Free Embossing Folders

Friday, February 28, is the last day to take advantage of the free embossing folder offer from CTMH.  You get one of the five designs for free for every two packs of bulk single or combo colored cardstock you purchase in February. 

The folders work with the Provo Cuttlebug.  The video below shows how you can use the embossing folders for paper crafts.

Out of the Box

I have about ten boxes full of photographs spanning about four decades, at least.  The photos are safely stored; however, they go unseen.  My goal is to get as many photos into protective pages and nicely sorted in an album.  The CTMH Picture My Life approach to albums gives me a quick way to reach this goal. It's similar to Project Life, yet it comes with paper inserts which coordinate with the CTMH inks, markers, papers and embellishments. 

Here's a video which explains how it works in more detail.

Studio J Savings

During the month of March, order your Studio J™ layouts—including ones using our new Photo Express Collection—for only $5 each!  The video shows how to easily place and size your digital images in Studio J.

Quickly create gorgeous, personalized studio layouts using a wide selection of papers, collections, patterns, and embellishments.

Make sure you check out the templates in the new Photo Express Collection, which allow you to design layouts entirely comprised of photos in minutes. 

Studio J layouts ship in a protected box that can hold from 4 to 50 two-page layouts. 

You’ve taken the photos. Now keep the memories™.

Taming the Wild Thing

I like using stamp sets for a variety of projects. For this journal box, I used the following:

• three CTMH February Stamp of the Month stamps: I Love You, Wild Thing, and Patterned Heart
• Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge, cut the following:
• two hearts on page 69 at 1.5"
• a label on page 36 at 1.75"
• oval on page 22 at 1.5" 

• Scrap paper: white (2.5" square), blue (2.75" square), brown (3.5" square)
• a blue marker
• brown and blue ink
• adhesive.

After cutting the label and hearts, I stamped them with the coordinating images then lined the edges with a blue marker. I used the marker to ink only the word "love" on the I Love You stamp then stamped the small oval. These items were adhered to the larger label to cover the text "Wild Thing."

The squares of paper were stacked and glued together.  The love label was glued at the top of the square.

The video provides additional ways to use stamps for projects which initially seem to have a different theme.

The fox says STAMP!

February 2014 Stamp of the Month




When I drove home this evening, a red fox ran across the street in front of my car.   I braked and watched the fox skip across the snow covered lawns into the woods.  The fox sighting made me appreciate the amazing amount of wildlife in my neighborhood which sits in a major metropolitan area.  It also reminded me of the stamp set available in February for $5.00 (after a minimum purchase) through Close to My Heart.  The stamp set focuses on fox-related images and text with words of admiration.  Tomorrow, I'll post how I used the stamp set to create a quick embellishment for a card or scrapbook page.