The Quilted Scrapper

I am making slow but steady progress on our vacation layouts! This is when we met Pluto at Hollywood Studios. I used the Mickey & Friends cartridge along with the retired Chalk It Up paper to create this layout. The stars are made from the Paper Fundamentals- Enchantment pack. 

The June Stamp of the Month  is one of my favorite's this past year. I love the versatility the stamp set has. You can create layouts, cards, tags and so much more. This weekend I had the opportunity to play with the stamp set and using 3 current paper packs , Seaside, Brushed and Chalk it Up, to make these 3 cards. I also used the following Close to My Heart products: ShinHan markers Tropical Paradise stamp set Lagoon Ink Pear Ink Flaxen Ink Black Ink The Ice Cream Dream stamp set can be yours for only $5 with any $50 purchase. Place your order today here .  

The April Stamp of the Month available for only $5 with any $50 purchase from  Close to My Heart . This set is perfect for all occasions of cards. 17 unique sentiments, a typewriter and a great hand stamp.  Here is some art work from Close to My Heart corporate office: I created this Thank You card for a male teacher and thought the mix of Chalk it Up and the stamp set created the perfect masculine card.    Enjoy and grab your stamp set today. 

have the most amazing 6th grade teaching team I am working with this fall during my Student Teaching. I wanted to give them a little something to brighten their Monday morning! I decided to make some quick post-it-note holders for them using Chalk it Up and the Teacher Appreciation Stamp set. I cut the paper 3 1/2" x 7 1/2" and then creased the paper at approximately 3 3/4" and 4". All supplies (except the post-it-notes) can be purchased here .

I have had so much fun this month playing with the Close to My Heart Chalk It Up  paper. Tonight I made 3 cards using different papers from the pack and 3 different stamps.  This card uses the Lagoon dots and I also used the Your Own Kind of Wonderful  stamp set. This is by far my most favorite stamp set in the new Annual Inspirations. To create the butterfly I second generation stamped the solid butterfly and then stamped the decorative butterfly over the top. I also added some silver shimmer trim. This card I used Lagoon and Sorbet cardstock and stamped the Great Job stamp in Lagoon and added black enamel stars.     This card was created with the Teacher Appreciation stamp set and the black striped twill ribbon . All these products are available on my website .

As soon as I saw the new Close to My Heart Chalk it Up paper I knew immediately that I could incorporate the scraps from the Workshop on the Go to the CTMH Kraft Container . The containers are only $3.95 and everything else is left over from the WOTG . I loved the new CTMH Teacher Appreciation  stamp set and it was perfect with the owl and sentiments. I also used the Cricut Artbooking and the stamp that came with it to make the paper.  In the Survival Kit I put in chocolate, pencils, lotion, hand sanitizer, tums, and tic tacs.

I had so much fun making this card for my Open House tomorrow night. I used the new Chalk It Up paper from Close to My Heart along with the Great Job stamp, Thistle and Black stamp pads and a few of the new ShinHan markers. I used the CTMH Edge Distresser along the edges of the black and lagoon cardstock. I then stamped the large star flourish from Great Job and used some of the small stars on the stamp set. I then colored in using the ShinHan markers now available from Close to My Heart. You can order all the supplies used to make this card from here .

Close to My Heart makes scrapbooking easy for all skill levels. They also have kits that give you all the paper, stamps and embellishments you need to create beautiful, personalized layouts. One such kit is the Chalk it Up Workshop on the Go . Here is a picture of the kit: All I had to add to it was adhesive and the following Close to My Heart inks: Colonial White Ink Black Ink Sorbet Ink The Workshops on the Go provide cutting instructions and assembly instructions. There are two sets of instructions for this kit based on if you have the Cricut Artbooking cartridge. The best part of the kit is after I got these three layouts together (I had to add a piece of black paper and a piece of Chalk it Up bulk paper) I have enough paper to make cards, teacher gifts of more layouts. You can still create these three layouts with the kit provided you would just have different background paper for the 2nd layout. I also have plenty of ribbon and embellishments left to add to...