It's been a while

Here are some cards made last night using all CTMH materials. Enjoy! To punch the popsicle stick, I used a Crop a dile and "FALL" is printed on a die using Quickutz.
The first card with Summertime, I borrowed the design from SU catty.

Birdies in August

I was browsing the newest SU catalog and found a few card layouts that I liked. This is an annual thing for me, browsing the SU catty and dog earing what I like, want and wish for. Usually, I get around to buying what I want, but hardly ever do I lift the layout that I like...so this week, I sat down and went for it. It was a lot more time consuming for me than I thought. Lifing a card is not the same as lifting a scrap page. Anyways, here is what I came up. Stamps are A Muse and Hero Arts, rest of materials are CTMH except for CS which is bashful blue by SU. Oh, and flower was from a Jenni Bowlin kit - can't remember who the maker is.

Happy Anniversary card

Ja and I celeberated our 8th wedding anniversary last weekend. Wow! How time does fly. For his card, I pulled out some of my artsy style stamps. I've used the clear stampington stamp set. Paper is Stemma - LOVE it. I'm going to cover some notebooks with it one day. I've stiched around the flower and backed a bit of Cranberry CS. I've used versafine black ink for the images. There is also the queen bird stamped in gold. The image is from Autumn Leaves clear set. I love how the card turned out - so many textures and not a lot of layers to it. It still sits on hubby's desk table.

July CTMH team meeting card

Here is what we made last Monday. It's a bit of Christmas in July. I have always wanted to do a Christmas in July...but here is as close as it gets. Maybe next year...or Christmas in August?

All items are CTMH. Colours are: twilight and chocolate CS. Ink is Chocolate, Cocoa, Black and Holiday red. Also used fun flock, 3D foam, sassy strands and eyelets. It's a pull out / hidden pocket type card. dimensions of cocoa CS is 3 x 6 - perfect for maximing 12x12 CS. This style of card also looks fab square.

Handmade name tags

These were really easy to make. A bit time consuming with all the steps and a bit of a ribbon hog. Good thing I had rolls of it and am not particularly attached the ribbon.

The base of the name tags are made from chip board. They are wall papered with Autumn Leaves papers, the back of the chip board is backed with an envelope then covered with cardstock. I painted and edged the front of the chipboard with some Delta art paint - which I have to say that I prefer over the Making Memories brand. Then stamped with the upcoming Close To My Heart August stamp of the month - gorgeous circle text background stamps with birds - and who doesn't love birds these days! Used the crop a dile to punch holes and strung about a metre of various printed and grosgrain ribbon. Tadah! Now repeat 35 times.

These are all for an upcoming weekend retreat...hope everyone likes them. Seems a shame to just sharpie your name on the front....Ill probably used my friend's suggestion and brings some alpha CTMH fonts and get them to stamp their names. Sorry I don't have a picture of the back - not very exciting though.

Just changing the paper

Sometimes a simple card is best...and this one is as simple as it gets. I've made a few of these just switching out the paper and the center image - but keeping the sentiment the same. Everything is from Close To My Heart. I've used Uptown Girls, Life's Delight stamp sets and the Let's Play papers.


Here are a few more altered items that I've made for gifties.

Busy night

It's been a busy night. I'm off on a scrapbooking retreat in Ingersoll ( sp?) this weekend and am getting some stuff ready. Since, I'm not down to the crunch, I also made this card using the upcoming CTMH August SOM ( stamp of the month). It is an amazing stamp set and I can't wait to make more with it. You will need one of our largest blocks though to use all the circle sentiments / images. It's pretty easy to keep the shape as a circle, just let the image "fall" by itself - don't try to force it into a circle.

All supplies by Close To My Heart, except for green CS - which is left over from an Autumn Leaves paper pad...but citrus leaf would be the closest. You can just make it out, but I've also clear embossed the bird - to give it a subtle effect. Colours used: Citrus Leaf, Heavenly Blue, Crystal Blue