Carlie Robertson (Close To My Heart), Megan Hoeppner (Creating Keepsakes), Karen Burniston (Sizzix), Me (Bella Blvd), Linda Barber (Lawn Fawn), Kristine Widtfeldt (Close To My Heart), Annette Hardy (Creating Keepsakes) I spend this past weekend teaching at CKU San Diego and had such a great time. It had been almost a year since the last time I've…

It's here! Everyday Storyteller 2 has arrived and is available to purchase. I am still so honored to have been asked to contribute to this new book, along with so many amazing designers. I've had a chance to browse through the pages, check out the topics and ideas, and see some gorgeous projects along the way.…

Welcome to the Everyday Storyteller 2 blog hop! Everyday Storyteller 2 is a brand new idea book offering more than 100 tips, tricks and techniques for scrapbooking. Go behind the scenes with 33 of your favorite memory keepers to see how they capture moments, tell stories and document their best memories. Sign up for the…

I thought I should probably peek in and say "hi", seeing as it's been a while since my last post. To be completely honest, it never even crossed my mind to blog last week. Usually, I feel guilty if I don't blog so many times a week. Last week wasn't one of those times. {My…

We are less than a month away from the launch party, taking place on May 3rd, for the release of Everyday Storyteller 2, which I am very excited to be a part of. Want to see more? If you'd like to take a peek at what's inside this new book, you can check out this sneak…

I keep thinking I should pop on here and share something with you all, but I realized that I really don't have anything to share right now. Bummer. The least I can do is give you a peek at two projects I'm finishing up, that I should be able to share soon.  I am mad at myself for…

We are back at it on the Bella Blvd blog this week, sharing more and more of our Winter CHA booth projects using the new collections and embellishments. Today we're sharing projects that showcased the new crochet hearts. Since we have limited amounts of the new products to work with for CHA projects, we don't always…

Does anyone have a clue how it's already the middle of December?!?! It's bad enough that I've been such a bad blogger this month, but I also feel like there should be some mention of Christmas on here. I don't even have a new Christmas project to share. This card is from years ago. Just…

I feel so bad that I just disappeared for the last week. I kind of, sort of, decided to take a break from a lot of things. I've been feeling very overwhelmed with work and life lately. I managed to get the important things done and in place, and then stepped back a bit from…

What seems like just a while ago, but was really over a year and a half ago, I shared a tutorial of sorts on how I photograph my projects. You can see it HERE. I knew that I didn't have much to share on my blog going into this week, so I thought I would…