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

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,

Deep in the heart of Texas

There have been many times in my life where I've thought, I need to thank my
Heavenly Father for putting wonderful people in my life.

I'm having one of those moments right now. The last few days have been very
special for me for more than one reasons.

As you all know, I love teaching. I love hanging out and meeting new people
everywhere I go. I love listening to their stories and looking at their
pictures. I love seeing their faces when they've completed something that I've
taught. I love hearing the WOWS and YAY when they have learned something new.

This past weekend I got to hang out with amazing girls with amazing stories!
I want to tell you about three girls. Three sisters. I'll try not to get
emotional when I type....ooops too late.

You know how I love and gush about my
family? I'm going to take a moment and gush on others besides my own. :)

Three sisters:

One...the owner of a beautiful scrapbook store.
One that helps to manage the store.
One that helps out her sisters.
They all live pretty close to each other. As I talked to them individually I
learned how much they love each other and how much they felt their sisters did
for them. They are so grateful to have each other.

My heart is so full right now over what I saw, heard, and felt.

Thank you to these three girls....my three beautiful friends.

Tonight when I say my prayers...I'll be thanking my heavenly father for you and your shining
examples.

Here are some pictures of my weekend with them. Can't wait to see them again in October!!

 Next stop...CHA!!! Come and see me at the WOW Embossing Powder booth!! It's going to be awesome!!! Then I'm off to Ever After where I'm teaching a fun class and cropping with the girls!!!

Have a great week everyone!
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

Good Bye Hambly Studios--CONTEST!!!!

As you all may know...I'm a huge fan of Hambly Studios. I've used them for years in all my classes. Unfortunately, Mr. Hambly is ready to retire and so it's time to say good bye to this awesome company! They asked me to help put together their clearance sale so here I am ready to give you the 411....

This clearance sale will be available to EVERYONE!!

Hambly Clearance Sale
Place: 941 George Street, Santa Clara, Ca 95054
Date(s): June 11th-13th
Times: 10am-9pm
Prices:
All papers will be sold in 25 packs!
Pattern Paper packs--$5.00 (for the entire package!!!)
Overlay packs--$10.00 (for the entire package!!)
(regular size packs) Rub-on's--$3.00/6 pack
(large size packs) Rub-on's--$4.50/6 pack


ONLINE ORDERS for store owners--You have until Wednesday, June 6th to place your online orders. After this...you'll have to come in to purchase.
Please EMAIL your orders in to Rose at rose.s@hamblystudios.com


Everyone(open to the public) come on in on the dates shown above!! Once items are gone....they are gone FOREVER! Don't miss out!


CONTEST-----Who would like to win some Hambly? Leave me a comment and tell me what your favorite hambly product is...I'll pick a winner on Friday and send you a fun Hambly package!!!
Hugs

5 things...

I'm going to admit something....I never know how to start a blog post. I always have a lot to say but I never know how to put it all down in writing. LOL Today I want to tell you some things that I've been grateful for this week.
1. I went with Jeremy to pick out his prom dates flowers. Today we are going to pick up his tuxedo. Even though he's a quiet guy, I know he's excited about his senior ball tomorrow.

2. I went with Angel to help her pick out her dress for the Mary Kay convention. It was great to go with my mom, Ashleigh, and Sierra as well. I adore this picture.

3. I'm grateful for friendships. I love hanging out with girls that inspire me and have amazing personalities.

4. I'm grateful for crafts! I love designing and what it has done for me.

5. I'm grateful for a little girl that has a heart of gold! I have so much fun with her. She's my not so girlie girl. She stands up for what she believes and she is proud of being a "nerd"!

I'm looking forward to this weekend!! I'll be sure to post some pictures. I'd love to hear something you are grateful for this week!! Please share. :) Hugs,

Love creating new projects!

I can't say enough times how lucky I am to do what I do for a living. Everytime I create, I feel so grateful that I get to play with lots of my favorite products.
I've been creating a lot of book projects using lots of mod podge, gesso, paints, and my favorite...WOW powders!!!! This project has all this plus Helmars, Epiphany Crafts, and Echo Park Papers. 

Here's a sneak peak of one of the pages on the inside.

I created this while at Scrapbook Territory in Berkley. My friend Kristi Lewis put this crop together for us and we had such a great time! Here are a couple of pictures she took of me and two of my besties!!

This week will be all about creating for CHA, getting my son ready for his senior ball, and for spending time with family.
Thanks for stopping by and seeing what I'm up to! Please leave me a message. :) Love reading your posts.

Hugs

So it's another...It's been a while...sorry post..LOL

Ya ya! I know! It's been a while. I've been so busy, I'm sorry. So let's see....what's going on with me.
If you follow me on facebook, you know I've been traveling a lot. That's nothing new though. LOL
I can't remember past a month so let's see what has happened...
I filmed for Scrapbook Soup. That was a lot of fun! My episodes are going to air in JUNE. I can't wait to see my crazy self on the tube.

I taught at a beautiful store in Puerto Rico. Had a great time! LOVED my time there!! Loved the store! Loved the people!!! Everyone there...LINDO LINDO LINDO!!!!

I then went to Tasha's Scrapbook Retreats and had a blast with those girls!!! A lot of us laughed so hard we had stomach aches!!!! LOL

I had a great time at one of my favorite stores on the planet...Treasured Memories!! Christine is freaking awesome!!! It was such a pleasure teaching at being with them during their 15th anniversary!

I'm planning some amazing events with lots of stores including Whim-So-Doodle, Pages from the heart, Create 365, Girls gone Crafty, Ever After, and so many more!!!! Stay tuned!!!

Hugs,

A stampede has come through my house!

If you saw my house at the moment....you'd be SCARED!LOL It looks like a stampede went through it! I've been on a kitting frenzy for my classes in Puerto Rico. My house is filled with WOW Embossing Powders, Basically Bare, Simple Stories, Echo Park, Hambly, Sakura, and more! I'm making 200 kits! I need to have everything done by tonight as I'm going to spend Sunday finishing up all the prep work for the tv show that I'm filming for on Tuesday in Ohio!! While I'm away I'll try to post pictures so make sure to check back often. I'll also be starting a blog hop for WOW!!! So make sure to check out the the WOW blog! It starts soon! Here are a couple of sneak peaks of some of my layouts & tags that I'm teaching soon!

In the next few weeks I'll be at Treasured Memories in southern ca and Tasha's Scrapbook Retreats in south dakota so make sure to check them out!! Okay I'm off to go kit again!!! Have a great day!

Local WOW fans....come take a class at MY HOUSE!!!!!

I have an amazing job! I travel to stores all over the world teaching with products that I love!!! I've been asked a lot lately locally but I haven't had time to put anything together. It turns out that I have ONE Saturday available this month and so I thought it would be fun to have students over at MY HOUSE to learn and get super spoiled!!!! Everyone has asked me to teach this class pictured below, so I'll be teaching this ONCE here and then it's off to Treasured Memories in southern ca.

Class: ENJOY THE EVERYDAY Date: Friday, April 6th Time: 7pm-10pm Cost: ONLY $30.00--everything is included!!!! Description: This is probably one of my most favorite projects I've EVER created and have had the opportunity to teach!! I'm so excited to share this with you!!! You will be creating a fun home decor piece that will WOW everyone that see's it. You will be creating the cover of this book and a couple of pages inside. (the main part is the cover). You will be playing with sprays, WOW embossing powders, mod podge, gesso, and a lot of fun embellishments!!! You'll learn how to use different kinds of embossing powders from my collection with WOW and other WOW amazing colors including ultra highs, embossing with glitters, and more!!! tools needed for class Helmars liquid adhesive Double sided tape paper piercer ink pad (browns and deep green Foam squares glue dots scissors trimmer brayer,if you have one VERSAMARK--IMPORTANT!! Embossing heat gun--IMPORTANT!! (first 5 people to sign up can use one of my WOW embossing guns) To sign up for this (space limited) class--Please email me HERE. I promise you a night of a lot of fun!!!! So come play in my scrap area!!!! Hugs

Travel, teaching, and a new project

Hi everyone!!! It's a beautiful day in northern CA. I am feeling so grateful for the beautiful sky that I saw when I walked out my door this morning. It was also nice to feel the suns rays hitting my shoulders. LOVE!!! This week I'm grateful for my health. I recently made a decision to work out. I've been out of shape for way too long. I've been amazed at how great I feel after a good work out. I have more energy, I feel good, and I'm motivated to try new things and eat better. I wanted to show you some fun pictures of one of my last trip. This is a picture of Camille, Elizabeth, and I. We had such a great night!!!

Picture of my display at Ever After Scrapbook Store.

I had such a fun class!!!! Great gals!!!

I'm excited about my next set of classes at Imaginic Scrapbook Store in Puerto Rico!!! We are planning an awesome event!!! I'm working on another project right now for yet another store!!! Here it is.

Well I think that's all for now. Thanks for coming by!! Please leave me a message. I love to read them!!! Hugs,

Be happy for others good fortunes

I was having a conversation with my little girl last week. We were talking about some of the toys that she has and some that she wants REALLY REALLY bad that some of her friends have. Her friends got lucky because the toys come in little packages where you can't SEE the items...you find out what you get when you open it. They went to the store together and each one opened a package. To make it more exciting, they took turns. Friend #1--got a toy she wanted Friend #2--Got a toy she wanted Sierra--Got a toy she already had I looked at Sierra's face and saw how sad she was that she didn't get one that she wanted...the two others got the ones she wanted and needed to complete her collection. At first she had a pouty face and kept looking at the one she received like she wanted to throw it in the garbage. I talked to her about it and told her how we should be happy for others when good things happen to them. We talked about it for a bit and she seemed to feel better. Later on that day I heard her in her room telling someone that she loved them and that she had a special place for them in her room. I walked over to see who she was talking to and it happened to be the little toy that she got. The other day a friend called me completely upset! She found out that her friend totally betrayed her and almost ruined something really amazing for her. It made me so sad to think how someone who was supposed to be her friend could be so mean. They didn't like that something good was happening to someone else and went out of her way to ruin it. So here's my question...why is it so hard for some people to be happy for others? I asked Sierra why she wasn't happy for her friends at first when they got what she wanted? Her answer to me (the innocence of a child) because I wanted one too. Sometimes people get what we want. That's just life. Be happy for them. Let only positive thoughts and actions in and out. You will see that good things will happen. My dad always says, "Invite positivity, and you will feel positive. Invite negativity...negative things will find you. I believe this with all my heart. I hope that we can feel happy for others. It will help us to feel good about ourselves. Have a great week! Hugs,

Remenber this moment-Travel

I love looking at the different pictures that I have from all over the world. It's so fun to see where I've been, whether it's been by myself or with friends and family. I created this layout while I was at my good friend, Gina's house. Her wonderful husband Frank gave me a notebook and I loved the pages inside, so I decided to use one to create with. The rest of the papers, stickers, and more are by Echo Park.

I had already used the star and the word amazing stickers in another project so I used the negative. I like how it looks. Thanks for looking!!! Hugs

Class is in session....

Hi there peeps!! Guess where I'm at right now? I'll give you a hint...I got on a train to get here. If you guessed...Gina Lidero's house, you are right! I'm here getting assignments done using WOW Embossing Powders. I've been on create and kit mode. Here's what's up. I'm teaching at Ever After Scrapbooks in Vista, Ca in two weeks. I'm teaching two really fun classes!!! If you are in the area, come and see me! It's going to be fun!!! I LOVE hanging out with Camille and the gang!! You can call them to sign up. 760-630-2767. I'm teaching in Puerto Rico at Imaginic Scrapbook store. I'm teaching there the weekend of April 19th! I look forward to teaching in espanol!! Hola, banos, pantalones, etc! LOL Here are the three projects I'm teaching there.

It's going to be a crazy week since I'll be filming in Ohio that same week!!

Have a great evening!!! Hugs,

been creating...

It's been a while since I posted,(thank you for all your sweet reminders, LOL) Since my last post, I've been busy working on several projects for teaching, getting products to stores for their events, and spending time with my beautiful family!! You might think this is funny...I'm finally writing this blog post...while sitting on an almost three hour train ride home. LOL Since I have some time for myself, I'm using it to get caught up with emails, requests, dt stuff, and more! I've been in Elk Grove since early Friday. I've been with my soul sister, Gina Lideros. I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again. I love this girl so much and have so much respect for her. She picked me up at the train station and went to my favorite place...Chick-fil-a!!! We then got home and scrapped our little hearts out! The next day we got up early and drove to Rocklin. Ashley, Julia, Deirdre, Gina, and I scrapped at the amazing Green Tangerines. It was a blast! I gotta give it to them...they have some of the nicest employees, it was so clean, extremely organized, and full of fun products!

I created several projects!!!! Including one book that I'll be teaching at Imaginic in Puerto Rico. It's going to be using WOW Embossing Powder and Simple Stories

Since I got a huge box of My Minds Eye, I thought I'd play with some of that. I LOVE their products!!!

I created more pages that I'll show you later. So I think that's everything for this post. I'll try to update in a couple of days!! :) Lots of great things happening! I'm quite excited!!! Have a wonderful day!