Hello Monday

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend! I had a beautiful & productive weekend. I channeled my inner Martha Stewart and baked up a storm, worked on a few more classes, submitted a few more layouts for publication (keeping my fingers crossed) and stared on a coupe of canvases. All this while indulging in a "For Rent" marathon on HGTV.

This is my sharing layout for you. I made it using a sketch from the My Minds Eye blog. I LOVE how it turned out! I also love, love, love my new Martha Stewart butterfly punch. I have seen it used on so many layouts and had to have one, definitely a fabulous purchase!

I had dropped off a Valentine themed explosion box for display at Treasured Memories and had received a bunch of class requests so I made one just for that. This class and all it's details can be found here. I used the newest papers from Little Yellow Bicycle- Lucky Me, it holds 21 photos and is fabulous for the pictures of those in your life that you're lucky to have! I spoke with Chantel this morning and there are only 3 spots left! Hope to see you there!

Be sure to check out your weekly inspiration here.

Have a wonderful week friends!

Coffee Filter Flowers

Come over and check out this Thursday's Technique!

Your Weekly Inspiration

I should have a few layouts to share with you.... I don't! Boo! I haven't been doing much of anything just for myself lately, which means I am not sticking to my commitment of one layout a week for me. Ugg! I did make the layout below for Twisted Sketches (see sketch here) it will have to do for now. I promise more to look at next week! Promises! Promises! ;-)

For your weekly inspiration you can check out my canvas creation and 'How To" here. Enjoy!

Have a great week, I'll be seeing you on Thursday for a new technique!

{xo} Nadine

Holiday

For those of you who have today off for this holiday- Happy Family Day! Have a wonderful day! I will be taking today off and I'll be back tomorrow with your inspiration for the week!
{xo} Nadine

XOXO Inspiration

For a little Valentine inspiration go here.

{xo} Nadine

Paper Flowers

Check out this Thursday's technique over at the Inspiration blog.

Woah! 2pm on Monday and I'm just getting to this post. Sorry. I like to have it done the night before.... but alas here we are. I'm back from CHA and it was fabulous!!! So much inspiration, so many ideas, so many projects. My head is bursting with creative energy! Where to start? I spent the show walking up and down isles and isles of beautiful paper goodness and amazing embellishments. It really was a dream for me to go to this event! I am forever grateful. I have posted pictures here of my favorite booths and experiences. I am currently planning classes to teach & kits to sell. I am also working together with Chantel & KC at Treasured Memories to bring make n' takes and demos to the store. Don't worry, I won't forget about you! I'll have the demos and techniques here as well as when I do them in the store.

I've had some exciting news under my hat for the last month and am excited to finally share. I am now part of the amazing Design Team over at Twisted Sketches. Anam (the creator of Twisted Sketches) creates a sketch, adds a twist and then we (you too) create a layout based on that criteria. Fun! This is my layout from this sketch, the twist was "transparent"- how ever that word moved you. I used transparent embellishments, Heidi Swapp ghost hearts & butterflies. Go check it out and play along. It's great, Anam has done your layout planning for you!

I have been teaching at Treasured Memories full time (at least one class a month) since September but I am now officially part of their Design team. This came about when I was asked if I wanted to be a part of their kits of the month. I was so excited! Of course I wanted to do that! Their kits are super popular and I get to do what I love, create kits and layouts that inspire others! The kit I put together for February went on sale there today, it is called Come Away With Me and is definitely romantic. You can check it out on my other blog here or at the store's blog here. I did 10 layouts and have posted pictures of them all here.

I'm leaving you with all those pictures to check out as your inspiration for today and the rest of the week. Don't forget I am teaching this Saturday from 1pm - 3:30pm at Treasured Memories. I think there are only 4 spots left & I'd love to see you there if you're local. If not, call the store and Chantel would be more than happy to mail a kit off to you. For now, I'll leave you with a picture of me at the Making Memories booth. How fun.

Happy Monday. Happy February first. Have a fantastic week friends!

{xo} Nadine