My Favorite Things!

When Close to my heart asked us what my favorite product right now is I instantly thought, how could someone ever just pick 1!! Well other than LOVING their paper the one thing that i would have to say that's my favorite is the Opaques! I have been making some decorations and just love what they add to them.

Hello Friend!

This is a card that I made the other day, I used the Splendor paper pack, Hot Diggity stamp set, the corner rounder as a scallop punch and the new 1/4" circle punch, with a topiary brad at the flower base.

A kick in the pants!

I was at a unit meeting last night and i got thIe kick I needed to start pushing my Close to my heart business. So I am going to try this again and keep up with things and hopefully keep up with my blog too! So there are new things that I have done like put the new idea book up and the stamp of the month, and some new artwork will be coming too.

Splish Splash

Some summer fun taking the kids swimming!!
You cant really see in the picutes but I chalked the paper to give it al the sifferent colours, and then sponged versamark on and used the CTMH clear embossing powder to make it look like water.

A Day At The Zoo!

A whole bunch of my family went to the Toronto Zoo. I was a little picture crazy that day but we had 5 kids with us and they were all so cute and then there were animals too. Well come time to scrapbook the event there were so many pictures that I had to come up with a way to get them all to fit. That's when I adapted a waterfall card into a waterfall page. This video (sorry I am not the best) shows you that page.

I still had a lot of pictures that I wanted to use so I made the other page into a flap. They are kind of busy but I think that they are one of my favorite pages so far

I loved this little Lion too. It's a chipboard letter with rafia looped behind it.

Thanks for looking!!

Boating on Lake Rosseau.

Here is another Scrapbook page that I did, this one is pretty simple and it's hard to tell from the pictures, but 2 pictures are cut into ovals are pop dotted up. This layout is from Close to my heart's Cherish book. I love these books and couldn't scrap without them!

DARE TO DREAM!

If you have been on the fence at all about signing up with CTMH, now is the time to take the leap!! This month when you sign up to be a Consultant you will recieve the April, May, June and July Stamps of the month! The retail of these stamps are $107.80. This is such an great deal!! With the Consultant kit being only $115.00, you will recieve more than $460.00 in fabulous new product to get your dream started. Weather your deam is to be your own boss, get your own product at a discount, or to earn some extra money to save for a trip, or just to pay off some bills, now is the time to DARE TO DREAM!! And if your dream is more product at a 60% discount check out the basic kit add-on's!

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Residents of Canada only.

Doing a little catching up!

Well I have been doing some catching up on my scrapbooking. This is my Easter page from 2007. I know, I know I am bad being that far behind but you gotta give me a little credit, I did Lila's first year album up to her first birthday, so i have had to go back a little bit. This book that I am doing is our family book. I decided that each of the kids had 1 book that was all them and now I am just doing a family book for all of our everyday events. I have started doing an album for Bailey's school. I have only started this one and really need to get more done on it!!

The Chipboard title on this page kinda blended in with the paper too much for my liking, so to make the letters POP I coloured the sides with a black marker and it really did make them pop. The picture beside the title is one of my favorite pictures ever!

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoy!

Hearts For Haiti!

Hello Everyone!

This month Close To My Heart is offering an amazing promotion in partnership with Operation Smile. For those of you who do not know, Close To My Heart has an ongoing relationship with Operation Smile, a non-profit group that has many surgical teams world-wide who care for children born with facial deformities. In wake of the earthquake in Haiti, Operation smile has pulled all of their sergical teams and has re-routed them to Haiti to assist with the survivors. Operation Smile has a seperate sponser that covers all of their overhead, so that EVERY dollar donated to Operation smile goes directly to their relief efforts.
For the month of February when you order any of Close to my heart's textured cardstock
(for $17.50) you will recieve a package of your choice for FREE!! There are many colour combos to choose from. For every package that is ordered Close To My Heart will donate $2.00 to Operation smile's relief team in Haiti. You can really give and get back!!
You can place an order today on my Close To My Heart website at, http://www.pamlong.myctmh.com/
Thanks guys!!

Stamp Camp!!

This past weekend I went to Stamp Camp. It's a day where Fellow Close to my heart consultants can get together and work on our own projects, and get business tips from others. And thanks to our great hostess's Brae & Sarah the day was a great success!!

I didn't know where to start with my own scrapbooking. I really need to organize my photo's print some and make a list of events, so that it will be less overwhelming!

So I decided that I was going to get a jump on making some cards

for the year and birthdays were it!! I made all of these that day.

I have found that it is so easy to cut 2 of the same pieces and stamp in 2's as well so I have made 2 of each of these cards.

I was lucky enough that I didn't have to drive to Barrie, I went with my downline Ang!! She just signed up with CTMH in September and has already had an amazing start to her business!! Ang won the "Rising star award" that Sarah handed out, it was so awesome for such a great person like Ang to be recognized for all of her hard work!! And also for Sarah to recognize her like that!!

Well I am off, I think I might go and get some of that scrapbook stuff organized!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Happy new year everyone! I hope that your Christmas was great and Santa was good to you!!

For Christmas I decided that I was going to make my Mom and my Mother-in-law Calendars for Christmas. I was so happy with the way that they turned out, but took a lot longer than I had anticipated on.

My sister Sherry and a couple of friends were getting together to do some scrapbooking on the 22 of December, so me doing everything at the last moment thought that it would be a great day to get them done then.

My sister lives about an hour and 1/2 away from me, so we decided that I would go up the night before and then we could get an early start on the day.

Well we stayed up a lil too late chatting and wrapping some Christmas stuff that the next morning was not as early as anticipated.

The scrapbooking day was good after that, but I stayed up until 3 am trying to get the calendars done. It didn't work out for me so I stayed for the most part of the next day and got them done. Lesson learned that I am not a super scrapper and can not do 2 calendars in 1 day!!

I felt bad that my 1 day of scrappin with my sister and a few friends turned into me invading her house for 3!!

Any whooo, I think they turned out great and was wishing that I made 3, so that I could have one too!

And apparently I forgot to take a picture of October so It will be posted later.