Heart 2 Heart Challenge #10

All right stampers this weeks challenge is to get scrappy!  Create any scrapbook page using CTMH products or for you stampers that do not scrapbook, some type of project that has a picture on it counts too!  Click Here to see what the Heart 2 Heart design team has posted this week.    I have a guest staying in my craft room this week, so I'm going to post a picture of the scrapbook pages that I made for my first scrapbook workshop that I had a couple of weeks ago.  I used the Splendor paper pack and the fun Irressitable Dimensional Elements too.  My theme was Mothers.

I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with.  I know that you will come up with something great!

CKC Portland Fun

Hi - What did you do this weekend beside watch the "Big Game"?  I hope that you had as much fun as I did.  I was able to attend the CKC Portland convention.  I took classes and did some shopping at the vendor fair and it was a day full of fun creative projects!  I was very excited that my friends Amanda and Cari were there too!

Here is a small sample of some of the classes that I took.  In all of my classes we recieved so much product, but ran out of time to complete everything.  Hopefully I will get a little time this week to finish some things up.

This is the first class that I took.  It was by Technique Tuesday.  We recieved product and instructions to complete 6 very cute cards.  We only made it through 2 of them in class, but I'm looking forward to finishing the rest.  Look at the cute stamp set that we all got to take home.  The ribbon on the first card we dyed with brown ink on one side and blue on the other.  Then when you twist it you get to see both colors.

Another class that I took was how to create your own embelishments.   We made flowers and butterflies.  I can see how this technique would be really fun to add embelishements to cards or layouts that match your papers you are working with.

Here is a close-up of the flower.  We used a circle of paper, cut slits with our scissors and added glitter polka-dots.  Glued dimensional elements and a button on top.

On this layout we made our own butterflies.  I just need to add some pictures to this.

This was my last class of the day.  We were to make 12 cards, but we only made it through 4 of them.  So I will be working on completing the rest of these.  I kind of changed some of the original designs a little, but I like how they turned out and that they are more funky than I would usually make myself.

I aslo took a summer vacation album class.  We recieved an adorable album, matching paper pack, and tote bag too.  We made 5 of the 10 pages, so when I get that one finished I will post some pictures of that too.  It was a great day and I'm looking forward to attending again next year.  Thanks CKC!

February Special Give & Get Back for Haiti

For the month of February Close To My Heart is offering a special to you and they will donate $2.00 US to Operation Smile's Haiti relief efforts for every purchase you make.

Our hearts go out to the victims of the earthquake in Haiti, and like so many of you, we're eager to help.  And helping has never been easier!  Throughout February, purchase a 12"x12" textured cardstock combo pack and you'll get one FREE- and with every offer purchased, Close To My Heart will donate $2.00 US to Operation Smile's Haiti relief efforts.  That means for only $14.95 US, you get two packs of our high-quality textured cardstock and you help this urgent, important cause.  To learn more about Operation Smile's Haiti relief effort go to: www.operationsmile.org/haiti

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CTMH Regional Celebration

I am back from the Close to My Heart Regional Celebration, and let me tell you I had a blast!  They shared some new business information with us and best of all learned new stamping and scrapbooking techniques!  All the friendly consultants and corporate employees made this weekend extra special - Thanks to all!

Here is the Layout we made using the Twitterpated paper pack - love the colors:

These are some cute cards that we made using the Jingle paper pack:

Here are some cards that we made during crop night: