A contest, two projects, and the scrapping of three friends.

The time is 9:05am and I've been a wake since 6am doing some work.

I've been busy getting things ready for CHA on my end. It's been even busier for everyone in London!!! They have been working very hard over there and just shipped a lot of the booth items "to America!". LOL

I'm in Elk Grove the next couple of days creating and picking up items from my leads in this area. Had so much fun creating with two of my favorite girls...Tricia Wilson and Gina Lideros!! I have so much fun when I'm with them!!!! We laugh, we chat, we eat!!! Love these girls so much!!!

Here are two layouts that I made using some of my favorite WOW colors!
This first one is using :Whirlypop & Ebony embossing powders. I used the new templates by Crafters Workshop. Paper & stickers are by Echo Park. I used Helmars liquid adhesive and the rest of the adhesives were by Therm-o-web.

This next one is one that I created is using bright white, Neurtral Ultra Shimmer, Clear Ultra High, and Angel Wings. I used more templates by Crafters Workshop. Papers & stickers are by Echo Park. I used Helmars, Thermo-o-web, and Sakura. The Sprays are by Clearsnap.

I'm excited about my Christmas stamps for WOW are being released at this show!! We have these and three others!!!!

Who wants to win one of these bad boys????


Leave me a comment and tell me what you think you would create if you had one of these stamps!! I'll be choosing a winner on the last day of CHA. Will post the winner in a next post.

Right after CHA, I'll be traveling stratight to Vista, CA to teach at Ever After Scrapbooks!!! If you are in the area, come and see me!! We are going to have a lot of fun!!!

Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Hugs,

It's a new day...and a new post.

So today is a great day! Yesterday not so much, as I was recovering from food poisoning! I won't even go into that story as I decided quick that I was going to get better fast. lolI'm a strong believer that if I say I'm sick...I'm going to be sick and visa versa! So here to tell ya...I'm feeling great!!

Today is my grandson, Tanner's 6th birthday!! This kid is so amazing!! I was there the day he was BORN and I've enjoyed watching this little cutie grow!!! Love you cutie!

I'm working on a lot of projects for CHA. It's coming up soon! I'm really excited about all that's going on, my class that I'm teaching, and everyone we will see. I have a ton of boxes full of products for all my students!! It's going to be a lot of fun!!! Make sure to come and see us at the WOW Embossing Powders booth in the next exhibitor section.

Okay so now for the winner of the hambly give away contest....

jo (http://joboogie.typepad.com) said...

I love the overlays! No one makes them like they do!

Suzy, what's their address? I'm gonna try and head there Monday!

4:48 PM

Email me so I can send you a package!!!

A couple of weeks ago I went to Gina's to create and to celebrate her birthday. It was so much fun!! Here are a couple of pictures from that night.

I have to brag about my baby!!! My little Sierra said she wanted to design with duct tape. She's been creating like crazy!!! Here are a few things she made the other day. ALL items made with JUST duct tape!!! Her designs!!! LOVE!

Thanks everyone for stopping by. I'm resting up as tonight I'm going to see NEW EDITION in concert with my brother!! So happy to spend time with him!!!
Hugs

In love with COLOR....

Since I started working for WOW, I've been totally addicted with color. I love what a lot of my dt members have created for the WOW blog and it's been great inspiration for me!!
All of these layouts and tags use Simple Stories and WOW Embossing Powders

Thanks for stopping by!

creating...outside my little box

It's that time again...CHA is around the corner and I do nothing but create projects...ALL THE TIME! I've been doing a lot of designing with a lot of friends and family and I gotta say it's a lot of fun but by the time we are done...I think there's nothing else I can create. LOL This is a project that I started on Sunday and finished yesterday. I used the Authentique paper line and the rest are WOW Embossing Powder products. I held all the papers with Helmars.

This next project I'm kinda surprised over....I hadn't planned on making this...but felt inspired!! I found the canvas in my garage and had the rest in my scrap area. I used: WOW Embossing Powders, Shimmerz, Girls Paperie, Sakura Glaze pens, Helmars, and some embellishments.

Thanks for looking everyone!!! I hope you like them. Hugs,

I've been a bad bad bad blogger!

Hi everyone! Remember me? I'm the crazy frizzy hair girl that has been missing in action. In my defense, I've been beyond super swamped. I'm not just talking regular super swamped....but insane crazy super swamped!
Here's what's going on since I came back from England...(the last post).

--I went on another trip.
--I have been finishing up the design of the booth.
--I met up with my fabulous 5 dt leads for a CHA meeting.
--Working on new stamps
--working on new other stuff. :)
--working on my CHA class using the new book I designed for Basically Bare and more.
--I went on a 4 day trip to work on CHA projects at my good friend, Gina's house.
--Went through almost 200 amazingly beautiful submissions. Chose 26 of them.
--Been chatting it up with the DT planning lots of fun stuff!
--Trying to finish my Christmas shopping.
--Started a new kit club, Paper Medley with friends!!! You have to check it out!!!!!

So do you forgive me?

I wanted introduce you to my wonderful new DT!! We are all very excited!!!

LEADS: *Tricia Wilson--lead
*Gina Lideros--lead
*Jen Deal--lead
*Angel Bartonico--lead
*Erin Payne--lead

DESIGN MEMBERS:
1.Sesil Cratin, Utah
2. Ilene Tell, Delaware
3. Lara Scott, Utah
4. Amy Sotolongo, California
5. Diana McGraw, California
6. Jeannie DeGruccio, California
7. Jennifer Matott, New York
8. Anne Brown, Texas
9. Sherrie Suttles, Ohio
10. Linda Abadie, Virginia
11. Jamie Cripps, Michigan
12. Jenifer Cowles, idaho
13. Tanisha Long, New Jersey
14. Jan Hennings, Iowa
15. Patti Hamil, Georgia
16. Gini Williams Cagle, North Carolina

17. Tina McDonald, Canada18. Donna O'Leary, New Zealand
19. Benedicte Raphalen, France

20. Amy Prior, Australia

21. Irit Shalom, Israel
22. Jennifer Roach, Canada
23. Erika Taylor, Canada
24. Iris Uy, Philippines
25. Katarina Damm-Blomberg, Finland
26. Birgit Koopsen, Netherlands

I have lots going on and I will share very soon!!! For now, thank you so much for all the sweet support you give me. I appreciate it and it motivates me a ton!!!!

Have a wonderful day!
Hugs

Suzy West

Product design, a give-away, and more!!

It's been a busy few months for me. As you know, I create products for different manufactures. This CHA will be the same except I have even more products coming out! I'm thrille about what I'm doing for LOOK BELOW, LOL

Don't know if you saw their post on facebook but they are looking for people to work their booth!!! Here's the scoop. We are looking for one or two people to work at our booth at Winter CHA in January greeting customers, showing products, overseeing make n' takes and taking orders. We will pay up to $12/hour, plus we will pay for your hotel room. Transportation not included, so if you live in SoCal or are planning on attending anyway, great opportunity to make some cash and have some crafty fun! Email info@basicallybareonline.com!I know they will also have room for others to work the booth (with payment) but no hotel room as well. So if you are interested in these spots let them know.to be considered to work there...head on over to Basically Bare's facebook page!!! Tell them I sent you. Here's the LINK to their page.I'm also working on some stamps and other products as well. I can't wait to have them in my hands. All of these products will be released for CHA and I'm excited!!!I'll be looking for dt members for the new company I'm working for very soon!!! I'll also be doing a give-away of some of my products!!! Post here if you want some!!! I'll be looking back at this post to choose someone to send some to.

I've been a busy girl!!

I've been a busy girl lately!!!! I went to CHA and had an awesome time looking at all the booths, seeing friends, and doing some networking! When the show was over, I went to downtown Chicago with my friends Katrina and Jennifer!!
I came home from Chicago on Friday at midnight and the next morning I was up bright and early getting ready for a day at Great America, amusement park. We had such a great time!
In the evening I was off to Our Paper Place for a fun night with the girls!! We had an awesome time!!!
On Sunday, our family went off to church and then I went home packed me and Sierra and we were off on a train to Sacramento to stay with our friend Gina and her family for a few days. We had an awesome time!!!
We had a great time scrapping with friends while the kids played in the swimming pool!! We shopped, ate, and had more fun!!!
On my last day there we went to Old Sacramento and visited the State Capitol, ate, and took pictures.
We came home on Wednesday evening and I sat down and planned the next few days while we watched a movie together!!
Today we are going swimming with Angel and the kids. I'll be hanging out at Our Paper Place in the evening.
The rest of the week I have a baby shower, a day at Great America, a Giants game, a full day of cropping and fondue with all my scrappy friends at Our Paper Place, and then re-pack and catch another train to visit my friend Gina and her beautiful family!!!
I have some scoop!!! I am a NEW educator for two awesome companies: Simple Stories and Authentique!!! I'm super excited!!!! I will be teaching with their products at a lot of stores!!!
So look out for where I'll be with in the next few months and next year!!! I have some exciting things going on!!! I'll be using their products on our product that is debuting in January!!
So see...I've been a busy girl!!!
Are you exhausted from reading my post yet? LOL
If you read all this...you rock!!! LOL
Have a great week!
Hugs
Suzy

A Natural Beauty

The night before CHA, Madison from Echo Park Paper gave me this beautiful line to create with. I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it!! I was in my hotel room so I didn't have many extras to play with but truly it didn't need much, the stickers and papers it had were gorgeous!!
I was asked to teach with this line from a lot of my store owners all over the country and abroad so last night while cropping at my friends place (where I still am...YAY!!! Love you GINA!!) I started creating a NEW version of the one I made at CHA!! It has a little more in it!! :)
Here are some of my favorite pages from the book! I'm so lucky to be teaching with Madison's beautiful lines!!

I used Basically Bare for my album, Victoria line from Echo Park, Helmars for my liquid adhesive, 3L for my tape, Clear Snap and Ranger for my ink pads, Hero Arts for my stamps, Ranger for my paint and glossy accents (for creating an epoxy look on cover), Sakura for my pen, and Hambly for my overlays. Thanks for looking!!!
Hugs, Suzy West

CHA madness!!!

I swear I haven't forgotten about my blog!! I've just been super busy! I have been busy setting up meetings to talk with people and doing some "research". :)
As always I design a lot of projects for CHA using a whole bunch of different lines.
I wanted to post soem of the projects that I created.

Hambly--They came out with new papers and rub-on's. They are so super cool!!!

This is a little mini book that I created using the new Hambly overlays and rub-on's.

Here's another layout I created using their beautiful overlays.

I created this project using the NEW Basically Bare books. LOVE these!!! I used the new Echo Park to create with!!! I also used Hambly and Epiphany Crafts. LOVE LOVE LOVE!

I created these two projects in my hotel last night!!! Madison from Echo Park gave me products to create with and this is what I made.

I used Basically Bare to make these. This is the new HAPPY DAYS line.

This one was created with the VICTORIA line.
I did more but I didn't get pictures. ooops! Thanks for looking!!!! Have a great day!!!
Hugs
Suzy West

CHA!!!! It's over...I'm home...and now....

I got home from another amazing CHA experience last night. I'm so tired and my body hurts...not from the hard work...but from all the laughing and the craziness that was had in beautiful downtown Los Angeles with some of the most amazing girls ever!

Let me tell you...I feel so incredibly lucky to have had the experiences I had with these girls!!

We arrived Friday morning....REALLY early in the morning. I think we were all tired all ready since we had been designing all night long and because we didn't go to bed until really late!

It didn't matter...even though we were zombies...we were excited and having fun!

Here are some pictures of our fantastic CHA!!!! I'll post more later. These are all from my cell phone and a couple that some of my friends took.

New friends that took some of my classes.

Angel and I heading towards the Staple Center!!!

Love this picture of Tricia and I!!!! Free kisses!!

The Bella Blvd. girls!!!! We were at the Yard House!

One night we went out with Epiphany Crafts. This is a picture of Donna Salazar, Jennifer Priest, and I. Such sweet girls!!

at the booth with Madison! We had so much fun with him!!!

Here's another cute photo of us!!

Cute photo of Susan Opal, Tricia, and I!!!

Went out to dinner with the Echo Park crew!!

Another night we went out with the Hambly and Art Inspired crew!!

Out with Erin and Kim!!!

The grandma's!!! Josie, Sharon, and I!!

We all got these hats at the We R Memory Keepers booth!!!

A picture that was taken of me taking picture of a group of gals!

In front of the Hollywood sign. LOL

Out with the girls one night! It was a wild one!!!!

Another Kissing booth picture

The crew again!!

Out with the girls!!

In front of the Hollywood sign with my Scrapbooker's Bliss friends!!

I will post more pictures!!! If you took any pictures with me please email them to me at psajfamily@aol.com.

Thanks

Suzy West