Happy May Day & National Scrapbooking Month!

Happy May Day Everyone!  I'm sooo excited about National Scrapbooking Month!  I Love Love Love our special and had the gracious opportunity to create and share my gorgeous pages with you.  Here are a couple ways that you can get your creative hands on our discounted National Scrapbook Special "You & Me".  For just a minimum order of $50 you can get this Special for $15, more than 1/2 off the price of $34.95. (just click shop with me) OR you can Join Our Incredible Team Creatique Innovationz for 50% off your New Consultant Kit and receive this adorable package for FREE!...yes you read that correctly!  
The added delicious special is a bonus, however being apart of a Creative Team and earning a huge discount on top of determining your own income with a minimal investment is an Unique Opportunity! The New Consultant Kit comes packed with your choices on what you would like to do with your own business. The value is over $300.00 and through the month of May were breaking with tradition just for YOU!  

To sign-up your initial investment is ONLY $64.50 (basic 3 choices kit) and it is only $40.00 to add -on any other package to enhance your business goals or even to be a hobbyist with deep discounts.  I'm sooo looking forward to leading US into a successful Summer and bring some Financial Freedom to You Today!  Just click on the photo to the right and begin your journey with Team Creatique...Happy Stamping and Much Love!...

"Mayberry" You want to Create with Me?

 Sooo...May is National Scrapbooking month!  I can not wait until then to start playing and it seemed fitting that the name of this gorgeous versatile paperpack is the one I will be showcasing for the entire Month of May!  I'd love to show you how to create these enduring pages, cards, or both!  All you have to do is fill out the schedule an appointment to the right under my Creative Time clock to book your appointment today. (Instructions on ordering, product purchase bonuses and qualifying for April promotions Inc. Tax Break bonus with this purchase, will be e-mailed to you within 24 hours) It's sooo much FUN to play with "classic" scrapbook and card creations. I look forward to working with you soon!
I can't begin to tell you how much I enjoyed creating these "Mayberry" WOTG for May 2011.  I know the post is up early but where else can I post up all the fun things I could do with this. I loved the ides and the new How-To patterns Created by Jeanette Lynton.  My Eavorite 2 products that came from this is the E1020 My Acrylix Token Alphabet, Z11397 Canvas Bad Buttons, & Z111 1 1/4" circle punch.  I'm still in awe over the multitude of things you can create with that little ol' circle punch. I did these pages with every intention on putting "Food" photos on them.  I can't remember the last time I was able to bake or cook a fine meal with all the trimmings and with Easter on the horizon I reckon I will have no shortage of photos to place in these Pages. 
Bonus: I'm an avid believer in giving and sharing...so I would love if you could click on the little recommend button at the top of my page to share with others that you think would adore reading this or love to have a Mayberry time with me on FB.
Thanks for Stamping By!

Inspiration Artwork & Kusudami...?

Time flies when your being creative...!  I was very inspired this weekend when I attended our Creative Hearts training.  Michelle Snyder shared some fabulous ideas of where to pull inspiration from.  I like to think that I tend to create outside of the box but when Michelle did some pages and cards for her Holiday Extravaganza, I never would of thought to look within my own wardrobe not just for colors but also patterns when creating from them.  There were several projects she created that I uploaded to our Team Training Album on Facebook.  The one I loved the most and re-created with her inspiration was the one she did using a really cool hounds-tooth patterned hat.  

This was hers & the gorgeous hat I so want! 

Here is My Design: 

Here Are the Pages I created from her bases:

Then of course prior to Friday I had wondered around YouTube.com for some ideas to play around with.  Since I've become a flowerholic a dear inspiration Dawn Griffin posted a video tutorial on how to make these really adorable flowers.  Of course true to form I wanted to learn more about how in the world I could put these flowers into an ornate gift.  So I dug further to find a really neat technique of orgami called "Kusudami", which in turn got this as a result: 

You can also turn it upside down and utilize it as a center piece for your table.  

You can also create it in many different ways with all kinds of centers, papers, and ribbons.  I admit that this one took approx. 8 hours to create from start to finish.  I couldn't find a video specific in putting the pieces together so I just layered them using the gluing technique Dawn showed in her video, I suggest using a low heat glue gun and you can use an emboss dryer to melt the stringy parts.  In total it took 50 flower petals to create this Kusudami.  Many thanks to Michelle and Dawn for their inspiration contribution to my Creatique post this week. 

**NOTE**I find it so important to provide credit for where I get my inspiration from, therefore within all my posts I do highlight with a link that are different colored words that will link you back to whom and what it is that I'm referring to. 

With that I wanted to express a deep gratitude for those of you who follow my blog, Creatique Live classes and FB Fans.  I appreciate all of your patience, guidance, suggestions, and more!  With that I wanted to let you know that I'm going to be resuming my online live classes after this holiday season.  Till then please keep tuning in to my blog as I will have candy to give-away on my weekly posts.  So without Further ado...Erin Grotegut is the Creatique Winner of Dr. Suess Surprise!  Congrats Erin, please contact me for delivery of your Creatique Candy.  

H2H ABC Challenge!

H2H ABC Challenge was really neat because I was able to accomplish 2 goals in doing it this week.  #1. Finally getting a school picture creation completed to put in a frame and post on our Family Wall from CU-OL Christine David's Class. #2. I was able to actually use my "Passages" paper  and complete my H2H goal I wanted to have done by this evening.  If you click on the actual photo you will see a larger version to see some of the details in my Scrap-page in a Frame piece. Here is what I used for this "Sweetest Soul" 
Recipe: 
Magic: "Charmed" Left Page
G1010 "Passages"
X7126C "Passages" My Stickease
E1017 Old World Alphabet
X5637 Barn Red Exclusive Inks Pad
X5642 Cocoa Exclusive Inks Pad
X5644 Brown Bag Exclusive Inks Pad
Z1243 Pewter Mini-Medley's
Z1316 Cocoa Designer Ribbon Round
Z1294 Sanding Kit
Z1114 Piercing Tool
Z821 Clear Detail Embossing Powder (For the words)
Z891 Versamark 
Burlap Material
What's The Challenge?  (Click H2H Badge & Show Us What you do!)
A - Alphabets from Old World - Needs to be an Alphabet
B - My Son's Portrait "Sweetest Soul" - Boy Themed
C - Cocoa, Brown Bag, & Burlap - Has to have Brown in it.

I'm not usually one for simplicity for the most part.  However, this was a perfect fit for a fantabulous challenge.

Thanks H2H design team for inspiring me once again.

Feeling Confident & Accomplished...

    Wow...I'm actually feeling really confident now that I've gotten all of my Create & Takes completed from Convention 2010 in Washington DC.  I actually opt for the partial create & take classes because I want to be able to add my touch to things.  I have to admit these were very difficult as I wasn't in attendance on the flip flap Magic:Mesmerize lay-outs.  I'm pretty proud of myself for how they turned out though. :)
    On another note...I've been working on getting some slideshows prepared from my trip in DC.  I had a blast there as I spent some time with my Daddy & Sandra during my stay.  I loved meeting all the people I did even during travels & restaurants etc.  
    I'm always amazed at how people touch my life in so many ways.  I have lots of creativity flowing now that I did these so I'm getting ready to work on our National Stamping Month promotion "Triple Play"!  Now, I already started the stamping part...garsh I wished I would of done so in brighter light then my flowers would be centered.  Anyhow, figured I hadn't posted in a while & wanted to share what I did in DC so till next time....

Outdoor Twist - "Sweet Home"

Saturday Afternoon July 2009 on our way back from Grand Junction, CO. outside "Close To My Heart" corporate office.  Utilizing " Sweet Home" in another way...Colors: Buttercup, Indian Corn Blue, Garnet, White Daisy.  Accents: White Daisy Mini Medley's, Chocolate Alphabets, Framed In Top Coats, White Daisy Brdas, Rustic Edge Anchors, "Sweet Home: My Stickease.

Black Dragon Canyon - CastleCounty, UT.  same day...Exploring the blessings of Mother Nature!  Utlilzing "Sweet Home" in another way ... Colors: Colonial White, Garnet, Heavenly Blue.  Accents: Posterboard Alphabet, Love Story rub-ons, Garnet exclusive inks marker.

    I really enjoyed finally creating something for myself.  I had printed these photos the day I got back and now I have a story to tell of our trip.  I absolutely loved the simplicity of using both of my "Imagine" & "Cherish" how-to books as a base line for my inspiration!

"Boom Di Ada" Pick, Sniff, & Snack!

One of my favorite lay-outs created using "Boom Di Ada" from our exclusive "Sideline Surpise" design from Jeanette Lynton's exclusive How-To Book Cherish! Once again the photos are when she was 18 months old...Can you believe it she is now 5! Of course all my photos are a bit old when placing them but with all of the Yummy paper packs that come out inspiration flows on the color hues. It was just so cute she Picked, Sniffed, & Snacked on the dandelions. :)

"Moon Doggie" My Way...LOL :)

I wanted to have some emphasis and the color hues, flip flaps & Well these will be going with me to leadership so that I can add some pictures on them. The later 2 pages will follow shortly...Stay Tuned:

Interesting Learning How To Blog?!

I know, I know...these lay-outs are familiar but old! Like last August during our Creative Hearts Unit meeting old. Want to know what is worse than that...the photos on these lay-outs are from Our very first Valentines Day together in Cancun back in ........drum rolll.....2001!

But hey I'm just trying to catch up on posting some of my artwork here. Funny thing about Blogging, I'm so not familiar with the process or how to do it. I think the only thing left is changing the fonts to match everything else here. :) None the less it is a work in progress and I can see why my fellow sisters have wanted me to join in the fun. Thank YOU from my heart for motivating me to get er done!