Spring is Finally Here!

Lots of great stuff happening during April!

Close to My Heart is offering a beautiful stamp set Hope For Japan. It's an A-Sized set valued at $7.95 for only $5.00. All profits will go to help the American Red Cross efforts in Japan to help the victims of the Tsunami/Earthquake. You get a beautiful stamp set at a discounted price and you help the Red Cross help those in Japan who are in sudden need.

Also this month, if you order from my website at bzscrapper.myctmh.com and you spend $100 you not only get the Stamp of the Month, Blessed, free, but you will also earn a Level I paper pack free! There are a few to choose from. It's a great time to order online!

If you are a Studio J member, take advantage of free Sparkles and Opaques gems when you place an order of 10 layouts this month in addition to all the regular benefits of being a member such as half price layouts, free shipping once a month, free page protectors and free jpeg files of your layouts!

I know my creativity has been renewed this Spring... I've been doing a lot of pages lately and will be uploading a few soon. Let your paper and stamps call you on those rainy days.... the dusting and vacuuming can wait... it will be there!

Digital Pages

Yup... I'm at it again! With the special this month I couldn't help but do a few digital layouts. Here is one of the layouts I worked on over the weekend.

Valentines Cards 2011

Yes, I Do Still Scrapbook!

I've finally done a couple scrapbook pages and it felt good. Have been mostly making cards and gifts lately. I'm really hoping to make more time for getting some of my own pages done. Here is the two page layout from the Wings Workshop on the Go that was at the center of last month's special. I changed the orientation of some of the photos and moved around the embellishments. The layout really is versatile. I had a hard time choosing which photos to use with this layout because I have so many pictures of every event...lol... but then I remembered! Pocket Pages! So I used my favorites on the layout and the rest are behind it in my book in pocket pages. I had a couple empty pockets that I used for journalling and a little decorating. It's like a lightbulb going off every time!

Spring is Coming?

It's February... I know Spring is coming... eventually... it keeps me hanging on..lol. We have some really great things going on this month. Two specials!

The first... if you have been thinking about signing up to become a consultant February is the time to do it! You have the opportunity to get even MORE free stuff... you can earn your consultant kit FREE when you meet some pretty easy minimum sales goals during your first few months! Our Straight To The Top program also earns you some free select product credit! All you have to do is put in the time doing what you already love to do.

Also during February, if you are a member of Studio J, our online digital scrapbooking club, when you buy 8 layouts, you get the 9th free! (If you buy 16, you get 2 free!). What a great deal when you consider that members already get their layouts at half the regular price AND free shipping once a month! You can bet I'm going to take advantage of this one. I've loved doing my vacation albums in this new format... a digital title page, a couple traditionally scrapbooked pages and then the rest of my (hundreds) of pics in pocket pages. And don't worry! It doesn't have to be either/or... you can scrapbook both ways! It's especially easy with Studio J as many of the paper choices match our traditional paper sets. You can give it a try ... there's no charge unless you actually choose to buy your layouts. If you have questions, please contact me.

So... stay warm.. I'll be uploading some more artwork soon. And yes... Spring IS coming.....

Great New Year

Hope everyone's New Year is going well. We enjoyed the start of ours with family. Little bit of Just Dance and Rockband on the Wii. Little bit of wine and snacks. Lots of laughs and fun. It was really nice having my parents visit for a few weeks right around the holidays... although with all the snow we've had they have vowed not to come at that time again.

Working on some projects ... for now here is a card I made last month.

BZHolidays!!

Boy the last month has been a whirlwind. Had a busy November... thanks so much to all my hostesses and their guests! Gonna have an even busier December... Christmas shopping, Corey will be home, my parents will be here soon. I'm tired just thinking about it. Still working on my Christmas cards. Have sent a few, but I'm waiting to take our picture to send with a lot of them... hopefully this weekend. Here is another card I made out of old workshop kits. Oh.. and checkout our great web special for this month. Free stamp set with as little as a $20 purchase! And just wait for January... it's a sneak peak month at some of the new products in the Spring Idea Book coming out in February. Beautiful!!