Magical 3rd birthday

Here's a layout I did end of last year but never posted. I had lots of photos I wanted to include so I used photoshop elements to create the collage. The paper and embodiments are from Close To My Heart's Magic Moment's Kit and Mini Medley collection. The pink textured paper is Bazzil. I used the Circut to cut out the title, 3 and the cute scrolly frame. The photo is the frame is my favorite of my daughter. She looks so grown up here but oh so pretty. This layout is oh so very simple, but that's exactly what it needed with such a large collage of photos.

Spring time

It was love at first sight with the new Springtime stampset from Close To My Heart. I have been wanting to use it since I got it, but here's my first crafty item completed with it. Everything is CTMH. The paper is from the Caboodle Level 2 kit leftover from the Workshop On The Go. The Flowers are clear button, and the rays of the sun are cut up sorbet ric rac ribbon. The stampsets used are Springtime, the Clouds and rain drops are from Childhood, the puddle is from Worlds Best Dad (past stamp of the month), Rain is stamped using Elegant Script.

Snow on the Gulf Coast

Last month we had a few white clumps fall from the sky. It's really quite a thrilling event around here. I wish I would have ventured about an hour north to really have been able to play in the snow. They received about 5 inches and well the only accumulation we saw lasted about 10 seconds. Kallie loved it. Taylor was curious and then decided he doesn't like the cold. This was their first and hopefully not last experience with snow.

The photos are not that great I couldn't get the true white to show up, or just how pretty the glitter rubbons are either. Everything is from CTMH. The colors are Creme Brulee and Twilight. The patterned paper is from Aspen. I used my Circut to cut out the letters. and I painted with create a shade on the edges of the Creme Brulee cardstock. I plant to add a few more things but I wanted to share this with you anyway. I couldn't wait.

Felicity thank you card

It's great when you can use scraps to create something unique. This card uses the special Felicity paper from CTMH. It was the national scrap booking month special paper pack. I had cut a tree out this paper and used it on another card. I loved out the negative image look and knew it would look great with some cocoa cardstock behind it. Have a great weekend.

Love Card with Caboodle

Here's the V-day card I made for my sweetie and gave to him on V-day. Yes, I'm posting this a bit late but I still wanted to share it with you. It's a little non-traditional. I used the Close To My Heart Caboodle level 2 paper pack and the die cuts from a past CTMH promotion. All you see here is CTMH.

Congrats!!!

My dearest friend and her husband recently found out they are expecting their first child in Sept. I am soooo very excited for them. I wanted to let them know just how much. Here is a card I created to send them using the leftovers from this month's Workshop On the Go. I used the Circut to cut out the cute lady and the stickers are from another company, everything else is CTMH and comes from the Veranda Workshop on the Go. We'll be working with it here Thursday night. I'm very excited. It's beautiful!

Get Creative with Create A Shade pearl Paint

I was challenged to teach a technique to a small group of fellow Close To My Heart Consultants. In coming up with the technique to teach I became inspired by one of the most awesome and overlooked products CTMH has to offer. Create-a-Shade pearl paint, I created so many fun and unique accents with this versatile product. Here is a card where I used the paint to stamp over a previously stamped image. I love how it gives it depth and character, and was so very easy to do.

This is my most favorite card to date. I will at some point give it to Nick.

This is a close up of the paint technique I used on the bird. If you look closely you can see that I used a coordinating purple marker to outline the flourishes. I made them by stamping on top of the bird with the flourishes stamp from the Grace Workshop on the Go while it was covered in the Create a shade paint. I used the matching marker to also shade the bird and flowers. You'll notice the shading on the branch too. To attach the clear shapes I used the Xyron. It worked perfectly to give a secure translucent fit.

Everything except the purple base textured cardstock, and the twine is a CTMH product.

Stampsets used:

A Tweet

Ink:

Bamboo

Cocoa

Hydrangea

Amethyst

Paper:

Green B&T Duo from Emporium

Accents:

Journaling Spots Journey

Colonial white Rickrack

Pearl Beads
Rubons: Nature's Ambiance

Clear Shapes