Sweet Soiree

At church I get to work with 8-12 year old girls twice a month. They are all so sweet and I really enjoy my time with them. For one of our activities this month we are having a Back To School Soiree (don't you love that word, highly under used in my opinion). Anyway, we are having a Mother/ Daughter tea party of sorts (minus the tea) where we will learn about the importance of education and lifetime learning. We'll also have some yummy refreshments...who doesn't love refreshments??? I wanted to send some more formal invites for this event so this is what I came up with.

Isn't it sweet. I hope they bring a smile to the girls' faces when they get them in the mail later this week.
Recipe:
Stamps; CTMH Childhood Portrait
Paper: CTMH Boom-Di-Ada Level 2 paper pack
Ink: CTMH Chocolate, Hollyhock and Topiary
Misc: Flowersoft (I forget the name of the color blend), Mark Richards gems

What's Cookin Cherry-O?

Can I tell you how much I love the new Cherry-O paper line from CTMH? When I first saw the new lines in our consultant sneak peek I noticed something else as well. They showed a decorated recipe box using Cherry-O! As soon as I got the new catalog in my hot little hands I went looking for that recipe box. I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Upon further examination of the new catalog I saw that we also have a new matching recipe card kit (with 32 recipe cards and 6 dividers), how perfect.

Here is my recipe box. I haven't quite finished decorating the front flap but I wanted to show you anyway. Sorry the image isn't the best.

I love the colors, the designs and how easy this was to make. As shown this is a NO STAMP project, anyone can do this!

You know you wanna make one too! Here's your chance.

Recipe Box Class and Recipe Swap

Saturday, May 15th

1:00-3:00pm

Cost is $30 and includes

Recipe Box

Card Kit

Cherry-O Stickease

Embellishments

Please bring a one of your favorite recipes to share so we all go away with a few new recipes.

Registration and payment for this class is due by Saturday May 8th.

Life is Sweet Clear Card Class

I am so excited. I have been waiting to do this class for a month since I saw these awesome clear cards in the Summer 2010 catalog. I love the look of clear cards, they are so much fun and CTMH has outdone themselves with these. they are precut in two shapes, squares with rounded corners and scalloped circles.

I couldn't wait to put them together with the new Cherry-O paper for some adorable spring cards. Here they are, I love them and hope you do too!

Here are the four cards included in this class.

And some close ups of each card. It is hard to get the pictures to do them justice but I hope you get the idea.

Since this is the first month of the new catalog I am going to do something special for this class. You can get this class FREE.

That's right I said FREE!

Just make a purchase of $40 or more from the new catalog through me before May 15th and you can come to either class for FREE.

If you just want to take the class and don't have an order right now the cost is $15.


I will be holding the

Life is Sweet Card Class

Thursday, May 20th from 6:00-9:00 PM

OR

Saturday, May 22nd from 1-4PM



Payment for qualifying orders and/or class fees must be made prior to registering for the class.

Space will be limited and I will take registrations for paid or free classes through May15th.

Out of the box

These cute little boxes were my April class. I wish I could say that I designed this myself but I found the original instructions here

I offered the boxes in three paper designs.

Sillouette (Black, White Daisy, Colonial White, Bamboo and Tulip)

And here is the inside of the box. It includes 6 standard A2 size cards, four 3"x3" cards and four tags along with a noteboox, pen and pocket for a book of stamps.

Here it is using Bella (Hollyhock, Olive, Smokey Plum, Cmee Brule)
And finally this is Magic Moments (Chocolate, Hollyhock, Corn Flower Blue, Sweet Leaf). Each of these uses the same layouts but it was interesting to see how different they turned out by just changing the papers.

Spring Has ...Win a free stamp set!

This is something I made for the April swap using our April Stamp of The Month, Flower Pot.

I love doing 3-D projects and this was a really fun one. The template came from Lauren Meader's My Time Made Easy site. If you haven't checked out Lauren's site you are missing out. I love her ideas and templates. The best part is that she offers all of her templates as .GSV files that I can cut on my cricut using my Sure Cuts Alot software. How awesome is that?? I would never take on making 10 of these if I had to cut them all by hand.

What is Sure Cuts Alot you might ask. Well I if you own a cricut is is a MUST have tool. I wrote a post about it on my old blog. If you want to read that post click here. If you want to learn more or want to purchase Sure Cuts Alot Click on my link to the left.

Here are some close up shots of the Wheel Barrow and one of all of them lined up for the swap.

I used the Veranda paper line from CTMH. The wheel barrow base is Cocoa cardstock, with Olive accents. I used the Flower Pot SOTM set and various CTMH colors for the flowers.


Would you like to win this stamp set for free??? Here's what you need to do.

1. Leave a comment on this post (be sure to leave your email address so I can contact you of you win)

2. Subscribe to this blog OR become a follower

I will choose a winner on May 15th. Good Luck!

Oh Baby!

This is a page and a card I made for my friend Echo's baby shower.






I used the Caboodle paper line from CTMH along with the Love You Forever stamp set. That set is one of my favorites because I remember reading the book Love You Forever by Robert Munsch to my daughter when she was little. I gave the book to Echo as a part of my gift in hope that she can treasure some of the same memories of reading it to her little boy. The Silouettes are done using the Childhood Portraits stamp set, another of my favorites.

They Say It's Your Birthday

If you are like me you usually remember it is someone's birthday a couple of days (sometimes weeks) after it has passed. I always have good intentions but life takes over and I just forget.

When I saw CTMH's February Stamp of The Month Set I decided to make something to help me remember.

Here is what I came up with. Presenting...

A Year of Birthdays Flip Book

This book is made with the Topstitch paper line from CTMH. I used theMy Creations Display Album and made a page for each month with space to write everyone's birthdays.

Here are the month pages

This was a class I offered in February. If you are interested in doing this project just let me know.