CHA Day 1 - What I saw!

Ok....these are my top picks for the day of what I saw today....and nope I didnt make to all the booths today.....hopefully I will get to the others tomorrow :) click on the pics if you want to see more detail :)

By Core-diations - cardstock to match some of the manufacturer lines from Jenni Bowlin, Cosmo Cricket and Jillibean Soup. The Cardstock is already embossed and is gorgeous!!






Vintage sew on Buttons by Jenni Bowlin:


Jenni Bowlin Bingo letters:


From Petaloo, this flowers are wire with the acrylic petals and centers, we used to do these as kids.....showing my age here.....where you make a wire shape and dip it in a plastic/acrylic solution and it fills in the open space and drys super quick.


Color Me Crazy by Petaloo - just imagine the posibilities with these!!! They are all white, you could stamp them, ink them, mist them!


This paper line by Prima - Pastiche collection


Prima - love how they have packaged a butterfly and matching flower together:


Pink Paislee - Bayberry collection, a ruffled canvas trim to die for (they also have it for every new collection) and the 6 x 6 paper pads where the design is scaled down from the regular 12 x 12 size paper and is perfect for punching ect.


Jenni Bowlin butterflys:


Prima butterflys


More butterflys - these from Petaloo



And did I ever do make n takes today, really awesome ones too!!!
Beacon - I did a 12 x 12 frame with a magnet white board insert
Hero Arts - stamped image on water color paper, painted with Distress Ink a spritz of water and a dab of liquid pearls, then framed under glass and put on a chain for a necklace
Idea ology - an awesome necklace
Prima - a card made from the green backing packaging
Helmar - Mini book
Zutter - 3 piece wood hanger with awesome hardware
Provo Craft - a yarn flower, and we got the tool, it looks awesome when done with ribbon
Bella Blvd - flower
My Minds Eye - flower
Spellbinders - a flower made from foil
Imaginesce - a flower made from the i top

Lots of others, just cant remember them all right now :0)

And I got an autographed die from Tim Holtz:



It was a fun day spent with friends....the best kind of day :)

Playing at the Resolutions Crop at Treasured Scrapbooking!

Today is day 3 of the Crop at Treasured Scrapbooking, featuring New Year's Resolutions!!!

My challenge is called "GO GREEN" and is a challenge to use a recycled item in your layout/card or altered project. I used the packaging from the Prima flowers I got in my add on January kit from Treasured Scrapbooking, and I used the January kit also for my layout:



and so far I have done one other challenge, "Quality Time" which Elizabeth issued. You are to scrap what Quality Time is for you. I chose Daughter time!!! And I was so excited to see that Basic Grey offers five of their paper lines and all the embellishments in........DIGITAL!!!! So that is what I used to create this layout:



Arent they cute? Love them dearly!! Proud mama here ;)

Would LOVE to see you over at Treasured SCrapbooking for this crop....and who knows you might just love it there and stick around for a while...I would love it if you did!!

New from Designs By Helly

You and Me by Designs By Helly

You can pick up this Digital Kit at Scrapbook Bytes
I digi scrapped almost all day yesterday, what a way to bring in the New Year, huh?
And I used this kit for two of the layouts I did:




And another first for me today......my layout "first crush" was posted in the Gallery StandOuts for the day at DigiShopTalk!!! Gotta love it!! Bring it on 2010!!!

Its time for a Crop!!!!

At Treasured Scrapbooking!!!

Hope you will join us!!

It's a Resolutions Crop at Treasured Scrapbooking!!!
Jan 7 2010 through Jan 10 2010

It's a new year and a time to reflect on the past year and plan for the new year. Not everyone makes resolutions every year but most everyone has some thoughts about things they would like to accomplish, things they might want to make a better effort at and things they might want to change, and usually the beginning of each new year is a time when these thoughts come to mind. So we, at Treasured Scrapbooking, are going to go with the flow, and hope that you will join us for the ride! So whether you make resolutions, steer yourself towards a focus or create an Ideal Scene for yourself, we will have challenges for you to complete that will allow you to get them down on paper...and glue, and embellishments, and....well you get the idea :)

Each Design Team member has chosen a resolution of sorts to work on and some of the ideas you will see have something to do with:

Weight Loss
Go Green
Clean
Budget
Volunteering
Organize
Quality Time

You will love the way the Design Team has interpreted the themes above! And as if completing new challenges and new pages or cards isn't enough, there will be prizes too!!!

I know you are intrigued, so mark your calendars, add it to your list of things to do, and get yourself on over to Treasured Scrapbooking on January 7th to join in on the fun!

Where: Treasured Scrapbooking http://www.treasuredscrapbooking.com/
When: January 7 to 10th, 2010

What to bring: Yourself and your supplies :)

Hope to see you there!

Best of 2009

Usually you do the top ten of something, and I intended to do the top ten layouts from 2009 but when I started looking back I couldnt limit myself like that, so this is going to be my favorite projects because some of them are paper layouts, some of them are digital layouts and some are altered projects. I love doing this, really makes me smile :)
A kind of All About me:

During the summer I ran the Rusty Pickle Amazing Race and this is one of my favorite projects from it:


I did this fun little project for a Rusty Pickle Blog Hop, using an embroidery hoop:

I love this picture of my mom and Jenna and I created this layout on a canvas, my mom loves it!

Just a fav layout:

Some layouts from my DT work at Treasured Scrapbooking:





This layout has a story behind it, it was a challenge, to close your eyes and choose 5 items from your stash. My stash is so ginormas that I chose some random stuff and had my daughter close her eyes and choose, and I have to say it is one of my favorite layouts!

I love this quick little project, just a cute altered frame:

I am so not a card maker but I loved this card:

And on to some digital layouts:





























and I did a December Daily this year:





This layout was therapy for me, I lost my 9 year old pug in April of this year, held her a she was put to sleep, and I did this layout the night it happened, I still miss her:


And if you stuck with me on this and have reached this far I commend you :)