Close To My Heart’s July Stamp of the Month—Sweet Life, includes 9 images for only $5 with a qualifying $50 order. As always, this set is only available during the month of July. Let’s look at the beautiful projects you can make with this limited-time stamp set… a beautiful clear pillow box perfect for gift-giving. … Read more Sweet Life Stamp of the Month
It’s the end of the school year. And you know what that means? Teacher gifts and thank you cards! Here is one I made up for one of our Kinder teachers for all the families to sign. Still in the process of making the gifts. But I’ll be sure to share pictures when they’re … Read more A Teacher Thank You Card
Have you been enjoying the *NEW* colors and patterns in Close To My Heart’s Dream Pop Collection for National Scrapbooking Month? I know I have! Here’s another card I made up using a retired stamp set called Simple Stitches. Love this stamp set!! The faux stitching and the “pop” from the embossed look of … Read more Sew Happy with Dream Pop Papers!
In this short 2-minute video you’ll see how quick and easy it can be to keep your stamps clean and preserved. Simply using Close To My Heart’s My Acrylix Stamp Scrubber along with the My Acrylix Spritz Cleaner will help keep your stamps in tip-top shape. To learn more about CTMH’s My Acrylix Stamp Scrubber, … Read more How to Keep Your Stamps Clean and Preserved
This fun pinwheel card was created with this month’s Stamp of the Month called Pinwheel. It’s a set of 10 images and is perfect for every day celebrations, birthdays and simple summer fun! And best of all, it coordinates with the Cricut Artiste Collection so you can have perfect cuts with perfect stamping–simple “wowie” … Read more Let’s Celebrate Pinwheels Card
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!!
For Valentine’s Day I wanted to share a fun valentine with you. With mustaches being all the rage these days, this makes for a cute card! “I {mustache} you a question…will you be my valentine?” 🙂 Card uses the Cricut Artiste cartridge to cut out the mustache (at 1″) and then the Perfect Fit-Dad Stamp … Read more A Fun Valentine