Box on a Card

Is it a box on a card or a card with a mini box? Who cares, it's cute! This little project has been around the internet for awhile now. I will be teaching a Christmas version of it with the Beary Christmas paper and stamp collection. It comes with some funny little gift tags that fit perfectly inside the mini box.

You can finish this project in a variation of themes, not just Christmas. You can make them for Valentine's Day, Easter, and even makes a cool gift for someone's Birthday! At Thanksgiving I made a slightly different shape to accommodate the grateful wreath stamp. You can see that it is slightly more narrow and taller. The box is more centered, but is the same size.

These boxes contained a personal note to my family of reasons that I am thankful for them. Isn't it wonderful how one kind word can change your entire day!

Hope you are having a fun, crafty, Holiday season! Don't forget to go online to see the monthly specials. December is almost here, so that means the savings will change and the Stamp of the Month. Hint, hint....if you want the special in December, you'll want the November stamp at the $5 dollar price! Oh! and December is the last month to purchase from the Holiday Expressions Idea Book!

Feel So Blessed

Every once in awhile a Stamp of the Month comes along that I really, really like. The September stamp set Feel So Blessed (S1709) was definitely one of those! This discounted stamp set will be leaving soon though. If you want to have hours of playing in your craft room and creating gorgeous cards with it, order it now! Let me inspire you with two last creations~

First card was made out of finding inspiration for it in the strangest place! I'm a big fan of the home scents of Bath & Body Works. The Leaves scent has been a favorite of mine every since its introduction. Every year they tend to mix up their designs and make you hunt around the store finding the scent you love. This years design on the room spray was fairly clean and had an eye appealing combination of color and pattern. One day it all of a sudden hit me that I could use the design in a card using the Feel So Blessed stamp of the month. It worked pretty well!

I realize that on the spray bottle there was brown leaves, but I had to use that awesome feather from the stamp set. The sentiment was stamped in white daisy on black cardstock making it really pop!

Finally, I also found inspiration on Instagram this week for another card. I was reunited with the retired Prickly Pear papers. With some more watercoloring I was able to make this simple, open sentiment become the focus of my card. I love the colors with black lining, how soft, yet striking!

You really don't want this one to pass you by! You can purchase this stamp set online here. Now

Thankful Decor

Thanksgiving is only a week away from today! Can you believe it? The house is decorated and the turkey has been purchased. I did some different decorations on the fire mantle this year and the banner is a new addition thanks to the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge!




I was able to cut the base and layers from the Cricut machine as well as the letters. Then I strung them all together with some silky leaves from the craft store.

Thankful from the Heart

November is a month of gratitude. A time to reflect on those people and things we are thankful for. Heart 2 Heart Blog is sharing those special projects this week that shows your gratitude for those in your life. My project is a dry erase frame. It is not to be given to anyone in particular, rather it is to remain in my home for all those that enter here this season. Whether it's family or friends I invite everyone to write something on it, even my CTMH customers, whom I am very thankful for all year long.


This is what the frame looks like before any writing has been done on it. The words and pumpkin are under the glass so you could write directly over them.



Be sure to check out all the beautiful projects on the Heart 2 Heart Blog.

Thankful Flip Card

I have posted a couple of "flip" or "never-ending" cards now. This card will be the one that the ladies will learn how to make in November. I had a few request how to make the flip card and thought it would be fun to do a fall or thanksgiving theme. Some are still intimidated by this type of card, but I hope their fears will be eliminated once they see how simple the assembly is. I used the November Word Puzzle stamp and Thanksgiving Day (I believe is retired). The pattern paper I chose is Magic Moments. All product is CTMH.