And the winner is . . . .

. . . . . #2!!!

Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to post the random generator info on here, but it came up with #2!! Congratulations, Leslie! Please email me with your mailing address so I can get your goodies out to you!

Well, the interview is over and I was told we probably won't know until Monday who was selected . . . so as soon as I know I'll share it on my blog! Sorry you're having to keep your fingers crossed for so long! LOL!!!

Have a great weekend! :-) jeani

Two bird cards and last chance for BLOG CANDY!

Here are a couple of cute little bird cards I made several weeks ago and just got around to photographing and posting (time flies!). This was the first time I actually played with SU's kraft paper - love it! - and my first card using CTMH's new felt shapes - love those little birds!



Don't forget to post a comment to my BLOG CANDY post below to be entered to win the blog candy . . . I'm drawing a name TOMORROW after my interview (3:15 pm Pacific). Wish me luck!

:-) jeani

Point No Point Lighthouse

Just wanted to share this beautiful photo I took the other day. We took a little detour on our way home from my niece's birthday party in Woodinville on Sunday and stopped at Point No Point Lighthouse. Pretty neat, huh?!?!

Friend card using Emporium paper

A simple card I made the other day using CTMH's Emporium Level 2 paper pack. I punched the flower shape out of the side of the 4 piece paper square and then I popped up the flower to add more dimension - a little hard to see in this photo, but I hope you get the idea!




Thanks for looking!

My good consultant blog friend, Trish, just started up her blog Scrapping Playground of Dreams. If you get a chance, hop over there and check it out . . . she's just getting started, but has some great artwork up already! Way to go, Trish!

You still have 3 days to comment on the Blog Candy posting below to be entered in the blog candy drawing!!!! I'm randomly selecting a winner on Friday, Aug. 28 after my job interview!!!

Thanks for stoping by!

Jump! card

I made this card with a Close To My Heart stamp set called Jump! I first bought this stamp set back when I became a consultant with CTMH (about 3 years ago) and this is the first time I've used it!!! I thought it was an appropriate theme for this time of year as we are just about ready to pick the apples from our Gravenstein tree!!! Enjoy!




Don't forget to comment below for BLOG CANDY - random winner will be selected on Friday!!!

BLOG CANDY TIME!!!!!

Ok . . . as promised, here is a pile of blog candy I just put together. Some of the fun stuff in this package: over 20 fun chipboard shapes, metal halloween embellishment, flowers, leaves, plastic spiders, misc. brads, extra large buttons, stickers, ribbon, metal label tags, ghost alphabets by Heidi Swapp and a pile of misc. cards I've made over the years.



So I have an interview on Friday, August 28 for a job I really want with the school district. I'm already employed with the district, but this would be a full time job instead of the 3 hours a day I have now. To be entered in the drawing for this fun assortment of goodies, just leave me a comment below about an interview experience you have had or . . . . just say "Hi."

I'll randomly draw a winner on Friday, August 28 - after my interview and let you know how it went!

Good Luck . . . . and thanks for visiting my blog! More creations to come . . . :-) Jeani

This is a layout I did a couple of weeks ago ~ my first time using the felt diecuts from Close To My Heart. Sorry it's not such a great photo . . . I took several and they were all blurry . . this was the best one of the bunch.

The photo was one of my boys and I that was taken for an advertisement in our local newspaper for the childrens and maternity shop I used to own. I used a felt button as a pull tab on my journaling behind the photo.




Stop back by tomorrow for some BLOG CANDY!!!! Have to give something back to those of you that have stuck with me during the sloooooowwwww times on my blog! Thank you!

This is my latest creation . . . uses 2 great new products from Close To My Heart . . . Childhood Portrait Stamp set and Sweet Home Level 2 paper pack. Isn't it sweet?!?!


My life is constantly changing . . my schooling has been postponed and I'm hoping to get hired on for a full time job next week . . . in the meantime, I've got lots of time to play with my new products and I am going to make a great effort to post more often and offer up some blog candy to those diehards that have stuck in with me through my slow times in the blogging world! Stay tuned . . .

Has it really been 2 months . . .

since I last posted? Wow . . . well, I am about to take quite a longer hiatus as I have just enrolled in school (FULL TIME!) to finish my BA in Education. As I will also be working full time, continuing to be a Den Leader for my son's cub scout den and being a wife and mother . . . the next 2 years are going to be BUSY and STRESSFUL. All of this will leave me very little breathing room so I don't know how often I will get on here.

We did get away last weekend to a wonderful camping trip at LaPush (yes, Jacob Black's stomping grounds!). It's about a 90 minute drive from our house and I just had to share a couple of photos to let you know just beautiful and fun it was . .







Our trailer was just about 50 feet from the beach . . it was beautiful!




The surf was amazing and the kids had a blast running from the waves all weekend!


My youngest son preferred to play in the little creek that ran down, through the driftwood, to the beach!


We had such a great time, we're going back with my SIL and her family for several nights after the 4th of July!

And I have actually been making cards, it just takes so long to upload and crop, etc. that I just don't get them on my blog. I thought I would post one that I made this morning (all CTMH) for a birthday party we're going to tomorrow . . . .



. . . and then I'll just have to say, put your name on my email if you want to see when I post next . . maybe easier for you then coming back to nothing new on my blog time and time again! Putting your name on my email will mean that you get an email from my blog whenever I post something new - try it! It's a great way to keep up with what someone is doing without having to remember where you were!

I hope I can eeek out some time to play with my paper crafting, but I'm not planning on too much . . .so, please be patient with me. I will try to post something every now and then.

So, here I go . . . off on another adventure! I'll keep you posted on my status!

:-) jeani

Check out Janet's Blog Candy!

I was just blog surfing and found out that Janet over at Corrosive Creations is giving away some GREAT BLOG CANDY! Look at this:



All you have to do to be entered is leave a comment . . .so surf over there, check out her great blog and leave a comment for blog candy!

Mother's Day Card - Flower Pot style!

I saw the directions for this card on SCS and had to make it! I really like how it turned out! Liked it so much that I posted the link on Janet's blog Corrosive Creations by Janet for Mother's Day.





Products used: CTMH cardstock (Desert Sand, Colonial White, Sweet Leaf); CTMH Stamp sets With Love, Friendship Blessings, Spot On Backgrounds; CTMH chocolate ribbon; misc. buttons; and Prima Flowers.

Sticky Note Holder

I finally got around to making a little sticky note holder for my desk. These are just the $1 plastic frames you can get at Walmart or the dollar stores . . . . but works perfect for sticky notes! I used CTMH Free Spirit Lv. 2 paper pack.



I dropped my camera on the frame when I was taking the pictures . . . dang it! . . notice the crack!

CTMH is TICKLED PINK!

Close To My Heart is celebrating National Scrapbooking Month by offering a beautiful scrapbooking kit with everything you need to create 2 beautiful two page layouts. Click here to check out all the details of this Tickled Pink promotion!

GARAGE SALE!

All items for sale are also listed in the GARAGE SALE block on the side bar.

For Date Time Place $2.00 (block measures 3" x 2.5")


Baby Talk $9.00


Delight in Life $8.00


Riveting $7.00


Occasionally $5.00


Any updates or new items for the Garage Sale will be added to this post . . .so keep checking back. If you see something you want to purchase, reply to this post and leave an email where I can contact you. I take paypal, check and money orders. Thanks for looking!

My new look

I hope you like my new blog look . . . I'm still playing with the header, but I love the colors and the bird!!

I also just posted a photo of the Summer Idea Book cover on my sidebar . . . there are so many cute new stamps . . . adorable camping stamps . . . I can get a lot of mileage out of those since we spend 1/2 our time during the summer camping!

I've got so much work to photo and post . . .I'll try to get to it this week! I'm also trying to clear out a lot of stamps and miscellaneous stuff, so look for my GARAGE SALE items in the sidebar before the week is out!

Now . . go create something!

Birthday thank you card

These are the thank you cards I made for my son's 4th birthday party last week. This set is called Family Ties - Children (CTMH) and is soooo cute! It is currently one of my faves!



I've got several layouts (19 pages) that I did at scrap camp a few weeks ago. I still need to journal on a couple of them, but then I promise I will photo them and post them as soon as I can.

Have a great weekend!

Such clever little card kits

Ok . . .this was just so stinkin' clever I had to make a bunch of them!!! I got this idea from Aaron's blog . . . she's got so many cute and clever ideas . . in fact she's having a great giveaway right now, so be sure to get over to her Booth and check out her amazing talent!!

This one was 100% scraplifted from Aaron . . meaning I used the same stamps and the same colors . . . . . some things are just too cute not to have!

This is the cover:


This is the inside (the little vellum pocket to put stamps in was my idea!! -my little spin on Aaron's idea!):


These are the cards inside - 4 cards total, with various simple sentiments:

This kit used CTMH's DREAM BIG incentive stamp set and our new spring color Tulip.

With these, I took Aaron's idea and made 2 more kits using different colors and different stamps . . .
the first set uses Papertrey Ink's Birds of a Feather stamp set and CTMH's retired Breeze paper:


The cards inside:


For this set I used CTMH's DREAM BIG incentive stamp set for the tree and Chocolate and Goldenrod papers:




So . . the clever part of this card kit . . .is that the kit is made by gluing 2 envelopes together . . as simple as that. You can get all the info from Aaron's blog. Hope you enjoyed my spins on her adorable idea! Have a great one . . .

Some simple cards

I've been making a lot of simple cards lately . . . they are fun and easy and QUICK!!

Here are a few . . .

Got this owl stamp at Michaels and just love it . . .


Made this birthday card on the way out the door to a party today with Family Ties - Children (CTMH):


Another stamp from Michaels . . I don't have any bunnies and I like the simplicity of this one . .


:-)

Cards

Here are 3 cards I put together for my hostess club on Saturday. I have been wanting to play with Ms. Gardener . . . and had so much fun paper piecing her in the cute little hippie pants (Emporium Lv. 2 paper). The gals in my club had fun doing the paper piecing for the first time . . .CTMH's new Ms. stamps just lend themselves to that technique, don't they?


And 2 cards copied from the CTMH bulletin boards . . . with my own little tweeks:




More later . . .

Finally . . .

Yes, as promised, I finally got my other 3 layouts photographed and uploaded . . here they are . .


10 Things I Love About You
I must admit, I shamelessly copied this layout from another CTMH consultant! Every now and then, don't you see a layout that you JUST HAVE TO HAVE in your album? This was one of those layouts for me. I absolutely loved it and copied it almost exactly (except for the things I love about my sweet little Joey). All products are CTMH:

Left page:

Right page:



Christmas 2007

For this layout, I used more products that I've had around for years . . . the paper, stickers, and my quickutz reindeer that I just love but have never used before. I like the way this one turned out:

Left page:

Right page:


Ocean Shores

I really don't like the wave sticker I used on this layout, but it seemed appropriate and I've had it for so long (as I have the cute surfer paper) I just had to get rid of it . . . Other than that, I like the layout . . . I like the colors (not typical for me) and the photos. And I love Ocean Shores . . . so it's hard not to like the layout when I have such great memories.


Left page:

Right Page:


That's it for now . . . I haven't been in "scrap mode" for a while, so it will take me a week or so to get some more layouts put together. But I've been wanting to play with my stamps and take on some challenges for cards . . so keep coming back to see how I'm doing!