Close to My Heart, Birthdays and a Winner!

Alright, I will not delay this any longer. I know that you've been waiting to find out who the winner of the My Memories V.3 is..... CONGRATULATIONS! Marianne Fisher. I hope you enjoy creating with your new software! I can't wait to see what you come up with!

In recent news, I received my order this week from a company called Close to My Heart, and I loved it. This is what I ordered:

Canvas badge buttons

irresistibles lots of dots

clear acrylic cards

basic mini ink pads

Once I tore open the box, I could not wait to use my new toys. So, considering that I had four birthdays this week, I decide to get right to work making a birthday card.

I started with the clear acrylic card as my base and My Minds Eye Paper. If you've never made a card using acrylic, I encourage you to give it a try, it's so pretty, and unique. I used the mini ink pads to distress my paper, and they are the best inks I've ever used! I am not compensated in any way for saying that, I truly like this ink, and it will probably be the ink I buy for all of my future projects.

I fussy cut the butterfly from the patterned My Minds Eye Paper, then glued it to a chipboard butterfly from my stash that I had inked. Then adhered 3 pearls from my stash. The Happy Birthday lettering is from The Girls Paperie sticker pad.  The tan lace trim I ordered from a daily deal site called Pick Your Plum... it's local, so I don't pay shipping!

The resin flower I also ordered from Pick Your Plum. The frame is from Prima Marketing.

This is the inside of the card, once again more My Minds Eye Paper, and the rub-ons are from my stash  I think they are from S.E.I.

So if you've enjoyed what you see here, I encourage you to visit the Close to My Heart web site and place an order. My friend Cheri from DJ Sundries gets credit towards her new cricket cartridge when you order. So go show her some love. :-)

Thank you for stopping by today, I hope this helps to get your creative juices flowing.

Have a great weekend, 

Autumn Subway Art

I love the fall season, with all of the delicious smells, beautiful colors, and comfort food. It's a time to reflect and be thankful. With each new school year, I seem to notice more of how much has changed in my life, how much my kids have grown, and how quickly time seems to fly. Time has really seemed to go by quickly for me this year. Today is my one year blog anniversary. Yep, that's right, I began blogging one year ago today. So what better way to celebrate than to share a free printable with you!

I designed this Subway Art print using the MY Memories Suite V.3 digital scrapbook program. I have found this program to be so useful. I've used it in many ways that have nothing to do with scrapbooking, although you could use it for that too. ;-) I've used the program to create bridal shower invitations, place cards, and of course today's free printable.

Click HERE to download for printing

If you're inerested in purchasing the My Memories v.3, you may enter my affiliate code to recieve $10.00 off the purchase price!

Enter code STMMMS70145 at checkout to get $10 off.

Thank you to all who have supported me in this crazy blogging journey, you know who you are, and I truly appreciate it,

Free Printable, Summer Journaling Tags

As summer has come to a close, I am still finishing up some last minute summer projects. AAAh, I know I am such a procrastinator! Yes, I confess, it's soo true. Now that my admission of guilt is out of the way, I will share what I've been working on. Some free printable tags just for you, my dear readers. :-)

So, if you're like me and have a summer project still waiting to be done, then by all means take full advatage of my procrastination and use these tags, or feel free to just stash them away until next summer. :-)

Click HERE to download tags for printing.

A special shout out to the following people for sharing your free images, so I can create. Thank you!

Karen of the Graphics Fairy ( watering can image)

Marisa Lerin of Pixel Scrapper ( papers and overlays)

DaFont.com ( fonts)

Two Cards, Same Layout

Have you ever wanted to make multiples of the same card, but did not have enough of the same papers, embellishments, ect...? This happens to me all the time, and my last round of card making was no exception. I wanted to create several of the same card, but did not have several of the same papers, ect... So, I just used the same layout, and changed it up. This is actually very fun to do, I did not have to sit and think for an hour to come up with a new design for each card, ( am I really the only one who does this? ) but I could still have fun using different papers and embellies. After all, that's my fave part of cardmaking, playing with all the fun products.

Here are two different cards using the same layout.

card # 1

and card #2

The only difference is the papers and embellishments. All papers for both cards is from My Minds Eye. The rub-ons are from my stash, and the "thank you" sentiment is a stamp that I found recently at Wal-Mart.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! I just love sharing with you all,