Fillied with Love Promo ending soon

This promotion is almost over. The papers in the line are perfect for Valentine's Day pages or for any occasion. They have soft stripes and dot patterns that are great for any occasion AND for purchasing this bundle you get the clear Bitty Buttons. These buttons are just adorable. Hurry don't wait the promotion ends on the 24th.

My next post will show 2 super cute cards using this promotional set.

I am trying out some new things on my blog

So I have been a bad blogger of late. I mean really no post since November 25th, how terrible. Well I am going to try and change that.

One of the new changes is the tabs on the top under my header, it's labeled workshops and classes. I only have January listed for right now but I will do some thinking on my classes for next month and get them posted. I want to add tabs labeled kits, the kits will be pages that you can purchase and put together with a photo of the page as well as any other instructions. I also want to start learning how to video some 3d projects, pages, and cards, so there will (eventually) be a tab labeled videos.

I have joined a picture a day challenge in the year 2011 and except for one brain freeze I have managed to do one photo a day. The other thing I have decided to do as a resolution is leave my house and go to one crop a month. I am so excited that this weekend I get to go to a 3 day crop. I am teaching a Card Party on Feb 11th if anyone is interested please let me know. I will have to get times from the lady who is hosting it. The cost is $14.00 for 12 cards and she providing snacks and drinks.

In the year 2011 I have joined yet another motivation challenge to get more pages done. One of my good friends set a goal for 800 pages in 2010 and she met her goal. I won't be able to hold a candle to her and what she accomplished but it certainly motivated me to make my own scrapbooking goal. SO for 2011 I have set a goal to scrapbook 211 pages (I took out the zero in 2011 and that's how I came up with 211...I'm a dork I know)

Anyway, with that I will have more pages to put up on my blog and some random photos of my daily photo challenge(only those I find funny enough to post. I will also get my demonstrator website up and going this month and if you would like to place orders you will be able to.

Thanks for those that check in with me regularly and sorry I have neglected posting anything.

Take care
Susan

Happy Thanksgiving to all my family and friends

This is the first time Stampin Up has ever offered our kit and 50% off. That's right you can now purchase our starter kit for $87.50. If you have been on the fence about joining my team then now is the time to act. If you would like a little extra income or just to get our fabulous discount then don't hesitate to sign up. You have your choice of the Standard Kit or the Digital & Starter Kit. WOW, what a great deal!

This special ends on November 30th.


Here's a few reasons to join my team:
*Receive a discount on all your catalog purchases.
*I have been a Demonstrator for over 5 years, so I will help you get started and be successful.
*Monthly incentives based on your sales.
*Chances to earn Incentive Trips/Cruises.
*Be able to attend Stampin' Up! events like Convention, Regional and Leadership.
*We get a Stampin' Success magazine in the mail every month filled with business and stamping ideas.
*We can start pre-ordering from the new Occasions Mini catalog and the Sale-a-Bration Catalog beginning December 1.
*Be your own Hostess.
*Earn up to 9 additional Free stamp sets when you achieve Stampin' Start.

Leave me a comment if you are interested in joining my team and I will contact you to get you on your way but don't wait to long the 30th is right around the corner.

I have some pages to share

I actaully made these way back in March but I never had page closure. Either I was missing a pic because I was to lazy to print it(oops I mean my printer was out of ink...yea that's it) or I just needed some quiet to think of journaling and in a house with 10 people, quiet isn't something you can come by easily. So I know none of these pages are Stampin Up, they are pages I had either done at a class and needed to add pics to or stuff from my huge stash. It is so fun to go through pages that need pictures or use up older papers and stickers, it makes it seem like buying it or creating it wasn't a waste of money or space.

If you click on the pages it should bring them up a little larger. I miss my old scanner, in that it scanned perfectly and my new one makes better quality photos but the scan doesn't work as well. So pardon the pages not being as clear as they used to but I am now taking pics of them and I just don't like it as well. I guess I can't have it all right...lol

I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving
Susan

It counts!!!!

Regardless of your political party we all need to do our part and get out and vote. I have done my father proud and done my duty, have you??

Demolay Halloween Ball

Oasis Chapter of Demolay put on this amazing dance last night. The decorations are just wonderfully spooky and I love their graveyard. Everyone had a tombstone including Ub. I will have to upload the tombstones later. Mitch will be 12 on Wed the 3rd and can join Demolay so this was his second function and he had a ball. Josh ran the lights and had wired up the sound for them as well as danced with the girls in hopes of getting the other boys to ask girls to dance (which they did not...uggg) Jared at the end scared everyone out of the ballroom with a chainsaw skit with a real chainsaw. Talk about clearing out a room he even scared Mitch to death...lol...it was a priceless moment and I think all that attended had a great time. I took lots of pics but only put a few up to show off what a good job they did.

Happy Scary Halloween!

Decor pumpkins, spooky frame and cute deco blocks

I got crafty yesterday. I have been sick and these projects have been sitting neglected. I wanted them all done before Halloween and I did all but one. Maybe today I can crank out my haunted house, we'll see.
The pumpkins we saw at convention and I fell in love with them. I bought the white pumpkins at Michaels. The "trick or treat" is our decor elements Spooky Things (#122296) and the Black Flourish (#120987) and raven lace ribbon (#120988) This was super easy and took 20 minutes to make.

The Frame was a standard frame I bought at Walmart for $3.00 and using that same sheet of decor elements (#12296) I put the Happy Halloween on the glass and then used our Nite Owls designer series paper, DSP for short (#123012) and the Dark & Dreary stamp set(#121151) for the owl and spiders and the BaroqueMotifs (#113490), the colors I used were Pear Pizazz and Pumpkin pie as well as basic black. also a really quick project to do...less then 30 minutes

Last but not least, the cute little decor blocks(#116829), I used the Nite Owl DSP (#123012) and sponged the edges in basic black ink, "BOO" was made using Serif Essentials alphas die(#113464) and they were spritzed with silver foil Smooch spritz (#118771) on the B and the spiders I used our new rhinestones(#119246) the spiders were stamped from Dark & Dreary(#121151) and I used our circles punches. On the last block the 2-3/8 scallop punch(#118874) was used to punch a scrap of black CS, then punch a white CS scrap with the 1-3/4 circle punch (#119850) then emboss with the square lattice folder(#119976), the "2U" is cut using the Timeless Type die cut (#115951) in pumpkin pie.
The really fun thing about these blocks is that I have 5 other sides I can decorate for the different holidays. For Thanksgiving I have "Give Thanks" mostly done and as soon as I turn them I will get them loaded here. A little more time consuming but that's because there are 6 sides to decorate. Really fun!!!


If you see something and would like to order please leave me a comment and I will get my demo website hooked up and we will get your order placed. Those blocks will make a cute Christmas gift. The other sides are give thanks, fall, Noel, love and boo 2U. We have all kinds of fun things to decorate them with.

Have a great day everyone,

Susan