Pinwheel-Close to My Heart May Stamp of the Month-Blog Hop

Welcome to our May Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  This month's stamp from Close to My Heart is "Pinwheel" and is available exclusively through your Close to My Heart consultant from May 1 - 31, 2013.  You can purchase this stamp set for only $5 with a qualifying purchase.

If you have just hopped onto my blog, please start at the beginning at Lucy's blog – Love 2Create. If you came from "Theo" of Celebrate Crafts then you are in the right place!

I used the Claire paper pack and the Stamp of the Month to create these cards.

Your next stop on our "Pinwheel" hop is Cat of Cat's Scrapbooking.

1. Lucy ~ Love 2 Create
2. Amber ~ Scrapper's Therapy
3. Theo~ Celebrate Crafts
4. Stephanie-YOU ARE HERE!
5. Cat ~ catscrapbooking

 Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you.

Dream Pop Layouts

I have had so much fun playing with Dream Pop this month. Now if only I had a little girl to scrap these for! Here are 2 layouts I created. The first is all Dream Pop with some sparkles. The second layout is all Dream Pop using Whisper as the base. 

 

 

You can purchase Dream Pop here for only $10 with any $35 (regularly priced items) from my website.

"Beautiful Thoughts" Canvas Journal

 

 

I created this My Creations® Canvas Journal for a friend who will soon be a first time mom. I used Dream Pop, the May CTMH special, Color-Ready Canvas Alphabet, Close to My Heart Honey Ink and Sparkles Clear Flourish-Small. 

 

I used my scissors to fussy cut all the flowers, circles and banners from 3 sheets of Dream Pop. Here is a sneak peak of all the Dream Pop papers:

 

 Dream Pop is available May 1-May 31st from any Close to My Heart consultant for only $10 with any $35 purchase. Starting Wednesday you can purchase here.

 

 

 



Dream Pop Cards

I have had so much fun playing with Dream Pop in layouts I decided to try using with some cards. I came up with 3 very different cards using the following Close to My Heart supplies:

Dream Pop
Card Chatter-Focus on the Little Things Stamp
4 My Friend Stamp
Grey Wool Ink
Glitter Paper
Art Philosophy Cartridge

Look for tomorrow's post using Dream Pop and a CTMH Journal.

Happy Mother's Day

Welcome to our April Art Philosophy/Artiste Blog Hop! As you know, both the Artiste and the Art Philosophy cartridges are available exclusively through a Close to My Heart consultant. If you don't already have a Consultant that you are currently working with, please contact one the Consultants in our hop with any questions you have!

If you have just hopped onto my blog, please start at the beginning at Lucy's blog – Love 2Create. If you came from Jennifer ~ 4 Hearts Scrapbooking then you are in the right place!

Our challenge this month features not only one of these amazing cartridges but we also have a Mother's Day theme since Mother's Day is less than a month away.  I decided to create a layout of a Mother's Day outing in 2010. Here is what I came up with:

I used the following Close to My Heart supplies:

• Make it From the Heart Vol. 1-pattern 9
• Surf's Up paper pack
• Surf's Up Assortment
• Surf's Up Stickease Assortment
• Cocoa Ink
• Indian Corn Blue Cardstock
• Color Ready Canvas Alphabet
• Art Philosophy Cartridge (I used square 3 at 9" and 3" to create the two squares)

All items I used are available for purchase on my website and if you "join" my Mystery Hostess Gathering you could win $25 in free Close to My Heart products.

Here is the complete lineup in case you get lost along the way:

1.Lucy ~ Love 2 Create
2.Theodora ~ Celebrate Crafts
3.Wendy ~ My Scrapbooking Blog
4.Jennifer ~ 4 Hearts Scrapbooking
6.Stephanie Feist-YOU ARE HERE!

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you in creating your own Mother's Day projects!

Dream Pop Layouts

Available on May 1st through May 31st is a fabulous 24 sheet paper pack from Close to My Heart for only $10 (with any $35 purchase of products from the current Idea Book). I have been creating layouts with the paper and here is what I have created so far.

I added the Whisper and Gray cardstock for the 1st layout and the Cocoa cardstock for the second layout. All other paper is part of the Dream Pop pack.

Here is the entire paper pack:

Starting May 1st you can place an order here!

Claire and Pun Fun

I cannot believe I have been lazy on updating my blog. I am sorry for that. I have been scrapping up a storm, but with the weather getting nicer, soccer starting and my job hunting it is so much quicker to post on Facebook then to write a blog post! I will catch up this weekend so you don't miss out on any great layouts. Last night I decided to play with my Puns of Praise Stamp Set from Close to My Heart. I also used the new Claire paper pack, Outdoor Denim and Sunset Close to My Heart Ink.

Here are the 4 cards I made:

The cutting instructions are as follows:

Card 1-  Blue cardstock 4"x 5 1/4"
              The chevrons are hand cut from one of the patterned papers in Claire
              Sunset cardstock 3 1/2" square
              Pink cardstock    3" square
              Blue cardstock 1/2" x 4

Stamped and inked with Outdoor Denim

Card 2- Patterned paper-4x 5 1/4"
             Orange Strip 1 1/2" x 4"
             Sunset cardstock 2" square

Stamped and inked with Outdoor Denim.

Card 3- Blue cardstock 3 1/2" x 4"
             Gray dot patterned paper 1 1/2" x 4
             Floral patterned paper 3 1/2" square
             Blue patterned paper 3 1/4" square
             Sunset cardstock 3" square

Stamped and inked with Sunset and Outdoor Denim

Card 4-  Banners were randomly cut between 2" and 1 1/2"

Stamped and inked with Sunset.