YOU ROCK!

Here is my first installment of artwork created with new products from the New Spring 2010 Idea book.

Supplies I used included:

You Rock Level 2 Paper Packet

Star Power Stamp Set

Wishing Star Stamp Set

Rockin' Top Coats

Outdoor Denim Mini-Medley Collections

Dimensional Elements - Simple Alphabet

Dimensional Elements - Flurry

Dimensional Elements - Fresh Shapes

Irresistibles Lots of Dots Color Ready Alphabet

Create-a-shade Pearl Paint

Clear Sparkles

To inquire about these or any of the other great products we carry....contact me today!

It's the most wonderful time of the year.....

Yes, yes, I know the holidays are over. Although we had a wonderful holiday season...I am glad all the hustle and bustle is over, the decorations are put away and the onlsaught of toys that have been all over my house for days finally have new homes....and the kids are finally back in school!! (Ahhh...peace and quiet!) But the biggest reason it's a great time of the year is....the new Close to my Heart Spring 2010 is here!! New Products! New Ideas! New Inspiration! It really doesn't get any better than this....



To see this new beauty and all the great new goodies check out my website at http://www.stampinallday.myctmh.com/. You can view the catalog page by page (with zoom) for yourself by clicking on the Products link or search by catagory in the Shop Online link. Even better...call or email me and ask me how you can get your very own copy!

Now I know your next thought is....."Where's all the great artwork and workshops with the new products??" Well, you don't have long to wait! I am putting the finishing touches on upcoming workshops, taking photos of some of the great new goodies I have made with new products and all this wonderful information will be arriving in your inboxes soon!!

Wait....what's that you say?? You are not on my mailing list?? Well then, you better email me right away and make sure you don't miss another great update!

The "Joy" of Christmas....

Whew! A little later than I would have liked...but my Christmas Cards are now finally done! Here are my creations...two versions due to accessory limitations. But I made 60 of these suckers!!

If I don't make it back before Christmas...have a VERY MERRY ONE!

Wedded Bliss....

Well, after months and months of planning...tons of shopping trips....multiple brainstorming sessions.....and HOURS AND HOURS of invitation making, wedding favor wrapping, centerpiece making and last, but certainly not least....CAKE BAKING and DECORATING....my baby sister's wedding came and went this past weekend in a blink!

Thankfully, there are lots and lots of fabulous photos to let us know all of our hard work and efforts paid off to give her one of the most fabulous weddings I have ever been to....with one of the most beautiful brides I have ever seen (Okay, so I am a bit biased!)


Here are some photos from the day....

It was a beautiful outdoor wedding overlooking the golf course at the Tuscany Falls Country Club at Pebble Creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Tan with Maid of Honor and Best Man Mr. and Mrs. Rich Strozewski

Here they are cutting into my masterpiece! :) (It only stung for a second!)

Here is a close-up of my lovely 5 tier, fondant covered cake with 33 handmade sugarpaste orchids. One of my biggest labors of love (well, next to my children that is!) I estimate there is probably about 100+ hours that was loveingly put into this cake! Don't think I haven't reminded Katie several times over already how much this cake would have cost her! :)

Well, it was wonderful planning and preparing and looking forward to it....and now I am glad that it is over! :) I am so over playing with sugar and flour and look forward to posting some new papercrafting creations soon!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Well, all over my craft desk that is! It seems every year my holiday paper crafting starts earlier and earlier! This year, I think it started even before the official first day of fall! Man, it’s pretty bad when I am creating holiday projects and the stores haven’t even starting carrying Halloween goodies yet! But in order to make sure I have lots of lovely little creations for all my workshop hostesses I have to get started this early!

So in keeping with my post-a-palooza, the next project I am sharing is this lovely little creation for an upcoming workshop which happens to be a Christmas mini-album!

Supplies Used:

• X7085B Everlasting Level 2 Paper Pack
• X7085C Everlasting My Stickease
• X1404 True Fit Folios
• D1366 Holiday Trinkets Stamp Set
• E1009 Building Block Alphabet Stamp Set
• Z2116 Cranberry Exclusive Inks
• Z2118 Desert Sand Exclusive Inks
• Z1103 Cranberry Grosgrain Ribbon
• Z1126 Colonial White Ribbon Rounds
• Z1219 Essential Brad Assortment
• Z1285 Holiday Buttons
• Z1084 Olive Waxy Flax
• Z1086 Cranberry Waxy Flax
  

World Cardmaking Day

In honor of World Card Making Day I have decided to share some of the Christmas Cards I created with our new Jingle Paper pack. As I have mentioned before, I LOVE THIS PAPER PACK! Not only is it so versatile for other papercrafting besides Christmas...it can also make such dramatically different styles and color familes of cards - all in the same paper pack! Take a look at these two cards....both of which you could be making at my upcoming Christmas Card Workshop on October 17th. Want more info on my workshops? Visit my website at www.stampinallday.myctmh.com or contact me!




Supplies used:

• X7115B Jingle paper pack
• C1371 Holiday Jingle Stamp Set
• Z1126 Colonial White Ribbon Rounds
• Z1104 Sparkles
• Z2166 Tulip Stamp Pad

Supplies Used:

• X7115B Jingle paper pack
• D1366 Holiday Trinkets Stamp Set
• Z1220 Twinkle Brad Assortment
• Z1151 3-D Foam Tape

Invitation inundation....

So it was with great pleasure that Katie (my little sister) allowed me the opportunity to make her wedding invitations. After scouring the many, many sample books at the store she quickly discovered the style and type of invitations she really wanted were better suited for a ‘champagne budget’ and she’s working with something closer to a ‘tap water budget’!! Shocked and dismayed at the prices on these very simple invitations we were seeing, I knew I could make them with no problem and at a fraction of the cost! So many brainstorming and collaboration sessions later, we came up with this final product. This is a 5x7 invitation with a creative side-fold, wax-sealed flap design. When you open the invitation, there is a pocket on the left hand side which held the rsvp card and small additional information card. All the traditional wedding information was centered on the inside. If you don’t know Katie…she has impeccable taste! So it was my goal to make sure her handmade invitations didn’t look ‘handmade’. One of the things I am most happy with is the beautiful metallic cardstock with matching envelopes I was able to locate on the internet. (Gotta love Google!) After many months, lots and lots of hours and a few friends over to help with the assembly ….75 of these beauties were finally mailed out a few weeks ago….



As soon as I was finally finished with the wedding invitations…it was already time to think about the bridal shower invites. So back to the brainstorming we went. Katie took some time to go through my CTMH catalogs…picked a stamp set and a color scheme and I was off and running. I was also really pleased with how this little 8x3-1/2 beauty came out! With the exception of the small flower and the black metallic cardstock (same used on her invitations) all the other supplies used were from Close to my Heart! Take note I even used some of the paper from our new Jingle Level 2 paper pack…that is a Christmas paper pack! (When CTMH released the new catty and this new spunky colored Christmas paper was in there – I was really disappointed. I was really hoping for a more traditional paper pack.) But this paper pack is so versatile!! I am now in LOVE! I have done tons of artwork with it already and plan to do much, much more! So with that being said…check out this great invitation and come back again soon to check out all the great art I will be posting with the new Jingle paper pack!

Thanks for visiting today!