Friday, December 7, 2012

Excited & Nervous!

    I signed up for a Craft Show this weekend at Frankling Heights High School in Columbus, OH.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I'm going to do well and have fun!  I'm excited to share my love of creativity, but I'm more nervous about either not having enough to sell or having things no one will want to purchase! (Plus I'm doing this solo - what if I have to go to the bathroom?  More importantly how am I going to shop at the other tables?!?)
    While I have a lot of homemade Christmas cards and gift tags to sell, I made some other fun items.
    I made 3 mini-albums from CTMH chipboards.  These were my favorite project I worked on!
     Above are some tree boxes I made.  These all used the CTMH Pear & Partridge papers & CTMH stamps. Below are treat plant boxes I made.  These would make good teacher gifts! (And yes, that's my new Cricut in the background - can't even begin to tell you how much I love it!!)
     And last, but not least, I got a little inspired by a cutting mistake I made - and these cute little Santa beards on a stick were the result!  Silly, don't you think?!
     I'll keep you posted on how things go at the Craft Fair!


Thursday, November 8, 2012

My First Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge Entry

One of the things I keep wanting to do is try out layouts from sketches I see online.  Different sites have different challenges - such as the Color My Heart blog and the Mojo Monday blog.  I love Color My Heart because it gives me great ideas for color schemes I wouldn't have thought of.  And Mojo Monday has fantastic card layouts to design from.

Anyway, I found a card I absolutely loved on someone's blog - kept a copy to use the layout - and lo and behold if it isn't this month's Mojo Monday challenge! 

Unfortunately the card I made was a sympathy card for a dear friend who lost his mother this week.  While I enjoyed putting my heart into making the card, I felt sorry for the reason for the card.  I only hope it can bring some comfort.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

HOLIDAY CARD WORKSHOP
Sunday, Nov. 11th
1-4 PM
$5 / Refreshments will be served
Reserve your spot today:

Make these 3 beautiful cards using Close To My Heart's unique Pear & Partridge papers!

Interested in more Close To My Heart items or
holding a workshop in your own home?

 

Friday, September 14, 2012

The Colors of CTMH

Watch this CTMH video to see the beautiful colors you can stamp & scrap with!

Monday, September 3, 2012

Mon., 9/3, Labor Day
Labor Day for me will be a little bit of house cleaning, some stamping/scrapping, & driving my son back to Cincinnati for school.  Worked on a few things this weekend - like this thank you card for my friend Angela who bought me the sweetest magnetic chalkboard with a pig on it (of course).  Also finally finished the page for one of Melissa's senior pics that I had sitting around forever.  Yay me!!