Close To My Heart 2010 Convention

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Well... The Close To My Heart 2010 Convention came and went.  I loved almost every minute of it!!!

I loved spending time with friends and making new friends. We arrived on Tuesday, a day before Convention started, to take in the sights.  It was extremely HOT but loved every minute of it.

Here are some pictures of the memorable events and some great new friends I made while at convention.  

  

On Wednesday, Dawn, Alisse and I had planned a bike ride to Mt. Vernon, Virginia.  Well, the plan was to ride out there, however, we were in the middle of record setting weather of 105 degrees with 90% humidity.  We made it half way there!

 

This is just on the many beautiful sights were saw on our ride.  It was simply breath taking!

 

This here is my upline and friend Gail Vought.

 

The very beautiful Linda Case.

 

My SUPER AWESOME new friend Dawn Heuft, visit her blog at Stamp Til Dawn

 

This special lady is Bren Yule, an amazing and talented Shabby Cheek artist.  Take a moment to visit her blog at Paper Cupcakes!

  

This my super favorite picture with Dawn!

 

My little twin sister Alisse!  I say twin, because she reminds me of myself so much.  No nonsense kind of girl and ready for anything.

In this picture, Linda Case, Heather Plotzke, Me and Dawn Heuft.  Dawn is wearing Minnie Mouse ears because he was an instructor for the "But Wait! There's More" workshop at convention.  The paper for her projects was Zippidee and of course it has all the Disney colors.  Funny story about those ears... Monica from corporate asked to borrow those ears for the Banquet on the last day of convention.  Dawn guessed right away that the 2011 convention would be at the happiest place on earth.  Disney Land.

 

After all that partying and socializing, I was so pooped that I crashed and fell asleep on the table.

Cherry-O Layouts

 

So here they are!!!

This fabulous layout is the extra layout that we will be working on this week.  There are a lot of new people who have just started to come to the workshops and some of them, did not purchase the Just Blooms Paper Flowers from CTMH (Z1266). I have some alternatives for you all.  For the all the gals who purchased the flower packets, you will be using up the rest of the flowers, since we used a lot of them on the Veranda workshop.

This two page layout reminds me of ice cream for some reason!!!  And who doesn't have pictures of their kids having ice cream?  If you don't... this is the perfect time to take those ice cream summer shots. :)

There are several gals who purchased the Mini-Medley Accent Collections in Tulip (Z1320).  For all of you who did, I have additional places for you to place the extra buttons.  So this picture is using just the basic items that come in the kit.

  Look at those Cherries!!!  

Nope... those are not stickers.  Close To My Heart has a new 1 1/4" Circle Punch (Z1311) and guess what???  It fits all of their stamp sets, Organizers, Clear buttons, and Window Charms perfectly.  These Cherries, are two punches with a little distressing and white dots for highlights.  To finish it off, I used the two window charms by CTMH. (Window charms have been discontinued and are no longer available for purchase.  These charms are ones that I had from a previous kit we did from a year and a half ago).

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This last set of layouts is simply adorable.  I couldn't help myself with these beautiful Pearl Stickers.  I purchased an extra packet and was able to place them on both layouts perfectly.  A lot of you gals have the extra set, so I know you will be happy to use them all.  Finally, I don't know if you noticed or not, but I used the "Whimsy" Heartfelt Die-Cuts on almost all the layouts.  These die-cuts show up in so many of my layouts, I think it was one of the best purchases, I have made.

Well...

Now it's time for me to get off the computer and start pre-cutting all your kits.  Can't wait to see you all next week, I know you we'll have a blast putting the layouts together.  Ciao!!!

p.s.

Can you believe all these layouts were JUST $20!!!!

Club Anya: Sketch and Prize

 This Saturday was the  first Saturday of the month so you know what that means, a prize is up for grabs at 

Club Anya.  This month's sketch is by Pam Varnell and it's a cute one.  One random sketch participant will win a single rubber stamp of their choice from this month’s releases. That means someone will have a chance to win either Cheeky Mate, Cheeky Beauty Queen or Cheeky Nurse.

TGF Release Day!!

New June 1st Releases!

Cheeky Limited Edition Stamps

You all know how much I adore these beautiful and truly unique stamps, so here you go... their latest release.  Order yours now at: www.thegreetingfarm.com

Flutter By Wednesday's #111 & Whimsical Wednesdays

Flutter By Wednesday #111 

This week the challenge is an OPEN challenge as long as it has a  butterfly, fairy, or angel!

This will be their last FBW challenge until July 7, 2010. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself with out their challenges!!!  This is my favorite part of the week...

Once you've created your card or project, place your direct link into InLinkz over at the FBW blog.

This is a Bombshell stamp and the wings and skirt is make up of a CTMH stamp (D1341 Butterfly Wings) which has several butterflies and phrases.  I individually cut the butterfly to separate all the wings, and glittered them.  Copic markers used, BG10, BG02, BG05, G00, BG09.  For the skin I used, E50, E51, E53 and W2, for hair; W8, W6, W4, W2.

This card is also for The Diedrich Dare on Whimsical Wednesdays