My bit of Joy to share... with of course a giveaway!

It is official...

I can now announce that I will be joining the staff of Tattered Angels. I have thoroughly enjoyed teaching and designing for them and now I will thoroughly enjoy working for them! I have been hired by Tattered Angels to be their Education Coordinator. I will be assisting the team with all things educational and also helping to develop and stream line educational system for them that will insure that no matter where you are or who you are being taught by, you will get the same educational experience.

This being said, you will notice some changes in my blog... I will no longer be an Endorsed Educator for Prima Marketing Inc. I have enjoyed my time with Prima and am excited with where their team is headed, but with this new position I need to readjust my priorities and make it a point to give my full attention to this new position. I will finish off the remainder of my contract and teach Prima classes through the end of June. I will continue to design for Bad Girls kits and SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L as I really do enjoy having a creative outlet to retreat too!

So with my good news, I want to pass along an RAK or giveaway to celebrate!!!

I will randomly pick a winner for TWO prizes:

First prize being a set of 5 one ounce bottles of GLIMMER MIST in a variety of colors. For this prize I will randomly pic a winner from anyone who posts a comment to any thread on my blog from today till friday (midnight PST). I will announce the winner Monday Morning after I tally the comments and pic a random winner.

The Second will be a BIG assortment of my Prima goodies. (acrylic album, lace, flowers, bling, the works!). This prize will be randomly picked from my subscribers list, so if you are a subscriber, you are already entered! If not, just sign up to the right and you will be entered into the rak. For all subscribers, you will get updates when I post something new on my blog and if I do any RAK's or have any information of manufacturers releases or RAK's than you will be the first to know! I will pick a random winner on Saturday so you will need to be a subscriber by friday at midnight (PST) to qualify. I will post the winner on monday when I post the other winner.

So you can see where my heart was on monday when I did my previous post. I just cannot express enough just how important it is to be confident in who you are and what your purpose is. I know that I may not always be doing what it is I am doing now, but I do know that regardless of where I am or what I am doing, that it is purposeful and that it is in the hands fo God. I would much rather be yanked away from doing something I love than to be going against his purpose for me. And even if you are not sure just what your purpose is at this moment, just have peace in what it is you are doing right now, when the time is right... it will find you! It may not always be what we WANT it to be, but it will always be what we need it to be at the right time!

Thanks for all of you love and support through the years! Here is to new adventures and new friends to be made along the way!

~liz

Seriously CK?!?!?!?!!

So I was on the CKMB today and followed a link to their new blog. They had all of these fun videos from CHA, and one of them had my project in it!!!! It was for SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L ( I LOVE THEIR STUFF!!!!!) and sweet Karen even mentioned that it was MY PROJECT!!!! I am so excited!!! Creating Keepsakes has been such a huge part of my scrapbooking experience, their community and their site have kept my creative juices flowing!

Here is the link to the video!!! SO COOL!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4lOhGcq0ko&eurl=http://creatingkeepsakesblog.com/&feature=player_embedded

FREE PRE CHA CLASS FOR RETAILERS!!!

Classes with Brand New Prima products Prima is offering one FREE class using our BRAND NEW products to every store that signs up! You must have a Brick and Mortar store or a web based store (Consumer sites like Etsy and eBay do not qualify). If you aren't a store owner... Get the word to your local store owner! You don't want them to miss out on this!!! Classes will be taught by Adrienne Looman, Prima Design Team member, PrimaDonna endorsed teacher & author of The Doodle Formula, Donna Salazar, PrimaDonna endorsed teacher / Program coordinator & published artist, and Elizabeth Hicks, PrimaDonna endorsed teacher. Each store may send one representative to one class absolutely FREE! Stores may attend additional classes or send a second representative for $30 per student/class. BUT... Every store in attendance will receive the step by step instructions and a list of supplies needed for ALL THREE CLASSES! Photos of these classes will be sent out in the coming weeks. Seats are available on a first come, first served basis. Sign-ups will be taken via e-mail ONLY. Send your store information and the name of your representative to donna@primamarketinginc.com. Please indicate the class date and time that you prefer.

Liz's class sneak peek:

Donna's class sneak peek:

Adrienne's class sneak peek:

We will be posting more photos of the projects a little closer to CHA!

Thursday, January 22nd:

10:00 - 12:00 Liz Hicks

1:00 - 3:00 Donna Salazar

4:00 - 6:00 Adrienne Looman

Friday, January 23rd:

10:00 - 12:00 Liz Hicks

1:00 - 3:00 Donna Salazar

4:00 - 6:00 Adrienne Looman

Classes will be held in our new classroom at our warehouse:

Prima Marketing, Inc.

5564 Edison Ave.

Chino, CA 91710

We are also offering a FREE Prima Hybrid class on Saturday. This class will be taught by none other than Josie & Sally, the Iron Orchid Design sisters. You will be making hybrid projects and learning how to teach Retail Friendly Hybrid classes at your stores. Some of the Prima endorsed teachers "PrimaDonnas" will be attending class. This would be a great time to schedule an "expert" to come and teach a class at your store! Each store may send one representative to one of the time slots below absolutely FREE! Stores may send an additional representative for $30 per student/class. Step by step instructions and supplies needed will be provided to each attendee. Photos of the Hybrid projects will be sent in the coming weeks. Seats are available on a first come, first served basis. Sign-ups will be taken via e-mail ONLY. Send your store information and the name of your representative to donna@primamarketinginc.com. Please indicate the time slot that you prefer.

Saturday, January 23rd

10:00 to 1:00 - Josie Celio

2:00 to 5:00 - Josie Celio

Classes will be held in our new classroom at our warehouse:

Prima Marketing, Inc.

5564 Edison Ave.

Chino, CA 91710

Please note... You may attend one of the Hybrid class sessions in addition to one of the classes offered on Thursday or Friday at no charge.

PLUS... We are having a warehouse sale too! We are making room for our 2009 products!

50% off product from 2007 or earlier

30% off product from 2008!

Take advantage of these dramatic savings on these fabulous vintage Prima items.

You can bring your crew to shop while you take the class!!!
Prima has never before offered such DEEP DISCOUNTS! Don't miss out.
**Sale applies to items in stock at the time of purchase. No backorders will be generated during this sale**
Sale dates:January 22nd to January 24th

Take advantage of these reduced prices and fill your shelves with product released just months ago!

For more info on any of these great Prima promotions, please email Donna @ donna@primamarketinginc.com .

See you there!

~Liz

My new classmates... and an RAK~

After stuggling with carrying my bottles of Prima's all over So cal, I have decided to adopt my good friend and fellow Primadonna Donna Salazar's buffet style flower assortment. I am not sure exactly how she does it, but through talking to her about how heavy my boxes of flowers were getting (I just added about 50 more containers!) she recommended I split them up. So now my little friends live in a cute bucket with similar colors. I think there are 15 or so buckets in total one for each color, plus grey black and white, collage flowers in bright and light, patterned flowers and leaves. I still have the rest of the flowers seprated by colors in gallon size zip lock bags to keeps these puppies filled! I am so excited, these buckets are sooooo much lighter than my box of bottles and paint tubes. I could seriously hold all of these with one hand if I needed too!

So get ready to play...this is going to be a fun holiday season full of gifts from the heart!!!

Also, I am going to film my tutorials this weekend. I intended to do them earlier in the month but due to health issues and the fires (we were not directly effected by the fires, but the smoke came at us from 3 different directions causing us all to get sick, again) I have to postpone them to this weekend.

Lastly, post to this thread for a seriously random RAK for a baggie full of flowers from my stash! You have till the end of the month, I will be posting the winners for the month on December 1st.

Thanks again!!!

~Liz

RAK updates... WINNERS!

Well this week has been rockin' with winners! Last week I did a seriously random draw ( I did a random.org draw from email addies) for a prize and it was So cal scraps Grace who won!!! Grace was so kind to call someone to let me into the crop a few weeks back too! It just goes to show that good things happen to good people!

This week over onthe Primadonna blog, another So Cal Scrap girls won!!! This week it was Kristi B!!!! She won a set of 3 stamps. This weeks topic is all on Bling, so they will be giving away Bling as well! Check it out here~

Also have you taken a browse at the new Tattered Angels website???

It is totally amazing and to top it off, they are featuring one of my favorite glimmer buds Joe from Strictly Scrapbooking this month!!! To catch up with Joe check out his site, and check out the Tattered Angels site under featured artist. Here is there amazingly generous giveaway this month.

That is a whole lot of Glimmer Mist!!! Also they have my tutorial for Glimmer Glaze as a print up under the tattered idea tablet, so check it out!

Phew! I am tired just typing this!!!

Alright, I am off to bed, check out the sites and let me know what you think!

XOXO

Liz

This weekend...

First off let me start by saying that I think blogger is out to get me. I have tried uploading these pics a particular order, and well it decided to stall (three times) and mix the pics up a bit. Oh well, it works.

So... This weekend was the Fiska-Frenzy Fiskateer event. It was AMAZING! I had so much fun reconnecting with old friends and making some new ones. Being that I was on a "girls" day, with no kids, I took total advantage. Here me and Steph were hanging out (I know seriously cheesy pun, but I had too!) I sat next to Donna and Steph and we had a little "flower fun" of our own. Here is our table as we did an amazing project designed my Candace Carpenter (a new friend!). Candace was seated next to me and even though she was up teaching and I had all of her space to plop my stuff down (she was seated to my right here) some how I guess... my supplies made their way over to Donna's space (she was sitting to my left). My dear friend Laurie was seated across from me, and was a total life saver! together my table rallied to help me finish my ATC's.

Ok, so here is where the post pics went south. This should have been the last pic, but oh well! This past friday, my oldest son lost his first tooth. He has waited for such a long time, and finally he has a gap to stick his tongue through! The tooth fairy had a tough time finding him, as he was spending the weekend at Grandma and Grandpa's house. He had forgotten his pillow, so when he came home and had his own pillow to sleep with, she found him and left some glitter from her wings on his bedding.

Here is the happy fellow showing us his new grill. Oh, and that is Sawyer in the background holding his brand new Pikachu up. Apparently Pikachu likes to pose for pics and must be in everyone.

lastly... Here are the Primadonna's posing with Captain Chad. I would love to introduce to you all the newest addition to the team Jennifer Priest (far right). She comes to the Primadonna Program from hemet Ca. and has an amazing talent and giving heart. The four of us took this opportunity to leave our mark (I brought along some flowers and foam mount squares) on Captain Chad. He was strutting his nice purple flower. Doesn't he look smashing in purple?

Well here it is, some of the pics from my weekend. Believe me there are so many more, I just haven't had a chance to look at them all yet.

Have a great week, and I am sure I will post more pics this week!

bellissimo donne...

(like my Italian?) For all of my Italian friends, this weekend my bud Michelle Van Etten is rockin' Rome with two great classes. She is a fellow Primadonna and member of the Tattered Angels design team and one of the designers of Fire and Ice designs (creator of the build a book). Here is a sneak peak of the cover of one of her classes, the other is a paintable with glimmer mist, gotta love that!

Check out the Primadonna blog for her class descriptions, you won't want to miss them!!!

Ciao~

Liz

Introducing...

PLAYTIME WITH LIZ

(make sure to turn off my tunes at the bottom first, I learned that the hard way!)

Snazzy new intro, New Flip camera, and a head full of ideas.

Look for Playtime with Liz...

Coming Soon!

A BIG THANK YOU to Josie from Iron Orchid Designs for creating this wonderful intro for me!!!

More FREE Stuff...

Over at the Primadonna's blog! Every week we will be posting tips on a variety of of products that work well with Prima products and some techniques that will maximize the versatility of your Prima product. This week, we are talking about adhesives and what works with a variety of Prima products including The new Build A Book Line of clear albums.

To kick off our tips and techniques Tuesdays, There is an RAK! A cute little adhesive caddy and adhesives from Scrapbook Adhesives. All you have to do is leave a post to this thread over at the Primadonna blog!

Nothing like free adhesive in the morning!

~Liz