Oh my Heart!

Well, tomorrow is Valentines day!  So Happy Valentines Day everyone!  I sure hope you have a lot of LOVE in your life!

Today I want to share the CTMH Oh my Heart special.  To late?  No, I don't think so!  It is never to late to stock up on this beautiful suite!

First I want to share the projects I made with it.  I bought the paper pack with the sticker sheet.  I vowed to myself to use every sticker on the sheet and I almost succeeded.  I am only left with the borders and the sticker that is and envelope and I plan on making a shaker card with it.

Here are the cards I made!

Aren't they just so cute?

I made two layouts also that I am just in love with!  The first one is totally from the paper pack and sticker sheet that I modeled from the workshop.  I changed it up a bit.

 This one I added the yellow flower paper from the current mix in paper.  I just love our mix in papers.  They are always so pretty and make your paper pack go a bit further.  This one also has some stickers left over from last years Valentine special.  I love how CTMH's products go together year after year.  There is always an opportunity to use something up!

I will be using this layout in the Heart 2 Heart Oh my Heart Challenge!  http://heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com/2020/02/oh-my-heart.html

Here are the details on this paper suite!  https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/ctmh/promotions/campaigns/1912-oh-my-heart.aspx.  You can look at all of the options at the above link!

I hope you will visit my website today and get some of these beautiful products!

Have a great day and if you are in Michigan, happy shoveling!

Ronda

Happy February! Spruced Up!

Well it is a new year and a new month!  What have you all been working on?  I made a couple of layouts with Close to my Hearts Spruced Up!  My Grandson and I went sledding in our side yard and I got some really great shots.  It was challenging with a 20 month old.  I don't want to say that I hope we get more snow but it would be fun to get out there one more time.  It has bee such a mild winter.  I think my Husband only used Frosty (snow blower) twice so far.

I have to get the photo's printed yet but here are the layouts I did.

On the first one I used Some of the stickers from the sticker sheet you can get with the paper pack.  The wooden snow flakes you can buy with an assorted pack to go with the paper pack.  I used Julep shimmer trim.  The picture mats are Julep and Sangria.  I also used stickles on the snow flakes to make them shimmer like snow.

On the Second one I used some stickers from the paper pack sheet, a couple of PML cards that match the pack and wooden shapes again.  I put some texture paste on the right side of the right page to make it look like snow and I placed the wood house and trees on them.  I painted the trees with the Julep shimmer brush, the snow flakes with the clear shimmer brush and the house I painted with our water brush and espresso ink.  I added texture paste to those pieces too!  I used French Vanilla under Espresso card stock for the mats on this one.

I hope you enjoyed my layouts and will come back and visit soon.  Visit my website for all of the supplies I used here!  paperdivas.ctmh.com.

Have a great day!

Ronda

CTMH New Product Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Close to my heart, new product Blog Hop!  This hop will feature products from our new November/ December book!  I hope you enjoy all of the beautiful artwork!

This hop will go around in a circle and will feature artwork from 21 different consultants.  If you get lost along the way just click here Melinda's blog to see the complete list and find your way back to where you were!  Have fun!

You should have arrived from Heather Hick's blog.  If you did, then you are in the right place and I hope you enjoyed what she had to show you!

It was hard for me to choose just one new product to show you but I finally decided on the Custom Ornament thin cuts!

I took a picture of the whole page so you could see how it looks in the book.

I have been having so much fun playing with it.  Today I am sharing 3 cards that I have made!  I hope you love them as much as I do!

The first card on the top left, I am featuring the new Cedar and pine paper pack.  I cut the Ornament out of Candy apple and then I cut another one out of silver glitter paper, which you see on the bottom left and I used the parts that punch out to decorate my ornament.  I also used a piece of silver glitter paper along side of the cedar and pine and then I stamped the Merry and Bright from the Whimsical Holiday stamp set.  Then I just added a little bling with 3 black dots.

The next card in using Sapphire card stock with a strip of the snow flake paper from the new Holly Jolly paper along with some white shimmer trim that I cut in half.  I cut the ornament out of White Daisy and trimmed it in the silver foil paper punch outs from my next card. I added 3 silver glitter dots.  The sentiment is from a up coming stamp set.

My third card I started by cutting just the ornament shape out of white daisy that I cut out using our large rectangular stitched thin cut.  I then attached that to a piece of silver foil paper that was cut 1/8 inch bigger.  I placed the decorative pieces of the thin cut in side the cut out piece so just those would cut out of the foil paper.  Then I attached that to a piece of Gold foil paper that was cut  another 1/8 inch bigger.  I also cut the ornament hanger piece out of the gold foil. The Merry Christmas is also from an upcoming stamp set, and I used gold embossing powder for that!

I hope you enjoyed my cards.  I will leave a complete list of links to the products I have used at the bottom of the post.  Now you are on to Melissa Robinson's blog.  I'm sure she has some amazing artwork to show you!

Custom Ornament thin cut

Cedar and Pine paper pack

Holly Jolly paper pack

Silver Foil paper

Gold foil paper

Silver glitter paper

Silver Glitter Gems

Black and White dots

Gold glitter gems

Have a great day and Happy Hopping!

Ronda

Sunflowers and Fall!

Don't you just love it at the end of summer when the fields of Sunflowers are so beautiful?  I know I sure do!  Today I am going to share a card I made using Close to my Hearts Sunflower Sympathy Stamp and thin cut set!  I love this set so much I will be turning this card into a Thanksgiving card!

I am also sharing this card with Heart 2 Heart Challenges blog!  Check out all of the beautiful artwork on their blog.

I used the Hawthorn paper pack (the Sangria plaid), our new stitched circles embossing folder with Saffron cardstock.  I used Saffron and Gold Rush to stamp the Sunflower on White Daisy.  I used Sangria for the middle piece and then topped that off with Gold stickles around the center.  The leaves are stamped in Evergreen!  Such a pretty green. I stamped the Thinking of you in Sangria and put some Gold embellishing thread on the back side and formed loops!  The yellow ribbon is from my stash!

I really like the way this card turned out and I hope you do too!  Most of these products will be retiring at the end of the month, except the inks and Saffron cardstock so if you like them, you better get them.

Here is a complete list of link where you can buy these products and I hope you visit my website soon.  Don't miss out!

Sunflower sympathy stamp set

Hawthorn paper pack

Saffron cardstock

Gold embellishing thread

Circle stitched embossing folder

Stamp pads

I hope you enjoy the rest of your fall!

Ronda

Hawthorn

Have you seen Close to my Hearts Hawthorn papers and products!  There are some absolutely beautiful products in this line!  It is a little bit masculine and a little bit fall!  Check it out here:  https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/retail/search.aspx?searchvalue=oct19.

I have loved working with this paper pack and some of our other new products!  Take a look!

Featured here along with the Hawthorn paper are a couple of the new stamp and die sets!  Sunflower Sympathy https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12834&ci=14860and Autumn blessings!

 This was made with the October Special Share the Seasons, but you can still get it here https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12787&ci=14378

 This layout I made with the Hawthorn paper and the October Stamp of the Month!  Which you can get for only $5 with a $50 order!

 This last card was made with the Share the Seasons kit and our new embossing folder Stitched Circles https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12524&ci=15502.

I hope you enjoyed my little post about Hawthorn and hope you will visit my site soon!

Happy crafting,

Ronda

National Scrapbooking Month

Hello to all my fellow scrapbookers or to those who are interested in learning.  May is National Scrapbooking Month and here at Close to my Heart, we want you to celebrate with us so we have created a beautiful product line based on a travel theme set of papers and embellishments called the World is Yours.  Don't worry all of you card makers, there is a kit for you too!  You can find out all of the information here https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/ctmh/promotions/campaigns/1905-nsm-the-world-is-yours.aspx.

Here are a few photos of the products!

Click on the link above to get all of the product information or go to paperdivas.ctmh.com to look at all of our wonderful products and don't forget that if you place any size order they will ship you are new idea book for free.  A $6 value!

Happy Scrapping,

Ronda

National Scrapbooking Month!

Hello all you fellow Scrapbookers and card makers!  May is National scrapbooking month and Close to my Heart has some beautiful products only available in May!  There are some awesome bundles at 20% off or you can buy the single products at the retail price.  But I am sure you are going to want at least one of these bundles.

This is a general idea of what the products look like and the name of the promotion is Postcard Perfect!

 Here is the beautiful paper pack.  You might want to get two.  Item #CC5181, you get 16 sheets of double side paper and four of them are vellum for $14.95.

This is the coordinating cardstock pack to go with the paper pack.  Item # cc2181.  You get 12 sheets of cardstock for $9.95

 Make a cute mini album of your vacation and add our bashful every day life album for $14.95, item # Z9996.  It goes perfect.  Don't forget the page protectors!

 Here are a couple of cute cards you can make with the paper!

 Look at these beautiful pages one of our consultants designed!

 This is the must have Postcard Perfect Bundle at 20% off you get the paper pack, the card stock the stamp set and the cut above kit for only $53.95.  Item # cc5185

This is the cut above kit that is beautiful and so easy to put together.  All you need is some adhesive and a journaling pen.  Item # CC5182 is only $24.95.

And here is the stamp set to help you put it all together.  Item #CC5184 for only $17.95.

There are also 4 Cut Above bundles that come with an album, a tape runner and a Journaling pen.

Check it all out on my website at paperdivas.ctmh.com.

I hope you make something beautiful this month!

Hugs, Ronda