March Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

It's blog hop time again!  If you arrived here from Georgia Hauglid's blog, you are on the right path.  When you are ready to continue to the next blogger, you will find the link at the bottom of this post.

This month our Close To My Heart set is packed with 26 Sentiment stamps for Holidays and Special Occasions.  It also includes a scallop border and a set of brackets to frame those sentiments.  I am currently working on a baby album for my grandson who is due the end of March and this set worked great for the 1st Birthday layout in the album.  My plan is to do the entire album using the Caboodle paper packet ... love those papers!  Here's the layout ... I wish I had pictures to show off ... I mean share :).

 

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Supplies used: 

• Caboodle Paper Packet
• A Little Everything Stamp Set
• Star & Balloon Stamp from Celebration Set
• Make A Wish stamp from Feb. SOTM set
• Crystal Blue, Sorbet, Sweet Leaf Inks
• Simple Alphabet Dimensional Elements (changed an "I" to a #1)
• Crystal Blue Waxy Flax
• Sunflower Brads

Template Used:

Jazzy Combination found on pages 38-39 of the Imagine book.

Technique Used:

Tissue inking - I stamped both the words Celebrate and birthday in Sweet Leaf, then inked a tissue with crystal blue and tapped it on the bottom half of the words to create the two different colors that were stamped.

Blog Hop Links

Time to hop over to Tammy Lea Pinchard's  blog to see what she has created for you.  If you have trouble with Tammy's link ...

Next on the Hop after Tammy is Traci Godbee

If you discover broken links or get lost while hopping, you should find the entire list of hoppers at  Helen Onulak's blog.  

HAVE FUN!

Grace - Workshop on the Go

I really wasn't planning on ordering the Grace Workshop on the Go, my plans were to get the Twitterpated workshop because I loved the cute stamps in that one.  I was surprised to get my last order with Grace in it instead of Twitterpated .... dummy me put in the wrong order #!  Although not the package I really wanted, I really enjoyed using the papers and stamp set!  Below are some of the cards and layouts I created using this kit and I still have lots of papers leftover for more layouts.

This layout of my dog Ginger and I used the template that came with the instructions, just switched some of the papers.

For this layout of my son and his family, I used the Monologue template, pg. 52-53 of Imagine.  The crabs on the layout were drawn by me.  You can click the layout for a larger view.

I can't remember which patterns I used for these two cards but they came from the Wishes book. 

 In case you are wondering, here's what you get when you order the Grace workshop.

Winter in NC

For those of you who have had enough of winter this year I'm sure this is the last thing you want to see! We don't get much snow here in NC so I really enjoy it when we do. Prior to this year, the last really big snow we had was in 2000 and I it was so much fun watching the boys play in the snow that year. They were little and experienced their first snowmen and snowball fights. This year we had another fairly significant snow but the boys are older now so were not interested in building a snowman but they couldn't resist the snowball fights ... guess boys are never to old for those! Here's a layout of them this year. I used the CTMH Aspen paper pack for this layout and I still need to add the journaling.