CTMH In Full Bloom CAS

Once again, I am taking inspiration from Close To My Heart's Picture My Life cards and another CTMH Maker! I don't have the PML cards but this was such a fast and easy card to create -- and the way my life has been lately, that's what I need! This card is the perfect way …

CTMH Many Wishes Happy Birthday

Close To My Heart's National Scrapbooking Day Facebook LIVE event is coming in two weeks! Don't forget to mark your calendar for May 6 and 7 if you like to follow along. You can just watch or cut and create with the talented CTMH team. I just love listening to their banter and great tips... …

CTMH Message in a Bottle SOTM

Normally I have some sort of sentiment on the front of my card...but! Everyonce in a while I create something that actually "could" be framed and then I leave it blank. This card is a perfect example! Earlier in the month I combined Close To My Heart's stamp of the month, Message in a Bottle, …

CTMH In Full Bloom Birthday

Tomorrow is my mom's 89th birthday! I had to make her a special card and CASEd another Close To My Heart's maker (IG @cedarridgeink) for this beautiful card! I loved the clean and simple (CAS) look of her card. One of my favorite CTMH sets of 2022 has been the In Full Bloom scrapbooking set. …

CTMH & Two Fun Stencil Techniques

On Monday I hosted a class that I called Stencil Magic because I featured ... wait for it! ... stencils! I wanted to highlight the new Many Wishes cardmaking bundle Close To My Heart rolled out for it's National Scrapbooking Day promotion, but I wanted to show other ways to use stencils. These two cards …

CTMH Message in a Bottle

LOVE this new Close to My Heart stamp of the month -- Message in a Bottle. Now I have that song stuck in my mind. I can't wait to play with it more, but I happened to get this stamp set at the same time I picked out Hydrangea Blooms. This set is a Hostess/Maker …

CTMH In Full Bloom Picture My Life “CASE”

Have you heard of Close To My Heart's Picture My Life cards? They are technically designed for scrapbookers but they make great card elements too! Here is the In Full Bloom set of cards. I was inspired from page 15 in the CTMH new catty...I just had to recreate that black and white flower panel …

CTMH Two Step Stencils

Did you see my last post? I shared a card using Close To My Heart's new two-step stencil in their Many Wishes Cardmaking kit for National Scrapbooking Day. For that card I used the recommended Distress Oxide inks which are fun and easy to use. But, today's card uses just plain old CTMH inks and …

CTMH Many Wishes

Close To My Heart is preparing for National Scrapbooking Month by having a two day event -- that's designed for both scrapbookers and cardmakers. Light the fireworks! woohoo!! They have designed 5 kits and will create them LIVE on Facebook May 6 and 7. These are fun events to join along and often prizes are …

More CTMH Sweet as Honey

I know you thought you were "done" with seeing my Sweet as Honey cards! After all, it was in the previous Close To My Heart catalog and we just went LIVE with a new one. ha ha... But I loved my upline, Lisa Stenz's card so much, I had to CASE it. I made a …