Thank You

The tornado in Oklahoma has had a devastating effect and Close To My Heart wants to help. To aid relief efforts, Close To My Heart is making a new Autumn/Winter 2013 stamp set, A True Thank You ($2.95 retail), available immediately and will donate 100% of the profits from sales of the set from May 23 through June 30 to the American Red Cross.

To order yours, please visit my site. www.celebratecrafts.ctmh.com

Thank you.

"Happily Ever After"

Welcome to our May Art Philosophy/Artiste Blog Hop! As you know, both the Artiste and the Art Philosophy cartridges are available exclusively through a Close to My Heart consultant. If you don't already have a Consultant that you are currently working with, please contact one the Consultants in our hop with any questions you have!


If you have just hopped onto my blog, please start at the beginning at Lucy's blog – Love 2 Create    If you came from " Lucy's blog – Love 2 Create" of "  then you are in the right place!


Our challenge this month features not only one of these amazing cartridges but we also have a Wedding theme. There are so many weddings this time of year! Do you have any weddings coming up?

I chose to redo this picture frame. It had a picture of my husband and myself on our wedding day. Our
kids had done a number on the frame, and I thought it could a little sprucing up.

I took black card stock and I raced the frame onto it. I cut out the image and used liquid glass to glue it to the frame. I used a sanding block to sand all of the edges, which gave the paper and aged look.  cut the Mr & Mrs  and the silver hearts (silver heart border is glitter paper) from the Artiste cartridge The flowers are cut from Art Philosophy.

Thanks for looking!

Your next stop on our "Happily Ever After" hop is "Wendy " of "My Scrapbooking Blog"


Here is the complete lineup in case you get lost along the way:

1. Lucy ~ Love 2 Create
2. Theodora ~ Celebrate crafts
3. Wendy ~ My Scrapbooking Blog
4. Michelle ~ My Flights of Fancy
5. Jennifer ~ 4 Hearts Scrapbooking
6. Michelle ~ My Creations with Michelle 
7. Traci ~ Paper Crafting 101

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you in creating your own wedding themed projects!

The ABC's Everything letter "J"

 

Welcome to the Everything ABC's Blog Hop!

For this hop we will be featuring the letter J. This may be the name
of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment. Whatever the crafter has
chosen as their J element will be featured in their post.


If you have just hopped onto my blog, please start at the beginning at Amber's blog ~ Scrapper's Therapy


If you came from "Linda Norman-Scrappy Therapy "  then you're on the right track!

For my "J" project, I have to admit I had an issue coming up with a "J" project, then I remembered
I had CTMH's Posh Journaling Spots, and I had my "J" item! I decided to use them for the front of my card. I used ruby card stock for the backround, and patterned paper from the For Always paper pack. The red flower was cut from ruby card stock using my Art Philosphy cricut cartridge. the saying is the zip strip from the top of one of the patterned papers. I layered it with ruby card stock. I finished my card with sparkles.

Thanks for stopping by!


I am the last stop on the hop, if you started with me, please go to the beginning to Amber's blog ~ Scrapper's Therapy


Here is the complete lineup in case you get lost along the way:)


1. Amber La Mons ~ Scrapper's Therapy
2. Lucy Kelleher ~ Love 2 Create
3. Shalana Glass ~ Scrappin with Shalana
4. Shelly Nemitz ~ Just One Piece
5. Linda Norman-Scrappy Therapy
6. Theodora ~ Celebrate Crafts

Pinwheel

Welcome to our May Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! This month's stamp from Close to My Heart is "Pinwheel" and is available exclusively through your Close to My Heart consultant from May 1 - 31, 2013. You can purchase this stamp set for only $5 with a qualifying purchase.

If you have just hopped onto my blog, please start at the beginning at Lucy's blog – Love 2 Create . If you came from "Amber" ~ Scrapper's Therapy then you are in the right place!

For my card, I stamped the large pinwheel in gypsy ink, the striped pinwheel in smoothie, and the small
pinwheel in pear. Between all of the layers is a pop dot, with a sparkle in the middle of the green. The pinwheel "stick" is a piece of grey baker's twine. The butterflies are from the color-ready trinkets wooden shapes. "You make my world go 'round" is stamped in gypsy pigment ink.

All items are Close To My Heart:
Grey card stock
Pear
Smoothie
Gypsy
Bitty Sparkles
Trinkets wooden shapes
Gypsy pigment ink.
Grey baker's twine



Your next stop on our "Pinwheel" hop is " Stephanie " of " Quilted Scrapper "

Lucy ~ Love 2 Create
Amber ~ Scrapper's Therapy
Theo~ Celebrate Crafts
Stephanie-Quilted Scrapper
Cat ~ catscrapbooking

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you.