Crazy about "Dotty For You"

Since it is nearing the end of May I thought I'd share a collage of some 

of my favorite 

"Dotty For You" projects.

I just love the colors and of course

the dotty prints on the back of each sheet.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Distress It Challenge

This week the Heart To Heart challenge is on

distressing.

You can read about it HERE.

If you're a regular reader you know I like to distress and make things

look vintage.  I decided to use one of my favorite new CTMH stamps

"Just For You".

I love that you can make this quilted flower image in so many colors and patterns since the "petals" can be stamped individually.

Here is my distressed version...

After stamping the flower image with 

Honey, Lagoon, Olive, and Sunset inks

I distressed the edges with the Chocolate Distressing Ink cube.

I like to wrinkle up the leaves too before inking. 

I "smudged up" the background paper a bit too.

All supplies Close To My Heart.

Stella Paper Pack

Brown Bag Cardstock

Pewter Badge Buttons
inks mentioned above and Chocolate for the sentiment

Hope you have de-stressed kind of weekend!

Life Is Tweet!

Today is the first day of my summer vacation!

This little sentiment says it all...

Life is Tweet!

This is a sneak peek of Close To My Heart

June Stamp of the Month artwork.

I made these mini-cards for some thank you notes to tuck into CTMH orders.

stamp: Life is Tweet SOTM set

Elemental Paper Pack

Sunset Ink, sponged with Honey

Hemp and Baker's Twine fibers

See those little Kraft envelopes?  They are embossed with

Close To My Heart.

I just love them and use them for tag pockets on layouts too.

Hope you have a "tweet" Memorial Day weekend.

Go Gingham!

I LOVE gingham for summertime!

Here's a card that I made using Simple Stories "Summer Fresh"

I am linking it up to the Gingham Challenge at Moxie Fab World.

You can read more about it here.

I thought these prints would go great with some of my favorite staples from

The Kraft Outlet so I'm linking it up to the "Remembering You" challenge

at The Kraft Journal blog.

supplies:

The Kraft Outlet: Coverweight Kraft CS and large Manila Shipping Tag

Simple Stories: "Summer Fresh" papers and Odds& Ends Memorabilia Pockets

Close To My Heart:

stamps: "4 My Friend" and "Sweet Moments"

Inks:  Juniper and Moonstruck

Buttons: Red Collection 

Hemp

other: Baker's Twine (unknown, gifted) Brad: MME "Lush" Collection

Thanks for visiting!

May Day

Here is my "Me" in 2012 May page.

It's not the greatest photo but it is me, doing what I like to do.

(talking and sharing crafts, LOL!)

paper and stickers from Simple Stories "Year-o-graphy" line.

I am so happy that I had time to catch up on some projects this weekend.

When school gets out I will be going full-steam ahead with my

Close To My Heart projects!

I just LOVE the June Stamp of the Month and there is an

amazing promotion for June.

I can't wait to share it with my stamping friends!!!

April 2012

This weekend I got caught up on a few projects

like my 2012 "Me" album.

Today I am sharing the April layout which documents the weekend

our DD came home so we could go to see Blue Man Group.

Amazing show!

Paper and stickers from Simple Stories "Year-o-graphy" line.

Burlap twine from my friend Jody's Etsy shop.

Jody sent me the nicest goodie box, thanks Jody!

Happy Summer!

It is the last Monday of the school year!

Oh how I love not waking to the alarm clock in the summer, especially on Mondays.

While I had my Simple Stories "Summer Fresh" line out for the challenge

project I shared yesterday, I thought I'd create a few cards.

This one is created with a Kraft base and two blocks

of patterned paper from the Simple Stories

"Summer Fresh" line along with coordinating journaling card.

Flower was die cut with AP Cricut Cartridge from Close To My Heart

and stamped in Honey Ink with stamp from "hooray bouquet" set.

The sentiment, from Verve, was stamped on a coordinating journaling card.

So easy, breezy for summer crafting!