Artwork contest

While at Leadership there are several contests that we can enter. One of the contests is to create 3 cards with the Wishes layout pattern ~ Top Band. These are my entries ~ not the best picture, but I think the cards are cute. They were fun cards to create and they show how easy the Wishes book is to use.

stamping hugs,

Tomorrow is the day I leave for Close To My Heart's Leadership Conference in Long Beach CA. I'm so excited! Not only will I get to see some of the fun new things that will be coming out in the Fall/Winter Idea Book (it will be released for customers on September 1), learn some great new techniques in stamping and scrapbooking, but I get to spend time with all of my Close To My Heart friends. I will be staying with one of my team members and a CTMH friend that I met several years ago at an event. Have I ever told you how much I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my job? Every month when I receive my commission check for my team sales and my personal sales, I am so thankful that I get to do something I love, with people I love, with high-quality products I love, and make such GREAT money doing it. Pictured is me with a team members from last years CTMH convention. She would not have been in my life without my CTMH business, and she is a great friend. I shared with you earlier the special that Close To My Heart is running this month. It's an AWESOME special ~ if you have every thought about becoming a Close To My Heart Consultant, now is the time. You can click on the Favorite Five link on the side of this page which will bring you to my website. Click on the Favorite Five picture on my website and it will show you all of the details on the special. If you are interested in signing up, it's EASY. Also on my website, just click 'Your Opportunities', scroll to the bottom of that page and click on the link to become a consultant, then fill out the online form. I will be gone for the next few days at the CTMH Leadership Conference, but when I return I will check to see if anyone has signed up and contact you RIGHT AWAY!

Have a great weekend,

Bella Scrapbooking Workshop

This month (by popular demand) we created 2 - two page layouts with the Bella Paper pack. The beautiful papers in the Bella kit are so easy to work with. If you missed this event, I can still order the paper and cut a kit for you. Email me if you are interested.

stamping hugs,

Another cake!

Last night I went to cake decorating class. Our assignment was to work on some different techniques and this is how my cake turned out. I took my apron with this time so at least I didn't have as much frosting on me!

enjoy,

Cake Decorating

My daughter in law asked me to take cake decorating classes with her. This is a picture of the cake I decorated last night. I definitely need some more classes, but according to the family, it tasted great! I had frosting all over myself and now I understand why it was suggested that we bring an apron.

Continue to check my blog for more class cakes and to hopefully see that I have improved.

stamping hugs,

Bon Appetit stamp set

Here is another card that we created this month at the card workshop!

Enjoy,

Flower Pot Card

I love this little card that we created this month in the card workshop. Yes, we did a lot of cutting out of the flowers, but the finished results were beautiful! If you are interested in creating some beautiful hand made cards, email me to sign up for the August 5th morning workshop or the August 6th evening workshop.

stamping hugs,

Play Time

Still "working" in my office and I finished up this layout. The patterned paper and flowers are from the discontinued Flower Power paper pack. I added the clear buttons and some white rub-ons for a great finish.

enjoy,

Scrapbooking Fun

I did some scrapbooking over the last couple of days and thought I would share some of the finished layouts.

Hope all of you have a wonderful 4th of July weekend. Remember to take a LOT of pictures of all of the fun events.

stamping hugs,