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Welcome to the Close To My Heart Stamp of the Month Blog Hop for September 2013- featuring Poster Tidings   If you have come here from Michelle's Blog you're on the right path.  If you get lost along the way, you'll find a complete hop list at Helen's Blog! Subway art is so fun! I have several up in my home for Holidays and family. For my card, I used Huntington papers and assortment . I cut my own card base at 6x12 with Cashmere cardstock. I made a side fold and added some bronze shimmer trim .  The fall sentiment was stamped in Autumn Terra Cotta, Olive and Barn Red ink, in a diagonal pattern. I wish I had some technical tip for you on how to do this, but really I inked the stamp in Autumn Terra Cotta in a diagonal at the top, then used Olive ink at a diagonal at the bottom 2/3, and added Barn Red on the bottom 1/3.  I edged the stamped image with more bronze shimmer trim. And embellished with a leaf from the Huntington as...

Welcome to the final week of the Artbooking in August Blog Hop . Last week's artwork was so amazing and this week over 35 creative consultants are at it again! Their challenge was to create  4 different projects using the Cricut Artbooking cartridge and any CTMH paper pack.  Their mission was to design each of the following: 1. 2 page layout  2. Card 3. Mini Book  4. Home decor or 'giftable' item They were able to choose what to make and when to post it. AND if they wanted to add stamps to their designs, that was OK.  This week they will add another great design to the challenge and I am anxious to see what everyone has created!   If you have arrived here from Vickie's Blog you're on the right path.  Your next stop will be Linda's Blog. Remember this is a circular blog hop and if you get lost or confused along the way, the list is posted on Adeline's blog here. ____________________________________________________...

Welcome to Week #3 of the Artbooking in August Blog Hop . Last week's artwork was so amazing and this week over 35 creative consultants are at it again! Their challenge was to create  4 different projects using the Cricut Artbooking cartridge and any CTMH paper pack.  Their mission was to design each of the following: 1. 2 page layout  2. Card 3. Mini Book  4. Home decor or 'giftable' item They were able to choose what to make and when to post it. AND if they wanted to add stamps to their designs, that was OK.  This week they will add another great design to the challenge and I am anxious to see what everyone has created! Remember this is a circular blog hop and if you get lost or confused along the way, the list is posted on Adeline's blog here. ************************************************ Today I have a tag and card that I've created with Cricut Artbooking along with Cricut Artiste. I started with this:   ...

Costa Rica Calling This year's incentive trip (March 2014) is to Costa Rica!  For the past 10 months, I've been working hard, building my team, building my business and earning points.  I am SOOO Close to earning this amazing CTMH Incentive Trip! With just SIX WEEKS left in the earning period, I'm about 4,000 points away!  I NEED YOUR HELP!  How can you help? So glad you asked!!  Anytime you place an order on my website , you are helping me!  Anytime you come to a class, you are helping me! When you (or a friend) joins my team , you are helping me!  Every little bit helps! Thank YOU for helping make my dreams come true :)

Did you know I have the BEST JOB EVER !?!?!?!  And 2013 has been a banner year for me too!   I will never forget how this all happened...  The school day was almost over, and it was the Friday before Spring Break and I just happened to check my email to see a message from Jill from CTMH corporate office.  She asked if I would be willing to come to Utah to help film training videos.  I was sooooo excited!  I called her for some details and the plans were in motion!  What a fabulous way to start my spring break, huh!!! Fast forward to April, CTMH flew me to Salt Lake City, where I met up with the fabulous Lisa Stenz .  We spent a few hours filming two different videos (training for consultants) and whole day with CTMH corporate staff.  How lucky am I??? We seriously had the best day ever!   ((Too bad it ended with me missing a connecting flight home and getting stuck in LA... but that's another story....)) So I ...

If you are looking for the STAMPERS WITH ATTITUDE BLOG HOP--- CLICK HERE!!! Welcome to Week #2 of the Artbooking in August Blog Hop . Last week's artwork was so phenomenal and this week over 35 creative consultants are at it again! Their challenge was to create  4 different projects using the Cricut Artbooking cartridge and any CTMH paper pack.  Their mission was to design each of the following: 1. 2 page layout  2. Card 3. Mini Book  4. Home decor or 'giftable' item  They were able to choose what to make and when to post it. AND if they wanted to add stamps to their designs, that was OK.  This week they will add another great design to the challenge and I am anxious to see what everyone has created! Remember this is a circular blog hop and if you get lost or confused along the way, the list is posted on Adeline's blog here. ************************************************ Today I am sooooo ...

Are you ready to get creative??  Let 40 talented CTMH consultants inspire you with their creativity this month.   Each Monday in August, these ladies will be posting artwork to their blogs and you can follow their blogs or set your alarm to make sure you do not miss a post! Their challenge was to create  4 different projects using the Cricut Artbooking cartridge and any CTMH paper pack.  ( yes - we all have retired paper packs in our 'stuff' and this cartridge is perfect for using up paper!!)  Their mission was to design each of the following: 1. 2 page layout  2. Card 3. Mini Book 4. Home decor or giftable item  If you have arrived here from Maureen's blog , you're on the right path.  Your next stop will be Linda's Blog. I have two layouts created with Artbooking to share with you today!   4th of July - For this layout, I used Cranberry  & Black Cardstock and a patterned paper from Pr...

Welcome to the New Product Blog Hop!  We are so excited to share with you all the fabulous NEW products from the Autumn/Winter Idea Book!  We created this card at my Idea Book Fiesta the other night. This 5x5 card will be perfect for the kids to give their teachers on the first day of school!  Products used: * Cricut Artbooking - overlay & Frame * Sarita Paper Pack * School is Here Stamps * Inks :  Outdoor Denim, Goldrush, Lagoon & Gypsy Take a look at all the other fabulous projects that have been created for this Blog Hop!

Welcome to the New Product Blog Hop!  We are so excited to share with you all the fabulous NEW products from the Autumn/Winter Idea Book!  I have had so much fun creating with ARTBOOKING during our consultant preview period!  This Halloween Mini Album came together so quickly and easily!  I cut all the pages and images using the dial size 6".  I used a few images from the Halloween scrapbook pages keys, but the rest were from the Mini Album keys.  This mini album was created using Honey, Sunset, White Daisy and Black cardstock.  It is bound together using sunset twine & black embroidery floss.   I hope you'll hop along and check out all the fabulous NEW PRODUCT creations that my fellow CTMH sisters have created for you!

Have you had a chance to look at the Autumn/Winter Idea Book yet??  What's your favorite product??  One of the 6 new My Reflections paper packs, Laughing Lola, is the featured one in my card today!  It also features Shadows & Shades- the technique for the Heart2Heart challenge this week! How FUN is this paper!  I love the jewel tones :) I used the new mini stamp set: Heartfelt Birthday Wish , stamped in Black.  Then I took my Gypsy markers and colored the top and bottom of the words in the light shade and middle section with the darker shade.  I did not do this with "perfection", but I let the shades blend together :)  I also sponged Lagoon Ink onto our Color Ready Seam Ribbon.  I did a fun technique with the yellow'ish paper- I made my own washi tape!  (I'll post a tutorial soon!!)  So the Shadows & Shades technique is also called Ombre!  Check out this video from CTMH, where they show you how to create the...