Announcement and AHSC challenge #41

Announcement!!

Good afternoon!!! Hope you all had a nice weekend, I know I sure did. I had a Close to My Heart club gathering and what fun the 11 of us girls had!!  Wish i could craft every day with them.

Well, the announcemenrt is I made the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge Design Team!!!! Fabulous bunch of girls, I know I am going to have a great time.

this weeks Challenge is #41

For my card today, I used Close to My heart papers Lollydoodle, which is in the new CTMH Idea book.  I made a A2 size card.

other supplies used was Artiste cartridge, Oval punch, atg gun, Studio G bling, CTMH Stitched with Love stamp set, Juniper ink and Cotton Candy ink form CTMH.

Here is the inside of my card, I cut out one of the patch stamped images from the set.

I hope you enjoyed my card today.  You really should give a shot at entering the challenges, it is so much fun.  Make sure you head over to the challenge blog here.  Also make sure you stop over and check out the other team members projects, you won't want to miss their inspirational posts.

Have a great day...Cathy

want to join my team?? enter  here

New Close To My Idea book , get ready to shop!!

Well, the New Idea book for Spring and Summer went live

 yesterday..Have you had a chance to check it out??? below

is a picture of February's Stamp of the Month, a $17.95 D

 size stampset that can be yours for $5.00 with a quallifying

 $50.00 order!! Also get 2 packs of qualifying Card stock and

 you get a FREE New Embossing folder!! that is right..Close

 to My Heart now has embossing folders!!! Annnd, now you

 can get your own idea book online for $3.95 with your

 online order!!! soooo you ready to start shopping??? head

 to my website HERE

STAMP OF THE MONTH

HAVE FUN SHOPPING

cathy

Cuttin' and Stampin' 2014 DT Blog Hop

 Can you believe Cuttin' and Stampin' Challenge Blog

 has been going for over a year now? There has been 

so much fun creating and sharing projects with you.

  Starting the first of the year they decided to make a few changes.  These changes include bringing you different types of projects, and to do that we needed increase the number of members on the team. They also decided to split the team in to two.

Today we are introducing the OrangeTeam.  If you happened upon the post by chance and would like to start at the beginning click HERE

You should have arrived here from Courtneys' page, and from here you will head to Kim's page.
Be sure to stop by each of them and welcome them to our 2014 Design Team.  We will have a drawing for each day of the hop.  Just leave a comment below and at each stop along the way.  We will announce blog winners on Friday along with our regular weekly winners

My project for today is a Tri Shutter card.  I wanted to show my style.. I love to make motion,and shared cards.  I love to surprise people when they open their cards. I love to think they get a little extra smile going on because of the change in the ordinary.  I also LOVE flowers.  I find it hard to make a card without flowers on it, either in the pattern of the paper or as an embellishment. The papers I used are from a 6x6 paper pad from My Minds Eye called Tangerine and the Stamp set I used is from  Paper Smooches called Woffers and Tweeters.

Here is a picture of the stamp set and the images.  It is so stinkin' cute!!!  You will have such fun with it.

Here is a side view on my card standing up.

my supply list....

MME Tangerine

Paper Smooches stamp

Atg adhesive

CTMH Chocolate ink

CTMH Juniper ink

CTMH Christmas red ink

MS leaf punch

yellow brads

CTMH twine

White gel pen

Your next stop on the hop is Kim

Here is the Orange Team blog hop line-up:

Madge~  http://thescrapinlounge.com

Karen~   http://karen2005.blogspot.com

JoAnn~   http://joboogie.typepad.com

Lynda~   http://positive-force.blogspot.com
Courtney~  http://cshorrcreations.blogsot.com

Cathy~     http://cathyplus5.blogspot.com

Kim~       http://kimross.blogspot.com    

Melissa!  http://CreatedbySunshineHoneyBee.blogspot.com

Michelle Kinder~  http://michellekinder.blogspot.com


thanks for hopping along with us.    Cathy

AHSC#40

Good evening friends. I was going through my scraps today. I have so many assorted papers mixed together, I decided to seperate my Close To My Heart papers from the other I have and solid from printed. Job well done.  So this evening I put together  a quick card using the CTMH papers.  I also decided to enter it into the Atlantic  Hearts SKetch Challenge #40.

 I had fun putting the little bird together using the Art Philosophy cartridge.  There is sooo many animals and birds you can make with a little imagination.

Eell I hope you like it and will give it a try on the sketch at well...details here.

Happy Crafting    CATHY

3 cards to share

Hello everyone!! I can not believe it, I had time today to make 3 cards..

welllll, to be honest, I cheated.  I went through all my scraps and extra cuts I had on hand from previous card classes, so it did not take as long as it usually would.(hehehe)

The first card I made using the new Close to My heart paper, Lollydoodle.  I just love it!!!, but I also came across some papers from the CTMH Dotty for you, and as you can see, they coordinate nicely.  CTMH papers and inks work so good together.  You do not have to go out and buy tons and tons of different ink colors everytime a new catty comes out. isn;t that awesome.  You can spend your money on the awesome paper packs and Workshops.  The stamp set used was,  CTMH's "It's your day"

The second card I made with scraps as well.  The stamp set is CTMH's "You are my happy"  The above card and below each have the gorgeous Teal Shimmer trim from CTMH.  Love love love it!!  Coming out in February.

Card #3 was some scraps from a previous card class, Papers from DCWV.

I am looking for a few sweet ladies to join my team..wouldn't you like to get your supplies @ 22% off and make that on your customer sales???  The kit below is $99.  Message me if you are interested and have questions, or head to my website HERE and sign up!! 

Thanks for stopping by, come back again!!

Cathy

Close To My Heart frames

Close To My Heart

Hello everyone, how is everyone tonight??  I have to tell you, I have had enough winter, I am soooo ready for spring, flowers, the smell of a fresh cut lawn... Oh well, only a couple more months to go.

In the mean time, lets talk Close To My Heart.  I recently purchased a couple of the Bracket frames (Z1797) that CTMH sells.  I stared at them off and on for a couple weeks, trying to figure what I would do with them.  Well as it so happens I had a babyshower coming up and thought I could maybe come up with a gift idea for it.. well once I got started. I was onfire and could not stop til it was done.  With  the use of my cricut, Artiste (z1790) and Art Philosophy(Z1686) cartridges, Babycakes(x7173b)  I also used the Special Care stamp set.

To hold the banner I sued the CTMH clothes Pin Minis (z1815) and some twine (z1751) the harvest assortment.  The inks used were the Chocolate and autimn terracotta.

So, this is what I did with one of them.  Super fun.  If you would like to try one of these your self, head over to my website here

and pick one up for yourself.  For as little as $8.95 you can have one too.  While you are there, take a look around, check out the "while supplies last" and if you spend $50.00 (before tax and shipping,) you will be eligible for the Stamp of the month, a size D stamp set valued at $17.95 for only $5.00.

thanks for stopping by. Oh and  by the way...February 1st the Spring and Summer Idea book goes LIVE!!!

 Tata for now :)

Cathy

2014 design team!! /Blog hop

Hello to all my friends out there in Blogger land, I have some exciting news to share with you,  I recently appied to be on the Cuttin and Stampin 2014 Design team, annnnnnd  I made it:)  I am so tickled. I have not been on a team in a while and it should be fun.. there is a great group of girls , some I know and some I look forward to getting to know.

I guess there was originally 10 girls on the team and now there is 20, which is divided into 2 teams...as shown below...

Here are the wonderful members of our two new 2014 Design Teams.   

GREEN TEAM                                                ORANGE TEAM

Teresa Russell                                               Kim Ross

Debbie Owen                                                Lynda Lindley

Vickie Yeakley                                               Cathy Derouche

Lisa Lahiff                                                     JoAnn Valderama

Doris Tee                                                      Melissa DeMonic Dorosh

Jenni Shamblin                                              Mandee Gillen (Madge)

Jamie Shaw-Tardif                                          Michelle Kinder

Janet Royer                                                   Courtney Shorr

Michelle Kosciolek                                          Karen Nofziger

 Cuttin and Stampin  will introduce the new teams to you with a blog hop.  Our GREEN Team will be featured on January 31st and our ORANGE Team will be featured on February 1st.  

There will be blog candy for both days.  So mark the days on your calendar so you can say hello to the new teams.  

Thanks for stopping by and Happy crafting..Cathy