Hitting the Ground Scrapbooking

Come on, ladies!! These warm summer nights are perfect for staying up late into the night scrapbooking and stamping to your heart's content.

It's also a good time to enjoy some company while you're stamping your day/night way. So, I'm pleased to announce . . . two upcoming Stamp and Chats for August. The two dates are Wednesday, August 6th and Wednesday, August 20th from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (or whenever you have to leave).

The event is strictly for fun .  . . it's free to attend and is just a place to work on your projects and chat and sip coffee/tea/water and, of course, nibble some chocolate. I have samples of what I've been working on and . . . this is fun . . . slightly used/brand new stamps from my growing collection for sale. ALL sets are just $5!!!!!

And, drum roll please (drum rolling) the NEW catalog is here in my house and FREE for all who place an order. You are simply going to love all the new papers, the new colors, the stamp sets, oh . . . I  could go on and on.


Also, there's still room in the fun Stamp Club Program! Join in the fun! CTMH has one of the best hostess programs around and you don't have to actually have a traditional gathering to receive the benefits. A fun program I ran a few years ago, was a great way to earn free stamps/papers/inks etc. and I'm happy to announce I'm starting it up again!It's super easy to join and the participation is super easy and inexpensive!

To participate, email me that you'd like to join the Stamp Club and I'll get you all set up. The requirements to participate are completely affordable, just place at least a $15 order by the 15th of each month and we'll rotate the hostess. The hostess will receive at least $25 in free product. If the subtotal of the orders collected is more than $150 than you will receive MORE free product (see page 4 of the new catalog for all the CTMH hostess details).Other benefits include a free prize from me each month (like a handmade card, bookmark etc.), a birthday card on your birthday and lots of ideas from me on ways to enjoy stamping even more. The prize for this month is ultra cute and you'll want it . . . you lucky Club Members!

The next club order is August 15th, so if you are interested, just send me an email and we'll collect those orders and get the happy hostess her prizes. Hostess rotation will be set to first
come, first served-- so don't wait if you want to be the hostess sooner!

Happy Stampy Day to you!

Elaine Hagebush

Jewelry Making Mom's Night Out

Everyone deserves a little break and crafting is right up there with ways to cope with stress. Yeah!

You are going to love the next Stamp and Chat because it's a Jewelry Making mom's night out.

Mark your calendars for a jewelry making party at my house Wednesday, July 16th at 7:00 p.m. It's going to be super fun and inexpensive. Just $10 for the items to create one necklace. Feel free to bring a friend and I'll give you a bag of charms of your choice!!! See pages 80 and 81 in the Summer catalog for what you'll be making.

Here's a picture of the samples in the catalog:

The charms are an extra 75 cents. If you'd like to make more, it's $10 per necklace.

I hope to see lots of faces. For this workshop there is a limit of 12 slots. If we have more than that interested we might have to have another shift. Please RSVP as soon as you can, first come, first served.

I'm so excited!
We're going to have so much fun!!!

Yours in Stamping,
Elaine

New Catalog!!!!

I think I'm in love! This new catalog is FULL of so much new product and stamps and papers and a new Cricut cartridge and accessories . . . and, and, and.

I can't wait to look at it again. So excited to share it with you all next month!!!!

 

These are some of the cards we made today. They were made with our new Cricut cartridge. That's not all, we also made a cute mini album, but I didn't get it finished. I'll post it once I get my pictures in it. The projects were wowie cards, but without the wowie work.

Here's a quick snap shot of us working hard on our projects. We received SO much free product and I loved creating with the new paper products and stamps.

And what are we doing tomorrow? Well, of course, we're stamping again. Yahoo!

I will post again. I love Convention!!!!

I've arrived!

Today is the day it all begins . . . the countdown to the reveal of the new catalog and all new goodies to play with!

But first Lori and I had some Mickey time.

He's so cute!!!

The real excitement is tomorrow though as the new catalog is revealed and all new stamps, and papers, and accessories, and more!!! Stay tuned and I will keep you posted on all the new developments! I'm so excited that 9 of us are here from the California Dreamin' Team! We rock!

Now to try and get some sleep so I'll be bright eyed and bushy tailed for tomorrow's excitement!

Convention!!!!

In just 5 days I will be heading to Disneyland. I'm so excited! And not just because I LOVE Mickey Mouse. No, I'm excited for the best thing about being a Close To My Heart Consultant . . . Convention.

First of all there's the excitement of seeing the catalog for the first time . . . filled with treasures galore, this puppy is going to be a doozy! We've even been promised a NEW Cricut cartridge. YES!!!! And there's going to be new stamps and new albums and new papers and accessories that are going to boggle my mind!

Then there's the camaraderie of all my fellow Consultants. Not only will I see many friends from other teams, there's going to be 9 of us from our own unit, California Dreamin'! That's exciting. We even have matching shirts to wear one of the days. (Pictures to follow!)

Finally there's my favorite part . . . playing with all the new product and papers in the Creative Sessions. We'll all have inky fingers for sure, but then again, that's how you know you've been having fun! (Pictures to follow of what I made too.)

Be sure to follow my blog as I update you daily on what's new and exciting and fun on the Convention scene. I'll be like a reporter. <giggle>

First up . . . gotta find that mouse!!!

The Blues

No, I don't have the blues . . . the Heart to Heart Challenge for this week was to create a card using blue as the main color. So I chose my favorite stamp set, Fabulous You, and Lagoon as my blue.

I used some of our retired color ready ribbon and dyed it with our Lagoon ink. The images are colored in with our colored pencils. The card shape is cut using the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge.

It's the perfect card for a favorite friend.

Have a stampy day!

Making a Manly Card, Well, Manly

Making a man's birthday card or any occasion, really, is difficult because I always want to bedazzle it or add glitter or add a bow, which most men are not so keen on.

The card here was made with Close To My Heart's new Timberline paper set. I used a retired birthday set for the birthday wishes and added the Lagoon paper as an accent color (not in the Timberline set). Does it count that I added some baker's twine with a knot?

Well it's a manly knot so I decided it would work. I didn't add too many other fancies like our Aqua Dots or Sparkles and though the hardware would have looked cool like our Triangle or Artisan studs, I really felt it took away from the cool tool back ground, created with the "You're the Best" stamp set.

One thing to really dress a man card up or I should say, make it look more manly, is to add some sponging or sanding to the edges of your paper.

And if all of that work on a perfect card and it still looks rather girly, take it out and run it over with the car. Seriously, there's only so much a Stamping Queen can do with the manly genre!

Happy Creating!