Thank You Card

Many of you know that our older daughter will be graduating from high school tomorrow night.  Here is the card that we made to give to her advisor/homeroom teacher of the last four years.

The adorable graduation owl and sentiment are from the Teacher Appreciation stamp set.  I used a piece of La Vie en Rose B&T and a piece of retired Tommy B&T.  Even though our school colors are purple and gold, I had to use Lagoon instead.  Aren't the Florence sequins a perfect match?

Here is our graduate at Honors Day last week (minus her gold Beta Club cord).  We are so proud of her!

Ice Cream Cone Birthday Card

My mother-in-law absolutely loves ice cream, so we gave her an ice cream sundae "fixings" gift for her recent birthday.  Here is the 5"x7" card that I made to go with her gift.

Unfortunately the Charlotte paper is no longer available, but you can still get the CTMH/Cricut Artistry cartridge anytime.  (The sentiment is from the Artfully Sent collection, stamped on a piece of the Charlotte complements.)

Even though Charlotte is no longer available, you could recreate this idea with any fun paper.  Enjoy a sweet treat!

Happy Times Card Set

Have you seen the beautiful Happy Times paper pack for National Scrapbooking Month?  Close To My Heart has provided a scrapbook workshop PDF and a card making workshop PDF to share with customers who purchase (or earn free) Happy Times.  I used the card workshop instructions to create these 12 cards for my daughter to use.  (She will graduate from high school next week, and the well wishes are stating to pour in.)

I chose to personalize the set with her initial in Pomegranate ink.  The flowers above are second generation Smoothie (with Canary added to the ones below).  Fern is the leaf color.

The gold foil paper is even prettier in person!

These sentiments are from Sending Love.

Anyone who orders the Happy Times paper pack and/or stamp set this month will receive the PDF files for free!

H2H Challenges: Transportation

This week's Heart 2 Heart Challenge is the theme challenge TRANSPORTATION.  The first thing that came to my mind was our youngest getting her learner's permit recently!

This layout uses the new Magical collection found in the current Seasonal Expressions catalog supplement.  I actually made this in March when Close To My Heart came to Atlanta.  I will finish the right side page with some pictures of our new driver manning the wheel in our various vehicles.  She is doing a great job so far!

Be sure to visit H2H to see how our Design Team interpreted this challenge.  You have all month to play along with any of the May challenges, so get crafting!

National Stamping Month Blog Hop: Happy Times!

Close To My Heart has a gorgeous special offer for National Stamping Month!  You are going to want to get your hands on the beautiful Happy Times paper pack and coordinating stamp set.  You can purchase the paper pack for $14.95 and the stamp set for $17.95, or you can earn the paper pack FREE with a minimum $60 qualifying order.  If you're already hopping you've arrived from my talented friend (and fellow Heart 2 Heart DT Member) Paige's blog.  After you check out my project, you'l visit Jennifer next by clicking on her name.

The Happy Times paper pack seemed like a great match for our daughter's senior prom pictures.  My layout is based on two sketches from Reflections that I tweaked slightly to fit my pictures.

Can you see the gold embossing on the coral band?  This paper is so pretty in real life!  I embellished the layout with gold shimmer trim, Florence sequins, gold puffies, and a flower from the La Vie en Rose assortment.

I didn't add a ton of embellishments because I wanted the focus to remain on my pictures.  The title is stamped in Fern with a retired alphabet set.

Thanks for letting me share my beautiful daughter with you!  (Yes, I know I am biased.)  She will graduate high school at the end of the month and then will head off to college in August.  Feel free to leave me a comment before you hop on over to see Jennifer's Happy Times creation.

Click HERE for all the hop participants and their blogs.

I am also linking my layout to the Color My Heart Happy Times Color Dare challenge.  Thanks again for letting my share my daughter and the Happy Times collection with you.

May Stamp of the Month Blog Hop: Celebrate with Cake

The May stamp of the month, Celebrate with Cake, is such a fun stamp set!  You're going to get tons of yummy ideas along this month's stamp of the month blog hop.  (If you're already hopping then you've probably arrived from Priscilla's blog.  From here you'll visit Michelle next.)

My first card was made especially for a friend who loves the color blue!  I used Glacier and Peacock for my main colors.  First I stamped the image in Slate then colored the cake slice with our new small waterbrush.  I added Slate and Honey to the candle too.  The card is embellished with Peacock Fundamentals and our NEW Florence sequins.

My second card uses the same sketch from Make It From Your Heart (but obviously flipped).  I again colored my focal image with the waterbrush (this time stamped with archival black and Slate).  I had a great time splattering my card front with watercolor paint in the NEW Calypso color palette (Cotton Candy, Pear, Honey, Lagoon, and Black).  Don't you love the NEW adorable Calypso sequins?

Thanks for hopping by!  I'd love to know what you think of the cards before heading to the next blog.  Just click on her name to go see Michelle's Celebrate with Cake May stamp of the month project!

Click HERE for all the hop participants and their blogs.