Demonstrator!!!!!!

IT'S OFFICIAL!  I'm a demonstrator for Stampin' Up now!  As of TONIGHT!  I'm part of the FUN STAMPERS group and could not be any more excited!!

I foresee this as being a fantastic new journey in my life! :)

Happy 6 months, Adam James!

Half way to one... oh my! :)

Happy 6 month birthday AJ! 

From Feb 09

Insert excitement shriek here

For those who don't know, my mom is a middle school teacher (7th & 8th grade).  She received an email yesterday about grant money the school had for clubs and functions on campus.  My mom knew I was just discussing becoming a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator, and she comes up with the BRILLIANT idea to make a school club for stamping, scrapbooking, card making, paper crafts, etc!  Of course she would have ME come and basically run the club!  I'm going to be the brains behind the whole operation and run this gig!

I am so SO SO excited!  First, I will have a group to call "my own," I get to teach young girls about the FANTASTIC ways of scrapbooking and other paper crafts, and I'll basically be having a workshop/class every week!  The grant money will pay for supplies and the cost... and I get to be an actual demonstrator!  

EEEEEEEE I'M SO EXCITED!!!!

pretty pretty card

Card we made at a Stampin' Up! workshop last week.  Not my design, but so stinkin' cute anyways! I have the other card floating around here somewhere... but I think Elijah took it and hid it from me. lol ;)  I'll post it when I find the card.

From Happy Scrappin'

Toddler Mischief

I still need to add the journaling, but here it is anyway!

From Happy Scrappin'

Materials...

Cardstock, Paper: K & Co "Hopscotch", Paper Company

Chipboard letters: Cereal box chipboard (With Paper Company paper)

Photo Corners: Heidi Swapp

Brads: JoAnns

Chalk: Inkadinkadoo

Die Cut: Cricut (Plantin' Schoolbook, Cuttin Up)

Officially admitted!

It's not like I was considered about being accepted to CSU San Bernardino... after all I'm guaranteed acceptance being a transfer student (ESPECIALLY since I'm transferring from one Cal State Univ to another!)  I got my email, though, and I've officially been accepted!  Hooray!  I just need to mail in my official transcripts and I'm good to go.  My major is English on a Creative Writing track.  I have to start fresh in the program, but I was going to in ANY program I REstarted.  I'm very excited about this whole new adventure!

Watch out English/Creative Writing program... here I come for Fall 09!

Fun at the Park page

From Happy Scrappin'

Materials Used...

Cardstock & Paper: 

Letters, Grass, background - DCWV (textured)

Polka Dots (tree top and bird) - Target $1 spot paper

Blue birds (right side) - My Minds Eye (Bohemian)

Tree trunk, journaling - Pamela Woods

Butterflies - Stampin' Up!

Matting - Paper Company

Die Cuts:

Birds - Cricut (Animal Kingdom cart)

Grass & "Park" letters - Plantin' Schoolbook

"Fun at the" - Brush Script Font using SCAL and Cricut

Treetop - Sizzix (Scallops)

Stamps, Inks, Glitters, and Chalks:

Butterflies & "December" - Stampin' Up!

Ink - Stampin' Up! (Pacific Point)

Chalk - Inkadinkadoo

Glitter - Stampin' Up! (Dazzling Diamonds)

Pop Dots

Memory Makers, foam squares

Pen

Stampin' Up! - Uni-bal Signo, white

Hide the debit card!

I recorded the Creating Keepsakes paper crafting episode on QVC. I figured if I recorded it, I'd be less tempted to buy something. Of course everything just looks SOOO cool... quick, somebody hide the credit card before I try to go to qvc.com and order some junk I probably don't need.

But come on... that matting/mounting tool for PERFECT mounting looks WAY TOO COOL!!!!

page from Thanksgiving 08

From Happy Scrappin'

From Happy Scrappin'

From Happy Scrappin'

Materials used...

Cardstock: DCWV Textured cardstock, Stampin' Up!, and The Paper Company, Die Cut (turkey): Cricut - Doodlecharms cartridge, Plantin Schoolbook Cart.,, Rub Ons: Me and My Big Ideas, Inks & Chalks: Rubber Stampede ink in Mocha, Inkadoo Blending Chalks, Scallops: Stampin' Up! eyelet scallop boarder punch, Fiscars scissors, Pen: Zig Zag writer pen, Font: Personal handwriting font created at yourfonts.com,

Are you stinky, Elijah?