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!

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,

creating...and family....LOVE!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! I woke up this morning feeling lucky that I'm alive and have a beautiful family that loves me!!! My Heavenly Father must love me a lot because he's blessed me with three beautiful kids that I absolutely adore!! I love to look at their faces and see a little or a lot of me in them. I was looking at some pictures on my iphone and these pictures stood out.
Sierra wearing the scarf and head band that her sister made her. She absolutely loves it!

Jeremy joking around with Angel. Her first reaction was to touch his face and give him hugs.

I love them so much and hope they never ever have any doubts. So I've been in creation mode.... I've been working on these cute little tags that feature my colors that are debuting at CHA! I'm super excited!!! Here's a sneak peak!

Thank you for looking everyone! I wish you all a wonderful NEW YEAR!!! May it be prosperous and full of love!!!

My blog makeover!!!!

Holy spankers!!!! I'm so beyond thrilled to show you the beautiful blog that my friend, Jamie Cripps created for me!!!! Isn't it so beautiful? I love it!!!!
I sent her a few of my little doodles and she fancied up my blog!!
Thanks Jamie for being so wonderful!!! You are a rock star!!!
Hugs,

Happiest place on earth

I had the best weekend ever with my beautiful family! It's rare that we all get to vacation together because we are so busy but we made a decision to take time and to just do it!
We did a lot in a short period of time! We went to Disneyland, California Adventures, and Knotts Berry Farm. It was a blast!!! Here are some of my favorite pictures of our trip.

Thanks for looking!! I've been busy with lots going on for CHA!!! Can't believe it's next month already!!! I have lots of great surprises!!! Big hugs, Suzy West

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

My England Trip (some of my favorites!)

My trip to England was fabulous!
I had the opportunity to work at the hobby and craft fair and see some of my students from my last trip and meet new crafters.
After the show I went to the new company that I'm working for. We planned a lot of our CHA show plus I got to play with some new colors! We also worked on some other fun things!!!
After three days of meetings I spent a full day of fun with my friend Amanda.
Here are a few pictures of my trip.

I love this building!! It was so beautiful!! 

I couldn't wait to get to Harrods!! The windows were just beautiful!!

Gorgeous!!!

LOVE!!!

This dress--WOW!

She looked so real!

Loved shopping there!!! Lots of fun goodies!

Walking through the town of Windsor.

Such a fun town!!

This is such a beautiful place!!!

This Castle is gorgeous!!!

The beautiful church

This place is HUGE!

Beautiful gardens!

The guards!!

We were walking through London and I saw this beautiful building!!

I got to stay at the most beautiful bed and breakfast that was built in the 1700's!

Looking forward to going back in February!! Thanks for looking!!
Hugs

Suzy West