Girly Journal

Key To My Heart papers along with Sorbet and Juniper ribbons decorate this spiral-bound journal.
 
Here's the back and front view:

This is just one of the items I've made for this Sunday's vendor fair in our city.

In all honesty, it will be a GREAT day when I finish everything and clean up my messes! It's beginning to feel too claustrophobic in StudioJane. DH shuddered when I mentioned, "I'm running out of space. I may have to move to a bigger room." Poor DH. Doesn't he know I'm just teasing? All I need is a few elves to help me make this space look organized again--so I can start all over in creating and making my fun messes!

Truly, you don't want to see any more than this:

Happy evening ... and enjoy all those Thanksgiving leftovers! After tomorrow, we'll be calling them "mustgoes."

Thanks for visiting and leaving your love!

Easter Cards

Last week I made these Easter cards ... the first two are Key To My Heart and Emporium papers from CTMH, and others are from my "scrap stash." The butterfly stamp is from CTMH's Celebrate Life set. Inside each card I stamped "Happy Easter" or "Celebrate Life!" The butterflies and eggs are all pop-dotted for dimension.

Pregnancy Journal Album for a Friend

Our friends' daughter is expecting their first baby!

What could be more fun than to play with the pretty Key To My Heart papers and Expecting stamps from Close To My Heart to make this gift album?

She can include pix and journaling as she wishes, as they count down the days for the arrival of their tiny blessing.

Click on a pic for a closer view.

I used these CTMH products:
KTMH papers
6 x 6 inch My Creations Memory Showcase
Fancy Cut Botanicals
Tulip & Juniper inks & markers
Expecting stamp set
Sorbet ribbons & ric rac
White Daisy sheer ribbon
Spring Blossom mini-medley brads, clips, ribbon holders
Big white brad
Clear Sparkles
Clear holiday & cranberry buttons
Waxy flax
Vellum paper
Liquid Glass
Edge distresser
Paper piercer

Non-CTMH: paper flowers, flower-shaped brads, pregnant & baby bump figure stamps

MSgreenthumbs Layout

Dear gardening friend Linda took these photos of me on a day last summer after she handed me her shovel and said, "Dig!" That was right after I had enjoyed rolling down her sloping hillside to the creek bed--it feels so good to do kid-like stuff. So I was acting silly, as you can see.

We were in her beautiful botanical-rich backyard among the irises. She wanted to give me starts of pampas grass. The ground was so hard, we took turns digging, and I was able to bring three starts home. They since bloomed with pretty plumes!

Aren't the iris colors pretty with this Key To My Heart paper collection?

The stamped tabs along the top spell "free therapy". (And so it is!)

I used the "Bottom Border-title" layout in the CTMH Reflections book (page 35) with these products:

Key To My Heart papers

Dazzling die cuts in white daisy

Yellow colored pencil & juniper ink/water pen on the die cuts

Colonial white ribbon

Hemp

Spring blossoms brads

Juniper & Chocolate inks

Stamps: Amore lower case & Chocolate alpha small

I'm so anxious to get back to gardening again! I still have some daffodils to plant so I had better find my gloves and bulb planter.

Key To My Heart Layout

Can't sleep? Can't dance? Don't feel like scrubbing the oven? Scrapbook! It works for me!

For this special layout, I used the new CTMH Key To My Heart papers, along with Fancy Cut Botanicals, Dimensional Elements, Juniper, Tulip, and Chocolate inks, Sassy Strands, Sorbet ribbon & ric rac, Chocolate marker, and the September Word Puzzle stamps.

Ella's Aunt B will get to journal in the inked journaling box. (I used the KTMH journaling stamp there, and masked one edge so that I could reverse it, and make it twice the size by stamping side by side.) There's so MUCH to write about little ee!

The CTMH Reflections book gave me ideas for the one-photo per page layouts. If you haven't seen this helpful resource, check it out on my CTMH Idea Book link.

A scrapbooker will never have "brain freeze" with all of Jeanette Lynton's practical resource books! In fact, they've been known to keep me cutting and glueing into the wee hours of the morning.

You Hold the Key to My Heart

These are some of the new papers and stamps

in the Key to My Heart collection from CTMH.

Colors are Juniper, Tulip, and Sorbet.