And the winner is …

Vanessa! I'm terribly sorry for the delay - especially since there were only 5 entries! Thank you for your patience and congratulations to Vanessa for her comment on my Crafty Elves post last week. Please send me your mailing address and I will mail out your prize quicker than it took me to draw names! …

CTMH You’re Pawsome

A couple of months back I made quite a few cards using this layout, I had over 10 of these flower ovals left over from a card workshop I held...and, of course, I couldn't throw them away! I still have several leftover and one of them came in handy for this quick card for my …

CTMH Sending Good Vibes

Did you miss me? I was out sick with the dreaded Covid (after trying to carefully take care of my darling husband) and too wiped out to even blog. But I'm back and I'm Sending Good Vibes your way! This is a fun new sentiment stamp set that you can find in Close To My …

CTMH Cherish (Stamp, Stencil and Die!)

I try to have some restraint when buying things from Close To My Heart. And, sometimes it works, and sometimes -- well, I cave in! ha ha. During the entire catalog cycle, I kept eyeing the gorgeous cards people were making with CTMH's Cherish Cardmaking stamp, stencil and thin cut die set. Well, it finally …

2022 — and that’s a wrap!

Today is the last day of Close To My Heart's greatest Boxing Week sale yet. I loved that they marked the Core Catalog on sale -- it was while supplies last so each day things did disappear, but it was a great time to stock up on the less glamorous things. ha ha. Thank you …

CTMH Boxing Sale – ALL WEEK LONG!

Close out the year with some amazing savings from the Close To My Heart Boxing Week sale! This sale offers incredible deals each day from December 26 through December 31. This year’s sale will feature discounts up to 25% on all products included in the 2022–2023 Core Products catalog for the duration of the sale. …

CTMH Makes for the BEST Happy Mail

A huge shout out to Amy T. for these two beautiful pieces of happy mail! Love, love, love the 3 cups of coffee card. Such a fabulous clean and simple (CAS) design. It's so true -- coffee helps (I think it's always the answer - no matter the question!). Amy used Close To My Heart's …

Woodblock Wednesday

Last month I was late to the "party" but not this month! Surprise, surprise!! Right now, my coffee table is strewn with half started projects, lots of tags (I'm having a lot of fun making these) and my paper mittens for my yearly swap. But I managed to dig out this Santas and Stars block …

CTMH From Me To You

I have been having so much fun this week creating tags!! I started by just going through all of my existing tag dies plus the new tag bundle from Close To My Heart. They have a fun promotion of assorted tags going on right now -- you can buy everything (like I did!) or pick …

CTMH Christmas Snowflake Mandalas

This is such a pretty card! Of course, I CASEd it from Amy Moore, another Close To My Heart Maker. But can you blame me? There is so much sparkle and it reminds me of when I was a young girl, we did 3D paper tole crafts with my mom. The fussy cutting of this …