October Stamp of the Month - Scandinavian Wishes S1310

Hello, and welcome back again for the stamp of the month blog hop!  If you are coming from Shelia's blog, you are hopping around perfectly, if you are starting here, keep going, you will make a complete circle. 

This month is a fun stamp set called Scandinavian Wishes - great for Christmas, even though I don't wanna be thinking of Christmas just yet, I did do a Christmas card!

Here is the stamp set:

 Here is the card I created:

I stamped the image with Whisper Ink on a 6 x 6 card stock. 

I then did the image a few times in Cotton Candy,Chocolate and Pear.

The pink paper is from Dream Pop and has embossed lines.

 The base of the design was done in Cotton Candy and the other colors were cut out and glued on.

The deer were raised with foam tape as well as the house shape.

Thanks for looking, now hop over to Dawn's Blog for more great designs done with this stamp set.

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

Feel free to leave a comment!
Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

My Front Door

Felt like fall to me so I thought why not embrace the season and decorate (hate cold weather!).

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}.

You are my sunshine!

My latest creation for a friends baby's room!  Congrats Kate and Tim on your soon to be little girl!  This is 4 canvases with 4 different colors of vinyl layered to create these flowers and sayings.

Thanks for looking.

August Stamp of the Month - A Chocolate Affair

I WANT CANDY!

Loved that song in the 80's

If you came via Susan's Blog, you are on the right track, if not, keep hopping and it will make a complete circle. 

This is August's Stamp of the Month:

Makes me hungry!

I made some simple quick cards so that I can use them like note cards:

 Me and these cookies go way back - had to do one for the ole' Oreo!

 The white Card Stock didn't do it for me so I tried Pink too and some Glitter Glue for sprinkles on top!

 Foil Wrap was cut to make the wrapper for this chocolate bar!

 close up on my handy work

 Burst of color - I stamped the image with 3 different colors and cut out the pieces.

 The white swirl and white chocolate on the strawberry above is Liquid Applique'

The strawberry was left to air dry, the chocolate below was heat gun set so it puffed up!

Glitter glue and a glue stick with Prizma Glitter decorate the other two candies!

Now check out Lori's Blog for some more great ideas for this stamp set!

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

July Stamp of the Month - Sweet Life S1307

Can you believe that it's July already?!  The weather hasn't been the greatest so we are enjoying every night day and night we can!  If you came from {Nancy's blog} you are on the right track.  If you are starting here, that's okay because this hop makes a complete circle.

Here is this cute stamp set for July:

This stamp set can only be purchased during the month of July.  You can buy it by it's self for $17.95 or with a $50 purchase it is only $5!  Go to my website for details: www.maryeisen.ctmh.com.

Here is my card I made with this stamp set:

Now you will notice that the cutting around the image that I stamped isn't perfect - that's my secret - this one wasn't my first choice.  When I use markers or water colors in this case, I stamp several images onto a sheet of paper and then I play with the colors until I like what I see.  I had the whole thing done with a bright green for the leaves and didn't really like it.  I found an Olive water color pencil and the rest is history... I used Trinkets Wooden Shapes for the Butterfly and Baker's Twine Harvest Assortment for accents.

Thanks for looking and now it's time to HOP over to {Angela's blog} to see that other great ideas you can do with this stamp set!

Stamp of the Month Blog hop - Pinwheel

If you are coming from Nikka's blog, you are on the right track, or keep hopping and you will do a complete circle.

This month's stamp set is Pinwheel:

Love this set but didn't want to just do the pinwheel.  So I created a random stamped background using the star.  I then added the words, but stamped them twice, in two colors.  I cut or the tulip and popped it with some foam tape.  Same goes with the lagoon star!  This set looks awesome with the Dream Pop Paper - go to my website to see that!

Now hop over to Jen's blog to see what great things she made this month!

Thanks for looking and leave a comment!

Dream Pop Paper Pack Blog Hop!

How about an early hop!  If you are coming from Michelle's Blog, you are on the right track, otherwise, keep hopping and you will do a complete circle.

We have a special that is coming up in May and we couldn't wait to show it off! 

Starting in May, 

for every $35 you spend you can get a Dream Pop Paper Kit (24 sheets) for only $10!

Also, if you become a new consultant you earn it! 

Click Here to see the Details

Here is what some of the papers look like - it's small:

Now for a closer view of just a few of the patterned paper that this pack as to offer:

Had to do something fun and 3D!   MY BALLOON!!! 

(see the teal has diamonds - that's the glossy resist pattern!)

The B&T Paper has a different pattern on the back!

Other side - 

Each cardstock color has a different pattern. The pink has a stripe that is glossy raised pattern. 

I made tassels out of our Baker's Twine and unraveled the ends.

Please leave a comment and then hop on over to Pamela's blog to see what she created!

Thanks for looking.

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

More art from Chicago

The photo above is a picture of Monica's family on the beach with a rug under the chairs - how cool is that!?

Some of these items won awards - like the picture frame below and others were auctioned off to raise money for Operation Smile

Above is a chalk board with our new fabrics. I think the canvas 6x6 are the bases!

Love the balloon PARTY banner on the left! 

Cupcake cards that the wrapper opens - all on our Cricut Cartridges!

See the pie boxes above too?!

Paper Doll house!

Learned some great techniques with our markers and stamps!  I'll have to do a class!

The cat has sparkles on the pillow, don't know if you click on the photo if they will show!