I’m traveling back to Idaho today with mixed feelings.  I’m looking forward to sleeping in my own bed again, a home-cooked meal, my sweet nephew (among other amazing family) but I sure am going to miss my friends and family here in California.  It’s always so wonderful to visit.

While I was here I attended a Valentine Crop at Paradise Scrapbook Boutique (a little bit of Heaven).

Yes, those are BLOSSOMS! Blossoms in FEBRUARY! Can you believe it? I still have six feet of snow in my front yard!

Beautiful, pink, lovely blossoms.

Look at the amazing goodies we received at the PSB Valentine Crop:

Karen always spoils us.  What an amazing woman!

I spent the whole day with good friends, a much-needed visit.  It was an added bonus to spend the day with my bloggie friend Char (who is fabulous)! We met in person for the first time at the PSB Crop. Check out Char’s Blog.  This woman is tal-en-ted!

And I got to visit with Devanie, I haven’t seen her in SO long. It was fun to catch  up.

In honor of Valentines day, I’ll share the simple Valentines I made while cropping (also shown above)…

This one is made with the candy cups:

Making Memories + K&Company =

This one has some sewn polka-dot ric-rac that I purchase while at Material Girls in Utah:

I used Pink Paislee rub-ons on this one. Quick and simple:

I hope you have a wonderful Valentines Day, as for me…I’ll be stuck in the car for 14 hours with my loved ones (hopefully we’ll still love each other when we reach our destination).

Feel the love!

xoxo, Christie

The first card:

The inside:

The second card:

The inside:

I have another busy week coming up…hopefully my work hours will go back to normal sometime soon and I’ll have more time to create and blog!

I have lots of projects to share…tons of Graphic 45 in the mix.

The new G45 papers are coming out soon.  I’ll post hints and sneak peeks here as I get them,  be sure to stop back by!

I’ve finally found a minute to post the K&Company Mini album that I created on National Scrapbook Day at Paradise Scrapbook Boutique.

When I arrived at PSB there were all sorts of inspiring goodies waiting for me at my table.  Inside my goodie bag was beautiful K&Company paper, a chipboard album, lace, ribbon, all sorts vintage dictionary and music paper, vintage wall paper, and tons of fun embellishments.  They’re so very generous up at PSB!

Needless to say, I felt inspired.  I couldn’t wait to get my hands on all my new goodies.

I ended up making a mini album using the chipboard album, paper and embellishments in my goodie bag.

Do you want to peek inside?

This post may get a little long…there are a lot of little details so there are a lot of photos.

The cover details (click on photos to enlarge them):

And the rest of the album:

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I’m teaching this “Sweet Indulgence” class this weekend at Paradise Scrapbbok Boutique.

I fell in love with this new K&Company paper the moment I laid eyes on it. When I went to the NSD crop in Paradise, I created a little mini album using the same line.  The gals at the crop liked the little album so I decided to use the same paper for my class layout.

Can you tell that I love chocolate?

What is your favorite treat?