10 Things About Me

I read on someone's blog, or on Facebook somewhere, that we tend to focus our scrapbooking efforts on our children, our family, and events in our life, rather than telling a story about ourselves.  I decided that I needed to be able to scrapbook something about me that would be fun, many years from now to look back at, and that my kids could look back and likely laugh at as well.  So I came up with the idea of an album called '10 Things About Me'.  And not only did I have a stamp set to facilitate this glorious idea, Tresa Black at www.fabulouslyartsy.com designed a GORGEOUS 10 page workshop.  She set up a mini kit for fellow consultants to purchase, and of course, I did!  And I am sooooo glad I did.  In a few short hours 10 pages can be cranked out, embellishments and all, thanks to her amazing design skills, and her hard work to produce a guide to go along with that.  She did her guide with the Footloose paper, which is right up there among my favorites in this idea book.  I used Stella for my workshop.  It's great because it's 10 pages from just one paper pack (plus extra cardstock for mats and page bases), and with  a few coordinating embellishments you've got either one album completed, or you can break up the pages and still have several photos knocked out.  With the Stella pack, you could do the same theme as me, or 10 things I love about you (girl centered), or My 10 favorite things about 'x' (ie spring, a certain year in school, a certain place, or a vacation), or I have a friend wanting to use it for a baby album for her friend.  The Stella paper is very versatile that way.

While I was originally going to offer this workshop in May, it will be postponed a month, due to my father being in Intensive Care, and not knowing how long this will last.  Had I been able to finish with the beach version (Footloose) and the boy version (Victory), I may have tried to pull off a workshop this month, but alas, I am the queen of procrastination, so it's in a holding pattern like everything else in my life right now.  Sorry ladies, it will be worth the wait though, I promise!

I have already posted the teaser front page of the album on Facebook, but for the few of you that are not on Facebook, I will share it and a few more now!  Enjoy, and as I get them finished up, I'll post pics from the other versions as well!

The front page, and the back page...or it could be side by side in the album.

I added the Paradise Assortment of baker's twine, antiqued copper brads, the mocha assortment of pearls and many Paradise Paper flowers.

I hope you like them!  It was fun to put together some girly pages...love using flowers and pearls every now and again! : )

Cards

Between this soccer mom gig, and allowing myself to read for pleasure again, I have been neglecting my scrap room, unless something has absolutely had to get done...like prepping for workshops and making mother's day cards to take to the consignment shop.  I also had the hubby's birthday, so I used more of the Superhero paper I adore and came up with this...

Used the 'medal' centerpiece from a party favor again, and then one of the fun new sayings for the sentiment inside.  It says 'With age comes wisdom...you're one of the WISEST people I know'.  Good thing I know his sense of humor, and that he'll get a good chuckle, but I couldn't resist!  Love the Just A Number stamp set, it's right in line with my personality, and had I been that clever, I could have written those sayings myself! : )

Zach was invited to a preschool buddy's birthday party, and since it's an opportunity to introduce my business to a group of relative newcomers, I made a card.  I used up some of my stash, and created another new background with random stamping.  I LOVE the dragons, and thought it would work well for a preschooler.  I also fell in love with Susie Rostad's baby card (susierostad.blogspot.com), and used the 'layout' for this card.

I'm almost finished with the 2nd book in the Hunger Games series, Catching Fire, and I told my hubby not to buy me the 3rd one until he's finished with the 2nd one.  So that means I'll have at least one good week of creating ahead of me, before I shut down life to read another book!  Now I know why I continue to keep reading for pleasure on the back burner! : )

Workshop night tonight...EXPLOSION boxes!!

Superhero pages

As you all know, I LOVE zumba!  And my zumba buddies are having a Superhero Zumbathon for Autism, since April is Autism Awareness month.  You're probably wondering what zumba and autism have to do with superhero scrapbook pages.  Well, they are also having a silent auction to raise money for the Boise Autism Moms group.  So I combined my love of scrapbooking and zumba to hopefully benefit a great cause.  All of the zumba peeps are dressing up as superheroes for the event, so I figured a superhero layout would be a great item to donate.  Hopefully some scrapbookers come to the event, and hopefully one will find the layout irresistible! : )

I belong to a group on Facebook that is for CTMH consultants.  It is full of amazingly talented consultants, who share their fabulous creations with the rest of us who are looking to be inspired.  Kim Ferguson Donahoo created an amazing layout using the CTMH Roxie paper pack, but as you may know, it's girlie...and I have 2 boys...but the layout was AMAZING!  I decided to give it a go with my Superhero papers.  I'm very pleased with the way that it turned out!

And, we attended a superhero birthday party this past weekend, so I used part of his birthday invitation and the medallion from a party favor on the pages as well.  Thanks to Jeny Marshall for creating these lovely embellishments, that I was able to put to good use!  As Bob the Builder always says 'reduce, reuse, recycle'...and I did!

Easter banner

I love making banners, but I'm cheap when it comes to buying the chipboard sort.  So I created one entirely from cardstock, and Lucy papers.  I used the CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge to cut the shapes...am still wondering how I ever managed to live without my Cricut!  I also used the My Peeps stamp set, paradise baker's twine, creme brulee flowers, antiqued copper brads, and some of the discontinued chocolate mini medley assortment.  I wish I had ink distressed in chocolate instead of lagoon...but such is life, and I don't have time to redo it!  I couldn't get a great picture of it in one frame.  So here are a few different pics of it!

Hope that everyone has a very Happy Easter!

April Newsletter

Crop: Sunday, April 15th, 10am-5pm here at my home. FREE!! Just bring your supplies and your current project! For those of you that didn’t quite get the recipe cards finished, you could bring them along and have the actual cards to look at rather than a picture. Makes assembly oh so much easier!

Card Workshop: Friday, April 20th, 6:30pm. Make 10 cards using the beautiful papers of Stella, and the new 3 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch die cut cards from CTMH. I used 5 of the A size stamps, which you can also add to your workshop if you see one you can’t live without! Cost is $25, includes a full Stella paper pack with several leftovers, a pack of 10 cards, some crème brulee paper flowers, a few different colors of the Paradise assortment of Baker’s twine, the gorgeous chocolate striped ribbon, and antiqued copper brads. If you want to add the stamps, each stamp is $6.95, and they are Adore (A1123), Bravo (A1122), Thanks (A1125), Quick Cards Butterfly (A1120), and Quick Cards Shell (A1128).

 

Project Workshop: Monday, April 23rd, 6:30pm. Make an EXPLOSION box from either Superhero or Lucy papers, or one of each! : ) The box explodes when you take the lid off, revealing up to 20 pictures on the inside layers. Very fun! It’s perfect for Mother’s Day or Father’s Day...for your desk at work...or just because! Cost is $20, includes a full paper pack of Superhero or Lucy, coordinating colors of baker’s twine (fast becoming one of my favorite embellishments), clips (for the Superhero option), and paper flowers (for the Lucy option). The rub ons for either paper pack would make a great embellishment as well, let me know if you’d like to add this option to your workshop, Superhero rub ons (X7152C) $4.95, Lucy rub ons (X7149C) $4.95. You can choose to purchase a full thing of baker’s twine, Neutral (Z1701) $4.95 or Paradise (Z1702) $4.95, if you want leftovers to take home and use with your leftover paper.

To Go Kit of the month: Mini School Album. Cost is $7.50 for the first, and $5 for ea additional. Includes 10 page tag mini album using the Typeset paper, black button brads, a few milepost shapes, and a Cricut paper doll for the front cover. You can choose boy or girl, and I have a few sports themes available. I can stamp the grade on the front cover, or leave it blank. Just let me know what customization you desire for the front cover! I will cut everything for you, you will just have to assemble, and instructions with pictures will be provided.

 

Registration Deadline: Thursday, April 5th. I will be placing my order Friday morning, so let me know what you’re interested in by Thursday evening please!  PS...I've added a date, Monday, April 16th 6:30pm for the cards and/or explosion boxes.  I have a few gals coming, so let me know if this date works better for any of you!

More pictures of my workshops are available on my blog below.

 

And a reminder that I can make the card workshop and/or project workshop into a to go kit for you as well, if the dates don’t work. And if you feel like you need a little extra help, we can see if another date works. 

 

Thanks again for all of your support, this is shaping up to be another great month!  Love all of you ladies!!  Have a Happy Easter!