March Layout Class and a Sneak Peek at May's!

Next are the 6 pages for the April Layout class. There will be a part two of this class in June, with a "For The Record" Class in May, just to break things up a little! Anyone attending the April class is required to also purchase the June class. Total cost of $40 for both, is payable the night of the first class, since the base kit will have been opened and compromised.  If you would like to order the complete 12 page travel kit and have it mailed to you, please contact me.  The kits will ship out once all 12 pages are ready and kitted, likely in early June. The Travel page kit is from Best Creations and it is just adorable! 

Sometimes the paper tells most of the story and
you don't need a ton of embelishments.



We are going to learn to make the letters match perfectly.



A little of this and that!

Sneak peek at the May class... layout in progress:

The May, For the Record class, will be a little higher at $35 for the 6 pages, as I intend to use trim, flowers, metal embelishments and so forth on most of the 6 pages! For the record is intended for the ladies to use for themselves or someone special to document their lives and I intend for the layouts to reflect this.

Just a reminder, this is my work and is automatically copywrited. Please do not reproduce the pictures without my permission! I would really, really hate to have to sic Hubby on you, haha!

Painting Plastic

I really wanted to lighten up my scrap room a little and the ugly black clip-it-ups and the grey multi drawer organizer and the white  and black ribbon boxes just were not making me feel happy anymore!  And surely you know tha there is nothing more important in a creative space than to feel very happy, though it is likely that for some unhappiness also works!  But unhappiness inspires me to write poetry and songs, not make pretty scrapbook pages, and minis!  So I decided to paint all these plastic things! I'm sure many of you have done that, but for those of you who haven't it can really be a great thing and you can repaint the same items over and over again, simply by using a spray plastic primer.  Of course you can also use Krylon Plastic Paint.  The Clip-it-Ups, multi-drawer and single drawer green chest and the aqua colored ribbon boxes were all primed first. The pink, yellow and green ribbon boxes were not primed. I used Krylon plastic paint on those!

Green Clip It Up



Aqua Clip-it-Up

Pink Clip-it-Up

Green multi drawer painted plastic organizer

Pink and green and blue and yellow and aqua, Oh My!

Looks Good even up close!



Even those black office stackable drawers can be painted!

Hope you enjoyed this post!
M-C

Coupons for the Week of March 27 to April 2nd, 2011

Archivers updated 3/29/2011
Hobby Lobby Updated 3/27/2011

Wow two posts the same day, but there are Saturday and Sunday coupons and didn't want to wait for Hobby Loby to come in!

AC MOORE
Click here for your 50% off one regular priced item AC Moore coupon!

ARCHIVER'S
 Click here for your 30% off one item good until until April 10th!

HOBBY LOBBY
Here is the link to Hobby Lobby's emailed post for this week.  Amongst other things, a 40% off any regular item is on for this week!  Enjoy!

JOANN'S
Check out the email promotions I got here. It includes a 40% off coupon good until April 2nd.  There is also a new online promotion code EEDV86 that you can use in your cart when checking out, this one is only valid until the 27th.MICHAEL'S  Here is a link to this week's coupons! There is one for Saturday only! 

Well friends, have a great week!

M-C

 

Busy Bee Buzzes In

What a wonderful blessed week it's been! Enough to warm the heart of a mom, wife and crafter!

First, I went to Indianapolis, Indiana on Monday where I met up with my wonderful son, Shaun who was there for a day to do a video shoot for one of Royall Advertising's clients! If you are looking for a great guy to help you with a web/video project, contact Shaun and tell him you know his mom, LOL!

On the way up to Indianapolis I stopped at Mrs B's Scrapbook Store in Greensburg, Indiana.  It is just a couple of minutes off I-74 and well worth the stop! I was really lucky!  You see, Mrs B's is closed on Sundays and Mondays and you might have noticed that I went up on... Monday.  I was sitting in the parking lot checking my mail before getting back on the road when who drives up but, Mr's B herself! 

Mrs B. was going in to do a little work and opened the store for me!  She is a very nice lady and her store is quite full of wonderful scrappy stuff!  She also has a really nice crop room open to all croppers which boasts a huge TV, I'm talking 52 inch or thereabout!  There is also a kitchen where you can refrigerate your snacks and heat them up when you get hungry!  All in all, I'll be stopping in the next time I drive by!  Thanks Mrs B for letting me in! I wonder if I have any friends that live within say 90 minutes or less from there who would want to meet up and crop the day away sometime? Might make for a fin day!

Shaun and I managed to squeeze quite a bit of quality time in that 24 hour visit, despite his having to work...a lot!! We went to dinner at Brugge Brasserie a Belgian restaurant that we found using the Urban Spoon app on my iPhone.  We had clams, Carbonade Flamade/Belgian Beef Stew, and a crepe Suzette! After walking around a little we went back to the hotel. 

I have to thank the staff at the Courtyard by Marriot. When I checked in and asked if it was possible for us to have adjoining rooms, they were kind enough to upgrade me to a King Suite! It made the whole hotel part of spending time with Shaun so comfortable with the nice living room between our two rooms. Shaun gave me a tour of my new MacBook Pro laptop, also known as Shaun's OLD MacBook Pro laptop, which is just awesome!  The keyboard might not work, but since I'm hooking the laptop up to a monitor and external keyboard in my office, who cares? I'd call that a nice early birthday present!  Thanks Shaun,  I just know that I am going to enjoy using it. 

After his Tuesday morning video shoot, we had a very few hours to share before his flight, so we decided to take a drive into downtown Indianapolis!  The first thing we saw was the Colts' Stadium!  My gosh that place also known as Lucas Oil Stadium looks humongous from the outside!

Both of us also thought that Indianapolis' downtown had some amazing buildings and the main circle in the middle of the downtown with the Soldiers' and  Sailors' monument is truly impressive!  So impressive that Shaun insisted that we drive around it at least three times, haha! Seriously, we were very glad we took the time to go and drive around the downtown even if it was a very quick car tour! Unfortunately, it is very unlikely that Shaun will ever be in Indianapolis again! After a very relaxed lunch at the airport, it was time for us to say goodbye and for me to drive home. With any luck, Shaun will go to some other destination where I can meet up with him! It was fast but fun!

As for last night, I gave my March Birthday layout class and I had a great time!  What a wonderful group of ladies! I certainly hope that they enjoyed themselves! I was so pleased that Charlene could come over early to spend time scrapping with me and stay to enjoy the class. I owe Charlene big time as she has been a godsend, helping me to cut everything and put the class kits together! I am considering offering the kits online for future layout classes but I'm not sure if there would be an interest!  The six page layouts are between $20 and $30 for 6 pages and are precut for the class.  Kits would come with instructions. I have one of the March kits available right now. So please give me a shout if you want it! Stay tuned for pictures of the April Travel class which I hope to have up on Sunday night or Monday morning!

Speaking of friends, I had a great time at Tina's Stamp Camp this morning!  While 9am is early for a class, the company was certainly worth getting up at 7am on a Saturday!  The cards we made were absolutely lovely and the techniques were a lot of fun!  So thank you Tina for a wonderful time!

Coupons for the week of March 20 to 26, 2011

AC MOORE
Click here for your 40% off one regular priced item AC Moore coupon!

ARCHIVER'S
 Click here for your 30% off one item. The coupons are good until until March 23rd!

HOBBY LOBBYHere is the link for this week's ad and coupon (50% off packaged craft feathers?). Of note, 50% off all Spare Part Embelishments!

JOANN'SCheck out the email promotions I got here.

MICHAEL'S I signed up yet again to get Michael's coupons!  Here is a link to this week's coupons!

Well friends, have a great week!

M-C

 

Project Share - 12 x 12 Layout

I was in our local scrapbook store the other day looking at the new papers, and touching them, LOL!  Yes, it is just one of those things, I have to see things in real life to get excited about it!  Pictures are wonderful, but they really aren't a substitute, if you know what I mean!  I'd seen the two new Graphic 45 paper lines, Le Cirque and Curtain Call on line but wasn't sure what I'd do with it. When I saw it in the store, I immediately knew I needed to make a heritage layout for my album.  So here it is:

In addition to the Graphic 45 Le Cirque paper, I used a crocheted doily, some Prima lace, Prima bling. a hand made rosette flower, 3 Recollection flowers and a big black Petaloo flower. I used a skeleton leaf under the rosette, and two black medallions (one has a pearl center) that I got at Michael's.

I am going to re-scan the original picture with my new Epson Artisan 810 printer in the hopes that I can get a scanned copy that is as detailed as the original.  I must say that this scan of my mom and dad's picture is not nearly as good as the original and that is likely due to the very old scanner I used the first time.

Thank you so much for stoping by and visiting with me!
M-C

Sharing a Scrapbook Haul

I recently purchased a few things from some very talented ladies I've gotten to know on You Tube.  I thought I'd share the video here. I'll also post some pictures from the video for those of you who have a hard time watching videos!

Here are some of pictures from the video:

First up is Jules, known as Jannaviles on your tube. I bought a number of dieccut shapes. You can find the items she has for sale on her blog, the Jule Box.

 Next up is the very talented Bona, known as LiveLoveScrap on You Tube. I bought some of her dress form chipboard forms as well as some papers from the Graphic 45 Curtain Call collection. This dressform shape was created from unique die created for her by Accucut. Bona also sells items on her blog, Keep on Scrappin.

Last, but certainly not least is Sa, known as SaCrafters on You Tube.  I've been watching her video tutorials for quite a while now. She was recently convinced to open a Zibbet store. Her flowers are more amazing in person that they appear on the pictures or the video!

I have a couple more videos that I will upload in the next couple of days.  I hope that you will enjoy my you tube finds! 

Have a great day,

M-C

Coupons for the week of 14 to 20 March, 2011

UPDATED March 17th, 2011 - see Archiver below!

AC MOORE
http://www.acmoore.com/images/upload/Week11_11couponsE.pdf for your 40% off one regular priced item AC Moore coupon!

ARCHIVER'S
 Click here for your 30% off one item. The coupons are good until until March 23rd!

HOBBY LOBBY
Here is the link for this week's ad and coupon (30% off needlework kits). Of note, 40% off all PAper Studio and Stampapilities products.

JOANN'S
Check out the email promotions I got here. WHP71 is the online code for 40% off one single item.

MICHAEL'SI didn't get anything from Michael's at all this week!  What's up with that?

Well friends, have a great week!

M-C 

Coupons for the Week of March 6 to 13

AC MOORE
Click here for your 40% off one regular priced item AC Moore coupon!

ARCHIVER'S
 Click here for your 30% off one item coupon good until March 17th!

HOBBY LOBBY
Here is the link for this week's ad and coupon (30% off needlework kits). Of note, 40% off all PAper Studio and Stampapilities products.

JOANN'S
Check out the email promotions I got here.

MICHAEL'SI didn't get anything from Michael's again this week!  What's up with that?

Well friends, have a great week!

M-C 

March Layout Kit/Class

My kit club ladies wanted some birthday layouts so here they are.  Bear in mind that this month's kit includes 6 pages, comes completely pre-cut and ready for the ladies to assemble.  The cost this month is $20 for all six pages.

I showed them the beginnings of the layouts at the last workshop and they liked them. However, 2 of the ladies cannot make our class Friday the 25th at 6pm, so I am looking for 2 people to take their place! I am of course open to finding another 6 for a second workshop!  So hope you like what you see...

Following are each individual page.

Hope you enjoy them!  Tomorrow it's time for me to post a video and show everyone all the wonderful Prima goodness I got for my personal stash!

I haven't Disappeared, Honest!

I know, I can't seem to keep up with anything or anyone the way I'd like to these days! Have the days gotten shorter? Either they did or my interests have just gotten broader, but at any rate I always feel that there is so much I want to do, look at and read about that often, at the end of the day, I have nothing tangible to show for the day other than the house being clean and the beds and laundry being done!

A couple of weeks ago hubby dragged me along for a nice, if very short, trip to Canada. We went to London Ontario for three days, soI really didn't get to see anyone I knew!  We flew from the Cincinnati airport (CVG), which is actually in Hebron, Kentucky to London (Ontario) via Toronto. As you can see from the very enhanced and brightened picture of Toronto I took from the airplane, we were not flying in on a bright sunny day! Now there was something that I found a little weird!

We flew Air Canada, and believe it or not, all but one leg of the trip was in a prop plane? Yes you heard me right, a plane with propellers, not jet engines! I can't remember the last time I did that, in fact I can't remember doing that at all, but given that I've been flying for over 45 years, yes I am that old though I was pretty young when I first flew to Paris, the odds are pretty good that I must have hopped on a prop plane at some point!

I was fortunate enough to meet and travel with two of Hubby's students and they were seriously the nicest young women. Imagine little me, and I mean that literally as I am just under 5 ft 4 walking with three people who range in height from 5 ft 11 to 6 ft 2!  Yup, I travelled with giants, LOL!

Someone who is not a giant and that we spotted while waiting for our plane in Toronto was Don Cherry and Ron MacLean of Hockey Night in Canada fame! We were reminded of his flamboyant jackets when in the airport in London where he had a jacket he had donated for a charitable cause. I took pictures of Andrea and Brandis with the jacket so they could show their friends and family.

 I did visit a Michaels and two local scrapbook stores while in London and I truly feel sorry for my Canadian scrapbook friends! At this time the Canadian dollar is at par or worth even a touch more than the US dollar, yet an item that costs $1.99 here, was  $4.49 there!  Seriously?  I guess that despite the fact that the item in question was made in China, it must have travelled to the US and then to Canada. 

My biggest disappointment was not finding anything at all in any of the stores that was made in Canada for the Canadian market.  There was one line of stamps in one of the local scrapbook stores, but that was it!  I hope that when I travel in the next year to Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec city, that I will be lucky enough to find something different than the big names we are all familiar with, Prima, My Minds Eye, K & Co etc. It is always finding the things I haven't seen first hand that enchants me when I visit a local scrapbook store!

Next I hope to post my "pages" for the March layout class I'm teaching, so please come back soon!

Thanks for dropping by,

M-C

Coupons Week of February 28 to March 5 2011

UPDATE: I've updated Archivers as they have come out with two new coupons. Please see below.

AC MOORE
Click here for your 40% off one regular priced item AC Moore coupon!

ARCHIVER'S (UPDATED March 2nd 2011) Click here for your 30% off one item good and the get 3 free if you buy 3 12x12 cardstock or get 5 free if you buy 5 8 1/2 x 11 pieces ofd cardstock. The coupons are good until until March 10th!

HOBBY LOBBY
Here is the link for this week's ad and coupon (40% off one regular priced item). Of note, clear stamps are 50% off and paper pads are 40% off.

JOANN'S
Check out the email promotions I got here.

MICHAEL'S
Click here to see the ad I got via email for this week.

I need some new plastic covering for my tables so I'm off to JoAnns! I'm thinking I also should check out Hobby Lobby as I'd love to get some twine... do they carry that, I wonder! And Archivers... well since I need to go all the way out there for a couple of things... why not! Have fun shopping, I know I will!

M-C 

Coupons for the Week of 21-27 February, 2011

Sorry, I was in Canada for the last few days! More on my trip in a separate post!

AC MOORE
Click here for your 40% off one regular priced item AC Moore coupon!

ARCHIVER'S 
Click here for your 30% off one item and free cardstock coupons from Archivers.  They are good until the 24th!

HOBBY LOBBY
Here is the link for this week's ad and coupon (25% off one regular priced item). Amongst other scrapbook things on sale at 50% off, La Petite 3-D embellishments and single sheet scrapbook paper!

JOANN'S
I didn't receive anything from them this week.

MICHAEL'S
Michael's had specials this past Sunday and today, but nothing else so far!

M-C 

Coupons for the week of 13 - 19 February 2011

UPDATE  Feb 17, 2011 - New ARCHIVERS Ad and Coupons - see below!

AC MOORE
Click here for your 50% off one regular priced item AC Moore coupon!

ARCHIVER'S 
Click here for your 30% off one item and free cardstock coupons from Archivers.  It's good until the 24th!

HOBBY LOBBY
Here is the link for this week's ad and coupon (40% off one regular priced item). /amongst other scrapbook things on sale, spellbinders!

JOANN'S
You really don't need a coupon for JoAnn's again this week as their ad states that many papercrafting products are up to 40% off! Here is the link to their papercrafting products!

MICHAEL'S
Michael's has a 50% off any one regular item coupon this week, plus some nice sales! Recollections are also 50% off this week that includes all their new flowers and bling which we all know are made by the same people as Prima. Scrapbook storage is 40% off.

Now don't spend it all in one place and remember to support your local scrapbook stores (LSS). Drop in often to see all the new products that just came out at CHA that your LSS are currently receiving! Have a wonderful week!

M-C