Creative Passion

Finally...the day is here! I am SO EXCITED to share our new website with you. Creative Passion is now open and I encourage you to check it out. I am thrilled to be teaching my classes for 2012 at Creative Passion alongside a panel of VERY talented and inspiring people. Debbie Hodge, Michelle Houghton, Amy Kingsford, Pattie Knox and Tami Taylor will all be teaching courses at Creative Passion.

Tami Taylor owns and operates Creative Passion. She has worked alongside Debbie Hodge for years. I am thrilled with what she has done with the website and she has been fabulous to work with. Please sign up for the mailing list and get registered so you can be first to hear about upcoming courses. In addition to the private galleries and forums that are available to students, there will also be a public gallery that should be ready soon. The Grand Opening Sale (10% off) will run through December 6th.

At the beginning of 2012, I will be offering two courses.

Blending and Beyond will run from February 13 - March 19.

This is one of the six layouts that I will be demonstrating in class:

Creative Composites is designed for students who have completed Blending and Beyond. Creative Composites will run from January 9 - February 13, 2012.

This is one of the six layouts that I will be demonstrating in class.




I have had a number of questions about the two courses and I just want to clarify. Creative Composites is ONLY for students who have taken Blending and Beyond. In Blending and Beyond, I cover A LOT and I go into great detail. This information is very important for Creative Composites. I will offer a second session of Creative Composites after Blending and Beyond. You will be able to register in February for the second run of Creative Composites which will start at the end of March/early April.

One of the many advantages of the new site is that I have the flexibility to teach what I would like. I have a number of ideas running through my head right now and just need time to develop them. I am over-the-moon to be teaching alongside Pattie Knox in the digital area of the site. When I first came to digital scrapbooking, I subscribed to the Digital Scrapbooking magazine and would love to read the tutorials that she had written for the magazine. I am really excited about working with her to develop the digital offerings at Creative Passion. I am looking forward to an exciting year at Creative Passion!



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Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Elf on the Shelf

I wanted to share with you what has been going on this week at our house that has been a HUGE hit! On Sunday, I went to Target by myself which in all honesty ranks right up there with going on a Caribbean cruise...it is a luxury. When I got home, I explained to the kids that Santa Claus was outside of Target handing out these boxes to people so I grabbed one and brought it home.

We sat down and read about the elf that Santa had just given us. The kids quickly named him Elfie. The story explains that this elf has magical powers and if anybody touches him, his powers go away. He stays at our house during the Christmas season and watches how we are acting. Each night after the kids go to bed, he reports back to Santa and then returns to our home before everybody awakes. The kids job is to be good and to find him each morning in his new location. I can't even tell you how AWESOME this has been for the kids. We read the story over and over and they are sooooo excited about it. The one downfall has been that they are getting up earlier each day because they can't wait to find Elfie.


The first morning, Elfie was found on the star.

Here are a couple of photos that I captured of the kids when they found him. It has just been so precious and I highly recommend it if you have little kids in the house.

I hope you are having a good week. I am hoping that in my next post, I will be able to share the new website with you so please check back in the next day or two.

December Daily

Yes, I realize that it isn't December yet but "December Daily" is what I call this project even though mine should be called "Thanksgiving to Christmas Daily". I started with this project on Thanksgiving just because we usually have a fun Thanksgiving weekend and I want a record of that as well. This weekend proved to be very busy and very fun so I actually had to do a couple extra pages so that I didn't omit anything.

These pages are pretty quick because I'm using a basic template (Scrap Pack Templates by Katie Pertiet) and adding a few embellishments and I'm done. One thing that I really like to do when I am doing a project such as this or Project 365 is to upload the pages to Shutterfly as I go. There is something about seeing them in the book that makes me more committed to a project. I don't like to get behind and that has helped me stay up to speed. I will admit that life is a little crazy right now...there is just a lot going on and certainly not enough time in each day but I love doing this project. Here is a look at my first few pages of my album.

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