Those HOOLIGANS!!!!

I am SOOO ready for Fall and all the cool stuff that comes with it!! Halloween, Thanksgiving, (day after thanksgiving shopping!), camping, apple cider, candles burning with the windows up!! i just cant wait! Making these cards from our new "Hooligans" paper just really excited me even more! Check out my monsters! Below is paper from Hooligans and fuzzy lil Hooligans we have in our new catalog! the lil monster is stamped and then liquid glass added to make him extra slimy! I added two of our bitty opaques for his eyes!!! The pennant is cut out of the design on one of the printed patterned papers in the packet!

It always amazes me how versatile you can make these papers look.. Same paper packet and LOTS of different results. Below I have used a piece of Autumn Terracotta Card stock and embossed some stamping to the top and bottom and added some monsters!

I am sooo ready for Fall adn Halloween!

We got our Scrapbook Luau ON this past Saturday!

This is right before the show started! My booth was still looking pretty neat - throughout the day it wore down! LOL I had so much fun doing this. If you came out this year - you know what I'm talking about. If you didn't get to then you need to start planning NOW to make it for next year. As a 'cropper' this year the girls paid $40 which got them a space to crop for 11 hours, breakfast (chickfila, pastries, fruit, and MORE), lunch (strouds & fixins'), dinner (olive garden salad & breadsticks, pizza, and cookies) and snacks throughout the day which included: TWO chocolate fountains- white and milk choc. - bananas, nutter butters, oreos, pretzles, angels food cake, and MORE for dipping - look out melting pot! and coffee & drinks ALL DAY! I am sure I left out something! it was PLENTY! Here is my lil corner I set up shop for the day in! BUSY BUSY! I taught a class on the coaster book and it was a success! Thanks to Shawn, Shannon, Melinda, Kelly, Kim, Dylcia, and Elizabeth for signing up!! It was GREAT getting to know you ladies! The photo I took - on my phone- b/c I forgot to take my camera up to class- well I obviously didn't press 'save.' Stinkers!

Heres some artwork I brought- the big blank black space in upper right corner bothered me all day! LOL I had a flyer printed out to go there and LEFT it at home!- so I thought.. I found it later on in one of my boxes - just about closing time! LOL

Scrappers are arriving!! LOVE these ladies! They are AWESOME. Thank you Shawn, Shannon, Melinda, and Kelly. It was great to look up and see your smiling faces- So happy you guys got so much done and had fun!

They sat at a table#5!

These are the cute lil thank you thingys I made for Katy Zamer & Ami Wilson, co-coordinators, for the Luau. Thank you again ladies for asking me to be a part of it!

I love this photo- the sun was just starting to shine in through the windows and it gave it a shadow! So easy to create: 4 x 8 piece of card stock (this is autumn terracotta)- scored at 4 (in half)-, cut a piece of patterned paper 3x2.5, and another piece of patterned paper at 1.5x2. I used our new fall paper "Olivia" here! It has Barn Red, Cocoa, Autumn Terracotta, & Pear. To make the leaf take your favorite leaf stamp. Ink it up in Honey, (don't stamp yet!) using 'rock n roll' technique with Autumn Terracotta roll the edges of the stamp around on the ink pad to give it a darker 'edge.' Take a sponge dauber or piece of foam sponge and ink it up with some cranberry red and dab it on your stamp. THEN STAMP! Cut out glue down with some 3D foam and add any other embellishment you want- I added "enjoy" with some ribbon!

I had a lil 4 - 1 inch stamp set in each - I simply secured with a glue dot BUT you could get really creative and tie with a ribbon front tie closure... :-)

Christmas in August?

SURE!!!! I am loving all the new stuff in the new book- I liked "Jingle" last year for our Christmas paper BUT I am such a traditional girl and this paper is just perfect! This actually is NOT a scrapbook page- I will post a picture later of the finished product! New alphabet stamp!!! AWESOME!

Did you check out the NEW red sparkles in the above photo?? They also have green, blue, purple, pink, & we still haev the regualar bitty sparkles too! (below) I LOVED this stamp set as soon as I saw it in the book I knew I had to have it b/c I loved the one similar to this last year!! Do you see Christmas cards with it- it SURE do! Coming soon! ;-)

Oh - if you are looking for a feature Friday- here ya go.... If you havent ever heard of www.etsy.com then you MUST go check it out.... It is a site designated specifically for people to sell HANDMADE items. So ebay but handmade! and its not an auction... okay - so maybe not ebay.. LOL Type in Close to My Heart or scrapbooking and you will get tons of ideas- with paper you already have! I got Will's halloween costume IDEA from this site! I may even order it if I cant make it myself! Anyway - I hope everyone has a good weekend!! I have a scrapbooking Luau to attend tomorrow! FUN! Ill post pictures! Here is ETSY description from their site: Our mission is to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers. Our vision is to build a new economy and present a better choice: Buy, Sell, and Live Handmade

MAGIC Magic magic!!

LOVIN' MAGIC!! Cant wait to get one into your hot lil hands- you are going to LOVE it too- I get so excited how I can make the pages and tabs and everything move around, open up, and even IN MY PAGE PROTECTORS! so cool! Here is a layout I took from Magic for my club this month.

I may or may not post again until next week- This week has been NUTSO busy! Stay tuned for all I've been busy creating! You are gonna LOVE the new stuff!

August = Back to School

Okay so this is a repeat post from last years post BUT I have been super busy this week and past weekend getting ready for this Saturday... (MOPS scrapbooking Luau!) I have been creating some super cool stuff- I promise to post soon! Below is a layout I made for my sister and brother n law who were proud parents of a 5 year old starting school last year! :-) Little brother started this year! Go Haney boys!

This a cute lil box I wanted to throw in just because I am SUPER excited about Fall! I may be wishing the summer away just a tad BUT I'm ready! ;-) Thank you to Shawn for sharing this CUTE box she made for Halloween- I'll get the 'recipe' from her and post soon! :-)

FEATURE FRIDAY....not today.. :(

Sorry! I didnt have time to go through my list or find a cool one! However in keeping with 'casual Friday" here are some good FUN pictures that should make you smile!!! The hubs brought home this cool magazine yesterday from Sams. I LOVE HALLOWEEN AND FALL AND EVERYTHING THAT COMES WITH IT!! Including food, crafting, and the outdoors. Nothing puts me in the mood more than fall candles, windows up, adn a cool fall magazine filled with ideas!! If you haven't bought one yet- I recommend this one -it is $10.00 - YIKES! However its full of recipes that kids will love AND it even has some scrapbooking and cards in it! :-) OBVIOUSLY I am not the only one who LOVES Fall - Shawn Spivey made this treat box - along with some others I will post soon!- Isnt it sooo cute!!!! I think with all this hot weather - we are wishing our summer away but I hope Fall is here soon!

Check out Carol's page for Zippidee!!! So cool!!!!! She used the 'ticket to ride stamp' and all the other products with the WS kit. I love when you girls GET CREATIVE!!

......and yes- those are ALOT of bitty sparkles! :-)

Retro to go!

Check out this CUTE card made by Margi Gilbertson, Director with Close to My Heart. The tie-dye effect was done by sponging with the NEW Cotton Candy, Pear, Sky and Smooth ink colors onto the card. Then she splattered pure bleach with a toothbrush onto the card to get the bleaching. Her bleaching technique is something I've used many times BUT never in papercrafting!! Maybe on shirts at 4-H camp or I remember doing this on my freshly painted wall in school. below is my rendition of her card!!! I used a small paint brush to splatter instead of a toothbrush.. - MAKE SURE YOU ARE CAREFUL! After all it IS bleach! :-)

I used paper from the new Fall packet Olivia for my lil scrapbook girls pants and apron- same paper just front and back- sunset and pear colors!

Bleach Technique

I've seen this technique many times before- but most recently Tina Sutton used it on our current August stamp of the month! It looked so good on this flower that I just had to try it myself! This is a piece of colonial white card stock and Ive rubber brayered it up with the NEW sunset ink! I stamped the flower image in Barn Red ink. I stamped over the same image with versa mark and embossed with clear powder. Take a small paint brush and brush straight bleach onto the paper on the inside parts of the flower. It dries white as you can see!

The colors here are part of the new summer pallet but are also perfect for fall- especially paired with the barn red and cocoa!

The paper here is from Olivia - a new paper packet coming soon in teh Fall/Winter idea book! Colors are sunset, smoothie, and pear! Check back tomorrow for another 'bleach' technique!

As long as im living my baby you'll be...

Don't you just love this quote! I am so excited CTMH has a stamp with this phrase! It is perfect for baby pages in a scrapbook or for baby shower cards! I cant wait to stamp this on a birthday card for Will for his 18th birthday in front of his girlfriend or something! LOL So don't call the CTMH police b/c this isn't CTMH paper, BUT it a template pattern our of Wishes! :-)

The pics below are just something I wanted to add- b/c I wanted to share my excitement! Whenever i get a box from the man in brown I cannot wait to open it!! This is a 28 pound box filled with NEW product! yahoo! I have LOVED playing with all of it and cant wait to share it with you!

Triple Play

....and I'm not talking about Chilis appetizers OR a rare play in baseball! Now through September 30th you can get these CUTIE CUTIE mini albums for dirt cheap! (see left column for details on that) It comes will all three colors- Below is the hollyhock one i made up!! Gonna give it to a sweet lil girl for her birthday! She will LOVE putting photos or herself in here!! Fun Fun!! It EVEN comes with the STAMP set!! I love it when it comes with the stamps!! I think I'll make the sunset one next - LOVING the new colors!!! Sunset in pear are in the summer palette but "Fall" right up when you pair them with barn red and garden green! It comes with all this!!! You just stamp on the die cuts (comes with stamps and mini inks!!) tie 'em up with ribbon (included) and stick the velcro fasten (also included) on it and WAL-ah!

It opens up so pretty!!!

The one i put together is hollyhock and dessert sand..

County Fair

okay so the county fair is a love/hate relationship with me. it is always worth the trouble but man is it hot, crowded, and REDNECK- we fit right in! This year we went on Tuesday night - stayed an hour and I realized i had left the oven on with a homemade potpie in it! yikes! ...so we speed demon home and everything is alright! WHEW! County fair take 2- Wednesday night after church....... Went much better- even though it rained some it was way more crowded for some reason but Will had a blast! Checking out the LIGHTS!

Look at MY COOL bracelet! Its magic- it lets me on all the rides!

His favorite ride was this kiddie coaster- the dragon wagon! I thought he was too little for it but the hubs thought he'd do fine. So with a little encouragement from the ride operator (you know with all the training they have!LOL) i let him go and he rode it & rode it & rode it!!!! It was super fast for him and he LOVED it! We got fair food and hit the bricks home around 10pm.... whew!

These lil planes were more mommas speed!

SALE OVER- BACK TO BLOGGING

I have missed blogging this week- I took me a lil break but just from blogging! I have still been creating like a maniac! I have lots of new things to show you starting Monday- including NEW paper and new STAMPS!!!!! Until then I hope everyone has a great weekend and check out the feature Friday below! Ltr Tatrs!

Heart to Heart

Everything CTMH related always has a 'heart' in it! I love that theme. Today's Feature Friday is a CTMH consultant who created this website JUST for FUN! Everyone loves contest - especially crafty ones. Her website is dedicated to a weekly contest. I've only been following her for a couple weeks myself and haven't actually entered anything yet. BUT there is TONS of artwork on this page for inspiration and is 100% CTMH product! I love other products - trust me - i am at HOBBY LOBBY almost weekly! hahah- BUT this site helps me see new things to do with the latest and greatest product I have from CTMH! So go check it out!

http://heart2heartchallenges.blogspot.com/