Time Marches On

Just dropped my oldest off at his new apartment at college. I am so proud and so sad all at the same time. He's in his senior year and although he's always been so independent he really has grown into quite the awesome young man. My youngest will graduate high school this coming Spring. Waiting for him to come home from his Summer job right now and missing him terribly and also so very proud of him. (And OMG I better get going on his School Scrapbook I started long ago and haven't finished yet!) My friends' kids are graduating, getting married, having babies.... where did the time go? I blinked and everything changed.

Attending one of those weddings tomorrow. Below is a card I made with the new Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge, the coordinating Hooray Bouquet set and Hearththrob.

Fun at the Fair!!

This past Saturday I had a demo at the Erie County Fair in the Creative Arts Building. Thanks so much to all of you who stopped by to talk and/or do the project. We raised some money for Operation Smile and had a lot of fun in the process. Congratulations to Kathy Cendrowski, the winner of the 'American Celebration' stamp set! I'm attaching a picture of the little bags we made during the demo and a card I made over the weekend using some of the leftover flowers. The bags, flowers, and flourishes were all cut using the new Art Philosopy Cricut cartridge. The flowers were stamped using CTMH's Hooray Bouquet set that has lots of images that correspond with the flowers cut from the Cricut cartridge.

'Wicked'ly Non Halloweeny Challenge

Well, girls... it's on! Here is a card I made with the August SOTM 'Wicked'. My challenge to all my customers is to use 'Wicked' to create something Non-Halloweeny and submit a pic to me. I will draw from all entries and the winner will receive a gift from me. If yours is the only submission, you win! I hope there is lots of competition though because I love to see your artwork! You have until September 15th to submit your entries for the drawing.

Cricut Fun!

This is a waterfall card I made using some of the images on my new CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge, the new beautiful paper pack, Dreamin', and one of my favorite stamp sets Bee Happy. We're gonna make this card at a Gathering on Thursday... it really is a fun and easy moving card to make. Have I told you lately how much I love my Cricut and my Art Philosophy cartridge?

CTMH & Cricut????

Yes! Close to My Heart now has a Cricut cartridge called Art Philosophy that is available bundled with three coordinating stamp sets and three sheets of coordinating chipboard shapes. I have been playing with the cartridge for a few days now and I LOVE it!! There are so many images on the cartridge including a very nice alphabet, flourishes, cards, tags, flowers (including 3-D flowers), bags, boxes, and more!! And a big thanks to Donna for helping me to finally learn how to use my Cricut (after owning it for a couple years already) and my new Gypsy (which is also awesome). I'll be uploading artwork soon.

Things I Love Winner!

Congrats to Barb Krawczyk who won the drawing for a Petite Perks stamp set from me by submitting this layout she made using a border we created at a CTMH Gathering in May. Love it when you girls play along! Thank you Barb for allowing me to display your great layout!

June Was A Free For All!

Here is the Studio J layout Donna Davis created during last month's promotion and her entry for the drawing for a gift from me. Beautiful! And thank you Donna for allowing me to display it...