Silhouette Tag

After creating a special gift for the room parent for my Kindergarten class this year I needed to top it off with a great embellished tag. The Silhouette machine is a natural go to for me, knowing this would be cut in two steps I searched for the embellishments when the digital cutter was cutting the image.

Paper
Bazzil
Penny Lane by My Minds Eye
Flowers and button by Making memories

Hero Arts Blog is making changes

I have used stamps from this company for many years now, and moved into acrylic cling when they did too. Tracy Kyle is a local designer who worked with Hero Arts for a very long time, I followed her work alot!

Look what they have in store for all of us!

Now for our challenge for YOU - and we have DOUBLE THE PRIZES this week! This week’s challenge is to create something that is inspired by anything on heroarts.com (our main website, not this blog). It could be a card, scrapbook page, technique article, or more from heroarts.com. Just post your creation - along with the link to the inspiration - in our Flickr group with the tag “website”. Be sure to use at least one Hero Arts stamp. The deadline for the challenge is Sunday, July 19 at 11:59 pm PST. From the entries we will pick twice as many winners as normal… and the prizes are twice as big:
TWO Fresh Face Winners (someone who has not yet won a contest): $100 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each
TWO Scrapbook Page Winners: $100 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each
TWO 1st Place: $100 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each
TWO 2nd Place: $50 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each
TWO 3rd Place: $30 of new Hero Arts stamps + a 2009 catalog each
And we can’t start this big week without a giveaway. Wait - how about TWO!? Yep. Let’s do two giveaways…
Leave a comment here telling us something you like about our main website, heroarts.com. Do so by Friday at 11:59 pm PST and we will pick a lucky winner.
Post about our big week on your blog. Then leave a comment here linking us to your blog. Do so by tonight at 11:59 pm PST and we will pick another lucky winner!
Both winners will get these great goodies…

Jumping over to the Island

Craving the words "Auntie Tam" I knew it was time to head over to Vancouver Island to spend time with my family here. Supposedly, the boys said that I was taking them to the new ICE Age movie since we "ALWAYS" go to the movies when I am in town. Sure little A...we can go to the movies. In fact, Auntie Tam wanted to drag you to UP as well...sure that won't be a problem.

It will be great to visit my sister and Mom and Dad. Dad has recovered from surgery and Mom is working on some family history as well. I am sure Sarah and I can find some trouble at the local LSS and maybe even sit down and play with her stash. I did not pack anything!

Miss you Gran

July 4th marks a different day for our family.

Love me

My class is now live on the BC Crop for Kids Site

Happy Canada Day to all.

My task today was to complete the project sample for the BC Crop for kids this fall. The class registration goes live for Crop Seat and Class Pass Holders on 7pm on Monday, July 13, 2009. Class registration for the genral public begins at 7pm on Thursday, July 27, 2009.

You can see it here. Piggy Tales approached the organizers and offered a class sponsorship and Photo Express is supporting the class through the addition of ribbon, Glitter Ritz and cardstock and of course me. Crafting a project for this type of event provoked thought and some planning. With everyone spending their time away for the weekend and benefiting BC childrens hospital, I thought it would be a perfect blend to create a mini album that will document the weekend. My sister is coming over from Vancouver Island to join myself and a few friends for the weekend- a getaway from our regular lives.

Not to be outdone by my sense of accomplishments by means of getting my class sample done, I also got some amazing news from one of my favourite scrapbook companies Quickutz. Through Facebook, they ran a promotion and the Grand Prize was a brand new EPIC 6 die cut machine out later this month. The machine went to the person who brought the most amount of people to the Quickutz People group on FB. Today they announced that it was me. Many of my Facebook friends through scrapbooking and through school joined the group upon request, so I am thankful to them for helping me.