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Welcome to the Close To My Heart Stamp of the Month Blog Hop for February All artwork on the hop will feature February's Friendship, a set of 8 stamps! If you have come here from Laurie's Blog you are on the right path. This month we have  about 70 CTMH Consultants sharing their SOTM creations, and other great CTMH artwork. Hopping along is fun and simple to do - just click the link at the end of each blogger's post to move to the next one!  Be sure to leave some love (comments) along the way :) Today I have 2 projects I want to share with you :) The first is a card that I created as a Make-n-Take for my Open House which was yesterday.  This card features one of our new Paper Packs:  Sophia.  I just love the pink and green colors here!  I used a pattern from Wishes-   .  The sentiment from February's Friendship SOTM was popped up.  I used one of the damask type images to create a small ...

I truly adore this beautiful new, very girlie paper pack from CTMH:  Sophia!  Available starting February 1st (that's TUESDAY!!!), this paper pack has the ultimate girlie colors of Hollyhock, Blush, Goldrush and Pear.  It goes perfectly with my darling Allie's room (pink and green) so I have a few decor projects on my to do list with it! I created this layout for a challenge with the SNS group   Supplies: All CTMH unless noted Sophia Level 2 Kraft Color Ready Borders Wings Stamps Spray Pen/ glimmer mist Tulip & Cotton Candy Ink Lots happening this week: Sunday 1/30- Idea Book Open House @ my home, 1-3pm Monday 1/31- February Stamp of the Month Blog Hop Tuesday 2/1- Spring/Summer Idea Book goes live!  Tuesday 2/1---2/15-- Online Idea Book Kickoff specials- make sure you are on my mailing list to get the special invitaion!!! Sunday 2/6-- Superbowl Blog Hop

I have seen this wreath all over blog land, both for Christmas and for Valentine's Day and it has been on my to-do list for a while. I'm pretty sure I saw it at the Idea Room first.  I finally sat down with my supplies to create it and I {heart} how it turned out!  I have it hung in my family room :)   I think if I start early enough, I can create a couple of these for Christmas :) Links: Tatertots & Jello Young & Crafty Someday Crafts

I've started doing a monthly class with 2 other local consultants:  my friend Jayma and my friend/downline Michelle.  We each prepare 5 or 6 cards and then the ladies have 2 1/2 hours to create what they can.  We had birthday cards, Thank you cards, Valentines Day cards, Thinking of you cards and more.  January marked the 3rd month for Jayma and I and first with Michelle!  This will definitely be a monthly thing :)  Here are my cards from the class: Supplies: Magnifique Level 2 Circle of Love Say it in Style Pear, Lagoon, Pacifica Ink Colonial White Crochet ribbon Stickles, Blue/Green sparkles Supplies: Olivia Level 2 A Little Thanks The Present Cocoa, Sunset ink Supplies: Sweetheart Level 2 Bohemian Alphabet Unity Sweetheart stamps Cotton candy, black, tulip ink Dimensional elements hearts Black ribbon Spray pen/ glimmer mist Supplies Wings Level 2 Colonial White Organdy ribbon Dreams come true Thank You Black, Vineyard b...

I'm excited to share with you the progress that I've made in the organization and set up of my craft room!  I'm still searching for the perfect "name" to my room so leave me a comment with your suggestion! Since posting earlier in the week, I have reorganized my papers.  I pulled all my CTMH cardstock out of the file drawer that it was weighing down, sorted it by color, then put them in cropper hopper paper folders.  I put frome 1-3 colors in each folder depending on how much I have or use of that color.  Then I put them in my cubes by color (pink, red, orange/yellow, green, blue and purple.  I already had my neutrals sorted:  white, black, colonial white, neutrals and browns.  Then in the bottom cube is my random patterned papers, shaped papers and bling cardstocks.  I also hung up my corkboard which has baggies of swap items.  Here is the long awaited shelf/desk from IKEA!  I'm so thrilled to finally have this in my space :)...

Here are the remainder of my Christmas 2010 layouts! Just so you don't hate me tooooo much, I did find the kids picture with Santa that I have not scrapped yet ;) Studio J- Splendor kit.  I love the houndstooth pattern in this paper pack so I turned it red and used it along side the leafy green pattern!    Studio J- Jingle.   Traditional- Jingle Here are some more Christmas layouts, but from before Christmas... Studio J- Mistletoe Studio J- Mistletoe The left side was my December calendar page and the right side decorating the tree.  And my favorite:   Traditional- Mistletoe, Bohemian Alpha Don't forget to check out the first set of Christmas Layouts HERE And the DISCOUNTED PRODUCTS on my website HERE!

New house = New crafty space!!!! And this space needs a name..... Jen's Studio?  Jen's Crafty Place?  Jen's Creative Space?  Jen's Getaway?  HELP! (leave me a comment/suggestion!  If I end up using your suggestion I'll send ya a little somethin'!) Anyways.... This room is about 10.5 x 14 with a nice large walk-in closet.  It's located at the end of our bedroom hall, facing the front of the house/street.  I can just see myself crafting away while the kids play outside (someday....). Before moving in, the walls were blue with a sports border---- had to go!  My painters painted them white and I came in and painted the bottom half Hollyhock Pink (yes, I took Hollyhock cardstock to Home Depot and matched it).  Then I found these AWESOME black damask wall stickers on CLEARANCE at Kohl's a couple weeks ago and put them up as a border. My first "arrangement" of my computer desk/ cubes / scrap table was not working for me at all, so I rearran...

Check out this awesome video showcasing one of the NEW products in the 2011 Spring/Summer Idea Book--- Kraft Color Ready Borders.  You'll also catch a sneak peak of some of the new paper packs and stamped images as well!  WHAT A TREAT!!!! All these fabulous new products can be purchased on my website HERE starting February 1 In the meantime, check out the awesome DISCOUNTED PRODUCTS !  New items have been added :)

I am completely finished scrapbooking Christmas 2010!!!  YES, this past Christmas! HOW??? You ask? Well, first of all, I really don't like scrapping Christmas.  There are a few "events", tons of pictures, lots of things to journal about...... I think really the problem is that by the time I get to it mid-year, I am not that into it and have forgotten the memories :( SO, I decided (after some inspiration from Erica and Barbra ) that I would just go ahead and do it now, while its fresh.  AND thanks to Studio J, I was able to get the bulk of it done FAST! What I did was go through the Mistletoe and Wings Workshop Kits and decided which pictures would go in those.  Then I chose some of my favorite pictures to scrap traditionally as well.  Then I started uploading all the rest into Studio J!  Here we go (part 1)   Studio J- Mistletoe Kit   Traditional- Mistletoe, All the Best Traditional- Wings Workshop Kit- main layout.  Bohemian...

Deeply discounted items have been added to my website again!  Get them before they are LONG GONE!  Card Kit Choices: Bits & Pieces, Around the Holidays, It's Your Day, Hello Birdie, Happy Everything. $4.00 each (55 to 69% off) Level 2 My Stickease Assortments Choices: Caboodle, Twitterpated, That's Amore, Magic Moments, and Majestic Blue $1.50 (70 to 83% off) Level 1 Kit Choices: Unforgettable, Magic Moments, Perfect Day, $4.00 (60% off) Level 2 Paper Packet Choices: Caboodle  and Perfect Day $5.00 (61% off) 2 Simply Snapshot Choices: You Rock and Grace $3.00 (57% off) Plus there are still some other fun items left over from before. To get an awesome deal go to my website and place your order today before they are gone!! CLICK HERE TO ORDER!! 2011 Spring/Summer Idea Books are in and shipping now!  Let me know if you'd like to get your copy!

I love using up my older stash of CTMH paper kits!  I brought a few paper packs to the All Day Crop and was able to use up quite a bit of my stash!   Here are more of the layouts I completed at the all day crop last Saturday: Houligans Level 2 papers American Crafts Thickers Misc embellishments Magic Moments Level 2 Papers Lots of Dots Alpha Misc Ribbon Olivia Level 2 Papers Basic Craft Buttons Pearl Opaques American Crafts Thickers Olivia Level 2 papers Posterboard Alpha American Crafts Thickers Wings Level 2 Paper Wings Level 2 assortment (ribbon) American Crafts Thickers Amore stamps Discovery Level 2 papers Posterboard Alpha Be True Stamps I did a few others that I'll share next time!  All CTMH products can be found HERE!   Be sure to check out the DEEPLY DISCOUNTED products too ;)