Craft Club Project

This month the Craft Club project is none other than CHRISTMAS CARDS!. It's time to get working on the cards and the CTMH Christmas card Kit project is perfect!

 This is a great card kit! And the instructions are super easy to follow. Look below and see what I've done...

 You all know that I can never leave well enough alone. I'm always adding something or altering the design a bit to scratch that create itch I have. So I added some glitz and glitter to the other cards and extra dimension. What do you think?

 

  Glitter Gel on this one....

 

  And glitter on this one.

I used the Partridge & Pear Card kit, added my own personal touches and voila! Christmas cheer is in my house already!

If you are interested in the complete card kit, it can be yours for just $29.95 (G1023). Visit my website and place your order today!

If you're local, I'll be teaching the Craft Club project at my World Card Making Day/Birthday Crop this Saturday. The project will include 15 cards for $12.00. Craft Club only includes items to make the cards. If you'd like the exclusive stamp set, Pear & Partridge paper and embellishments order the complete kit for just $29.95. Click here for kit flyer. 

Let me know if you've started on those Christmas Cards!

Count Down

Last day of September and the count down begins! 

And you ask, the count down for what?

For World Card Making Day...

For my birthday...

 

And for Christmas!

This card says it all!

Follow the links and join me for some fun events!

 

Fun Stuff!

Hey all! I wanted to just take a minute and share some cards I've been making. Fall is full of fun times and great memories for me - School starting, leaves falling, my birthday and Fall Festivals! Fun stuff!

I used Scholastic's paper-pack for this card and the next card.

I also used the It's your Day My Acrylix stamp set for this card. If you haven't ordered this incredible double stamp set (September's Special) HURRY! This is the last week you can order it. It's only $5 with a $35 order! This is an AMAZING buy! Visit my website and order now!

And this card I made using the Moonlit Paper-pack.

It's an homage to the neighbor owl that keeps up a lot of fuss!

Check back soon for some more creations!

Project Inspiration 2012 Autumn/Winter Idea Book: Patterns From The Heart

There are MANY great things coming from the new season idea book and I'm sure that you all will be just as excited as I am about it. There is something for everyone...and I mean EVERYONE! The classic scrapbooker, the card maker, the stamper, the mini albumer (I think I just made up a new word), the altered artist and the digital scrapper. I am not disappointed and neither will you be. 

Speaking of digital scrapping, I prefer to call Studio J on-line scrapping. It does not require software and all you have to do is sign on to your profile that you create from my website. It's very easy. Well, Close To My Heart has made Studio J available to everyone without a membership AND they have lowered the cost for a 2 page layout to $6.95! And if that's not great enough they've created beautiful Express layouts that are specifically designed for the most scrapped events in our lives. 

How many of you have your babies or events stored in JPEGs just waiting to be placed on beautifully designed layouts? I'm guilty!. My wonderful friend, Angela has a great t-shirt that says. "Don't let your babies grow up to be JPEGs". And unfortunately, that's what we do. So I decided I was going to try out the New Express Studio J...and here it is.

 

These ladies are members of my meetup.com group - "McDonough Scrap Attack". I've had these photos in my computer since January 2011. And it took me 5 minutes to complete these 2 pages. This is PERFECT for me because I spend most of my time making cards and will complete the occasional layout here and there. But this will literally enable me to do something with all the pictures on my computer. 

Now for those of you who want to create your own design, well the sky is the limit with Studio J! Go to my website today and try it out. IT DOESN'T COST A THING FOR YOU TO TRY IT!!

Paper Crafts Gallery Idol Entry

Once again I entered the Open Call for the Paper Crafts Gallery Idol Competition. The theme for this round was to create an Encouragement card. Competition was fierce with almost 2000 entries. What a daunting task they had choosing the top 20! I didn't make it to the top 20 but the ladies who did are extremely talented.

Here is my entry:

I love flowers so of course I stuck to my comfort zone. Maybe next year I'll step out of my comfort zone and challenge myself more. Good luck to the TOP 20! Voting beings today so be sure to visit Paper Crafts Connection blog to see their cards from the "You Color My World" challenge.

Celebration

This past weekend was a fun, full time celebrating my son's graduation from High School. The road was paved with many life lessons for him. Lessons that he has taken and learned from; and he has now blossomed into a young man full of compassion, integrity and maturity. I am so proud of him...so proud.

His school has a tradition where all the seniors receive letters of encouragement from family, friends and faculty during the Senior breakfast and walk. It is something that they can keep and cherish the rest of their lives. 

This is the card I made and wrote my words of encouragement to him. 

When I asked him if he got my card, all he said was,"You wrote all over the card Mom!" I told him I had a lot to say...and I still didn't say everything I wanted to say. I'll leave that for some other cards.