WOW!!! Lots going on this month!!!

This month's THE MONTH!!!!  It is a great time to join as a consultant!!! and a great time to join as a Studio J Member and OUR NEW IDEA BOOK is out!!!! Wow! What a MONTH!!! Plus this month's stamp set is awesome!!!  So what ever your desires this month is the month to make it happen!!!!
February is Free, Free, and Fabulous!!!
When a new Consultant joins Close To My Heart during February and achieves Straight To The Top (both levels; first month and the first three months), they will receive Straight To The Top rewards of $100 US / $110 CAN in select product credit, PLUS they'll receive a rebate of $129/$140 on their New Consultant Kit. It's free products and a free kit—a fabulous deal! E-mail me if you are interested!!!
A Perfect 10 for Studio J®

Buy 9, Get 1 Free (3 Month and 12 Month Members Only)
February is free layout month for Studio J® members! For every 9 custom-printed Studio J layouts you buy, you’ll receive the 10th layout free. To receive the discount, just add 10 or more layouts to your cart. You’ll see a discount reflected in your order total. And you can totally take advantage of this promotion by ordering in multiples of 10. Buy 9, get 1 free. Buy 18, get 2 free. Buy 27, get 3 free. And so on! If you’re not a member yet, now’s a great time to join!
New Idea BOOK!!!!
If you would like a new Idea Book contact me!!!  OR YOU CAN SEE IT ON LINE NOW!!!! Just click here... and you will be redirected to my CTMH site!!!  IT has some awesome new products!  You will love the new papers (of course they are really awesome!) But my new favorite it the new SPRAY PEN!! It is REALLY fun!  If you like Tattered Angel products you will LOVE this new pen!!!  And I will show you how to use it!!!!  I love the new Workshop On The Go Kits.... they explain how to make the pages or cards in detail!!! You wouldn't even need me to get you started.... or we can plan an afternoon of fun and do one together!!!  
February Stamp of the Month!
Here it is the latest SotM... I did not do the blog hop this month .... but, you can start your hop here....

 

Rainbow Falls

Snow Days!!!  Gotta love them!  Actually, I don't I'd rather be in school on a dreary wintery day and off school when the chances of sunshine and amazing temperatures are MUCH better but... the phone rang at 5am ....before I left for the gym for once.... and no school so ..... SCRAP!  Here is my newest.... Rainbow Falls.  Made with Rusted Sun papers again and my Silhouette for the letters.... the stitching was done by hand :)  Gotta love it! I knew 4-H skills would come in handy!!

Olivia Pages and Flip Flaps! PLUS cruise pictures!!!!!

These are a few pages I made right before Christmas...with the Olivia Workshop Kit!   Great stamp set and beautiful papers!!! Love those shimmery brads!! yes, it took a while to post them.... but check out S'mores!  I used flip flaps to make this page!  You can see the page closed (picture 1) and then with the flip flap open (picture 2)!  These are SO much fun to use!!  What a great way to add pictures to your layouts.

Here is the other page I finished!  This is the layout you have the pattern to with the Olivia Workshop Kit!!  This was quick and fun!

Now the pictures from the cruise so far!!! Here is my cover page for my scrapbook - I have not purchased the scrapbook to put these in yet - it is on my wish list from CTMH!!

This is made with Rusted Sun Petals in the Sand paper, assorted cardstocks and cut-outs from my Silhouette.
The next three 2 page layouts are when we wer on the plane and getting on the boat!

Navy cardstock with BoBunny Paradise Surf paper and cut-outs from Silhouette.

These pictures were taken when we got to the boat.  Orange cardstock with Basic Grey Color Me Silly papers and letters.

So far this is my most unfavorite page - I know I shouldn't asy that but I am thinking it will need reworking when I have the inspirtation!  I made it with Fancy Pants Paper - About a Girl.  Just not real thrilled with it.

Our first days were in Maui - see the clouds - yes, they were with us the whole time PLUS a lot of rain and not just those tropical showers.... but we still had fun!  Yellow cardstock with Rusted Sun papers - Umbrella, Indian Summer and Petals in the Sand...the letters were cut with my Silhouette.

The first full night of the cruise we had a mini-non-anniversaryAnniversary Dinner for my parents....

well that is the reason we were on the cruise in the first place! Kassidy sat between them and was VERY embarrased when they sang to them with her in the center!!   This paper is from BoBunny Paradise.

We were on Maui two days... these are from the second day when we went to Lahaina.  Baby Blue cardstock with Rusted Sun papers - BeachBall and Indian Summer. 

The last one I have completed, so far... is from Hilo.  We took a tour of a few places at Hilo, Hawaii - the big island - volcano side... these were from a garden... Lili'uokalani Gardens which were dedicated in 1917 to the memory of Queen Lili'uokalani... it was/is breath-taking...even in the rain!   For this I used CTMH paper - Unfortgetable and the flowers are stamps made with C1340Aspiration Stamp set and Exclusive Inks - Blush and Sorbet - then I knew it needed a little bling so today I ran to Archivers and got the glitzy square stickers- Crystal Stickers Mosaic.

Okay more to come when I get them completed!!!  Have some pictures already printed just not scrapped yet!!



Studio J

I got my Studio J layouts back from CTMH and I love them! (But, I do still prefer to use paper.)  Here are my layouts.... Belle actually fell asleep in the pie plate.  Dale let her have scraps .... what can I say??

And for the other one I made a double page spread into two seperate pages (here they are together.)

the one on the left is from November and Jessica's 24th birthday.  The one on the right is pictures from my Daylillies... I just love these bright sunny flowers!
I am going to try and get pictures taken of all of my Hawaii layouts I have completed so far AND a couple I did right before we left - one that uses flip flaps - I am telling you - these are a cool way to add a large number of pictures to one layout page!! If you want to learn more about them just ask me and I will help you learn!!!  Fun! Fun! Fun!

January Stamp of the Month



Hi!!  This month I did not participate in the Stamp of the Month Blog Hop, because of time constraints... packing and repacking and repacking again (still packed WAY too much!!) and traveling to Hawaii took a toll on my free time this month!  But, now that I am back I plan to not only use the stamp of the month but have HUNDREDS of pics to make into great layouts! (All of which I plan to post!!  I will be using many products, not just Close to My Heart products to complete my Hawaii album!!) I am going to post a link to the beginning of the Stamp of the Month Blog hop for my many friends and customers who like to look at the creative takes on the use to our newest stamp set!  Here is the link to Helen's web page... where you can visit the list of participants and begin the blog hop this month!!  January Blog Hop  As soon as I have completed some of Hawaii I will be posting them here!!

DeCeMbEr HoP

It has been awhile since I posted - a WHOLE month!  Cannot believe it went by that fast - I have done some scrapping this month - but, honestly most of it has been with Studio J and as soon as they are here I will post!!!   If you have come from Jean's Blog then you are on the right track!!!   I am enjoying scrapping that way but like traditional better.... but, that is just me.   So this month's stamps are totally awesome for Valentines day - they are great!!!  But, I had the chance to use them early and a few of you might recognize them as Wedding cards I made - which they were great for as well!!!

So here is my take with a wedding card.... I just love the fall colors of Olivia papers!!!  They were great for all of the fall weddings we were invited to this year! If you want to skip directions and materials hop on over to Wendy's Blog!

To make this you need:  Colonial White Cardstock cut to 11X 4.25"; Olivia Level 2 Paper Packet; Pear and Sunset Exclusive Inks Stamp Pads; 2"X2" My Acrylic Block; Euro Personal Paper Trimmer; Micro-Tip Scissors, Tombow Mono Adhesive, and Sponge cut into 1/8ths.  (I hold my sponges with binder clips so my hands do not get inky.)  I folded the card accordion style with the top being 3" the center piece 2 3/4" and the back 5 1/4".  The Olivia green paper is cut two times - one for the front and the remainder for the inside - in 3X3" and 3X8" pieces the orange center piece is cut from the back of the green piece and is 1/2" thick.  The middle square is the orange dot piece cut in a 3X3" square and antiqued with sunset, the center piece is the pear cardstock cut in a 2 1/4" square and antiqued with pear.  I stamped the sentiment with sunset and cut around it using the micro-tipped scissors.  Then I attached all pieces using Tombow Mono Adhesive.

It was really easy to create and looked great when finished!!!  In fact, it looked so good I made 3 of them :)
Now hop on over to Wendy's Blog.... for some more great ideas!!!

NoVeMbEr StAmP oF tHe MoNtH bLoG hOp!!!

How many times do you need a ThankYou card???  This months Stamp of the Month, "A Little Thanks" is AwEsOmE!!!  If you have gotten here from Wendy's blog then you are in the right spot!! You Need this set of 16 stamps in your collection so you can create wonderful thank you's for all those people you need to thank! Here is my take on these stamps using the Hooligans Level 2 Paper Pack, Lagoon, Gypsy, Pear and Sunset Exclusive Inks, Pear Marker, acrylic blocks, Sunset button from Sunset Mini-Medley Accents Collection, Black Hemp and Wishes Card Confidence Program Book.  If you do not want to see my directions you can hop on over to Jean's Blog.

Design fromWishes page 33. White Daisy Card Stock, Pear Card Stock (added texture and sanded using the Sanding Kit),  Pear Exclusive Ink Pad, Pear Marker, Hooligans  B&T Duo paper.

Design from Wishes page 24.  Lagoon Cardstock, B&T Duo Hooligans paper, Sunset Exclusive Ink Pad, Lagoon Exclusive Ink Pad.

Design from Wishes page 27, Pear Cardstock, B&T Duos Hooligans paper, Gypsy Exclusive Ink Pad, Lagoon Exclusives Ink Pad

Design from Wishes page 15, Lagoon Cardstock, B&T Duos Hooligans paper, Sunset Mini-Medley Accents Collection, Lagoon Exclusive Ink Pad, Black Hemp.

The GREATEST part about the Wishes Card Confidence Program is that it tells you how to cut the paper - all the sizes and everything you need to make your cards turn out PERFECT each and everytime!!!
Now hop on over to Jean's Blog and see the creative things she has done with this AwEsOmE stamp set!!!