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Some workshop prep peeks and projects that will be given away!

It's been a mad dash to get everything ready for leaving this Monday to head to CHA Winter 2012.  My youngest daughter and I are heading to sunny Anaheim a few days early so we can hit Disneyland!  Some quality time that I am so looking forward to!

I thought I would share some prep photos for the May Arts workshop featuring Basically Bare, GlueArts, The Rubber Cafe and 7Gypsies.  

Most workshops of 50 students take about 22 hours of prep time total so it is a lot of work to get prepared.  Let's get cutting.............. 

And I got a few hours last night in my craft room, which was a big deal as with all that I have had happening in my life I did not expect to etch out a few hours in any way.  These two items were made for the Basically Bare booth, and will be given away by Charity Wings for our charity collaboration on Sunday at 11:30am!  Tune into Live at CHA to see Elena and I hamming it up for the cameras!

Plus we will be auctioning off the Graphic45 Dress Form that I created for their booth for this show, its a new mannequin style that is just to die for!  I will show photos from the show, it is under wraps for reveal at the show!

Here are the projects that will be given away by Charity Wings that were personally created by me. 

And this one is for you Sherry Mendoza and Melody Ross

 

Thank you for stopping by!

Its time to feed the soul with art! Heading to CHA and new beginnings!

I am truly blessed to be a part of the craft industry and the people, companies and opportunities that I have had.  Each experience in my life has brought me to this point, to share and create art with others!

With this new year I have incredible plans for online classes, traveling to stores and so much more but first stop is CHA Winter 2012 and a few workshops!   Here is my schedule and where you can find me at the show...please stop me if you see me and say hi, the reason why I am here is YOU!

I could not do what I do without the incredible support of the manufacturers that provide us with the wonderful products we use to preserve our memories and create art with!  We will have special guests stopping into the classes and some filming so it is going to be exciting!

Saturday, January 28th  7-9pm
Basically Bare Workshop- Mixed Media Album
Sponsors: Basically Bare,  Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, The Rubber Cafe,  Bella Blvd, May Arts, Ranger, Kuretake and NEW SPONSOR: Hot Off The Press.

SPECIAL GUESTS:  Melissa Forsyth-Sampaga , Martha Richardson plus the Kuretake girls: Natalie Hackett and Buffy Thomas.

Monday, January 30  8-10am
May Arts Workshop- Mixed Media Album
Sponsors:  May Arts, Basically Bare, GlueArts, 7Gypsies, The Rubber Cafe, Ranger and NEW SPONSOR: Hot Off The Press

Monday, January 30  6:30-8:30pm
GlueArts Workshop- Mixed Media Album
Sponsors: GlueArts, Basically Bare, Vintage Street Market, May Arts, Ranger and NEW SPONSOR: Hot Off The Press.

Special Guests: Julia Sandvoss and Karen Ewing from Glue Arts.  We will be filming this class as well.



The album for this class is top secret, we are using products that literally just arrived at the doorstep of the offices of Vintage Street Market.  We will be using their full line of unique papers plus new goodies and hold it all together with the new FLIP Cartridge by Glue Arts!

Hope to see you there!

My need to inspire and the road that it has taken me on...

I am so ready to get back in the saddle and really pour my heart and soul into inspiring others.  My reasons for being in the craft industry is the PEOPLE.  The people that I get to meet online, meet in person, in classes, at shows and through heartfelt comments when I live my life in the public online.  

So enough of what has been happening, life is what it is and I look forward to moving on.  I am excited to get my passion back, to create and inspire others as much as they inspire me!  

With CHA around the corner, I can't wait to see old friends, make new friends and see all the incredible work that everyone creates.  I am always awestruck by the incredible talent of those around me and I am truly blessed to be a part of it all!

I hope to see you in a workshop or on the floor at the show, please stop and say hi if you do!  

Living The Altered Life,
Candy 

 

The road is taking a turn....painful and surreal but life nonetheless!

I just wanted to stop in and tell my friends and family that I love them, that I thank you for your support.  I am blessed to have each of you in my life, and that you have been here for me.  As in all of our lives, things change.  EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON and never do I ask why, I only ask to open the door to what is in the future so I can peek in.  I am fearful for the things I cannot control or change, but keeping strong in those things that I can!  

I only want to live, to find peace and to let be.  I deserve this in my life.  Be patient with me, as time is the only way to heal and my journey is long.

Thank you to the Brave Girls Club for another day of insprining and life strengthening words:

Dear Extraordinary Girl, If a sweet little tropical bird was ever dropped off in the Arctic, it would never survive. If an Arctic penguin were dropped in the Sahara desert, it would have an awful time surviving too. A palm tree would never make it on Mt. Everest and an orange tree would simply fail at growing oranges in the Rocky Mountains. WHY THEN, beautiful girl, do we think that we could ever thrive while trying to be someone we are not? And why do we think we could be happy trying to fit into places that are destructive for us? Obviously we are incredibly resilient, but why not look for the places where we would absolutely thrive? Some of us are outgoing, some of us are shy. Some of us are strong and assertive leaders, some of us lead quietly and by example. Some of us are visionaries and some of us are detail people. Some of us want to be in the spotlight, some of us would prefer to be in the background. Some of us like to go out, some of us like to stay home. Some of us love the city, some of us need the country. IT IS ALL GOOD. We all have a place, we are all important and we are all part of everything that is good and true. So much soul-deep sorrow can come from trying to be someone that we are not. Please find where you thrive and don’t let anyone talk you into staying in places that make you miserable, sweet friend. Please don’t think you ever have to apologize for being how you are, who you are and what you are.  You are a wonder, and you are SO very loved. xoxo

With much love,

Candy 

 

May Arts and Graphic45...Christmas Style!

Welcome to the first day of the blog hop with Graphic45 and May Arts AND DONT FORGET TODAY IS GIVEAWAY DAY at MAY ARTS!

 I got the opportunity to work with the beautiful Christmas Emporium paper collection and wanted to incorporate a fun way to add ribbon to a layout. 

I made the tree from May Arts ribbon, layered it on top of each other using Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Crafty Power Tape to hold it together.  I then cut the tree shape out! A ribbon sash on the upper left and its ready to go!  Well, not without some fussy cutting anyway!

 

GRAPHIC45 BLOGS TO VISIT TODAY!
Lynette Carroll - http://www.lynettecarrolldesigns.typepad.com/
Jane Tregenza - www.janetregenza.blogspot.com
JackandCat Curio - jackandcatcurio.blogspot.com

 

BE SURE TO VISIT Latrice Murphy for more May Arts and Graphic 45 Inspiration!
http://www.latricemurphy.blogspot.com 

 

 Be inspired all week with the Graphic45 and May Arts team blogs:

Tuesday, December 13th

Charlene Driggs- http://www.paperandinkplayground.com
Ellen Sosnoski- http://closeyourears.blogspot.com
Jen Shears- http://jenshearsdesigns.blogspot.com 

Melaine Forbes - www.melanie-forbes.blogspot.com
Laura Denison - www.followingthepapertrail.blogspot.com

Wednesday, December 14th

Jenifer Cowles- http://scrapbooking-n-more.comJingle- http://www.justjingle.blogspot.com

Robin Shakoor - http://robinshakoor.blogspot.com
Yuka Hino - http://nsnlso.blogspot.com/
Gloria Stengel - www.gloriascraps.blogspot.com

Thursday, December 15th

Jinky Kowalski -http://jinkycrafts.blogspot.com
Karen Baker- http://thebalddragonfly.blogspot.com
Britta Swiderski- http://brittaswiderski.com

Sherry Cheever - http://sherrycheever.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Hilde Janbroers - http://hildejanbroers.blogspot.com/

Friday, December 16th

Kimberly Jones- http://serendipityvintagestudio.blogspot.com
Peggy Cain- http://www.createwithbubbe.blogspot.com
Vera Yates- http://www.lingshappyplace.blogspot.com

Tara Orr - http://eachmoment-onlyonce.blogspot.com
Nancy Wethington - http://art-from-the-heart.typepad.com
Nicole Eccles - www.NicoleEccles.blogspot.com

 

 Happy Holidays to everyone! 

Dear Son....

You are now on deployment, I did not get to hear your voice before you left but I am so grateful to have seen you, your beautiful wife and my two beautiful grandbabies this past Thanksgiving, I would have been very lost if I had not got to see you before you went.

This is always a very hard time for me, you are somewhere that I cannot get to you if you need me.  I cannot control the rest of the world, heck...I cannot even control my world.  But one thing is constant and that is my love for you. 

Son, I love you so very much...I am very proud of you as a father, husband and son and I will be thinking of you every single moment until you get your feet back on US Soil!  Now your wife and girls are closer to us while you are gone and I will do what I can to take care of them for you.

Your sister, Mariah is still waving the flag for you in the front of our home!

 

Love you so very much, be safe!

Mommy

Just Steampunk...a ton of eye candy! No pun intended!

Congratulations to so many of you including some I am honored to call friends in the latest SPECIAL ISSUE by Scott Publications..."Just Steampunk!"  

 

See the rest of this one in the publication!
This 18" mannequin is covered in a number of mediums and products to create the mixed media look.  Ranger: Perfect Pearls, Claudia Hellmuth Medium; Steampunk Set by Candy Rosenberg at The Rubber Cafe;  Basically Bare: corrugated gear;  Imaginarium Designs: laser cut gears and alpha; May Arts ribbon; Prima foliage; Graphic 45: Steampunk Debutante; Candi: legless brads; Copic Markers;  Gauche Alchemy: punchinella

There is a lot of fun and steampunky projects in this issue!

 

Living The Altered Life,
Candy 

Yep, I had a little time to create! These babies are in the mail to Peddlers Den!

I love working with Tonya from Peddlers Den in Illinois!!  She sends me some goodies now and again to make some projects for her store.  I love these kind of projects because when they arrive they will be available to hold and touch and not just here in a photograph!  I hope if you are in the area you stop by!

Some FabScraps love:

Tonya knows me well, she sent a great canvas, some wonderful Canvas Corp paper and a wood laser cut tree.. what shall I make?  Can you tell I am in a bit of a home decor mode due to just recently moving?

Thank you for stopping by!

The First of Three CHA Winter Workshops Announced!

Ok, first of all, I know that you may be a little taken aback.  Candy is NOT doing vintage, you ask? That is right, I am revealing a little known secret! I have loved Bella Blvd since the first CHA I went to.  They were one of my top 3 and I think most of you know who the other two are! lol

So here is the official announcement:

I have been working hard on upcoming CHA Winter Workshops!   The first one I have to share is our Basically Bare, Bella Blvd and GlueArts sponsored workshop, along with co-sponsor May Arts!

 

 

This will be a fun class that includes the CHA Launch of the baby version of the "Timeless Tabs" album, appropriately called "Tiny Tabs" from Basically Bare.

Registration is not yet open, so keep an eye out on the CHA Website to be one of the 50 spots in this class!  And keep an eye out for the other two workshops, they are coming!!!  I am working these fingers to the bone, here!!!

I used an entire package of 3D Foam Squares on this one!

Did you see the blog hop with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L and Graphic45?  I could not resist using an ENTIRE PACKAGE of 3D Foam Squares on this layout.  That's kind of how I roll, or should I say STICK!

So I have a little confession to make.  I am in the middle of moving and have to move from a very large studio to a small bedroom, this is temporary while we wait for escrow to close on our house.  This is temporary but nonetheless, there are deadlines for projects.  I was sitting in my room with boxes all around me, and could barely find the basics.  Scissors, paper, adhesive, distress ink, blending tool and pen.  

After some searching, and a big mess, I gathered the basics.  That is all that I had to work with.  If you know me, you know that I dont use many embellishments unless I can make them out of paper. 

Using the new Graphic45 ABC Primer collection, beautiful May Arts ribbon, laser cut fence from Imaginarium Designs, twine, distress ink and blender, copic pen and nothing else...I created a little story:

 

 

I wanted a sewn look but of course, do not know where the sewing machine is at this moment so I resorted to some twine carefully tied around the cut and dimensional frame.  Then topped it with a tag.

The fence actually sits off the page an inch and is held with Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, 3D Foam Squares.

 

Be sure to stop by Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L and Graphic45's blog for the second week of the blog hop!

 

Living The Altered Life,
Candy