The Big Oh-Two

It feels unreal to me that my baby is turning 2. Seemingly overnight she has become a real person, walking around, making demands, blowing kisses and melting hearts.  I am fiercely proud to be her mother and I am terrified that she's going to grow up too fast.  It's true what they say: the days are long but the years are short.  

Are they ever.  

She'll only turn two once, so naturally we are throwing a birthday party for her.  And naturally, I am making the goody bags.  I grossly underestimated how much time I had to complete this project, however.   I ordered enough of our new Lagoon treat bags for all of the kids; cut a couple of images out on the Cricut; and stamped the sentiments I had in mind.  I was all ready to assemble!  And then I got the tracking uodate.  I hadn't ordered the bags in time.  They won't be here until next Wednesday (grrrr). 

I had 12 of our Slate treat bags on hand but alas, I needed 16!  I thought about using some clear bags I have in my stash but I hated that the items inside the bag were visible.  The colors clashed with my artwork.  And then I thought, maybe I could get white store-bought bags and stamp on them with our Geometric Backgrounds stamp in Slate ink.  Felt ambitious, but doable.  

So that's what I did.  I love how they came out!

I know what some people might think:  all this for something people are going to throw away?!  But when you're a paper crafter, you get it.    

The Artistic Adventure Has Begun!

CTMH Convention 2014 is well underway!  Follow me on Facebook for constant photos and updates.  

www.facebook.com/bescrapalicious

Say Hello to CTMH's Newest Manager (Ahem. That's me!)

Yes. Me.  

Yesterday, my very talented and crafty cousin, Raquel, took advantage of our amazing Cricut Bundle give-away for new consultants and signed up to be the newest member of Team Scrapalicious.  Rocky makes us a family of 9 (5 of whom are my first "downline") and that, my friends, allowed me to achieve my long-term goal of promoting from a Supervisor to a Manager.   Needless to say, I am thrilled.  Giddy, even!

I'm up for a higher earnings potential.  I get to attend Leadership Day at Convention in June. Team Scrapalicious will be recognized by CTMH's corporate office.  And best of all, I get the opportunity to lead these scrapalicious women to the next level of scrappiness.

I am so grateful for CTMH and for Jen, Kristyn, Rocky, Annemarie, Deirdre, Jenn, Randi and Pennie.  Thank you for hanging your hats with Team Scrapalicious!

Team Scrapalicious Is on Fire!

Things have been hectic since we added another human to the Oden household but I am so thrilled to be coming out of my blogging hiatus to welcome Annemarie and Deirdre to Team Scrapalicious!  Deirdre joined earlier this year and Annemarie just joined today.

We are now eight women strong and the most scrapalicious we've ever been.  And while it's always a good time to join CTMH, Annemarie is a super lucky duck because she joined during one of our best campaigns and got a CTMH Cricut cartridge of her choice for FREE.  (I know!)  Just for deciding to make her dreams come true.  

You too can be so lucky.  Click on the picture!  

Stay scrappy, my friends.  

Get Your Bundle On!

Get excited!  In the spirit of the season, I've bundled some of your favorite products together and discounted them for you.  I'm offering these amazing savings for the entire month of December.  Take advantage and save on gifts for your crafty friends and family or give this flyer to the "Santa" in your life for gift ideas for YOU! 

Holiday Bundles 

Bundled just for you by Nikki Oden

Your Close To My Heart Consultant

Basic Starter Kit Bundle

• Stamp Scrubber
• Spritz Cleaner
• Block Starter Kit

Regular retail price: $42.51

Fabulous Holiday Bundle price:  $37.00 and get a FREE 1 x 1 Block!

Adhesive Bundle

•  Tombow Mono Adhesive
• Memory Book Glue Dots
• Memory Book Mini Glue Dots
• Bonding Memories Glue
• Bonding Memories Glue Pen
• 3-D Foam Tape

Regular retail price: $43.37

Fabulous Holiday Bundle price:  $38.00 and get a FREE Rub and Remove Eraser!

Tool Kit Bundle

• VersaMat
• Sponge Daubers
• Ruler
• Corner Rounder
• Scallop Border Punch
• 1 ¼ Circle Punch

Regular retail price: $76.95

Fabulous Holiday Bundle price:  $70.00 and get a FREE Piercing Tool Kit!

Embossing Bundle

• Craft Heater
• VersaMark
• Clear Detail Embossing Powder
• Silver Embossing Powder
• Gold Embossing Powder  

Regular retail price:  $59.22

Fabulous Holiday Bundle price:  $52 and get 50% off any Mini Pigment Inks Pad Set!

* The fine print:  Valid ONLY with Nikki Oden.  Not valid online.  Must call, email or text to redeem offer.

Artbooking Made Easy: Christmas Layouts

I love Artbooking.  And I love these layouts.  I'll teach this as a class if I have enough takers!

Happy Halloween!

My Spooky Fun Halloween workshops were a blast!  I even had a request to create Cricut layout kits for every holiday going forward because they're so fun and easy to out together.  Sounds good to me!

As you can imagine, many of the Cricut cuts yielded leftover scraps that I just couldn't throw away.  So I didn't!  I made cards instead.  Aren't they cute?

Happy Halloween!