Creating Keepsakes Magazine
Scrapbooker of the Year Finalist
Trip to Las Vegas
emma & me
the morning we left for vegas
Scrapbooker of the Year Finalist
Trip to Las Vegas
I'm sure I have told most everyone I know by now, that I was thrilled to be chosen as one of Creating Keepsakes Magazine's Scrapbooker of the Year top 10 finalists. To enter the contest, I submitted 20 scrapbook layouts and an essay describing my perfect day. And since "making" top 10 we each designed a make & take, wrote an article proposal with artwork, had a phone interview with three CK editors, and a few other little things. Wow!!! On September 18th they flew all of the top 10 girls out to Las Vegas for three days at Memory Trends, as a congratulations & to announce this year's "Scrapbooker of the Year".
It was an amazing trip. They put us up in a suite at the Venetian, an truly elegant hotel. We were treated like queens!!! Stan was able to get a few days off (and believe me, he really got a good razz from the guys at work about taking time off for scrapbooking)!!! I had the opportunity of getting to know each of the top 10 girls before Vegas... so we felt like old friends when we arrived! Each one of these amazing women has so much talent, I felt blessed to be among them! On Wednesday, September 19th Creating Keepsakes crowned Elizabeth Kartchner this year's Scrapbooker of the Year!!! Yeah Liz!!!
I am so grateful to have had this opportunity of a lifetime!!! Woohoo!!!
It was an amazing trip. They put us up in a suite at the Venetian, an truly elegant hotel. We were treated like queens!!! Stan was able to get a few days off (and believe me, he really got a good razz from the guys at work about taking time off for scrapbooking)!!! I had the opportunity of getting to know each of the top 10 girls before Vegas... so we felt like old friends when we arrived! Each one of these amazing women has so much talent, I felt blessed to be among them! On Wednesday, September 19th Creating Keepsakes crowned Elizabeth Kartchner this year's Scrapbooker of the Year!!! Yeah Liz!!!
I am so grateful to have had this opportunity of a lifetime!!! Woohoo!!!
emma & methe morning we left for vegas
torrey & methe morning we left for vegas
stan & meon one of the outside decks of the venetian
(thanks liz for taking this picture of us!!!)
me with liz kartchnercreating keepsakes' new scrapbooker of the year!!!
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top ten finalists
at the memory trends trade show
las vegas, nevada
all of the "top ten" girls just before the announcement banquet
stan & methis is the check-in lobby at the venetian
"the husbands"liz's husband (collin), ingunn's husband (jk), my husband (stan)
stan was such a great sport! he wandered around the memory trends scrapbooking trade show for three days taking pictures, and hanging out. it sounds pretty silly, but this was one of my favorite parts of the trip. i felt so blessed to have such an amazing guy, who is so supportive there with me!!! go navy for letting him off the hook for a few days!!!
my ckmb friendsleslie, me, liz & annie
measuring up to ali edwards
c.d. muckosky, me & ali edwards
me & lisa bearnson(founding editor of creating keepsakes magazine)
the outside of the venetian
just part of the inside of the venetian hotel!!!this area is a mall with restaurants (stan & i ate at the restaurant across the canal in this picture... YUM!!!) the canal runs through this area of the hotel, complete with gondolas with singing gondola drivers!
