Photos, Photos and More Photos!

Every Boxing Day until January 3rd my photo processor has a 9 cent print sale. What a deal! I look forward to this sale all year. I do believe, that even though I went digital a few years ago, that photos should still be printed to be admired. So...800 hundred photos later...

Now with all these photos I dug out one of my new stamp sets, Save the Date D1386, and stamped the date on the back of all my photos with stazon ink.

Now, I did not get too technical with the date only the month and year. I did not worry about the exact day.

I sorted all the photos into chronological order and placed them into my photo albums. You can see this picture at the top. On the spine of these albums I made tags with the year on them and labels as to the occasions or events like Lake Photos, Christopher and Becki's Wedding, Family Photos etc. This saves a whole pile of time when you go hunting for a certain photo. I did discover this system when I took a Library Of Memories Class taught by Stacy Julien at Big Picture Scrapbooks. It was one of the best classes I ever took and well worth the money.

So...this is where I have been spending my time the last couple of days. Now that I am done I will get some time to do more scrapbooking.

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Laurie

Veranda Workshop On The Go

This is the Veranda Workshop On The Go that we will be creating on February 21st. These papers are so elegant that I knew that I wanted to use some of my wedding photos for (yes, I know that I celebrated my 25th Anniversary last November!) As you can guess, I do not scrapbook chronologically...I use papers and embellishments to inspire me first.

If you choose to buy this kit for $35.50 you will get:

Veranda Level 2 paper packet X7119B

Follow your Heart Stamp Set (only available in this kit)

Filigree Charms Z1269

Workshop Guide

You may choose to add:

Antique Copper Mini Medleys Z1275 for $5.25

Spring Blossom Just Blooms Flowers Z1266 for $9.25

You will also get to attend the FREE Workshop to put this layout together or you can work on it at home as the workshop guide is included. To be sure the kit arrives in time for the workshop I will need your orders by January 31.

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Laurie

New Idea Book Unviels Today!

The new idea book has arrived and is available to purchase out of today. If you already don't have a copy (I did give a sneak peek to a few of you if I have seen you since they arrived) you can view it here. https://westmanscrapbooks.myctmh.com/MyCTMH/ProductHighlights.aspx?PageId=180

There are so many beautiful things...Close To My Heart has outdone themselves again. Be sure to check it out.

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Laurie

Happy New Year and Uncle Terry and Me

Happy New Year everyone! Oh my goodness, 2009 flew by in the blink of an eye and I sure hope that 2010 will go a little slower!
This is a layout of my granddaughter and her Uncle Terry. He is already teaching her to stick out her tongue. It is cute though...
This paper packet is a special going on right now from Close To My Heart. It is called Felicity and I have already posted the details below so take a look there.
All supplies are Close To My Heart unless otherwise noted.
Felicity Collection Paper
Colors are Bamboo, Cocoa, Desert Sand, Colonial White and Twilight.
Save the date stamp set D1386
Code it stamp set B1315
Baby Miracles Stamp Set D1249
Big Pinks Flowers Z1033
Bamboo Brads Z1218
Mini Blue Flowers Unknown

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Laurie

Our Little Christmas Present

A few days ago I had the pleasure of having my granddaughter over for her first holiday without her Mom. What a wonderful few days! I am so lucky to be able to spend lots of time with her. I couldn't resist taking some photos of her under the Christmas tree. I am sure that when she gets older she will think that camera was actually attached to me permanently.

All supplies are Close To My Heart unless otherwise noted.

Evensong Paper Packet X7104B

Colors are Cranberry, New England Ivy, Olive, Sorbet and Colonial White.

Jingle Borders D1225

No Peeking D1177

Peace on Earth D1243

Family C1305

Something Special B1336

Chocolate Alphabet E1010

Picture Perfect D1363

Memento Tuxedo Black

Copic Markers G21, G85, R02, R27

Colonial White Ribbon Z1126

Colonial White Edge Anchors z1288

Gold Ribbon Bow (unknown)

Gee, I didn't realize I used so many stamp sets for this layout. I guess one word from each stamp set to get just the right look.

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Laurie

Celebrate National Papercrafting Month with Felicity

This collection features decorative die-cut paper, three gorgeous color schemes, a D sized stamp set that include flowers, flourishes, argyle patterns, birds and an entire alphabet! Your papercrafting possibilities are endless!

There are three ways to get the Felicity Collection:

1. Purchase it at full price for $40.95

2. Place an order of $70 or more in full retail priced stamp sets and receive one collection FREE! (Stamps of the Month, Art and Soul, Workshops on the Go and Customized (K) stamp sets do not qualify).

3. Place an order of $145 or more in full retail priced Close To My Heart products and receive one collection FREE!

This campaign also has enticing opportunities for hostesses and New Consultants.

Hostesses get the collection FREE with a Home gathering sales total of $470 or more and new consultants who join my team between January 1 - 31 2010 will receive the collection FREE in their new consultant kit.

Contact me for further details or to order.

The above layout features this kit. The papers and the die cut are just beautiful! It goes perfectly with this layout. My granddaughter Novalee is wearing a beautiful blue dress that was mine...her grandmothers...and is 42 years old. Novalee's mother wore it too, but unfortunately, I have no pictures of her wearing it. I do hope that one day Novalee's daughter will wear it too! How precious would that be.

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Laurie

My Color Drawers

Today I am going to talk a little about organizing my embellishments. Have you ever lost some of you embellishments? You know you bought that certain item but have no idea where you put it. You spend hours looking only to be disappointed and not find it. Then a month down the road it turns up in the spot you left it so you would not forget about it. That was me! Scrapbooking took so much time just looking for just the right brad or flower. So I was on the search for a better system. Then I came across the color drawers that Stacy Julien from Simple Scrapbooks used.
I just knew I had to do it.
So, I went to Target and bought these drawer cabinets. They are made by Sterilite. They are a great size as they will hold 12 x 12 paper too!

I have each one labelled with my colors...one for red, one for pink, one for blue and so on. Then I sorted my colors of embellishments into these drawers. So now, if I am working on a page for my granddaughter and need pink embellishments and flowers I go to my pink drawer and everything is in there. I have saved myself so much time by having color drawers. It is the best system ever! I have had this in place for over a year now and have not regretted it once ever.
If you have any questions about this, please let me know. I would be happy to explain it further to you.

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Laurie