Valentine’s Diaper Fold Treat Container

Diaper Fold Valentine's Treat Container

Short on time for creating a special Valentine’s treat?  Use the Diaper Fold Technique and create any size container/pouch to stuff with some yummy chocolates like Hershey Kisses & Hugs! Supplies used: Heartstrings Paper Packet (X7193B) Heartstrings Workshop Stamp Set (G1090) Whisper Ink Pad (Z2172) Pink Shimmer Trim (Z1986) Sanding Kit (Z1294) Cranberry Striped Twill … Read more Valentine’s Diaper Fold Treat Container

Cricut Art Philosophy Thanksgiving Place Setting

It’s just one week until Thanksgiving.  Are you ready?  Here’s a creative idea for place settings using CTMH’s Cricut Art Philosophy Collection.  We made this thankful turkey project at this month’s Stamp Club.  We started with the Fry Box cut from the Cricut Art Philosophy in Saddle Cardstock.  We then added a Saddle Fundamentals Cardstock … Read more Cricut Art Philosophy Thanksgiving Place Setting

Polar Bear Home for the Holidays Card

Each month with my Stamp Club I always create a project using the current Stamp of the Month.  Here is the card we created this month using the Home for the Holidays Stamp Set (this set coordinates with our Cricut Art Philosophy Collection.)  It was fun showing off the ease and beauty of using 2 separate … Read more Polar Bear Home for the Holidays Card

October Stamp of the Month: Home for the Holidays

Close To My Heart’s October Stamp of the Month—Home for the Holidays–coordinates beautifully with the Cricut Art Philosophy Collection.  This stamp set makes festive holiday tags, darling handmade cards as well as the perfect accents for your scrapbook pages.  You can purchase this stamp set all month long for it’s regular retail value of $17.95 … Read more October Stamp of the Month: Home for the Holidays

Cricut Artiste Gift Card Holder

  Last night, I taught a Custom Cricut Class.  There were 2 objectives…1.) show them how to use their *NEW* Cricut Explore Machines and 2.) create some gift card holders.  This scallop edge gift card holder card made from CTMH’s Cricut Artiste Collection was one of three projects we made.  This was to give them … Read more Cricut Artiste Gift Card Holder

Cricut Collections – Artbooking and Artiste

Close To My Heart has exclusive Cricut Collections that you can use to make great projects. You can choose from our four collections–each contains a total of 700 images along with 3 coordinating stamp sets and 3 coordinating chipboard sheets of shapes. There’s the newest collection–Artbooking: And here are a few project samples from this collection… OR there’s … Read more Cricut Collections – Artbooking and Artiste

Island Greetings Art Philosophy Card

  Another Cricut creation in honor of this month’s special.  Today’s card was created using the Art Philosophy Collection (our 1st exclusive Cricut Collection!)  Other supplies used include: Island Greetings QuickCards Stamp Set A1147 Ivy Lane Paper Packet X7177B Lagoon Cardstock X5762 White Daisy Cardstock 1385 Desert Sand Stamp Pad Z2118 Creme Brulee Z2406, Honey … Read more Island Greetings Art Philosophy Card

March’s Happy Place

  Here’s another card made using CTMH’s March Stamp of the Month, Happy Place.  It’s a great use of our Embossing Folders, Alcohol markers and especially our Stitch Guide! Supplies Used: Happy Place Stamp Set S1403 Ruby Cardstock X5927 Black Cardstock 1386 White Daisy Cardstock 1385 Black & Grey Glitter Paper Z1829 Archival Black Stamp … Read more March’s Happy Place

Happy Place with CTMH’s Stamp of the Month

Here’s a fancy fold card that I made using the Happy Place Stamp of the Month. I focused more on the technique of creating a fancy fold card while incorporating cuts from the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge. This will be one of the projects my Stamp Club will create this month.     Supplies used: Happy … Read more Happy Place with CTMH’s Stamp of the Month

Wild About Love Stamp of the Month

  CTMH’s February Stamp of the Month—Wild About Love is SO ADORABLE!  I loved it as soon as I saw it.  Super, super cute!  And for many, it gets the song “What does the fox say?” stuck in their head! For last month’s Crazy for Cards event, I knew I wanted to use this stamp … Read more Wild About Love Stamp of the Month

Upcycled Beaker Vase

  About a month ago I received a bunch (2 full boxes!) of used beakers that were about to be thrown out.  There are so many great things you can do to re-use these.  So this upcycled beaker vase became one of this month’s Stamp Club projects!  Quick and easy, but very delightful!  It only takes … Read more Upcycled Beaker Vase

Love Your Smile Card

As promised here is another amazing card I received in my swap using the *NEW* CTMH Holiday Guide products.  This simple, yet stunning card is from Jen L. Supplies used include: Z1915 Hip Pics Album Kit Stamp Set X7176B Sparkle & Shine Paper Collection Z2173 Slate Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad Z2170 Ruby Exclusive Inks Stamp … Read more Love Your Smile Card

CTMH’s Holiday Gift Guide

It’s the Holiday Season! I participated in a card swap with some other CTMH Consultants to make fabulous samples using CTMH’s new products to share with you over the coming weeks.   This first card came from Roberta M.  She used the *NEW* Charming Chevrons Stamp Set. Fun, right?  She even incorporated our *NEW* Sparkles … Read more CTMH’s Holiday Gift Guide

Another Scandinavian Wishes Card

Today’s share is another card made with this month’s Stamp of the Month—Scandinavian Wishes.  This is one of the projects my monthly stamp club will be creating.  After making this card, it really changed my perspective on this stamp set–I love this card!!  In fact, one of the gals at last night’s stamp club said … Read more Another Scandinavian Wishes Card