Happy Valentine's Day

I hope you all had a great Valentine's Day.  My husband gave me a beautiful card and an Armani Code perfume gift box.  I left him a subtle hint by leaving my empty perfume bottle on his office desk. It worked, by golly!!

I'm having my first Close To My Heart card workshop on Saturday and I am so excited.  I know Saint Patrick's Day is the next holiday but we'll be doing a few Easter projects instead.  Here is what we'll be doing...

I have a question for all my scrappy friends.  When you are cutting, stamping and gluing, do you put things away as you use them? Or do you accumulate all your embellishments and markers and ink pads, stamps, ribbons and what not in front of you so that you only have a foot of space to do your work on? I am just curious if I'm the only unorganized crafter out there. 

With that said, I am going to try to reorganize my goodies so I can move on to the next project.  

See you next time! ;-)

Inside the Valentine

I realized after the weekend that the Valentine just looks like a flat Valentine where it really IS a card. Here is what the inside looks like.

I'm not really sure why it shows the black blur at the top of the pictures.  It has something to do with having taken the picture with my Tablet.

Whooo's Your Valentine

What a great Saturday it is today.  I slept late, sat around and read the paper, then crafted all afternoon. I guess everyone needs a lazy Saturday once in awhile.

My card this time reminds me of the boxes of Valentine chocolates. I used mostly CTMH stamps.  Whooo's Your Valentine was used around the ruffle of the heart and the sentiment.  I used the CTMH Cricut cartridge, "Artiste" to make the heart card and the little banner.  Stampin Up, "Perfectly Preserved" was used for the jar.  I used my little framelits to cut out the jar and lid.  I was experimenting with cutting fabric on my Cuddlebug and I am quite happy how it turned out.  It took a few tries, using shims to get it to finally cut through.  I glued the fabric onto cardstock which I had already cut out.  I used some Bamboo Waxy Flax for the string around the lid and bow. 

Here's wishing you a very lazy weekend!

CTMH Flirty

Can you help but be attracted to this title? Flirty is the name of the paper pack by CTMH that I used to create this card.   The sentiment was from the stamp sent "Say it in Style", CTMH and the stamp was CTMH "Just for You".  I love the flower with the individual petals.  I have been anxious to use this stamp. 

I really like the fact that this card can be used as a masculine as well as a feminine card.  The burlap ribbon is a fun accessory and goes so well with all the Flirty papers.

The new Spring/Summer Idea Book and Catalog is out now and has the cutest things in there. It's going to be hard to keep on my budget.  Curious? Come check it out.  grandmaplenty.ctmh.com

Close to My Heart

My first creation for 2013 is a combination of CTMH stamps that I have had but haven't used yet.  I need to make some birthday cards and I thought this one was cute.  Can you tell I am already thinking spring?

This card was made with CTMH "Dakota" paper.  The stamps were, "Rugged Dude, Every Day Life", "Bee Happy", and Smiles.  I used my Cricut to cut the little tag and used CTMH waxy flax to wrap it around the flower stem.  It was a fun card.  The card really is brighter than it looks. I used my new Tab to take the picture and haven't really figured it all out yet.  It is so much easier to use the Tab than our camera.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

When I first started my blog, I had all the intentions in the world to post something every day.  Since I was normally in my craft room daily, creating something, I figured I would have something to write about.  I started out good.... kind of like when you start a diet. I posted my pictures and wrote a little something about it.  Then I went a week without posting.  Then I went a month.  Now I think it has been two months.  So for one of my New Years resolutions, I am going to try to post something at least twice a month.  That certainly sounds doable.

Christmas is over and all the craziness.  Watching my grandson for Christmas vacation ends today so I should have absolutely no excuse not to be posting. 

I am not sure about my other card making peeps but I get tired of the same style of card.  I really enjoy special folded cards. That seems to give the card "oomph."  I do spend a lot of time checking out other blogs and the different card types.  My intention is to post as many different special folded cards as I can come up with.  If you have a suggestion, a tutorial to send me to, please leave me a comment so I can check it out.

Wishing you all a wonderful, prosperous, healthy, happy 2013.

Where has the year gone?

I can't believe it is almost the end of November already.  Its just so crazy that the older you get the quicker time flies.  I remember my mom telling me that years ago but I really had no idea how true that is.  I read a joke somewhere that age is like a roll of toilet paper.  The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.  That may not be exactly the words, but you get my drift. :-)

I don't even know where to begin since my last post.  I have done up some Christmas cards I would like to share with you. The summer went so fast that I hardly even remember what I did.  My grandkids are all back in school now so I expect after the Christmas Holiday things should slow down some.  I always seem to be able to find time to make a card or two. 

Okay, on to the cards...I totally didn't take any pictures of the birthday cards I made this summer and I am so bummed.  I really need to remember to do that.  Here are the Christmas cards I have been making.

These are all Close to My Heart cards.  The paper on the first two is Pear and Partridge. The burlap ribbon and the stamps are Close to My Heart.  The last picture is the stamp from the Pear and Partridge Card Workshop and the paper is Avonlea.  For those who are familiar with the the ornament stamp will probably notice that I stamped the big one upside down.  Yikes.

The stamp is from CTMH, the paper is from Basic Grey, Nordic Holiday 6 x 6 pad.

I don't own a Christmas wreath stamp so I used a a flower wreath stamp from Hot off the Press, Sweet Blossoms & Swirls. I colored it with Spectrum Noir markers and touched the little flowers with some red Smooch. The face of the card was embossed with the Cuddlebug Snowflake folder.

I love the triple stamped layered look.  My mother in law had one that she had gotten from a swap and I just had to try my hand at it.  The snowflakes are from multiple stamp packages.  I hand drew the ornament and colored it with Spectrum Noir markers and added some little Dazzle jewels from Hot Off The Press, Bitty Pearls from CTMH.

Close to My Heart stamps were used here.

I got this stamp in with my CardMakers magazine subscription. UK version. I used white liquid embroidery for the snow on the trees and ground, Stickles for the glitter and Spectrum Noir markers to color it in.

This ornaments stamp is CTMH October Stamp of the Month. The polka dot satin ribbon is also from CTMH. I believe the paper is from Basic Grey, Nordic Holiday.

I think I will end for the day.  Hopefully I will be back sooner than a month.  Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving day.