Fun With The Girls

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Yesterday turned out to be a pretty awesome day at Paper Vineyard's first-ever All Day Copic Coloring event. Not only did I get to hang out with my favorite girl friends, I also got to meet some new ones!!! That's just what Copic markers do... they bring friends together!!!

The day was PACKED with activity beginning right at 9 a.m. with an UBER YUMMY breakfast. Honestly, pancakes with whipped cream and blueberries? Eggs and sausage? Really? At a scrapbook store? YUP!!! The owner Adriana has mad kitchen skillz!!! Then Jennie Black (super star that she is) came all the way from California to hang out with us and teach a class. She is such an incredible lady and a wonderful teacher!!! She did a FABULOUS job teaching us all lighting to effect subject matter and mood. LOVED IT!!! Here are pics of her samples from class.

In the pic on the left, of the boy sitting with his dog, Jennie pointed out that it was colored so that the light was illuminating the heads of both the boy and the dog whereas the boy, his dog and his plane are illuminated in the pic on the right. Crazy how lighting in our projects can play such a BIG role in telling a story... like the one of a boy's bond with the things he loves! Definitely a WONDERFUL class Jennie. :)

And if Jennie's class wasn't enough, we also got to enjoy a ton of FREE make n' takes throughout the day. Of course I got to get in on the act and created this fun card to do as a make n' take:

But then Dana Edwards gave us THIS cooler than cool canvas creation:

Kelly Wann gave us this BEWITCHING creation:

And Krista Koenig gave us this EERILY AMAZING gem!!!

Yep! My friends are SOOOOOO talented!!! It was a blast getting to play with them for an entire day (well, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. anyway).

And I want to send a special "Thanx"out to the nice DPS officer who let me out of a ticket while I was out on my dinner break. A speeding ticket would have been a little bit of a dampener on such an AWESOME day!!! ;)

MY VERY FIRST CRICUT CARTRIDGE GIVE AWAY!

Ok ... so the time has come. I've got some BRAND NEW, NEVER BEEN USED, STILL IN THE PLASTIC Cricut Cartridges to give away over the next couple of months and it starts with one of my ALL-TIME FAVORITES...... Hannah Montana! YAY! I LOVE this cartridge! It's got the most beautiful guitar images along with musical notes and FIVE fonts! I used the regular font and the rock star font to create my Father's Day card this year (see above). I also used the Hannah Montana cart (see below) to create a beautiful butterfly (FREE Gypsy cut file HERE ), and am currently working on a project using the gorgeous solitaire diamond. There's a rose and lips and decorative hearts, even a Pegasus ! There's just so much on this cartridge.... I use it a lot! To call this a "font" cartridge is terribly misleading. It's been a long time favorite and now I'm THRILLED to be able to give it away to one of my awesome readers! So here's how to win: Become one of my follower

Twilight: Breaking Dawn Blog Hop

YAYAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!! IT'S HERE!!! Breaking Dawn pt. 2 opens today and we're kicking the fun off with a Twilight Breaking Dawn Blog Hop!!!! You should be arriving from Kelli's blog. Isn't her tag AWESOME!?!?! If you're just now joining the hop, you WILL want to start the hop at the beginning... trust me, you don't want to miss anything from this group of talented ladies. Here's the whole hop list: Alison Laura Rebecca Kelli ME<== You Are HERE!!! Sugar Stephanie And now for MY project.... BE SURE TO CHECK OUT MY BLOG CANDY AT THE END!!! Here's my Twilighty keepsake box!!! I had an absolute BLAST making this box and will be using it to hold all my pictures from Forks and La Push as well as pics from the various premiere parties I've attended/hosted over the years. This originally started out as a faux book box. I painted the spine black using acrylic paint and covered the rest using paper from the DCWV Immortal Love

The BEST Copic Storage

**** HUGE HALLOWEEN GIVE AWAY... CLICK HERE !!!!**** Ok, so I've done posts in the past about various Copic storage solutions, but I was given THE MOTHER of all storage ideas by my friends Jennie Black and Krista Koenig!!! Let me share with you the construction of the storage box and then I'll finish this off with the BRILLIANT solution my husband came up with.... cuz I married a GENIUS!!! What you'll need to create the AWESOME storage box pictured here is: 1 Double Deep Art Bin 1 plastic grid for ceiling lighting (found at your local home improvement store) 1 half inch thick wooden square dowel (also found at your local home improvement store) Dimensional adhesive squares Wire cutters or sheers Screws with corresponding drill bit Drill So I first cut the ceiling grid down to 19 squares by 19 squares using my wire cutters. You will need two 19 x 19 sections of grid material. The wire cutters went through the plastic material of the grid like butter and I

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