Upcoming Classes -Chino and Monrovia

Hey Everyone!!!

Before I forget, I wanted to announce some of my upcoming classes. These will be the only classes I will be teaching for now. June will wrap up my local classes for a while. During the summer I have been asked by Tattered Angels to teach at a few conventions and I am also teaching a CHA class for retailers sponsered my Tattered Angels and Graphic 45. So because of this I have to put my classes on hold for the summer. I really hope you can come by one of these classes and say hello!

Chino Scrapbook Company has Changed their name to Metropolitan Scrapbook Company!!!

They are celebrating their 1st year anniversary and have asked me to come by and teach a class to help celebrate!

LIFE in COLOR- Prima Creative Paintable Class

June 13th, 2009 3:30 pm

Metropolitan Scrapbook Company

4479 Riverside Dr

Chino, Ca 91710

909-547-2008

http://www.metroscrappin.com

info@metroscrappin.com

Natural Beauty- Tattered Angels Mini Album

Scrap N' Yap

830 South Myrtle Avenue

Monrovia, CA 91016
Tel: 626-35-SCRAP

626-357-2727

info@scrap-n-yap.com

http://www.scrap-n-yap.com/index.html

**NEW** Catch a WAVE Tattered Angels Summer Mini Album

This class will be a little different than the Nature album. In this class you will learn some brand new techniques such as Using Glimmer Mist to emboss AND Reverse imaging.

Scrap N' Yap
830 South Myrtle Avenue
Monrovia, CA 91016Tel: 626-35-SCRAP
626-357-2727
info@scrap-n-yap.com
http://www.scrap-n-yap.com/index.html

I really hope to see some friends and meet some new friends at these upcoming classes. If you have any questions feel free to email me at primadonnaliz@yahoo.com

Thanks and have a great week!

~Liz

Be Prepared...

Fresh. New. Evolved.

Tattered Angels and Cosmo Relay... SON-Rise

This week is my turn for the Blog relay. This month we have brought you some fun creative ideas for uses of Cosmo Cricket products with Tattered Angels products. First off Tattered Angels CHA booth was right next to Cosmo's booth this last winter. And since I was at the demo table, I got to stare straight into Cosmo's booth and fall in love with all of their fun goodies. Some of you may remember back in January I posted about their new Snorkel line, well it is just so adorable, and I absolutely fell in love with it! So for this relay I chose to use Snorkel for my project.

SON Rise

Although most of the pic is covered up, this pic is of my second son on the beach. Seeing him splashing in the waves was such a blessing. We normally don't get down the the beach all that often, but on this particular visit, our son who is normally adverse to uncontrolled environments decided to give the ocean a try. It just melted my heart to see yet one more prayer answered in our little guy. So this page titled SON rise, captures just that. My SON rising above adverse situations, I know it sounds a bit predictable and cheesy (most of my topics are about such things) but these are my day to day joys. Seeing him grow into a health cabable young man is all I could ever pray for. So with each page I record his one step closer.

Ok now for the details: I use the Cosmo paper to create the waves on the bottom of the page, and as well to create the sun. This sun was inspired by a commercial last year. I believe it was a car commercial, and as the car drove through one of the LA tunnels (something that reminded me of my childhood) the tunnel turned into this gorgeous, whimsical, multi layered sun. It reminds me of the turn of the century victorian art that you would see layered in silent movies or puppet shows. I have always been a fan of layers so it is no wonder how this image stayed with me all year long. The background was created using some Frosty Memories Glimmer Glass as a screen to create the white clouds. I misted a light mist of Turquoise Blue over the top. To add to the whimsy, I added the large flourish of Regal Glimmer Chips in the same color. I also added some bolt lace and some Cosmo trim that I sprayed with Sea Glass to match the project. You can also see in the rays of the Sun that I used the Vinage Ice Glimmer Screen as a stamp with Dreamsicle Glimmer Mist. Some additional colors of Glimmer Mist that I used were, Old Lace,and Sand to create the sea bed. For the title I used the Regal Framed Font Alphabet with Meadow Green Glimmer Mist and Peach Delight Glimmer Mist.

Thanks for peeking, I am currently in New York, so I will try and post some pictures of my Tattered Travels when I get back (I have a few trips to post still!) Enjoy your Memorial Day and snuggle up with those you love. Especially on a day like today, we need to treasure eachother and relationships.

Here are the links to the other designers blogs and the Manufacturers.

Tattered Angels Designer

Vicki Chrisman

Tattered Angels

Tattered Angels Blog

Cosmo Cricket Team

Debbie

Cosmo Cricket

XOXO

Liz

Thanks again!!!

I HEART SAN DIEGO...

Class pictures from Scrappin' Attack in Santee, Ca.

I am blessed to say that I truly love what I do. I get to roam around and teach and come home and be mom, I know things may not always stay this way, but I can say I am blessed for having this time in my life where I can feed into my children and still get out and create with others who share my passion. This past weekend I had the Pleasure of teaching at Scrappin' Attack in Santee, Ca. I had met Stacie and Eva at CHA winter and when they asked me to come down and teach, I just had too. Another drive down the beautiful coast and to get to see the girls again, was just what I needed. We had tons of fun in the first class creating one of a kind Prima Paintable creations. In the second class, we ventured in to the art of Glimmer Misting and created a Heritage Album. Here are a few pictures of some of the class winners. I always have a little something to give away, and this time I broke it up into a few different prizes to share the wealth. There were prizes from my favorite companies such as Tattered Angels, Prima and SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L.

I always enjoy my time in San Diego, and can never turn down an offer to drive down and teach. Next month I will be in San Diego again featuring some brand new classes, concepts and techniques. Next months classes will be at Everafter Scrapabooks in Vista, Ca. I was at Everafter for my Holiday Gift Classes last December and just fell in love with the store and the staff. Since I had been there before, I thought it would be fun to take my projects to the next level. I decided to create a complete "technique" based class (Art Journal). I also will be teaching one of my most popular Prima classes, Creative Paintables.

Pure, Genuine, Beauty- Prima Creative Paintable Class

This class is a totally fun experience with beautiful Prima products and Glimmer Mist. I will have ALL of the colors of Glimmer Mist available plus my stash of flowers and bling to choose from. This is a complete "choose your own adventure" project. I will share some techniques in watercoloring as well as intrigrating acrylic paints as well. You will start with a blank canvas and paint your way into a masterpiece.

Prima Mixed Art Journal (inside sneek)

Prima Mixed Art Journal (inside sneek)

Prima Mixed Art Journal (cover sneek)

This class is for the sole purpose for those who want to take their scrapbooking to the next level and need a little nudge. I remember looking at pages that had paint, pastes, flocking and foil on them and thinking "WOW, how did they do that?" Well if you are thinking the same thing than this is the class for you. This Art Journal Class is directed to act as a refference guide for your scrapbook experience. In this class you will learn tons of techniques that can easily be translated into your pages. If you choose to you can also transform this journal into an album. The goal is to leave you with the tools and techniques that will take your crafting to the next level and give youteh confidence to try something new.

I had a ton of fun in San Diego and can't wait to get back!

~Liz

RAK's are on their way!

Thanks to ALL of you for all of your love and support throughout Autism Awareness month. The outpouring of love and awareness deeply touches me and my family. As promised (a little later than I would have liked too!) the RAK's are on their way!

Here are a list of winners that should be expecting some Prima goodies in the mail:

Laurie Rush

Robin Milligan

Robin Henderson

Kaytee Gilroy

Kristi Beisel

Lisa Barba

Randi (I just sent yours to Cool Scrapbook Stuff)

And the Winner of the Bad Girls giveaways (this lucky lady won both of them!)

Lillian Lincoln

Thank you all for playing along this month and also for supporting your LSS too!

I am still hosting the support your LSS giveaway for May, so if you have a reciept dated within may, email me a scanned copy of it and I will enter you into a giveaway.

Thanks!

Liz

CKC Buffalo Here I come!!!

So this week has been a bit more structured than usual for our family. Me and James are leaving for a week, yes a week to go to help out Kyle and Wendy in Buffalo, New York. So because of that I have to try and plan a full week of activities for the kids while we are gone. We have never done this before, so this will definately be a new experience. I know our kids will be fine with the Grandparents, but being that our whole marriage we have only ever known having kids or taking care of kids, it is a bit different to leave our sweet little world in California.

We will be In Buffalo working the booth at CKC and teaching a few classes. Here are the classes Tattered Angels will be offering at CKC.

Summer Fun Album

Summer Fun Album

Friday

5.29.2009

6:00 PM-8:00 PM

Explore the Outdoors Layout

Explore the Outdoors Layout
Saturday
5.30.2009
8:30 AM-9:30 AM

And

Friday
5.29.2009
4:30 PM-5:30 PM


Royalty Layout


Royalty Layout
Friday
5.29.2009
12:30 PM-1:30 PM

and

Saturday
5.30.2009
4:30 PM-5:30 PM

These classes are intro to Glimmer Mist and Tattered Angels products, so if you are a little timid when it comes to Glimmer Mist, this is the perfect class for you. We will be going through the basics of Glimmer Mist, as well as going through some fun techniques in using Glimmer Screens and Tattered Angels brand new Framed Font Alphabet Glimmer Chips. In addition we will include some of Tattered Angels Calling cards, from their brand new Bingo Board sets.

So if you are in the Buffalo area, come by and say hi, I would love to meet you!

Tattered Angels and Cosmo Cricket, at it again!

So it's monday and that means that it is time for Tattered Angels to team up again with Cosmo Cricket for some fabulous creations:

So for some fun stuff check out the following sites!

Tattered Angels's Design Team

Michelle van Etten
Melissa Phillips

Cosmo Cricket Design Team

Yukari

There are sure to be some fun ideas shared with these awesome products!

Be sure to check back at the Manufacturers for some giveaways too!

Manufacturers sites:

Tattered Angels: http://www.mytatteredangels.com/
Tattered Angels blog: http://mytatteredangels.com/blog/

Cosmo Cricket: http://www.cosmocricket.com/
Cosmo blog: http://cosmocricket.typepad.com/cosmo_cricket/

enjoy your week!

FYI: I have been gathering ALL of the RAK winners that I had this past month and preparing the prizes, thank you for your patiences, I am making it to the post office tomorrow, so I hope to get all of those out to you all!

Have a great day!

~Liz

Fashionable Independence

So today is a lazy monday which is not good, because a lazy monday cannot follow a lazy weekend. I should get myself up and working on some stuff, getting the house clean and finish up some paper work and such, but I just can't seem to get the lead out. I feel like I am on a perpetual slow motion reel, and everyone around me is on fast foward... I know... I need to get it together. Well today I though I would share a little project that Sedona put together this weekend. She was upset that the step stool was black. Now mind you this was a $2.50 step stool that I picked up at Target so I really didn't see the reason why black was such a bad color. But to a little girl who is in love with Pink, it just wouldn't do. So of course comes daddy to the rescue with his can of spray paint (left over from my crutches, if I didn't mention that J would not be to happy!) So with this small gesture, daddy gave his little girl a whole new world of independence, but fashionably!

Here is the step stool spray painted and then layered with a fine mist of Cherry Blossom Glimmer Mist, when appplied in a fine mist, the glimmer gives the spray paint a beautiful pearlized opal glimmer. So what was once matte, now has a little glimmer to it!

Here are the colors that Sedona picked out for her very own step stool, she loves pink and purple so it just made sense that this is what she would choose.

And of course, her putting it to good use. Now the key is to remind her of the step stool each time she says she can't do something that she really can, but just wants my help for. She has actually really enjoyed her new found independence, and especially loves that it comes with a little glimmery bling too!

If you are looking for a little inspiration, here is the links to this weeks designers participating in the Tattered Angels and Cosmo Cricket blog relay.

Cosmo Cricket Design team members
Maren

Danielle

Tattered Angels Design Team Members

Michelle Jackson
Sally Lynn MacDonald

And as always you can check out the Manufacturers site for some ongoing giveaways and inspiration!

Tattered Angels website

Tattered Angels weblog

Cosmo Cricket website

Cosmo Cricket blog

Bad Girls May Kit...

It's that time again, only this time... Bad Girls is giving you a totally nostalgic work of art to call your own. Just in time for your mothers day wishes, Bad Girls brings a totally amazing kit, "Post Cards from Paris". This kit is FULL of amazing product from 7 Gypsies, Prima, Hambly and Bad Girls private collection! I really enjoyed this months kit, it was full of some wonderful vintage ephemera, brass and of course beautiful Prima flowers and 7 Gypsies PAPER! I especially loved the flocked paper. So here is what I came up with:

Magic

2 Hear you Speak

Tea for 2

Sweet Baby Girl

EYE to EYE Mini Album

So here are this months Layouts, I am getting ready to upload them onto the Bad Girls site, so if you want the background of the layouts and any techniques that I used feel free to pop on into the gallery and check them out.

I am still recovering from this weekend, it ws Sooooo much fun getting to spend it with Wendy and Kyle, the four of us (James took a train down to meet us the last few days) just could not stop laughing, my stomach still hurts! Any how, I have been meaning to post some pics of trip to Colorado and this past weekend, I will try and do that this week.

Enjoy your week!!!

~Liz

You know you're tired when...

You post the winners # and NOT THEIR NAME! LOL! Ok, so I am in serious need of a secretary or something because I can hardly keep track of all the RAK's I have going on. So if I miss anything PLEASE let me know email me or leave a comment, I totally appreciate any help with wrangling up my RAK's. With Autism Awareness month, LSS Rak's and NSD... a girl can seriously get lost in her own little world!

So anyways here are the winner for this weeks Autism Awareness RAK:

Here are your random numbers:
9
10
3
Timestamp: 2009-05-04 22:48:37 UTC

winners are:

Randi
Robin
and Lisa (Ceesa)

email me your addy's at primadonnaliz@yahoo.com also I have not heard from any of the winners this month so check and see if that winner was you!

And for the last RAK that I forgot to mention the winners name it was Kristi B.

All winners will win a little something from my own personal stash. Also make sure to check out the manufacturers blogs for the list of winners of their prizes (those were the pics I posted) I would love to see what you all come up with!

Also for the support your LSS RAK, the winner is Laurie Rush.

If you all could email me your addy's that would be great!


And remember to PLEASE email me your reciepts for May's support your LSS RAK.


Thanks!
~Liz