Another summer month, another Great Stamp of the Month!

So another month has gone by and I still have yet to unpack all my scrapbooking supplies!! Although my very sweet boyfriend surprised my last night when I got home with my scrapbooking shelf! I have a large EXPEDIT shelf from IKEA that holds all my scrapbooking supplies and now that it is up I can start unpacking my boxes and start scrapping again :)

But until then I am going introduce you to this month's Stamp of the Month and put some links to some great and creative CTMH consultants who have done some great artwork with this new stamp.


Enjoy!!

Nona - Great Flower pot card
Jena - Card with embossing
Wendy - Great Layout!
Melissa - Another Great Card!
Paige - Great technique with white embossing powder!
Jamia - Matched the stamp with a cuttle bug embossing floder!
Heather - Super cute tag!

My First Blog award and the SOTM Winner!

Hello All!!

First off I would like to apologize for being absent for so long. With moving this month and starting night school I am finding it hard to find the time to get on this blog and/or even scrapbook. I am sad to say all my scrapbook supplies are still in boxes since the moved so I have not scrapbooked in sometime. Although the good news it I will need to get some scrapbooking supplies together for this weekend since I am heading to Smith Falls to the LSS Tomorrow's Treasures. I will be attending Vicki Boutin's weekend class that will focus on 7 Gypsies and her personal vintage style. It is a pleasure taking her classes and I can't wait to get my hand on some of these great products. If you ever get the opportunity to have Vicki come to your LSS take her class, you won't regret it. This will be my third time driving from Toronto to Smith Falls to take her classes. I have also taken classes at my LSS Bizzy B's Scrapbooking and at Scrapping Turtle in St. Jacob's.

Here s sneak peak of the project we are working on this weekend! I can't wait!!



Well let's get down to business!

So I have been given my first blog award from Karen Wilson! I am so excited and honored!
Karen thank you so much for the recognition, I truly appreciate it. It's so nice to get props from a fellow Close to my Heart Consultant and fellow Ontarian!The rules for the lemonade stand awards are:

• Comment on this blog
• Nominate 5 to 10 blogs you feel show great attitude and gratitude
• Link to your nominees within your blog post
• Comment on their blogs to let them know they received the award
• Link back to the person who gave you the award to show your appreciation

So now I will pass it on to the following great bloggers who I find always inspire me and I look forward to seeing the work that they do! I wish I could list every one of the blogs I visit, but here's just a few!

1. Lisa
2. Laurie
3. Katie
4. Stephanie
5. Kelly Jo
6. Melissa
7. Jena
8. Nona
9. Tracey
10. Ruth

Well thank you ladies for all your inspiration! It has been a pleasure being a follower of all your blogs :)

Also I have drawn a winner for the May SOTM blog candy!! and the winner is ............

sandyh50 said...I love these silhouette stamps!
They remind me of the song I am Woman, hear me roar! LOL

Congrats Sandy! I will be sending you an email to get your address and I will send you the May SOTM shortly, you are going to love it! I was so excited to get my hands on this one I can't wait to make birthday cards, thank you cads and bachlorette invites with these super trendy ladies! Keep posted on my blog for monthly draws for each SOTM from Close to my Heart.

"Everyone can write a Little"

I know with life getting in the way I have found it hard to get out to my local scrapbooking store and for classes and crops. I really miss going to classes and learning something new from the teacher or my fellow classmates. So for now I think I have found an alternative...

Online Classes!!

I found myself on the Big Picture Scrapbook website going through the workshops and found few I was really interested in and I have already sign up for Cathy Zielske's class "Everyone can write a little". This course focusing on integrated micro-blogging (Twitter or Facebook) as a tool to enhance your journaling. I think it will be a very interesting creative journey and with it being an online class it allows me to schedule the task into my busy life.

Have you taken an online class before? Where did you take the class? How did you like the class compared to the Local Scrapbooking store experience? Love to hear what you all think!

Check out this great Facebook inspried layout "25 Random things" by Christine Drumheller

I was hoping to have sometime to do up a layout myself but with the move into the new apartment, starting night school and being in a wedding this month things have gotten in the way. Looking forward to a happy scrapping June once I unpack all my scrapbooking tools! I won't have a free weekend to do that until June 13th!!

Idea Book 2009 Giveaway Winner!!

So I used my trusty random number generator at RANDOM.ORG and the winning number was 7!!!

So this is who won

Erin A said...

I would love this book! Thanks for the giveaway!

Erin, I will be getting in contact with you today to get your address so I can send out the book your way!

Thank you for all who participated. Don't forget to check out the May Stamp of the Month Giveaway at this link.

You can win a stamp set for FREE!

Congrats,

May Stamp of the Month - "Be Yourself" Giveaway

Check out this month's stamp of the month that is offered by Close to my Heart for April! A fun new My Acrylix stamp set is introduced and featured each month and is offered for that month only. Make a qualifying minimum purchase, and it's yours at a special price or even free!

I am in love with this stamp set, I can't wait to make gift card set for my friends! Great for little hostess gifts or birthday gifts. Everyone should have fun little cards on hand just in case they need to write a Thank you to someone!!

If you are interested in purchasing this stamp contact me, you may even qualify to earn one for free!

Just like last month I am giving one of these stamp sets away for free!! Just leave a comment on this post with your name and email address. I will pick a random posting on May 31th 2009 and contact the winner and send out the stamp set.

Earn an extra entry for posting this blog candy on your website, leave a comment with the link to your posting and I will add another entry for you!

Stay tune for next month's giveaway!! Also I am giveaway the new Summer 2009 Idea Book, check out this post for details.