CTMH At the Beach

My husband and I love going to the beach! I grew up as a "lake" child but he has been going to the beach all of his life...so we were thrilled to finally get back to Ocean City this past weekend, if only for 3 days. We had great weather and the water was just …

Back-to-School Crafting

I am tired!! Phew...I am working with a new teacher in Kindergarten this year and we have been printing, laminating, gluing and hanging things up for several days. The room looks terrific and I can't wait to meet our new Kindergartners tomorrow for an Open House. On top of that, I had to decorate the …

CTMH Isabella | Card Front Spinner

Today I was back at school full time and enjoyed a few days at the beach with my husband over the weekend...so I'm a little behind! I'm going to have to find a new rhythm for my Monday Motivation LIVE videos so stay tuned. I am finally sharing one of the two Spinner cards I …

CTMH Stitched Lattice Background

I’m starting to sound like a broken record but here is another one of my favorite Close To My Heart items that is retiring. Here I combined the Stitched Lattice background thin cut die with this image from CTMH’s Isabella scrapbooking stamp set. I love this image and I watercolor it. This is from when …

CTMH Simple Stitched Brackets

Close To My Heart is getting ready to release a brand new Core catalog in September! That means that they are retiring a LOT (and it is a painful amount!) of really wonderful products. I bought all of the Stitched Brackets thin cut dies as a bundle and really didn't use them that often -- …

CTMH Retiring items

I’ve just spent two hours trying to post on my computer and no luck! I’ve tried downloading updates, moving closer to the WiFi and even drove over to Best Buy and the computer I’m eyeing has to be ordered. I’m frazzled! But I did want to share some items that are retiring in addition to …

CTMH More CAS Cards!

I have one week left of summer vacation and you'd think I'd be making super complicated cards right now...but, nope!! I'm in a clean and simple (CAS) state of mind. tee hee... If you missed my last post, you have to check it out! While those two cards were also CAS - they really felt …

CTMH Isabella Clean and Simple

Close To My Heart has beautiful patterned papers! I have some real favorites and really love the Mix-In paper packs that they offer too. You can create beautiful, clean and simple (CAS) with these papers, of course, but in my latest video I'm embracing the "white space". Leaving huge areas of empty, white space can …

Hello August!

Whoa! August already...back to school in just a few weeks. That means I need to cram a lot of summer fun and card making into the next two weeks. Close To My Heart makes it easy with some great new promotions...and a chance to bring out some of my old favorites to play with until …

CTMH Country Horse

Close To My Heart has just a few of this beautiful, realistic looking Country Horse stamp set. You can also get it with a matching thin cut die option. Love this feature from CTMH!! I needed to make some quick teacher farewell cards for some last minute departures and I knew the perfect card to …