Monthly Archives: August 2009

So, what is the best way someone can spoil you rotten?

What do you love doing that is something just for you?

Lets see those things you adore that are an indulgence, pure decadence, incredibly luxurious, rather special, or just plain enjoyable when you want to do something just for yourself!

Don’t forget to add your creation to our flickr group to be in with the chance to WIN WIN WIN a rad prize from FISKARS!!

And link up here in the comments as well if you wish people to be able to find your layout at your own gallery.

Here is how the team love to be pampered…..

Stephenie our Guest Story Teller:

AMY:

ARANKA:

DANIELLE: who says -” I love manicures, pedicures and massages, but sometimes the best pampering to oneself is time to sit alone quietly…”

Lee: who says – “pedi, mani, colour, cut, blow-dry, hotel, shop, gourmet lunch, movie, wine tasting, dinner w. friends, dancing – all these things would be a perfect way to PAMPER ME”

SARA: I need a daily reminder that it’s OKAY to pamper myself! For some reason the word “pamper” made me think of butterflies and happy colors.

SHANNON: My bf spoils me. He took me to Vegas last summer & pampered me the whole time. I chose this blurry photo because the whole vacation went by so fast. Title & Journaling are lyrics by Boys Like Girls. Lyrics read: “Your voice was the soundtrack of my summer…and I said your eyes are the brightest of all the colors, I don’t want to ever love another.”

STEPH:

Enjoy making your pamperlicous creations, and don’t forget to upload to the flickr group by the 31st to be in with a chance to win the awesome FISKARS prize!

Cheers,

Lee

Welcome to August!

I hope everyone is having a fabulous summer for those of you in the northern hemisphere, and for us southern dwellers, I hope winter is nice and kind!

Our August promt is “Stuck in a moment”- such a fab category with so many different ways to swing it.

DON’T FORGET – if you wish to have your name added into the draw for the monthly prize for each layout you enter, you MUST load your layout to our Flickr group – see the link in the sidebar!

AND you will totally want to be in with a chance to with this mongh, as we have a completely AWESOME SPONSOR….*drumroll* – FISKARS!

Along with a totally rad Guest Designer for this month – Stephenie Hamen who is the Design and Consumer Education Manager for Fiskars in Madison, WI, USA and we are totally delighted she joins us this month.

A little about Stephenie:

Stephenie Hamen is a scrapbooker, crafter and one of those creative types. She is one of the founding Lead Fiskateers (Fiskateer #003) and also is a teacher for www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com. Stephenie has been published and travels the country teaching and talking scrapbooking. It is her passion and her life, as well as her job. To see what she is up to, please visit her blog at www.cropgirl.wordpress.com To contact Stephenie, please email her directly at [email protected]

And here is Sephenie’s awesome creation for our first August category:

And here are what the Story Tellers have made

DANIELLE:

LEE: The journaling reads: “WOW – The PINK concert has been stuck in my mind constantly. She was an amazing perfomer that night, so strong and fun. Rod Laver Arena Melbourne, Tue 14th July 2009

SARA: who says: Photos from a recent train ride. Loved the look of joy in his face! Clearly one amazing moment for him.

SHANNON: who says: My mom gives the best advice. Here’s a snippet of a text that I wrote down to remember, and follow.

STACEY: whose journaling reads: If I could be stuck in any moment, it would be this one. I hope we always hold onto it!

STEPH: (whose big day is coming up next month – YAY!)

BREANN:  Big news in our fam right now…new job which will move us out of state.  My layout symbolizes the moment as I know it right now, our past and the moments to come.

Please play along, and don’t forget to add your creation to our Flickr group. REMEMBER – we accept ALL ORIGINAL CREATIONS made based on the monthly category, be it a traditional paper layout of any size, and ATC, digi creation, card, project or art piece.

We’ll be back in a couple of days with the announcement of the winner of our July prize.

Cheers,

Lee🙂

*** PS: I’ll probably get spanked for saying this, but watch out for September, we have a really really REALLY rad announcement coming up….*shhhh* don’t tell the other girls I gave you a hint OK!*