New Cricut Artbooking Collection

This past week, I was fortunate enough to attend the annual Close To My Heart convention at the Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida.  While there, the newest addition to the CTMH Cricut line was revealed.  If you haven’t heard about it yet, you are in for a treat!  This particular collection will definitely make…

July Stamp of the Month…"Sweet Life"

Welcome to the CTMH Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! July 2013’s Stamp of the Month is called….. ****Sweet Life**** The blog hop makes a circle so if you are starting here just continue until you make your way back and you will have made it through them all.  If you have already started and are coming…

Final H2H DT Creation

This is the final week for my term as part of Heart 2 Heart’s design team.  I’ve thoroughly enjoyed being part of this amazing team of talented Close To My Heart consultants, as well as all of the wonderful feedback that I’ve received from H2H readers and participants.  Hopefully, one day, I’ll get to do it…

Time for Change

Well, it’s that time of year again. The time when Close To My Heart releases their list of retiring items in order to make room for the new goodies that will be available August 1st. I’ve listed all of the retiring items below.  If you are interested in purchasing any of them, you can simply…

More Surf's Up

There were three cards created at my Cards, Etc. class this past Monday.  Participants made the card from my June Stamp of the Month Blog Hop post (here) and the following two cards.  These two cards used papers from Close To My Heart’s Surf’s Up paper line. This card was inspired by this sketch at Retro…

Surf's Up!

Here are the layouts that we will be making at June’s Scrapbooking Workshop using the Surf’s Up Workshop-on-the-Go.  The workshop is actually tonight, so unfortunately I can’t take any more participants at this time.  However, if you and a couple of friends would like to have your own class, I’m more than happy to bring…

Ripper, you little!

You may be wondering what the title of my post means.  It’s actually a clue. According to the Australian Slang Dictionary, it’s an “exclamation of delight or as a reaction to good news“.  So any guesses? Picture Source Well, yesterday, Close To My Heart put out a press release making it official!  CTMH is going “down…

Tool Time at H2H

This week we’re having a “tool” challenge this week at Heart 2 Heart.  It may sound like a straight forward challenge, but it’s not really.  The first time I read the challenge title, I thought that we were to create something using our favorite CTMH tool, but I learned that it was also okay to make tools the…

June's Stamp of the Month…"A Flowering Bunch"

Welcome to the CTMH Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! June 2013’s Stamp of the Month is called….. ****A Flowering Bunch**** The blog hop makes a circle so if you are starting here just continue until you make your way back and you will have made it through them all.  If you have already started and…

Nip & Tuck at Heart 2 Heart

It’s a stitching challenge this week at Heart 2 Heart.  Do you remember the blood, I mean drama that I had two weeks ago when I tried to sew for the last Heart 2 Heart challenge?  Of course, I could have avoided this problem if I had paid attention and looked ahead at the challenges two weeks…