Summer LuWow Vendor Fair

Stampaganza is coming in June

OMG, just had to tell you....IT'S COMING, STAMPAGANZA IS COMING IN JUNE.

IT'S ALMOST HERE...stay tuned for more details!  It will be here on JUNE 1st!!!!!!!!!  You will never forgive yourself for missing this mother of all Stamping sales, love your friendly neighborhood Stampologist.

Easy card stamping trick

Only $6.95

Set of 5

Happy Memorial Day!

Thank you to all those that serve, have served, OR have waited at home for your loved ones while they serve!

Memorial Day Thank You

I wanted to say Thank You to those who never asked for any......

May's Mystery Hostess Madness Reminder

Just wanted to remind everyone that I'm holding a hosting a Mystery hostess event this month.  Anyone who shops from my website and clicks the JOIN for the Mystery hostess gathering when they shop has a chance of winning the ultimate prize...the hostess rewards.  Make sure you get your order in and remember to Join the gathering because who wouldn't want FREE products with NO WORK INVOLVED!

May 2012 Love Your Layout

Here we go another great layout that can be yours made easy via this you tube video.

Teenager journalling

So anyone that has or ever has had a teenager, especially a boy knows that getting them to tell you the back story behind their pictures is not easy...Well I've been Studio J-ing my son's pictures and actually talked him into writing the journalling.  It wasn't a lot, just enough and its his own words!  How--well I have to say a little Mom trickery may have occurred, when I asked him for help he was all ughhhh, I don't want to do that!  So I told him no problem I would just add cute stories I remembered from when he was little....okay so it was a little more like Mom extortion but you got do what you got to do!

Liebster Blog Award Winner!

I am so exited, I just received a blog award: The Liebster Blog Award.  I was nominate by Lauren Loves To Scrap.  It feels great to be recognized as one of someone's favorites as I put a lot of time and effort into my blog for you all!

The origins of the Liebster Blog Award are somewhat unclear to us but the general consensus is that it originated in Germany, Liebster, meaning "favorite" or "dearest", to showcase bloggers with fewer than 200 followers. Upon receiving this award, the recipient must then pass it on to five more blogs of note.

So here are the rules when you receive the Liebster Blog Award:

 ** Show your thanks to the blogger who gave you the award by linking back to them. Thanks so much Lauren! (check out her blog, it's new but already has some nice artwork on it)
**Reveal your own 5 picks (with less than 200 followers) for the award and notify them (Not so easy since I have lots that I just love to follow!)
**Post your award on your blog
**Feel proud and bask in knowing that others will be searching out your blog
**And lastly and the best rule, have fun!

So in keeping with the "Inspiration" theme, here are my 5 picks (not in any particular order, blogs that inspire me:

1) Dana's ~ DSDoodles.blogspot.com

2) Patty's ~ Pssmitty.blogspot.com

3) Dawn's ~ StamptilDawn.blogspot.com

4) Corina's ~ http://www.mycreativeink.org/

5) Lucy's ~ http://www.love2createitall.com/

I hope you enjoy these blogs as much as I do! Thanks for the award Lauren...it made my day!

Sonoma 6x6 kraft card booklet workshop

June 5th at 6pm is my next workshop at Oceanside Community Church. 

This month you are in for a special treat!  A few month's ago I showcased my 6x6 Sonoma kraft card mini album (shown here).  Well you all asked so here you are, my good friend Dana Simone-Kurtz painstakingly recreated this booklet into a workshop with detailed step by step directions AND offered these kits to our lucky group!  The class cost is still $20, and you may purchase a kit to have mailed (with add'l charge for shipping) if you are an out of towner. 

Here's the catch quantities of kits are extremely limited so please contact me as soon as possible to reserve your kit! 

Studio J Notebook stype

Pemberley Studio J

One of my favorite tools with Studio J is the variety of uses for your My Stickease.  You can use them multiple times, you can resize them, you can layer them, you can split them between pages.

This layout of my kids lounging is made with Pemberley papers.  The second layout was made with the same papers from our art studio.

Pemberley Paper packet

Dotty National Scrapbooking Month Reminder

Just a reminder, the DOTTY Special for May is while supplies last, be sure to get your order in to take advantage of this amazing offer.  Remember if you are ordering on line from my website heatherplotzke.ctmh.com this month click to join on the May Mystery Hostess and the month's hostess rewards can be yours!

Seeing Sunflowers

I am in LOVE with May's Stamp of the Month Set.  Contact me today to get yours for $5.

Happy Mother's Day

To all the Moms out there Happy Mother's Day to you!

A little scrapbooking humor

I found this one day while browsing the web thought it was worth a chuckle and wanted to share

Zooming in

I love how easily it is with Studio J to blow up photos. It allows you to zoom in and crop closer making those photos you take of your living room to get it all in (I know you do it to) great now.  Because look what happens when you zoom in close to there faces getting rid of the mess. The results turn out great.  I love the photo of the wrestling on the left.

Blooming flourishes

Come On lets get your stamping on

Get your Scrappin' On!

Happy National Scrapbook Day to all my creative, family, photo, papers, stickers and glue obsessed like me friends out there!!! 

Get your Scrappin' On!!!!!!!

Field trip follow up

Okay, so after a sleepless night over the thought of kids in outfits that weren't going to coordinate and that I wouldn't be able to easily spot them from anywhere....I had an idea so off to the store at 0:dark thirty this morning before our amazing day!  What do you think?!?!  I know the girls' loved it and thought it was great that we had accessories and they LOVED mugging for pictures all day. 

Scrapbooker's checklist

• Camera - check
• sunscreen - check
• RE-check on camera and make sure battery is fully charged - check
• Prep cute camera friendly clothes that will go with both Momma & child & will look good with bright colors of travel location - check
• water bottles - check
• Triple check camera battery back in bag - check

So I'm guessing most of you can guess what the above is...anyone, anyone....Yup its MY day trip check list.

Tomorrow I am field trip Momma with Sara Beth's Kindergarten class.  We are off to Legoland....geez its 10pm and OMG I just realized I don't know what color the other kids in our group will be wearing OMG, omg.  You think the teacher's would have given us a color scheme to work with.  Hmmmm, I could always make a midnight run to Wally-world to get my little team matching shirts....hmmmm. LOL  okay I won't this time, but you can BET ON IT for Parker's trip next year.

What is your trip packing list look like?  

May's Cruisin' workshop

 

So my May workshop this month was for the super cute 6x6 board book album.  I borrowed the idea from a class my good friend Dawn Heuft did in Lakeside earlier this spring. The must have stamp set used here are from the Cruisin' WOTG.  Thanks to everyone who came out for the class.