Arrived yesterday... overwhelmed is the only word I have! Met so many awesome people already, most of them Archiver's employees! Did lots of shopping and even checked out the aquarium... totally neat place!
Today the real fun starts though! I'm taking a couple classes today and then I also teach for the first time today... Ihope it goes alright! Wish me luck!
I've been busy making ATC cards of late... for a Hero Arts Christmas swap over at the HA Flickr group and also for the awesome people that signed up to take my class at ScrapFest in Bloomington MN. I can't believe it's less than 3 weeks away! So exciting!
Wow! I'm in Charlottetown for the week on training for work with some co-workers. We decided to go see a show at the Confederation Centre while we were here. Turned out that the Full Monty is playing for the summer, so we bought our tickets and tonight was the night! It was soooo good! Those are some very brave boys! Many funny moments with some real human ones too and if the lighting is just right where you're sitting... Full Monty indeed! (Did I mention we were front row center?). I was ill prepared, but highly recommend the show! If you are in the area at all this summer it is well worth going to, you won't be disappointed, it's great! Here's a behind the scenes look from the Confederation Centre's youtube channel:
Also! I can let you know my big news from last week! I won the Archiver's Create-it-by-You Workshop contest!! What does that mean? Well it means that I'll be teaching a workshop at ScrapFest 2011 in the Mall of America, Bloomington MN this coming September 16-18! I am so excited... excited doesn't cover it... stoked might be a little closer! If you're going I'd love to hear from you, I'm gonna need some buddies! Here's a link to the announcement, the project may look a little familiar (with some product tweaking): here
Woo-Hoo! I finally got that YouTube situation sorted and a really late video explaining the quilt card (from a few days ago) uploaded below.
And I have totally great news! I'm super excited, can you tell?! But I don't know if I'm allowed to share yet or not... I always see stuff like that on other people's blogs and it totally ticks me off cause I want to know right then! (I'm an instant gratification kind of girl!) I gotta say though, I've never had the opportunity to torture before and I'm sad to say, I kinda like it! It's totally fun to be a tease. So you'll have to stay tuned for my super-exciting-to-me-anyway-news! But at least I'm leaving you with a video right?!
I'm not loving youtube and google today... I'm no youtube expert, with one measly video to my name but today I tried to add another... well... if I hadn't been bullied into linking youtube with my gmail, I might have been alright, but oh no... I HAD to follow the directions. Now I have no access to my original youtube account and I somehow ended up with a second channel... How did that happen??!! We'll see if their support is any better at this than the people who set up this rediculous system!
Hopefully I'll have another video to post soon! (there's a video on that quilt card I posted yesterday ready to go... just waiting on youtube!)
I know, I know... first sunny day in what feels like months and I made cards today?? Like yeah! But I woke up really early for some reason today and had one done before breakfast... so does that even really count? Also made it to the LSS and back before lunch and the local greenhouse for some pretty flowers too!Love [productive Saturdays!
On to the cards...
Materials: White and Ivory cardstock EK Success border punch Martha Stewart Banner and twine Studio G "Congratulations Stamp" Misc. buttons Jillybean Soup Corrugated heart Faber Castell Big Brush "Nougat" Distress Ink "Antique Linen" Hero Arts "Old French Writing"
Materials: Pink Paislee 6x6 "Butterfly Collection" papers EK Success border punch Martha Stewart Banner MM Letters Prima mini roses Distress Ink "Antique Linen" Recollections flower (M brand) misc button
But... I made a little Family Favs recipe album that I thought was cute and I wanted to share. I even made my very first YouTube video! I know! Crazy! Very not me, but it went better than I thought... maybe I should make some more?? We'll see!
Anyhoo... here's my album. I used Tim Holtz Glassine pockets as the base of the book, so much prettier than regular old envelopes! All the paper is Pink Paislee Butterfly garden collection, and of course there are stickles and distress inks that pop up everywhere throughout. The butterflies are Hero Arts stamps (Hint... watch the video to see how I made them!!), and the roses are the Sizzix Flowers 3D die with some Distress Stain (Spun Sugar) and Glimmer Mist (Wheatfields) to perk them up a bit. There are also some House of 3 Parisian Anthology stamps throughout for decorative detail.
