May is National Scrapbooking Month!

Hello! Just popping in to share all of the fun May offers!

Celebrate National Scrapbooking Month with Postcard Perfect

May is National Scrapbooking Month, and to celebrate we have designed the Postcard Perfect collection of coordinating products. Find out how you can save on this breathtaking collection and how you could even get an exclusive layout kit FREE!

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Discover a fresh new batch of products!

                       

We've just released a new Seasonal Expressions idea book with an incredible set of new products, including paper packets, stamp sets, Thin Cuts dies, and more!

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Get this stamp set for just $5

                        

Custom invitations are a cinch with May's Stamp of the Month, Classic Summer Bash, which can be yours for just $5 with a qualifying purchase. But act fast, because this set is available for this month only! 

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Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to stop back tomorrow for the Three Amigos Blog Hop and Challenge!

Color Dare #260 I'm So Happy For You Card

It's time for another Color My Heart Color Dare challenge! This week's colors are White Daisy, Charcoal, Raspberry, Bashful,and Willow.

My studio time is still very limited, but I managed to sneak some time in to create a card using the National Stamping Month From The Heart Stamp Set. A couple days ago, my two of my aunts and I went shopping for a baby gift for my niece (she's having a girl). My card was inspired by all of the cute ruffled bottoms we saw while shopping.

I stamped the image using VersaMark and Charcoal inks, and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The flowers and leaves are "water colored" using Raspberry, Bashful, and Willow inks by squeezing a small amount of the ink onto the lid of the stamp pad and spritzing with water. When I spritzed the Raspberry ink, I accidentally got overspray onto my stamped image. It turned out to be a happy mistake!

I pulled out my thin cuts to cut several scallop border pieces from two-sided Bashful Cardstock and layered them to create the ruffled bottom of the card. I altered each layer with the dark front and the lighter back, accented the light scallops with the clear shimmer brush, and topped it off with a glittery bow.

I kept the inside simple.

Ready to play? Just create a project using ALL and ONLY the colors in this week's challenge. If you don't have the exact colors, use the closest colors you have. We decided to change our color challenges from one wee to TWO WEEKS! This change gives you more time and flexibility to create, share and invite your crafty friends to join us too. You have until 10pm EST Thursday, September 21st to enter! I can't wait to see what you create!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies Used:

CC1128 From The Heart Stamp Set

1385 White Daisy Cardstock

X5953 Charcoal Cardstock

X5941 Bashful Cardstock

X5974 Raspberry Cardstock

Z3360 Bashful Glitter Paper

Z2831 Charcoal Ink

Z2819 Bashful Ink

Z2812 Raspberry Ink

Z2807 Willow Ink

Z891 VersaMark Ink Pad

Z3274 Clear Sparkles

Z1263 Bitty Sparkles

Z3293 Clear Shimmer Brush

Z3224 Small Round Waterbrush

Z2088 Ranger Super Fine Clear Embossing Powder

Z555 Craft Heater

Z3348 Scallop Border Thin Cuts

Z3349 Ribbon Border Thin Cuts

Three Amigos September Blog Hop

Welcome to the Three Amigos Blog hop.  We are three Close to My Heart Independent Consultants with a love for stamping and scrapping and would like to share our creative ideas with you.  On the 3rd of each month we feature a different CTMH product and create a card, layout, or other project.  There are only three stops on this hop so it will only take a few minutes to hop through.

This month we are featuring the special stamp set celebrating National Stamping Month, #30yearsofhappy. The last two weeks of August were especially busy for me this year shopping, packing, and moving my girls off to college. As I was removing the tags from some of their new clothing, the creative wheels in my head began to turn. The altering possibilities were endless. Since my studio time was limited, I kept my creations fairly simple. I designed the first tag from an extra blank Cricut-cut tag I had in my scrap folder. I stamped a border of the "it's your day" image above the gold shimmer trim and lagoon washi tape.  I paper-pieced the gift and added slate diagonal striped ribbon and flamingo dots for texture.

The next two tags are altered tags from clothing my girls purchased. I have before and after photos of each.

I was going to add more bling to this tag, but the simplicity of it appealed to me.

My youngest is studying environmental science in college. Altering and re-purposing the tags is a great way to keep them out of the landfills. She'll be so proud!

Thanks for hopping by! Hop over to Lisa's Blog to see what she created for you.

Supplies:

CC1030 #30yearsofhappy

M1030 A Little Gift

White Daisy Cardstock

Z2165 Juniper Ink Pad

Z2173 Slate Ink Pad

Z2196 Smoothie Ink Pad

Z2010 White Enamel Stars

Z1934 Flamingo Dots

Z1988 Black Striped Twill Ribbon

Z1989 Slate Diagonal Striped Ribbon

Z1985 Gold Shimmer Trim

Z1918 Teal Shimmer Trim

Z1809 Black Shimmer Trim

Z2004 Lagoon Hearts Washi Tape

Z1151 3-D Foam Tape

Smoothie Bakers Twine (Retired)

Clothing tags

Three Amigos May Blog Hop

Welcome to the Three Amigos CTMH Mini-Blog Hop. We are three Close to My Heart Consultants with a love for Stamping and Scrapping and would like to share our creative ideas with you. Each month we feature a different CTMH product and create a card, layout or other project. There are only 3 stops on this hop so it will only take a few minutes to hop through.

This month we are sharing projects featuring the Free To Be Me paper pack to celebrate National Scrapbooking Month.  The paper pack features six B&T Duos, six sheets of embossed cardstock, and two sheets of embossed vellum.  The paper pack is only $5 with a $50 purchase during the month of May.

I decided to make a mini album to share this month.  The album is held closed with a belly band that I decorated with a couple feathers and my daughter's first initial.

The album opens up to three sections.  The first section has a pocket that holds a tag.

The middle and right sections have space to include pictures and a little bit of journaling.

This is what the album looks like when it is fully opened.  I used the gold polka-dot embossed vellum to create a pocket for a journaling tag.

Thanks for hopping by!  Now hop on over to Lisa's blog to see what she created.

Supplies:

Free To Be Me Paper Pack

Seafoam Cardstock (Retired)

1385 White Daisy Cardstock

1386 Black Cardstock

X5927 Ruby Cardstock

Z2118 Desert Sand Ink Pad

Z2167 Creme Brulee Ink Pad

Z2165 Juniper Ink Pad

Z2105 Black Ink Pad

D1524 Frame it Up

C1584 Feathers

E1029 Marquee Uppercase

A1160 This is Good (Hostess Exclusive)

Z1912 Corner Rounder