WEDDING BELLS ARE RINGING!

Fall wedding bells...

Good evening everyone,did you all have a good day,  I did, I made cards alllllll day. I made a wide variety too. The 3  that I am going to show you are for special orders from friends.  A couple of the weddings are in the fall so, hence fall leaves are used, which by the way were saved from my son and daughter in laws wedding last fall:)  Recycling!

The first card I used the Cricut Wrap it Up cartridge, papers from my stash, ribbon I won from Creative scrappers, Bo Bunny gems, Atg gun and zig pen.

Second card is from Wrap it up too.  Some of the supplies I got from Kinderstampo's shop, the wood die cut was from Recollections, the stamp and bling come from Close To My Heart. as well as the ink. the flowers  are from my stash, and I used Stickles for the veil.

And the last one Also was made using the  Cricut Wrap It Up cartridge.  I had also found a 6x6 pad of DCWV Burlap paper in the clearance bin, bought it and love it.  I cut a strip to put across the center of the card, and then added some lace from the Really Reasonable Ribbon assortment I just got.. Love their ribbon!!  The paper pad is the Bo Bunny Apple cider collection.

Well I hope you liked the cards I had to share tonight.  Please come back:)

P.S. if there is anything you need from Close To My Heart, I am your girl.  click on the Shop with me and get your copy of the Artbooking collection, remember this month you get the August Stamp of the Month FREE!!!

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Thanks for stoppin By,,Happy Crafting~~ Cathy

I am back , finally

I am finally back!!

I have been gone for a spell, soooo much going on in my life.  Husband has had many hospital stays and we had a death in the family and lots of babysitting of the grandchildren.  But I am here with a simple post and to let you know i miss you all, I maust have missed a lot of great posts.  I regret that, but I will be peeking in again.

I joined creative Swappers on Facebook and i love it, they have such fun swaps. One of the swaps I joined was to create 12 pumkins with sad faces.  Here are mine>

I used the Disney Happily Ever After cartridge to cut the pumpkin at 3 3/4 inches and then I used the art Philosophy cartridge to cut an oval at 3 1/2 inches to put in the front to give him a little dimension.  I inked the edges of the pumkin with TH distress inks..Festive berries and Peacock feathers.  I then used a white gel pen to hilight.  for the eyes I used a small oval punch, for the nose, I used a 1/2 inch circle punch and trimmed off the bottom, to square it off and then used a pop dot to pop it off the page a little and inked it.  For the mouth, I used a Stampin up oval punch and the used a large circle punch to trim the bottom of the oval to give the up side down curve to the mouth.  

I hope the recipients like them:) 

Have a great night, and thanks for stopping by.  cathy

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giveaway!!

"LOVE THIS"

How would you like to win this adorable Close To My Heart My Acrylix stamp set???

I am having a giveaway on my CTMH FB page..and all you have to do is go to my page and LIKE it and share the post..easy peasy. When I reach 150 Likes on my page, I will randomly pick a winner.

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If you would like an extra entry....share this post on my blog and comment here that you did:)

Hope you all have a great Sunday:)

Cathy

Order you Artbooking Cartridge here !!

Hooray!!

Finally the Close To My Heart new Fall and Winter Idea Book nad Catalog is here :)

And with it is the arrival of the new Cricut cartridge exclusive to Clost To My Heart....ARTBOOKING!!

For 99 dollars you get this awesome cartridge that comes with 3 coordinating CTMH Stamp sets...and 3 coordinating sheets of chipboard shapes!!  And If you purchase it during the month of August, you will get the August stamp of the month (a $17.95 set) for absolutely FREE...that's 4 stamp sets in all!!!  How awesome is that??

If you can get a frined or 2 to order along with you and let me submit the order for you, if it is over $150.00 you will be elligible to get $25.00 in free select  Product and if you can get your order total to $250.00, then you are eligible for $0.00 in free product as well as a 50% off a product...which could be the artbooking cartridge!! How cool is that or maybe you would like one of the Hostess bundles at 50% 0ff, such as the one below...

Also, if you are interested in getting a discount on all the fine CTMH products and earning yourself 50% of cartridges and product, as well as getting your hands on new product a month before your customers.. then Join my team now , by clicking on the opportunities tab on my website,  for as little as $49.00 you can get started with the Essentials kit shown below

So what are you waiting for??  get started now!!!

Head to my website here, and have fun shopping!!!

Happy Crafting~~ Cathy

Double Dutch fold

Double Dutch Fold

Good evening everyone, how was your day?  Mine was a busy one on the road.  Third day on a row.  My husband has been having testing for his heart.. stress tests, that they do when you are in a wheelchair and can not walk on a treadmill.  Come to find out he may have a blockage, which they are going to try to treat with meds for now.

Anyways, after supper tonigh, I wanted to try a card I saw this morning on Splitcoast stampers.  It is a double dutch fold card.  It was real easy and fun.

you start with 2 pieces of card stock..one at 9x 4 3/16 and the other is 2 by 8 1/2

Score the 4 3/16 by 9 paper at 5 1/2.

Score the 2 by8 1/2 at 2 1/8 and 6 3/8.

then with your adhesive, ( I used liquid so it would give me a little playroom to make sure it lined up good) you adhere the center section of the 2 by 8 1/2 behind the lower part of the 4 3/16 by 9, so that when the top folds down, it meets the top of the side flaps.

  I then cut out a border with a punch and glued it behind the fop flpa and decorated with Graphic 45 French Country and scraps of cardstock, I made a daisey with the art Philosophy cartridge and put a pearl brad through it and punched out leaves with a Martha Stewart punch.  Used Close to My Heart Lagoon Ink pad and a close to my heart stamp and one I got from a yard sale.  Also some ribbon was used I got at Joanns and the ribbon embellishment buckle I got from a RAK

Well I hope you like my card and my instructions were understandable.  If not here is the tutorial

Thanks for stopping in to see my card today!

Just want to mention, I am a little short on my goal this month for Close To My Heart, if there is anything at all you need, would appreciate if you could take a minute and head to my website, and click Join Cathy's Christmas in July gathering:)

Thanks in advance!!

Have a great night

Cathy

would love a team :)))

I would really love to have a team...a bunch of gals that enjoy getting their papers and supplies at a discount all the time as well as FREE!!  Gals that love the colors and themes and coordinating embellishments to go with the papers, and shares the love of the commeradery that we have here at Close To My Heart.  They have a support system that is second to none. 

Training is awesome, you can go at your own pace, and all the answers are either on the corporate site or ask me or any of the girls in our group, easy peasy.

If you love card making or scrapbooking, Close To My Heart has all the supplies to help you create the perfect layout or personalized card to give to a loved one or friend.

They have a great starter Essentials kit too, for $49.00 you get $155.00 worth of product to get you started.  If you decide you do not like it...that is it..no more commitment, and the kit is yours :)

If you want more than what is in the Essentials kit, you can get a larger kit for $99.00.  

They offer each month a new Stamp of the month,  A retail value of $17.95..for only $5.00 with the purchase of $50.00 or more.. below is July's Stamp of the month.

They also have AWESOME Cricut cartridges that are sold exclusively to Close to My Heart

You also get a 22% discount off your orders. and your commision is 22% from your customers sales.  There is soo much more to the compensation plan.. Plus achievable quarterly minimums if you decide to sell after your receive you kit.

So if you have an questions message me, or email me at mexicopetshop at hotmail dot com

if you are all set, go to my website and click on the Opportunities tab and get started.  

oh..and you get your own FREE website!!

Iffff, after hearing all this good stuff you still do not want to Join my team  "Mainely Hearts"  then I will gladly have you as a customer and feel free to head to my site and click on the Join button for Cathy's christmas in July Gathering.

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Thanks for stopping in..Cathy

Camping Critters

Good morning all..wow, two mornings in a row I post..been a while.lol.  Last night I dug out the Camping Critters cartridge and had a little fun.  I decided to make a side step card, I had not made one in a while and I like them.  The size of the card stok before cut and scored it 9x8 inches.

On the 8 inch side I Cut the cardstock with my paper trimmer one inch in down to the 7 inch mark and then took the paper and scored it at 1, 2, 3 1/2 , 5 and 7 inches and then on the other side of the cut paper I scored and 4 and 1/2.. Then do your mountain valley fold.

I then cut out all the pieces for the cards with cricut set at 4 inches, used Close to my Heart inks and stamps.  Core'dinations, DCWV and CTMH papers, Atg gun, Xyron Create a sticker for small parts, Bo Bunny gems, flower punch, gel pens and some wooden fern embellishments.  Hope you like my post today..have a great day.

Cathy