Memories in the Making ~ Happy Place layout

Are you celebrating National Stamping Month? Don't forget that Close To My Heart has an amazing special to celebrate this month called Memories in the Making. You can create a 12x12 calendar with this kit or use the Cut Above pages to fill your traditional 12x12 scrapbook. Either a completed calendar or a scrapbook album would make a wonderful gift for the upcoming holidays.

Here is a quick video to show just how easily a layout can be completed!



Shop online for all of your purchasing options. Here is a final look at all of my pages done.

It's Finally Here!

September is finally here! I'm looking forward to cooler temperatures, pumpkin flavored treats and most of all sharing the highly anticipated Holiday Expressions 2018 Idea Book! You can view the book online here and will also be able to add the Idea Book to your order online. This new book is filled with everything you will need for your Holiday crafting and beyond. It will last you through the end of December so no need to panic about getting everything you want on your wish list.

September or should I say 'Stamp'tember is a time to celebrate our love of stamping. It is National Stamping Month and Close To My Heart has put together an amazing collection of paper goodness. The Memories in the Making special has everything you need to create a 12 month scrapbooking calendar. This is great to add you family photo's to all year long and even makes a fantastic Christmas gift! I will have some videos soon showing how easily these Cut Above pages go together. If your not interested in making a calendar these pages work very well together as single or double page layouts. I will also have more artwork to show you using them for that purpose. You can get more details and all the bundle options on my website!

As always September offers a Stamp of the Month at a discounted price. Tasty Treats is an adorable stamp featuring some cute sentiments and images perfect for Halloween, Fall, Christmas, or just celebrating everyday friendship! I can't wait to show you what I created using this stamp set. Here are some images from the Idea Book to get your creativity juices flowing. Stay tuned for more on this adorable stamp set.

There are still a few more specials available this month, please visit my website to order any of those collections. I will be revealing much more from this book and all of the artwork from my Open House soon. Please come back soon for inspiration and happiness!

Through the Year

For November, CTMH has a great, versatile Stamp of the Month. It's called Through the Year. This stamp will allow you year-round stamping possibilities. It would be perfect for documenting scrapbook pages and especially useful for those who journal daily. This month it is available for the discounted price of only $5, with qualifying purchase.

I think the above layout would be awesome as a wrap-up of your favorite moments of 2017! Simply recap your special photos for the back of your scrapbook.

I'll clue you in on a little secret!! You may want to purchase this set at the discounted price this month, because it will coordinate with the special in December! Just saying!!

There is another big special happening this month. I'll tell you all about it soon!

Side Step Calendar

I love the idea of having a small calendar near me when I'm working on my laptop or in my craft room. There are all sorts of ideas out there for smaller desktop calendars, but this idea was really fun to create. It was partially inspired by another CTMH Consultant Gail  @Greetings from Gail and by a Christmas card that one of my customer/friends made for our Holiday card exchange. It is a side step card that as been altered so that a calendar and photo could be added. I found the little calendar's at Taylored Expressions for a minimal price. A piece of cardstock was added to the back step on the right side for a photo to be pinned.

I am also entering my little calendars in Heart 2 Heart's "Two-Faced Challenge"! I have chosen to use the dual sides of some brand new papers from the Spring Idea Book available on February 1st! The first paper is called Skylark and the second is Ariana, both are amazingly gorgeous. Take a look at these fun calendars and get a sneak peek at the brand new papers! Be sure to visit H2H for more ideas of using both patterns of your paper!

{Skylark}

{Ariana}

Scramp Club Calendar

Here is a fun calendar I created to keep track of upcoming club dates. I used January's Stamp of the Month called Moments in Time. Each page measures 4x4 and is kept together on a jump ring. The Moments in Time stamp set comes with all the mini calendars, frames, months and dates. It also contains little shapes like stars and circles perfect for indicating the date of my class or workshop. I focused on a few pages from the calendar to show the newest Connection Club Reward; Clear Shapes. These were super easy to work with. You can punch holes in them to secure it with a brad or mount on cardstock with liquid glass. What a great little project, I already have more ideas bubbling in my head.

My Calendar

The Holidays have me busy, but this latest project really had me busy. I thought that creating my own calendar would be a simple and fast project. It is not difficult by any means, but it is quite time consuming. However, it is rewarding to see the final result and will be made special with each passing month as I place photos on it.

Here is what the calendar will look like hanging up. I coordinated the ink color of the dates (numbers) with the page.

January


February


March

April

May


June

July

August

September

October

November

December