It's been a while...

Hi there everyone! It's been a while since I've said hello here but I've been majorly swamped. Right after CHA I went to Ever After and Create 365. We had a blast!!!
I then took some time off to do some personal vactions. I first went to the Bahamas with my brother and friends. We had a blast!! Here's the view from our room.

I got slightly tan! LOL

I enjoyed spending time with him!!

I came home and a day later, Sierra and I were off to Gina's house. We played and then Gina and I were off to southern ca for a fun meeting!!!
I came home and the next day I was off to Hawaii with my kiddos and mom!! This trip was fantastic! We did so much!! Here are a few pics.

I am getting ready for my last trip vacation. I'm going off to southern ca with Paul. We need a trip for just us!! I can't wait! It's going to be a small one but we don't care.

Once I get back, it's time to kit again. I'll be visiting more stores!! I am so looking forward to seeing a lot of my favorite people!!

Okay so that's all I got today. Thanks
Suzy

The best job ever!

I have the best job!

It is a job that I didn't go to school for, so I couldn't even do an internship to prepare for the real thing!
I'm not sure how well I do, but let me tell you...I love my job!
My title: MOM aka mommy
This year has been interesting. My kids have gone through a lot of change and even though year wise...it's not a bold difference...they are different.
To my little gir...I'm her mommy
She's tender and sweet! She warms my heart with her hugs and sweet "I love you's".
To my teenage boy...I'm his mom
Even though he's pretty quiet and keeps to himself...He is so sweet!!! Everytime he gives me that sweet smile I just melt! I love that he's not embarrassed to give me a kiss in front of his friends and tell me he love's me.
To my married daughter...I'm her mother
I love that she is not only a great mother and wife...she's smart and has continued going to school because she wants to help make a better life for her family.
I don't get paid to be a mom...but as I see my kids play together or give each other hugs...that is all the payment I need! I love the time that we spend together!!! I'm lucky to be their mom!!!!
Thanks for letting me share my thoughts with you.
Hugs, Suzy West

My Paper Tree House Design Team & a layout

You might laugh or think I'm nuts, but last night I started cleaning my scraps from a previous project and got too lazy to get up and get a bag to put them in so I decided to just do a layout with them. LOL I love Jillibean Soup!! Love the colors and patterns!

In other fun news...

I'm pleased to announce that I'm a DT member of an awesome new kit club called,

You can find out more about this kit club HERE.

I'm in good company as well, which makes it extra exciting!

Meet the design team

1. Amy Muffoletto
2. Diana Fisher
3. Iris Babao Uy
4. Laura Achilles
5. Noel Rusk Culbertson
6. Sarah de Guzman
7. Suzy West
8. Tricia Wilson
9. Veronica Johnson
10. Nana Campana

Thanks for looking,

Suzy West

Beautiful Girls--Punky Sprouts and Bella Blvd.

A few months ago I took some pictures of the girls. They came out so adorable. I set up the tri-pod so I could be in one of them. I love how they came out. The only thing that would of made the picture better is if my beautiful niece Alyssa could have been in it.

Anyways, I wanted to make a very girlie book so I used Bella blvd.'s new line with Punky Sprouts Rebel album.

I may copy this book and give one to my mom because she also loved the pictures and she loves this line.

Thanks for looking!
Hugs, Suzy West

Sandy Smiles...all finished

Yesterday I posted the cover of my beach themed book. I was almost done but not quite. So now I'm posting the entire book. I had a lot of fun creating it. I loved everything about it...the colors, the shapes, pictures, stickers, everything!! :)

I did a couple of things to the shape of the pages just to play around. I'll try to explain.

This first page. You can't really tell but it's a thin canvas page. Maybe when you click on the picture you will see it better. I added fun Bella Blvd. chipboard pieces and papers.

The original shape of the canvas page was bigger and was shaped like a bracket. I used the piece that I cut off to another page. You can see it in the back of the book.

Oh you can see the size of the canvas piece here on the left hand side. I added journaling to the back side of the page.

The two pieces to the right were one original chipboard page. It was long like the rest of the book. I cut the pieces to make them smaller. The bracket on the larger chipboard piece was already on the original piece.

The bracket canvas piece that I cut off on the first page, I added to the right side of this chipboard page. I wanted to keep this page simple to show off the beautiful picture.

I added glimmer mist by Tattered Angel's to this page. I love the color Sunflower. It's so pretty!

I took a lot of the round chipboard pieces plus others to decorate this border. I added twine to the buttons.

The last two pieces of this book I adhered together. I created the page on the acrylic piece. Glazed it with mod podge. I then used the last canvas sheet as a background. I adhered it from the backside.

So there's my book!!! Hope you like it.

Hugs, Suzy West

Sandy Smiles Mini Book and scrapping time!

I was asked by a couple of scrappers to create a beach themed book.

So I thought about the pictures and remembered I had taken some fun ones of Sierra and her friend at the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk. I knew I had the perfect paper line, It's from Bella Blvd. It's their summer line.

It's so awesome! The colors are great and the embellishments are WOW!

I used one of our Punky Sprouts albums--Punk n' circumstance.

I started working on it at a crop that I went to today.

THANK YOU ANGELA!!! You rock lady!

I thought it might be hard to use because it had a lot of different shapes but I can honestly say it wasn't. I'm working on it right now and I'm almost done. I will be sure to post the rest of the pictures tomorrow when I am all done!!!

What do you think so far of the cover?

Hugs, Suzy West

Families are FOREVER!!

I wanted to create a book for Angel and her family with some pictures I took a while ago. After I finished it, I decided to keep it. LOL I had fun creating this mini book by Punky Sprouts and older Pink Paislee. I just mixed a whole bunch of papers and some how they just all looked great together. At least I think so. The big yellow letters are from Sassafrass. I love how they are big and bold. The little pears are awesome and they are from Creative Impressions. As usual I write on my books and used Sakura for that.

Thanks for looking. Hugs

Suzy West

Scrapping my little heart out!!

The creating continues and I couldn't be more happy! Yesterday was such a fun day for me. I literally stayed in my pj's all day and hung out in my room doing NOTHING but scrapping and watching tv. Why? because I felt like it. It was nice to do nothing but fun stuff.

Here are two layouts that I did.

Love how this layout turned out. I used all Crate Paper. Love this paper line!! It's probably one of my favorites they have ever come out with. The colors are so me.

The title I did on my own. I wrote the word with my Sakura Pen and then cut it out.

The colors on the corrugated cardboard are Tattered Angels--glimmer mist and chalk board. Loving the chalkboard!! Wowsers!! The colors really pop!

I sealed the layout with my new favorite toy, Mod Podge Glitter. I can't stop playing with it.

If you're a fan, you need to become a FAN!!!

Here's another layout with Crate Paper. The papers and embellishments are sooo darn stinkin' cute! They fit the picture perfectly. The title is my own. I did the same thing as I did on the layout above. You can't tell but my flowers are domed, I used Glossy Accents to do that.

Thanks for looking!!

Hugs, Suzy West

Feeling pretty blessed today!

Why do I feel blessed? Because of this guy right here!

I love my son!! He's so much fun!

When he's around "adults" he sometimes is quiet but honestly, he's one of the silliest kids you will ever meet and he's a huge comedian!!

As a matter of fact, he was voted funniest person in our family in a family meeting we had.

Yes, I know...we do stuff like that. It's when we get together and play around, ask crazy questions like: If you could create your own animal out of two of your favorite animals what would it be? My son's answer: panda and a dolphin...it's a dolphanda!!

anyways, Jeremy and I plan date nights. We talk about the craziest stuff!!!

Jeremy has always been my most easy child. He's so low maintenance and for the longest time, never asked for ANYTHING! Seriously!

Everyday I love when he comes home and immediately comes and looks for me!! I always get a kiss and a hi mom!!

I just love this kid. When I saw him come through the door today I felt pretty blessed!!!

Love this picture even though I have an elephant coming out of my head. LOL

Happy 21st birthday ANGEL!!!

When your kids are little you always joke around about how your kids are going to be when they grow up. I remember doing that a lot. Today was a huge eye opener...my baby is seriously grown up. Well actually she's been grown up for a while but she's grown up grown up now that she's 21.

Her dad and I invited her to go to lunch today and as she parked her car and got out, my heart skipped a beat as I remembered the day she was born.

I surprised her by bringing scrapbooks of when she was younger.

She laughed and smiled as she recalled those moments.

Angel has brought me so much joy. She was always such a good baby and as she got older I saw that I was going to be in big trouble. She started getting more beautiful everyday.

She's always been beautiful on the outside but it's the beauty within that I'm so proud of.

She's not only a great wife but an amazing mother and I love her more than words can say.

She and I have always done a lot together and I treasure all our girl time. She's not only my daughter, she's my best friend.

Angel I love you so much!!

Happy birthday!!!!

A special bond...

I love these pictures of Sierra and my cousin Myrna!! Not just because they are so cute but because of the special bond that the two of them share. I get teary eyed just thinking about it. These pictures bring back memories of when I was little. She treated me the same way. I have a ton of pictures of the two of us looking the same!!

I love that they are close and that Sierra looks forward to her visits with her.

I am close to Myrna now as I was then and I love her like a second mother.
Myra if you read this:

I am so grateful for all the love that you have shown me through the years. All my memories of you are good ones and I will always cherish our time together! Thank you for being the same way with my kids. I love you!!

Back from an amazing trip in Southern Ca!!

I should be sleeping, LOL but I have a lot of friends that have asked me to post pictures of my fantastic trip!!! We left on Sunday morning (very early) and drove to San Diego.
A lot of us got together at the one and only Erin Payne's house.
(LOVE LOVE LOVE this girl!!!!!)
Here are some pictures from this night. (thanks Heather for the pics)





We had an awesome night!! Laughed, laughed, and laughed!!! Right before we left, the girls mentioned a VIP party at Ever After on Friday night, (5 days later) and I convinced Paul to let me go and I had a freakin' blast!!! I didn't have a camera with me that night but I KNOW there are a lot of pictures of some craziness! LOL I'm happy to say that I will be BACK to Ever After in October!!!! "HOOT HOOT!!!"

Okay on to day TWO
SEA WORLD
Seriously, I gotta say that I had an amazing time!! We walked in and a few minutes later a man comes over to me and asks if I could have a moment of his time. Short story....we were picked as the VIP family and we were SPOILED the entire day!!!!
We got our pictures taken and they printed some for us for FREE!
We got VIP seating everywhere.
We got to play with the stingray and feed them
we got a private tour
discounts and free goodies
and then got to play with the dolphins!!
Here are some pictures from this day.



These are just some of the pictures that they took of us. I have more!!!

Day three and four
Disneyland and California Adventures
We checked into another hotel and it was so nice!! The food was good and we enjoyed our time there. We were super close to the park.
It was super fun!!! We got in that morning and I was approached by this gentleman. He asked me if he could ask me some questions because they were doing a survey and they would give me $100.00 cash! I said sure, and it paid for two of our meals. LOL
We got on a ton of rides and saw different shows. Sierra was even picked to be in the High School Musical show. She had a blast!! She got on the Tower of Terror!! We all LOVED Space Mountain.
Here are some pictures of those days.








Day five
We hung out all morning and swam and relaxed! (MUCH NEEDED) and then headed over to Medieval Times. If you have never been there, you gotta go. It's a lot of fun!!!
Sierra and Jeremy enjoyed themselves so much!!!
We ate like mad people and enjoyed the show. I enjoyed it so much, I decided I didn't want to be behind a camera. I just ate and hung out.
Here are just a couple that I took after.


Day 6
We checked into an amazing resort!
We got tickets from my friends Heather and Ghia (whom I love with a passion) to go to Animal park (it's the sister park to the San Diego Zoo). It was a great park but it was BLAZING hot!!! I'm talking 110 degrees!! SERIOUS!!! We did not last long! If it wasn't so hot we would have stayed longer because that place was FUN!!!
Here are some pictures from there.




So after the park, we decided to go swimming. the pool was amazing and the kids had a blast!!
I left to get ready some time later. The kids stayed with Paul.
I went to Ever After--love the store!! Love ya Camille!!!
Love you Heather and Erin!!!
Love you Ghia!!! I had a great time chatting it up with you!!!
Loved all the girls there! The dancing, the snacks, the store, the bathroom, the floors, the walls, (Okay you get the picture. Love the store). LOL
Got home after midnight and the kids and Paul were out cold on ONE bed. LOL

Day 7--heading home
The next morning we got up early. Had breakfast and took off. Went the 101 route and went thru Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and stopped at Solvang. It was blazing hot but it was nice! They had a car show that day and we got some yummy chocolate.
We got home around 10ish and got everything out and flew into my bead!!

Okay that's the story....if you read the whole thing...wow, you are kind!LOL
Love you, love your computer, love what you are wearing, love that you are still reading this...okay good bye!!!! :)
Hugs Suzy West