Scrapbooking Convention 2018

Now that I'm home, relaxed, and some what organized; I had a chance to preserve my memories from the exciting experience of Close To My Heart Convention. I just so happened to receive an exclusive stamp set as an attendee that was my motivator to scrapbooking this layout!

I chose some fun coordinating colors to match all the vivid colors from the presentation as well as some more chill pictures of me and my husband enjoying the resort. As I mentioned I used a stamp set that is only available to those that attended convention, however I did use a small heart from a stamp set that you can order still from the annual catalog.

It's called Happy Heart and is available in French and Spanish too!

Some other current stamps that are similar that I can recommend so that you can take advantage of Stampaganza Sale are~

Created to Create

We are Makers

Be sure to check out all the stamps that are Buy 2 Get 1 Free online here.

April's Inspiration (and more calendar pages)

I have been working on the last few pages for a 12x12 calendar using the PML cards that were a part of the Live Your Day promotion in January. Inspiration struck one day while scrolling through my Instagram feed. Close To My Heart posted a page using the gorgeous Charlotte papers in a very visual graphic design. I just loved it and knew I wanted to recreate it for my April page using some Zoe papers. As it was starting to come together I quickly knew which photo to use as my son's Birthday is in April and this picture fit the sentiment on the Zoe complements. Take a look~

Here are all the pages laid out before I added photo's on them. Each month is very differently themed and designed.

 Just a few more pages I'd like to share with you~


The July page uses the new Regatta papers and the Beach Days stamp set. You may have noticed how much I've been using this stamp set, its really a fun set and the stamping is so easy as the images can be cut out on your Cricut!
This is my brother's family that we got to visit last summer in Lake Tahoe. Very fitting with the Regatta papers wouldn't you say?!!

The June page uses a rainbow assortment of the lovely fundamentals papers. It's bright and fun, but mostly I wanted to show you what you can essentially create with leftover strips of paper. Sometimes my 'scraps bag' tends to overflow, so I need to clean those out and use them up!

Here you can see that I used some of the strips showing the matte side and others have the shiny side showing.

If you would like to create your own 12x12 calendar its lots of fun and makes a great gift too! You can order the calendar online here.

New Year, New Book and New Products!!

A brand new year means a chance to start fresh. Why not freshen up your scrapbooking supplies too! Having new papers, stamps and tools always fires up my creativity again!

The newest Seasonal Expressions catalog goes live today. It contains some brand new lines of products that Close To My Heart has never had before, plus they are introducing some gorgeous new lines of paper and embellishments that you know and love!

The Everyday Life Planner is an entirely new item for Close To My Heart. If you truly want to get organized in 2016 this planner will help you tremendously.

Plus, get these PML Live your Day cards only available this month. These cards coordinate perfectly with the Everyday Life planner or use them in your pocket scrapbooking pages.

Celebrate National Papercrafting Month with the exclusive Picture My Life™ Live Your Day scrapbooking program—available for one month only! This collection was designed to coordinate perfectly with the sensational Everyday Life™ 2016 Planner Pages and My Crush^® Everyday Life Pages, so you can seamlessly integrate pocket scrapbooking into your 2016 planner. Whether in the planner or on their own, these cards make it easy to preserve your everyday moments all year long. Get yours today for only $8.95 USD / $10.50 CAD before this offer is gone!

Dates: Offer valid January 1, 2016 (9:00 am MDT)–January 31, 2016 (11:59 pm MDT).

Want to instantly fall in love this year? Check out these amazing new paper collections.

Charlotte

 Penelope

Regatta

You will also find new Picture My Life collections, complements to the Base and Bling jewelry, a new Instalife album and some brand new Thin Cuts.

Looking for a good deal? You will find the Stamp of the Month collections for January, February, March and April in the back of the book. This month's stamp is the gorgeous Beloved Bouquet.

I will have lots more to show you in the coming weeks. Your going to love all the new choices in this book. If you want a Seasonal Expressions for yourself please contact me. You can also view the book online by clicking the picture located in the right hand column.

Joy to the World...and a Gold Glitter Deer

I have another deer head for you today! {This week may very well have a deer theme?!} This time I cut the deer head on gold glitter paper with my Cricut Explore. It sits so pretty atop a White Pines PML card. These cards are typically intended to be used in pocket scrapbooking, but as you can see they complement a greeting card beautifully!

I am also entering this card in Heart 2 Heart Challenges this week as a revisit, or rewind,  to the Holiday Expressions product challenge!

 The White Pines collection will only be available until December 31st.

What Makes You Happy

My scrapbooking room is covered in goodness right now! My order for the new CTMH Seasonal Expressions catalog came along with some brand new products. I could not resist playing with just a few items for a couple of challenges.

The first challenge is a simple sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. It is a nice clean template that allowed me to use a PML card that I had in mind. The second challenge is for Heart 2 Heart's "NO" stamping challenge. For the entire month of 'No'vember, all of their challenges will have something to do with saying "NO"! To ask me not to stamp is practically like cutting off my right arm, seriously!! Then I saw the gorgeous brand new Hopscotch PML cards and it was a "NO"~brainer!

I just adore the sentiment on this card, "Do more of what makes you happy"! Yes, please! No need to stamp when the PML card says it all! To dress it up I simply added some twine, Hopscotch Stickease and a puffy 3-D sorbet heart.Totally cute and not a single stamp was inked!

Get your hands on this brand new book at my Holiday Open House November 15th!