Clear Card Crazy!!!

Clear cards are all the craze right now and look what else you can do with them! Pictures frames! Watch my calendar on my website, www.doresa.myctmh.com, for a class to learn to make these adorable frames!

Design a Name Frame!

Create a special name keepsake for just about anyone...or any event!
Check out the dynamic name frames that my sister CTMH consultant, Jamie Wright created!!!
Would love to show you how to design one of your own!
When: Thursday, July 29th
Where: my house
Time: 7-9pm
Cost: $10
Reserve your spot now! doresa@myctmh.com

3D Thursday - My Creations Journal!

Love these new journal books that you can decorate!!! They have a pocket in the front to just slip in whatever artwork you want! Blank pages (and lots of 'em) to write on, draw on, attach pics to, whatever you lil' heart desires!!! Click on the pic above to see how to get your hands on one to play with!!!!!

3D Thursday - Memory Box!

Youtube has some great tutorial videos out there, but I just came across this one that featured our CTMH Memory boxes! Love the paint idea being used on the boxes!!!

Click here to enjoy the video yourself!

Click on the below items to see how to order them to make your own box!

Memory box

Rub-ons

Acrylic Stamps

Dimensional Elements

Wednesday's WOWIE Artwork!

Beautiful gifts deserve beautiful wrappings, don't they??!!!! Check out how I (or should I say, my daughter), stamped white tissue paper to coordinate with the cards I made!

These were for a bridal shower and the bride's colors are red, black, and silver! What a perfect match!And these were for a baby shower that was the same day as the bridal shower. Yes, a very busy day that was!!!!
Here theme for the new baby girl was butterflies, so of course we had to match that! The card was actually a swinging card, so the butterfly actually moves!!!
I had fun making the cards (so simiple and easy using our "Originals" and "Wishes" how-to books!), and Chasey had fun stamping the tissue paper! What a team we make!

Hmmmmmm.......somebody needs a manicure!

Level 1 Dry Erase Board

From Level 1 to Level WOW!!!

Click here to see how to take one of CTMH's Level 1 kits and transform it into 4 Dry Erase Boards! So Fast, So Simple, So Easy... the Close to My Heart way!

Made from the Heart... Christmas album with flip flaps

Made from the Heart... Countdown clipboard

Made from the Heart...Event Calendars

Made from the Heart....Acrylix Album

More made from the Heart...

(If you don't see a slide show, click on "view all images" to see the album) :)

This adorable album is so fast & easy to make for you or your gift recipient!

All you need is one of Close to my Hearts 3-Ring Binders, Jingle Lv. 1 kit, and Twinkle glitter brads! Cut your Lv. 1 sheets into 5x7 pieces, mat with your Cardstock pieces (4x6), and decorate the front & back of the binder with the B&T (patterned sheets from the kit). So easy and quick to make, you'll love it with any Lv. 1 kit!!!!!

Made from the Heart....

Open and empty a can of your choice. (use a can opener that doesn't create a sharp edge). Fill the can with whatever you want! Ex. candy, lil' gift, etc... Using liquid glass, glue the can lid back on. Turn upside down and decorate your can however you choose! I used the backside of an Animal Cookie B&T sheet, White grossgrain ribbon, craft buttons, green embroidery floss, and Rub-ons!
What a cute, inexpensive gift for just about anyone!!!!!!

Stationary Boxes

At my team unit meeting last Saturday, we made these adorable Stationary boxes. Didn't have time to decorate mine then, but did tonight and I LOVE it!!!! Had so much fun using the new Wishes Card Confidence book to make the different sized cards to go inside it as well!

The paper pack I used was Silhouette (it's good for almost any occasion, can't go wrong with it!!!)

The address book was a mini composition notebook that I just covered the front of.

Aren't these cards just to stinkin' cute!!!!!!!

I know, I know, you all want the directions now, huh! Sunday, July 12th, from 1-3pm, I am having a workshop to teach you how to make the Stationary Box. Just the box, not the cards (you can be creative on your own at home with that :) The cost is $5 and I will let you know your choice of colors when you RSVP. Below is my box before I decorated it (minus the address book). This is what you will be making at the workshop, plus the address book & covered pen, minus the journaling tags in the picture below :)

These are great gifts for just about anyone!!! Once you learn how, you'll be making them for everyone!!!!
These are a few we did at our meeting :) FUN, FUN, FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gift ideas...

I picked up these little tins at Walgreens (round ones - 3 for $1) and Skagway (lunch boxes $1 each). They were so fun to decorate and make great little gifts for teachers, friends, or those last minute holiday guests :) So get creative, and make it from the heart!