I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas....Am I Awake Yet!

I'm Dreaming of a white Christmas!! Just like the ones I used to know..I really think that this year will NOT be a problem...no green Christmas this year!

All is white today in the Maritimes! A winter storm has covered us with over 40 centimeters of the white stuff...here is a photo of what I saw out my window today:

The best part of having a storm...is.....SNOW DAY!!! that's right..no work or school today..here are some of the things we did today!

The kiddo's enjoying the snow:

We baked Christmas Cookies:

What did I do you ask... Well, I just enjoyed the solitude and the warmth and the creative mojo that this time of year brings and I made a card for my Mom and Dad:

I hope you are all staying warm and cozy on this cold snowy day! Have a great evening!

CARDS CARDS CARDS!!

Okay, I used to have a hard time thinking small..so cards were so hard to make for me. I have in the past 6 months tried to focus on making cards for different occasions..practic makes perfect I think?? here are a few of my card samples:

Now to work on some special christmas cards for my scrappin buddies! Have a great weekend!

Catching Up!!!

Okay, I am not really a bad blogger..I have been just busy with Design Team Call and our Scrapbooker's Club House Blog! Please forgive me..

Well to sum up what has been going on in my life I will make a list:

1. Scrap Gala November 9 - 11, 2007. I was a Git R Dun for an awesome three day event held here in Moncton. The classes were awesome and it was so nice to see the gals again! The classes I took are as follows: Alphabetica of Me - Kah Mei Smith of Fontwerks, Many Faces of White - Carol Wingert Co Author of Artful Memories and Carol Wingert & Tena Sprenger: Lifelines: Creating Memory Art to Chronicle Your Personal , My Favorite Things - Tena Sprenger also Co-Author both books same as Carol..as well as Big Picture Scrapbooking Instructor. Flip Frame Book - Christy Tomlinson, Scrapbooks etc. BHG, ScarletLime Kit Club Owner. School Days Altered Folder- Debbie Hill, Junkitz.

Wow this was quite an event we had lots of fun with some good friends..life is great.

2. Scrapbooker's Club House is quite jam packed with lots of fun challenges and contests:
Design Team Contest December to March - 4 new Members have been chosen..congrats goes out to Jennifer R, Cristin Hillier, Ali MacDonald and Caroline Langlois! I am so excited to have them on our team. I am on the other hand sad to see my old friends terms coming to an end! Dawn, Heather, Nadine, Laura, Tammie and Elisha!

Also at the club house we are still searching for our December Guest Designer spot, as well as a biweekly Scrapbooker's Club House Blog sketch contests...with sketches designed by me.. Make sure to come and give it a try!

3. We also held at the club house a week long Rainbow Crop..which was very popular to say the least..it was great to have a whole week to complete the challenges..The challenges given out where based on colors..it was fun. Crop challenges close tonight at midnight.

Here are some of my completed challenges:

4. I also managed to hang out with my friends to celebrate a milestone in my life...I am turning 40 tomorrow! Yikes..tonight is my last night being 39! But what a great week of celebration to make a gal feel good.

I hope you are all having a great weekend!

My Little Girl!

Well, y'all who know me knows I do not have a girl I have a boy. But when I was 16 years old I hung out with a girl who became my best friend, she had a 1 year old baby girl..she was so precious to me. We were always together. This little girl quickly became part of my life too. This past week this little girl who is 23 now got married...


here are some photos:

Scrapbooker's Club House News!!

We have a blog!!! Yippee I am so excited. Nicole D and I decided it was time for SBCH to have a blog. So I asked If I could design it. She said yes..I was so honored to do this for such an awesome place. We have some great plans for this new blog of ours! I hope you will check it out:
http://scrapbookersclubhouse.wordpress.com/

Runner Up!!

Just this past month at Scrapbooker's Club House we had a contest with Dude Designs. You had to create 1 layout, 1 altered item and 1 card..phew! I entered my creations and panicked when I seen some of the other awesome entries that came in after mine. Everyone's work was just simply amazing.. The judging was done by Karen Pamenter herself from Dude Designs..the winner was Lisa who wins a Guest Design Spot on their site, a pizza box full of Dude papers and embellishments and a Gift certificate from SBCH for 25.00! Here is her amazing entries:

WTG Lisa!! Congrats!

But guess what...I was runner up! As runner up I won a Gift Certificate for $15.00 from SBCH!! Yippee..I am sure I will use wisely...not!

Here are my entries:

I would also like to give a Kudos out to the other entrants! You gals rocked the contest! WTG!

Scrapbookers's Club House News!!

Well the day has finally come when I can finally spill the beans! phew! It was hard to keep a secret. Here goes: My DT term has some to an end at SBCH! But to my surprise I was asked to stay on as DT Coordinator/Administrative Asst. I will be working with Nicole and the Newly selected SBCH Design Team! I am so excited to have this opportunity. I hope SBSH DT and I will bring different creative ideas to the Club House to inspire you. The new SBCH DT are: Tammie, Elisha, Laura, Heather, Nadine and Dawn.

I will truly miss the gals I got to know the past 6 months. Vicky, Pam, Cynthia, Lisa and Martina. But I am sure they will hang around and join in all the challenges and contests each month will bring. We still have one more week working with an awesome kit together!

Scrap Gala News

We time is certainly flying by now..only a little more than 4 months to go and Scrap Gala 2007 Will be here again. Debbie, Shirley and Amy have invited us Git R Duns to help out. Make sure to stay tuned to the Scrap Gala Site for upcoming information.

Awesome News To Share!

Coming soon July 19! tee hee I am such a tease!

Month 5 and What I have been up to!

Well this month was a colorful treat! My kit from the clubhouse contained Dude Designs Patterend Papers! These were extraordinary! This kit was a pleasure to work with. There were 13 peice of the pp!! I could scrap forever with this kit: here are a few samples:

Daisy Bucket

Wow, Already another month and another kit! This month is a beautiful line of Paper from Daisy Bucket Design . This papers texture and colors are absolutely marvelous! The line we are playing with at The Club House is Daisy Bucket line: Cool Dude...totally awesome for boy pages as well as very versatile for anything.

Designed for Scrapbookers Club House

This month I had the June Mini Kit you would not even know because this kit is so full of great papers and accessories. I cannot wait to see what next kit brings us! Happy scrapping everyone!

Tinkering With Month Three

Tinky dinky doo! This month brought doubt in my evil mind..humm can I really create pages with these vibrant out of my box colors?? Well the answer is yes! I cranked out 5 layouts with this awesome kit from Scrapbooker's Club House Once again I was not disappointed when I received my pizza box..just a little freaked out..tee hee. Anywho, in my box I received Tinkering Ink Patterned papers & tags, Bazzil CS, Ribbon, Bling, Making Memories Shimmer kit with stickers. Here are a few examples:

Designed with SBCH April Sketch

Have a great Week!

Happy "Snowy" Easter

Well usually we can find bad weather on Good friday..this year it is actually on Easter! We woke this morning suprised to see snow had fallen..not just a light covering but 5 inches! Well no visits to relatives today. My Mom and Dad live 1 hour away from us so travelling is out of the question. So it is a relax and think about what this day really means. "Jesus" which by the way is hard to explain to a 5 year old boy who loves the fact that he gets chocolates and toys on this day.

So I hope you all enjoy your day with your families and friends, reflect on the miracles of this day and try not to eat too much Chocolate!

Month 2 and Still having a Blast!!

Okay..If I new this was going to be so much fun I would have signed up for a DT gig Sooner!! April kit has been sent to me and what an awesome kit!! Basic Grey - Pheobe Papers. At first I was a little freaked out by the colors and the patterns because I usually do more muted and distressed LO's. But when I stared working with this kit I was totally inspired. Here are a few examples:

Designed by Noella for Scrapbooker's Club House April Mini Kit.

I know I will continue to have a blast playing for the next 4 months.. Have a great weekend!

Design Team Month 1

My first assignment as Design Team member for Scrapbooker's Club House
was so much fun. The March Cherry Arte kit was just phenominal....When the kit came in I was so eager to get started designing my layouts with this beautiful paper and embellishments.

My kit was the technical kit which required doing photo transfers with packing tape (eeek) what was I to do? How was I going to use the tranfers? Well, I mostly used them as my embellishments. I found the images in magazines..

Here are a few of my creations with this beautiful kit:

I am very excited to see what my next kit will be..I know that the owner Nicole will have a great kit for April put together for us....just have to wait for the mailman now!

Thanks again Nicole for giving me this awesome opportunity to be part of your Design Team and working with some great team mates who are truly inspiring, I am looking forward to seeing what the next 5 months will bring!!

Dreams.......

I have to say this is a true account of this quote with the wonderful news I received this past weekend.

About two weeks ago I came across an announcement on Scrapsubmit.com that Scrapbooker's Club House
was looking for a new Design Team, they were looking for 6 new members for a 6 month term and is a Canadian company..so this peaked my interest. So off I went into the forum and found some already great Design Team Members. The owner Nicole of the online store was always on the board. I really felt at home there so I posted some of my layouts into the galleries , posted 3 layouts into the Design team applications area and posted on the forums. I got wonderful feed back from the ladies so I decided to send in my written application. I figure you will never know of you don't try..right? The announcement was to come at the finally of the online crop scheduled on the past weekend...My nervousness grew as the weekend came to a close. Announcements where posted on the board 4:00 pm MST (7:00 pm Eastern ) the announcement will come!! Yikes, my belly has butterflies...humm 38 applicants..Do I really have a chance?? I keep looking at all the wonderful layouts that the other applicants were sending..again, nervous! So, 7:00pm Sunday night Eastern time..The announcement came..the thread "The New SBCH DT and Guest DT's Find Out Now".... I opened it and at first only saw the list of the Guest Designers..and I thought oh well maybe next....wait...uh! I did not see that list....DT from Canada Martina, Lisa and Noella And the US: Cynthia, Vikki and Pamela !! What??? Is that really me?? Yahoo, it is me!!

I am so excited to get started on this wonderful journey with Nicole the owner of the Online store, Share the Design Team Coordinator, my Design Team team mates and Guest DT Team Mates. I hope I will inspire other members of the board as the outgoing DT did for me! So with this I leave you with my quote " Your Dreams are Always Within Your Reach as Long as you Believe In Them"....