May's Stamp of the Month Blog Hop~~Friendship Bouquet

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  We will be featuring May's SOTM, which is Friendship Bouquet, a set of 8 stamps.  If you have come here from Michelle John's Blog, My Flights of Fancy, 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.  If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants here.

This month we have 58 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 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!

My project this month is a simple Post-It cover.  It is simply an olive piece of cardstock cut and folded around a Post-It pad like a match box with a simple band of colonial white cardstock around it.  I decorated the olive cardstock by randomly stamping the leaf on it. and then put the yellow sunflower over top of the band with dimensional tape.  So easy!

I used our CTMH markers to color the sunflower, get them while they last....with our next catalog, they will be retired.   I also used some bronze glitter glitz for the center of the flower.  I also used the sentiment in the Friendship Bouquet stampset.  "Plant a seed of friendship; reap a bouquet of happiness."  Sorry if my camera's a little blurry. 

Now "Hop" on over to Jean McNulty'sBlog, Stampin' Maui 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 SOTM is only available until May 31st!  Contact me at karen.fullam4@yahoo.com (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set for just $5!

Dotty For You Flowers

I know it's cold and dreary outside, but I'm in a springtime mood, so here's a "Dotty for You" flower project I will be doing in a workshop next week.

If you haven't gotten your "Dotty for You" order in, make sure you do during this fabulous sale.  Just buy $35 worth of products from the Spring/Summer Catalog and you can get this $19.95 value for just $5!  Order today! 

It's Banner Time!

Here's a video on how easy it is to make a banner with the new Art Philosophy cartridge. I'm going to be making my own banner today.  Hope it turns out as nice as this one!

What Crafters Say!

This was too cute not to share!

Dotty For You! Blog Hop!

Welcome to our special "Dotty For You!" Blog Hop!  We are celebrating NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING MONTH IN MAY with the oh-so-cute Dotty for You paper packet.  If you have come here from Michelle Loncar's Blog, Show and Tell with Michelle, 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.  If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Helen's Blog, Hooked on Stamping

This month we have 38 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using the "Dotty For You!" paper pack and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 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!

For my 2-page layout, I used the Grand Finale layout from Close To My Heart's Imagine book.  I love how easy these books make it to make a fabulous layout quickly and easily.  I also used the licorice opaques to add a little black bling to each of the little pinwheel flowers.  I added a quick little tutorial on how to make these cute flowers.
Click Here to skip the tutorial and move on to Sheri's Blog

 These little pinwheel flowers are pretty easy to make.  First of all you need a thin strip of paper.  Keep in mind that however wide your paper is, your pinwheel will be twice that width. 

 My strip ended up being about 1/2" x 10 1/2 long.  I use the Martha Stewart scoreboard to score it every 1/4".

 After it's scored, you fold it accordion style so it ends up looking like this.

 The next step is to adhere it to itself, making sure you overlap the two ends together.  You may need to cut off one fold to do this.

 When this is done you should have a nice accordion folded circle.

 Before you actually hot glue your pinwheel down, it makes it easier if you play with it a little to get it to cooperate.  As I tell the girls, you have to be tougher than the paper.  It can be a little tricky to get the sides to fold in on themselves into your circle.

 Once you've got your paper trained to go down nicely, then you can put your hot glue down and put your little pinwheel into the glue.  You have to hold the pinwheel down in a circle shape till the hot glue sets a little.  Make sure you don't stick your finger into the little blob of glue that pops up.  Ouch!  I know from experience.

 Once the glue cools down a little, but not completely, you can pull the little glue blob off with your fingers so it will be easier later to put some bling in the middle.

 This is what your back should look like when you're done.

And this will be your front!  I added the black opaques to the middle to cover up the glue, but you can add anything you like, like letters, flowers, stickers, or ribbon, just use your imagination.

There are three ways to get this exclusive "Dotty for You" paper packet, valued at $19.95*:
• Place an order of $35 or more in products from the Spring/Summer 2012 Idea Book between April 17 and May 31, and add the "Dotty for You" paper packet for just $5.
• Host a Gathering with a sales total of $400 or more (excluding tax, shipping/handling, and Operation Smile® donations) between April 17 and May 31 and receive a "Dotty for You" paper packet FREE.
• Join Close To My Heart as a new Consultant between April 1 and May 31 and receive a "Dotty for You" paper packet FREE.
Get your "Dotty for You" paper packet today!

Now "Hop" on over to Sheri Ballantyne's Blog, Sheri Says Just Scrap It! 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 "Dotty For You!" paper pack is only available till May 31st!  Contact me by email at karen.fullam4@yahoo.com to see how you can get this stunning paper pack for just $5 or even FREE!

Dotty For You!

Check out this months special.  This Dotty pack includes 24 Coordinating B&T Duos® Sheets (2 each of 12 patterns and 1 Artwork Idea Insert.
There are three ways to get your pack
Place an order of $35 or more in products from the Spring/Summer 2012 Idea Book between April 17 and May 31, and add the "Dotty for You" paper packet for just $5.
• Host a Gathering with a sales total of $400 or more (excluding tax, shipping/handling, and Operation Smile® donations) between April 17 and May 31 and receive a "Dotty for You" paper packet FREE.
• Join Close To My Heart as a new Consultant between April 1 and May 31 and receive a Dotty for You paper packet FREE.

Get your "Dotty for You" paper packet today!

Front and Center

Montrose Bible Conference Craft Weekend

I had a great time this weekend with the ladies.  Scrapping and playing and in general being waited on and pampered.  No dishes, no cooking, no cleaning (except for the scrapbooking tables).  The food was fantastic, and the company even better.  The speaker was incredible and did several dramas on the 3 Marys (the mother of Jesus, of Mary and Martha, and Magdeline) very powerful messages.
Here's a few pics for everyone to be jealous of :0)

 This corner of the room had a lot of knitting, tatting, crocheting, embroidering, and even Scherenschnitte going on.  Obviously some good partying going on here!

 

 Our daring leader!  Becky!

It wasn't all playtime though, these ladies are some really hard workers.  We had a game that for every 12x12 layout that you completed, your name was put on a post-it and stuck to the podium...every hour or so a random post-it was picked and that person won a prize.  This was the podium by the end of the weekend!  They completed over 240 layout!  Awesome work ladies!