Flash Sale

This month flew by and there are only a few hours left to take advantage of the flash sale on my website. This project bundle is $29.14 (plus tax and shipping). Create the display tray for your home decor or it would make a great gift item! crystal.ctmh.com

April 2016 Blog Hop

Welcome to the Joyful Stars April 2016 Blog Hop! On the 10th of each month a group of Close To My Heart consultants and friends share artwork using some of our favorite products. This hop is a circle, so it doesn't matter if you are coming from Donna's blog or if you start here on my blog. Just continue around until you're back at the blog you started on to make sure you see all the fabulous projects.

Picture My Life (PML) cards are designed for pocket scrapbooking, but they can be used to create traditional layouts, mini books, and even cards! These cards I made were inspired by a consultant that was featured on Close To My Heart's blog.

The PML cards and stamp set I used are from the Seasonal Expression 1 catalog. Don't forget this is the last month to order from that catalog!

Supplies:
Our Story PML Cards
Glacier Cardstock
Springtime Wishes Stamp Set
Peacock Stamp Pad
Glacier Extra Thick Twine
Clear Sparkles

Thanks for hopping along this month. Your next stop is Joyce's blog. 

Joyful Stars November 2015 Blog Hop

Welcome to the Joyful Stars November 2015 Blog Hop! This hop is a circle, so it doesn't matter if you are coming from Krista's blog or if you start here on my blog. Just continue around until you're back to the blog that you started on to make sure you see all the fabulous projects.

I have a scrapbook layout to share this month. I'm working on vacation pictures, and I love the ability to make my own color combination with Close To My Heart's Fundamentals Line. I used Sunset and Honey paper from the Adventure Collection and embellishments from the Pomegranate Assortment. I used leftover Eggplant paper from the Sangria paper packet too. This is one of the five layouts from this month's Simply Fundamental Scrapbook Workshop. Grab the workshop even if you aren't purchasing this month's special, because it will work with any Close To My Heart supplies you already have too. Although I do think this month's campaign Simply Fundamental Scrapbooking  is pretty awesome, and I'm eagerly awaiting my goodies to arrive this week!

I did use some retired product (Stickease sticker and Picture My Life card) and wanted to remind you to keep an eye out on the While Supplies Last. You can find some summer themed cards and embellishments there if you are like me and still working on that season!

Thanks for hopping along this month. Your next stop is Nancy's blog. Just in case you get lost or experience a technical difficulty, you might want to keep Joyce's blog open in a separate tab, as she has a full list of participants.

Christmas 2015 Picture My Life Album

Joyful Stars Team from left: Krista, Stephanie, me, Joyce (our CTMH mom!), and Jean

Close To My Heart corporate office held a training event "Making Connections" in Lancaster, PA this past Friday. Any time I get to spend with my CTMH family is uplifting and inspiring. We received many goodies to create fabulous projects.

 One of the items was the White Pines Picture My Life Cards. We were given additional materials to create an introduction page and sample album pages. What I love about these cards is they act as a countdown for Christmas with cards for December 1 - 25. The day after the event as I was putting away my supplies I saw a Ruby Album I had and thought it would be perfect for this album. In about 3 hours I had this album put together. Now I'm looking forward to documenting my December activities this year, since all I need to do is add pictures!

Joyful Stars July 2015 Blog Hop

Welcome to the Joyful Stars July Blog Hop! This hop is a circle, so it doesn't matter if you are coming from Nancy's blog or if you start here on my blog. Just continue around until you're back to the blog that you started on to make sure you see all the fabulous projects.


Close To My Heart's Annual Convention is happening right now. At convention it's tradition for roommates to exchange gifts. My BFF Jolene and I decided not to attend convention, but we are at a local retreat and decided to exchange roomie gifts! I made Jolene a Picture My Life Mini Album. I got the idea from a Cricut Design Space Make It Now project. I had to resize the images to fit the 3" x 4" cards in the Picture My Life collection. Here are some of the pages.

I also resized the images to fit the 4" x 6" cards and made this mini album.

If you have a subscription to the Design Space image library you can cut these projects. Here are the links!
3" x 4" Picture My Life Mini Album
4" x 6" Picture My Life Mini Album (Note: The dark gray piece says it needs a 12 x 24 mat. I cut on 12 x 12 and it was fine. Once you assemble and decorate you won't see the part that is "cut off'.")

The pink pieces in each project are sized for the using paper to decorate the cover flap. If you don't want to cut it just hide that piece.

Our current Picture My Life cards are retiring August 31 and some collections are already unavailable. Contact your consultant to purchase your favorite collection before it is gone!

Thanks for hopping along this month. Your next stop is Andrea's blog. Just in case you get lost or experience a technical difficulty, you might want to keep Joyce's blog open in a separate tab, as she has a full list of participants.

Picture My Life for Cardmaking

Earlier this week I posted my part of the Joyful Stars Blog Hop about using the Picture My Life scrapbooking program for cardmaking. This is another card I made but didn't want to post then, because it was for a fellow CTMH consultant who visits my blog! Her birthday is today and she should have received it in the mail by now.

Materials:
Picture My Life™ Skylark Scrapbooking Program (Close To My Heart)
Base & Bling Teal Jewels (Close To My Heart)
Just Blooms Paper Flower and Leaf (Retired Close To My Heart)
Large Green Gem (unknown)
Gelly Roll Stardust Pen (Sakura)

Joyful Stars March Blog Hop

Welcome to the Joyful Stars March Blog Hop. This hop is a circle, so it doesn't matter if you are coming from Cindy's blog or if you start here on my blog. Just continue around until you're back to the blog that you started on to make sure you see all the fabulous projects. 

My project this month features the Picture My Life Scrapbooking Program.

That's right I said scrapbooking program, but I'm showing a card! I need a couple of birthday cards for this week and didn't have a lot of time for creating. The cards from the Picture My Life program are perfect for that. Of course I am looking forward to using this system to scrap pictures too! This card uses the Picture My Life™ Avonlea Scrapbooking Program.

Here's an organization tip for anyone using pocket scrapbooking, like Picture My Life or Project Life. Our Medium Organizer work perfectly for storing all of your 4 x 6 and 3 x 4 cards!

I have three Picture My Life kits so far and a set of cards from Big Picture Classes for a class I am currently taking. Plenty of room for more kits or if I'm travelling to a crop I can put my pictures in here.

I found the card dividers on Amazon.

Thanks for stopping by! Now it's time to hop to Nickie's blog for more inspiration. For a full list of bloggers on this hop or in case you get lost on the way look here.