Be Bashful at H2H…and Free CDS File

The challenge this week at Heart 2 Heart Challenges is Bashful. My first thought was Close to My Heart’s Color of the Year, Bashful. Bashful is a beautiful shade of pink. It seems to me to be a neutral pink, working wonderfully with both gold and silver. It’s not too strong or bright, so if…

BeYOUtiful Challenge

It’s a BeYOUtiful week at Heart 2 Heart Challenges! Close to My Heart has a GOR-GEOUS stamp set called Beautiful You, so it was the first thing to came to mind when I saw this challenge. But I used the stamp set for this card a couple of months ago and this one before that and both…

Play along with Heart 2 Heart Design Challenges & Free CDS File

I’m pleased to announce that I’m back with Heart 2 Heart Challenges as a Design Team Member.  I probably have no business taking on any other responsibilities, but there’s something about commitments and deadlines that drives me…motivates me…forces me to take the time to create. Otherwise, all of those other responsibilities take over and I…

Oh Deer! 8-Page Workshop

I have created four layouts using Oh Deer! Workshop Your Way. A couple of the layouts are based on layouts offered by Close To My Heart…with my own twist, of course, and the other two are all mine. I wanted to play off the gold and silver that the complements contained, by adding silver and…

Swan Lake 12-Page Scrapbook Workshop

December’s workshop layouts are finally completed! Woohoo!  The workshop features one of the paper collections from the current Seasonal Expressions Idea Book, called Swan Lake. It’s this year’s fall/thanksgiving collection, but I think it’s versatile enough that it could be used for many, many themes. Did you know that Close To My Heart offers scrapbook…