Yeah baby! They asked me to stay for another year. That was a happy day! So you all have to put up with me for a while longer (as long as they will keep me actually!). Here is the 2010 CK Dream Team with links to each of their blogs:
Cindy Tobey - She is one of my favorite scrappers ever - so creative and artistic! And a great friend too!
Deena Wuest - Simply amazing digital pages that always impress me!
Jen Jockisch - Have just discovered her work and I adore her whimsical, layered fun style!
Kim Watson - Wow - she is impressive - she knows how to mix products perfectly!
Laura Vegas - Love her graphic style with little pops of interest added here and there!
Maggie Holmes - Dare I say she is my favorite scrapper? I adore everything she creates!
Sara Winnick - Bold graphic pages just the way I admire, but have no clue how to create!
Susan Weinroth - The cutest friend I have who makes the most beautiful quilts, the most beautiful babies,and has the cutest puppy in the world! Love her colorful fun graphic style!
Suzy Plantamura - Hmmm....what to say - she ROCKS MY WORLD!!!
Wendy Sue Anderson - I've admired her work for years - amazing photos, graphic designs perfectly put together with color and a bit of flair!
Here is my story of receiving our prize packages: Imagine me on day three or four of being in bed with the swine flu. It wasn't a pretty sight. I rolled out of bed for some unknown reason to take a walk downstairs (never seem to remember WHY I am going even after I get there). I see THREE rather large boxes on the front porch. My husband gets deliveries almost every day, so I didn't dare get my hopes up too high. Not that it would have taken much to excite me on this specific day. I open the door and MY NAME IS ON THE BOXES! If you know me, you know how much I love to get product delivered to my door and it hasn't happened in quite a while!
I opened all three boxes like the piggy I was at the moment making the biggest mess ever. They were filled with so many amazing products!!! I had never seen anything quite like this before. I had received lots of products when I won Masters and HOF, but nothing like this! It was the perfect thing to pull me out of the groggy half alive state I had been in for days. After throwing everything all over the living room floor, I rolled back into bed completely exhausted.
I sent the CK Editors a message telling them how excited I was. I received a message back saying there were MORE BOXES ON THE WAY! Are you kidding me? The next day, three more boxes arrived and these were even bigger and better than the first three! Oh my goodness. Again, I just tossed everything all over the floor (at this point, things were landing on my children, the dog and the furniture as the floor was completely covered). I wish I had taken pictures as it was the most crazy awesome mess I have ever seen. Every day after that, I would drag my sick tired body downstairs and start sorting, playing and adoring all these goodies. It was the best thing ever for my recovery!!! I finally got most of it cleaned up and the girls and I have had so much fun playing with it all.
Here is a list with links to all of the manufacturers who donated products. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!! (I really can't thank you enough). They were so generous and I plan on making it worth their amazing generosity by using everything that was sent to me on future projects on my blog and for publication. I have already started submitting work to CK with lots of my new goodies...
Adornit – Carolee’s Creations, Advantus, American Art Clay Company, American Crafts, Anna Griffin, BasicGrey, Bazzill Basics Paper, Bella Blvd, Bisous, Bo-Bunny Press, Buttons Galore,C.R. Gibson, Clearsnap, Close To My Heart, Colorbök, Core’dinations, Cornish Heritage Farms, Cosmo Cricket, The Crafter’s Workshop, Creative Memories, Die Cuts With a View,Dimensions, Doodlebug Design, Dyno Merchandise, EK Success, Elmer’s, Eyelet Outlet, Fancy Pants Designs, Fiskars Americas, GlueArts, Glue Dots International, Graphic 45, Hambly Screen Prints, Helmar Adhesives, Hero Arts, iLoveToCreate, a Duncan Enterprises Company,Imaginisce, Inkadinkado , It Takes Two, Jenni Bowlin Studio, Jillibean Soup, K&Company,Karen Foster Design, Krylon, Little Yellow Bicycle, Maya Road, McGill, Mimi Collections,Pebbles Inc., Piggy Tales, Pink Paislee, Prima, QuicKutz, River City Rubber Works, Sakura,Sandylion, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, ScrapGirls, Scrapper’s Guide, SEI, Singer, Sounds Easy,Spellbinders, Stampendous!, Stampin’ Up!, Technique Tuesday, Therm O Web, Unibind, We R Memory Keepers, Zva Creative
So with all that, now I have the GOOD NEWS FOR ALL MY BLOG READERS!!! I am in the mood to give some goodies away so I have a place for all my NEW goodies. I will be putting together a big package of Maya Road products (I have so many of their yummy products from being on their Design Team) including lots of ribbons, chipboard and mini albums. I will also throw in some fun MAMBI products I have including rhinestones and Soft Spoken! I promise this is a package you will all enjoy! I'll post a picture in the next day or two...
Just leave me a post on this blog entry that tells me what you like or want to see more of in Creating Keepsakes Magazine this year. Do you have any subjects you would like to see articles about? Do you wish certain techniques were highlighted more? If you had a chance to tell the CK Editors exactly what you would like to see in their magazine each month, what would it be? On Monday, I will do a random drawing of one of the comments and send that person a big box of yumminess!
Happy Day, Happy Day, Happy Day!!! Off to do some creating! Suzy