The whole gang photoshoot

It's that time of year for mini photo sessions and SuperKimagery was offering them again.  We had Kim take our first family photo shoot at University of Stanford last December.  My mom has always wanted all of us to take photos and this was a great opportunity to.  It was my brother with his wife and 3 girls, my younger brother, my parents and me, my hubby and my daughter.  This time it was at beautiful Half Moon Bay.  Worrying that it might be too cold and windy.  We were blessed to have the most perfect weather we could ask for.  It was expected to have a heat wave especially inland which can reach to 100 degrees but by the beach it was mid 70's.  Perfect!  It was such a fun photo shoot.  I loved the images that Kim captured.  Thanks Kim once again.  You're so awesome.  Here's just a few pix I took.  I couldn't pass up the beautiful sunsetting.



                                                    That's Kim doing her magic.

New found thing....

Okay....so I never thought die cuts were cool.  Until.... HOF 3 introduced the Silhouette SD.  I've had this forever but they didn't have the software compatible for MACs.  So....impatiently waiting it finally came!
There are so much you can do with this thing.  You can print on cardstock, heat transfer for shirts, decor, vinyl for your walls, decals for glass,mirrors etc. You can also print on fuzzy paper.  It's endless.  There's so much to learn.  Plus you don't have to keep cartridges that cost $50-60 a piece.  You don't have to worry about how to store them and having images there you will never use.  The silhouette SD is all connected to your computer and they have an online store.  It's pretty cool.  They also have different designers that create images such as...House of 3, Donna Downy, American Crafts and many more.  Once I learn this machine..I'll post projects onto my blog.

More of the Halloween mini album

Here's more of the Halloween mini book I've been working on.  To make the haunted house I used HOF 3's digi house from their welcome home kit.  I then used my craft knife to cut the windows so that they open up and see the SPOOky elements inside.  I think this is my favorite page.  Enjoy!

Look...I'm featured on House of 3's blog.

I'm always amazed with those awesomely talented ladies at HOUSE of 3!!  I can't get enough of their creative energy.  Check out HOF 3 blog where Rhonna features muah.  :)  How cool is that?

Here's a page I used HOF 3 digi frame and canvas paper.  Notice the digi frame is distressed.  I distressed it using one of my digi distressed texture brushes.  Pretty cool!  I'm so loving hybrid digital scrapbooking.  The creative possibilities are endless!

Thanks for looking!

Goodbye summer...hello fall.

I can't help but see all the Halloween Decorations and thought I'd start making a mini album.  I've used some HOF 3 halloween goodies and some new Halloween stuff that I got awhile back.  Here's a few sneaks.....

New MME Lost and Found

OMG!  Have you seen the new MME papers?  They're so gorgeous.  I got these from my local store Art Inspired Studios I can't wait to create something with these.  Although,  they are too gorgeous to cut up.  Here's some photos.....

Come and check them out at Art Inspired Studios before they're all gone!

more on Creative Escape

Here's more photos from CE 2010.  Here's some of Heidi's work at the Trunk Show.  I loved the trunk show

because it showcased all of the teachers' work.  The big plus was that we got a chance to really chat with them and take pictures.    How cool is that?  Well....I'm happy to say that I'm no stranger to Heidi.  Yay!  I so love her!  She's so inspirational, talented, sweet, funny,pretty and such a nice person.  But mann...she's one crazy busy mama!  (can you tell she's my all time fave? wink)  You can read about her recap of CE on her blog and about me.  Yes, me.  I was so excited.

Here are samples of her new products with Tattered Angels that debuted last CHA summer.  They're tags with resist and flocked words.  The great thing is...you just spray on your favorite glimmer mist products and WOW!  How gorgeous! 

Heidi and the HOF 3 gals; Rhonna and Janet were there too.  They do this webshow every Wednesday to show techniques, new products and  just be plain silly!  This time they were doing the webshow LIVE at Creative Escape!  Yay!  Here's some photos that I was able to capture.  Tons of energy in the room and some teachers were there talking about their class.  Btw, Rhonna Farrer as cute and talented she is...also talked about me on her blog and posted pix that I took.  Check out her blog.

There's wonderful Margie-Romney Aslett of Girls Paperie.  She's such a hoot.  Her class was so much fun too.

There's Heidi rolling the camera to show her web audience her live audiences in the house.

Here's a mini album I created to house my pix and teachers signatures from the event.  I made it out of KI memories plastic placement material.  On the back... I created a pocket so that the last page of the mini book can be slipped in and hold the book.  I used my bind it all to bind all the papers together.
Even Rhonna, Heidi, Maggie, Teresa and Margie loved it.  That means a lot coming from these uber talented ladies!  Here they are.

This is what Teresa Collins puts her class kits in.  IT's like pizza boxes and it's filled with all of products for her class.

Some make n takes and free paper packs.

We also received that book that has all the instructions to all of our classes.  Great idea!!

Well.... I had such a great time and I still have some projects to finish. Maybe next year?

We'll see.