A New Class for 2013

I am really excited to announce that I will be participating in Layout A Day 2013 in February with Lain Ehmen.

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This project has been on my bucket list for awhile now and I finally took the plunge and I can't wait to get started.

I am also excited to challenge myself to use all of the new Close To My Heart paper packs to make my pages. Get your copy of the Spring/Summer 2013 CTMH Idea Book by contacting me right away!

HERE'S SOMETHING COOL! Earlier this year I became an affiliate of Layout A Day which means that Lain has given me a special discount for this class to pass onto to all my scrappy friends! Use code FUN at checkout to get $10 off, just because! But this discount expires Monday, 1/7, at midnight so don't miss out!!

 

I hope you will join me in this fun adventure in scrapbooking or at least follow my blog to see all the beautiful pages I will be creating with CTMH products.

 

Have a wonderful New Years Eve and I will see you again in 2013!!

 

Clearance Sale Starts Today!

Tons of product is marked down and these new products have been added!

SOPHIA B&T DUOS® PACK

FANFARE B&T DUOS® PACK

FANFARE L2 & L2 BUTTONS

MAYBERRY L2 & MY STICKEASE

DREAMIN L2 & HARVEST CHARMS

12" x 12" SOPHIA LEVEL 2 PAPER PACKET

12" x 12" MAYBERRY LEVEL 2 PAPER PACKET

MAYBERRY B&T DUOS® PACK

LUCKY L2 & MY STICKEASE

DREAMIN' MY STICKEASE® ADHESIVE SHEETS

LUCKY LEVEL 2 JOURNALING SPOTS

LUCKY LEVEL 2 ASSORTMENT

FANFARE MY STICKEASE® ASSORTMENT

MISCHIEF L2 & MIDNIGHT FELT SHAPES

LUCKY MY STICKEASE® ASSORTMENT

FANFARE LEVEL 2 ASSORTMENT

MISCHIEF COMPLEMENTS RUB-ONS

MIDNIGHT FELT SHAPES

To sweeten the deal even more, from December 1–31, all orders placed on my website that reach or exceed $50 will also include a free Bonding Memories® glue pen (Z553)—a $4.50 value! You are strongly encouraged to shop early, because these deals are only available while supplies last.

 

Happy Shopping!

 

 

Look What I Made!

I LOVE the Close to my Heart December stamp of the month "Year Round Cheer".

 

 

 

I made a card set for a birthday gift.

 

I even cut a box from the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge to match.

 

The stamp set came with the Art Philosophy cartridge.

 

 

 

Don't miss out on this cute, all occassion stamp set, it is only available in December and then it is GONE!

 

Contact me to place your order and save on shipping or order online.

 

My last order of the year will be December 7th.

 

Gearing Up for the 25 Days of Christmas!

It is that time of year again! As soon as the kids go back to school I start thinking about Christmas projects for the coming season,  more specifically, what kind of album will I create for the annual 25 Days of Christmas project. This year I have fallen in love with the look of Becky Higgin's Project Life and have decided to do my entire album using photo pocket pages. This is an example of what my completed pages will look like using pictures from a previous year:

 

These are CTMH photo pocket pages, horizontal. I simply added blocks of paper, journalling blocks and stickers when I didn't have a photo.

 

 

This is the new Dimensional Elements In Colour- Holiday

I put it right on top of the page protector.

 

 

Number card cut out on the Cricut Artiste cartridge

 

 

For this page I used both horizontal and vertical pocket pages.

 

 

Contact me for more information about my 25 Days of Christmas workshop and don't miss out on all the fun!

Clementine Is My Favourite

I think Clementine may be my favourite CTMH paper collection this fall. I love the combination of the blues, oranges, and yellows together.

 

This layout was done for the Ella Publishing Take 12 Challenge for september. I chose to take a picture every hour for 12 hours. I missed a few in the afternoon but how many pictures of me sitting at my desk is really necessary!

 

This layout was also done for a challenge at BPC.  I had to scrapbook something good that happened that week. It was a nice change to scrapbook the present rather than always going back to the past.

 

 

 

CTMH products used on these layouts:

 

 

 

 

Happy Scrapping!

 

 

Playing with La Belle Vie

As soon as I saw this paper collection I knew it would be perfect with these pictures of Hilary.

 

I have been waiting to scrapbook this gorgeous picture of Hilary for over two years now. This amazing picture was taken by my extremely talented photographer friend, Rhonda McMaster.

 

 

 

 

I also added the new CTMH satin polkadot ribbon, black tulle ribbon, slate mini medley accent collection, parlour velet rub-ons, flutter paper shapes and bling assortment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New CTMH Halloween Papers

My latest CTMH creations using the new Moonlight paper pack and coordinating dimensional elements.

 

 

 

 

Products Used:

 

Moonlight Workshop on the Go

 

Moonlight Complements Dimensional Elements

 

Cricut® Artiste Collection to cut the spiderweb

 

Order your Moonlight paper kit today!

 

 

 

The Perfect Collection with Shimelle Laine

Earlier this summer I purchased a stand alone video class by Shimelle Laine that she taught at True Scrap 3.

It is called The Perfect Collection: Using Your Favorite Collection Pack to the Very Last Scrap. She taught me how to take a paper collection and make beautiful, meaningful pages with almost every sheet of it. Did I mention I got about 16 pages done in about a week???

 

I chose a stack of summer paper from Michaels because it was bright and fun and I just felt like scrapping alot of old summer photos and stories. Here are my completed but naked layouts:

 

 

 

mostly single pages

 

 

a few double pages

 

 

even though these two pages weren't created as a double because the paper coordinated I could make them work together

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

birthday boy cut out with new Cricut Artiste cartridge

 

 

 

 

 

I can't tell you how much fun I had making all these pages and reliving the wonderful memories as I created them. You can do this too simply by purchasing the video from the True Scrap archive.

 

Click here for more information about the upcoming True Scrap 4!

Ella Publishing Spring Training

This year I decided to participate in Ella Publishing's Spring Training for the next two weeks. I am going to be posting my progress here everyday in the hopes of winning some cool prizes at the end.

The first day of training was ORGANIZATION! A subject we can all use some help with. Our task was to choose one item that we wanted to organize better. I chose my bulging sticker collection. I am getting rid of about half the stash (some will go to the kids and the rest will be on the free table at the next crop). Here is the picture of my "keep" pile.

The next task will be to sort this pile into some sort of order during which time I will probably get rid of more. I love purging!

Birthday Card Boot Camp Pictures

Here are the cards that we made at my first Birthday Card Workshop. It was a such a fun afternoon I can't wait for the next one. Everyone did such a great job!

All products are Close To My Heart unless stated otherwise. Various CTMH stamps were used to make these cards. All of these cards were inspired by CTMH's Wishes Card idea book which is retiring this year.

Boy Cards
Victory paper pack
Milepost Shapes
Basic Assortment Buttons
Dimensional Elements Stars

Girl Cards
Lucy paper pack
Lucy Complements Glittery Rub-Ons
Bitty Buds Assortment
Clear Sparkles
giftabella with hat stamp by Stamping Bella
Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge (butterfly)
Blush Ribbon - pink collection