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 December Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

Welcome to the Close to my Heart Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

This hop will go around in a Circle!  If you get lost, just click here Melinda's page for a complete list of names and blogs so you can get back on track!

You should have arrived from Alyson's.  If you did then you are in the right place and I hope you enjoyed her artwork!

When I saw this stamp set, I just knew that I would have to make a Christmas layout for pictures of the Grandkids.  I can't wait to take the perfect pictures ( I hope I can ).  Here is my Layout!

I had so much fun creating this page and I love the way it turned out.  I used the Cedar and Pine paper, sticker sheet and Compliments for most of it.  I cut the presents out of a sheet from the Holly Jolly paper.  My base pages are French Vanilla!  I fussy cut the Deer and the Sleigh and colored them with our alcohol markers.  The Believe sticker I placed on Sangria paper and then cut it out.

I bet you want to know about my tree!  I got this idea from page 19 of the Nov./ Dec. book.  I used the Cedar and Pine Scrapbooking stamp set, D1878 to create it and then I decorated in with the red Holly Jolly dots.

I used Evergreen for my photo mats and red shimmer trim across the center of the page.

Here is the picture from the book of the layout sample.

I hope you enjoyed my layout, all of the products I used can be found in our Nov/ Dec. book and are available through the end of December while supplies last except for the red shimmer trim, cardstock and inks and markers.  They are all available in our annual book.

You can visit my web page at paperdivas.ctmh.com.

Now on to Brenda's blog for more amazing artwork.

Thank you for hopping with us today!

Ronda

October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to the October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop, Autumn Air!  This hop will circle around several Consultants blogs so just sit back, relax and enjoy the beautiful artwork.  Here is a complete list of all of the blogs incase you get lost along the way.  Just click here for the complete list !

You should have arrived from Jessica Kaiser blog, if so then your in the right place!

I decided this was the perfect stamp set for a layout and I enjoyed making it so much.  I used the Hawthorn paper collection along with the light side of Toffee for the base pages.  I hope you like it!

I used sapphire, sage and paprika for the stamping.  Do you see the sapphire stamping just above the saffron pieces on the bottom of both sides?  I really like that little stamp.  It just added a little color.  I layered the leaves around the stamping of summer and fall to give them some dimension.

I really love using different sizes of photo's on my layouts and I use Persnickety prints to print all of my photos.  They have so many options and the photo's are wonderful quality.

I can use the 3 x 4 spot for a photo or put a PML card there and do some journaling.  I still have room for more embellishing too with maybe some wooden leaves.  I used some sequins around my leaves from the craft on collection of shaker sequins.  Here is a nice picture of the stamp set.

I just love it!  I will put the links below for all of the products that I have used but for now you will be moving on to Janet Royer's blog.  I hope you enjoy the rest of your journey on this blog hop!

Hawthorn paper pack, X7249B: https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12489&ci=14814
Craft loose sequins, Z4059: https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12131&ci=15804
Toffee paper, X5950: https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=10240&ci=8948 or you can make your own pack of 12 or 24 sheets of any colors using this Custom24 or custom12 as your item number.  You can also get the coordination cardstock for the Hawthorn paper, X7249D: https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=12490&ci=14816
Sapphire ink pad, Z2848: https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=9322&ci=6670
Sage ink pad, Z6504: https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=11312&ci=11881
Paprika ink pad, Z6515: https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Product.aspx?ItemID=11652&ci=15081

Well I think that it is and you can visit my website at paperdivas.ctmh.com.  Thanks so much for looking at my Blog!  Have a great day!

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

Happy New Year

Happy 2019!!!!  I hope everyone enjoyed bringing in the new year.  With this New year we have a new book starting and it is wonderful!

Please take the time to look through it and see all of the new products.  Here is the link https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/ctmh/products/online-idea-book.aspx

You can look through page by page or you can click shop here https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Products.aspx?CatalogID=271 and look through the products.

There are 4 new beautiful and fun paper packs and all kinds of kits that you can buy.  There are many ways to get only what you want or need.

Here are the new paper packs:  This first one is 6 double sided papers that is called mix in.  You can mix it in with all of the other packs.

 This one is so beautiful and there are so many wonderful products to use with it.  It is called feels like home!

 This one is super fun and is call Something fierce.  Go take a look up close.  It is not just about Dinosaurs!

 This one is called so much happy and it is just that.  Really pretty prints with flowers and patterns!

 and this one is called I heart us!  Another really fun pack in a bit softer colors.

Well I hope you will take a look at my website and just comment here or you can send me an email to rondaladuke@outlook.com.  I would love to hear from you and let me know if there is anything I can do for you!

Thanks for looking and Happy New Year

Ronda

Memories in the making!

    Happy Saturday!  Today I want to share with you the Cut Above Calendar kit we have for our September Promotion at Close to my Heart.   This kit is so fun and easy to put together.  Best of all, at the end of the year or as the months go by, you can rip off the pages and put them in an album.

https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/ctmh/promotions/campaigns/1809-nsm-memories-in-the-making.aspx.  Just click here to see all of the options that are available.     You can get the kit with or without the stamp sets.  But the best deal is with the stamp sets.

This is the cover page!

This is the entire kit!  So much fun stuff and all you need is a tape runner and your versa mat or a ruler to put this all together!  Click here to see the versa mat and tape runner and all of our other tools you might like to have.  https://paperdivas.closetomyheart.com/Retail/Products.aspx?CatalogID=240

Now I am going to show you all of the other pages completed.  I used foam pop up dots to raise up some of the pieces!

Aren't they so cute!!!!!

Well that's all for today!   I hope you enjoy your weekend!

Hugs,  Ronda

                                                                         

Last Day!

August 31 is the last day to shop out of the Close to my Heart Annual Inspirations and the Seasonal Expressions.

All of the patterned paper will be retiring.  Although we will be getting all new one's there are some that I will really miss!  This one is almost sold out and is one of my favorites!  This is the adventure line and it is just filled with water color like paper.  Just beautiful.  I'm showing you the complements too!

Next we have our Whimsey collection.  Soft and subtle!

This one is called Enchantment!  Great for school projects!

and then last we have our Basics!  I will really miss this one.  Beautiful browns and greys!

All of our papers are two sided with a different coordinating design on each side.  Even our plain cardstock has a lighter and darker side of the same color.

I sure hope that you will take a look at these before the end of the day and don't forget to check out the clearance section.  WOW the deals are incredible!  Click on the book on the side or just click here paperdivas.ctmh.com to look at everything we offer.  You can also look through both books by clicking on products and idea books.

Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend and be safe!

Happy scrapping!

Ronda

Documenting your life!!!

How do you document your life and family?  For me it is with pictures!  But I don't want to just leave them on my computer so no one ever see's them.  

We have a featured paper pack of the month at Close to my Heart and this month it is called Documented!  I really didn't know what I wanted to do with it so I decided after my Husband said something to me about making pages of our Camaro for some shadow boxes, that I would just use what ever pictures were in envelopes on my desk.  So I started with the Camaro pictures and then moved on to a vacation, then family and then some friends.

So basically I was using the paper to document these events and people I love.  I know a lot of girls that don't journal on there pages and to me that is one of the most important parts of scrapbooking.

Tell your story and write it down.  I don't care if my hand writing isn't that great.  I either write on a journal card or right on the page.

Here are the pages I came up with!  This first one I am going to put in a Challenge over at the Heart 2 Heart Blog. " For the love of crafting".

This one is some pictures of our trip to South Haven!

Here is the car one!

This one is of my Sister and Brother in laws trip here in Michigan!

This one is of Friends from High School and my Work at the Post Office.

I really like the way they all turned out.  I hope you do to!  Would you like help documenting your story?  I would love to help!  Shoot me a message and check out all we have to offer at Close to my Heart.  You will love our products.

paperdivas.ctmh.com.

All for the love of paper!

Ronda

Paper Fundamentals

Happy Saturday!  What a rainy day!  I'm about to go make a batch of super hot salsa to can but before I do I wanted to remind you that the Annual Inspirations and the seasonal expressions books are retiring in 6 days!

We will no longer have any of the Paper Fundamentals!  The new book coming out on September 1 will contain new products and it will combine the products that are usually in the Annual book with products in the Holiday expressions!

Every 4 months we will get a new Expressions book that will carry over products that would usually be in the Annual book.  I'm really excited that we will just have one book to go through.  On your first order of each new book on my website you can get a free book.  Just simply add it to your cart.

paperdivas.ctmh.com

You can also look at the book on my website page by page.  I love that we can do this rather than just looking through products.  I love to be able to see all the beautiful artwork that they provide for ideas!

Here are some pictures of the Paper Fundamental Products that are retiring.

I will miss these paper a lot but I am looking very forward to all of the new ones coming out!

Check all of these out on my website and please let me know if you have any questions.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Scrapping!

Ronda