January Imagine Club layouts

First I must say............WOOO HOOO! Congratulations New Orleans Saints for your fabulous Super Bowl win! What a game!! Way to go!!


I am loving the new Studio J software! I can't wait until it goes live for everybody. You won't believe how much fun it is!

For our January Imagine club, we used X7098B Sarsaparilla Level 2 paper pack. If you'd like more info on the Imagine club, email me.

January Cherish Club layouts

I'm loving the new Topstitch My Reflections Level 2 papers! With them being double sided, the layouts can change from boy to girl and vice versa by just flipping the Background & Texture papers to the other side. Fun!!

Would love to have you join the Cherish Club! For more information, email me.

Close To My Heart makes one feel so Special

I just love this company! They treat their consultants so well! Here's the hand created birthday card I received this week for my birthday. And, I also got an email!

I didn't get a chance to post my Christmas present from them. How cute is this? It's a Jump Drive! And, another hand created card!

Card Challenge

Are you having trouble getting enough cards done ahead of time? Don't know where to start? Then join my weekly Card Challenge! Each week, I will post a sketch from one of Close To My Heart's card books. These will be from the original Originals program, or the new Originals and Wishes card books. This week's sketch is from the new Originals book,the design called Cubes and Colors. CTMH has allowed us to share a few designs from each book, but if you don't already have the books, you may find them here. You may view this design here. Cards must be created using 75% Close To My Heart products.

After you have created your card, please go to my Facebook Fan page and become a fan. You will find the Card Challenge 1 album. Please upload your photo to the album. Be sure to label your creation with your name so that everybody will know! You may also leave a comment on my blog to let everybody know that you've posted your card.




My card was created using papers from X7097B Game On My Reflections Level 2 paper pack. You may upload any number of cards. Also, you may create them at any time and upload at any time. You don't have to participate during the current week.


If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me. Create away and have fun!

Be sure to check back every Wednesday for the new challenge!

Scrapbook Challenge

It's time to start using those Close To My Heart products that you've been collecting! LOL!! Every Wednesday I will be posting a new scrapbook challenge using sketches from our Cherish, Imagine, and Reflections How-to books. If you don't already have these books, you can find them here. For this week's challenge, we'll be using one of the patterns that CTMH has graciously allowed us to share. This pattern is the Monologue pattern from the Imagine book. Click HERE to view the pattern. Each layout must be comprised of at least 75% Close To My Heart products.

After you have created your layout, please share it in my Facebook Fan Scrapbook Challenge Album. You will need to "become a Fan" on my Facebook page. There is no time limit as to when you complete your layouts. This is week one, but you may upload your week one layout at any time. Be sure to label your layout with your name. You may also leave comments here on my blog to let everybody know you've uploaded a layout.

I've created my layout using the X7103B Aspen My Reflections Level 2 paper packet.

To get a better view of the layout, click the photo.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email me. Be sure to check back every week for a new challenge. Ok, now, let's get those papers out and start creating! Just think how many layouts you'll have done by the end of the year!

Scrapbook Challenge

Check back Wednesday, 2/3, for details of the new Scrapbook Challenge and Card of the Week Challenge.

INTRODUCING the NEW Snappy Scrappin' Club!

Have you always wanted to create a scrapbook, but didn't know where to start? Do you have boxes and boxes of photos that you'd like to scrap, but just don't have the time? If so, that's where the Snappy Scrappin' Club comes in! Each month, you will receive two coordinating My Reflections Level 1 kits and instructions to create 6 layouts/12 pages! That's 144 pages a year! Check out the Snappy Scrappin' Clubs February layouts below. We're using X7075A More to Adore and X7107A That's Amore Level 1 kits.

Visit my website for all the details!

Plane crashes at my daughter's house

Scary stuff! She has a farm near the local airport. Granted...it's not a big airport, but planes do fly over frequently. Anyway, a small plane just crashed through the fence of one of the paddocks. There were four horses in the paddock at the time. In this age of the internet, it only took maybe 1 hour for the news to hit the local newspaper. LOL!

The Post Star

The paper mentions that it didn't phase the three horses in the paddock. What they failed to mention was there were four horses turned out and one went over the fence. Thankfully, one of my granddaughters was able to catch that one and she's fine. Hopefully, she won't miscarry due to the fright.

I'm beginning to think she should move! Shortly after she purchased the house, a car flipped over and rolled down the hill into her front yard! And..they say things happen in threes....what's next?!

Studio J - WOW!!!

Wow is all I can say! I had played a little with it last month using my downline's access, but didn't upload photos as I didn't want to clog up her account. So, today is the first day for most of us to get to use it. It's absolutely amazing! Whether you are going to use it as a design tool or create your Studio Scrapbook pages and have them printed, you will be amazed! I've been scrapping our Mediterranean Cruise with Vintage Travel and know that I will definitely be creating some layouts to purchase as there's no way I'll ever get all the photos scrapped tradionally, but I wanted to try a different paper package today...just for the variety. Here's a quick layout that I did. Be sure to click on the picture for a better look.

To learn more about Studio J and to enter the contest to win an album, visit Studio J.

December Club Projects

Boy...it's been crazy here since just after Christmas. I'm so behind with my updating!

The first sets of layouts were done using our new Studio J software. It is simply amazing! It's still in the testing phase for consultants, but should be released later this spring. I had so much fun designing the Imagine layouts below using our Majestic Blue My Reflections Kit.





Below are the layouts I created for the Cherish Club using the Jingle My Reflections Level 2 Kit. Fun!!

For our Stamp a Stack club, we used stamp set C1384 Neighborhood and papers from the Sweet Home and Good Times My Reflections Kits.

If you'd like to join any of our clubs, email me for all the details!

Happy New Year!

Did 2009 go by quickly or what?!! I can't believe it's 2010. It seems like just yesterday that we were all worrying about Y2K and if the computers would crash. Here we are 10 years later! Now I just need to remember to write the correct year in the checkbook! LOL!

Hope everybody has a healthy and Happy New Year!!

November Club Projects

For this month's Stamp a Stack club we're using C1381 Card Chatter-Thank You.



I absolutely love the Sweet Home papers! I'm so pleased with how these pages turned out! We'll be using X7116B Sweet Home Level 2 papers and X7116C My Stickease.

In our Imagine Club we're using the retiring Everlasting papers. I'm sad to see these go as they're one of my favorite Christmas papers. The set is X7085B.





Hope you like the projects!
If you're interested in any of my clubs, email me and I'll give you all the details!

The Magic Fountain of Montjuic

Kim and I did some scrapping this week of our CTMH Mediterranean Cruise. The Magic Fountain in Barcelona was one of the most breathtaking things that we saw. We were tired that day (Saturday) as we had only gotten about 8 hrs. sleep since we left NY on Wednesday. We'd walked Las Ramblas on Saturday afternoon and had gone to see La Sagrada Familia church. We headed back to the hotel after seeing La Sagrada Familia to rest for a little bit. After sitting down it was all we could do to get going again. LOL! But, the Magic Fountain was within walking distance of the hotel, so off we went. What a beautiful sight! As the water danced in various colors, the music played. It was amazing, gorgeous, and every other adjective you could think of!

So today, when I should be cleaning house or stacking the firewood, I just had to take the time to do the journaling to finish our page and post it here for all to see. We must have taken well over 50 photos each of the fountain, so this is just a small representation of splendor.

Enjoy!

October Club Artwork

I can't believe it's November 1st already!! Where did October go? Have you ever noticed that the time between Halloween and Christmas goes by in a blur!!

Speaking of Christmas! For October's Stamp a Stack club we used the Jingle Creative Basics and some of the Jingle My Reflections Level 2 paper pack to create these cute cards.

Our Cherish Club used the new Twitterpated My Reflections Level 2 paper pack.

And, for the Imagine Club, we used the retiring Rough & Tumble My Reflections Level 2 papers. I have a bunch of pictures of our grandson and my husband riding on all of the different John Deere tractors that we have, so I'll be using the pages with the Clover Meadow and Sunny Yellow to scrap those photos. We always joke that our grandson doesn't need to go to an amusement park as he has all the rides here. LOL!!