Mom's Birthday Card

 I had this card base around and added the cute birdie stamp!

 This bird is from the future Stamp of the Month.

 I took a yellow marker and outlined the birdie after I stamped him.

 Bad photo, but I colored in the flowers.

Thanks for looking!  

Stop by again for more artwork with this stamp set.

Card Swap!

 Here are the circle cards I made for our CTMH Meeting this month.

 Thank You cards were the only requirement 

and an embellishment from a certain page in the catalog.

 I'll post the cards that I received from the group shortly.

Thanks for looking!

Weekend Retreat Layout Project

 Here is the layout we will be doing this weekend at my retreat!

 The shapes are all cut out with our new Art Philosophy Cartridge!

The letters were too!  I have 3 more words to add to the right page.

 The flags below are from the Cricut too!

 I have foam squares under the flags to pop them off the page.  

I have our new orange bakers string over the top of the flags!

Thanks for looking!

Weekend Retreat Card Project

We are attending my Weekend Retreat so I scheduled a few posts to go off for those of you that aren't attending.  Here is a 3x3 card project that we will be doing today:

I think we should share more Thank You Cards often!

Thanks for looking!

Retreat Goodie Bag

 

Gift Boxes!  Totally made by the Cricut!

 19 Orange and 19 Lagoon flowers

 Stringing the buttons onto Baker's String.

 The natural way the buttons go back in forth, they would make a great bracelet.

 Here are the contents before gluing:

I pinched the ends of the flowers to give them depth.

 Yes, the glue dries clear (whew!  I was worried!)

 And here they are filled and closed!

Oops, Computer Issue

For those that get my posts via email, you may have been seeing Linkin requests for you to sign up and Link to me.  I didn't know when I signed up for Linkin it would send out an email to every Tom, Dick and email I ever received an email from. 

Long story short, I have people I don't know Linking to me - I'm chalking it up to more exposure to ME!  (Happy Spin)  I unsubscribed my blog email so hopefully the posts will stop showing up here.

You are welcome to join me on Linkin, I just wanted to make sure you understood it wasn't me being pushy.

Thanks for reading!

Adding Bounce to your Projects!

Want to add more “bounce” to your projects and have elements “jump” off the art? 

Watch this video featuring our new interactive adhesive springs!

Thank you for looking!  You can get all of these products at my website at:

www.MaryEisen.MyCTMH.com

Front and Center!

Enjoy this short how-to video spotlighting artwork projects featured in Close To My Heart’s Idea Books. You’ll learn exciting techniques for added sparkle and pizzazz to all of your projects. Click on a video and be inspired!

Thank you for looking!  You can get all of these products at my website at:

www.MaryEisen.MyCTMH.com

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!

The Philosophy of Fun

There is a great video showing how you can get up to $124 valued products for free - in March only!

Up Close with Close To My Heart!

Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - Potential

Happy Leap Year!

We are Leaping thru another Stamp of the Month Blog HOP!

 This month it's Potential Stamp Set.

 

Remember the red circles around the stamps 

mean these work with our Cricut Cartridge!

If you came from  Nikka's Blog, you are on the right track, 

otherwise, you can keep hopping and you will do a complete circle.

For this month I did a circle card.  It's harder than it looks.  

This is the first time I tried to do round!

 I have an old round cutter, but I had to figure out how to do several papers and get them to line up.

 

Here is a close up on the Sparkling Buttons Bling! 

Also, I used our 2 inch hole Puncher for the scalloped circle.

This is what I did.  I used my CTMH cutting mat and taped the papers down exactly where I wanted them on the card.  Then I used my old round cutter and put it over the papers and cut away!  I have a white edge because I wanted to make sure it nested inside the card and not hang over the card's edge.  I didn't do all the papers at the same time.  You can see that the Blue and Bamboo Cardstocks are shorter than the Dessert Sand Cardstock.

Thanks for looking!

Now hop on to Jen's Blog for more great ideas for this stamp set!