SNEAK PEEKS galore.... What we've seen thus far!!!

We've seen three sets of SNEAK PEEKS of the brand new scrapbooking and paper crafting line, Anthology by Lisa Bearnson.  Here are the beautiful peeks we've been drooling over so far.

D-Ring albums

Such a TEASE!

Beautiful cardstocks...

Twine, labels, and SO much more!

A magnetic enclosure....

This charm hangs from the cream faux leather BAG that is EXCLUSIVE to the ANTHOLOGY CEO kit!!!  You will be seeing this converted into a NECKLACE by myself!

BEAUTIFUL book-style storage...

... with embellishments GALORE!

Recipe cards offer ideas

Create 20 adorable cards...

The Hangin' Around Card Kit! 

The Make 'n' Shake Card Kit

   We have been so EXCITED about the LAUNCH which is expected in only a couple of weeks.... we also learned last week that there will be THREE, yes 3, KITS PER MONTH!!!!!!  And ONE of those kits will be a CARD kit!  Yes, card makers, Lisa has been creating kits for YOU as well!  
    BTW, if you want to get the Make 'n' Shake Card Kit, you will want to purchase the Anthology CEO KIT, as it is one of the CEO kit EXCLUSIVES!!!
   Tomorrow is Thursday, which means MORE SNEAK PEEKS!  Every MONDAY & THURSDAY will find me drooling over the newest SNEAK PEEKS until LAUNCH!!!  
     If you would like to purchase Anthology products at WHOLESALE prices, please contact me at www.facebook.com/groups/AnthologywithDaleRoseStream  , or call me at (231) 845-2906  and I can have YOU signed up as a Preferred Customer for FREE, or as a Distributor for only $25,  within mere minutes! 

SNEAK PEEKS of ANTHOLOGY by LISA BEARNSON are rolling in!!!

   We were given our FIRST SNEAK PEEKS yesterday, and LISA shared A LOT MORE today during our MEMORY KEEPING CALL/WEBINAR, which you can watch by following the link below: 
          

      TODAY'S call ARCHIVED at:    http://www.youngevity.com/index.cfm/call-archives/memory-keeping-call-archive/
                

   

      

 

Kit tease....

 

      My little heart is getting a work out this week, with all the EXCITEMENT about the upcoming LAUNCH!!!!!!  Be sure to join my ANTHOLOGY FB page:  

          www.facebook.com/groups/ANTHOLOGYwithDaleRoseStream

And also put your name down for interest in PRODUCT updates, by going to the FILES tab on that page, then into DOCUMENTS to add your name to the various lists (FOLLOWING ALBUMS 2015, FOLLOWING SCRAPBOOK KITS 2015, FOLLOWING CARD KITS, etc.).

       Email me at scrapstreams@yahoo.com or call me at 231-845-2906 and ask me how YOU can have your own FREE company replicated STORE, which is active within 24-48 hours of your signing up as a $25 Distributor or CEO of your own business!

EXTRA Valentine's Day treats & Studio Update

  This year I received EXTRA Valentine's Day treats....a 3 Birds & HSN delivery!  This shipment contained the newest 3 Birds Estate Collection piece, their Estate Collection Doily Elegant Card Kit & Claudine Hellmuth's chipboard kit.  The doily card kit is GORGEOUS & I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE all the PURPLES & PINKS used in this kit, along with the 3 dimensional embellishments....they've even included TWINE!  I've been waiting to try this new medium....yey! 
     Claudine launched her first series of products on HSN recently, and of course, I HAD to try it!  The chipboard embellishments are contained within an adorable ICE CREAM TRUCK!  As I quickly sorted through the HUNDREDS of pieces in this kit, I quickly imagined several pages that I can create utilizing these adorable pieces.  In fact, I wish I had several of them to use on layouts I recently created.
     Both the permanent packaging & the shipping packaging of these two kits is AWESOME, some of the best I've seen in a long time!

          Now for my Scrap Studio update:  My new studio wall is becoming dusty lavender!  This is the first base coat with the second coat to be applied later this afternoon.  I hope to be able to stencil tomorrow.  I'll have to see if I'm happy with the colors first.  I didn't want to use too dark a shade since it's in the basement & I only have one window to supply any natural light.  That window isn't even on this side of the basement, so I dream of one day having a large fire-easement window installed, or maybe even two of them.
      Uh-oh...Michael just discovered that with some color on the wall, we can now see that the drywall seams need to be re-mudded.  The drywall is contoured along the edges & so he needs to make up for that.  I guess we should have gone with the non-rounded drywall.  Live & learn.  He thought that his seams were nice & smooth.  They were pretty smooth, but you couldn't see the wave in the wall before there was any color added.  Take 2.

Valentine's Day activities & goodies

  Valentine's Day was a busy one for me, as I was asked to come into Wesley's classroom to make another project with his class.  I used my Cricut Expression 2 to cut Valentine's Day card bases & embellishments.

Once we got home following the Valentine's Day party, I started on a special dinner, consisting of Bacon Blast Pizza & chocolate-dipped bacon!No, I didn't come up with the chocolate-dipped bacon idea first....although we've joked about it before. I actually saw it being done on the Nate show that morning.  Granted, I didn't make the type of chocolate that they made on the show; I used the milk chocolate mixture that we use in my chocolate fountain...Michael & I had nearly the same reaction to it.  Michael said "it's a waste of good bacon", but I said "it's a waste of good chocolate!"

My Studio wall is closer to being complete...& Wesley is a 3 Birds & Teresa Collins scrapbooking product user & fan!

     A few more pics of the ongoing upgrade to my studio.....      




  




 
     Now, for Wesley's Valentine's Day gift projects.  Wesley has ALWAYS loved to craft & scrapbook, & getting 3 Birds shipments is always a GREAT day!
      Wesley made his teacher's card with...of course...3 Birds supplies, which HE SPECIFICALLY ASKED FOR!  He has GREAT taste!  Since I couldn't find a heart-shape in the new Honey of a Card kit, I tried altering the shape of one of them...it worked pretty well, so WE USED TWO! 

      I received my Signature Series Teresa Collins book in the mail yesterday & I later discovered that Wesley finished his teacher's gift using ....wait for it....TERESA COLLINS scrapbooking supplies! I told him who made them & that we HAD to take a picture of it with her book! I always take pics of his gift projects, but this one needed extra photos!

Our son is VERY creative & has GREAT TASTE in scrapbooking & paper crafting supplies!

The new 3 Birds Doily Card Kit is posted! YEY!

  I just checked HSN (for about the 4th time today...I tend to stalk it whenever I hear of a crafting show being scheduled) and the new 3 BIRDS DOILY CARD KIT is posted!  Woo hoo!
  I LOVE the peak of purple florals, as well as cute kitties & puppies! 

Newest project, using the new Best of New Year's kit...

          The following layout was completed using the new kit which I had just received a few hours earlier...that's how excited I was to use this kit!

                I used A LOT of products from various 3 Birds kits which coordinate with the color scheme of the kit & photos.  Here's the list:
                Pattern papers, teal cardstock, cards (one of which was cut in half & used as a photo mat),  "Happy New Year", "Goodbye....
Hello....", "Ringing in the New Year", "Goals & Plans" & Black and Silver Tinsels: Best of New Year's kit;  Blue Felt Flourish:  ExScrapaganza;  Black & Teal glittered photo corners: Bling Stack;  Teal corner flourish & calendar rub-ons: Kind of a Big Deal;  Teal border: Super Sticker Nestables;  "Prepare to be Amazed" & "You've Got Style" rub-ons: Quote Me On That;  Teal glittered bracket & "Lookin' Good": Bling Extreme.
                Wow, that was a lot of different kits represented!  Because I scrap both by theme & color, I knew I could find lots of teal goodies in my teal 3 Birds stash!
                 I'm off to play some more with my newest kits, working prior products in whenever possible...I'm trying to be more generous with my HUGE stash of pretty products, getting them 'out of the NEST' and onto my pages, & learning to layer, layer, layer...the style I feel myself drawn to more & more....probably from my love of Victorian Decor.
                 Scrap on!

My Birthday Crop...let's try this again...

          I spent over an hour working on this last night, giving up at around 12:30 am.  After all the frustration of my pics not posting, I now discover that NONE of it was saved/posted.  Another learning experience I guess. haha
          I was lucky enough to have my best bud, my niece Sarah, join me again for an overnight SCRAPBOOKING PARTE'!  A bonus this year was the 1st overnight & crafting visit of my sister-in-law, Deb.
          For the past few years, Michael & Wesley have been going to stay with Grandma Stream, leaving the house free for my girls' weekend.  The only male lucky enough to hang with us was our cat Rusty.  Myself, Sarah, Deb, Dakota, Smoke & our kitten Squirrel all enjoyed our 'girl time', without the loud, masculine influences (& interruptions) of Michael & Wesley!
          We started out our weekend with a trip into town to develop Sarah's film (from a disposable camera) from her son Brandon's horrible accident last Halloween.  She thought that she would be able to look at and work with the photos by now....after trying to scrap them, she realized that she wasn't quite ready yet.
          During our wait for the film to be developed, we enjoyed an inexpensive treat of lunch at Mancino's.  From there we checked out Dollar General for some decorative boxes that Sarah & Deb had been seeing, as well as a trip into Peeble's for nice work shirts for Sarah's new teaching position.  We then visited Grandma Veerman & Aunt Annetta, discussing our girly plans for future play dates, including a possible overnighter at Grandma Veerman's beautiful, large home, before returning to my home to start crafting.