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Reminder of Technique Workshop on Monday

Just wanted to remind everyone of the technique workshop coming up on Monday at 6:15.  We will be making a few cards using "cheater bows" as shown by Tresa Black and faux watercolor stamping.  Hope you can make it.  I'm working on my samples and hope to have pictures up soon.  Cost is $5 and all supplies are provided.

Color Challenge: Lagoon, Pacifica and Sky

Thanks to my wonderful downline, Angie, for participating in my color challenge this week.  She created this card from those colors and the Magnifique paper pack.  Maybe Angie will chime in to let us know the stamp set that she used.

Thanks for playing Angie!  Remember, you can also play along by doing any of the challenges listed on the challenge page (found along the top of this blog) and sending me a picture of your completed project.

Thanks!

National Scrapbooking Month Promotion

This will be the constant campaign for the month of May. The video will discuss the different ways that you can purchase this kit in the month of May. I got my kit the other day and it is absolutely wonderful! I can't wait to play with it and show you what you can create with it!

Customer Challenge for April

Here's an entry from my awesome downline, Angie.  It is for the color challenge this week:  honey, olive and smoothie.  She used the Fun Times stamp set and Originals card pattern: Upright.  Great Job Angie!  Thanks for sharing with us!

Do any of the challenges listed on my blog and send me a picture to be entered in the April drawing for a prize from my prize basket.  Enter as many times as you like, just be sure to send me your challenge by midnight on the last day of the month to be entered.

National Scrapbooking Month Crop

Do you want to come and work on your own projects for an evening?  Visit with friends while doing that?  If you are in the Cedar Rapids area, join me for a National Scrapbooking Month Crop on May 7.  Times will be from 4pm-7pm.  Cost will be $15 per person and that will include dinner, a contest, prizes, snacks and goodies.  Please bring your own beverage (although I will have water and coffee) and projects to work on.  My stamps, inks and cricut with cartridges are available for your use.  I will also have paper available for sale by the sheet, as well as some items that I am selling to make more room for new items.  Spots are limited so please reserve your spot today.

Another Card for the Color Challenge

This one used the Mayberry paper pack.  I also used the previous challenge of grabbing a how to book and opening to a random page and making that card with my paper and stamps.  I used Originals to pick my card pattern and opened to page 91.  I used the Puzzle Backdrop pattern and the Springtime stamp set.  I still used honey and smoothie inks, but colored in my little chicks with the blending pen.  I also used the Mayberry paper to do some paper piecing.  I really liked how this one turned out. 

This shows how the umbrella is pop dotted on the front of the card.

All supplies are Close to My Heart:

Mayberry Paper Pack

Springtime Stamp Set

Originals How To Book

Honey, Smoothie and Chocolate inks

Blending Pen

Foam Tool (for sponging edges in chocolate)

Wooden Buttons

Natural Hemp

3d Foam Tape

Color Challenge: Honey, Smoothie, Olive

For those that don't know, I post a weekly challenge on the top of the blog.  Click on challenges and you will see the list.  Every month, feel free to participate and then to send me a picture of your project, if you are willling to share it on the blog, and each entry will get you entered into a drawing.  I have a prize basket that the winner of the drawing can chose from.  Drawing winners are pulled the first of each month for the previous month.

This week's challenge was a color challenge:honey, smoothie and olive.  This combo can be found on pages 50-51 of the current idea book.  There are some great ideas in there.  I ended up with a "cased" card this week.  I needed a Thank you card for a friend that sells locally made honey.  So I "cased" that card on page 50, which uses an Originals pattern: Upright and the darling Bee Happy stamp set.  I stamped the bee images in Staz On black ink and then used my olive, smoothie and honey inks with my water brush to color in the images.  I also added brown bag ink for the hive.  I then sponged all the edges with chocolate ink and added a kraft border, also sponged with chocolate ink.  Hope you enjoy my "cased" card and have fun making or "caseing" your own creations.

Supplies used (all Close to My Heart):

Colonial White, Smoothie, Olive CS

Black StazOn

Honey, Smoothie, Olive, Brown Bag and Chocolate inks

Water Brush

Kraft Borders

Wooden Buttons

Foam Tool (for sponging edges)

Miracle Workshop on the Go Additional Layout from Magic: Love Potion

Here is my Miracle Workshop on the Go additional layout from Magic: Love Potion.  I did add liquid glass over the circles in the middle of the pinwheels for dimension and shine.

Winner! Winner!

Thanks to those who "like" me on Facebook.  I have contacted the winner of the $20 gift certificate.

Congrats Jana!  And I hope to be getting some more artwork, both on the blog and Facebook in upcoming days!

Reminder of our Workshop

Reminder of  our workshop on Monday, April 11 at 6:15.  My highlighted kit will be Miracle and technique will be pinwheels.  Contact me for details.  Please remember to RSVP so that I can make sure to have enough spots ready.

Also, remember there is still time to get in on my FB promotion and win a $20 gift certificate. 

Studio J®: Step-by-Step Basics

Here is another Studio J step by step video...this one put out by Close to My Heart.

Go my website and try out Studio J for free. There is no cost for Studio J until you are ready to print your layouts. If you enjoy Studio J, consider a membership so that you can take advantage of the constant campaign, Sparkle with Studio J, as well as all the member advantages. Contact me for more details.

April Constant Campaigns

We have 2 constant campaigns this month that can be found on my website.  The first campaign is called Lovin' Level 1.  This campaign is pretty timely, as we are doing a workshop in May with a Level 1 kit.  By taking advantage of this promotion in April, you will be ready for one of our workshops in May.

Get a FREE* Level 1 scrapbooking kit with your qualifying website purchase in April!

Level 1 Kits Include:
4 – 12" × 12" Preprinted Pages
2 – 12" × 12" B&T Duos® Papers
2 – 12" × 12" Cardstock Sheets
2 – 12" × 6" My Stickease®
Adhesive Sheets
That’s a retail value of $9.95!

MY REFLECTIONS® LEVEL 1 SCRAPBOOKING KITS ARE
great for beginners to seasoned pros. The preprinted pages
make preserving your fondest memories a breeze. Get a
FREE* Level 1 kit of your choice when you order $100 or more
on my website April 1–30, 2011 (limit of one free
kit per qualifying order). Now’s the time to let everyone
know you’re Lovin’ Level 1!

Choices of Level 1 kits:
Sweet Home (X7116A)
Passages (X7126A)
Topstitch (X7120A)
Perfect Day (X7100A)
Veranda (X7119A)
Zippidee (X7125A)
Splendor (X7124A)
Select your free kit from the above kits, while supplies last.
*Shipping/handling apply. Offer valid April 1–30, 2011. Free Level 1 kit available while supplies last.

Our other campaign is Sparkle with Studio J.

Members-only special: Buy 10 layouts, get free bling!

ADD DELIGHTFUL DETAILS TO YOUR BEAUTIFUL STUDIO J® LAYOUTS. Self-adhesive clear
Sparkles and Opaques Pearl adhesive gems make it easy to get your shine on, and now
you can get these adorable accessories FREE!

Throughout April, Studio J members get one free package each of clear Sparkles
and Opaques Pearl gems, a retail value of $5.90, for every 10 custom-printed layouts
purchased in a single order. It's another way we make scrapbooking faster, simpler,
easier—and more sparkly! Go to my website today and start creating!

Members save more, do more, get more!

• Exclusive patterns
• 50% off layouts
• Free JPG files
• Free monthly shipment
• Members-only promotions like this one!

There are some great specials going on in the month of April, so take advantage of them now.  And don't forget about my FB contest or the Hope for Japan promotion, with all proceeds directly donated to help in  Japan.