Crafty Elves January Invite!

Pinch me! I was so excited to be invited as a guest to the first Crafty Elves post of 2023! What a great way to start of the year and it takes my birthday month over the top. woo hoo. The Crafty Elves post each month getting their holiday cards put together in a relaxing …

CTMH More Sending Good Vibes

I've continued to make more of these Sending Good Vibes cards and they are actually going into the mail! woo hoo! Sometimes, I admit, that I make cards and never send them. Especially if they are seasonal, I just feel like I can send a fall card in the winter. oh well. Here I've used …

CTMH Frosty Days Stitched Swirl Background

Have you tried paper piecing? It might be a technique that you forget about ... until you have a perfect stamp set for it! Check out Close To My Heart's new stamp of the month, Frosty Days. The animals are adorable and are perfect for this! I dug through my Mix-In paper scraps and found …

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 The Jubilee Crew

My goal this year was to create some submissions to magazine card calls. I did it! But I did not get selected...oh well! I'll keep trying. In the meantime, that means I can share this fun Christmas card with you! The cute critters are from Close To My Heart's stamp and thin cut set, The …

CTMH Serenity

I love going back through some of my older stamp sets that I haven't used in a while. This Close To My Heart Serenity stamp set has a matching thin cut die and it's beautiful in any color you choose. It's still available in the Online Only section! Featured here is a card I created …

CTMH From Me to You Christmas Tags

Last month I participated in a Tag Swap (thank you Madde for the idea!) and it was so much fun! I drew names for partner swaps and I can now share what I sent my partner. Many of my tags featured Close To My Heart products but it was still fun to dig around my …

CTMH Whole Latte Love

I hadn't planned on making a third card for the Fall | Winter Coffee Lover's blog hop but ... today my co-teachers and I were treated to Starbucks by one of our kind parents! What a nice treat, especially as we headed out to a cold and windy recess. I whipped up this card to …

CTMH One Star One Night One Child

What a beautiful stamp set this is! I love all three stamp images included in Close To My Heart's One Star One Night One Child stamp set. If you missed out on November's Stamp of the Month the sentiment in this set could be used in so many of the card examples posted with the …

CTMH Desserts a la Whirl

I had nineteen thank you cards to stamp for my sweet students. They were so generous at the end of the year and I'm going to make a few thank you cards, but I also wanted to just stamp up something quick and easy for the kiddos to get in the mail. I came up …