Hey Handsome

Time for another challenge at Heart 2 Heart.  This week, it’s all about mustaches.  Create something that features mustaches. I don’t know about you, but when I first saw that this was the challenge, I think I had a bit of a panic attack. First of all, I had no idea what to create. Second,…

Tag, you're it!

The challenge at Heart 2 Heart Challenges this week is to make a tag or use a tag(s), in your project. There are so many ways to use tags.  Of course, you can create a stand-alone tag, or you can put tags on a scrapbook page, or make a mini-album out of tags, or put…

Home Decor at Heart 2 Heart

It’s been two weeks since I posted for Heart 2 Heart.  Really?  I’ll never get over how quickly time passes.  Now if the school year would just go by just as fast. 🙂 The challenge this week is to create a Home Decor project.  It’s something that I definitely don’t do enough of, so challenges…

February's Stamp of the Month…."Home Sweet Home"

Welcome to the CTMH Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! February 2013’s Stamp of the Month is called….. ****Home Sweet Home**** 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…

Fancy Fold Challenge at H2H

It’s time for another challenge at Heart 2 Heart Challenges.  This week the challenge is to create a card with fancy folds.  What’s a fancy fold card?  Anything that requires more than just a standard card fold.  I chose to create a diamond fold card.  This was new for me, but I loved the challenge….

Secret Message Thank You Card

I found a secret message technique on the internet the other day and I thought I would try it out with a 3 1/2 x 8″ Thank You card.  I’m waiting on my new goodies from the upcoming Idea Book to arrive mid-week, so until then, I decided to revisit my Dakota paper pack.  I…

Enjoy Life

The stamp set that I’m featuring today is called Enjoy Life and it has a great masculine feel to it. The first creation was a card that I created for one of my cards workshop and then recreated for the card swap at Convention.  You can read more about this creation on this post. Inside…

Rosy Regards

Ok…here’s another stamp set that’s going to be retiring at the end of the month.  It’s called Rosy Regards. It’s been almost exactly one year since I created the card below and I still love it.  I can’t put my finger on it.  Is it the pleated ribbon? The way the flowers are cut? The…

A Little Bit Country

After all the busyness of the last few months, I’ve been feeling the affect of the lack of creativity in my life.  In other words, crafting = happiness.  There’s a definite affect on my mood when I don’t create and every time I say I won’t let that happen…well, life happens. I did manage to…

Final CTMH Convention Album Contest Layout

Okay.  Here is the last of the five layouts I entered into the album contest at convention.  This is the layout where I stayed up until about 5 a.m. in the hotel room completing.  I had to stay up so late, because I was exhausted and stressed out and my creative mojo was nowhere to…