January Stamp of the Month!

HAPPY NEW YEAR my Creative Friends!

The start of the year usually means setting new goals and intentions...so let's see how this goes shall we?!!

Close to my Heart has some great SOTM's (stamp of the month's) coming and this one is definitely a MUST HAVE :)

January's Stamp of the Month is called 'Card Captions' and it's only available during the month of January or until supplies last...y'all know the drill! 

I have a 14hour Crop every month and I love to create a 'make & take' for my peeps as a thank you for supporting my events! This is what I've created for this Saturday...

low light warning...yucky rainy day...head to my website for great colour sample

'Feels Like Home' is one of our new paper collections from our BRAND NEW Idea Book, the Seasonal Expressions, 

which runs January 1st through till the end of April 2019.

I am madly in love with our tags and borders thin cuts...

so I tend to use them whenever I can! 

Supplies Used:

Feels Like Home Bulk paper

S1901 Card Captions-January 2019 SOTM

Z4305 Fancy Tags thin cuts
Z4241 Decorative Borders thin cuts
Z4181 Stitched Circles thin cuts
Z3318 Basic Circles thin cuts
Z4231 Playful Scallops Embossing Folder
Z4221 Swiss Dots Embossing Folder
Z3274 Clear Sparkles
misc doily thread



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more with this month's Very Merry Christmas!

I know, you might not be in the Christmas mood yet...but this October you can get a great Christmas'y stamp set for only $5.00! It is the perfect addition to your stamping collection because you can use it for layouts, cards and you can make some gift tags too!

It's easy, with any order you place of a minimum of $35 in the month of October, you can get this set for $5 !

I have created a great card today using a 6x6 Kraft card base, our new Pear & Partridge Christmas paper, Cranberry & Colonial White cardstock, our new Burlap ribbon and some Cranberry baker's Twine from our Harvest Baker's twine collection:

  

I started with our pre-done 6x6 card bases and I've scored it at 1½ inches on either side of the center fold:

Then I folded along the score lines so that the center fold comes into the middle of the card...add some heavy duty double sided tape JUST along the outer edge of the card as pictured above:

 I trimmed an opening along the folded edge so that I could slip my Gift Card into the slot...this is why I was careful not to add adhesive too close to the fold as I wouldn't have been able to slide in my card!

I adhered the Burlap ribbon along that scalloped edge of this card base, mounted the sentiment with 3D foam tape and then after I put my gift card into my card, I wrapped some of that great twine around the card twice and tied a bow...this way the person I give this to can just untie the twine and the sentiment will still be attached to my card!

Thanks for stopping in today and if you have any questions about my card, the products I've used or this month's stamp set, please contact me!

April's SOTM BlogHop!!!

Welcome to another fantastic Close To My Heart BlogHop!!!

Hopefully you've arrived here from Gina Brandstetter's Blog or perhaps you've started here, which is great, remember to click on the link at the bottom of my post to continue on as this is one big circular Hop featuring 50 talented CTMH Consultants' artwork using :

April's Stamp of the Month set, 'You Are...'  

This set is available from April 1st-30th only!!!

 Contact me to see how you can get this set for only $5.00

This stamp set is great for scrapbook layouts AND cards as you can see here...

and here's my card

Check out this new 'Dotty for You' National Scrapbooking Month paper packet (coming soon)...don't you love it! 


These colours really make me feel like Spring is here, even if our weather outside is trying to confuse me ;)

Thanks so much for taking the time to check in here and I hope you enjoy the rest of the Hop...now off you go to see what's up at Kim Schnoor's Blog

Kathleen Androlewicz http://BowlOfStamps.blogspot.com

Helen Onulak http://www.hookedonstamping.com

Georgia Hauglid http://inkygeorgia.blogspot.com/

Debra Van Patten http://memoriesoftheheartbydeb.blogspot.com

Shannon Beck http://www.cardsfromthefarm.blogspot.com

Dawn Heuft http://stamptildawn.blogspot.com

Lisa Sargent http://www.lisasargent.net

Brae Montgomery http://thebrae-er.blogspot.com

Nikka Geers http://www.nikkageers.blogspot.com

Krista Ritskes http://simplycreatingtogether.blogspot.com/

Michelle Loncar http://michelleloncar.blogspot.com

Sarita Schraeder http://www.blessedscrapper.com

Teresa Scrivens http://www.creatingwithinkypaw.com

Dawn Ross http://iamahappystamper.blogspot.com

Lori Brown http://www.savingmine.blogspot.com

Angel Sawyer http://RunningwithScissorsDesignCo.blogspot.com

Jill Lucas http://scrapwench.blogspot.com

Elizabeth Mindemann http://www.ejoym.blogspot.com

Traci Godbee http://www.createwithtraci.com/

Melinda Everitt http://www.ifyoublingit.blogspot.com

Melissa Laverty http://www.fancymelissa.com/blog

Katy Taylor http://www.scrappinkaty.blogspot.com

Wendy Coffman http://www.stampingrules.blogspot.com/

Haley Dyer http://inkyscrapper.blogspot.com

Wanda Riley http://Creatingwithwanda.blogspot.com

Kami Welter http://www.scrappin4memories.blogspot.com/

Mary Eisen http://mestamp2.blogspot.com

Jen Rubio http://JenRubio.blogspot.com

Annette Green http://AnnettesCreativeJourney.blogspot.com

Amy McVey http://www.clearlystamping.blogspot.com

Krista Hershberger http://kristascraftycorner.blogspot.com/

Carla Ironside http://carlacreates.blogspot.com

Angela Tutton http://www.tuttonstreasures.blogspot.com

LeAnne Dudley http://www.dudleychickdesigns.blogspot.com

Tamytha Jenkins http://www.paperheartist.com/

Pamela O'Connor http://cherishyourmemories.blogspot.com

Sheila Bennett http://sheila-bennett.blogspot.com

Traci Pasqualone http://ScrapiTraci.blogspot.com

Adeline Brill http://www.adeline-brill.blogspot.com

Shirley Ross http://www.momnmescrap.blogspot.com

Judy Burger http://www.makingtimeformemories.blogspot.com

Gina Brandstetter http://gmbscrapper.blogspot.com/

Kristine Ponte http://www.kponte.blogspot.com

Kim Schnoor http://www.creativehands-hearts.blogspot.com

Allisa Chilton http://rockymtnpapercrafts.blogspot.com

Karen Fullam http://www.enrichingmemories.com

Judy Faye Garner http://judyfaye.blogspot.com

Lalia Harris http://www.craftylalia.blogspot.com

Jean McNulty http://stampinmaui.blogspot.com/

Cool *new* Challenge Blog!!!

So in my constant mission to find cool things on the web...I've stumbled across a great new blog called 'Use It or Lose It'.

 Nikka Geers, a fellow Close To My Heart Consultant, has created this blog with the hopes to get some of us CTMH fans to join along in the challenges...

you guessed it, to use it or lose it!

Now if any of you are like me, I love a challenge and often it is just what I need to get the ball rolling and to jump start my creative Mojo!

As you can see by this gorgeous photo, we are to take what we see in this picture and try to create our own artwork using this as inspiration...with the current snowy/wet conditions here on the West Coast in British Columbia, these colours are making me feel happy and creative!

This is what I've created from this piece of inspiration...forgive the colour...photos were taken this evening and they are truer to the inspirational photo than they look :)

White Daisy, Black, Lagoon and Pear Cardstock from Close To My Heart
Patterned piece is from the Magnifique paper collection
(Mojo Monday sketch)

One of my all time favorite stamp sets is the Enjoy Life set which is where the clock comes from and the sentiment is from the Card Chatter-Sympathy set...however, I think that this sentiment could work for any occasion as the sentiment does say 'happy thoughts' on the front and on the inside it says 'coming your way' so I'll probably use this for any number of events :)

Now how about you? Have an urge to play along? 

Check out this great new Challenge Blog 'Use It or Lose It'