The Girlfriends Club

V-Blog #92 - Jo's Easter Card

In this week's video Jo shows you how to make the most ADORABLE Easter card and she gives you a bunch of GREAT techniques too (I love what she does with crepe paper).

The winner of last week's drawing is:

Renee said...

Love it...I'm totally gonna do this : )

Send your mailing address to donna@thegirlfriendsclub.net. Congrats!!!

V-Blog #91 - Jo's Baby Shower Present

This week Jo shares the most amazing baby shower present... and it is a totally FRUGAL project which makes it even better!!! We love the way that she made the flowes, and yes... Donna is totally "borrowing" this technique to use with her Crafty Chronicle!

The Winner of Last week's prizes are:

Valentine Goodies (picked from the blog) = Vickie Lee said... Welcome back! Sure have missed you girls. Love your projects and you always make me smile!

Smooch Spritz (picked from youtube) = tarotwisdom said... Great to see you all again..loved watching your video..the glue outtake really cracked me up lol.

Congrats!!! e-mail your mailing address to donna@thegirlfriendsclub.net

Thanks for watching!

V-Blog # 90 - HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

In today's video we share some of our favorite Valentine projects. Leah shares a Valentine layout for her family, Donna shows you her mini-workshop projects with her new EASY PEASY flowers (Donna used Spun Sugar, Pink Sprinkles and Vanilla Shimmer on the flowers), and Jo is going to make a shaker box card from a box that had Valentine chocolates in it (picture coming soon).

Donna's mini-workshop is in San Diego at Scrapbook Your Life TOMORROW! Call the store to get signed up at 619-298-7871.

Donna also mentioned her classes next weekend, February 20th at Pages From the Heart in Monrovia. You can call the store to get signed up at 626-358-5334.

Leave a comment to be entered into the drawing for the two separate prizes, the Smooch and the Valentines goodies. The winners will be announced with our next video post.

Thanks for watching!

Donna's new Distrezz-it-all

Sorry for being away so long! We will be filming next weekend but here is a video to hold you over until then. :)

Thanks for watching!

Another live chat!

Sorry for the radio silence! We are all three prepping for CHA and haven't had time to film together. But... to make it up to you all, we are hosting another live chat on Monday night at 6:00 pm on www.ustream.com. Just login on the site to participate in the chat. Leah will have more info on her blog and facebook page.

We will be showing Donna's brand new products and our chatters will be the first to see some of the projects that she has made with them! Leah & Johanna will be hosting the video from Leah's Scrapbook room and Donna will be joining in from her studio.

We will be recording this broadcast because we have a project for you and  want you to be able to go back and view it again later.

We will have prizes to give away again... and yes... we know that some of you are owed some Smoochie goodness and Donna will be shipping really soon... promise. She has been going on little or no sleep every night in prep for the show so she needs your grace right now.

**EDITED** Forgot to mention that the newsletter is postponed to February... SORRY!!!

Hope to see you there!!!

A slight delay...

Hello friends. As many of you know, we have our free quarterly newsletter coming up. Our release date WAS supposed to be January 1st but since Donna is the one writing it and Donna is not done designing her new product that will be released at the next CHA show... we have to postpone the release by a couple weeks. We can hear the collective "Awwwww". But not to fret! This next newsletter is going to be awesome!!!

THE GOOD NEWS FOR YOU...

GOOD NEWS #1: If you haven't submitted a photo for the "Comfort" contest... you have a couple weeks to get something done! Take a photo of a project (old or new) that either literally says "comfort" or it represents "comfort" to you. Send the photo to donna@thegirlfriendsclub.net with the subject line "comfort". Each of the girlfriends (Leah, Johanna & Donna) will pick their favorite submission to be featured in the 1st Qtr. 2010 newsletter and the three winners will each get a prize from the "girlfriend" who chose them (i.e. Leah's pick gets a prize from Leah, Donna's pick gets a prize from Donna, Johanna's pick gets a prize from... Donna probably... lol) You get the picture.

GOOD NEWS #2: You also still have time to get your friends and family to join the free subscription and you will be entered into the drawing for this prize:

Just have them send an e-mail to donna@thegirlfriendsclub.net  with the subject line: "youremail" sent me (so it looks like this... "donna@donnasalazar.com sent me"). You get entered into the contest, they get subscribbed to the free newsletter and everyone is happy!!! We have one person who is the definite leader at this moment (Nancy Matos) but it could change... You have 2 weeks!

Get the word out for your chance to win!!!

Happy New Year and thanks for watching! Leah, Johanna & Donna

V-Blog # 89 Part 1 and Part 2 (with a montage)

Sorry this is getting posted so late tonight! Please enjoy our special final Candy Cane Friday videos in 2 parts. This week we share tips for your giftwrapping. To purchase the die cut flowers shown in today's video, go to www.donnasalazar.com. 

Part 1

Part 2

Thanks for watching and Merry Christmas to all!!!

Live Chat CHANGE!!!

REMINDER!

We ran into a conflict for our Friday night live chat at www.ustream.com. We have re-scheduled the chat for 6 pm Pacific on Saturday. Just login on the site and search for "The Girlfriends Club". We will have prizes from Making Memories AND Smooch Spritz!!! You don't want to miss it!

See you there!

V-Blog #88 - Candy Cane Friday #3

Hello everyone.  Today is our 3^rd week of Candy Cane Friday tutorials. Today we are showing tips and techniques for Holiday Gifts.  We begin with Samantha's cute little bread and recipe present using Pink Persimmon Recipe stamps. You can win the Pink Persimmon prize by going to Samantha's blog HERE.

Johanna shows us some great ideas for quick and easy handmade gifts. One of her projects is a doggie treat bag:

Here's the recipe for the treats

• 1 cup oatmeal
• 1 cup oatmeal ground up in food processor
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 egg
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 1/2 cup finely chopped turkey jerky
• 1/4 cup molasses
• 2 cups finely grated carrots
• Mix everything together. Add more broth or flour if needed.
• Roll out and cut with cookie cutter.
• Bake at 350 deg for 10 minutes. Turn off heat then let sit in oven till treats are hard.

Here is the topper: Download Dog Treat Topper

Here's the link for the stocking pattern at graphic 45:  http://g45papers.typepad.com/graphic45/2009/09/christmas-stocking-project.html

 

Donna give you a quick peek at the 8x8 binder calendar. You can purchase the Project sheet on the Girlfriends University page for just $2.00.

We will be hosting a LIVE chat tonight (Friday, December 11^th) at 6:00 pm. You can catch the link from our facebook updates or go directly to www.ustream.com and search for “The Girlfriends Club”. You will need to set up a login with your e-mail address and a password. Once you are logged in you will be able to participate in the chat. It only takes a few moments but you may want to do it ahead of time so you can jump right in!

Last week we gave away these prizes in the chat:

This week Clearsnap donated our prizes! We will be giving away 12 bottles of SMOOCH SPRITZ! These will be packed in twos so there will be 6 prizes given away:

The winner of Pinecone Press’ Fancy Pants “Options” Kit from last week’s video is from a comment left on the blog…

Patty C said...

Such cute ideas! I love that you each have very different styles ... so there is a little something for everyone!

Congrats Patty! Just send your mailing address to donna@thegirlfriendsclub.net.

Thanks for watching!

V-blog #87 - Candy Cane Friday week 2

 

Welcome to week 2 of Candy Cane Fridays. Today we are discussing Home Décor. There is nothing like getting your house all spruced up for the holidays to usher in the holiday spirit.

Jo shares  a tip from her pizza pan Christmas Countdown calendar (the instructions for this project are available for purchase for ONLY $1 on the Girlfriends Website HERE.

Donna shows you how to create a wall hanging out of Ranger Memory Glass, UTEE, cardboard and her dictionary scallops. This will be a project sheet that will be available next week, also for ONLY $1.

Leah shows us how to make a paper roll frame from your holiday paper scraps.

And our special guest, Samantha, shows you how to make rosettes from crepe paper. Thank you for joining us Samantha!!!

The winner of the Pinecone Press Christmas “Options” kit from last week’s video was taken from a comment on our blog:

Tona said...

Thanks for doing a another great video full of wonderful tips. I loved all of your cards!

Send your mailing address to donna@thegirlfriendsclub.net and she will send out your prize.

Don’t forget that we will be hosting a live “chat” on Facebook. If you would like to join in the fun you will need to be a Facebook “friend” of Donna’s. Just send a friend request to Donna.Escuadro.Salazar. We will begin the chat at 6:00 pm Pacific Time (comments section beneath the video post)

We are hoping to have our newest feature, VIDEO CLASSES, available this weekend. If all goes well and the technology gremlins stay far, far away... we will have one class loaded this weekend and one class loaded next weekend.

Thanks for watching!