CTMH June is here!

We have a beautiful new June stamp of the month! Did you know that you can purchase Close To My Heart's SOTMs for retail? The nice thing though is that if you spend $50 then Botanical Shadows it's just $5! And, for my VIPs, it's FREE when you spend that much. Woohoo! I am hoping …

CTMH Strawberry Mice & Dream Maker

Today is it! Can you believe that May is coming to an end? That means that Close To My Heart will put away their National Scrapbooking Day promotions - including my favorite, Strawberry Mice. Last night I decided to wind down with some coloring and I quickly made this card with some Dream Maker paper …

Happy Memorial Day

This is of course the reason why I am off today! We have been watching "war" movies all weekend long -- just more so than usual. But on the side I have been shopping Close To My Heart's Memorial Day sale. It goes on through the 30th! I have to tell you there are some …

CTMH Dream Maker Wedding

I have had Close To My Heart's Dream Maker promotion bundle sitting for TWO WEEKS just waiting to be inked up and played with...and finally it happened! Since I am in charge of our school's Social Committee, I have the opportunity to make cards for special occasions. And I just found out that one of …

CTMH Little Stinkers SOTM

Phew! I was worried I'd run out of time before using this month's Stamp of the Month from Close To My Heart one more time. It's so cute. The other night I could not sleep and finally at 2:00 in the morning I thought I might as well get up and make a card. I …

CTMH Let’s Eat Cake Fussy Cut

Fussy cutting is time consuming, true, but it lets you do really cool things! I have the Let's Eat Cake stamp set and matching thin cut dies (thank you Close To My Heart!! I won this as a prize from them recently and LOVE IT). But, to be honest I struggled coloring my cake image …

CTMH Congratulations Grad!

My husband and I were invited to a fabulous graduation / commissioning celebration at the Army Navy Club in Washington DC last night. So, of course, that event called for a card! I don't make a lot of slim line cards but the width matched my Close To My Heart Sentiments by Melissa Esplin stamp …

CTMH Strawberry Mice

Some cards shouldn't be shared ... and this may be one of them! I like the idea of it but my ink pad watercoloring doesn't look so great in the photograph. I probably should have used other paper number - that may be the main problem! I love Close To My Heart's Strawberry Mice bundle …

CTMH Strawberry Mice Baby Card

Once again I chose to CASE myself when I needed to make a quick card ... back in February I posted this baby card also featuring Springtime Borders (Close To My Heart's Feb SOTM). But today I chose to use a current stamp for the main image, CTMH's Strawberry Mice from their National Scrapbooking Day …

CTMH Cosette for Mother’s Day

My Mother's Day and MIL actually arrived EARLY this year! And, I forgot to take a picture of them - head smack! My husband told me these were particularly beautiful this year. Luckily, I CASEd myself and I have the original card to share. Just envision that instead of friend it now reads Happy Mother's …