Halloween isn’t here yet, but you’re sure to find Christmas decorations and crafting supplies already in the stores. So how would you feel about some Christmas Tunes? Maybe a Christmas Tunes Stamp Set from Close To My Heart? You guessed it! This month’s Close To My Heart Stamp of the Month is called Christmas Tunes. … Read more Christmas Tunes Stamp of the Month
Since it is the final few days to order Close To My Heart’s From the Heart Slider Card Kit, I thought I’d share another sample card I created with this kit. This time I used the newly released Stronger Together Stamp Set that helps support disaster relief; all proceeds from this stamp set go directly … Read more Stronger Together Slider Card
It’s just 1 week until my first holiday project tutorial gets emailed out. That’s right, my Annual 12 Weeks of Christmas is almost here!! But the only people who receive these amazing holiday project tutorials (cards, gifts and wrapping ideas) are those who are on my Mailing List. If you aren’t already on my Mailing … Read more 1 Week Until 12 Weeks of Christmas Begins
I’ve been wanting to try out a Recessed Panel Card for some time. My twins’ birthday was this past Friday so I took this opportunity to create 2 different styles of Recessed Panel Cards. While the same technique, I love how unique each looks just by changing where I created the recessed panel at on … Read more Recessed Panel Cards
Have you seen Close To My Heart’s special Operation Smile Stamp Set? It’s called Punny Pals and is super adorable! What’s even better though is that with each purchase of this stamp set, $7 is donated to Operation Smile to assist those with a cleft lip or cleft palate. It really is a worthy cause. … Read more Punny Pals Operation Smile Card
September’s Stamp of the Month from Close To My Heart–Feel So Blessed— is the perfect set for creating thank you cards or even special Thanksgiving projects. As is the case each month, this set is only available during the month of September. Plus, if you spend $50 or more, you can get this special stamp … Read more Feel So Blessed Card
Today on Close To My Heart’s blog, they talked about how the National Stamping Month Special–From the Heart–is designed to be versatile and let you be the artist. While the From the Heart Stamp Set is definitely a beautiful set–and one which you would use over and over again–these cards can make some pretty … Read more From the Heart Christmas Card
September is National Stamping Month and Close To My Heart is celebrating by offering a gorgeous Slider Card Kit. The From the Heart Card Kit includes the supplies to create 12 fabulous interactive cards. Plus, when you purchase the kit, you save 20% off the retail price! Want more card bases? No problem, you can … Read more National Stamping Month Celebration
It’s finally arrived! Close To My Heart’s holiday collection is here! The *NEW* Holiday Expressions Catalog is full of crafty goodness for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Fall, Christmas and more. I made this fun Santa Circle Accordion Card with the *NEW* Little Saint Nick Stamp and the *NEW* Ho, Ho, Ho Stamp. I kept mainly to 3 … Read more CTMH Holiday Collection
It’s that time of year–time for back to school! In fact, today was the first day of school for my kids! Close To My Heart’s August Stamp of the Month, School Year, is the perfect stamp set for the start of school, end of school and everything in between! For this card, I stamped the … Read more First Day of School
Today we are going to learn how to do a fun (and beautiful!) Salt Watercolor Technique.
First, let’s start with the supplies you’ll need:
STEP 1:
You will want to start by doing a wet wash on your watercolor paper. Simply wet your paintbrush and apply a coat of water to your paper.
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Today’s card is one from our Spring Fling Event. It’s a fun way to present a gift card. Plus, it has a fun look with the twist fold! We used a couple of techniques with this card aside from the fun fold. I took 3 sponge daubers to apply the ink to create the multi-colored … Read more Summer Twist Fold Gift Card Holder
This year Canada celebrated their 150th Anniversary on July 1st. And as luck would have it, CTMH is introducing a *NEW* exclusive Cricut Collection called Hello Canada. So…in celebration of this special anniversary, CTMH is offering this Cricut Collection PLUS a special celebration stamp PLUS a paper bundle (which includes *NEW* paper colors!) at a … Read more CTMH Special for Canada’s 150th Anniversary
In celebration of today, I wanted to share this 4th of July card I created. I combined patterned papers from CTMH’s No Worries and Jack Paper Collections and used the Fourth of July Stamp. I really like how it turned out! I especially like my layered star I created with the Basic Star Thin Cuts … Read more Happy 4th of July!