W-I-N

One last post for today. As you know, I spent 3 days last week at a retreat for my team (CPR-see posts from last few days). I had to leave for a few hours on Friday night because I just could not miss my son, Tannon's football game. While I was gone I was texting everyone at the retreat sharing the 'play-by-play' of the game. We ended up winning 49-9. Tannon threw 3 TD's and rushed for one. WOO HOO! Everyone at the retreat shared in my excitement. In fact, after the 4th TD, they texted me this photo of several of them spelling out "W-I-N" (come on, be creative. You can see it!). Hillarious, don't you think? I LOVE my Close To My Heart team!

Speaking of football, this was a week of ups and downs. As I mentioned, Tannon's team (Lone Peak) beat Hillcrest 49-9. That was an up. Dawson's team lost 8-7 to Maple Mountain. That was a down. We are hoping for two 'ups' this week! Tannon and the Knights play Alta (#2 in the state last week) tonight at their field. After our win last week we went up to #4. YIKES! No pressure at all. I'm scrrd (said like a rapper). Dawson and his team play Pleasant Grove tomorrow. GO PEDERSENS!Dawson during the Maple Mountain game. He was workin' up a sweat!

Tannon vs. Riverton 2 weeks ago, avoiding a sack

It's in the bag!

The doctor's bag that is! Lynette made these darling doctor bags filled with pills (M&M's) for our Create and Prosper Retreat (CPR) last week. SO stinkin' cute! You rock, Lynette!

More CPR...

Had to share more CPR fun and art (don't know what CPR is? Check yesterday's post!). Enjoy!

Layout created by Tracy M. for a class she is teaching soon. She used the 'Jingle' Kit (X7115B) and 'On Target' Dimensional Elements (Z1226), and from Close To My Heart:
Mini-pizza box created by yours truly. I used paper from the 'Jingle' Creative Basics pack (X5808), one of the awesome chipboard snowflakes from our 'Flurry' Dimensional Elements (Z1225) and a darling pattern and tutorial that you can find here.:

Layout created by Carey C. She used the oh so popular Twitterpated pack and added some real feathers to her owls for a detailed touch.

Layout created by Carma H. Carma used a pack of paper called Seredipity that is no longer available for purchase. Darn! It's sure pretty though, isn't it?:
Workin' and playin' at CPR

I feel safe in saying that a good time was had by all! Gosh I love my job! Click here to order from my website 24/7...even at CPR!

C(reate) & P(rosper) R(etreat)

I'm home! What a week it was last week. It was beyond crazy but it was all so much fun and so worth it. That said, there is no place like home!

One of the many things I did last week was co-host a retreat (CPR) for my Close To My Heart team with my buddy, Lynette (see Thursday's post called "I'll Be Back"). CPR stood for "Create and Prosper Retreat" and boy did we create! Hopefully after all of the classes, sharing and discussions we had we will all be able to use that information to help us prosper even more in our businesses. The first two photos on this post are our group picture (minus Carey C who had to leave early. You are in the photo in my heart, Carey!) and one of Lynette and I (of course Lynette had her Mt. Dew in hand. Otherwise, how could she have stayed up until 2:30 am scrappin' on Friday night?). You can kind of get a glimpse of our DARLING CPR shirt in the photo of Lynette and I. We got black scrubs for everyone with a cute heart and stethoscope and our Create and Prosper Retreat theme. So darn cute!

Here is a photo of Lynette teaching a photography class. As you can see in the photo, we did not run short on treats and munchies at the retreat in any way, shape or form! Lynette and I split up the teaching responsibilities. We each taught 2 creative classes and 2-3 business classes.
I wanted to share some photos of artwork with you from the retreat. I thought you'd enjoy being there vicariously.

First I thought I'd share a few cards that were brought for a swap at the retreat. They are all awesome! You can click on any photo to see it larger.

Carma H's card (front and inside view):

Maria V's card:

Susann E's card

Heather J's card
Carey C's card

All of their creations were made using Close To My Heart products.

Next I'd like to share two beautiful layouts that were made by my partner in crime, Lynette. She taught these layouts as a class at the retreat and everyone loved them. They both feature the new "Grace" kit in the Autumn/Winter Idea Book (pgs. 16-19)as well as the matching MyStickease and the On Target Dimensional Elements (Z1226, pg94) which happen to be one of my favorite new accessory items. Woo Hoo, Lynette! Beeeee-autiful work, my dear! Both layouts were made using patterns from Close To My Heart's awesome how-to scrapbooking books, Cherish and Imagine (both on page 6).
Lynette also generously provided a packet for each attendee to make this darling 'heart beat' layout to fill with pictures of our retreat. It went perfectly with the CPR theme.

I also taught 2 creative classes. One was the Christmas Card Workshop that I will also be doing with my customers on October 20. You can see photos of that by clicking here. The other is a workshop for our All Sorts Mini-Album (Z1224, pg. 96) and using my fave; the "Jingle" kit (X7115A, X7115B, and X7115C, pages 8-11). I am offering this workshop to my customers on November 17 at either 10 am or 7 pm.

Page one (front cover):

Pages two and three:

Pages four and five:

Pages six and seven:

Pages eight and nine:

Pages ten and eleven:

Page twelve (back cover):

There is so much more I could share, but I think I'll stop here. I hope you had fun hearing and seeing about our CPR! It was wonderful but I am happy to be home.

I'll be back...

I'm on my way to my team retreat this weekend (Thurs, Fri, and Sat). I won't be posting for a few days (probably not until Monday) but wanted you to know I will miss you all while 9 of my Close To My Heart team members and I are having fun learning, creating and enjoying each other. You are welcome to join my CTMH team and have fun at the retreat with us next year!

I just had to share a little bit. My friend and downline, Lynette and I (shown in the photo above while scrappin' together on an Alaskan Cruise we both earned with Close To My Heart several years ago) are hosting this retreat together. Lynette had the brilliant idea a few months ago when we were in the planning stages of making our theme "CPR." She and I put our heads together and came up with lots of fun classes with names that sounded medical (but are really CTMH and scrappin' related) and decided that CPR would stand for "Create and Prosper Retreat." Perfect since the next three days will be full of business classes and creative classes for our attendees.

So have fun in your lives while I am getting some serious CPR! I'll be back... (said like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator) and I'll have lots of fun photos and details about our CPR to share.