{More} Christmas Cards!!

You may have spotted a silver or gold hedgehog over on my Christmas card post a couple of weeks ago. I decided that the best way to showcase all the cards would be to put them into a grid, but here are a few extra cards I have made since then. Obviously, I am loving hedgehogs at the moment. Here is a cute silver one! I made him with silver embossing powder and paired it up with some awesome Hambly overlay action.


And I just love having lime green, magenta, and turquoise on my cards!!




Some images may be (c) Close to My Heart.

{Hedge hog} Love

Have you noticed them everywhere too??


Wool source



rainbow source


braille pillow source



cupcakes source



wallet source

bag source


onesie

Don't worry...I think this is only a mini-obsession...Owl always {heart} my owls....



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Christmas Cards 2009

I've been very, very busy.....and still more to make! I love Christmas!!


Stamped images (c) Close to My Heart.

On scrapbooking and paper art.

The term scrapbooking is a little dorky. My friends (the non-scrappers) tend to make fun of me for my late night scrapping habits. They just don't get it. I love photos. I love paper. I love techniques. I feel like what I do is more than scrapbooking. I create art with paper and photos. I am inspired by other people who make art with paper and photos. I am not inspired by boring photo albums. I want beauty. I want art. I like to combine good design with text and stamps and stickers. I love making cards. Here is a kit from Close to My Heart that helped me to combine all of my favorite things. I made 2 'scrap book' pages and LOTs of cards using this awesome Twitterpated kit. I changed it a little to make it more mine, but the workshop guide made it easy for me to get it completely finished in a reasonable amount of time. So great for me. I haven't had a lot of time to make anything lately. I actually made all of this last weekend when my brother stayed the weekend with me. In between going to the recycling center, lunch, hitting up a scrapbooking sale (thanks Yvonne and Stacy!), where the wild things are (fantastic, I want to build a fort!), chuck-e-cheese and the late-night spookhouses, I was able to create a 2 page layout and 12 cards.






WOW! This was perfect for me. If I am not 'feeling it' with all the creative mojo...which is often....a kit like this helps me to break through and actually complete SOMETHING. And it was fun. And I am proud of myself. And I like it. So yeah. I don't care if scrapbooking is dorky. Or if it makes me less of an artist. It is fun. It is a creative outlet. It keeps me going. I need it.

p.s. I followed the workshop guide for my first six cards. They look exactly like the ones in the guide. These additional cards, I made up using the same layout but different paper and stamps.

Favorite New Stamp Set!

And it is available now! Okay, I usually try not to market my business on my blog because I know that a lot of my readers are CTMH Consultants and quite frankly, marketing can be a little boring.

You keep coming back for inspiration....right? Anyway, for those of you who do not buy from Close to My Heart, you have to know how great their acrylic stamps are! Really, I have tried other acrylic stamps and I promise, CTMH are the best! For more facts about the acrylic stamps, you can check out this post over @ Lisa's Blog! Also, there is a really great blog hop featuring all the new CTMH products available this fall. You can check out some of the fabulous new stuff!

I love stamping. It is so fun. I love cutting out little things and using all the beautiful colors to customize my stamped images. I also love it when things come in kits because it makes it quicker and easier to customize my cards and layouts. I may have mentioned it earlier, the Twitterpated paper is my favorite line in the new catalog. (You can shop here!)



I just have to show you this coordinating stamp set that is not available unless you purchase the workshop kit. It has the cutest little hedge hog!

(I actually added glitter to both of these after I took this picture--wow! so pretty!!)

Anyway, if you are interested in this stamp set, you can get it by purchasing the Twitterpated Workshop On the Go. This is a great workshop that comes with a wonderful instruction booklet and the supplies to create 2 two-page layouts, AND 6 cards! It is a great deal!


If this is something you think you might be interested in, let me know by shooting me an email!

Oh, and here is another card with this cute hedgehog stamp set!

All products are CTMH.