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Spring Fling 2014 Event Reminder

Dana Simone-Kurtz and I are hosting our second annual Spring Fling Workshop this Saturday from 12:30 to 5pm at Dana's house in Poway. These are samples of what you can make, and range from $1 to $6 per project. Bring adhesive, scissors, and money.

From my Family to yours have a Happy Easter!

Easter Layouts Studio J style Guest Designer - Rose

Hi everyone, want to start off with saying hope everyone has a Happy Easter weekend AND a special thanks to our special Guest designer Rose today for sharing her Studio J layouts and family memories with us!!! Great job Rose, we love them! 

Would you love to be able to do fast, easy, and beautiful layouts like Rose's?  Would you like to be able to do them in about 15-30 minutes and have them delivered directly to your house? No stuff to drag out, to mess to clean up?
Would you like to be able to NOT have to guess at which photo you want  blown up to which size ahead of time, often wishing you'd picked differently?

Then Let Me Show You How Studio J can work WITH your traditional scrapbooking to help you keep up, still have that stunning CTMH style you love and best yet it will coordinate side by side with your other layouts seamlessly!  Contact me today at 760-712-7033 or hrkinney@hotmail.com or head directly to heatherplotzke.ctmh.com to get started now!

Wings

Project Inspiration: Tools for Tasteful Pages

This video fits right into our Lollydoodle lovefest!  AND its perfect for showcasing my photos of my kiddos Spring break kite flying adventure with their friends!  There is some great quick tips about quick stitching and splitting stamped images on here.

Scrapbooking Skills

How about family historian, archivist, data storage, photography, graphics design, logistics, financial planning and budgeting (as if we all don't know how to work hostess rewards and specials)....Come on people who is with me here!!!!

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Studio J Spring Time Layouts

I wanted to share some Studio J layouts from a Guest Designer, Brandi P today who used the Express Collections from CTMH to make her Granddaughters' photos the stars of these layouts.   To make your versions of these quick and easy layouts contact me today OR click here to start now...its free to play with Studio J.

Thanks for sharing your layouts Brandi.  If you'd like your artwork featured, email me today.  I'm always looking for guest designers to feature here and on my facebook page :)

Crafting with Kids

Okay you know your kids pay attention to what you do when your 6 year old son is excited to see your CTMH fedex delivery because he thinks your new "robot stamps" for making comics are in there...which they were, because he kept asking about that set every time he saw my Idea book!  What do you like to craft with your kids?  (Stamp set is Robot Family)

Hip Hop into Spring inspiration

CTMH has tons of products to help get your creativity hip hopping along this spring.  Here are a few samples that our amazing creative team designed to give you a starting point for your own fun spring projects.

To get all the supplies for these projects and more head to heatherplotzke.ctmh.com now to get started.

Lollydoodle My Stickease Spare Card On Hand

I am a firm believer in always having blank cards on hand.  You never now when an unexpected birthday, anniversary, sympathy, or thinking of you card will be needed.  I can't tell you how many times my husband or kids have come to me and asked for a card for some one on their way out the door as if I was magically supposed to just know that it was a special event in a persons life that I've never met....guess that's why I'm the Mom!  So THAT was the inspiration for the third card in our Lollydoodle lovefest.  AND that's why the sentiment area was left blank!!!!

You'll see how I added my favorite embellishment of Liquid Glass once again to outline and give some WoW factor to the details of the My Stickease Lollydoodle stickers.  I also wanted to mention a fun idea is to add little stickers (or stamped images) to the inside of your cards to continue the color and fun. 

Lollydoodle Owl Card 2

Next up in our Lollydoodle lovefest is our 2nd Owl card.  This card was so fast and easy!  I just layered the My Stickease overtop of each one and another until I filled the the card.  Remember you can crop the Stickers apart and use them separately too.  Which is exactly what I did here with the portion of the tree, then later used the cropped out piece sideways as the grass base!

Remember to decorate the inside of your cards, and even the back with the left over little stickers pieces.  I used the Liquid Glass to highlight and give some WOW factor like on the swirls of the leaves and the owls eyes.

Lollydoodle Owl Card 1

Continuing our Lollydoodle lovefest, here is the first of 3 cards from my March workshop kits, which featured the fast and easy treatment of layering My Stickease quickly onto cards AND BAM you're done!  They come in all shapes and sizes, lots have a variety of sayings right on them making them perfect for scrapbooking AND cardmaking.  So here is our first card:

What do you think??? It maybe hard to see in the photo, but I decided for some extra pizazz to add Liquid Glass to high light special areas around the card; note the letters of Love and the owls eyes.  I also added some to the detailing on the top flap of the B&T paper.

Head to heatherplotzke.ctmh.com to get all the supplies for this fun project and more now.

Artbooking Made Easy: Artbooking My Life

Wow, of all the Cricut Artbooking videos, this one just moved up to my OMG can't wait to do this pile!!!!  This technique can't be more easy and gives so an amazing WOW factor to these pages!  So watch this quick 3 min video...and then contact me for more details on Picture My Life AND Artbooking products if they are new to you; if they are current favorites get crafting with this new fun idea...

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Lollydoodle Easter Banner

Here is the Lollydoodle banner I made for March's Workshop.

It  was super easy to make using the Cricut craft room and CTMH Art Philosophy Cartridge.

The fabric strips are CTMH's chantilly fabric ripped into strips and tied along the top portion of the twill ribbon. The egg is stamped from the Colored Egg stamp only $2.95

Lollydoodle Lovefest Continued - Video

Here is some more Lollydoodle Love!

Lollydoodle Lovefest

Okay so I named today's post after my friend Lori, who is in love with our Lollydoodle paperline, so much so when Lori hosted her party this past month we called it Lori's Lollydoodle Lovefest.  Here is why.  Its bright, its fun, its girly, and trendy!  What's not to love!  Today I'm going to showcase the products for you and some Corporate art...and then I will show in a later post what I've done with the papers lately.

 

April Stamp of the Month

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