Giveaway!!!

I have to confess that I have a guilty habit (pleasure) of buying magazines - any kind - gossip rags, beauty and fashion mags, home decorating, fitness and of course - scrapbooking ones! In fact, just before I went on holidays, I picked up the current copy of Scrapbooks etc - one of my perennial faves! I like it so much I even subscribe to it!!! So that means I now have 2 copies!!

So if you want one of these, just leave a comment here by September 1st telling me what you like about the new catty and its yours!!!!

New Ida Book For CTMH Fall/Winter 2011 Is Here!!!

And the Cricut cartridge and coordinating chipboard and stamps are better than I ever dreamed!!!

So some of the highlites include cardstock-weight patterend paper, smaller more affordable paper packs, lower pricing to qualify for the SOTM (but no free option for the SOTM), cardstock 'shade' packs (but that means that we lost the single color pack cardstock except for a couple in each 'family'), rub on's, felt and canvas shapes instead of sticker packs with some of the paper packs.

One downside is (in my opinion) is that CTMH took away the 'color code' at the top of each page. I found that very helpful when I was trying to 'scraplift' a project or layout. Now it is a bit of a guessing game or I have to log into the consultant site and look it up in a recipe file that we have.

So all in all I am very excited about this catalogue - can't wait to share it with you! There is a great special on for August 15th to September 30th - stay tuned!!!

New CTMH Catalogue!!!

We are just starting to get a sneak peek at the catalogue - I should have them in my hands in a few days but I just have to share this you tube video with you - WE HAVE CRICUT CARTRIDGES!!!! Well at least one anyways! Check it out!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdUV0y4RFDI&feature=youtu.be

You'll have to copy and paste it into your browser as I can't figure out how I used to put live links into these posts! Sorry!

Multi-Tasking!

This is my first entry to a challenge for Frosted Designs - a site I just found a few days ago - you had to use ribbons/trim AND pearls/rhinestones AND a charm. THe pictures are from last Thanksgiving at the lake. It was the most gorgeous weather and we really enjoyed the outdoors.
I also journalled the words to the Willie Nelson song "Blue Skies" from the Scrapping the Music challenge around the journaling spot -
"Never saw the sun shinin' so bright
Never saw things goin' so right
Noticing the days hurrying by"

TFL!

Sketchy Thursdays 7.7.11

I really liked this sketch and I happened to have identical poses of my nieces from swimming lessons last summer so I did 2 layouts!

TFL!

Just a few cards...

Here are a few cards that I did up for a Close To My Heart Consultant swap. We did Baby, Teacher Appreciation, Sympathy, Grad/Congratualtions, and Wedding. They were fun to do and I am happy at how they turned out.

TFL!

Crafty Paper Girl and SEM Rock!

I won the CUTE owl feltie from Crafty Paper Girl on the Scrapping Everyday Miracles blog hop!!! I am so excited! Check her out over at http://www.craftypapergirl.blogspot.com/

or check out her Etsy shop (where I have purchased from in the past!) at http://www.etsy.com/shop/craftypapergirl

You won't be disappointed!!! Thanks Amanda!!! Now, if only the postal strike would end and she could mail it to me!!!!