Surprise! A month long celebration!

I LOVE JUNE!
So much so that I want to celebrate it for several reasons.
It's the beginning of my long vacation! (I'm a substitute
for our school district and today is the last day of the school
year!) It's the month of my son's birthday! (My one and
only baby who will be 11 on the 9th- Ugh! Where does the
time go??) It's the beginning of summer! (Who doesn't
love that?) And my favorite/lucky number has
always been six! :)

So I've decided to have a party on my
blog and you're all invited! Woohoo!

All month long, I'll be sharing daily layouts and some cards..
a few tutorials here and there.
And best of all.. every few days I'll have giveaways!!
Over $100 worth of goodies can be won
throughout the month.
Ooooooo I'm so excited!

Also, every 4-5 days, I'll post one letter of a special secret
word. On June 29th, if you put all the letters together to
correctly form the secret word, you'll be in a drawing for
a $25 gift certificate to The Scrapbooking Cottage!
How cool is that!!? I'm going to hide each letter on a photo
or in the comments, so you'll have to look for it. Haha!
But won't it be fun? :)

I'll even host a couple challenges!
You can win items from two new spring and
summer collections! Oh this just keeps getting
better and better! Woohoo!

Okay okay.. calm down Abby and get on with your post.

Today, Party Time Tuesdays is hosting it's very first
card challenge! Awesome! The founder, my friend Kristie,
is starting us off easy by keepin it simple. The challenge is
"Anything goes". Create a birthday card however you wish
and share it with us on the PTT blog!I hope you'll join us!

My card for PTT's first challenge was created with Cosmo
Cricket's "DeLovely" Mini-Deck that I won in a Jackpot
drawing on Scrappin-n-Chattin. I also hand-stitched the
stitches... man, I really need to get a sewing machine..
that was a long task by hand! But I LOVE the result!

Card Supplies: Cosmo Cricket "DeLovely", Thickers (foam),
Daisy Bucket Designs "Label" clear stamp, Colorbox Chalk Ink,
Inkadinkado "Sentiments"clear stamp, Basic Grey buttons,
white cardstock, floss

Aren't the papers beautiful? So bright and cheerful!
Would you like to have some DeLovely of your own?
Yes, today begins with the first of TEN giveaways I'll be
hosting this month! Woot!!Just leave me one comment on this post and tell me what
is your favorite thing to do in the summer! That's all it takes,
easy peasy! Friday morning, I'll randomly pick a winner
for a Cosmo Cricket "DeLovely" 6x6 Mini-Deck.

(For all the giveaways/prizes awarded this month,
winners will have just 48 hours to claim theirs.
So please, don't forget to check back to see if you've won.)

I'm really excited about my blog celebration,
I hope you are too and
will visit me often throughout the month!

I'll be back later on today with my first of 30 daily layouts!

Happy June! See you soon!