CTMH Card Ideas

Here’s a cheery card, made using the My Sunshine stamp set. And here’s a closer look:  

  Today’s beautiful card is from Rose Mary S.  It’s a nice twist with this Love Doily Stamp set.  When I first saw the set, I immediately thought of embossing the doily in white to make it really pop, but I love how she used Ruby ink.  It has a nice pop when paired with … Read more Love Doily Card

I thought today I could show you a project I created with the Perfect Fit-Mom Stamp Set–a Mother’s Day card.  And I should point out, that this stamp set has coordinating images that work with the Cricut Artiste Collection (awesome!) Pretty, right? Here are the supplies I used to make it: Perfect Fit-Mom Stamp Set … Read more Happy Mother’s Day Card

New month equals new Stamp of the Month with Close To My Heart.  I am loving the *NEW* My Sunshine stamp set for sure! How great are these images?!? Here is the first project I created using this stamp set.   I love how the wing is a separate image so you can stamp it in a different … Read more April Stamp of the Month: My Sunshine

Happy 1st Day of Spring!   I thought this cheerful card from Lisa S. was a perfect card to share today.  It uses the *NEW* adorable Bugs & Hugs Stamp Set along with the emboss resist technique–love this technique as it really makes things POP!  Check out the fabulous grass/flowers/mushrooms combo at the base of the … Read more Life’s Sweet Card

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!   I created another card with some paper braiding (which I still need to make a video for–I demo’d this at CTMH’s Annual Convention last summer and promised to make a “how-to” video; time has just slipped by!)  Love how it makes the trendy chevron pattern when you do it!   … Read more Lucky St. Patrick’s Day

  All month long you can grab yourself a little happiness…Floral Happiness that is!  This month’s Stamp of the Month called Floral Happiness is a beautiful set of floral images along with sentiments about what makes you happy.  The images are base and shade (or 2-step stamps–they go by different names).  In all honesty, I’m … Read more Floral Happiness Card

  I love how Close To My Heart has so many fantastic stamp sets.  They are all so fabulous!  This A Bowwow Stamp Set is so darling… I used this stamp set along with our *NEW* Buzz and Bumble Paper Collection.  I colored in the image with our Watercolor Pencils and then softened it using … Read more A Bow Wow Dog Card

  Mustaches are very trendy right now; so much so that Close To My Heart released a stamp set called Perfect Fit–Dad to coordinate with their mustache cutout found on the Cricut Artiste cartridge. Pretty fun stamp set, right?  I played around with the circle frames to create the eyes…just insert some brads!  You could … Read more Fun with Mustaches

Finished up a wedding card using both the *NEW* For Always Paper Collection (so pretty!!) and *NEW* The Happy Couple Stamp Set.  We have 2 family weddings coming up so it’s time to get prepared!!  

Another card made using this month’s stamp of the month–Happy Valentine’s.  Pretty simple.  The only real time intensive portion was on the cracked glass technique on the rose.   The cracked glass technique is really quite simple if you are familiar with heat embossing.  At its core, it’s simply creating layers of clear embossing on … Read more Smitten Valentine’s Card

Working with the papers contained in the Whooo’s Your Valentine Kit I created this card (well, I had to add some Slate CS, but otherwise all the other cardstock–even the glitter paper were in the kit!) I also utilized our Silver Metallic Marker and Black Sparkles.  

Happy Valentine’s is a set of 7 classic and elegant images.  For my first project with this set I created this card using embossing and some watercoloring. I even used our alcohol markers to color in my bling to coordinate with my watercolored flowers!

Wishing you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas!