’ll be able to stamp more and create more usable crafts. That just might mean I’ll have to find a way to create that 25th hour!
Thanks for all your beautiful creations and the gift of sharing with others.
Prayerfully,
DJ
Becca,
I LOVE your site! I am not near the Spellbinders prot that you are but hope to acheive that some day! This year? I can only hope! Keep the posts coming!
Tracey
Happy New Year Becca! Hope your New Year will be find you stronger, healthier, and fullfilled with God’s Blessings. I have no trouble thinking of 5 crafting goals for 2012. One that comes to mind (and is always ongoing) is better organization to make my crafting time more enjoyable and productive. My time is so limited that without organization I sometimes just run out of time, and get frustrated and give up on the creative process.
Hi many thanks for the wonderful candy.
I wish you a happy new year.
I am a big fan of your blog.
I send you greetings
from Germany
What gorgeous Blog Candy, Becca – thank you for the opportunity to win it. This note sends you warm wishes for every happiness & good health in the New Year! One of my crafting goals this year is to continue to go beyond my comfort levels and try new techniques. For this I have to also thank you for all your wonderful inspiration. Happy New Year to all!
Becca, you are such a wonderful inspiration to us! I hope you have a blessed and wonderful New Year. Hugs, Beth
A Blessed and Happy New Year….. I just want to say I enjoy your Blog. And my goals for the new year are to make as creative cards and share them with the ones I love.
wishing you a happy and healthful New Year
Blessed happy New Year Becca,
I found your site only a few short months ago and love your beautiful cards and the inspiration you share. Becca bits are the best!
My goal for the year is to learn more about using coordinating stamps and dies. I look forward to the journey.
Happy New Year! My goal is get all of my Christmas projects done before Thanksgiving!!! We will see..I have started!!!!
Happy New Year. I’m looking forward to another year of your wonderful creations. One of my crafting goals is to catch up on my 2011 scrapbooking. I was doing so good, then life got in the way.
Happy New Year! My crafting goal is to get more organized so that I can start making my own cards and crafts. Hope your 2012 is healthy and properous! -Mary
Happy and Healthy New Year to you. My goal is to do more collage type stamping. I don’t seem to get it together so must practice more. Also would like to keep my craft room tidy but I think that is an impossibility for me!
Happy New Year Becca, thank you for all the Inspiration you give me throughout the Year. I am grateful for the Opportunity to win this beautiful Eyecandy !!!!!
Liane :-)
Happy New Year Becca
A Big thank you for sharing all your beautiful projects and the excellent tutorials, love checking your blog when your email arrived, to see your latest masterpiece.
all the best
God Bless
Yvonne
Hi, Rebecca. My crafting goal for 2012 is to find my niche. I feel that I have to find someone else’s creation to create my own…and…. to use more of the supplies I already have on hand before I buy more, more, more! thank you for the opportunity to win such a great prize.
Happy New Year! While last year I was unable to do much in the way of card making (chemo kept me down and out for much of the time)…I plan to make up for that this year!!! I want to plug in my new cricut and story maker and learn how to use them. I too want to have cards ready on time, and I want to get myself to a few conventions. You have been my inspiration in 2010. While I could not make it up to my stamp room, I could use my laptop an see your beautiful work. I so wanted to get back to my “paper” and play things! Thank you for keeping me company throughout the long months of 2010….Now I want to use your inspiration on cards!!!
One of my crafting goals is to maintain a scrapbook throughout my son’s four years of high school.
Thanks for sharing the great blog candy.
AMAZING candy Becca.Thank you
This new year I want to use up as much of the stacks of paper that I have. I have piles and piles of the stuff!!!!!
hugs Sarah x
Hi Becca, My goals for this year start with getting my studio set up in my new house. The next is to create, join challenges to hone my talent, and teach classes at the locale scrapbook store. That seems like a years worth. I do want to explore more digital stuff, I”m running out of room in my studio even though it is bigger than the previous one. Digial will save me some room.
You’re in my prayers
I would like to finish all of my started projects before I start anything new this year. I am going to use the month of January to do that. Happy New Year.
This year, I hope to create a scrapbook for my father-in-law who is struggling with Alzheimer’s. Family pictures can be comforting and soothing to him when he becomes irritated with the disease.
The first goal is easy – get more organized! I would love to get and KEEP my stamping space neat & tidy. Thanks for the blog candy offer, and happy new year, Becca!
Happy New Year to you and your family Becca. You have come through so much in the past couple of years and have stayed so strong. It is certainly an encouragement to others who may be going through difficult moments as well.
My crafting goal this year is to keep my craft room tidy. A cluttered desk is a cluttered mind and makes it difficult to create.
Thanks again Becca.
Happy New Year! I would like to craft at least 5 days/weeek.
Happy New Year Becca! Hope this year finds you pain free. My crafting goal is to start using all of the designer paper that I already have. I have enough to make this my goal for many years to come.
Happy New Year. One of my goals is to keep my craft room neater.
Hello Becca, Thanks for all the lovely cards you do, your designs are such an inspiration. My crafting goal for 2012 is to get my craft room organized. Happy New Year to all!
Happy New Year to all!! One of my goals is to get organized!! I have been working on it for the last few months and am making some head way!! So hopefully this will become a reality!! Thanks for the chance to win this great blog candy!!
I have several goals but here are the main ones: 1. to make a bunch of sympathy cards — it seems you need these when you have the least time to make them; 2. to make masculine thank you cards for my hubby to have on hand; 3. to get caught up on my scrapping of my grandchildren; 4. to create a bunch of new WOW cards to seel at a local craft store; and 5. Finally to keep my craft room organized!
Happy New Year and many many thanks for all the inspiration you have given throughout the past year it is really appreciated. One of my goals is to really sort through my stash of SB and Card making and not be tempted to buy more papers etc until I have used what I already have. Kindest regards
My first crafting goal for 2012 is to finish organizing my space. I got a good start last year but it’s a slow process! Happy New Year!
Love that GC die. My goal this year is to step out of my box and try some new techniques, enter a few more challenges to keep me thinking and continue enjoying the craft I love so much. Thanks for this opportunity.
Happy New Year everyone and especially to you Becca. You are such a delight and your goals for the New Year are lofty and an inspiration to me.
I want to congratulate Marge, who won a new cutting machine in December/. I hadn’t heard of this one, but I know she will have fun learning to use it.
I want to continue on my road to enlightenment and continue to learn along the way. I strive to be a good person and look daily to my Creator, who sustains me in all things. For crafting goals, I too want to organize my craft room. I started in November and I’m making good progress. I think I need to start a blog of my own to give away some of my goodies, like you so generously do, Becca. I will be taking some things in to share with my calligraphy guild buddies and that will help. Thank you Becca for being willing to share your goodies with us, your lowly blog devotees. Hugs always and wishing everyone a most prosperous New Year. Don’t forget to eat your blackeyed peas today. I also found out yesterday that Collard Greens are another food that carries with it prosperity to all who partake of it on New Years Day. Go figure. Life is wonderful and always full of surprises. That’s what makes it fun to be alive.
Happy New Year Becca!!!
May Our Lord rain His blessings on all of us throughout the new year.
One of my goals for 2012 is to be more foregiving…with others as well as with myself. Pray that I can keep this goal.
God Bless
I love Becca and her cards!!. I am falling in love with spellbinders with each new set I buy.
Happy New Year to you! One of my crafting goals is to use some of my pretty papers instead of hoarding them! You, Becca, are a great card maker and I admire your talents and abilities. Thanks for the chance to win such fabulous prizes.
Happy New Year Becca!
I hope to organize my craft supplies in my tiny closet so I know just what I have!
Hi Becca,
Happy New Year! One crafting goal I have for the new year is to work more consistently on my papercrafting. Blessings.
Happy New Year, Becca and hope it is a good one for you.
I plan to get back to stamping on a regular schedule. I have been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and haven’t had much energy but hope that improves.
Thanks for sharing and a chance to win.
Becca my goal is to know where everything is in my craft room, so that when I start a project, I know exactly what I have and where it is. It helps the creative spirit to put your hands on what you need/want and continue on. Happy New Year.
Happy New Year Becca!
Because of you I have been able to tie bows. I admire you and when I am having a crafting block, you are my go to website for inspiration. This year on of my crafting goals is to get my crafting room in order. Thanks for just being you!
Thank you for the opportunity for winning, you are so gracious in words and giving. Love your work and you are always an inspiration to me. I desire to have cards made up for any occasion already made up to give at a moments notice. Yes, that would be nice!!! very encouraging … thanks again for the opportunity.
Hi Becca,
I have many crafting goals, but mostly I just want to create something every week. Not just think about it, just do it! (I think that Nike slogan says it all.)
Sweet blog candy! Thanks for all you do.
Debbie
Your cards are so beautiful!!! Thanks for all of your inspiration.
Thank YOU for all your wonderful cards and projects that you post to give all your readers the “jump start” that they need to get motivated in their crafting rooms. You are such an inspiration t so many people, more than you realize. In three weeks I’ll be hosting a craft day where about six of my friends will becoming over so that we can make some of those Santa gift boxes that you made recently. Thanks for havin such a generous give-away.
Happy New Year Becca!
Happy New Year Becca and I hope that 2012 is kind to you. One of my crafting goals this year is to shorten the time I take to make a card. Thanks for sharing these lovely goodies with one of us.
My goal this year is to have a great display of cards to sell at my local scrapbook store. Thanks for the chance at blog candy. Have a great new year, Becca!
Happy New 2012, so sci fi feeling to type that year. my crafting goals for this year is to use what i already have, not to buy quite so much, to realize i will never have everything, don’t have room for everything,, and that i already have enough gorgeous papers to last my enitre life and then some… to quote the wonderful Tim Gunn “Make it work”….
Happy New Year, Becca. I hope that this year brings you health and happiness. Love your creativity so much.
My goal is to create balance in my life. It will be a challenge, but a good one. Happy New Year to you and all the best.
Happy new year! One of my goals is to send cards out for various causes. The children’s cancer unit at a local hospital often had things to give the patients, and I want to be a part of something like that.
Thanks Becca for this chance to win Blog Candy! My crafting goal for this year is to make tons of cards (Have kind of been depressed and not done any all of 2011 until Christmas). Hugs Lori
Happy New Year. My goal for 2012 is to expand my paper crafting abilities…more 3-D projects packaging, minibooks etc. I am also committing myself to participate in some online challenges and play, play, play more. Oh and use up supplies as they come in not just leave it because I don’t want to cut it up.
CA
may the new year bring all the love, faith and hope to you
and all you love – I continue to be a super fan of your’s
thank you always for the inspiration
may the new year bring all the love, faith and hope to
all of those you love – thanks for inspiration always
Hi Becca and a very Happy New Year to you & your family. Thank you for the continued inspiration and thank you so much in sharing this candy with us too. Like a few others have commented previously, I hope that I will be able to keep my crafting area in a tidier fashion – well, I can try! Creativity can be somewhat messy though. LOL.
My first crafting goal is to organize my embellishments! Thanks for the chance to win! cjdempsey9 at msn dot com
Happy New Year Becca! Looking forward to seeing more of your amazing projects this year. :o)
Fabulous blog candy! You are so generous! I would like to start this new year with cleaning my craft room a little. Every time I start it, I get busy with another project and make more mess! lol! I have way too much stuff.
Hi Becca,
Wishing you improved health and lots of creativity for the new year. I hope to make a stack of cards to have on hand so that I am not always scrambling at the last minute!
Happy New Year Becca! thank you for the opportunity to win the blog candy – nice! My goal is use use my nestabilities more often and more creatively than I currently do in my projects. Naturally I look to your beautiful works of art for inspiration. Take care and wishing you the best in this new year.
Blog candy? Did I hear someone say blog candy? :D I actually would love to win those Spellbinders, well, of course me and all 280 something else people leaving a comment :D
My craft goals for this year, finishing the other side of my studio clear out and focusing on only two crafts this year, my card making and painting. I am finally parting with All of my fabric and my beloved Bernina is being sold. A new art path has emerged! YIKES!!!
Hugs,
Beth P
WOW! How NICE of you Becca to start off our New Years this way! HAPPY NEW YEARS to you too!!!!!!!!!!!! :) A Crafting goal????? Hmmm, my goals were MOSTLY in regards to my health! Weight in particular! :/ But, a crafting goal—Here’s one I’ve been thinking about for awhile, DRAWING MY OWN DESIGNS! I DID do one just the other day so, HOPEFULLY I’m off to a good start! :)
I enjoy your work so much. I got my husband to make me a bow tying stand like yours. I’m sorry to say I have not had time to use it. Now all the holidays are behind us I can play in all my new stuff. Keep the wonderful inspiration coming. I wish you a happy, safe, prosperous and healthy New Year.
Hi Becca, I’m a fan of yours for a long time, I love your creative style, it’s so elegant! I aspire to be more elegant in my creations too this year. But my main goal this year is to use my creative gifts to inspire, encourage, and spur others on to grow in their faith. My main creative outlet is card-making and I want to make more cards “just because” to encourage and inspire others. Hope you have a blessed year!
I am going to try to get my projects done ahead of time. Seems as though time flies by, and I get lost in the dust. Happy New Year to you.
Happy New Year… I love your blog, look forward to all your creations and they never dissapoint! This year I want to scrap more, my goal is 3 pages per week.
I’m starting to get the hang of copic markers. I’ve been investing in enough of them to get a project done. I’ll like to focus on that technique for a while.
Happy 2012. My goal this year is to stop procrastinating and make my cards before I need them. No more making the card on the day of the event or making and mailing my Christmas cards on Dec. 20th-LOL.
Thanks for the opportunity to win some blog candy. My crafting goal for this year is to finish orgainzing (if that’s possible) my craft area and have more card making classes in my home. I started both last year, but did not quite get to the place I wanted to be. I am pleased to say that I did make a start and now I want to build on that. You do inspire me to keep working towards those goals. Happy New Year, Becca!
Happy New Year!
My goal is to use the paper I have, and only purchase card stock this year!
Wishing you a health filled and creative 2012 Becca. Thanks for starting the new year out with a very nice blog candy! My crafty goal this year is to not keep buying new stuff without using something old (that is still in its packing) first.
One of my craft goals this year is to enter more challenges on Splitcoast and other challenge sites.
Thanks for the chance to win some fabulous blog candy! My goal for 2012 is to find time to craft one evening a week. I always enjoy your blog! Thanks for sharing.
Wishing you all the best for 2012. May it be filled with good health, happiness, joy, love and lots of FUN, FUN, FUN!!! M
My goal this year is to start using up all the patterned paper that I have. No more bringing home books and sheets just because I saw them on sale. I have about 3 boxes full of the stuff.
Happy New Year! I love following your blog, your cards and projects are all very inspirational. Plus thank you for the opportunity to win some blog candy! Would love to start off the year lucky!!!
Happy New Year everyone. I seem to have the same goals as all of you here, to craft more, be more organized, catch up on scrapping my kid’s hockey, have cards ready to go out before I need them. My main own personal one is to get rid of this stubborn 15 (from sitting in my craft room more in 2011 :) so I’m back on WW. Thanks Becca for your constant inspiration.
Happy New Year! One of my goals this year is to get at least one of our vacation scrapbooks done.. Thanks for the chance to win such yummy goodies :)
I hope to do more scrapbooking and cards in 2012. I will try to at least do something once a week. Hopefully more. I love your blog. I look at it everyday. Your cards are beautiful. Praying for you.
Happy New Year Becca! My goal for this year is to learn how to use the Cameo and make better cards. I refuse to let yet another new craft toy sit and gather dust. :) I WILL conquer the Cameo & impress all my card recipients. Yeah right. I bought a fancy smancy case for it just in case I fail my goal to keep it dust free. ;)
Good morning and Happy New Year to you Miss Becca. My crafting goal, well one of them, is to actually make more time for it. Getting into my craft room is always a challenge and I would love to just carve more time out to do the things that bring me joy. Reading your blog gives me the inspiration to hone the craft-your work is just always so beautiful!!! I can’t WAIT to see what you create this year.
Happy New Year Becca! Love the cards you make, so inspiring to me!
I would like to get back into stamping! I have not been able to stamp for the past 4 months! So, my first goal is to start making cards again and hopefully create a stash of cards to have on hand when I need them.
Happy New Year Becca. I want to be more organized this year and try and get my sons scrapbooks done before I am to old to remember all those important days that have seemed to fly bye.
Thanks for all your inspiration you share with us on a daily basis.
Hugs
Donna B
Hi Becca!!!!! I love the candy!!!!!!!!!! Hum, you made me think! I wasn’t sure what my crafting goal was,,,,,,
but the more I think about it,,,,,,the more I realize that my crafting goal is to get on a few design teams so that I can get better,,,,,,,,team work is very invigorating and increases my creativity :)
so that is my goal,,,,,,,,and to that end, I started a blog, and have been blogging frequently and I’ve joined a ton of challenges to get my projects out there :) Next step,,,,,,,,START APPLYING!
Hugs, thanks for the chance to win!
Happy New Year, Becca. My first goal is to leave more comments on blogs this year. I plan to make a time slot on particular days just for that purpose. It’s so easy to get busy and lose track of time, and I don’t want to forget those that leave love consistently on my blog.
Happy New Year Becca! I hope that this year will bring you lots of love and happiness! I really enjoy your blog and the inspiration that you bring to everyone. This card is beautiful! Thanks for another great idea!
I love the ODBD word sayings and always enjoy seeing your creations using them in your card creations. You create such gorgeous cards and the sayings speak right to my heart and soul. Thank you for sharing your wonderful work; they are inspirational to me.
My goal is that I have signed up for a photo class and a card class to help me with my creativity. I’m new to card making, I’ve always done scrapbooking, but love that I can share more with cards. Thanks for the chance to win.
What a way to start the new year by offering us some blog candy to win! Yeah! I am hoping for this new year to use the Spellbinders dies that I own. I haven’t even opened some of them up from their packaging.
You are such an inspiration to me with all your beautiful cards! I look forward to each day checking my emails and see the message that you have posted!
Wishing you a good New Year Becca with great health, wealth and family to hug you with loving arms! :)
Happy New Year dear Becca, My crafting goal ~ #1 ~ is to finally get my crafting “stuff” organized. How blessed I am that I have so much that it needs to be organized, but it’s almost overwhelming and hard to figure out where to start! Wish me luck! And thanks for the chance to win some fabulous blog candy to start the year off right!
Barbara in South Carolina
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Look at those awesome goodies. My goal is to finish my projects and to get my Holiday cards done in a timely fashion. Good luck everyone. As always Becca, TFS!!! :-D
May the new year be a blessed one for you Becca. Thank you for all the time and effort you put into your blog, it is truly appreciated. One of my crafting goals this year is to invest in more Our Daily Bread Designs stamps and learn how to stamp a little better than I do now!
Happy New Year to you! I come to see your blog every day … must get my Becca dose! haha! My crafting goal is..like alot of your readers… organize my craft area, mainly find out what I have… use it… toss it… or donate it!
Winning this would be a great start for 2012!!!
How cool! I got the Grand Calibur for Christmas so I would live some treats!
RobinG
My craft goal this year is to catch up on my grandbabies scrapbooks. A real challenge since we are blessed to have another coming in February. I’d also love the time to make more cards. Yours are always so beautiful!
Blessings for a healthy new year, Becca! You are so generous – great gifts! One of my crafting goals would be to be orangized for a routine…
.Mon. and Tuesday I will stamp, Wed. and Thurs I will sew; Friday will be knitting, while Saturday will be finishing up the regualr house stuff and cooking large meals for the week, so I can craft!! Ha – good intentions, so we’ll see how long that will last.
Have a great week, Becca.
hugs
Happy New Year to you!! I wish you a healty new year !! Continue your beautifu work, and thank you for this give away price !!
Happy New Year Becca – Thank you so much for sharing all of your amazing designs with us. This year I plan to start my Christmas cards and gifts now so that there is no rush next December to get things done.
Happy New Year Becca!
I would like to try making more scrapbooking pages in 2012.
Thanks so much for your kindness and creativity!
And Thanks for the chance to win!
Hugs
Márcia
my goals for this year is making as many things as I can because I love to give them away. when you give a hand made item the person feels special and then you feel special too. I may not remember to come back to post each day as some times I can’t remember where to go back to. But try it. Make something and walk up to a stranger and tell them you have a gift for them today. Watch the smile when they realize you really mean it. It is amazing and so much fun you can’t wait to go home and make more things to give. And it can be the smallest, easiest craft. But you gave it to them.
Happy new year. Thank you for sharing all your wonderful creations
My crafting goal for the new year is to reuse more items I get, like acrylic clamshell cases that my dies come in. :)
Your work is SO inspirational! I hope to make cards every week and to stockpile them and use them for Christmas gifts (assorted) next year. I have a group of friends that I usually gift, but they are so hard to buy for that I think this will be better…..
my #1 crafting goal is to spend more time crafting!
organize, organize , organize. such a mish mash i don’t know what i have , need, need to eliminate.
happy new year! thanks for continuing to inspire through your love of papercrafting! my goal is to spend less and create more!
My goal is to pick one card sketch from a sketch site or CASE’d from a favorite and use that to make 3 or 4 cards every week or two. That will keep me from getting bogged down, sitting and not having a direction. Once I have a plan, I’m pretty good at moving forward. It’s that first couple of steps. . . .
Thanks for the fun, Becca!
Happy New Year Becca! I hope 2012 is a better year for you and for all of us. Your blog candy is awesome and thank you so much for giving us a chance to win it. One of my goals this year is to work on more 12×12 pages for my albums. I’m so behind that I’ll never catch up. lol
My crafting goal is to use more of the crafting supplies that I have – the stamps that haven’t been inked, the dies that haven’t been used, the accessories that are in the drawer…
I have been studying your cards since I found your site earlier this year, and my goal is to use your ideas to help me create my own style of card.
Happy New Year, Becca,
My goal for the new year is to look at your blog
every day, to see what wonderful new creation
you have made. You are such an inspiration to me.
Happy New Year. I am going to try to do more scrapbooking this year, I am way behind on my graduation albums for my grandchildren.
Happy New Year, Becca. Your work is so inspiring! TFS
Happy New Year Becca! Wishing you an amazing year full of life’s blessings. One of my goals this year is to learn my new camera and re-learn camera settings I knew prior to point and shoots. Hopefully I can capture my cards in a new light, lol!
Such a busy season for so many of us. My craft room looked like an explosion went off! Yesterday I decided to start the “big cleaning project” and reorganizing. I can’t begin to thank you for the wonderful system you devised for ribbon storage. I work at Michaels and have shared that idea with so many customers who come back and say a sincere thank you. I give all the credit to you. My goal for 2012, to finish unfinished projects, cards that are half complete, etc. To clean up after I’m done for the evening (that’s a tall order in and of itself). And to realize at the end of the day that I have so many blessings in my life, and to be more grateful for them.
Wow!
My goal is to start using everything that I have bought through the years. I always purchase stuff and put it away for the perfect project….but it seems that doesn’t come. That is why I have more stuff in my basement than a Michaels store. This is the year to use!
Hi Becca- Happy New Year! My first crafting goal is to be crafty everyday….
Happy New Year Becca! My goal for this year is multi-secontional. The first part is: finish those projects! I have several “in progress” projects, and I’m determined to finish them this year. Next, I would like to shop in my personal store first (don’t add if you don’t need). Lastly, I would like to become more productive – create more – share more! Hopefully – all will go well – and you will see more of me online. God Bless you and I hope this year is productive, healthy, and filled with happiness for you!
Happy New Year Becca.
May you be blessed with peace, joy and health.
Great blog candy, thanks.
Have a really Happy New year to you too Becca. I first came back home here an hour ago and saw this in my mail here.
One of my goals for 2012 is definitely to be a lot better to color with markers and to practicve a lot more every week, so I can improve a lot.
I´m always so inspired, when I see your lovely work, but I just can´t make anything look like yours with markers, and I really want that LOL.
Thanks so much for all your wonderful inspiration in the old year, and I look really forward to see a lot more in the new year again.
Have a wonderful year hun, and hopefully it´ll be everything, you´ve wished for it should be.
Happy New Year- my crafting goal – start making cards again!
Happy New Year! My first goal of the year is to finish my 2010 scrapbook! I hardly scrapped anything in 2011 and that must change.
Wow! Anew start for the new year, count me in.
We are blessed. Some days are just harder than others. I still have an album to finish and in addition I would like to organize all my older photos and decide if they will be put into scrapbooks. Considering how many I have, this could be a full year’s effort. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
I plan to organize my craft room! It’s a big job, but I am tired of the frustrations of not being able to find things when I want them!
One step at a time!
DeniseB
Goal #1..to get more organized in my work areas..then I can find the inspirations to stamping that I might be looking for!
My number one goal is to go outside my “safe” box and try lots of new techniques while using almost exclusively what I have on hand. I am allowing myself only one big purchase towards something scrappy this year. Thanks for all your inspiration this past year Becca, I love stopping by because you always strech my mind. Blessings to you and yours as we embark on the journey of a New Year!
Very Happy New Year Becca. Wonderfully generous candy, as ever. My first goal for this year is to get my cards made ahead of time so I don’t get so worried and stressed at the final hurdle!
Hugs, Ann xxxx
One of my goals is to be “fit and firm at 50”. Hard to believe life has passed so quickly and I am determined to keep in shape and get in a bit better shape. Thanks for the chance to win some amazing goodies and wishing you a blessed year ahead :)
Happy New Year!
My first goal this year is to organize my craft room.
May you be blessed with peace, joy and health.
Thanks for your inspiration and this great blog candy.
Happy 2012! My crafting goal is to have a better understanding of design composition. Your cards are so intricate and so balanced.
My crafting goal is to try to use as much of my abundant stash of supplies that I already have before buying new ones. Happy New Year and thanks for a chance at the awesome candy!
Happy New Year! May the Lord bring many blessings to you in 2012!
Your are such an inspiration to create something beautiful.
Thanks for the wonderful prizes and a chance to win.
My goal is to to use what I have in my craftroom :)
Happy New Year to you and your family Becca……thank you for being such an inspiration during the past year with all your cards and videos<3.
My crafting goal this year is to try and keep a tidy craft room so that I know where everything is instead of wasting so much time looking for things I know I have but cannot find!
LOL Eileen
Happy New Year Becca! I can’t wait to see what creative ideas have for 2012.
Happy and a Blessed New Year! It’s always a good day to see your designs. Thank you.
Happy New Year Becca!
I visit your blog almost everyday, to see what amazing projects you have created. But I also like to see things are going with you. My 2012 goal would be to participate in a Craft Show. I have done small projects for friends and relatives but would like to do something more. I love papercrafting and sharing ideas and projects. May 2012 bring you more peace and joy! Thanks for all you do for your blog friends!
Happy New Year Becca! One of my goals is to get organized!
Happy New Year, Becca! Missed you when you weren’t posting recently…My New Year’s Resolution is to learn more and work more consistantly on my card making. I am always looking for new items to use. I hope to set up a “craft nook” in my home in the comiing months.
Happy New Year Becca! Here’s wishing you improved health and much happiness in 2012.
Although I am pleased with my set up the first of my many crafting goals for this year is to organize my purely Christmas craft supplies and separate them into a dedicated section of my space. Thanks for the chance to win this lovely candy.
Blessings Bernie
Happy New Year to you!
You blog is constant inspiration for me, and I’m visiting every day.
My goal this year would be to learn to pencil color stamp images.
Thanks for the chance to win your candy.
The first goal I have is to re-organize my craft room! During the month of December, things tended to get piled up on one corner of my table as well as on the floor! That is priority ONE!!! May this year bring you peace and happiness, Becca! You have a huge following and all of the prayers will lift you up! Hugs, Magi
Happy New Year. I hope to continuing bring joy and love to the residents of the senior living comples I work at. And to all my old friends and new friends who enjoy my cards and crafts especially the gillter houses I made for Christmas.
Happy New Year to you. May your blessing be many this year. We are all blessed to have such a creative friend as you. We are learning so much from you!
My goal for 2012 is to learn to use all these wonderful tools I have amassed. There are so many new possibilities hidden in them.
Happy New Year and God Bless. I know you’ve been going through some tough times, but keep your chin up things will get better. If your dealing with some arthritis your going to have some good days and some bad. I’ve been living with it for thirty two years. Its not easy but you’ll learn to adapt. I love everything you do and always look for you first when I log on to the computer. You are a great source of inspiration always. Thanks for everything you do.
My goal? Organize, organize, organize! After the autumn/Christmas craft fair season, my house looks like it didn’t survive an 8.0 earthquake, and I can’t find a thing without calling in the National Guard! So for now, it’s getting organized (my freezer just died and I’m going to turn it into a crafting closet. I has a huge basket area in the bottom…perfect for holding 12×12 paper, the door has the little holder areas which will hold almost anything bottle shaped, and the racks will be good for stamps and such. AND, it has a light inside.) I’ll let you know how it turns out.
Happy New Year and God bless!
Happy new year everyone! What the heck, new beginning, so maybe my luck will change, hahaha! Becca, here is to health and happiness in the coming year(s)!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just love your crafting style. My goal for 2012 is to finally get my drawers of stamps organized so I can find what I want more easily
I’m starting a Log Your Memory where I journal and work on projects every week.
My crafting goal is to try to be neater in my crafting room! This can be such a messy hobby and I would love to try to clean up after each project and start fresh with a clean room each time. WISHFUL THINKING!!! Hope you have a healthy happy NEW YEAR! Thanks so much for all the inspiration you have given me over the past few years! You are my “GO TO” blog for ideas!!!
My crafting goal is to use my new Grand Calibur machine that I got for my birthday. Thanks for the opportunity.
My crafting goal for 2012 is to do more card making. I have been all over the page this year with doing everything from layouts to mini albums to home decor. I miss doing cards. So I am going to make a more conscious effort in card making.
Thanks for the awesome giveaway and best wishes to you for a Happy New Year.
Marilyn C.(tnscrapper)
Happy New Year to one of the most creative ladies I know. You deserve a wonderful and healthy 2012!! My crafting goal is to clean out my crafting room of unused items and take them to places where others can use them. I have so many craft items that I forget where they are. So organization is another key goal. It’s so darn easy to get caught up in the “newest” products on the market, especially with CHA coming in January. I’m hoping to slow down on my buying and use what I have which is enough to las an eternity! Happy New Year everyone. Thanks Becca for you continued inspiration.
Shirley L.
Roseville, CA
Happy New year Becca! My crafting goal in the next few weeks is to get my craft room painted. We moved here months ago and it has been at the bottom of the to do list. It will be a challenge to get the room emptied first!
My crafting goal for 2012 is to actually craft, 2011 was a very lean year for me for crafting, only doing the bare minimum, most due to time constraints but I also think my mojo took a sabbatical. I am not going to force it but I find if I put a little bit of pressure on myself that once I get started I really enjoy it.
And I have a whole lot of supplies that need to be used! :)
Becca – I just wanted to say thank you for your inspiration, on a personal level your strength has been something to behold, and on a crafting level your cards are truly mind blowing! And I hope that 2012 brings you peace and happiness.
Happy New Year!!! First goal is to get my craft room organized so everything has a logical easy to find place as well as a look that is pleasing to the eye
This is so very generous of you. I find ispiration here daily, and quite a lot of it is from your kind words. I think my crafting goal (probably one of many) is to use more of my product.
My crafting goal is to use all of the stamps I have purchased and not used yet. Everyone need some ink on ’em :) Happy New Year and may God’s blessings richly pour upon you!
Very generous of you to offer up some blog candy! And what sweet candy it is! Here’s my goal for the new year, to remember everyone’s birthday with a handmade card! I intend on keeping this goal this year, and if you know me, you would know how tough this is going to be for me, but I intend on keeping it!
My crafting goal is to clean up the crafting room – who knows what I’ll find!
Happy New Year. May 2012 be better, happier, healthier and more profitable than 2011.
My craft goal for today is to master the digital program I downloaded from SU and have not had a chance to play with yet. I’m hoping it will be easier than I think it will be.
Thanks for sharing your talent. This year I want to creat more and acquire and organize less.
Oh, my goal would be to get organized! Ha, ha!! My first goal is to go thru my paper and donate or sell some. — even the prettiest papers. I have more than I’ll use in a life time of card making!
My goal is to finish my organizing so I can finally get down to some serious card-making and scrapbooking that has been put on the back burner for way too long. Thank you for sharing your beautiful works of art….they really get my juices flowing!
One of my goals is to be better prepared and have my cards made on time!
Absolutely love your blog
I’m new to your blog and I love it. I hope to learn to use my Copics more effienciently !
One of my goals is to be published this year.
Happy New Year!! My first crafting goal this year is to make some Christmas ornaments to put away for next year’s gifts while all my Spellbinder Christmas dies, Christmas papers, ribbons, embellishments are still out – I think my studio exploded just before Christmas LOL.
Thanks for the opportunity to try to win this terrific blog candy.
Happy New Year Becca and all readers of this amazing blog…organizing my craft space is another one of my goals for this year…(it surely needs it and would certainly help in preparing projects on time.)
The way you put colors together is awesome. Your cards always give me ideas to try.
Happy New Year Becca
I plan to try to declutter my space and better organize my storrage so I can find things easily. I may explore more along the lines of paperdoll stamp art in a group I recently joined. Perhaps I will be brave and gift more of what I make to family…simple things I never think they will appreciate…gift tags, book marks, mini books, and yes even cards. I just never think they will like what I love.
My goal is the make a send a card to someone every week this year. That is 52 cards! Yikes I better get started right!
Happy and healthy New Year! My first goal for the year is to organize my room so that I can find what I want to use. Thanks for offering this blog candy.
Happy New Year, Becca! One of my goals this year is to get more organized.
Your blog candy is beautiful, thanks for the opportunity to win it;)
Thanks for the opportunity to win! My papercrafting goal is to send more unexpected cards to surprise people and let them know that I am thinking of them!
Becca, you are so generous to start the new year! Hope your year is so very special. My first goal for the year would be to find time to create every week. I can be very inconsistent in finding time and I need to learn to manage my time better. Thanks for the chance!
Hi Becca – A happy, healthy New Year to you and yours. My goal for this year is to get my craft space organized and maybe try some “different” style cards. Some times I get myself in a hurry and just put out a plain, ordinary card. Got to get out of this rut.
Hope this New Year brings you many blessings! Wow what a great selection of wonderful products to have a chance to win! I like so many here is to get more organized and try to think outside my comfort zone more! I however will not quit stopping by to see what wonderful creations you come up with! You are such an inspiration! Thanks for sharing your talent with us!
Hello Becca, my goal is not for myself this year, but for everyone else.. may the world learn to live in peace and harmony.. may your life finally be peaceful and you learn thatthings will get better and you will succeed all by yourself and you will do it. I wish for God to grant his love and for people to finally believe that he does exist and learn to believe in him and live with his laws and his beliefs. Knowing that, my life would be fulfilled and I would be happy and would not have any problems and could just make beautiful cards…
Hugs, Jean
One of my crafting goals for the year is to make at least 4 Christmas cards a month so that I don’t have to rush to get them made the last two weeks before Christmas. Thanks for an opportunity to win some great stuff. Happy New Year!
I love your blog and look forward to reading it each day.
My crafting goal is to make up cards for all occasions so I will not have to scramble to make one as needed.
You are such an inspiration.
I wish you a Happy New Year,
Faye
I enjoy visiting your blog because I find ideas that I don’t see anywhere else.
One of my goals for this year will be to have one of my creations published. I’m on a brand new design team for Mosaic Moments and it would be good for both me and the company if I can get one of my pages published. I’ve been fortunate to have a couple of cards published, but never scrapbook pages, and I don’t see nearly enough mosiac scrapping published! I also want to participate in more challenges. I look at them, and comment, and have the best of intentions, but often never get the cards made! Wouldn’t it be nice to make a Christmas card a week, and have 50 cards ready by Christmas? I’m also thinking of participating in Project 365 this year.
Happy New Year Becca, I pray that you feel better in the new year. I know how it feels to be in pain. I myself live with pain every day. You see I have nerve damage from a spinalcord injury and my hands are numb and in pain if that makes sense.My goal for the new year is to try and make one of your cards. I have been admiring your beautiful cards for a long time. I have been saving money to buy the materials I need for one of your cards. It would be wonderful to actually win a item in your contest. You are a very spirtual person and also very giving. Thank you, Gail
To make more cards … share the cards with family and friends and church card ministry to shut-ins. I get great ideas from you and much inspiration. Blessings for the new year.
I just recently found your blog. It Has taken me hours to go back thru all your designs but I was on a mission. You never seem to run out of ideas! I will definitely be checking every day!
Becki
Happy New Year!!
My first crafting goal is to clean out my space and organize so I will not have to waste so much time looking for items that I can remember buying but can’t find.
Love your creations. Thanks for sharing.
Happy New Year to Becca and to All!
My crafting goal for this year is to simply make the time to do it! It is such therapy to me, but sometimes we get caught up in all of the things we HAVE to do, and don’t make a little time for the things we WANT to do. Thanks, Becca, for all your inspiration throughout the year!
Happy New Year to you.One of my craft items that is on my list this year is to keep my craft area neat and tidy.
Thanks for the chance to win blog candy.
Jocelan
Truly my goal this year is to organize!! I have a scraproom but need to put everything in it where it belongs. Not an easy thing when most stuff was just put in their at one point or another with no thoughts to organization. just love the blog candy thank you Becca. I also want to use my Cricut more often.
Great blog candy, Becca. thanks for the chance to win it! Happy New Year to you and your family…
My goal is to finish my son’s graduation from Lackland Air Force Basic Training album. Then hopefully work on my younger daughter’s wedding album. Both events took place 1 week apart in 2010.
My goal for 1012 is to be an inspiration to others as you have been an inspiration to me.
Not only has your amazing talent inspired me to be creative in different ways, but the way you have handled and over-come your struggles has taken my faith to new levels.
Thank you for the encouragment you have given me over the time I have been following your blog!
Hugg and Blessings,
Vickie
Happy New Year, Becca! Your blog is so inspirational that I check it every day! My first goal is to clean off my crafting area so that I can try some of the new ideas that present! Thanks for offering the blog candy and good luck to all that participate.
Happy New Year Becca!! My goal last year was to make and send in at least 1,000 cards to Operation Write Home. I met that goal and exceeded it by nearly 300, so this year I am hoping to again make at least 1,000.. and maybe I’ll exceed it this year by 500.. here’s hoping! blessings to you for all that you do in sharing your wonderful talent with us all. ~ Pam
I would like to work on my Copic coloring skills, get Birthday cards out to all my family members, do a lot of scrapbooking including heritage pictures. I am so grateful for the many tools I have. I want to use them fully to make beauty to share.
Happy New Year! My crafting goal this year is to streamline my scrap space. Get rid of older stuff that I’ve not used in awhile or won’t use and allow myself to have better access to some favorite items!
What a great way to start the new year! My goal is to get better organized, clean out a lot of stuff that I “may use someday,” and really work in my craft room. I need to do an album for granddaughter, complete albums for 2 grandsons, put together hunting album for hubby, and of course, make cards, cards, cards. I’d like this to be the year that I actually make gifts in time for the celebrations! :)
Happy, Healthy and Crafty 2012 to you Becca.
My first goal is to learn to make better use of my rubber stamps. Because I am not good at adding the colour to fill in the stamped outline, I tend to not do much stamping. I have water colour pencils and a big set of chalks but am not confident to use them too much.
Love to know what the pink flowers are in the front of the picture above. Have you made them with ribbon or a die or are they a shop purchase?
God Bless you as you continue you work making crafters like me happy each day when we get our email and find a message from you.
Becca, I truly am amazed with your creativity! I always enjoy your posts and look forward to seeing your beautiful work…always dreaming of owning a masterpiece from you!
My goal this year is to purchase ONLY items I will actually USE this year…i have a horrible habit of hoarding the craft items I love so much….always saving them for something extra special! May this new year be filled with extra special blessings for you!
Barbg
I, as your other fans, hope we all have a very healthy, and blessed 2012! As I say this, I am so very grateful for all the blessings God has given me in 2011. Thank you too, for all the beautiful things you share with us. You are such a marvelous teacher and such an inspiration to us! You make my day!!! Still keeping you in my prayers! Hugs and blessings, Patty W.
My first goal is easy. Scrapbook more ! I have so many pages I want to complete that are 75%+ finished and so many more I have yet to start.
My first goal for crafting this year is to get my 7 year old granddaughter more involved. She loves making things so I want to have her come over at least once a week to make a craft. So far this year we are making her an amazing castle which will take several days to complete. She is especially interested in crafts that recycle.
In 2012 I hope to make room for a craft table so I can just sit down anytime and have everything setting ready to work on. Thanks for all your inspiration.
Oh Becca, how generous and how beautiful this selection of candy. I do understand that being from Wales in the UK I’m probably not eligible, but I would still like to share my crafting goals with you, if I may. You share your life and creations with us, unselfishly, everyday and I can’t wait each day to see what you have for us, even if it sometimes is very early hours of the morning (UK time).
My first share is simply ‘peace’. No not world peace, I know that is impossible and nothing to do with crafting. I would like to find some inner peace this year, enough so I can find my creativity again. I have not been able to make a card for almost 3months and I miss it. But I am positive today; I am going to beat it and I will let you know how it goes.
I pray 2012 is a year filled with good things and good health for you Becca.
Regards Linda (S.Wales, UK)
I love your work. Just found your site several weeks ago and I check each day. I have been slack on crafting the past couple of years. I have completed some things but have soooo much to do. I plan to get busy starting tomorrow.
Hi Becca,
Hope this year will bring you love, happiness and blessings! Thanks for the opportunity to win this candy! One of my goals for this year is to start making cards combining different dies like you do. Your cards always blow me away!
How about a tutorial? That would be awesome! Happy New Year! Take Care
Cariños,
María Alba Negrón
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Happy New Year! And thanks once again for a chance at some wonderful candy. My main crafting goal this year is to make for time for my creative outlets. I just spent the past 4 1/2 years having to travel several days every week for work. That and aging parental care really stripped me of my creative time and energy. I was able to get some crafting in as long as I could get organized and plan in advance what I needed to take with me. But a new work assignment means I get to come home every night and play in my work room instead of wiling hours away in a hotel room. Have already started to dig in and can’t wait to get some things accomplished! May your year only improve with each and every day.
Becca,
I’m always looking forward to see what you have for us every day. You never disappoint!
I’m hoping during this new year to spend more time crafting cards and scrapbooks for the many pictures I’ve accumulated over the years.
Happy new year!
Love all you do! TFS!
One of my goals for this year is to win one of your bog candies. But seriously, I would like to make my own Christmas cards this year to send to at least half of my card list. Gotta go now. I’m already behind.
My goal for 2012 is to be more creative with my cards! Happy New Year!
What sweet blog candy Becca! My craft room is still in desperate need for an overhaul so that is on my list, as well as catching up on my albums – they are woefully behind. I would also like to learn some new techniques for other paper crafts like cards and albums! Thanks for sharing your awesome creative self with us! I hope this new year treats you right Sweetie!
Happy New Year, Becca. Hoping for a great year ahead, Lord willing. Hope your holidays were great as were mine. We welcomed our new granddaughter from China just in time for Christmas, adopted by my son and his wife. She is so precious and will give me lots of new crafting opportunities in the future.
Happy New Year Becca. I hope 2012 brings you some answers and relief on your medical issues. My first crafting goal for 2012 is to get better organized. I find myself unable to scrapbook when my photos are not organized. I’m happy to say I have started to work on this goal, as I have purchased a show box style photo box and added pictures to it!
Yes this lose weight stuff is kind of old but this year my goal is to stop and smell the roses and with that take the time to make my friends cards and and and send them off yep cannot forget that.
Hi Becca, Happy New Year! Thank you for your generosity. My goal for this year is to get my craft itmes better organized so I can craft more.
To set aside a time once a week to craft. If I leave it until I “have” time, I seem to never get to it.
Happy New Year, Becca! I pray it brings better health and much happiness to you and yours. My resolution is to get going on my grandson”s scrapbook as he graduates in May. Problem is with such inspiration as you provide, I’d rather make cards! Thanks for the chance to win your awesome blog candy.
Becca, Happy New Year! I hope this year is better that 2011 for you.
Thanks for the opportunity to win some blog candy.
Becca,
Happy New Year! I hope you have a happy and healthy one. My goal this year is to spend a bit more time crafting. Thanks for the awesome chance to win a little candy.
TTFN,
CraftyGirl
Day 2 I’m going to bless our new church with birthday and Anniversary cards to mail out. Need to get more made to do this.
First of all God Bless you Becca and everyone reading this. May your 2012 be filled with great health, love and peace. My goal for this year is to get my room together as we are moving into our new home in Olympia, Wa so that I can make all of the beautiful cards I have seen Becca share with us. I am so excited and I have missed my room.
Happy New Year to everyone!!!
Goal #2
Look for the positive in every situation in my crafting…there are no mistakes, only opportunities to create!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
Bekka, I love your blog and have gathered so much inspiration from you over the years! May the year 2012 bring you much happiness and thanks for the chance to win some blog candy!
Blessings, dear Becca! I am continually inspired by you. Therefore, it’s my goal for the year to expand my card-making skills and my network of wonderful examples/tutors through websites like yours!!
May God continue to pour his creativity into your life, along with his strength, comfort, and hope!
My craft goal is to learn to use my Spellbinders more often. I love what you do with them.
Happy New Year Dear Inspiration,
I am thrilled to play. One of my 2012 goals is to clean and separate my embellishments. I am sure I can share (pass along) hundreds of goodies to a new home. I’ll have new space and a fellow papercrafter will get a surprise. Maybe I will even get started tonight!
Hugs, T
Happy New Year Becca.
My first goal is to spend more time on me and my family. My job tends to take over my life, and my goal this year is to not let that happen. While I’m on call 24/7, I’m going to try to leave the rest behind when I leave the office and unless it comes to me, I’m not going to it. Much less stress, and I’m sure a happier me!
Happy New Year! Thank you for being such an inspiration through your projects and words. My crafting goal for 2012 is to make and send birthday cards to my friends and relatives throughout the year. I have only been making cards for about 3 years and up til now I have focused primarily on Easter and Christmas. This goal will allow me to focus more on personalizing cards to match each person. Thanks
My craft room is organized and I am ready to start creating cards layouts and experimenting with my paper crafts. thanks for the chance at blog candy.
Becca just love all your work you are truly an inspiration to all. all the best for 2012, hoping it will be a better and brighter year for all Blessings
Happy New Year! My crafting goal for the New Year is to actually use my stash! & stop to buying stuff because I just have to have it!
May you have a jous & healthy new year!
A crafting goal I have would be to continue to make all my cards this year (other than Christmas ones – not enough time to hand make everyone’s so I settle for about half).
Another goal of mine is to lose some weight and look after myself! Thanks Becca and Happy New Year!
My goal is to make cards to send ahead of the day I need to mail them!
Thanks for the chance to win such a fabulous prize! My crafting goal this year is to actually complete my Christmas cards before December 1st. That was my goal for this past year, too, but it did NOT happen. Hopefully, this year.
Hi Happy New Year to everyone! Since I am new to crafting I can think of so many goals! My crafting goal would be to do less organizing and more crafting!
Hugs
Joyce Calrson
My crafting goal, one of them, is to make more time to create. Working fulltime limits my quality time for crafting, but it doesn’t limit my desire and ability to continue to purchase all the great new products!
Today I found your blog and somehow I have the feeling this was meant to be.
I saw your honeycomb ornaments and will try to make some for my friends on Valentines day. You inspired me :0) I know I will come back often to see more of your fun things you share with the world.
Thanks
Ri
I would like to use my Spellbinder/Nestabilities more often. Happy New Year Becca.
Ter ;)
I have never been disappointed in your creations Becca!! More like Amazed!! I need to get healthy again and my first goal is to get my craft room organized!!
Thank You for your generosity Becca.
Joanie
Happy New Year Becca – may 2012 be filled with lots of magic for you.
I hope that in 2012 I can organize my scrap room.
Thank you Becca.
Sandra ltb
One of my goals is to put all my pictures in a scrapbook & finish the scrapbooks that I started for my grandchildren.
I love your blog & your ideas. You do beautiful work.
I pray that God blesses you with good health & meets your every need in the coming year.
I hope to be able to keep more current with my swaps and greeting cards this year. I got myself an organizer so I can write down by month who I need to send a card to, etc. I hope to work a month in advance to keep the stress of last minute creations to a minimum. Right now I’m nearly done with January, so I’ve made a good start. Thanks for all your creations. You are an inspiration to us all.
Becca, how I look forward to your wonderful creations!!
This year my goal is to finish the many projects I have started but
failed to complete. I actually finished 2 things this weekend!! Yipee!
Thanks so much for a chance to win your great blog candy.
Would love to win…however, I never win anything. Fun trying anyways?
I love your blog and follow you each day Becca. I always find your work inspiring.
My goal for this year was to reformat my web/blog site. Since I’m new to blogging I had to learn all about how to work with the Blogger template on my own and gave my site a whole new look this year as to where I started last March. Hope you and others take time to stop by and visit my blog now or throughout the year. I would love hearing from each of you.
New Years Blessings to each of you from Leanne
happy new year, the past is gone all is new! Thanks for sharing your goodies and your talent, looking forward to see what God has in mind for 2012.
Hi Becca… thanks for offering the wonderful candy…..
I guess my 2012 goal would be to try to get more crafts and cards done so I can enter more challenges.. And to try to stay ahead of deadlines for all my family b-day cards…
hugs….
your blog always keeps me LIFTED up…. Happy New Year.
Peggy
Happy New Year Becca: Thank you for sharing your “candy” with us. My crafting goal so far is to plan far enough ahead that I’ll be able to “stamp a stack of Christmas Cards” Sounds like a long way off since we just celebrated Christmas, but every year I never seem to have the time. I’m in the process of finishing my sister’s wedding invitations to be mailed out in March. I was elated to have made my thank you cards for my presents I received – YEAH. They turned out great.
Thanks for the offer of “blog candy”, Becca. You are so generous. My goal is try and have cards made to have on hand! Yeah, right!! Sure am going to try!
January the 1st already….where did 2011 go? Another goal for 2012 is to get better at coloring with Copics. I do like those markers!
I love your blog and thanks for sharing all your talent. The blog candy looks deli-sh!
Well, you said we could enter our comments daily…and so I shall! Today’s crafting resolution is to label all my containers, boxes, bags and files so that I actually know what I have. Now that my craft room is clean and organized, I need to keep it that way. Today I made tags for all my metal containers…I could have used some of your blog candy! :-) Thanks so much for the daily resolutions idea…I am loving having to think more linearly!
My second step is to visit all my blog friends to wish them a happy New Year. Just wish my PC worked faster.
My crafting goal for this year is to actually make some of the ideas/tutorials I’ve been saving for years. I have several of yours bookmarked. :) That, and ink up some more of my poor unused stamp sets!
First of all, I want to tell you I LOVE all your projects. You are one talented lady. My goal for 2012 is to get my scrapbooking supplies all in order and learn to use them correctly.
For the first step simplify all the organization in this kind of craft.
Now for me it is not relaxation i am to tired when I do a project, a card
I would like to connect with pleasure not stress.
Francine.
Becca…Thanks so much for a chance at this blog candy. I posted yesterday that I wanted to start out cleaning up my craft room. It has been one project after another since Halloween and it is a true mess!!! Next thing I would like to do is make binders to catalog all my stamps, dies, punches, patterns, Tags & print-outs. I think this would help me make decisions and find things faster.
Happy New Year Becca!!! Wishing you the best one yet!!!
My craft room is pretty organized but I sure could use some more space for all my “stuff”….. and the walls don’t move :-) I truly love your creations Becca and always look forward to see your blog to see what lovely cards you have created. Thank u so much for the chance to win some blog candy!
Happy New Years! Love the candy Becca. Sure hope that some good things come my way!
I plan to do more layouts this year.
My commitment for the coming year is to expand my collection of cards for men. I want to utilize more of the Steampunk and Grunge styles and possibly even make some of my own charms to use on these cards and albums.
I’m so going to keep my room clean and put away. That is…. once I get it cleaned up to start with.
Happy New Years to you and thank you for all the inspiration! Love your blog!
I really need to start making at least one card per day. This is any type of card and then I need to lable where the card should go…birthday, thank you, etc.
One goal I have this year is to work on my Christmas cards throughout the year, so that when December comes, they’re ready to send out.
I’m in the process of revamping some of my older cards, and I definitely want to finish them before the year is out so I can go on to new fun stuff!
I posted yesterday that I want to have at least one project published. Another goal that I have is to become a DT for two more blogs. I’m currently serving my first ever DT position on the Colour Create Challenge blog/team which will end in April. I love it, and want to do more of it. ;) Thank you again Becca.
January 2nd 2012
5 days and 5 rings, a goal for each . . . . so here goes for my day 2 Becca Candy blog response.
For my second Gold Ring ushering in the New Year with a Goal to spend more crafting time with my Grandchildren encouraging them to think and believe that making small mistakes on projects is just a crafty opportunity to do it differently (self-lesson also needed here!!!); that perfection is not always the real goal!!! It’s about enjoying the creating/creative journey more and remembering that people SMILE when they receive a card.
My next crafting goal is to organize my space more. This should have been my first one but I still have a couple more so I’ll be back soon with the next one.
I wish I would be able to do some scrapbooking evrry day
This is an awesome candy you are sharing Becca! Thank You for the chance to win! My creative goal this year is finish projects I’ve started but never finished!
Thank you so much for being someone who loves to share . We all appreciate it . God bless…. Denice
I need to organize my craft room. Label each container so I can find just the right stamp etc. when I make a card. This would make it much faster and easier to finish a card. Dianne
Hi Becca
Happy New Year!
I would love to try more stamping techniques this year…..I love working with stamps!
Hugs
Márcia
…to step out of the box and try some new techniques!
Get my craft room organized!!
My first goal was better organization… Secondly I would like to be more decisive… make a decision and go with it. Sometimes (most of the time) I agonize over every thing from size to paper to sentiment… on and on and on. Once I settle on something I usaully enjoy the rest of the process, but sometimes it takes so long to get to that point, that my limited time to craft is used up and I get nowhere. Decisive… my word for the day and the year!
Love your blog. What wonderful inspiration.
My goal this year is to learn to watercolor or just color in general. I’ve yet to try Copic Markers but this may be the year! Truth be told, I’m afraid to try them as I will probably like them and want to buy them all!
I would like to make more of my family’s birthday cards this year.
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My 2nd crafty goal is to complete a mini album of my 3 years old son.
My second goal will be to get much more done of all my waiting projects here. I get lots of awesome ideas, that i want to try out, but often I only gets half of them done, and I want that to be changed this year, as I have many dear friends, that I have promissed to make tutorials for, but never got to it yet LOL.
Good morning Becca. Another one of my scrapping goals is to use my current inventory. I have so many supplies. I need to stop buying so much and use what I have. Let’s see how well I do on this goal for the year. Will let you knowl
God Bless
Great candy!! :) My goal is to keep my craft room clean, use what I have and to keep my blog more current!! Happy New Year Becca!
I continue to be inspired by your posts- thank you for being you!
Hope your New Year was great. My goal is to try to get my Craft room in order. That way I can use what I have and not buy the same thing again because I can’t find what I’m looking for.
Good morning…I think another thing I would like to do is document most of my craft supplies…so I don’t buy duplicates!
Have a great day.
I also want to use some of my pretty paper! I have lots of it and it would look much prettier in an album than it does sitting on my shelf!
Happy New Year! I would like to make the ideas swrling around in my head now instead of when I actually need them. Stop procrastinating! Thanks for sharing your wonderful creations! Blessings for 2012!
Jenny L.
My goal is just to “do it” and not worry about chores and household stuff. I also MUST use more of my paper collection so I can buy more naturally! Thanks for all your inspiration Becca and best wishes throughout 2012.
Mary
Becca, your cards are so beautiful I want to make them all. My second New Year Goal is to recycle craft materials I don’t use that someone else would use and enjoy having. I started yesterday and could not believe how much I have to share with others. I am already rejuvenated to start new projects. Thanks for all you share.
God Bless You
Thanks so much for sharing your work and for another chance to win today! cjdempsy9 at msn dot com
Hi Becca, my goal this year, is to try keep my little craft room tidy, so that I can find things without having to pull the room apart for 1 item.
thanks for all your lovely ideas
Yvonne xx
My 2nd goal for 2012 is to eat healthier and get more excercise.
ColleenB.
I always love your cards! I have a goal to get a lot of scrapbooking done this year. Last year I concentrated on card-making – it’s fairly new to me and I love it – but I really need to get some photos scrapped. :-)
Well, I have been a bit late in visiting – what a wonderful surprise to find this wonderful blog candy! Hope all is well with you!
I need to do some organizing before I can really get into my crafting (I lost my craft room to my step daughter so now I have a ton of supplies without a home) – lol
Hugs,
antonella :-)
Crafting goal #2 ~ use what I have!! I have way too many things that have never seen the light of day. Stamps that haven’t been inked ~ paper that hasn’t been cut ~ dies that haven’t been used. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it…
Thanks for all the inspiration, Becca! One of my crafting goals is to rebuild my at-the-ready card box so I always have something to send out immediately, whether it is a birthday, a thank you, or for someone in need of cheering up.
Happy New Year to you Grace and to All… it’s going to be a great year for everyone!
Grace, it’s wonderful to see you posting again and spreading cheer.
I have a question about how you work, or think. I”m wondering do you see a stamp, or a spellbinder die and then “think” of the layout. OR do you have pieces already cut out and you sit and match things up?
Personaly, with stamps, I see the vision then find my stamps to match it, but when working with dies -any brand- it’s harder on me to ‘see’ the finished project as in the process there are many twists and turns.
That is how I came to ask you how you work.
Again, Happy New Year. So glad you’re doing well.
CEGiaquinto
Thank you for the chance to win your blog candy, Becca. I visit your blog often and am always inspired. My crafting goal for 2012 is to use more of the supplies that that I have stashed in my craft room, instead of buying more and more.
Another lovely card today Becca. Hope you had a wonderful start to the New Year. Thanks for offering up a bundle of sweet prizes. Geez, I wonder if she’ll pull my name this time? Please, Please!
One of this year’s goals it to get ALL my stuff organized; I mean find everything and start using it. Another goal is to find the Cutter from Martha Stewart’s Circle cutter board that the twins must have played when they were here for Thanksgiving. I have looked everywhere and it is such a small thing, but I am lost without it. I’m just hoping it did not get flushed. They are not quite 3 yet and have no idea what I am talking about when I try to ask them. Any clues?
I hope in 2012 I can grow enough to rely more on my own creative ideas and less on the internet. That withstanding, Becca, you are always my inspiration–the reason I buy from the companies who use your talents.
My second crafting goal is to break out of the box. My cards are so recognizable. I want to change it up. You are a great influence on that.
Wanting to get healthy and organized, I want to start making cards for those who have been forgotten and might not have any family left ie. nursing home patients.
Joanie
ANOTHER Crafting goal—-for me, would be to get on another forum & make some friends & be inspired & be an inspiration! Funny how people can make you inspired isn’t it? :)
I check in on your projects frequently and it tends to get me in trouble…..I see things I just have to have. I am a collector of things and now I just need to start making all the great projects I now have the stuff to make them. Thanks for all the ideas!!!
Julie
One of the crafting goals I have is to use up some of the many, many things I buy that then sit until forgotten. I buy things at conventions and by the time I get around to them months or years later I’ve forgotten how to use them.
Happy Jan. 2nd, Becca! Just looked at your Wings of the Butterfly card – so pretty.
Another crafting goal is to finish two sewing projects I’ve carried over from two years ago…..no fear ….just do it. Now that I’ve “said” it out loud, I feel obligated to follow through.
Thanks, Becca!
hugs
Love the butterfly card. Thanks for releasing it earlier than you planned.
Thanks for another great card today and for the great blog candy
I love the colours of the butterfly card… beautiful paper! Another goal of mine is to use what I have instead of buying more.
Beauriful card!
Becca, Idon’t know how you come up with such beautiful cards.
My Craft goal is to try to clean my craft room so I can find my stuff & discover what I have that I forgot about.
Unfortunately, I don’t get a lot of time to craft. My space isn’t dedicated so once I get everything out and save time to clean up, my crafting time is minimal. I did get time in December to get my Christmas cards done, though. My goal this year would be to convince my DH to let me make a spare bedroom into my office/craft room. Then, I could just close the door and craft anytime the opportunity arises.
God bless.
Another of my goals this year is to do more Splitcoaststamper challenges. I learn a lot doing these challenges. Thanks.
Becca,
I would also like to add that I need to use more of what I already have. I buy items based on your cards, but then I’m afraid to try them. Not this year! Thank you for your inspiration. Caroline
my second goal for this year (after using what i have) is to pay it forward,… give items i’ll never use to worthy causes, send cards to great causes such as the military families etc.
Well your postings everyday are my inspriration, I some day inspire to be 1/2 as talented as you!! If I achieve that I will be happy!! This year I hope to be able to do more than I did last year, I have some serious health issues and they hold me back some, so I hope to be able to do more and do better.
I have gotten some new dies and stamps, so I will give it a shot, and I also hope to post more to my blog!!
Thanks for a chance Becca,
hugs
Donna
My other crafting goal is to try different techniques. I would love to try mixed media and use more Tim Holtz products.
Love your cards. My goal for 2012 is to get some scrapbooking done, and of course make cards and other fun paper crafts. Thanks for sharing with your blog friends. Have a great 2012.
Carol J
Happy New Year Becca….I check in with you every day. Your cards are so creative and filled with beauty. Your videos are always inspiring and filled with new ideas. You share so much of yourself with us….your talent, your time and your enthusiasm. I want to thank you so much for your blog and your inspiration. May your new year be filled with family, friends, joy, happiness and most importantly…..love!
Beautiful card once again Becca. Please enter me for your blog candy.
One of my goals this year is to keep my craft room a little neater.
Becca, thank you so much for the chance to win such awesome blog candy. One of my crafting goals is to find a way to organize my supplies better in my small space so I don’t have to spend so much time searching! Hugs, Sarah
I’m entering for Jan 2nd,,,,
I think another goal for this year is to get a bit more organized,,,,,,you should see my scrap boxes,,,,,ugh.
Make more cards for men.
Another goal may be to actually get a blog of my own up and running. I did try to do this last year but was unable to devote the needed time to it. I hope things this year will be different to allow me to work on this. We’ll see.
Happy New Year. My craft goal is to clean the craft area. It is such a mess from making holiday cards and last minute gift items. Best wishes to everyone.
Second goal,
Find some French sentiment
Francine
Love the new sentiment and can’t wait until you find the link for it. My next goal for the new year is to become more skillful in using my stamps. If you do not stamp very often, you will often make mistakes. Happy New Year!
My 2nd goal for this year is to try to be less last-minute with my projects and postings! I’m not sure I can keep this goal, as it’s just my nature, it seems, but I’m surely going to give it a huge TRY!!! ;~)
My goal for this year is to keep an art journal. I want to just jump in and do it instead of procrastinating because I want “perfection”! I need to be more loving and less critical with myself!
Good Morning, What beautiful cards. I am so inspired by them. By goal for 2012 is to make and send a card to someone each day.
Thank you again for your blessings.
My second goal is to send out more hand made cards for encouragement. I love making them but don’t always mail them.
Every morning your lovely work is an inspiration to me…thank you. I’d love to win.
Goal for today is to get the craft table cleaned off and all items to find a home.
Another goal for me this year is to create more of a stash, so I always have a card “at the ready”. Especially Get Well and Sympathy cards, which are hard for me to make.
I’m back with another thing I remembered. I should be getting less new things, and use more of my old stuff this year! I like to have the latest and tend to forget to give love to my old things!
I’ve collected a large amount of dies that I’ve never used so this year it’s my goal to break them out and put them to good use. Sadly, they are still in unopened packages just staring back at me!
Happy New Year Becca, all the best for 2012.
Found your blog a while back but been extremely busy with family members.
Hopefully, I will find time in the new year to visit more and do crafts, something I haven’t done in a while. I love all the things you do, you inspired a lot of people… keep it up. Take care. Colette
Hi Becca!
My second 2012 Crafting goal is to use what I already have. I had to chuckle at one of the previous comments. “I have more in my basement than at Michael’s” I know I can’t be far behind!! Thanks for the opportunity to win such wonderful blog candy.
Happy New Year.
My crafting and design goals for the new year are to finally get myself organized and big time! I was lucky enough to receive a great industrial rolling tool shelf unit and some shelving units and I plan to take advantage of the many drawers and hanging elements to store all of my crafts items. The shelving units will house the rest in bins and baskets with labels. I have a plan and ope to stick with it so that I can find the items I want , when I want them and be able to craft to my little hearts delight! ~Gin~
Second goal for 2012 as far as crafting goes is to use ONE of my rubber stamps on a card every other day! That way, I will not only have a great supply of cards, but I won’t feel like I threw money away on all those gorgeous, unused stamps!
Happy New Year! My 2nd goal is to purge — make definite plans to use it or share/sell. I have to admit this is a selfish goal to make room for buying new things. :o)
Give away some of the stamps I no longer use.
Love this card and the colors you chose. One crafting goal I have is to make beautiful cards like you do. Thanks for the opportunity to win some wonderful prizes!
I am a sewer, as well as a papercrafter, so you can imagine the supplies I’ve amassed for both hobbies. I work at a business that does mail order sewing notions/fabrics. I’ve been able to bring home end cuts/ “scraps” (generally 1/4 yard or less,but some are larger) from cutting yardage for customers….very addicting….always with the intention of making something out of them. Well, I am going to start sewing up some of that fabric (before I’m literally buried in it!). I have brought home knits, as well as cotton fabrics, thinking about “someday” using them.
I have some t-shirt knits that will become little t-shirts to take to our local food pantry, where they also have a clothing bank, for the food pantry clients.
I also plan to make some quilts, and crochet some rugs with strips of fabric. Someday has come!
One of the goals I set for yesterday was to use more of my Spellbinders dies. So many I haven’t even opened up the package except until yesterday. I played around with several of them. I had some Christmas cards that had wonderful verses inside that I hated to just throw in the trashcan. So I got my dies out and played around with cutting those verses to be recycled into new cards for the future. Yeah! I guess another goal for this year is to use some of the stamps I bought and haven’t used.
Love the card today! Blue is my favorite color!
Beautiful card! Love the sentiment. Another goal this year is to make more time to scrapbook.
Hi, Becca! My second goal for 2012 is to use my stash more and spend less! We’ll have to see how long that one lasts. lol I hope you have a wonderful day!!
Beautiful card today! I would love to have my Christmas cards started before December this year!
Great blog candy, thanks for sharing!
My crafting goal for this year is to try more new techniques! I seem to fall into a rut, doing the same things over and over. I want to try something new and challenging!
Thanks for all the inspiration you share with us, looking forward to 2012 with you.
Happy New Year, Becca! I hope the new year holds much joy for you. You are always such an inspiration to me. Your attitude towards life is quite encouraging. Thank you. My crafting goal this year is to make cards as beautiful as yours always are. I see your work and am totally amazed at your creativity and the beauty you share. I’m so grateful to have befriended you through your blog. I enjoy it and you so much. Thank you, again,
Great blog candy!! Love your blog and your creations are just gorgeous!! Another of my goals is to finish a wedding scrapbook for a friend that has been started and set aside for one reason or another!! Time to get it done!!
Wow! Great giveaway! I am going to make an effort to craft more and that means cleaning up after I craft in the first place! It’s discouraging to try to work on a new project before cleaning up from the previous one! So I will do my best to complete my project and CLEAN UP ASAP!!
My goal for the year is to finish the scrapbooks of the trips I have taken in the past. This is a beautiful card you posted today, but that is the usual for you. Thanks for the chance to win some goodies.
Crafting goal for this year is to keep my work area neater! I get going and then when it is too bad clean it all up and it would be so much easier to just clean up after every project.
Becca,
Love the color scheme on your latest card!
I come to your blog every day for inspiration and you never disapoint me. My goal this year is to organize my new craftroom, and to get new stash to fill it!
Happy New Year!
Paulla
My first goal for stamping in 2012 is to pare down my supplies by sharing with others. I have way too much stuff that needs a new home where it can be loved and USED!
My very first goal is to reclaim my crafting room. I designed our home and the room that was supposed to be my craft room soon turned into a storage room for Christmas and other holiday items. We came up with an idea to build a 7′ x 14′ storage room outside in the garage and include a/c in it for all the holiday stuff. Then, I will design my craft room–all for me!!! I can’t wait to get it all together but I know it will take a few months. It will be so exciting!!!
One of my goals this year is to try some CAS cards! LOL!! I love seeing many of the CAS cards all over the web, but every card I create ends up being a pretty detailed production and they take so long to make… so I need to try some CAS and even one layer cards.
Another beautiful card Becca!! I love butterfies as I look at my life as a butterfly – from a cocoon struggling to get out to becoming a beautiflul butterfly. Thank you for your inspirational cards and how they touch us.
Good afternoon! My first crafty priority is figuring out what I have! I seem to keep buying the same things…go back to my first post about cleaning the craft area! I have stuff all over the house so I don’t know what I own. So that has to be at the top of the list!
LOVE the card from today! You are absolutely remarkable!
Thanks so much for the chance to win,,,and maybe focusing me a little bit on my tasks!!
Sue Brailey
Becca, I really did some reflecting on your question and realize that organization of ALL my craft items should be a priority. I find myself buying some of the same items and then giving them away to my stamping friends. Sooooooo…… I’m restricting my purchases until my craft room is better organized. I’m starting today by going through my stamp drawers and eliminating stamps that are still unused or have no interest to me. It amazes me how my “style” keeps changing. Loving shabby chic now. Great idea for this post and would love to win your goodies because I don’t have any of them, especially those pretty flowers.
Shirley L.
Roseville, CA
I love getting daily emails from you! You work is stunning and each day just gets better and better. Happy 2012
Would love to try altering an item. Tin can or box. Have not tried that thus far. Thank you for a chance to win! Happy New Year!
I love the butterfly verse on your beautiful card today. All your cards are beautiful! thanks for all you share.
My goal is to make 2012 the year that a craftroom is put into place. I have two spots in my home, an area in the basement or a room on the third floor,if in the basement more space,but if on the third floor closer to family.
Which spot to choice has stopped me from moving foward, but 2012 is the year to get organize!
After cleaning up my craft room and making binders for my stuff, I also want to remount all my wooden stamps into cling stamps. It would give me so much more space in my 3’x5′ overstuffed, cabinet.
My goal for this year is to use all the crafting things haven’t used before ! You know, the things we buy and put aside, and then never get around to playing with !
Another crafting goal is to finish sorting my printed pictures. I started a couple years ago but recently realized I still had a couple boxes to go thru.
to use what I have!!
Sandra ltb
Since I am new to paper crafting my goal for this year is to learn and apply a new technique each week.
I want to be able to let go and use more of my crafting stash, hoarding and admiring it is not good.
My 1st crafting goal – is to use what I have before buying new stuff. There must be something of a hoarder in my personality – as I find it hard to use things (esp. paper) that I really like; I just keep saving it.
Happy New Year Becca! Thanks for sharing your beautiful creations with us and giving so much inspiration.
I have decided that I must use up some of my paper stash!! I have so much that I think is so nice that I will keep it for “something special” !!! Actaully that will be probably be easier that I think because my local craft shop has closed down and now to get to a place for gorgeous papers etc I will have to travel more than 50 miles, and then back!!! I think my stash might actually diminish!
Becca’s beautiful butterfly verse card- a great start to my day seeing it.
Goal 2 for 2012 for me is to get someone to make a BECCA PEG BOW MAKER you showed us some time back. I love bows and most cards have one attached and every time I attemp to tie the bow I think of you and your bow maker. Yes it will happen – not just this year but this month and this week at the latest. Life is too short so I am going to make the most of every day. God Bless you and take care each day.
Marjorie.
One of my crafting goals is to make a lot of progress in unmounting more of my rubber stamps. I came up with a great organizational plan that works for me. I think I will be able to see more of what I have and be able to get to them more easily with the result that I will use them more!
Today’s card is AMAZING Becca! I just love everything about it. :) Another crafting goal I have for myself is to accumulate a ton of spellbinders dies so that my card making designs will be virtually endless.
Hi Becca,
Day two entry for wishing to win your blog candy treat! Another goal, of course they are all art oriented, is to get more finished pieces accomplished this year. More about this in tomorrow’s plea to win your blog candy! LOL
Hugs my sweet inspiration,
Beth P
Happy New Year!
My another goal for this year would to learn to make beautiful bows.
Happy new yeaar to the most creative person I know of. I pray your 2012 is much better!
Another goal is to refinance my home.
Happy New Year! I have to tell you how much I appreciate you and your wonderfully creative mind! Thank you so much for your willingness to share it with so many people. There is not a day goes by that I don’t check to see what wonder you have created! Thank you!
Your blog is so inspiring! Love the layers upon layers,,so fresh. I stop by often to see you…Happy new year!!
I have a three fold goal regarding my stamps, 1) finish orgainzing them, finish my stamp catalog and use every stamp I’ve never inked up. Thanks again for the chance to win this amazing candy.
Blessings Bernie
What a beautiful card! I love that stamp also. I especially like to see fonts that have scrolly calligraphy. Beautiful! I definitely “need” that one…
One of my goals for this year is to find a better way to organize and store my unmounted stamps.
I love your blog. I try to view it every day, but if not, at least once a week! My goal for 2012 is to actually make and send my Christmas cards. I get inspired by so many crafters, buy the necessary supplies, but never seem to find enough time to actually make the cards. THIS YEAR WILL BE DIFFERENT!
Beautiful, stunning card Becca. I love the color combo and the elegance of the design. You are “on fire” for 2012!
Cindy
My goal for this year is to keep my crafts organized and try to come up with a card for every stamp that I have.
All of your cards are so beautiful and I just love how you incorporate the different SP dies. A second crafting goal for 2012 is to complete a cross-stitch wedding sampler for a dear friend’s daughter.
This year I would like to learn how to put as much stuff on my cards as you do without them looking cluttered. Yours look so elegant. Mine just come out looking like I trying too hard. . .which is probably the exact truth! :o)
Thanks for offering this! Happy New Year and good luck to everyone!
Becca, Thanks so much for sharing your talents with all of us! One of my crafting goals this year is to just be more productive in general. You’re an inspiration to just getting things done!!
I am so inspired by you and your postings! Not only your astounding talent for making things with paper and stamps, but also your spirit that shines through the words we see on the screen. I always look forward to reading your blog! As for my crafty goals this year, I’ll start off with my biggest one of getting a blog started. Just someplace to share some of my creations and be able to participate in some of the challenges online.
Hi Becca! A goal for me this year is to stop hoarding paper. I have beautiful papers that I am scared to cut into for fear they will be gone, lol. I need to just get over it and cut away! :) thank you
So happy to see you back in your crafting mode! I would love to win this blog candy. Happy New Year and here’s to a much more prosperous 2012!
Day two: Goal # 2 for this year is to enter more contests and see how lucky I can be. You can’t win unless you try!!! We’ll see how it goes.
What an awesome blog candy gift!
I need to use more of what I’ve been hoarding. Beautiful papers, stamps, etc. just building up, and not being used – why not share the beauty!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Goal #2 – craft more!
Happy New Year to you, Becca! I don’t have any crafting goals. I never make any kinds of goals or resolutions because I never keep them despite my good intentions. I just want to have fun with my crafting!
sharing more of the cards i make. i keep adding to the collection. i need to send them out.
Happy New Year to you.
Love visiting your blog each time you post – so inspirational.
One of my crafting goals for this year to try different techniques that I may have seen but not used before – I’m drawing up a list and each month will try and complete one or two items on that list. Should be fun trying :-)
Happy New Year Becca. Your masculine is wonderful! My crafting goal is to make the transition from hobbyist to a business. I ‘ve read a lot, taken an online virtual business owners’ class, and now I’m ready for the plunge. I will ask the Lord to guide my footsteps in the direction that I need to go.
Wishing you the Lord’s best for 2012!
Oh, my! What wonderful blog candy! Thanks for the chance to win.
Day 2, goal two: How about a spiritual goal. To read the bible in one year. Love the saying on your card today!
Good evening Becca (its gone 10.30pm here in Wales)
I hope today finds you in good form.
My 2nd goal for 2012 is ‘Patience’.
Patience to put aside anything that may not be up to scratch without throwing it aside and thinking I’ve lost it (my crafting mojo that is). Also patience to begin again.
Have a good day Linda (S.Wales, UK)
My second crafting goal is to be brave enough to actually send some of the cards I’ve made. I am not nearly as adept at stamping and bow-tying as I would like to be.
Happy New Year Becca! Thanks for the chance to win blog candy. My hope is that I get my craft room up and running. I keep buying more “STUFF” but have not crafted in a while, life gets in the way, you know, but I have hope that I will be crafting again soon. You are such an inspiration because your cards are over the top gorgeous! Thank you for sharing you talent with us. :) Jeanne
Wow! Another year is on us and I guess we should be making some resolutions. My crafting goal this year is to actually finish a scrapbook about my oldest son. He died at the age of 23 and I have not been able to open the box with all of his pictures and school stuff in it. My goal is to just hunker down and do it. He would be happy that I could move on to the next step and be happy for him to be with the Lord!
I think a good resolution for me is to buy less supplies and craft more with the supplies I already own (I think there are many others who feel the same). Beautiful Butterfly sentiment card today Becca.
Happy New Year thank u for all u do. Becca u are such a blessing for second I want to make cards for my resident many of them have know who take the time to come and see them, you see I work as a cna in a nursing home. So I want to make a difference in there life. Have a nice day
Make and send more cards! I signed up for a birthday list on one of my favorite boards, so I am planning to send quite a few cards!
DeniseB
Becca, good evening from Virginia :0)
HUGS
Ri
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you, Becca!
I would like to do cards with different designs, and I would like to do more encaustic this year as well as other mixed-media.
My #1 crafting goal this year would be to make more use of the many tools I have acquired this (past) year that I have not really used frequently. I get so many inspirational ideas from you I really don’t have an excuse for not using them.
Becca, I love looking at all the creativity on your blog, your work is spectacular. Thank you for the generosity of all the blog candy that you share with other paper crafters.
Carletta
Becca, I love your blog and the video I watch most often is the making a double bow. My card making goal for 2012 is to be much better organized and to make my Christmas cards through the year, so I won’t be so rushed in the late fall. Thank you for this great opportunity.
Hi Becca! My second goal for this year is to actually use “all” of my stamps this year! I have so many un-inked, they’re like orphans..LOL! The best part is that you really inspire me with all of your beautiful work, so it shouldn’t be hard. Hugs!
Happy New Year!!!
What a great Blog candy… Thanks for all the ideas and inspirations!
My initial goal is organization. I’m making quite a few people happy as I’m cleaning out and getting rid of supplies that have been sitting for several years. I’m also working on new workshops for this coming year.
Hello again Becca . . . for my second crafting goal for 2012 I want to use what I have. That means no new purchases for the first three months of 2012 of anything that is not an adhesive (and since I just got a dozen rolls of tape for my ATG I shouldn’t even need that), unless I have absolutely positively run out of it.
I plan to organize my craft room (which includes sewing, knitting, crochet, embroidery and papercrafts, plus a few other possibilities!). This way I will know where all of my supplies are and I won’t be discouraged from making beautiful things!
…..and a most Blessed New Year to you, Becca. I just love checking in each day to see your most beautiful designs. You truly inspire me to create but most importantly to be thankful for God’s gifts to me. I showed my 11 year old Grandaughter how you describe yourself first as a Child of God and so she sat and made a list of all the roles she has been gifted with starting first as a Child of God. Thank you for always radiating God’s love.
Miracles happen! Today I actually started on the goal I wrote yesterday. I already have a box of stamps and embellishments to pass on to friends. Getting started helped me establish my second goal -‘quit saving, use it! I tend to save that one piece of paper or perfect ribbon for the special project. Hmm – it is time to make every card then”special project” deserving of the items growing in my collection. Smile.
Becca, I love the stamp and your color application. Have you considered putting a book together – “the Best of Amazing Paper Grace: God’s blessings through paper art.”. I’d be your first customer.
Tammie
This is not a crafting goal, but I’m hoping I can get enough of us praying for you and a miracle happens and one of these mornings you wake up PAIN FREE. Now is that is that a goal or what. You have such a positive attitude it is catchy. Have a blessed and wonderful year.
Such a lovely RAK! My plans for crafting is doing project 365. Thank you for sharing your amazing talents with us!!!
Thanks so much for sharing your blessed talents with us in blogland. One of my goals in 2012 is to get my stamping stuff more organized. My dh gave me some $$$ to buy a cabinet to house some of stamps–can’t wait to get it. Thanks for offering us the blog candy.
Happy New Year! I just want to let you know how much I enjoy your blog. I don’t always leave a comment. Your work is so beautiful and elegant.
I am so impressed by your art–very happy that I found your inspirations
One of my goals is to keep my craft blog updated. Thanks for sharing you are such an inspiration.
This is actually my 3rd post…I got carried away and posted twice on the same day!! Would you say I was a little anxious to win that blog candy???
Anyway, my third goal for this year is to make more of the kinds of cards I would like to make instead of thinking every card I send has to be made “just for that person”. Although I do enjoy making personalized cards, it also keeps me from trying other things that I find so neat…like Becca cards!!! Thanks again for sharing your awesome talent!
Hi Becca. I’m hoping to get more organized with my card making. I’m always buying cards, because I just didn’t get a card done. Love your blog and all the beautiful cards. Happy New Year everyone.
Bonnie
Lovely blog candy! Thanks for all the great ideas.
Hauoli Makahiki Hou (Happy New Year) to you & your family, Becca!
Looking forward to seeing more of your creative genius in 2012.
Hi Becca: Happy & Healthy New Year. My crafting goal for 2012 is to try and work ahead as much as possible. I’m wanting to eliminate the last minute deadline rush.
Second new year’s resolution is to make more time for crafting.
craftymom205 at yahoo dot com
Another goal is to try to use what I have and be happy with those things!
A Healthy & Happy New Year to you Becca. Many thanks for all the inspiration you have provided. One of my crafting goals in 2012 is to begin working ahead and being prepared for the unexpected.
My craft goal would be to complete a few holiday cards, such as Fall and Christmas, to set aside for next year. I buy all of these beautiful stamps and dies, then the season is too short, and the past 3 years, I run out of time to even use my beautiful products.
Crafting goal: To better organize my crafting space!
Thank you for all of your inspiration, Becca. My first crafting goal for the year is to learn at least 3 new techniques for cardmaking. I feel it is so important to learn new things and put them to good use!
Becca: I found your blog about five months ago, and am enjoying every post. Thank you for generously sharing your feelings. I pray for God’s richest blessings on you in 2012.
HIBecca, My goal for this year is to make better use of the small space I have for my supplies.I need to make it easier to retrieve my things as to not hurt my back any more than it already is. Many of my supplies are on the floor in cases. I need shelves and a counter top to be more organized. Maybe some time this year.
Thank you for all your wonderful works of art, Gail Briggs
I am planninig on using the craft products I have already and not buying anything new for the first six months of the year. I am using 6 months as a goal to see how I do. :)
May your 2012 be one filled with God’s blessings!
Thanks for the opportunity to win some goodies. (Of course I could WIN some new products :)
My crafting goal is to use up a significant amount of my paper stash. Like many people, I cannot buy a single sheet of designer paper and then, I tend to save my favourite finds for a special day (which may never come).
I always enjoy visiting your blog, Becca. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful creations with us. May God Bless you in the new year… go 2012!
Christine
Hi Becca, You are always so generous! My first crafting goal is to get my craft room organized. I have stamps and embellishments I know I bought but I can’t find!! My second is to get started early for christmas next year!! I didn’t get to make any cards this year…we have been busy making everything for my niece’s wedding…invitations to shower and wedding, flower balls, banners, coasters, so much fun! Thanks for the chance to win! Wishing that 2012 brings you great health (no more leg pain) and a year full of joy! Hugs, Teresa
My crafting goal is to make lots of cards for my church. Thanks Becca for offering a great prize.
Thank you Becca for the beautiful cards and ideas you share! One of my crafting goals for this year is to try out some new techniques to use in my card making and other paper craft projects.
Goal #3:
To organize my supplies…have a start on it…whoo hoo! I have cleaned my studio; rearranged my papers in 3 cabinets in my garage…now, on to all my stamps stored in 70 + pizza boxes also in the garage (have a large number of stamps not returned to the proper box – as well as all the new ones purchased during the yearthat are not yet in any box)!!!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
Even though a big part of this hobby is “acquisition”, I would like to set a goal of using and enjoying what I already have! You know, those things I just “HAD to have”. Thanks again for the chance to win blog candy.
Thank you for all the inspiration
January 3rd 2012
5 days and 5 rings, a goal for each . . . . so here goes for my day 3 response to Becca’s Candy blog. For my third Gold Ring ushering in the New Year with a Goal to use more ribbon on my cards; I have only just started this goal (inspired by Becca) and need to build my confidence with them – yes, my dear, patient husband has also recently made me a Bow Maker – so there really is no excuse. I am also waiting on an order of seam binding too . . . .so really, I CAN do this!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful card! Thank you too, for the chance to win your generous candy. My plan also, is to organize my paper craft supplies, so that they’ll be handier to use. Maybe I’ll get lots more cards and scrap booking done that way. I so hope your foot pain is getting better. sending a little prayer for you. Hugs and blessings, Patty W.
I want to organize all my craft supplies so I can just sit and create without having to look for items. I also want to get the courage to start a blog.
WOW! You have many followers! I started out reading the comments. Then I scrolled to the comment block. It took a lot of scrolling to get to the end. It appears a lot of organizing will be going on. LOL! I put new things on my craft table until I get them logged into my inventory book. I have to Get caught up on that so I can play with the new stuff. I spend too much time reading all th e blogs that I get inspiration from. You are so amazingly talented! I marvel at each card you make .
This is a great give away! Unfortunately for me I just found out about it.
I’ll still give my major crafting goal this year and that is to pist a project to my blog at least twice every month! I am hoping that this push I’m giving myself will get me on my blog alot more and consecutively and not so randomly. This past year has been a tough one for me so I am very much looking forward to 2012! Bring it on = ))
Thanks for a great give away Becca,
Sharon
Just thought I would let you know – on day 1 I said I wanted to scrap a memory album for my sister to celebrate her son’s wedding. Well believe it or not I have actaully just done 3 pages. I am so excited!
You are so sweet to share. 3rd goal is to get to play with other in some crafty way once a month. My 1st one is planned for the 21st.
My third goal will be to get much more done of the new things, I´ve been wanting to try for a long time. New techniques and new styles. I have sooo much I would love to go for, and just soo little time.
Have a wonderful day sweets and thanks again for the chance to win some awesome goodies here.
Yesterday I was doing a project in my newly tidied craft room so today all I need to do is tidy it again before the next project :) :) Hmmm!
Adding to getting published, and a couple of DT calls, I really need to organize my craft area a little better and maybe purge some of my scraps. I have so many of them and every bit can be used for something, They are building up faster than I can use them all, and I don’t have that large of a space any more since I moved. Maybe I’m hoarding them a bit too much? lol
For my 3rd goal; is to buy a toy,1 for a girl and 1 for a boy each and everytime I go into town, and at the end of the year they will be donated to the Toys For Tots Organization at the end of the year.
ColleenB.
My 3rd goal for 2012 is to USE my brand-new-still-in-the-box Husqvarna sewing machine that I bought in 2001! We moved right after I purchased it, plus I started a new job and just never got around to setting it up! But THIS is the year!!!
My third crafting goal is to post at least one project each week
This year I want to make Halloween cards. I have never sent them, but my kids decorate the outside of their homes for Halloween. Thanks for the chance to win the Blog candy .
For 2012, I want to start using water colour pencils on my cards. I have never tried this before and have seen some lovely work. So when my friend gets home from vacation, (she is the one who does a beautiful job with water colour cards) I will phone and hopefully she will teach me. If not I will try it on my own, at least one card a week. Dianne
Only two more days left of this fantastic blog candy package, I sure hope that Becca pulls my name this time. This is my favorite blog and I’ve never won anything here before. Can’t wait for Friday to find out who wins. Thanks Becca for this great prize package.
In working on organizing my craft room, I have been thinking about the possibility of moving it to a larger room so I could hold the classes I am planning right in my craft area rather than have to bring things out to the dining room. Since I am not sure if this is the best idea, as well as being a daunting task involving the rearranging 2 or even 3 rooms, I hesitate. So I continue to work on the current space as even if I do move things, having the one area organized will make the task a little easier should I decide to go that way. (I may be crazy- ;D!)
Becca I love all that you doa nd only hope I can do something as beautiful. would you sometime explain how you decide what layers goe where and h ow do you decide to put the ribbon trims on what layer. Thanks.
I would like to make some of those cute desktop calendars that I have seen. I didn’t have time this year, so if I get an early start, I could have them ready for gifts for next Christmas.
Thanks again for the chance to win this fabulous stash!! My goal for 2012 is to try to craft once a week. I find colouring so relaxing.
My goal for today is to purge supplies I don’t use.
Peggy Allen
Well Becca, its day three for me to give you my next goal for 2012
I have been thinking long and hard about this so that it wasn’t just a flippant answer, but something that would be achievable but worthwhile also.
So today would be Time. I must make time for crafting. Sometimes I plan to do some papercrafting but don’t plan my day well enough and end up with little or no time to craft. So I am going to make time within each and hopefully everyday to do a little crafting if not alot.
So far my goals are then, 1.Peace -Inner peace to find my crafting mojo again. 2. Patience -To be patient with myself when my cards etc don’t quite turn out the way they should. 3. Time -Make time to craft and to relax.
This little exercise of yours is really helping me to organise my thoughts AND my craftroom! Wonderful.
All the best Linda (S.Wales, UK)
This is my second post here and in just a couple of days I have started the new year and am progressing with my “plan” for the this year. I have a new camera that has prompted me to do project 365 or some variation of it. I am looking forward to getting back to one of my first loves, nature photography. And taking better pictures of my cards will follow suit right? lol!
Happy New Year, Becca!! Although I have opened every blog email from you I haven’t always left a comment but I just want you to know you are so very talented and God has sincerely Blessed you with an extraordinary gift for the paper arts!! :) Keep on inspiring us all, we love it :)
Thank you for the chance to win some of your fabulous blog candy :)
I organize two craft fairs a year for employees where I work. I’ve yet to have anything to sell. I’m starting now to craft so that I can sell items as well this year.
Peggy you give me such a good idea because I don’t find French sentiment. For my third goal I think I can replace the sentiment by a picture
who can touch the pearson to who I address it.
So third goal take more picture and developpe my aptitude to become a better photographer
Merci Peggy.
Francine
My third goal is to write down on a calendar birthdays, anniversaries and events I want to make cards for so I won’t be last minute trying to create.
If I don’t wait till the last minute my projects are much better than if I try to hurry. Thanks for your inspiration.
Kathy R
finish things! I have lots of projects started … time to finish them off.
Sandra ltb
I need to use my Silhouette…it was something I just had to have…now I need to put it to use. Have a great day!
Hi Becca
Good morning again!
This year I intend to make much more cards for my project.
We send cards to children sho suffer from cancer and to their mothers.
I really would love to see our project improve this year!
hugs
Marcia
Another Crafting Goal for the year? Well, keeping in shape is something that is necessary for GOOD HEALTH, and you NEED good health to be able to feel WELL ENOUGH to craft! So, I intend to eat better & get back on that treadmill!!!! HOPEFULLY, then take off with my crafting!!!!!!!!! ;)
My New Year resolution is to blog more about the items I have created!
Another of my goals is to make all of my Christmas cards for the first time this year! I have made a few but generally I run out of time and can’t make them all, so this year I am collecting materials and starting early!
Another resolution came to my mind… it would be to send out more cards! I am the worst when it comes to mailing my cards out… or just writing them out! I love making them, but that’s it! I usually have my hubby write the cards out because I don’t like my handwriting!
Good morning Ms. Becca,
Today, I am so thankful for another wonderful day Our Lord has given us.
Another one of my goals for this year is to heartily thank those that make my life a beautiful life. I know they know how special they are to me, but i need to say “thank you” to them more often.
God Bless
Good snowy morning, Becca! I finished the Grandchildren’s Happy New Year cards and thought that perhaps one of my goals for this year will be to make more than one or two cards at a time so that I can build up a stash. I will also take pictures of the cards I make.
Thank you, Becca.
hugs
Onr of my goals this year is to unarchive the ton of ideas that I have stashed away and try to learn some new techniques. Some of those are your ideas and I just have to try them. Happy New Year!
Thirdly, I am going to help my hubby re-organize my craft room, adding shelving to my closet. I know that this will create a lot of work, including a lot of tossing out/giving away, but that will be very good in the end. I think I’ll have a renewed sense of accomplishment and it will spur my creativity too — a clean craft table always does, so just think what a whole clean room will do!!!
One of my goals is to work harder at giving my cards away. When I get a really nice one done, I have a harder time giving it away. My parents never did get their Christmas card, I liked it too much.
My craft space is currently taking up a whole wall in our living room. One of my goals is to find some way to organize my space that will make it look less chaotic. My dh never complains but I’m sure he’d appreciate a little more order. :)
I hope to get back to card making this year. Last year was a very hectic year for me due sto work schedule and a serious illness in my family, but I am going to try to set aside time to do what I love and what really relaxes me — making cards for family and friends. I sure would love some blog candy to spur me on!! Thanks, Becca!!
This year I would like to make a stash of cards and have them ready to mail out ON TIME for each event. This is a totally do-able goal if I craft 5 days/week (goal #1).
After organizing and purging, my 3rd craft goal for the year is to become more focused. I’d like to take my birthday list and set aside a time to make the cards for each month instead of making them one-by-one (usually the night before they have to go in the mail). Wish me luck!
Today’s goal is to become more organized, and I think that this can be done by getting rid of some things. So, as I rearrange everything, I will also start putting things aside that I can sell at the next ‘garage sale’ that one of the local stores have. That way I can buy more!!! (Isn’t that defeating the whole point of the exercise!!) :-)
Let’s see ~ goal #3 would be to adopt that Scout motto “Be Prepared”. Make those necessary cards ahead of time so that I’m not scrambling to get them done the day before they are needed. After all, the birthdays arrive the same day every year, just like Christmas! Make a list at the start of the month and Get ‘er Done!
I hope to keep crafting – hand surgery may be in my future. I want to try new techniques and create more cards and altered items. Thank you for the opportunity to win some beautiful craft supplies! Happy New Year!
Day #3: Well, I would like to ive more handmade paper items besides cards. So, I will challenge myself to get out of my comfort zone and make more paper projects like gift boxes etc.
One of my goals this year is to try more new techniques and craft just for the fun of it and not worry if it doesn’t turn out perfect. Thanks for the chance to win some awesome new craft supplies! Hugs, Sarah
New goal, try new ideas.
Day #3 – goal is to send out more cards.
have been working for several weeks at organizing my paper crafting supplies. hve made very good progress, but my goal is to finish the reorg completely then KEEP it that way in 2012!
Love todays card….each one is more beautiful than the next!
Happy New Year Becca! The fact that I need to list a crafting goal for 2012, caused me to remember one of the ones from last year! I still need to use all of my stamps and give or sell what I don’t use! Thanks for all you share! I just read your comment about coloring…I too struggle with it and want to grow in doing it!
Thanks for the chance to win some really nice candy! My goal for this year, I have decided is to try to use up some of my scraps and extra die cute and punched pieces. That way when I buy/win (wink wink) something new I will have a place all ready for it. I hope you have a Blessed New Year!
Thanks for Sharing you talent!
One goal of my crafting would be to learn enough about my computer so that I could upload some of my cards to enable others to see them. I am clueless when it comes to computer stuff.
My goal… try to make use of the crafty supplies that I have not gotten a chance to use yet.
i just love your style. you put things together that i would never think of and it looks smashing.
becki
Another goal is to actually start using the treadmill we bought.
Hi Becca! My 3rd goal for the new year is to make more cards to have on hand for those occasions that sneak up on me and for birthdays. I always find myself scrambling at the last minute to ge a card done. Thank you again for a chance to win your wonderful blog candy.
I”m still in the Christmas mode… another crafting goal would be to work all year long on making goodies for the Cookie exchange/party I”m hoping to host next holiday season.
My goal is to try to do some art every day.
One of my crafting goals for 2012 is to make the invitations and decorations for my dear MIL’s 80th birthday! Her birthday is the end of Feb so I need to get right on that!
Thanks for sharing and for the chance to win this awesome blog candy!
Inky hugs,
Janet
Becca,
Love the Spellbinder die cuts in your latest post!! You certainly have a way of combining them! Fabulous! The Our Daily Bread stamps are my all time favorites, and the way you combine them with the die cuts, bows and pearls are just elegant. You never cease to amaze me! Thanks for sharing your ideas. You’ve inspired me to look at the die cuts in a totally different way.
My goal is to learn, learn, learn. Enjoying the things I see on your website!
Need to organize also. All the new spellbinders you know :) thanks so much for sharing your talent.
I like to create Zentangles so I would like to get enough made to frame and try to sell them at craft shows. Thanks for the chance to win a great prize!
Another goal for me…. to let go of some built up anger. It isn’t helping me.
DeniseB
My first crafting goal for this year is to finish my December Daily 00 hopefully before January is over! LOL!
Another goal of mine, is to finish projects I have started and never finished! In my quest to get organized I found oodles of unfinished projects and now is the time to finish them! Thanks for the chance to win and Thanks for all the inspiration your blog brings!!
Another of my crafting goals is to actually use and send the cards I make! :)
Another crafting resolution…I need to finish the knitting projects I have on needles. I have 4 things going right now, a prayer shawl, an afghan and 2 pairs of socks. My son wants fingerless gloves and a hat, and I want a sweater and hat. Hmmm… I probably won’t get the stuff on needles done before I start new projects, but my goal is to finish those 4 by the end of 2012.
Thanks for the inspiration in your blog. I always enjoy seeing your projects. I laugh when I see one of your clean and simple projects–they all look fancy to me. I appreciate you sharing your talent!
Oh, goodie, another chance to win. Thanks.
Beautiful and inspiring as always. You are so talented. I am always amazed at your work.
Have my fingers crossed for this one; some great ideas spinning around in my head.
Let’s see, another goal for this year would be to keep my craft room cleaned up a bit more than I have been lately. Just putting things away when I finish a project really helps give me more space to work on the next thing.
I guess it’s repetitive since I always seem to be working on it, but don’t we all have to keep reorganizing our craft supplies as our collections continue to grow? …not that I’ve EVER had mine really organized to begin with. So, that’s a goal for this year… to get my stuff organized in a way that makes it easier for me to remember what I have and actually USE the stuff. I have new shelves for my supplies and I want to use them to their full potential.
It’s very sunny today but very cold here in Missouri. It’s a great day to work in my studio–would love to win your blog candy!
RobinG
Hope to sell some stuff!
My other crafting goal is to make cards for everyone in my family for their birthdays.
Lovely card. There’s that bow again. Gotta give it a try. Happy New Year.
Love all your cards, I am able to make better bows from watching your videos.
Simple goal this year: to glorify God in my cardmaking and life!
Hi!
My goal for new year would be to learn to make layers using spellbinders shapes, like you do, Becca. Every time you layer up different shapes it amazes me. You do it magically. I would never have thought of combining the shapes in a way you do. Your imagination is boundless!
Thanks for inspiration!
One of my 2012 goals is to use the materials I have on hand to create as many cards & projects as I can. The goal is to “create” not “acquire” – as I have a tendency to “need” every new thing on the market! Thanks for sharing your blog candy. Will my creative inspiration ever emulate yours???
Happy New Year! I would like to make at least 3 Christmas cards every month (is that really so much!) to avoid the last minute rush! Thanks for sharing all your beautiful creations!
Jenny L.
Still lovin’ this awesome candy you are offering! Another creative goal this year to make 2 scrapbooks. One of my cat who died last year. Kind of a cathartic process and the other is of our wedding. Two projects I have been putting off!
Awesome! I have so much that I don’t use now, but it’s all good! Thank you for doing this!
I just want to get more creative. Thanks for all your enabling.
Beautiful card and bow today! One of my goals for this year is to make a Bow Maker and use ribbon from my stash.
Goal #4: Get up from my crafting every half hour and stretch…orders from my physical therapist!
Jan
Becca, I am blown away by your talent. Your style is so clean and crisp. My stamping goal is to improve my coloring techniques, organize my stamp room, and use us some of my “stash”. I love the Nestabilities and would welcome the opportunity to win these latest and fabulous goodies.
Love those shades of blue on your latest card!
Becca, here’s my next goal: stamp at least twice a week. I realize how important the creative process is to my well being. So I scheduled it on my calendar like all the other activities I do. It will be my class date. Your question has really rattled my thinking and what I do with my time. Thanks for helping all of us. Love all the designs you make. You are such an inspiration!
Shirley L.
Roseville, CA
I hope to win! Thanks for the opportunity.
I love this rose on the newsprint with the rose translucent. Gorgeous. I must try this. Thanks for the inspiration.
Sharon L
Day 3 – Yeah! Another goal – I have got to use all my spellbinders! I have “collected” and really need to practice the mix and match of the different dies. I am so inspired by the mixes you put together.
I love to stamp on “word papers”, it such a neat detail. Thanks for sharing your lovely talents.
Oh happy day,
Tammie
Thanks so much for offering this blog cancy!
Goal #3 is to finish scrapbooks of 3 trips we took to Egypt, Germany & China. Not having the right paper or having the itinerary organized has slowed me down.
Wow. spellbinders. I would really like to try those. i love the die templates that I use. May your year be blessed and full of what God has in store for you. Open your heart wide, relax and receive.
Becca I love this new die template – your card is amazing. I can hardly wait to order it and make this card. Keep em coming. Love you and God Bless You..
Love your beautiful layouts. May 2012 is a blessed year of groweth in our LORD!!!
One of my crafting goals this year is to start on genealogy scrapbooks. I want to do 3, my mom’s family, my dad’s, and my hubby’s, not too many photos from his family
My craft goal is to use everything I purchased last year. I over did it, Life got in the way. But I am ready to play and hope life does not get in the way.
Hey there Becca! LOVE today’s card! I just don’t know how you come up with these fabulous designs…I wish I had your vision.
On to the craft room: also on the list is setting up my machines so they can actually be used when I need them, instead of pulling things from here and there and setting them up temporarily. AND keeping things that go with each near the machine to which they belong!
More tomorrow. Thank you for making me think this all through…now if I can only act on it!
Have a great day!
Sue Brailey
Hi Becca, Thanks again for all the wonderful inspiration. You have shared so much with us your readers and I truly appreciate having an opportunity to share your journey! I have so many craft goals for 2012…one would be to have my son make me the two wooden bow makers that you described in your blog and the other is to get organized so I can actually get into my craft room to create! LOL Thanks for the chance to win! Hugs, Teresa
Hi Becca,
Love love your site!!!!
In the next year I really want to completely put everything in order after each completed project!!! At least I want to try….
Thanks for the opportunity to win
Bonnie
This year my goal will to make some beautiful feminine cards like you show on your blog. You have such a creative mind and pull things together and they look beautiful. This might sound strange but I really need to learn how to ink the edges of the paper to make it look vintage. I have tried and it looks like a child smeared stuff on the edges. Maybe I am being too fussy but some areas look fine but others too much ink. How do you make yours look so pretty?
Wishing you a beautiful day.
HUGS
Ri
Happy New Year. Love your inspiration for all of us. So Fabulous.
Thank you so much for all you do…. We love you….. God bless… denice
Goal number 3 for me is make some cards for less fortunate people around me so they can send to others. As cards are expensive some people can not afford to give them so if I make and give some for others to send to loved ones it would make me feel better and the sender feel better too.
God Bless you each day Becca.
Marjorie.
Happy New Year Becca it is good that you are back with us again. I would like to be able to produce the beautiful bows that you do and also hope to launch a cardmaking workshop for others. It is all tied up with trying to get people to use the local library as well. Anne x
Wow! Look at that comments total… and still going up. Don’t think I’ve ever seen the number this high before. Three days into the new year and I am still going strong with my “resolution” to make more creative time for myself. Of course I’ve been on vacation time, so we’ll just have to see if it continues when my real life resumes with returning to work a little later this month. In the meantime, boy am I relishing my play time in my work room! Thanks again for the blog candy opportunity.
Happy New Year Becca (and everyone else)!
I have a crafting goal for this year, which I set after much thought and consideration. I would like to make a larger effort to make my card making a small business. I’d like to start up a blog and a corresponding site where I can sell my creations via PayPal.
I know this will take a lot of focus and determination, both of which I have to admit waver a lot depending on the day and how well my MS is behaving (or misbehaving lol).
So many others have gone before me, which is both daunting and inspiring all at once. You are one of my blogger inspirations and I thank you for the time and commitment I know you put into doing all you do.
Thanks for the chance to win – I LOVE Spellbinders and I don’t own any of the Grand Nestabilities. Very exciting just to daydream, isn’t it?
So glad u asked Becca. Finally I have shelves in my craft room so my goal for this year is to arrange the craft room so I can have my friends over to play and to have as arranged place for me to create in. A big job ahead but I love all my supplies. Thanks for the chance to win this awesome collection. And boy do I love spellbinders dies!!!! evette God bless.
I am working reading through the bible this year. I would also like to work on cleaning up after one project before I start another.
Happy New Year Becca,
Firstly, i want to thank you for all your insipations, came across your tutorial videos when searching on how to use a certain Martha Stewart punch bought off QVC short while ago. I was blown away by what you did with them.I always admired all your card creations,you always think outside the box, you are so talented. (You remind me of Sue Wilson of paticraft here in the UK)
My goal for 2012 is to have good health, in order to be able to create, share through my blog, sell and donate for my charity!
Thanks for your generousity and a chace to win.
Hugs, Bim x
I hope that this year I can be more organized in every aspect of my life. I also hope I can make my family & friends a priority in my life, to make sure I cherish & appreciate each and every one of them. I have been trying to remember to thank God each day for all the wonderful blessings in my life.
After spending two weeks away from my craft room, I have “new eyes” looking at the mess that I left after all the Christmas card making. Today my New Year’s resolution is to get it back in order…plus getting things a little better organized with all the new things that you’ve inspired me to acquire! So much fun! Oh, and those thank you cards need to be done…I’m late!
I’m so inspired by your creative designs and enjoy checking in every day! You are truly a blessing.
Thank you for another opportunity to win some fabulous blog candy. You inspire so many people with the beautiful things you create.
Day three: another goal for this year-journal what I eat!!! So keeping up my check for food!!! Balance balance balance.
I am constantly amazed and inspired by your gorgeous creations! My number 3 resolution is also to get my craftroom organized so I can find what I need without tearing the room apart. This will include an inventory of dies, embossing folders, inks etc so I don’t buy duplicate items. Thanks again for the blog candy opportunity.
Wow! Love the giveaway!
I would like to get brave enough to give a thank-you card to a complete stranger. Meaning, a helpful clerk or someone like that. I’m afraid they will think I’m a wierdo but, it sure would be fun!
My most immediate project right now is to finish numbering and punching samples of my border punches to be placed in a booklet so that I can see what choices I have to use on a card, and simply go to the appropriate drawer (also numbered) and get it.
Becca,
You always amazing me with your cards.
My goal for this year is to make my craft room useable for making items &
give away things I don’t use any more.
Vicky
A goal of mine (not a crafting one) would be to ask my kids (2 teenagers and a 9 year old) to help around the house more. We all pitched in to dismantle the Christmas tree and it only took 10 mins or so. It would have taken me around an hour to do it all on my own! It can be much easier to do a lot of these things myself but it is better for everyone if I get the children to help.
Hi Becca!
My third crafting goal for 2012 is to make and send out more
cards. Thanks for the blog candy! I am keeping my fingers crossed!
Quite a collection! You’re the greatest!
My third craft goal is to master paper flowers!
another resolution is to sort through my “friends” and spend more of my energy with the true ones and not so much on the fair weather ones.
Another goal is to try and use up some of my existing stash before I buy any more.
What a fabulous giveaway. Thanks for your generosity Becca. You have brightened so many of my days with your gorgeous projects. Wishing you a joyful 2012!
My third crafting goal is to try to make some basic card bases ahead of time and then embellish as i need a finished card.
Hi Becca! Another goal for me this year is to send more “just because” cards out to the wonderful people in my life.
Another goal for this year is to get a stash of cards made ahead, so I don’t always have to scramble to make a card when the need arises. It would make my life less stressful.
Your creations just keep getting better and better. My second goal for the year is to get more comfortable using Nestabilities. I can “do things” with them, but I’m not really creating anything with them yet.
Hope you’re having a happy new year.
Great blog candy. another goal this year is to use some of the stamping supplies that I have bought over the years and in some cases, never used! That’s sad.
My first crafting goal is to finish cataloging my stamp collection, I have my papers and everything else done, I just have to finish my stamps. Thanks for the opportunity to win :)
Ah, day three’s goal, learn a few new techniques! Of course, by watching you Becca, I could learn hundreds!
It would be fun to try a different color scheme for each month’s birthday cards. I like to try something that I haven’t done before, but this is definitely more challenging at times for me! A fun new goal!
What a great prize, my goal for 212 is to get more organized. Thanks for the chance
Happy New Year Becca, I enjoy your work so much. It inspires me to keep
making cards.
I’m not sure how to do this but wanted to tell you how much I admire your work. It keeps me motivated to keep making cards. Of course it also makes me want all the new things out.
Although cards are “my thing,” I’d really like to finish up a couple of scrapbooks this year. My son’s wedding was 3 years ago! Oops!
Love the new nested ovals set and the card you made. Here is my posting for day 3. Another goal for this year is to use the “many” embossing folders I have!
WOW!!! I Love your card. You’re such an inspiration! Another one of my goals for this year is to craft more by “scheduling” time like you would a doctor appt. etc. Thank you for your generosity.
My biggest crafting goal for this year is to use up some of the things I have been holding onto as precious.
Goal 1 – get better organized
Goal 2 – use what I have, no shopping until April
Goal 3 . . . blog more consistently. It doesn’t have to be everyday, but it should be no less than once per week. Right now it’s very haphazard and random.
January 4th 2012
5 days and 5 rings, a goal for each . . . . so here goes for my day 4 response to Becca’s Candy blog. For my fourth Gold Ring ushering in the New Year with a Goal to use my card making and scrapbooking as a way of growing and building upon the relationship I have with my sister. Clare lives across the other side of the world and shares a passion for this creative outlet. It would mean I would contact her far more frequently than I do and this is something we both have agreed to work on – sharing examples of cards we have made would provide the ideal framework. Thanks again Becca for providing this inspiration.
[As I am writing my goals over these 5 days, I am finding it to be quite a cathartic process – is anyone else experiencing this too?]
Another one of my crafting goals for this year is to spend more time creating cards with my sisters, SIL and nieces. I love sharing my supplies and we have so much fun together.
Goal #4…I would love to be able to make cards like yours. When I started buying Nesties, I picked shapes to give me variety. The shapes aren’t close enough to mix & match like you do. I think I need to re-plan and go back to the beginning and fill in some gaps. Anybody know where to find cheap deals on Spellbinders??? I think I may go broke filling in my gaps. LOL
Just catching up on blogs after the hols -have been away from my computer for 5 days-:( my aim craftwise this year is to finish off and move into my slightly larger craft room and organize all my crafts so I can see my UFO’s and finish them, as well as hope to participate in some blog challenges for cardmaking and get my blog up and running again more regularly.
Another thing, I would like to learn this year is to use an airbrush. Don´t know why, but have always been facinated of that, and now I´ve got a compressor for christmas, so I´m pretty sure, I´ll get the airbrush for my birthday later he he he.
Something else I am determined to do is work harder at colouring techniques! I am very poor and when I look at other people’s gorgeous finished stamps etc I am so envious. So I am really going to try, especially since Santa left me some Promarkers!
My fourth crafting goal is to try a home decor project! there are a few ideas floating around in my head, but I just need to decide if I’ll make it for myself (my new home) or for someone else.
My fourth crafting goal is to make some card sets to give away as gifts.
Another resolution I have is to get more organized in my craft room and STAY that way.
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It’s getting close to choosing a blog candy winner … My goal this year is to become more organized, not only in my crafting and card-making world, but in every aspect of my life. I tend to leave things for “later” and that could be a week or two, or just before company is to arrive or the cards NEEDS to get in the mail. I’m very much a procrastinator. Today my priority is to put away everything that is sitting on my bedroom and computer room floor that I received for Christmas and to take down all my Christmas decorations.
Thanks again for the chance to win some blog candy. I am looking forward to another year in which to be able to stretch my creative side. I really hope to spend more time with friends encouraging them to also express their creativeness.
Good morning again!
I would love to try new techniques this yeart and use my stamps more.
Thanks so much Becca for the chance to win these beauties!
Hugs from Brasil
Marcia
So much fun to come back each day (or almost each day, lol) as it has me thinking about goals for 2012. Another is the use of my picked word for the year…”Open”….I am hoping to have an open heart and mind as I go through the year. Open to new things, open to change, open to others suggestions, open new doors, open new friendships…..I could keep going, lol!
Another goal would be to finish things already started.
Another goal…let me think!!! I am determined to keep sharing with others. I love sewing and card making…and my friends are wonderful to share with!
I also resolve to try more new techniques with cardmaking this year!
My best creativity comes when my heart is totally into it. My goal is to stop and smell the roses each day and be thankful for all my blessings. Thank you Becca for sharing your beautiful paper grace creativity.
Good morning.
I will try to make somebody smile today. It feels good when you can light up somebodies face.
Hugs
Ri
What a generous giveaway, Becca. I’m hoping to stretch my artistic endeavors into some mixed media this year.
Part of my goal is to do more scrapbook layouts this year and I got three done yesterday so I think I’m off to a good start ;)
Crafting goal #4 ~ create and SEND at least one card a week to someone that isn’t expecting it. Just to know they’ll be smiling when they open it and see it comes from my heart will make MY heart sing. Thanks again for the opportunity to win your amazing blog candy.
Hugs, Barbara
One of my crafting goals for 2012 is to make cards as beautiful as you. I’m not usually a bling person but your cards are awesome.
For my fourth goal, I’m going to try to use some of my tools more often in my crafting. I’ve not really used my Distrezz-it-All since I got it or my Bind-It-All. Hopefully, my projects will improve once I dust off my machines and make them work for me?!!!
ANOTHER goal for this year would be to TRY NEW TECHNIQUES!!!!!!! Since I have NO ONE close to teach me, I pretty much have to do it all on my own! Sometimes, just not having the supplies on hand makes me pull away from a technique, but I WILL try some new ones! :)
My fourth goal will be try some calligraphy because actually the enveloppe
don’t match the card.
I don’t know where to start with this but it might be like usual one step at a time.
Merci
Francine
Hi Becca. Another goal I have for this year is try and keep my craft space organized and clean up after each project. Sometimes after I’ve created several projects it’s a disaster! lol Thank you so much for inspiration you give us and for the chance to win your awesome blog candy. Have a great day.
Thank you for the opportunity to win a great prize. My crafting goal this year is to have cards ready to go out on time so they no longer have to say “belated” on them.
Another crafting resolution that I have is to clean up as I go!
Another goal for this year is to make a card stash so I have cards on hand for occasions instead of panicking and running into my craft room to make one. This will also enable me to send out a card to someone who least expects it…just because!!
All I can say is wow! I stumbled across your blog and I can’t get enough. I think your work is one of the best I have come across by far. You have inspired me to do better work on my cards. To think outside the box and use my spellbinders (very limited though). It has inspired me so much, I made two cards this week and sent them out already. Thanks for having such a talent and sharing with others.
My other crafting goal is to try creating more 3D projects. I would love to make gifts I could give friends and family.
I tell you what, making me think daily about my goals is inspiring LOL
so therefore, one of my goals this year will be to make a monthly list of some do-able goals!
thanks for another chance to win! Hugs! Hope you’re feeling better and better every day,,,,,,,,sciatica is awful!
I hope to get more organized making cards ahead rather than waiting until they due to be sent out. Thank you for this opportunity to win these great prizes to get started towards that goal.
Love this blog candy. I have some of the newer Spellbinders but I need some of the basic ones, like the squares. Seems the Hobby Lobby here never has that one, they are always out of it.
My crafting goal this year is to get my craft room organized. Now mind you, that was my last year’s resolution also, but I am determined to do it this year.
Thank you for the awesome chance Becca! One thing I plan on this year is doing more scrapbooking. :)
Thank you for the chance to win this great Blog Candy! I also wanted to Thank You for sharing you talent with us!
God Bless
My goal is to actually finish some of the craft projects that have been lingering on my list!!!!
LOL.luvglitztoo
It is getting close :-) After I create a new work space for my projects (or maybe even before then…) I would like to use some of the new dies I’ve purchased and really try out some fun things with them!
Hugs,
Antonella :-)
You have inspired me to actually work on some of the goals I set for myself. In the last two days I have actually organized my Christmas supplies, they now have a dedicated space and I finally finished my stamp catalog late last night. Woo Hoo! My third goal is to brake out of my comfort zone and try new things.
Thanks again for the chance to win.
Blessings Bernie
One of my crafting goals this year is to make better bows. I am always inspired by your gorgeous bows and would love to re-create some of them! My husband made me a peg bow-maker recently based on your instructions and I must practice! Thank you for the chance to win!
One of my crafting goals is to start on my Christmas cards early. This was the first year that I tried that and it saved my sanity when it became crunch time in November and December. I plan on starting even sooner this year and having them even more completed (inside papers, sentiment, etc). I will be starting some in January and just work a little bit all year long.
Goal – to do more work with my spellbinders.
Thank you for your blog. I have followed it since I was down with shingles last February. I would like to see more of the style in your early blog. I loved the coloring and images. I know you are working with certain companies. Have you considered some cute stamp companies. Probably any company would be thrilled to have exposure on your blog.
I want to learn how to make crochet flowers. I would also like to work more with ribbons on my cards and learn some of the fancy ribbons you make Becca!!!
Thank you for the opportunity to win some goodies.
With Appreciation and Friendship!
Happy New Year, Becca!
I love when my day starts with your blog :)
Thank you for inspiration!
I would like to do more crafting if that is possible. Thanks for this blog candy and the chance to win.
I need to whittle down my crafty to do list. I have quite a few thank you cards and a few gifts planned I am soooo far behind on! It will feel great to get caught up!
I love the way you use so many elements in an “out of the box” way…so creative. The way you intertwine the Spellbinders die cuts and add imaginative use of different elements topped with the Becca Bows is a daily source of inspiration. My goal is to attempt to try some of these techniques. Thanks so much for sharing your creativity with us all.
Goal 4. To force myself to take the time to do more stamping!
One of my goals this years is to use lace to achieve more elegance in my cards, and who’s example do I look to for that? :o)
Look forward to each and every new card you publish. I haven’t tried any of them yet as I just found tour website. Now that the holidays are over I’m dying to get back into card making. I sure hope you don’t burn out!
Becki
I like to do oil painting so I’d like to find a way to incorporate my oil paintings in my cards.
My goal is to attend Curves three times a week. I’ve been a bit hit-and-miss with that lately, and need to get back on track!
DeniseB
Another of my craft goals is to learn more about my red Sizzix machine. I have several alphabet die sets and love them. What I would like to know is whether the machine is compatible with the new, thin dies that are paired with stamps. My machine is the one with a pull-down handle and a magnetic adapter plate.
One of my goals this year is to try using more layers with pop dots to my cards. They seem to add not only demention but draw your attention to the central point of cards. Dianne
Another goal I have is to use stitching more in my card designs. Sewing and quilting came to be in my crafting long before card making… Not sure why I don’t stitch more on my cards… I hope to remedy that this year. I always admire it when I see it on cards.
Today, my resolution would be to try making clean and simple cards more often! Sometimes, less is more!
One goal that I have this year is to use the stamps I already own. I’ve only been stamping for about 3 years, but I have bought SO MANY stamps that I have never used. So, this year I want to go through my stamps and try to use as many of them as I can to make as any cards as I possibly can.
WOW Becca….lots of people to choose from! Some lucky follower will be able to fulfill at least one of their 2012 goals with winning this blog candy….hope it’s me! Goal #5: Create More!!!!
Paper Hugs,
Jan
2012 Craft Goal
Keep my craftroom organized.
Thanks for the chance to win the great blog candy!!
Another goal I have for my crafting this year is to get myself some of those birdcage dies so I can try making your pop up card. I’m a sucker for anything with birds.
Another goal for 2012: excercise more!!!!!
Another goal I have is to use some of my stuff that has been setting around. See if I can make some nice cards like you Becca.
Another goal for 2012 is to send out more handmade cards; they truly show how much you care. Thanks for the opportunity to win blog candy.
I guess this is day four, and crafting goal number 4 of 2012 . . . once I’m done organizing, and using my supplies, and blogging, I guess I should be creating – although perhaps I should have put creating as goal 3, and have goal 4 be blogging – but either way, in the general sense I would like to actually spend more time being creative.
#4 Eat more chocolate! Don’t be surprised if an embellishment is used to cover a chocolate fingerprint! smile
Tammie
This year I plan on improving my coloring technique, which means I’ll have to do more stamping! LOL
Just checking in late this evening when I realized I didn’t post today yet. Today I worked on taking all my Christmas items down and stashed away for another year. Becca you have made several ornaments over the years and I would love to do some of those papercraft ornaments. That is another goal for this new year.
Love your posts and look forward to checking your blog for all the lovely, femine things you do.
A craft goal – to complete and mail out beautiful cards and gifts for friends on time. Usually I get them made, but not always mailed on time.
Procrastinate less. If I dislike something, I put it off til the last minute.
I need to work on that!
Day # 4….. Another goal for this year is to use my stash of beads… which means…making and using stick pins!!! It’s another Becca thing!! LOL
This year I have decided to make some of my own embellishments, flowers etc. I crochet yet have never crocheted my own flowers to use on my cards. I see other peoples and think how nice they look, and yet I could do that easily too. I am going to make paper flowers and maybe ribbon roses too.
January 5th 2012
5 days and 5 rings, a goal for each . . . . so here my last entry of the 5 days in response to Becca’s Candy blog. For my fifth Gold Ring ushering in the New Year with a Goal to make myself find the time to do more of what I enjoy – like my card making, even if it’s just 20 minutes each day (and that includes organising my craft bits and bobs too!). Wise words given to me by my Mother who sadly passed away this time last year – I would like to dedicate all of my 5 gold rings to her, I know she’s up there smiling!.
Maybe craft with friends more.
I really want to be much better to step outside my comfortzone this year, and try and use colors, that I don´t normally use very much. I´m sure, that´ll learn me a lot too.
My 5th goal is to spend more time crafting with friends. It’s always fun to share ideas. Thanks Becca for sharing.
I would like to make beautiful cards as well as you do. I take a card class and check out your blog every day to keep improving my card making.
I would like to use up what supplies I have available, instead or buying more paper, more stamps, more embellishments etc. Although if I go to a new store when I am travelling, I most certainly will not pass up having a look or even buying something new that is not offered in our area. Thanks for the chance to win and I sure do enjoy your insperation. Dianne
Sometimes I am not realistic when I fixe my goal. So for the goal no 5.
Keep attention where a put my time be objective before I start a project
to the time a want to invest before a start.
A Happy New Year to you Becca. Just wanted to let you know that ever since I have seen the honeycomb ornament video, I have been addicted to your inspiration. You cards and projects are just gorgous!!! Love your name of course, due to the fact, my daughter’s name is Bekka also. Ok crafting resolution for the year. All UFO’s finished first. Then start on the notebook of projects I have collected and create until I need craft rehap. I am honestly probably already there, dear. My other goal for the year is to understand “My God” and have him closer to my heart. So far the year has started off to a good start. Hope yours is joyous so far…
See need REHAB already….Too much crafting and spelled rehap instead of rehab….off to work now…in the snow….I Live in Northern New York…
Hope to win just love the new spellbinder.
Hi Becca
I would like to try to organize my materials this year and make a better use of them!
thanks for the chance!
Hugs
Marcia
My resolution is to organize my space better so that I can spend more stime actually making cards. Also, intend to make more cards for charity rather than just for challenges and keeping them! Happy New Year!
Thanks again for the chance to win some awesome blog candy, Becca!
Excuse me, I need to get crafting ~ it’s one of my goals for the year ~ stop playing on the computer and get to work cutting, pasting, inking!!!
Hugs, Barbara
One of my crafting goals is to work on a lot of UFOs. I want to take all the bits and pieces and finish them in to cards. I have a lot of Christmas ones to get an early start on my cards for next year.
Also, I made a number of gifts for Christmas this year – lots of jewelry, knitted scarf, knitted shrug, fabric book. I would like to do more of that for next year as well, so I need to get an early start.
My goal this year is to get my son’s high school scrapbooks finished. He is graduating this year and the thing to do around here is have all the scrapbooks from their high school years out to look at. So I’m going to be busy up until May!
My goal for this year is to get my room organized
My crafting goal for today is to venture out more and do things other than cards. I seem stuck in a rut and maybe making other items will pull me out of that rut.
Happy New Year to you Becca! Love seeing your artwork. Thank you for sharing and being an inspiration to so many.
Love your blog… I am going to review all my diecuts and use any I haven’t used before. I find that when I just use them I come up with ideas as I can’t visualize their use when they are in their package.
As always, one of my goals for this year is to organize, organize, organize so I can find my supplies when I need them!!!!!
Thanks, Becca, for the chance to win the Happy New Years Blog Candy!
Happy New Year Becca!
My goal this year is to do more layers on my cards and more hand made flowers! I love both of these and struggle with the layering on my cards. And the flowers – well I just love flowers and making them! Thank you for your inspiring posts and the chance at some yummy blog candy!
Another crafting goal for this year is to use what I have. There are so many things in my stash–stamps, paper, embellishments–that I could craft for years and not use them all up. I need to look hard at those items before I run out and buy more stuff. Same goes with my yarn stash, I need to knit up some of the fiber on hand. I have lots of projects in mind, and supplies to do them, so I certainly don’t need more.
That is, until I see the latest and greatest new thing!
I really enjoy your blog, thanks so much for sharing your considerable talent with us.
I am trying not to acquire more “things” unless it is toward the crafts that I am zeroing down on. If I have items that I do not use, someone else surely is able to use it in a crafty way. Thank for the opportunity to expand in using my die cut machine, The Spellbinders have caught my eye for a long time. Blessing to you
Becca for a God filled New Year.
Well sadly my old purple Spellbinders Wizard just bit the dust on me, I’m so sad :( So first on my list is to get a new Wizard or if I am extra lucky to find a Calibur on sale. I am borrowing mom’s cuttlebug, but I need my own, lol! Thank you for the chance Becca! :)
Another of my goals this year is to send out more of the hand made cards to family & friends! I am so bad at this! I make the cards & forget to send them out!! Thanks for the chance to win!!
Becca, thanks for the opportunity to win the blog candy. My New Year’s resolution is to blog more.
A goal for this year is to try as many of the techniques that I’ve read about as possible. I love learning about new techniques. I’m constantly reading on the Internet to learn all I can about papercrafting and watching videos about techniques when possible. The only problem is that I don’t follow through and try all the techniques that I read about even though I think they are wonderful and would make my cards more interesting. So, hopefully this will be the year of “techniques” for me.
Becca, after reading a lot of comments, it seems we crafters have a lot in common with too much of a good thing. I’ve really been working hard to use the things I have in creating my cards. Have stayed away from stores because the temptations are too great there. Those discount coupons are definitely alluring, but I’ve realized that I don’t need to have a stamp store in my home. This post has been so good for me as I read that I’m not alone in this craft with our over abundance of supplies. Hopefully, I will keep to my goals this year.
Shirley L.
Roseville, CA
I really love all your projects even if I don’t try out all of them. The inspiration is there and I love it!
RobinG
Another crafting goal for 2012 is to be more adventurous in my style, colors and design as I tend to be quite conservative and I need to break out more often.
Hi Becca, Well one of my crafting goals is to start using the Grand Calibur I got for christmas!! I don’t have any large dies yet, so this would be a good start to my crafting stash! I also would love to figure out a way to organize my papers…I have about 25 pads of 12 x 12 paper and tons of single sheets of 12 x 12 paper. Thanks for the chance to win. Hugs, Teresa
I think I could come up with new resolutions every day! Today would be spending less time blog surfing and more time on actual crafting! I am not getting my work done! :o)
Another goal is to learn to colour. I see so many beautiful cards with amazing colouring…. I want to learn how.
OH MY ! THis latest card was a WOW!!! I love it. Get out of my way family I am heading for my craft room…..
My goal for the new year is to spend a lot more time in my craft room and less time on the web!!
Another idea…what you have done stacking die cuts. Like it. Simple, but most definitely something to remember.
My biggest goal this year is to get more motivated in every direction. Now that my husband is retired I find it hard to routinely do anything, like I was doing before his retirement. I work best with a schedule when it comes to house cleaning/gardening/crafting, etc. Thanks for offering up some terrific blog candy and happy to read where you are going to continue to design multiple layer cards and other box/craft items.
One of my crafting goal is to try and use fabric and canvas in my projects.
Another goal on my list for this year is to do more with coloring stamped images. I get a bit intimidated by all the wonderful things I’ve seen online, but I’ve got my mind set on working on coloring techniques.
I love your work and check your site daily. You are such an inspiration to me. I have tried to duplicate many of your cards for my card club – not as gorgeous as yours, but still lovely.
My goal for 2012 is to be more AG (Amazing & Graceful) in my crafting. Thanks for all the inspiration, Becca!
Hi, Becca. I hope you’re having a great day. I love all of your creations and you provide me with such great inspiration. Another goal I have for this year is to try more new techniques. Thanks again for the chance to win your awesome blog candy.
It’s so generous of you, Becca, to offer such wonderful blog candy!
We have been putting off getting our 5th-wheel trailer back in shape after the wind blew the awning off, and we developed a small leak in the toilet plumbing. Hubby has had both his shoulders surgically repaired, so we haven’t been able to go anywhere in it this year, so that’s something we’d like to take care of this year. In order to do that, though, we are both trying to get in better physical condition, since we’re in our mid-50’s.
I hope God is lessening your grief by the day, and that you are well! Thank you for sharing your awesome talent!
I check in daily for my “Becca” lift and inspiration. All of your cards are beautiful and creative!!! I love them all and encourage you to do whatever your spirit moves you to do. Lots of love to you and yours in this New Year.
Well Becca I am back again with my fifth and last goal for this year.
These are my goal comments to you so far:-
1. Peace -Inner peace to find my crafting mojo again.
2. Patience -To be patient with myself when my cards etc don’t quite turn out the way they should.
3. Time -Make time to craft and to relax
4. Organisation – To finish organising my new craftroom so I have easy access to everything.
And now for todays. The final one is:-
5. Charity -This year I want to make cards to sell for Charity and therefore, I must find the right Charity. I am thinking maybe the local animal shelter, I will have to look into it.
Well thats it I believe. I have struggled to get my comments to submit on two days, but I think they got through in the end. I hope so.
Thank you again for this little challenge, it has actually helped me to focus on the important things that I need to do as I begin this new year.
Bless you. Linda (S.Wales, UK)
So much fun… thinking of my resolutions / goals for this year…. I really hope that I can create some new projects this year with the fun new dies I’ve just received!
Hugs,
Antonella :-)
My fourth goal is to make myself work in more exercising/standing/walking while I’m creating, which may mean some breaks for a few minutes every hour to stretch, walk and try to keep from gaining any more weight (and maybe losing a bit?)! I get so caught up in my crafting that I forget to eat/drink/move sometimes — NOT good!!! ;-(
Love your creativity. Love your tutorials, Love your kindness…. Love you….. God bless….. Denice
I need to spend less time on the internet, looking at cards and more time actually making them! Also I need to choosy about whether to do a blog hop or not as although fun, they can be time consuming!
Oh what fun Becca! You are so sweet to post a new year’s candy for us! I have several important goals this year mostly centered around using my cards to give back and raise money for cancer research. In preparing to do this I have been working diligently to completely organize my craft room by color. It takes lots of time but it is coming along slowly but surely. I try to do a little each day during times when my husband doesn’t need me as much – ie: when he is asleep. I am finding that I can make cards much faster when all of my embellishments are in color order.
Another scrappy resolution is to schedule more time to create! Thanks for the chance!
Thought I may aim to be on another DT, and maybe look at submitting for publication………………
I want my crafting to bring me closer to God. Every card I make will be to glorify Him.
I need to blog more. I’ve been creating less because of being pregnant and now with a brand new baby but I still have tons saved up to blog. I’m just more tired these last few months so I just haven’t gotten to it. Definitely a goal for the new year!
My last crafting goal is to learn to use my Cricut machine that is still in the box!!
One other goal I have is to try all your tutiorals. Then add them to my cards. Love every one of your cards.
Vicky
I want to try to use my tools more often… I have a Cuttlebug and lots of embossing folders, and a QuicKutz Revolution with dies. So I need to be more productive!
DeniseB
My fifth crafting goal is to work on creating a blog… Not sure how to start so I have a feeling this goal will probably continue into next year, but I definitely would like to give it an honest try! Becca, thanks for asking the question on your blog candy post… it definitely got me to think about some goals for my crafting year ahead.
Another one of my 2012 Crafting Goals is to try several new techniques. Thanks for the blog candy.
I am determined to learn Photoshop Elements this year. I think it will really help in my card designing. Thanks for all your inspirations!
We are in the 50’s here in Salem, OR and it was a beautiful, sunny day!!! You should come for a visit – I have a guest room!!! At any rate, hope to see/meet you at CHA!
Goal #5: Use ribbon this year…I have tons and never seem to use it – LOL!
Paper Hugs,
Jan Castle
Happy Thursday Becca! Another goal I have set for myself is to use my Spellbinder dies more often. If I could make my cards look even half as good as yours, I’d be a happy girl. Happy New Year!
This year I’d like to participate in some of the challenges on SCS. I admire the cards I’ve seen from them, but have never played along. They say the challenges help to kickstart your mojo, and I really seem to need that right now, ’cause my mojo’s up and left me.
I always mean to play along with challenges but I often get sidetracked before I get them added to my gallery. So that a good crafting goal for this year. Thanks for the chance to win some great blog candy!!
Another resolution is to use the tools I have more-spellbinder dies, embossing folders, punches.
craftymom205 at yahoo dot com
Someone will be so lucky to win this absolutely awesome blog candy! You are so sweet, Becca!
I need to clean up my craft room, and I’d like to say it will stay that way, but you know how it doesn’t! lol That’s what I’d like to do this year – commit to keeping it straightened up, and do some perging.
This year I will be working on the master plan and the creating of the scrapbook of my parents lives. Been researching the genealogy, now I have what I need on the grandparents, so I have to figure out how I am going to make it into an attractive scrapbook. Actually there will be more than one and then I promised I would do one for my siblings too. So….I will be extremely busy this year with that and keeping up with my monthly birthday cards. Did I ever tell you that my job gets in the way of my crafting life!!! ha ha ha
Blessings to you Becca!!
Can’t wait to see what you come up with tomorrow. You are very talented.
Becki
I love all things beautiful and you create beautiful things and show them to us so that we may be inspired. Thank you for sharing blog candy with us, it allows us to create beautiful paper crafts too.
I have a goal to not do any scrappy spending until I have completed 30 layouts and 75 cards.
Began working at husband’s office – until tax season is over in April. I am not a numbers person, however, I can file, sort, do the mail, and many of the ‘little’ things that need to be completed, but the ‘experts’ don’t have to bother with while I’m there. Good feeling.
Another craft goal for 2012 – to share delicious blogs like yours with my stamping friends…..I do not need to be so protective – share the beauty and talent.
hugs
Goal #5 is to use my Cricut Expression. It has been in the box since March, almost a year. I am somehow afraid to try it out. LOL
Becca thank you so much for the chance to win the great blog candy. Another one of my 2012 goals is to make more cards for the Ministry of Compassion at my church. These cards are then sent to folks during times of illness, death or whenever someone needs guidance or encouragement.
#5 I plan to recruit a few high stressed career ladies to become stampers-papercrafters. Its healthier than chocolate, less expensive than therapy, and provides intense concentration without perspiration!
Hmm, the pyramid layering is an idea I have to try. Great possibilities for guy cards.
Tammie
Another goal is to use more embellishments this year, especially ribbon!
to use up the last of my favorites!
Sandra ltb
Well, this is the last comment from me! I would love to find a class that teaches different techniques, folding, etc. I have the basics down but I would really like to expand my creativity! I also do counted cross-stitch and have several projects “in the beginning stages”! Those will be completed this year, as well! Now that I have put all this down on your site, and confessed it to hundreds of people, I better make sure I follow through! Thanks for the opportunity to win some really cool blog candy, Becca. Hope you are feeling better and getting resolutions! Hugs, Magi
Another crafting goal is to practice my coloring. Thanks again, Becca, for the chance to win!
Hello Becca
You Go Girl!!
I love all of your cards even when they are not my style because it gets me thinking beyond what I usually create.
Keep doing what you are doing, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!!
Hugs & Smiles
Hi Becca
I enjoy your site so much. I have recommended it to several of my sister card makers. I love the fact that you always find ways to use your supplies in different ways. I also love to watch your video tutorials. What I appreciate the most is that you take the time to tell us what you are using and where we can purchase these items.
The best to you for 2012
Jeannine
Comments are closed now. I’ll be pulling a winner from comments that precede this one. No worries, there’ll be more Blog Candy soon :-)
I love your style. It is very inspirational. Another goal for this year is to buy more dies & use them. Thank you for the oppurtunity to win some “candy”.
Wow what a way to start the year with such beauty. Thank you for all the encouraging cards this year. And always remember … Make it a great year..
Enjoy the ideas you provide.
Oh what a great blog candy giveaway! Only thing missing is YOU, Becca, so if I should be lucky enough to win, please jump in the box and come along to Tennessee with the goodies! Nelda