Creative week!

With finals out of the way, I've had some time to be a bit creative. I almost began to wonder if I would ever get the time to scrapbook again. Thankfully, I did.

This layout is made using Close To My Heart products: Creative Basics Animal Cookies X5807, Tulip, Sunflower, & Dutch Blue Cardstock and Exclusive Inks, and Just for Boys C11338 Acrylix Stamp Set.

The pictures are of my husband and son changing the oil in the truck, I snuck out and took these pictures without them knowing what I was doing. They are defiantly priceless.




This next layout is also made of completely CTMH products: Daydream Level 2 Paper Packet X7108B, Just for Girls C1337, Magic Moments B1318 Acrylix stamp sets, Blush, Lilac Mist, Sweat leaf and Cream Brulee Cardstock and Exclusive Inks. The Words "Birthday Girl" were cut out using my George cartridge for my Cricut.

And this page is for my monthly calender, this is the June page and the pictures were from our camping trip a couple of weekends ago. Again all of the product is CTMH: Back Country Level 2 Paper Packet X7110B, Dimensional Elements In color-Adventure Z1158, Cooper brads, Outdoor Denim Cardstock. Also for the lettering "Camping" I used my George cartridge again.

I hope you enjoyed looking as much as I enjoyed my time of peace and quiet that I've been blessed with these past two days to sit and scrapbook.

Have a great day!

Your friend and Idea Central!

Amber Korn

An award!

Well I've been a tad bit behind this past couple of weeks. Between studying for finals, and keeping the kids busy now that summer is here. You all probably understand where I'm coming from. Well I have a few extra hours to myself this week, so I'm hoping that I can do some catching up. Today, I got a chance to up date my blog and to read comments and much to my surprise I received a blogger award. Thank you so much Jessica for the nomination.

The rules of the award (to pick up the Lemonade Stand Award): Comment on this blog. Cut and paste the award logo and use it in your own blog. Nominate 5 to 10 blogs you feel show great attitude and gratitude. Link to your nominees within your blog post. Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award. Link back to the person who gave you the award to show your appreciation.

Now I bet you are wondering who I passed my award nominations on to.

My first one is to Helen Onulak, I love checking out all of her awesome artwork and the inspiration she lends to be by it is wonderful. She is a fellow CTMH consultant and a member of my CTMH friends yahoo group.

Aother one is being sent to Susan Culotti - I also love her artwork and inspiration.

I also cannot leave out Adeline Brill - another member of my CTMH Friends Yahoo Group.

My next choice is Yvonne Wickenkamp, she is my upline and a wonderful person who gives me great support and helps me make the correct choices in my business and personal life.

And last but not least Kelly Triggs, whose website I love to go check out to see what exciting and new things she has designed.

Thank you to all of you who have inspired me in more ways than you can know.

Your friend and Idea Central,

Amber Korn

Teacher's gift!

Well it's officially Levi is no longer a Kindergartner, yes mommy had a break down this morning as I dropped him off for his last day of school. (I also caught it on camera.) I now have a first grader on my hands, where does the time go? It seems just like yesterday we picked him up from the hospital, now he's getting so big on me. I know it's just the beginning, but if I'm this upset over this stuff now, can you imagine how I'll be when he graduates from high school and then college. Oh that's a scary thought. LOL

This year we had a wonderful teacher her name was Ms. Bollinger, and believe me she had her hands full. Out of 22 students only 5 of them were girls, yes the rest were boys, and yes she does still have all of her hair left.

As a thank you for all of her hard work and time I made her this cute album as a thank you gift. I would love to take all of the credit but... I got the original concept from Kelly Triggs, she's a fellow CTMH consultant from Surprise, Arizona. (Click on her name to follow a link to her piece of artwork.) Her book was made using the new 3 ring binder that CTMH brought out in this summer's new idea book. Unfortunately I did not have one of this on hand but did have a product from Hobby Lobby that worked at just as well.

The paper packet is the Creative Basics Animal Cookies Collection and I added misc. cardstock that I had on hand in the colors of Topiary, Tulip, Sunflower, and Dutch Blue. Also, I used three different stamp set, Just for Boys for the "100% Guaranteed" stamp, Family Ties-Children for the two kids on the back of the front cover, and Say It In Style for the word collage for the inside of the back cover.

Outside cover:

Inside of front cover and first page:



Second and Third pages:


Fourth and Fifth pages:





Sixth and Seventh pages:


Eighth and Ninth pages:


Last page and back cover:


The words were all printed out using my computer and the poem on the inside cover reads as follows:

The school year’s finally over,
Many thanks for all you do
This gift will make it easy
To record it for review.

Choose your favorite photos
The ones you think are neat,
Just add a little adhesive,
Place your pictures, neat!

Add some special memories,
Of moments dear to you
Along with your cherished photos,
That’s all you need to do!

This album is my thank you,
I know how much you care,
I hope this will help you remember
A year beyond compare!

I hope you all enjoy!! And again I want to give a great big thank you to Kelly for her design without it I would still be trying to decide what to give my son's teacher.

Your friend and Idea central!

Amber Korn