Deal of the Decade

When you buy the new Art Philosophy Cricut cartride for 109$ you receive

700 shapes, a font, and 3D elements including flowers and boxes ;

3 coordinating stamp sets and 3 sheets chipboard dimensional elements:

already a huge value of over $140 in products.

Because you spent over $85 you also get the Pair a Phrase Stamp Set: a DOUBLE

set of coordinating stamps!! FREE!

Plus because you spent over $55 you can get the August Stamp of the month WICKED

for just $5.50... and that qualifies you to get the Typeface font FREE!!!

Deal of the decade, as far as i am concerned.

Drop me an email to order or call to book your party!

Hope for Japan. Beautiful idea.

Hope for Japan. What a great stamp set fo $5.00.

All proceeds go directly to the Red Cross Japan relief fund.

Circle of Life

This stamp is so much fun to work with because of all the detail!

First I stamped in Versamark and heat embossed using silver embossing powder.

Once it was set, I dipped my waterbrush into twilight, purple pansy, indian corn blue and clover meadow to highlight the peacock feathers and plumes.

I added sparkles to the head feathers.

I mounted the image on papers from the Magnifique Collection, using the new colour Lagoon for cardstock.

All materials are Close to my Heart.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Two great cards, made with a really versatile inspirational stamp set entitled, the Present~!

I used Olivia papers , so pretty for fall, and added grosgrain and organdy ribbons, and a bracket stamped on barn red cardstock with a teeeny brad.

Live Inspired

I really really Love this bird from the Live Inspired acrylix (I pictured the set of 10 ) This is the second 6x6 card that I have worked up using this stamp as the focal point. It is an elegant image and very versatile. I made 2 birthday, 2 sympathy, and 2 congratulations cards using it yesterday.

The paper pack is from a Heart of Winter special and is no longer available. It came from Julia H's stash . It has an olive background of intertwining leaves, and a floral pattern with smoky plums. Since these are large, special occasion cards, I lavished layers and layers of paper on the front. I think there are 7 layers.

This time, I took a hint from the Triple Play techniques and used a 3 colour approach to inking the bird. First I darkened the bottom of the tail and the tips of the wing with pansy purple by pressing just that area of the stamp directly onto the ink pad. Then I inked the rest of the stamp overall with Desert Sand, which almost has a green tinge to it. Its actually close to khaki. Then I finally sponged a small touch of Twilight, which is a teal blue , onto the upper part of the bird.

For the background of the 3x3 square , I swiped the edges in pansy purple first , then I stippled a metallic gold ink onto the sides, focusing on the upper left and lower right corners.

Stamp! WOW!

I was looking at Tresa Black's new YouTube video on stamping for Close to my Hearts video contest.
Pretty much sums up how I feel about using our Clear stamps! plus she shows how versatile they are in a few cute techniques.
check it out here:
http://www.fabulouslyartsy.com/2010/01/stamp-wow.html
thanks Tresa for allowing us all to share this.

Be Yourself... everyone Else is Taken.

Do you like those BELLA stamps?? who doesn't!?!

right Ladies?? lol

our May stamp of the month is so freakin sassy and pretty and reminds me of BELLA.

It's called Be Yourself!

It is a silhouette picture actually.

Best of all, you can get her at a discount or even FREE when you order any Close to my Heart products this month.

http://www.closetomyheart.com/sotm_myctmh.aspx?Src=MyCTMH

My New Acrylix

Ctmh has this really cool incentive program called Rewards My Way.

Consultants can accumulate points over an entire year then redeem them for products.

I earned 3 new 2009 stamp sets from my 2008 sales so I picked my favorites.

The swirls I had wanted for the longest time.

I also wanted the adorning corners from the fall winter cattie but held off.

They kind of remind me of tatoos or rubons.

The birdie and hearts are brand spanking NEW and simply to die for. I can picture glitter on the tail feathers and a separate colour paper for the wing. Maybe I will get my metallic watercolours out to mix in with this birds plumage.

I cant wait to try these out.

Stay tuned!