JANUARY CLUB LAYOUT

These layouts are from CTMH'S Dakota paper pack and was inspired by Sue Nielsen"s layout she made from CTMH'S Avonlea Papers. As you can see there are many cricut cuts using CTMH'S Artiste and Art Philosophy cartridges. I really like the results and I hope you do too, Happy crafting.

HAPPY 2013

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all. I'm off to work today but I wanted to start the New Year by wishing you all health, happiness and love for 2013. I'll be back later to share some new projects with everyone. Keep Crafting!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

Hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas full of Love, Hope and Faith with your family and friends. I'm sorry I haven't posted since November but I have been so busy (like all of you) with work and Christmas shopping, decorating and also making a lot of my Christmas gifts (which I can now show you). I didn't even get out all my usual decorations but I did get our tree decorated (see above). My dear husband surprised me with this beautiful Christmas tree when I got home from work. He knew I was fretting about it, he's the best! So since my husband and I have been dieting I didn't do my usual Christmas baking, which felt kind of Bah Humbug-ish, if that's a word. I think baking helps get me in the Christmas mood along with singing to the Christmas music and making a big old flour-everywhere mess.HaHa! So I really did miss the baking (not the mess). So below are the Christmas gifts I made (6 of them). They are Close To My Heart's Display Trays decorated with the CTMH paper and personalized with pictures and embellishments for each person. I was inspired by the talented CTMH Consultants, Lisa Stenz and Tamytha Jenkins designs. And I am so grateful to them for sharing their art.

Please leave a comment I'd love to know what you think. See you next year with our new CTMH Catalog!

CHRISTMAS LOVE STORY

Here's a cute joke to start off the Christmas Season. I got it from Mary at Country Threads. I hope this makes you smile like it did me. A Christmas love story...... A couple was Christmas shopping at the mall on Christmas Eve and the mall was packed. As the wife walked through the mall she was surprised to look up and see her husband was nowhere around. She was quite upset because they had a lot to do. Because she was so worried, she called him on her mobile phone to ask him were he was. In a calm voice, the husband said, “Honey, you remember the jewelry store we went into about 5 years ago where you fell in love with that diamond necklace that we couldn’t afford and I told you that I would get it for you one day?” The wife choked up and started to cry and said, “Yes, I remember that jewelry store. He said, “Well, I’m in the bar right next to it.”

HALLOWEEN JACK O' LANTERN

I'm sitting here this morning having a cup of coffee and watching the news, and reading my emails while it's cold and rainy out side (basically being lazy) and I realized that I need to post my last Halloween project before Thanksgiving gets here! Wow! where does time go. Anyway, I really have fun with Halloween so when my friends Mary and Rachel posted this little pumpkin on their blog cricutwithheart I had to make him too. Everything is cut with the Cricut CTMH Artist Cartridge. I hope you get inspired as I did. Happy crafting and leave me a comment.

MOONLIGHT DISPLAY HOLDER

Hi Bloggers I've been waiting to share this giftie I made for our Team Retreat in Tahoe last week end. I was inspired by Denise Anderson-Turley's 6x6 giftie she made for her retreat. Mine is 8x8 using Moonlight papers and I just had to add this cute owl from CTMH'S Cricut Cartridge-ARTISTE. I am loving the ARTISTE cartridge! It does so many fun designs. Our Retreat theme was Putting on the Glitz, so I had to add the silver glitter tape by CTMH and of course a few Bats since it was Halloween. I got the display page holder from Michaels. I hope you enjoy IT.

Aren't these the cutest Pumpkins ever? My upline and friend Mary Thompson,made these cuties. I was so inspired,that I had to make my own. They were cut by CTMH's New Cricut Artiste Cartridge. I love this new cartridge with the easy to read handbook and an extra assembly booklet to show how to put them together. Simple and Easy! So on with the dimensions,the large pumpkin is 3.5" and the small one is 2.5"from page 57 of the handbook. The leaves are also cut from the Artiste on page 54. And the stems are made from CTMH'S new Burlap ribbon. I hope you get inspired like I was when I saw Mary's cute pumpkins.