Sometimes I like to combine papers, patterns, and textures when I create. This layout was created by combining three different paper packets. Can you guess what they are? If you guessed Pear & Partridge, Flirty, and Clementine, you guessed correctly! I simply cut strips of the different papers and adhered them to a piece of…
What a great way to wish your favorite teacher a “Happy World Teacher’s Day!” Thanks to Close to my Heart for the adorable artwork.
Discover the beauty of sponge daubing. When you ink your stamps with sponge daubers, you can create a soft, shaded look that is perfect for a page or card! If you’d like to order any of the products to make the cute projects in the video, feel free to do so by clicking the image…
Thank you to all that posted such wonderful organizing suggestions and tips. Be sure to read though all of the comments on this post to get some great organizing ideas! The winner of the FREE pack of 3 craft boxes is Barb who posted on September 27th at 12:24pm. Barb said, “I am working on…
October’s Creative Club will be held on Thursday, October 18th at 7pm. We will be using Close to my Heart’s beautiful Pear & Partridge Collection to make 15 Christmas cards (5 cards each of 3 designs) and a cute tote bag to hold them. Once you send out your cards, you can use the tote…
Can you believe that October is here already? What happened to September? What happened to summer for that matter? LOL! It definitely went by quickly for this crafty girl. The good news is that a new month brings new Close to my Heart promotions! And do I have a couple of great ones to share…
With all of the organizing that I have been trying to do lately, I was happy to see that Close to my Heart came out with a short video today highlighting their awesome new organizers. I currently have two small organizers, two medium organizers, and 9 craft boxes and am going to be…
I was inspired to make my card by this beautiful card by Marion Vagg. Marion had posted the card while we were both taking an online card class called Clean & Simple. I have admired it since then and finally decided to use it as inspiration for my card today. One of today’s assignments in…
My son came home from school and shared a cool website with me called Tagxedo that his teacher showed the class today. It allows you to make word clouds in just about any shape, using any words you like. I was able to enter my blog address and it automatically pulled all of the words…