CTMH Butterfly and Music Notes card with CTMH Universal Backgrounds, Kraft Ready Borders and Find Your Style

Here's one I made while in a flurry of Valentine's Day preparations.  It uses several products that I adore - the new background stamp called Universal Backgrounds with those beautiful music notes, our new Kraft borders and the January Stamp of the Month with that awesome butterfly!

The butterfly images are actually stamped directly onto the cardstock over the music note stamping.  To get the image to pop I simply outlined the butterfly with a fine tip Sharpie pen.  I've added some Glitz Glitter Gel to the Kraft border strip and a little bling and we're done!

If you'd like to make this card, purchase these products:

Paper:  Bliss

Stamps:  Universal Backgrounds (awesome set with music notes and more), Find Your Style (Butterfly - Jan Stamp of the Month)

Ink:  Gray Wool, Gypsy

Other:  Mocha Opaques, Purple/Pinks/Red Sparkle Assortment, Sparkles, Kraft Ready Borders, Glitz Glitter Gel, Paper Flower (purple ones are retired but white ones can be dyed to match)

Valentine's Day Countdown Day #4 Blog Hop

Welcome to Day #4 of our Valentine's Day Countdown!

I am getting so much inspiration from my fellow CTMH bloggers - so many new ideas to try!  If you are getting this via e-mail be sure to pop by my blog so you can see the Linky Party!

This card was inspired by one I saw in a magazine.  How fun is having a clothesline hanging hearts and love tags?  Too cute!

Materials Used:
Paper:  Cyrstal Blue Cardstock, Sweet Leaf Cardstock, White Daisy Cardstock
Stamps:  A Game, Hodge Podge Alphabet, Friendship, Party Pennants
Ink:  Cyrstal Blue, Black, Sweet Leaf, Tulip
Other:  Sweet Leaf Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon, Key Lime Brad, Marth Stewart Jewelry Tag Punch, two small circle punches

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1. Simple Love with Tracey 2. Jan M X and O Game 3. Lori Miller - Day Four 4. Lela Norris - Day 4 5. M&M's Bottle 6. Susann Taylor 7. A Mother's Valentine 8. Paige Dolecki - Day 4 9. Mandy Leahy 10. Pocket Valentine 11. Trisha Morton - Bee Mine 12. Brandy Lees 13. Valentine Card 14. Tiffany 15. Gift Card 16. Donna McGlasson 17. Valentine Topiary 18. Heart Mobile 19. Andrea Ruiz

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February 2011 Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

Welcome to the February Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  If you have come here from Teresa's Blog, you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one!  Here we go!

This card was inspired by one I saw in a catalog a while back but with colors from our new Wings paper pack.  I like the clean and classic feel to this card.

Materials Used:

Stamps:  Friendship (Feb 2011 SOTM), Party Pennants

Inks:  Black, Crystal Blue, Sweet Leaf, Vineyard Berry, Desert Sand (antiquing done on top)

Cardstock:  Vineyard Berry, Colonial White

Other:  Black Button Brads from Black Mini Medley Collection

Now "Hop" on over to Lisa 's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the February SOTM is only available until the 28th!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount or even free!

Faith, Hope, Love card with CTMH Grace Paper, Everyday Celebrations and Tickled Pink stamp sets

Sorry for the gap in posting artwork.  We've been on a celebration binge for the past couple of weeks - between summer vacation, my middle child turning 12 and my husband finding a job (YAY!!!!) we've been on a happy high note for the past several weeks!  After a year of watching every penny (thank goodness for COBRA and unemployment insurance) one of my customers (hi Tanya!) referred my husband to her husband for a resume hook up - a couple of rounds of interviews later and Mark is now working for a local company!  

I've always said the biggest blessing of my business is making connections with wonderful women I probably wouldn't have met otherwise - this is just one more instance of the kindess and support I've received from all my wonderful friends and customers over the past couple of years.  My family always says I have the nicest friends ever and I just couldn't agree more!  I can't tell you how thrilled I am that we didn't have to move - not only do I hate the process, I just couldn't imagine moving away from all the friends I've made here and the fabulous medical care we get at Children's Hospital.  

Anyways - now that I'm getting back into the swing of being the main parent on duty during the work day - I finally found some time to take pictures of THREE MONTHS worth of Stamp Camp projects!  These babies have just been crying out to be shared with the bigger world so I should be a much better blogger for the next couple of weeks!

Materials Used:

Paper:  Grace Level 2, New England Ivy Textured Cardstock, Twilight Cardstock

Stamps:  Everyday Celebrations (card kit special last year), I Am (from Tickled Pink special), The Simple Things (retired)

Inks:  Barn Red, Creme Brulee

Other:  Sponge Dauber, Microtip Scissors (I only use ours for detailed cutting - they ROCK!)

Elegant Thinking of You card with CTMH You're Adored and Noted Backgrounds

I have my lovely playgroup ladies coming over for a crop night tomorrow night and have to do all my cleaning today as I volunteer in my youngest kiddo's class room tomorrow morning and have physical therapy with him right after school.  So while I should be doing all my cleaning and a bit of baking I'm up here playing around on my computer instead.  Ah well, I guess I'll just have to speed clean later...

This is a lovely card I lifted from my copy of Card Creations: Start to Finish, Volume 2 that I won (yipee!) from the Paper Crafts Connections blog along with a Technique Tuesday stamp set!  I was so excited to win this prize as I love Paper Crafts magazine and their books are always full of fun ideas.  I pulled this card from one of pages as I needed a "thinking of you" card for a friend whose mother is ill.

The second shot shows what the inside card looks like (I made another one as I wrote on the inside of this card before I took a picture!).  I really like the simple elegance of this card and am looking forward to including it in my "friendship" cards workshop coming up next month.

Materials Used:
Paper:  Brown Bag and White Daisy Cardstock
Stamps:  Noted Backgrounds, You're Adored, Thinking of You (retired) but Say it in Style would be good too
Ink:  Black, Brown Bag (stamped image under the clear buttons)
Other:  Clear Buttons, Liquid Glass, Ribbon (from Michael's Crafts), Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch