Hello, It has been awhile since I have made a post to my blog. I have been busy learning new
techniques from Heidi Swapp and her Fabulous 5 Design team and Jessica Sprague, with her online classes.
The most recent is the Motography class. This class is teaching me to use my iPhone app instagram and all the features. it is really exciting!!! Being day 3, i have already applied my
new knowledge. LOL!!! Although, i am still stumped on how to apply the instamgram follow button to my blog, i am working on that one...

Through Heidi Swapp, i am in a online class for Memory Files Live. Can i just say again how
much i love this!!! She has opened up a whole new side of creativity for me. I already adored the mini albums, but , now it;s mini file folders! Yes, MINI file folders and her Vintage Chic line. It is so yummy. I will be posting completed projects this week , as i am still trying to finish them. But, beware, they may end up being Christmas gifts(wink wink).

So, keep close and i will see you soon with those updates. Also, I have pinned quite a bit of projects from Heidi and the FAB 5 on pinterest. So, if it;s not here , it will be there..
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Well, i have been creating today. I finally finished the files for Bella's competitive dance groups. I had to complete the mini hiphop and the mini lyrical. I am so glad that i took the Heidi Swapp Art of Observation classes at Big Picture Classes because it really inspired me while i was trying to finish these dance files. I took pictures of the before during and after. I tried to keep in theme with the dance number. I i can't wait till our first competition so i can add some pictures. I figure this will be a great gift for each of the choreographers when our season is compete. It will give them something to hold on to when the season comes to an end May 2013.

Well, finally Friday. I can't tell you how I have looked forward to this day. It has been a busy week. Isabella and her dance schedule, and being dance mom i need to keep up with dances, costume, shoes, hair and song! it's alot plus, i volunteered to "MOM" all three of her dances. Dance camp for the next two weeks. She is exausted.
Well, Heidi Swapp announced her design team, and unfortunatly i did not get chosen... this year. But, the Fabulous 5 have amazing talent, I will admit,i come nowhere near their creativity. I am looking forward to each other their projects. I posted all their blog addresses here so, if oyu have not viewed them via Heidi's blog you can view here.

Also, during my Art of Observation course on Big Picture Class , Hedi challenged us to create a memory file about a personal goal. Well, all of you who know me, know me well, and know that i struggle daily on this whole weight, excersize issue. So, i have yet to create my folder but, i did start last week a new eating plan. I am sorta trying the Paleo diet. I am doing my best to stay away from CARBS!!! eek, So hard to do. I am down to one soda a day. I am deleting sweet tea, which now living in the south , it is sooo hard to do. I will post soon pictures of my file and see if i can achieve this goal. Wish me luck!!!!

Okay, so , I am officially a Dance Mom for three of Bella's group dances at Triple Threat, I have no idea what motivated me to volunteer for all three dances but, I did. And, this year they seem to be trying some new organizational skills. We are givin a file folder for each dance that will contain names, measurments, contact info and whatever else needs to be remembered. And, well , me , I can't have a plain file folder... So, i completed my MINI JAZZ folder last night...

I think Heidi Swapp obsession is out of control!!!. Anyhows, On the left side i made two folders

and have one titled PHOTOS , for any pictures we take at competitions, and the second one is titled

CONTACT INFO, with moms email and phones numbers. The right side is a longer folder with

all the dancers names and is a list to keep track of who has measurements and costumes received.

I used various papers to cover the manila file folder  I love the pink zebra. It kinda matches the girls

costume we might be using this season.  Alittle bling and some other embellishments. SO, one down

and 2 more to go. I will post the others when they are completed. LOVE TO SCRAP!

Okay, it;s official , i have submitted my application for the Heidi Swapp design team. I hope that they see in me what others have told me so many times about my scrapbooking skills. But, she is selecting a "small"team. I do not know how many that is but, i hope i am one of them. figers crossed and prayers.
Still enjoying time with my sister. We went to the beach today, only to get rained out. But, found out thru a friend it cleared up and turned out to be a beautiful day. That's ok, we are getting up bright an early to head to Navarre Beach, about an hour drive, to gather some sea shells. And, hopefully, a day on sun and sand.
We had a double date tonight and went to see the new Batman movie, although i have never seen any of the other Christain Bale movies, this one was enjoyed by all of us. Along with that large popcorn and big soda! argh! i will never lose weight!

anyhows, it is off to bed so we can wake up early for the drive. Here is one of my submitted layouts , it is using the Heidi Swapp products from her memory file line SUGAR CHIC, i love it soo much. These pictures i took of the kids , were taken at dusk and i was working with the different modes on the camera. I think i got some pretty good pictures.

Okay So, I have been trying to complete a Graphic 45 traveolgue mini book for A scrap in Time and, also complete my work for the Heidi Swapp Desgin team.. I love everything Heidi, it makes me giddy thinking about all the new things she is coming out with at the CHA in Chicago this week. If you haven't Check out her blog HeidiSwapp.com it is all fabulous!!!

My sister and her husband are coming in tomorrow from Phoenix, i am ubber excited!! During Heidi's BIG PICTURE CLASS i took, we did an anticipation folder in week 2. I had planned to use this for my daughter National Dance Competition in Panama City Beach this past week. But, du eto unforseen circumstances our studio cancelled the trip, therefore, i am going to use this folder for the memories of my sisters trip this week. I have not seen her since 2009. SO, we are making lots of plans, well, mainly beach days. That's all she said she wanted to do, so, who am i to disagree....so, soon i will be posting those pictures and hope that you too will fall in love with this whole memory file comcept. Just making mini albums makes me happy, because i can comlete something in a day of two and fill it with lots of goodies and photos...so , Enjoy! happy scrapping.

SO, i thought i would post a Christmas mini book i designed for A Scrap in Time with the 2011 Teresa Collins Christmas paper. I try to use items available for purchase in our store to help shoppers see what they can do with the product. Sometimes i will find a great pattern paper and even a embellishment and really dont know how to use it until i see it actually used. It's then that i can apply it to my style. I will say, i am more of a clean scrapbooker. Although i do LOVE lots of layers but, find it difficult to apply to my pages. But, i do "scrap lift" several ideas i find in magazine to teach me to branch out. I am still growing.

JULY 7, 2012

Welcome to my blog. I have created this place so i can share all my creations from scrapbooking, mini albums, tags and cards. To the items around the house that i have maybe copied from a friend or fellow blogger.
I love to scrapbook and find that it can be a stress reliever and it can also make me pull my hair out.
There are days that i can sit and stare at this blank canvas for hours with nothing. But, then... there are the days where i will be so engrossed in my project i will not stop till it is completed.

I am proud of my creations , and i am lucky to be able to work part time at A SCRAP IN TIME here in Crestview, Florida where i can be surrounded by all the goodies. Thru this blog i will be posting photos from my beginning days as a scrapbooking , when i was with Creative Memories, to photos of my pages of today. And my newest obsession.. HEIDI SWAPP memory files. These are so amazing. You have so many possibilities i can't get enough of them. Yes, I will be honest, i hoard them... ALL of them... But, if you have seen them i am sure you are right there with me....So, let's get this party started.....