I am so excited; I can feel the creativity pumping through my veins! I am starting this blog as a way to share with you ideas, tips, new techniques, and great new innovate products that will help your own creativity flow. Here you'll find semi-weekly blogs concerning scrapbooking, card making, creative gifts, photography tips, and much more. I am going to keep this introduction short. I don't know if you are like me but I don't have a lot of time to read all that I'd like, so I appreciate brevity and great new ideas that are to the point. So that's just what you'll find here.
Let me know you've visited with a quick post.
Sincerely,
Leana Ott
Independent Consultant
with Close to My Heart
The packaging of a gift is just as important as the gift and can be the most fun to create. Here are two white gift bags I decorated for T's teacher's gifts. I used the retired Zipdee level 2 paper pack. You're Sweet, Comments, Believe Alphabet, and Card Chatter stamp sets. The Ink is Dutch Blue and Cranberry. The crayon is from a Child's Year Circut cartridge. I think these turned out really cute. I was inspired by a card on Jeanette Lynton's blog. 
This was one of the creative things we made a Leadershare. I had not made one of these before, but this was so fun it's now this month's workshop project. This is the new Irristables alphabet and Villa. The paper is from the Mayberry Level 2 Paper Pack. The cube is the my creations cube. This makes a great gift. 
This card I created as a quick thank you during some of our free crop time. It uses the May stamp of the month and a goodie but oldie paper paper pack. 
I've got just a second and wanted to share these cute gift jars I created last night for today's teacher appreciation luncheon at my daughter's school. The image below is not that clear because I was in a rush to take it. But I think you can get the gist. 
I used Olivia, Barn Red textured card stock and the awesome Nov. stamp of the month. They turned out really cute. Everything is Close To My Heart. I did use my circut and a punch for the shapes. 
