Month: January 2011

seriously – prizes are popping up EVERYWHERE!!! Check this out-

When you’re done swooning from the awesomeness of it, Enter to win!! http://pages.email.darice.com/core2/p?eKey=YF4bj.dSg1cbF4luFg4RXSgE

Oh and Glitz? I mentioned their FABULOUS new lines? well they’re giving my very favorite away!!! http://glitzitnow.blogspot.com/2011/01/glitz-design-afternoon-muse-collection.html

I want to get in on this too! In honor of my upcoming BPC on-line class Creative Retreat

I’ve got some Jenni Bowlin, Glitz, and Girls’ Paperie goodies + a moleskine journal to get you in the creative mood! If you’d like all this (pictured below) just leave a comment on this post!

I’ll pick a winner on Monday. Have a beautiful weekend!!

I won’t be on a plane until March, but darn if this week isn’t flying by in a blur! I’ve got a couple of things I want to note today…

If you’re local to Charleston & want to be first to know drop me an email and I’ll keep you posted. It’s going to be SO FUN.

I can absolutely guarentee you’ll see a class from me soon featuring Glitz goodness!! (sneak peek pictured above). Oh man. I love it all but that’s my favorite.

 Oh and Jenni Bowlin in my upcoming classes too. She’s just BLOWING My mind! Core’dinations is really rocking too – oh wow… I’m so inspired! I want to play & craft and make merry!!!

I’m off to get back to work here- I have been cleaning out my studio and I can only get to my computer if I stand a certain way and well… I need to clean up a bit.

I got a promotion over at Scrapbook Update – I’m now a Contributing Editor. I’ll still be doing reviews and all the articles you’re used to seeing from me. I’ve got quite a list of ideas going, and with CHA around the corner no doubt even more inspiration will be on the way. 2011 is going to bring SO MUCH CREATIVE FUN! I can tell already.

In fact – I’ve got a new article up! It’s all about rosettes (a hot & getting HOTTER trend now in scrapbooking) and I’ve got a new layout in there for you too. You can check it out here: http://www.scrapbookupdate.com/2011/01/18/trend-watch-rosettes/

Want to see how these hipstamatic prints were used & how other people used a sketch too? Check out Ella’s blog!

Mostly I used Fancy Pants “tradition” line. LOVE IT!!

I really don’t do sketches very often. When I  do I’m more of a “check out the general look” vs exact size deal. You’ll see what I mean when you check out the post this layout is up on. I went pure 4×4 pics instead of any 3×5 or 5×7 ones. I didn’t have either!

The blue in with traditional red & green really helped make it work for my holiday photos. LOVE this Fancy Pants line.

It’s all about making it work for you, and loving what you do. I’m having a blast.

It’s that time of year, when sneak peeks of new craft products start leaking out. Well, I’m THRILLED to see this one because I’ve been (secretly) working with this awesomeness for the last week or two & it’s FANTASTIC!! SO HARD not to scream about it from rooftop.

This material is wicked. So cool – I’m working it into some in-person (and you’ll see it in my on-line) classes too. It feels kind of like wax paper… but it’s not. Torn, die cut, printed on… holy wow. I LOVE THIS STUFF!!!  Oh and the new papers? Utterly besotted.

It’s hard to really get how great these are. I promise to do my best explaining them + showing some tutorials after CHA… until then – you should head over to http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/01/cha-2011-product-previewidea-ology-1.html to see the preview of these + all the rest of Tim’s peeks today and stay tuned. I snagged my images here from Tim’s blog… he does a great job explaining + showing imgs over there. check it out crafty friends. Oh, and start saving up!! There is still so much to be revealed.

{I love cool new stuff!}