Yee-Haw! Calgary Here I Come!

It’s official, next month I’m heading out to Calgary, Alberta to attend the Close To My Heart regional celebrations. What does that mean for you? Probably more exciting ideas about scrapbooking after I return!

I’ll be there with Jeanette Lynton, the founder of Close To My Heart. I’m looking forward to hearing her speak.

All participants of the regional celebrations will be doing create and take projects, business classes and get a chance to meet other consultants. I’m really looking forward to seeing a sneak peek of the upcoming designs as well as learning more about what I can offer my customers.

I’ve seen some photos of past regional celebrations and have always wanted to go but it’s always been too far for me to go. Now that it’s in Calgary, that’s only a hop-skip-and-jump away from Vancouver so I couldn’t miss it!

Stay tuned to my blog and I’ll be sure to post photos once I return!!

Hip-Hip-Hooray For Hatzic!

What's all the fuss about? I'm so excited to be returning to the Scrapping Away Crop at Hatzic from March 27-29th. I went last year, met lots of great women and had a blast teaching some fun make and takes with Close To My Heart products. I did a special card with a glitter flower which the ladies seem to really like. 

I'm working on some exciting new projects for this year. I'll be sure to post a sample of what we're going to make together a little later. In the meantime, check out some of the great products I'll be selling at the crop. I'll be bringing paper packs of the Close To My Heart white core paper in a variety of colours as well as an assortment of level 2 paper packs (10 cardstock sheets and 12 background and textured paper). 

Also, I'll have the Magic Moments Kit available for sale. It's one of my favourite products. It has everything you need to create a complete album - one two-page layout for every month of the year! It also comes with images of layout options to make it super fast and easy for you to put your layouts together in no time! 

The kit includes: 

24 - 12" X 12" preprinted layout pages

2 - 12" X 12" Colonial White cardstock sheets

8 - 6" X 12" My Stickease adhesive sheets

12 - 12" X 12" Memory Protectores

24" - 3/8" Cocoa grosgrain ribbon

50 Cocoa brads

I'm sure the ladies at Hatzic will be excited about this kit! 

Scrapbooking 101

I am proud to announce that the Vancouver School Board is offering a scrapbooking 101 class, taught by yours truly :)

Here's the class description:

Walk through the many stages of scrapbooking, from cutting & matting to adhering & arranging. Learn the creative process (including photo choice, layout, colour selection & storytelling). Techniques: sanding, tearing, stamping, creative use of ribbons, brads & eyelets will be explored. You will complete a scrapbook. Bring your camera to class, along with $25 for all supplies and a few basic tools you can take home. Registration deadline April 24.

Here are the details:

Date: Saturday, May 9, 2009
Time: 10am to 3pm
Course ID: HA05495
Cost: $69.00 + supplies

Register through Vancouver School Board
Call: (604) 713-4550
To register online, scroll to "Scrapbooking 101" (last entry) from here.

I'm really excited about the class. I enjoy teaching and I love meeting new people. Sometimes I think people who don't have much experience with scrapbooking build it up to be a big complicated process. Really, it goes back to something I've talked about before which is the hobby can be as little or as much as you want it to be. If you want to spend a lot of time scrapbooking, you can. If you don't, then don't. The point is to enjoy the hobby not to make it stressful!

My goal for the Scrapbooking 101 class is to make "newbies" feel comfortable enough with the craft that they can make it a simple hobby or an all-encompassing one, whatever suits their needs. Each student will walk away with a scrapbook that includes a page for each of the techniques covered in class. I figured this would be a good keepsake as a reminder of what the techniques are. It took me a while to find the right topics to cover in class because there's just so much I want to teach and there's just so little time! Now that I've got it figured out, I can't wait to get in the class room!