Roxybonds Creates

Well, I'm on my way to D I S N E Y W O R L D for the 2013 Close To My Heart Convention!  While I'm away, I have some artwork, team gifts, specials and more to share with you!!  Stay tuned HERE to my blog for daily postings.  If you want LIVE UPDATES on Convention happenings, NEW product announcements and PICTURES--- *Follow me on Facebook:  http://facebook.com/roxybondsctmh *Follow me on Twitter:  http://twitter.com/roxybonds You won't want to miss out....   Last week I had a class that made scrapbook layouts with DREAM POP!   Here are some of the layouts we created: This one uses base pages from the Dakota Paper Pack .  I added a pennant banner at the top of the left page and strip journaling. This layout is for my niece's album (slowly plugging along through her first year!).  I added stamped flowers from Hello Blooms, Perfect Fit Frames and Monogram E.   This layout was inspired by one I saw on Pinterest HERE. ...

Teacher Appreciation Week has never really meant much to me, as a teacher, unfortunately.  I have worked at a Middle School for 12 years, so it's never been a big deal.  We've had the occasional treat from an administrator, or luncheon put on by parent club, but that's it. Now that I'm a PARENT of a school aged child- Teacher Appreciation Week has become important to me!  I could go on and on about how amazing my son's teacher(s) are, about how ALL teachers are amazing.  The bottom line is, they play a HUGE role in shaping a child's life- academically, emotionally and socially.  In fact, teacher's spend more time with our kids, than we do.  Teachers are overworked, underpaid and unappreciated!  I know this FIRST HAND!  So I do what I can to show my appreciation for my kids' teachers :) My son is in First Grade this year :)  Early in the year, we got a list of the teacher's favorite things.  This has come in handy :)  The best ...

My brother and his lovely wife are finally making me an AUNT!!!!  I'm over the moon excited!  I love babies, but I am DONE creating my own.  I cannot wait to love on, squeeze, kiss, snuggle and SPOIL their baby!  They are having a baby girl too :)  My mom and I threw them a couples/family shower and it was my job to create decorations for the shower.  I took it upon myself to create some gifts as well.  The theme we went with was Baby Carriages, in their colors:  Grey, Pink and White. JOURNAL:  I used an older CTMH Journal, Dotty For You papers, Sweet Leaf Ribbon, Friendship Alphabet and Polka Dot Alphabet. EMILY BANNER:  I cut the Baby Carriages  with the Graphically Speaking Cricut Cartridge.  I used Posterboard Alphabet for the letters. EMILY BLOCKS:  This is by far my favorite of all the things I created!  I used the CTMH 3x3 My Creations chipboard blocks and created the fronts using a variety of CT...