christytomlinson

Well, I am off again!

Okay, not really until Wednesday morning, but I know I will be so busy tomorrow, I won't have time to post. I will be gone until July 30th. CRAZY! I know.. but I am heading straight from CHA to Seattle where my husband and I, and his family are going on an Alaskan Cruise for his parent's 50th wedding anniversary! Yeah for them! Celebrating 50 YEARS!!

I am leaving with TONS Of mixed emotions. I am excited about spending time with the Chatterbox crew.. one last time (enter sniff here).. but also excited to go on a cruise, which I have never been on before. BUT SERIOUSLY SAD to leave my kids.. mostly just my youngest 2.. Noah and Ethan.. Noah is my baby and has become very attached to me. I am just so sad I will be gone for so long! My mom is watching them and will take GREAT care of them all.. but still.. gonna miss my bubbees (as we call him).

I can't believe that when I get back, I will only  have one day left in the Chatterbox office.. holy COW! I hope we have a huge party.. so I can't cry.. because I know I will be crying all day long.. ALL DAY LONG.. that's going to be a sad day..

Well, can't think about it right now.. gearing up for the fun of traveling with 15 people and bouncing up and down in our 15 passenger van! (the chatterbox gang.. not Ben's family) LOL..

Oh! And I am excited to announce I will be teaching at Scrappin Time, in Las Vegas NV. September 22nd, and 23rd! It's going to be tons of fun! Those girls are my "peeps" as someone call it. They come to all the Cku's and take all my classes and they are the most beautiful blond bombshells you will ever see.. but seriously the nicest ones too! :)

Check out their website at Scrappin Time

Hope everyone has a wonderful next 2 weeks!

and the winner(s) is!!!

Okay, before I post the winners, here is one more layout.

Julee Irish actually sent this to me yesterday afternoon without the attachment, but we weren't able to reconnect until after I had already posted the other layouts.

Here is her layout!

Now ONTO the winners! So.. after THREE tries we finally got Leora's favorite layouts. Her own favorite layouts (the first two) no one scrap-lifted.. they were...

"YOU, Totally Raw"  By Leora Sanford

And The other is "Laugh" By Leora Sanford

SO.... drum-roll please.....

Her next two favorite layouts were????

So Tired

and Summer is Here

Which means we ended up with THREE winners!

Sara Schneider who scraplifted Leora's "So Tired" Layout

AND

Shannon Stamp and Julie Irish who BOTH scraplifted Leora's "Summer is here" layout!

Congrats to ALL Three! That was fun! I think I might have to do challenges more often! :)

Thanks for everyone who participated.. you gals ROCK!

Now gotta go work :)

Challenge Results!

  had so much fun with this challenge.. it got me back into my scrapbooking groove. I had every intention of doing a paper layout, BUT realized that a digital one, was actually for ME, more challenging because I don't do digital. SO I decided to do a digital one (oh and because I am a VERY messy scrapbooker and my scrapbooking room has to remain spotless while we try and sell our home and I didn't feel like cleaning up a big mess! LOL). I EVEN USED PHOTOSHOP.. AGAIN.. dude I am on a roll... 

Here is my layout as part of the challenge. (Leora's is posted first, then my scraplift)

 

OKay before I post the layouts...

I think I might have confused alot of you, with my post about how the winner will be chosen. What I am going to do is have Leora pick one of her OWN favorite layouts. One she has posted on her blog or her other online galleries. THEN who ever chose to scraplift that particular layout, Wins..

so there can be more than one winner.. does that make sense? Of course Leora has tons of layouts, so if someone didn't scrap-lift her favorite layout, I will have her keep picking her next favorite...until we have a winner (or winners). OH! and she is not allowed to look at blog until we have a winner.

Few! I have a easy way of making simple things seems hard! LOL

So here are the entries... I will post in the morning who the winner is! I am still waiting on ONE layout from Julee, who sent me an e-mail but with no attachment! Julee! Where are you??

First I will post the Leora's layout, then the scrap-lifted one! Here we go!

Marjorie from Hawaii:

Tammy Dixon:

Karena DiNicola

Janet Ohlsen

Vanessa Reyes:

Sara Schneider:

Shannon Stamp :

So there we have it! Still waiting on Julee's but give it UP for these fabulous ladies who participated.. I LOVE seeing what inspirations we gain from others layouts.. I need to scraplift more often! LOL

Ready for a Challange?

Okay, so I am a few days late.. well crazy week getting ready for CHA and getting our house on the market! But it's done.. listed tomorrow and tomorrow is the day the trucks leaves so everything is done (almost) and ready to go! Just a few things I might have to carry on the plane for CHA..

okay! So on for the challenge. Some of you may know.. but many of you don't, that my sister, won Creating Keepsakes HOF this year. Her names is Leora Sanford (isn't she cute?)   and seriously, one of the best digital scrapbookers I KNOW!  I was with her over the holiday weekend and she was showing me a ton of cool layouts she had just done and I was blown away.. just love digital! So I decided.. cause I love her so much and want to be just like her (she is one of my younger sisters by the way.. and has a twin..) that I wanted to do a scraplift challenge about her!

Leora's blog

If you want to join in the fun, pick a layouts of hers and scraplift it! It can be done digitally or using paper.. (I am excited to see how people incorporate the digital look into paper)! I want everyone to send their layouts to me, all weekend long and on Sunday night, I will post the originals and the scraplifts! I am going to randomly have Leora pick 2 of her favorite layouts and who ever scraplifted those, i will send some fun goodies!!  (she doesn't know I am doing this by the way! LOL).. She is really going to kill me.. but that's what big sisters are for.. :)

So here is the link to her blog. I hope this works, I got some instructions a while back and now I think I know how to do it right! LOL

and here are her two online galleries

Designer Digitals

TwoPeasinabucket

So! Jump on the fun, pick a layout and go! Here are the requirements again

1. Pick a layout of Leora's to scraplift (digitally or I would love to see it done in paper too!)

2. Send your layout to me at  christytomlinson@gmail.com and name what layout and from which site you scraplifted it from. Send it to me by Sunday night at 8:00 pm MST. I will then post them on my blog.

3. I will have Leora pick her 2 favorite layouts and who ever scraplifted those layouts, wins some great goodies! (if no one scraplifts the layouts she picks.. I will have her keep picking until we have some winners!).

Let's have some FUN! I am going to start. I will post here in a few! :)

okay, so a little behind...but I made a layout!

I am so behind on my blog, I know.. pictures of the reunion? What pictures. The problem is I have to re-size all of them to put them on here and you know the drill. Just haven't had time! LOL

I spent the weekend cleaning my house, getting ready for the Realtors to come this evening, seriously I mean cleaned EVERY nook, cranny, floorboard, tile, bathroom, window.. ahh. so exhausting and then found out they forgot and asked if they can come tomorrow night instead. Are you serious? Do you not know I have 6 kids? ...... What they don't realize is that after I spent the entire weekend cleaning, the only way to ensure it STAYED clean was to take my kids to spend the day at my SIL's house ( I had to go into work today to meet with the new person who they are considering to hire for my job position (loved her by the way..:)). Anyhow, didn't want my kids to undo in 2 seconds what had taken me 3 days to complete. So... after all that..well that's life I guess.

Okay, so enough talk about the house. I DID do something exciting this weekend though, I found these fabulous pictures on my computer of two of the most crazy people i work with. They are our sugar and spice at Chatterbox. They make life fun and make working at Chatterbox seriously like being a kid again. LOVE the two of them. So I found these pictures and made a digital layout of just the pictures and one line sentence that read.. it's this... I will miss,  and then printed it out and it  to work and gave each of them one. To let them know how much I will miss them...

So tonight, I made it into an actual digital layout, with brushes and doodles, and everything and I am SO proud of myself because I USED PHOTOSHOP! (see I usually use Microsoft PowerPoint to make my digital layouts.. yeah.. don't ask).

Which brings me to my challenge.. which i will post tomorrow night.. so check back.. but it's a FUN one! :)

okay, So here they are. The layout simply says.... It's this.... I will miss..Kenna and JQ

Love you..  you two freaks! :)

 

FHEW!

It feels good to just "breath" a little now! To be back home. I love the feeling of when you are leaving for a trip and the excitement and the feeling like.. I just need to get a way! But I love MORE the feeling when you are coming home from a long trip and when you see your house and think, YEAH! WE ARE HOME!!. Not to mention the fact our kids pretty much fought the last 3 hours of the 9 hour drive home!! (it doesn't usually take 9 hours but for some reason it did.. to many stops!LOL). All I heard was.. mom.. she's touching me.. mom he's looking at me.. you know how it goes :).

I have a ton of photo's I want to share with you all. But will post them later tonight. Iwent into the office yesterday (cried again...2.5 weeks and counting or something like that..but who's counting....) And was so happy to see everyone! I love going into the office. I swear I laugh so much there. Not that my kids don't make me smile.. but seriously I work with funny crazy people. We had a team meeting yesterday and I laughed through most of it!

Today, working from home, and am playing catch up to e-mails, doing my last PR letter and setting up appointments with magazines for CHA to show them our new product and introduce them to the "new girl" (or guy I guess) that will be taking my place. Don't know who that is yet.. but excited to meet "her/him". I think that will be fun! I can't wait for them to experience a "cbx" road trip. Well better get to work. I will post pictures of my trip later tonight.

oh!  And I want to do a challenge! are you ready?  it's a digital one....