It's time for Regatta and Mother's Day Samples!

Welcome to this month's Blog Hop with Stampers with an Attitude!  I got it together and remembered to sign up this month  ~~wink~~  
If you like, jump back to last month and check out my Penelope layout while you're here if you missed it last month - LOL
I thought I had signed up for the Hop, but I didn't get on the list.  Woops  :-)
If you are following along on the Hop you will have come from Cat's Blog.  I hope you'll hop along (tomorrow's Easter - get it?!) to each and every Blog participating this month.

This months highlighted paperline Regatta, looks at first like its all anchors boats and ocean.  Which is awesome stuff!  But not everyone feels like they have pictures or need cards in that subject.  So.... take a look at my cards - I used some anchors and lobsters but this kit has lots of flowers and nice sayings in the Compliments as well, making it very easy to use.  The quote on the top left card came from one of the strips at the top of the 12 x 12 paper.  I love that Close to My Heart has made those strips so "usable"!  Most of the cards have at least one of the Maritime Puffies that come in the Workshop Your Way (or separately, of course) and 2 use the gorgeous, soft, easy to tie into bows ribbon.   I also used some Blue Enamel Dots on each card.  I love how the different shades matched so well with Regatta colors.

I hope you like my cards and I can't for us all to see what the other 8 CTMH Consultants have done with Regatta paper or Mother's Day cards.  Let's go get some ideas - start next with Belinda's Blog.

Please leave myself and the others comments on our Blogs  :-)
THANKS for visiting - please come back!
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Penelope Will Give a Great Pop of Color and Fun!

Welcome to the February Stampers With an Attitude Blog Hop!

Oh wait......  I forgot to sign up this month!!  Darnit!   OK figure I will still post though, right?  :-)

This month each consultant will either be using Penelope OR making an Easter project.

I made the cards, with some tiny changes, that the Close to My Heart corporate office gave us instructions for.  They are for the Workshop Your Way and you can print them at my Website  or order the Workshop and I will include a copy in your order!  The Workshop Your Way gives instructions for three 2-page layouts, one Picture My Life layout and 4 different cards (you may need a stamp set or other minimal ingredients to complete the cards).

I also used the Spring Critters and matching ThinCuts - aren't they cute?!

This pile of ideas is for one of the layouts on page 16 of the Seasonal Expressions Book.  I, of course, will tweak it a bit for my own liking  ;-)   Check back later (or request to be e-mailed by this site when I post anything new) to see exactly what I do with it!

I think I will also do a weekly layout in my Planner - stay tuned for that also!

Thanks for stopping by my Blog and please let me know what you think of Penelope and if you have any questions or orders I can help you with.

La Vie En Rose Blog Hop

Happy New Year Everyone!  I hope it's starting out amazing for all of you!
I am looking forward to a healthier 2016 and wish the same for you

This months Stampers With An Attitude Blog Hop is using La Vie En Rose - the paper pack that Close to My Heart is emphasizing this month - it's in the large yearly Idea Book and it's an amazing mix of black and white patterns - really nice - really usable for lots of situations.
If you're following the Hop you've come from Sheila Bennett's Blog.

My first samples are Sympathy cards - unfortuantely I needed several in recent time and so I made extra.  I used 2 different black and white patterns with a border of 2 of our new colors - Peacock and Fern - I am liking Fern more and more the more I use it.  The flower stamp set is January's stamp of the month and the sentiment is from Big Hug on page 74 of the main catalog.

The second card is with 4 different patterns and the fun Postive Chemistry stamp set on page 65.  So cute!  When I saw it I had to make this card which I cased from another consultant and I'm sorry I didn't keep her name to give credit!  My friend Lynne is a teacher and had to make this for her!
The gold border is a new embellishment which is really fun and can become elegant depending how you use it.

Please hop on to the others blogs and enjoy our artwork!  The next on the hop is Jen Patrick's

Thank you and have a great day!

Graphic 45 Halloween!

Hi Followers - 

Just getting around to posting this Halloween layout I made at this years Croptoberfest.

I LOVE this paper!  And I used a technique with a mask and some modeling paste - which turned out awesome on the black cardstock!

This first page is me in 2010 and Justin in 1986!

And this one is me in 2005 and Justin in 1985

I typically don't scrap pictures that cross so many years like this but I was searching for pictures and got this idea and I really like how it turned it - I enourage you to scrap outside your box like this and see how it feels!

Thanks for looking and pleas leave me a comment!

Let's Celebrate with a Little White Pine

Welcome to Close to My Hearts White Pines! This is the SWAA Blog Hop for November.

And this is our holiday paper line - so there are Christmas trees and snowflakes on it but look at all the neat graphics also!   It can be used for so much more than Christmas layouts,

And the Compliments are so adorable!!

So you should have arrived here from Tammy's blog if you are on the Hop, or if you are just starting out here on mine, just click on the link below to hop on over to Jen Patricks blog and keep hopping all the thru.  We have 7 participants this month - don't miss a project :-)

Speaking of projects - here's mine:

I love this layout for New Year goals and a picture - not sure if it will be one of me or a picture of one of my goals.  I used the Ink Blots stamp set on page 92 of the main Idea Book ànd our water color paints for the background  - SO FUN!  My monthly Club Gals and I are doing a project with the watercolor paints so I've been experimenting with them a lot.  For this I worked a couple of colors together to get the lagoon-ish and the red colors to match the paper and used a brush to "paint" it on the stamp and then applied to the paper. Some of the background ink blots are stamped like normal also.  It was a lot of fun and I recommend trying it! 

Isn't the glitter star gorgeous?!

Catherine Farnsworth Nowak made a layout that was my inspiration. You can check it out on her blog here.

We both used the November stamp of the month.  It's a good one - contact me or your consultant to order both White Pines and the stamp set.

Now hop on to Jen's Blog and see what she's made this month for us.

Have a wonderful Fall Day and eat something pumpkin! :-)

Close to My Heart Artwork with Sangria

Hello Blog Hop Followers!  :-)

If you are following the CTMH Stampers with an Attitude blog hop then you will have come here from Aggie Peters Blog The Creative Beehive.  If you haven't been there yet - be sure to go back and see what she made for us this month and leave her a comment.

It's time for us all to share Close to My Heart's October paper line which is Sangria.
I did a 2 page layout this month with some pictures I took on a trip to New York City with my son 2 years ago (how does time fly so fast?!).   I think the Sangria colors go nicely for Fall, what do you all think?  I didn't do any stamping this month!  Wow!   But the Sangria Compliments and Assortment were all I felt like I needed.  I especially love the little kraft camera diecuts!

This first page is from The High Line - its near Chelsea Market where they've built this amazing park on top of one of the old train tracks built up above the street level - pretty cool to see if you go to NYC!

The second page is from Wall Street and that area -  its quite something to stand in front of the New York Stock Exchange and think about all that is happening inside the building!   And I really tried to get a picture of the bull with no crazy tourists touching him, but alas after 10 minutes we gave up and snapped one  :-)

I hope you enjoy seeing the way I've used our beautiful Sangria - now hop on over to Denise's Blog and see what she's done this month.

Thanks for stopping by - leave me a comment about Sangria or New York!

Have a Fabulous Fall Day!

Wendy

SWAA Blog Hop - Nevermore Artwork

Hello again and welcome to another monthly Blog Hop with the Stampers With An Attitude!  This month we are focusing on the Nevermore paper line.  This paper is so much more versatile than I first thought.

If you are on the Hop you will have arrived here from Vicki O'dell's blog and I hope you will continue on through all 8 of our stops.  Remember that we love your comments and we'd love to help you create some of these projects yourself - be sure to contact your Close to My Heart Consultant to purchase some wonderful new products from our newly released Annual Inspirations catalog.
If you don't already have a consultant please feel free to contact me or shop on My Website.

For my first project I did the obvious, a Halloween card with the Nevermore paper - I love this little goblin - he is from the new Artistry Cricut cartridge - adorable, isn't he?!

2 slightly different versions - the glitter paper is hard to photograph but I love it on this card - the green strip is one of our newest color shimmer trims - so fun to work with!  The sentiment is from a new Hostess Reward stamp set called Say It All - book a party and get it for $8 - it has 19 different sentiments!

And now for something completely different with Nevermore!
This one is made with the September stamp of the month called Paper Garden; get it for $5 with any $50 order in September.
This paper goes from Halloween to elegant with ease, doesn't it?

This sentiment comes from Big Hug Occasions stamp set - be sure to check it out!  The paper and ink is our new Eggplant and Fern - the twine is Thistle.

I hope I've inspired you to purchase Nevermore  - check back here soon  - or better yet, click to the right to receive an e-mail whenever something new posts to my Blog - I've got several more Nevermore projects in the works.

Now head on over to Denise Elliott's Blog to see what she's made this month.
Thanks for joining us and don't forget - leave comments and feel free to ask questions!