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Sorry for the lack of posting I have Pink Eye OUCH!!!!

 So I thought I had a reaction to working with alcohol inks on PETG. I ended up having my eyes swell up and feel like glass was in them after working with alcohol inks. I was sure it was a reaction but it did not go away just kept getting wors. So after a few small problems with doctors, I finally was seen today and yes as i thought Pink eye now I get to take steroids to get rid of the infection so fun i tell you. I hope to see btter soon this was the first time I could even look at the screen long enough to post.

On a lighter note the storm missed us, but guess what my parents asked if they could have my princess this weekend just in case. I said sure i did not want her in a storm and my eyes really hurt bad. They live in Vero Beach Florida where the eye of the storm just passed a few hours ago. I think next time I will keep her safe with me. i have been a nervous wreck all day. I want to go get her tomorrow but the weather might still be to poor to go get her.

Hopefully the sun will come out tomorrow so i can get my baby.

Have a scrappy day

Michelle

I have a secret and I have too wait a few more days to tell it.....

 I am so excited and get to formally announce my secret soon but not yet. I have some great teaching opportunities coming up in the near future. I also have a mound of projects I am working on and my desk is over flowing with creativity. I will start showing sneak peeks of new classes very shortly. I am planning on working on one of the tattered angels beautiful chipboard albums. I also see a princess castle in my future. I am teaching this weekend at
Strawberry Fields scrapbook shop in fort meyers. I would love for everyone to join me. This is my summer days album. I love creating projects that use so many handmade embellishments. So even transperancies are hand made.
Here is a sneek peek
of the project there are few other pages on my website.
Hope to see you there
Have a Scrappy Day
Michelle IMG_9231-1

LIVE CHAT TONIGHT THE WHOLE ULTIMATE SCRAPBOOK CRUISE CREW...


Donna had this on her blog:

Live Chat tonight 9:00 pm eastern

S o jazzed about the ultimate cruise! SUN, SAND, party boats, LOTS of food, exclusive classes with incredibly talented, creative and fun people! OK so tonight...LIVE CHAT!! how fun is that? all the teachers and the students and curious minds getting ready for the fun!! the chat will start at 9PM (est) and we will all be there: jim west, margie romney-aslett, heidi swapp, karen russell, michelle van etten and theresa collins so come stop by too!

Also checkout my new website new kits added daily in the trendy boutique

www.trendyscrapperllc.com

Have a Scrappy Day

Michelle

All I Can Say is WOW I hope you are Going.....

Yesterday I was part of one of the most dynamic and productive meeting of the Minds. The crew from the Ulimate Scrapbook Cruise: Donna Downey,Heidi Swapp, Karen Russel, Teresa Collins,and Jim West had a 2 hour long pow wow. I can not tell you all the things discussed, but all I can say is this is one cruise you will not want to miss. As a teaser I will tell you the girls are going to create all exclusive projects. Yes you heard it right, we will break the mold afterwards. Plus super cool collaboration project. Oh my the list goes on and on. I am attaching Jims Post because he really explains it best. I am so excited to be a part of the cruise that will be talked about for years to come.

Hello everyone!

Jims Post Today:

 On Scrap Maps My head is reeling after an incredible “pow-wow” with the teachers on our Ultimate Scrapbooking Cruise-Heidi Swapp, Donna Downey, Teresa Collins, Michelle Van Etten, Karen Russell and Margie Romney-Aslett. OMG, if you are not onboard this cruise, you are totally going to be missing the best scrapbooking event to happen in many, many years!

  All of the teachers are going to be providing all kinds of “exclusive” projects just for our group. There will be video demo previews to all their CHA releases and samples for the show, some exciting photo tip sessions-one at sunrise and one during sunset when the ship is sailing, a hybrid project that each of the teachers will be part of, not to mention the really fun projects each teacher is going to be teaching in their class.

 We are getting closer and closer each day to our magic number of 200 participants, which means we will be giving away a grand prize of a brand new car or $10,000 in cash, if we hit that mark!!!!!!!

  There are other great giveaways that include 2 spots to the Creative Escape, 2 spots to Donna’s “inspired,” 1 free 9-week online photographer’s workshop with Karen, 2-free spots on the 2010 Ultimate Scrapbooking Cruise in the Mexican Riviera and much more!!!!!

  We are currently working on a “private” shore excursion in the Grand Cayman where anyone in our group who wants to participate, can join us as we go snorkeling, scuba diving, and sailing on our own private yacht! A full day of fun in the sun with everyone, including our teachers!

 We finalized so many things during our 2-hour telephone conference call (Heidi was in China and the rest of us were scattered all over the U.S.) We all knew this cruise was going to be something special, and after all the brainstorming we did, we all were bouncing off the walls with excitement.

  I promise you, the industry will be buzzing about this cruise when we all get home and start telling everyone. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to sail in the extraordinary Caribbean during the freezing cold month of January, work on projects and learn from some of today’s greatest scrapbooking teachers, have a chance to win some of the greatest prizes ever to be offered during a scrapbooking event and be pampered beyond your wildest dreams on a brand new cruise ship!

 We have been given 75 more spaces to sell on this cruise by the cruise line, so don’t delay, call our office and grab one of them before they are all sold out!!

I am Chatting tonight at 9:30 www.wescrap.com

Hi come join me for chat at the international scrapbook association website.

Hope to see you there

Have a Scrappy Day

Michelle

I am actually going to be a student for a change.

Patty Debowski, founder of TheDigitalScrapbookTeacher.com, is an accomplished traditional scrapbooker of more than 30 years. After seeing a beautiful digital layout in a magazine, Patty tried to find a digital scrapbooking book or class for Photoshop Elements, with no luck. Without any graphic arts training herself, trying to learn to digi-scrap was almost impossible and required endless hours of surfing the web and reading all of the traditional computer books that didn’t deal with scrapbooking. Unable to find anywhere that she could learn digital scrapbooking with Photoshop Elements, she volunteered to teach a class with a friend at her local Adult Education school. Along the way, Patty discovered many frustrated scrappers who loved buying the beautiful magazines with the great digital scrapbooking pages, but who wanted a book that would explain exactly how to get the same results. Patty is currently teaching Digital & Hybrid Scrapbooking & Card-Making classes at community colleges in Southern California. In her spare time, she enjoys creating hybrid scrapbooks and cards for her family and friends because she loves the ease of digital scrapbooking and the “lumpy bumpy” extras that traditional embellishments add to her cards and scrapbooks.

I am here but super crazy Busy...

 Ok so right before CHA i decided I needed a website. So on top of creating mad samples for the show,I started working with a web designer on my sight. I have to say my web designer rocks. i love what she has done with my sight. I have so many things I want to add. we are talking about a virtual classroom and some other fun and exciting additions. So with great satisfaction here is my website.

www.trendyscrapperllc.com

I am also considering video posting as that seems so much easier and samples can come alive.

I have been absent because my last post was for my samples for tattered Angels and I am sad to say UPS lost them. I have been a little sad about coming on here and seeing my daughters Christmas clock. The pictures are originals and i do not have duplicates of some. I hope my mom does.

So as you all know as a co creator of the Build-a-Book Cha was exciting and we received tons of good press. Trisha and I had 37 new pieces released into our ever growing family. I have 2 favorites the gradual and my butterfly. I also Love the minis and all the chipboard window pages ok so I lied I Love everything. If you took our class the instructions are up on the blog.Buuterflyforblog

MALIA

James I hope to check in more often i am on overload. My little boy though doing better is having a few set backs. wish me luck and pray for us.

Ok so for now I leave you with my post. i will try to add pics after it goes live so i do not loose my post.

Have a Scrapppy Day

Michelle

Sneek peek Monday Tattered Angels....


So a few days ago I finished the whole post and then during publish to web, I got an error message from Microsoft and there went my post. So with this fresh in my mind I am going to load in stages. The last few weeks have been crazy. I have been working around the clock. I still have 7 albums to create lots of fun I tell you. Today sneak peek is for TA. I created a bunch of fun projects. If you would like to know more about the pictures please email me. I am just going to upload the pictures.The second set of pics is a mirror I did for my daughters room. the glimmer chips were sprayed to have marbleized look. the snowman mini book was sprayed with multiple colors and than I added glitter to the image. The last is a paintables project I created this whole piece using the glimmer mist as paints. The best way to do this is to get a small painters pallet and squirt your colors in the pallet and began to layer your colors.I hope you enjoy the sneak peek I am off to work on more samples.Stay tuned for tomorrows reveal. The trendy studio has been alive with action.

Have a Scrappy Day

Michelle


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Sorry for my bad blogging everyone here has been sick....

  Ok no real excuses just super busy and house full including myself of sick people. My little girl is getting over Bronchitus. So sad to see such a free spirit angel barely able to talk. I have been creating though for those of you going to the paper and co show you will love the classes. I have this little sneak peak of the my little dude album just a little teaser.

Sneekpeek

 I am also working on a couple of event samples. My newest clear album will be done by the end of the weekend. This one is called summer fun for me that means the beach or aquarium so my pics will be of that but for you it could mean anything you want it to.

Finalizing my schedule for the next few months but so far looks like this create samples for the booth Prima booth,create more samples for the booth Prima booth upto 30 plus depending on what shows up here and yes you guessed it even more samples for other booths. I have been asked to create items for Accu-cut booth and of course Tattered angels

Paintables class on the 13th of July Scraptopia

CHA the 16th-20th

North Carolina girls vacation with friends I have not seen in over 2 years some even more. We all lived in Pensacola together. No work all play for a whole weekend 24th-28th

August 2nd teach paintables at My Scrapbook Shoppe in the morning same day in evening teach paintables class at Strawberry Fields and than summer days album on Sunday the 3rd

Back to my scrapbook Shoppe to take class from Pattty the digital scrapbook teacher I am so excited.

August 8-9 open but possibly I will be in Dallas teaching

August 15-16 convention in Daytona

August 22-23 open

August 29-30 CPR Creative Photography retreat and class at Picture me perfect

Wow when I write it all down it seems like alot. Ilove teaching so this is more fun than work. I can do without all the planes but what can I say I love to travel.

I will be placing the classes up on my blog as soon as they are designed and if you would like a kit let me know.

I better get to bed we are going to the aquarium tomorrow for a day of fish and fun.

I hope everyone has a great Saturday and a scrappy day

Michelle

Exciting News if you are going on the Ultimate Scrapbook Cruise you could sail for free!!!!!!!!

Please tell them Michelle Van Etten informed you of this amazing deal.
Have a Scrappy Day
Michelle
the ULTIMATE promotion!!!!!!!!!!!
All of you who are signed up on the Ultimate Scrapbooking Cruise, you are not going to believe this!!! We have just discovered that the cruise line will offer us a FREE CRUISE for every six, full paying passengers who sign up in the month of June. And we are passing this savings directly onto all of you.

Here’s the scoop:
You must already be signed up on this cruise to qualify for this promotion. If you bring in six full paying participants, they are giving to you your accommodations (based on what kind of cabin your friends book), port charges, taxes, fuel costs and meals. All of this is based on double occupancy and INCLUDES ALL THE SCRAPBOOKING CLASSES AND EVENTS!!

This does not apply to existing reservations and is only valid in the month of June. If you have any questions, please call Jaci or myself.

I love this promotion, and I think there is a great opportunity to go for free! Be creative and think of ways you can spread the word. If you are a shop owner, you have all kinds of opportunities to spread the word. If you attend expos or conventions, you can hand out flyers with your name on it and tell people to mention you when they sign up. Go for it, what have you go to loose, right? How you promote this to get your FREE CRUISE is ultimately up to you!

Ok so this week is crazy busy. I will post the details tomorrow.

Wish me luck and come sail away with me.

Have a Scrappy Day

Michelle

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