Happy 27th Anniversary Mom & Dad!

I used CTMH's Jubilee Paper Packet with Colonial White, Kraft, Honey & Indian Corn Blue cardstocks.

To embellish the card, I used CTMH's Artbooking Cricut Cartridge, CTMH's Damask Embossing Folder, CTMH's Harvest Assortment Baker's Twine, CTMH's Spray Pens with CTMH's Cranberry re-inker and CTMH's Black & Grey Epoxy Bubbles.

I used CTMH's July Stamp of the Month - Circus Alphabet stamp set for the word "LOVE", CTMH's Stitch Wonder for the yellow stitches and My Creative Time's More Chocolate Greetings and Once Upon a Time stamp sets for "Celebrate" and "Happy Anniversary" with CTMH Cranberry, Honey & Black inks.

Happy Father's Day Dad!

I used Close to My Heart's Timberline Paper Packet with CTMH's Paper Fundamentals Basics Assortment Paper, CTMH Lagoon & Ponderosa Pine cardstocks.

To embellish the card, I used my Circle Nestabilities and the straight stitch on my sewing machine with thread from Fabricland.

I used CTMH's Perfect Fit - Dad and Holiday Tags stamp sets with CTMH Cocoa ink.

I am celebrating Father's Day with my dad today.

My First Sunburst Card

Close to My Heart products from June Promotion Collection Kits: Mini Medley Accents Antiqued Gold Collections.

Current CTMH products used: Balloon Ride Paper Packet, Sorbet cardstock, Saddle cardstock, Colonial White Cardstock, Sponge with Bamboo & Sorbet ink, Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge for the oval die-cuts, Fabulous You stamp set, Just a Number stamp set and Saddle ink.

The embroidery floss is from my stash.

The brads & button came from the Extraordinary Embellishments Collection - CC10282 - Retail Value $50.55 - Sale Price - $30.

To find out more about the CTMH Collection Kits that are only available in the month of June, email me at ddigby@shaw.ca.

Live for Today Birthday Card

Here is a really simple card. It only took me 10 minutes to make it. It's different from what I normally design, but I think it is growing on me.

Close to My Heart products from June Promotion Collection Kits: Mini Medley Accents Antiqued Gold Collections.

Current CTMH products used: Balloon Ride Paper Packet, Sorbet cardstock, Creme Brulee cardstock, Joyful Birthday stamp set and Saddle ink.

The words on the front of the card came from the strip at the top of one of the patterned papers in the Balloon Ride Paper Packet.

The brads came from the Extraordinary Embellishments Collection - CC10282 - Retail Value $50.55 - Sale Price - $30.

To find out more about the CTMH Collection Kits that are only available in the month of June, email me at ddigby@shaw.ca.

Friends Forever Pinwheel Card

Close to My Heart products that I used from the June Promotional Collection Kits: Surf's Up Assortment and Mini Medley Accents Antiqued Gold Collection.

Current CTMH Products I used: Balloon Ride Paper Packet, Sorbet cardstock, Saddle cardstock, Colonial White cardstock, Sponge (Bamboo & Sorbet ink) and Scalloped Border Punch.

I also used embroidery floss from my stash and CTMH discontinued pearls.

I used CTMH's Fabulous You and Just a Number stamp sets with CTMH Saddle ink.

The Pinwheel is from the Surf's Up Assortment. It can be found in CTMH's Accessary Coordinates Collection - CC10284 - Retail Value $53.55 - Sale Price $30.

The brads and the buttons are from the Mini Medley Accents Antiqued Gold Collection. They can be found in the Extraordinary Embellishments Collection - CC10282 - Retail Value: $50.55 - Sale Price - $30.

June Order Deadline: Wednesday, June 11, 2014

To find out more about the CTMH June Promotional Collection Kits, please contact me at ddigby@shaw.ca.

Cousins Pennant

This is a project of my daughter (in the middle) with her two cousins.

For the Close to My Heart Pennat Frame, I used CTMH's Ivy Lane Paper Packet with CTMH's Barn Red, Hollyhock, Crystal Blue, Sky & Olive cardstocks.

To embellish the Pennant Frame, I used the CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge to cut out the brackets, CTMH Artiste Cricut Cartridge to cut out the heart, leaves and 3D flowers, CTMH Harvest Baker's Twine (removed the white threads) and discontinued CTMH buttons. The "forever" banner was hand cut and to make the 3D flowers, I used CTMH's Quilling Tool.

I used CTMH's Fabulous You, Comments (discontinued) and Doodle Signs - Hostess Rewards stamp sets with CTMH Juniper & New England Ivy inks.

The colour combination for this project came from the Hearts of the West June 1st Blog Hop.

Shut the Front Door!

I made this card for my cousin, Jason's birthday. We are now the same age for 5 months.

He is an avid outdoorsman.

I used BoBunny's Camp-a-Lot Patterned Paper with BoBunny's Khaki, Olive & Coffee Double Dot cardstocks.

To embellish the card, I used CTMH brads and Stampin' Up's Banner Punch.

I used PKSC-29 May 2014 Peachy Keen Stamps, CTMH's Marquee Uppercase Alphabet and Stampin' Up Banner Blast stamp sets with CTMH's Cocoa ink.