The Quilted Scrapper

Welcome to the Roxybonds Scrappers Team Blog Hop! We will be featuring artwork from the Later Sk8R Pack. If you have come here from Jen's blog , then you are on the right path. I decided to create a 3-D project  for my son's bathroom. My goal is to write a note to him every morning! Besides the Later Sk8R paper I used the My Creations Bracket Frame,   Chalkboard Paper , Dimensional Elements Banner  and some retired Rub-ons from Close to My Heart. To stamp my son's name I used the Token Alphabet Stamp Set and Outdoor Denim Ink . The entire project took me no more than 30 minutes and less than $20 to create and of course I have plenty of extra embellishments for another project! Now hop on over to Cat's Blog for your next stop. Here's a list of all our team members participating: Jen Patrick at Roxybond Stephanie Feist-YOU ARE HERE Catherine Nowak at Cat's Scrapbooking Tess Hilton at Sassy Cricut Crafting

Welcome to our November Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! This month Close to My Heart is offering a stamp set called "Capture the Date" throughout the month of November. This versatile set can be purchased exclusively through a Close to My Heart Independent Consultant for only $5 with a qualifying purchase of $50. (That’s a $17.95 value!) We are also proud to announce that Close to My Heart wants to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy. To show our support of Red Cross relief efforts for those areas of the US severely affected by Hurricane Sandy, Close To My Heart will donate $1 for every Stamp of the Month set sold as a part of this promotion during November. In this hop, you will see projects featuring this fun stamp set from many talented crafty ladies! Enjoy our blog hop. If you have just hopped onto my blog, please start at the beginning at Lucy's blog – Love 2 Create . If you came from Theodora of Celebrate Crafts . I created an Adv...

I am having so much fun with the new Close to My Heart 3-D products and paper. This week I altered a card box using Clementine and created 10 cards to go in it. It will make a great gift for Christmas. I used the following Close to My Heart products that can be purchased directly from my website: My Creations Card Box Clementine Paper Pack Bulk Cards Dimensional Elements Mixed Shapes Twilight Ink Cocoa Ink Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge Cricut Artise Cartridge

Welcome to our October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! This month Close to My Heart is offering a stamp set called "Very Merry Christmas". This set can be purchased exclusively through a Close to My Heart Independent Consultant for only $5 with a qualifying purchase of $50. (That’s a $17.95 value!) In this hop, you will see projects featuring this fun stamp set from many talented crafty ladies! Enjoy our blog hop - we hope we inspire you to create your “very” own Merry Christmas projects! We are having a giveaway – that’s right blog candy for you hoppers! Carolyn of Nuts 4 Scrappin  is giving away a stamp set to one of our hoppers! She is giving away a stamp set called "Bonjour". You can see a picture of the stamp set on her blog. All you have to do to be eligible to win is to leave a comment on each blog and become a follower of Carolyn's blog. If you have just hopped onto my blog, please start at the beginning at Lucy'...

As soon as the new Close to My Heart Idea Book came out over the summer I knew I had to have the new canvas journal. However, I became stumped with how to decorate it. Thanks to pintrest though I soon discovered a great way to decorate canvas at this fabulous blog More Than Photography  and found a great technique that I just had to try. Her directions are excellent and the only thing I would add is to use lots of modge podge. Part of my tree did not adhere, but with some added embellishments it turned out. I love journals and the idea of journaling and gave this to our high school babysitter.

Thank you for joining us on our “Take a Walk in the Moonlight” Blog Hop. We have a fabulous path for you to follow as you take your walk in the moonlight with us as we feature Close to My Heart’s Moonlight paper pack.   If you just happened to come to this blog, you should begin your walk at the beginning at Lucy's blog - http://www.love2createitall.com . My project is a door sign to welcome friends and family to our home. I love the white core cardstock from Close to My Heart as it is so easy to create great embellishments as I did with the leaves. All I did was use took some sandpaper to the edges of the leaves to give it a great weathered look. I used the following Close to My Heart products: Moonlight paper pack Olive Green Paper Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge Haunted Assortment Smokey Plum Ink The next stop on your moonlight walk is Erin  and I cannot wait to see another one of her fabulous projects. Here is the list of all the talented c...

Close to My Heart came out with some of the most amazing home decor products with this Idea Book . They now have frames, cubby's, display trays, journals, blocks and so much more. I have had time to play with the My Creations Star though and along with the Dakota paper pack and Pacifica Ink I created this star as a birthday gift. You can buy all supplies needed at www.stephaniefeist.ctmh.com . Happy Crafting!

Welcome to our July Art Philosophy Blog Hop! Each month we will showcase a feature of the amazing Art Philoso phy Cricut cartridge which can be purchased exclusively through a Close to My Heart Independent Consultant. We're so excited to be doing this hop and we have a fabulous lineup with some very talented ladies. There will be lots of fun projects AND some blog candy!!! Lucy Kelleher, our hostess and fellow CTMH Consultant, will be giving away a stamp set! She is giving away a prior Stamp of the Month set that can no longer be purchased called "You Are ...". (This stamp set has a $17.95 retail value). You will find a picture of the stamp set on her blog. To enter to win, you will need to leave a comment on her blog and on every stop of the blog hop. If you also become a follower of Lucy's blog, she will give you another entry . This month we will be showcasing the "Card" feature of the cartridge. Did you know there are 100 different card sh...

If you enjoy playing with paper but card making or scrapbooking are not your cup of tea, the new Close to My Heart Idea Book is full of ideas and projects for you. They have more craft projects to decorate your home than I have ever seen. One of my favorites is the new Altered Frame. I used the following Close to My Heart Products: Altered Frame Flirty Paper pack Opaque Gems New England Ivy Ink I used the Art Philosophy Cartridge and Design Studio to create the frame shape and then used the new Artise Cartridge to create the flowers and leaves. Stay tuned to see the new Idea Book live on-line on August 1st or let me know you want on and I will mail you one ASAP.

First, I have to thank of Gerriann Armstrong of  Scrapbooking & Stamping Creations  for this fabulous idea. Her video was great on how to put this awesome gift idea together. Here is the final my product: I used these Close to My Heart Products: Art Philosophy Cartridge Dotty for You paper Sweet Leaf Cardstock Lagoon Ink Cocoa Cardstock Supplies: Box from CTMH Collage Cubes 2 pieces of cardstock 2 pieces of chipboard cut to 9x9 Ink Modge Podge or other adhesive Misc. supplies to decorate the top of the box. Cut the cardstock approximately 1/2" larger than your chipboard and wrap the cardstock around your chipboard: You will do this twice. After that I chose to cover my cardstock with patterned paper (even though most of it will be covered with the box I wanted a finished look. At this point I inked my collage cube box so it was not a bright white. I used Lagoon Ink: Now it is time to adhere your bottom piece of covered chip...

Using Close to My Heart's Milk Cartons (Z1739) I created what I think is the cutest cupcake box to deliver a cupcake to a special person on their birthday, or any occasion for that matter! I used the all Close to My Heart Products and they are: Smoothie Ink Black Ink Lagoon Ink Creme Brule Cardstock Dotty For You paper June Stamp of the Month "Tweet for you" Here are the pictures of all sides: I hope you are all having a great Father's Day and are inspired by this box to create something tonight!

Last weekend my son attended the birthday party of a little girl we have known for 5 of her 6 years. We spent lot's of time with the little girl and her family and I love doing "girlie" things for the 3 girls since I only have Simon! I decided to take a Close to My Heart Card Box (Z1647), the Lucy ( X7149B) paper pack, some Color Ready Seam Binding Ribbon ( Z1732), Opaque Pearl Adhesive Gems ( Z1336)  and Sweet Leaf Ink to create this box for her special things. The flowers were created with the Close to My Heart Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge. All supplies can be ordered at: www.stephaniefeist.ctmh.com

I saw a project very similar to this on Pintrest, which led me to this fabulous blog, www.happyclippings.com . Not only does this site have great DIY ideas, it has great coupons too! We all have old frames laying around, so I grabbed one, painted it and used the Close to My Heart Dotty For You paper to create this fabulous Summer Wreath/Frame for my front door. I used my Art Philosophy Cartridge, CTMH Baker's Twine and Close to My Heart Cocoa Ink.

You might have noticed that there is no Day 18. Day 18's project was a bust and ended up in the garbage because it was so bad I could not even pass it off as my son's craft project:) Day 19 turned out much better though! I bought some 8x8 blank canvas frames a couple of months back to modge podge pictures from our Alaskan/Seattle vacation. I even ordered the pictures at that time, but never got them done. Today I finished them!!!! First I painted black around the edges of the canvas so if the picture was not perfectly straight or sized right you could not tell. Then after the paint dried I applied a layer of modge podge and laid the photo on top and gently smoothed it out. Once the photo dried a couple of hours, I applied a thin layer of modge podge on top of the black and white photo to take the shine off of it and give it a more matte finish. (If you are using pictures you printed at home, test first before applying to paper.) Here are my two canvas' ready to go on ...

Now is the time to stock up on your favorite Close to My Heart products, try out some new products or buy another pack of your favorite paper. Between now and May 31st, Close to My Heart is rewarding it's customers with a fabulous paperpack of 24 sheets of patterned paper for only $5 with any purchase of $35. If you have never purchased Close to My Heart products, visit my on-line store  and take a look around. Whether you are a cardmaker, scrapbooker or paper crafter Close to My Heart has products for you. With the Dotty For You Paper Pack I have created the following items and still have plenty of paper left to continue playing: My Creations Cube If you have never purchased Close To My Heart Products here are some recommendations that will coordinate with your Dotty For You Paper. All die cuts were made with the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge from Close to My Heart. If you purchase the Cartridge directly from me this month I will throw in the Dotty For You pap...