March Stamp Of The Month - Happy Place

If you are coming from Krista's blog, you are on the right track.  If you are starting here, keep hopping and you will do a complete circle.  This month is a fun set:

 I used the Like Mother/Like Daughter stamp and the heart for my one page layout:

Sorry somewhat blurry iPad didn't want to work for me. (The iphone didn't do much better.
Wanted to get these posted in time so the top one isn't clear.)

 

3 Generations cooking Greek Cookies for a Girl Scout Event. 

Here are some close ups:

 Before powdered sugar

( So that you can tell they are cookies.)

 After Sugar - there's about 4 layers of cookies stacked.

Thanks for looking! 

Now hop over to Kim's Blog to see what she created with this stamp set!

Studio J - Getting caught up

The the opportunity to do some digital scrapbooking in December - in fact, I have 8 free layouts that would be expiring December 31st, if I didn't use them.  So here is one of eight.  I did a 3 photo layout. Jeanie fell and caught strep throat - the strep went into her arm and infected her cut.  Weeks of wearing a bandage cured her inquiring about a cast!

Shop for these and many more items on my website: Mary Eisen @ CTMH

Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment!
Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

December Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - Special Care

Hello again and welcome to our monthly blog hop!  If you came from Katy's blog, you are on the right track, if not, start here and keep hopping, you will do a complete circle.

This month's stamp set is Special Care:

Three of these stamp can be cut out with the Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge - see the red outline.

I thought of my baby girl when she was in the tub in Wisconsin Dells. It's really a hot tub in our hotel room. She and Daddy had a blast - better than the cold pool!  It was Thanksgiving weekend 6 years ago.

WARNING NAKED BABY PICTURES:

I used the HANDLE WITH CARE stamp and created a background paper by stamping the image in rows.  I White Pigment stamped the Special Care stamp on the top right. There's even a Warning Label stamp.

The top is the left page and this one above is the right.  I have this one in the page protector because I added flip flaps to the center, on top of the page protector so they can be opened without having to take out the page.  Underneath is naked Daddy chest - and I promised to hide that - but still scrap them. 

A couple of clear gems for bling and sparkle.

Thanks for looking - please leave a comment!

Now hop over to Vicki's blog to see what she created with this stamp set!

November Stamp of the Month - Illuminate

If you came from Joy's blog, you are on the right track, if not, keep hopping and you will do a complete circle.

This month's stamp set reminded me of camping with the hanging lights and because this was the first year we did camp -  it was perfect!!!

I curved the stamp on a block and added it behind the cork letters I ran across!

You can't even tell where the left page ends and the right one starts - I planned that! 

(My idea of camping IS pool side!)

Now hop over to Wendy's blog to see some other great ideas for this stamp set!

Artbooking Made Easy - Spooky Layouts - Video!

Another great video using the Artbooking Cartridge and your Cricut:

Shop for these and many more items on my website: Mary Eisen @ CTMH

Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment!
Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - September

If you are hopping from {Katy's Blog,} you are on the right track, if you are starting here, keep hopping and you will do a complete circle.  

This month's stamp set is called Poster Tidings S1309.  

In my years, I've created 100's of layouts and many are still sitting unfinished 

because they are made for class examples. 

I dug deep into my stash and found these pages and finished them.  

I really wanted to do something Fall so I dug thru our photos and found these.

Our daughter was just turning one and it was the fall of 2007. 

 

I stamped this 4 times in 4 different colors.

I then cut up the words and used foam tape to "pop" the words out.

 Our lake house and the hill around it had such great colors 

in fall when the leaves would change. 

We sold our house and boat shortly after this due to the economy falling.

We have great memories and pictures - plus we were able to move across the street

so the lake isn't too far away.  

Check out the rare antique embellishments that I used on this layout! hee hee

 

Can you see the hot air balloons in this picture?  

They almost touched the water when they came into the Kettle.  

Now to continue on the hop to see other great ideas! Click here to see {Lalia's Blog}.

Something about Mary

While in Chicago at the Regionals, they took our photo and then we did a layout. Here is mine.

Of course, it's not done, but now that I'm home I can add more to it, like a title and finish journaling. 

 We were asked several questions for journaling - Like:

 Why did you join Close To My Heart?

What makes you stay?

What have you learned about yourself?

Nice reflection

Dotty For You - Part 2 - 2nd Layout

This crazy complicated layout was not that hard, just a little time consuming!  Helen from our group of hoppers created this and I added to the workshop.  I took Jeanie to Walmart and these are the pictures we got from that shoot!  These were taken in 2007 - check out how the dress matches the layout - Butterflies!!

 Close up of each page.  She was so much fun that day playing in front of the camera!

 She picked up the flower and smelled it and the lady just kept shooting.

Here you can see the bling!  Sparkle Flourishes - we now have a few colors!

The Cricut AP Cartridge cut all the shapes.

 This shows you what the pages looked like prior to adding photos and additional mats.

Couldn't see wasting space for words so I'll add them on the back.
Thanks for looking!

Dotty For You Workshop Part 1 - 4 Months Long!

I created a 4 month long workshop for my regular ladies if they qualified and purchased the Dotty For You Paper Pack.  We will finish 6 layouts, 1 Mini Album and 13 Greeting Cards!  This is one of the layouts.  These ideas for the projects all came from other consultants who did the Dotty For You Blog Hop.  I was too busy creating cutting guides to attend.  I will try to give credit when I can, but just know I didn't create these and I did modify them a tad bit and then turned it into one big cutting guide and workshop.

First Layout:

The stamp set is Hooray Bouquet and most of the flowers can be cut out with the Cricut Cartridge AP.

Cut the flowers, stamp the image layer and glue, Repeat!

Here is what the layouts look like with photos!  I remembered this dress of Jeanie's, the photos are a little fuzzy but she's so darn cute in the hat and dress.  She loves hats!

 I wanted to remember the story so I added this picture on the back and  typed details of the day.  It's funny! I wanted the front to be clean and simple.  Don't know another way to do it but with notes on the back.

Thanks for looking!

New Product Blog Hop - La Belle Vie

We are doing some extra hopping this month!  We decided to showcase some of our new products!  So a bunch of us consultants got creative and you get to hop thru our ideas!

If you are coming from Mchelle's blog then you are on the right path, if not, keep hopping and you will do a complete circle.


I've been a bad girl.


I ordered my my product late.


They aren't due to arrive until August 9th - that's next week.

So knowing I was in a pickle I emailed my fellow consultants in my area and asked for help.  Bev B. who lives 45 minutes away calls me like an hour after emailing!  She's heading to my town and saw my email prior to leaving, she threw everything she had that was new into her SUV! Since she's doing lunch with family in my town, she thought she'd help me out!!! (Also, I received another mail later from Mary B. offering to meet me on Sunday - I thanked her but that would be too late!)

What a great group of ladies I have to network with!

So with a half a pack of La Belle Vie and my family, I created this layout:

I used the Magic Book and created the layout called Illusion on page 94 - 95.

  Close up of each side

 I even added the fold out section they suggested in the book

 I stamped the cover with The Best Things C1503 stamp set

 You can read the inside - top is the folding out to the right and the next photo is flipping it over.

 I have a few photos I need to add to the fold out

Group shot!

Yes, I started this on Friday and finished it on Sunday!
I even ordered photos this morning from Walgreens and got them in an hour!  
(Free 8 x 10 today only!)

Yes, I was bad, but good I got it done on time.

Thanks for looking and now go hop to Dawn's Blog for more great new products to see!

Dino-Mite Scrapbook Pages

In this video, we show you how to create the scrapbook pages featured on page 89 of the Spring/Summer 2012 Idea Book. Simply by choosing masculine or feminine colors, you can get double the use out of one single stamp set and create “dino-mite” artwork for a boy or a girl!

Thanks for looking!

New Product Blog Hop!

 Today we are showing off some of the new products early!  The new catty goes live February 1st!

If you came here from Haley's blog, you are on the right track, if not, keep hopping and you will make a complete circle. I am showing off the new paper called LUCY!  It's Blush, Grey Wool, Creme Brulee, and Sweet Leaf!  I did this layout of my daughter and her new friend!

 She loves the frogs!  Can't keep her away from them and we are by a lake so they are everywhere!

 

This layout is found in the Magic Book we sell!  It comes with a CD with templates for all the odd shaped pieces.  See above, I printed out the half circle, the 3 inch circle and the oval. (I left oval off) I put the 1/2 circle onto Blush Cardstock and cut around the template. I thought about my program Make The Cut and how it imports PDF files, so I did that too - see below:

 I used the shapes to determine the size of the letters and then cut the words!

 Here is a close up on the FROG

 The picture has a hidden pull out journaling card.  

The Magic book shows you how to add moving and hidden things to your pages.

 My next project was a card.  I random stamped a new stamp set called Card Word Puzzle - goes great with Pemberley Paper!!!  I cut the butterfly out of the Pemberly B&T Paper, added some Sparkles and raised the wings!

 The flowers are stamped with Outdoor Denim. I took my blending pen and rubbed it on the Outdoor Denim ink pad. Wiped most of the ink off onto a scrap piece and with the little bit left on the pen I ran it around the edges of the flower and created my own B&T paper!

I used the blending pen and Honey Ink to do the inside of the flowers.

Oops, forgot to draw the antennas back on with marker!

 Inside I stamped the butterfly this time and colored it the same way with Honey Ink.  

I used bitty brads for the body.

Sorry so many pictures - thanks for looking.

Now click on over to Judy's Blog to see the great things shes done!