Arnprior Scrapper

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Ella Publishing Spring Training

This year I decided to participate in Ella Publishing's Spring Training for the next two weeks. I am going to be posting my progress here everyday in the hopes of winning some cool prizes at the end.

The first day of training was ORGANIZATION! A subject we can all use some help with. Our task was to choose one item that we wanted to organize better. I chose my bulging sticker collection. I am getting rid of about half the stash (some will go to the kids and the rest will be on the free table at the next crop). Here is the picture of my "keep" pile.

The next task will be to sort this pile into some sort of order during which time I will probably get rid of more. I love purging!

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Birthday Card Boot Camp Pictures

Here are the cards that we made at my first Birthday Card Workshop. It was a such a fun afternoon I can't wait for the next one. Everyone did such a great job!

All products are Close To My Heart unless stated otherwise. Various CTMH stamps were used to make these cards. All of these cards were inspired by CTMH's Wishes Card idea book which is retiring this year.

Boy Cards
Victory paper pack
Milepost Shapes
Basic Assortment Buttons
Dimensional Elements Stars

Girl Cards
Lucy paper pack
Lucy Complements Glittery Rub-Ons
Bitty Buds Assortment
Clear Sparkles
giftabella with hat stamp by Stamping Bella
Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge (butterfly)
Blush Ribbon - pink collection

Friday, March 2, 2012

March CTMH Promotion

Get a FREE Art Philosophy Cricut Bundle

or $100 in select product credit when you become a CTMH Consultant in March!

How would you like to get over $400 in Close to my Heart Goodies including the Art Philosophy Cricut Collection for only $99?

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Birthday Card BOOTCAMP

Come get your card making booty in shape!! You will walk away from this workshop with 16 fabulous birthday cards, detailed instructions and lots of paper and embellishments to make many more!

When: Saturday March 10^th at 1:00pm until you are done
Where: my house (83 Russell St N)

What You Get:

* one full paper pack (your choice of masculine or feminine paper)
* 16 card bases and envelopes
* one full pack of coordinating embellishments plus lots of little extras.
* detailed instructions so you can repeat the workshop at home
* a FUN afternoon spent papercrafting with friends and birthday cake!

Cost:

$40 (this works out to $2.50 per card plus you will have LOTS of paper left over)

$45 for pre-cut paper divided up into little bags ($2.81 per card)

*** If you have already purchased one of these paper packs from me I will deduct the cost of it from the workshop fee.

Deadline to sign up is February 27th

Monday, January 16, 2012

CTMH Memory Game Box Turned Mini Album

When this new box came out in the Fall 2011 idea book I just knew I could make a mini album out of it! Of course I was inspired to do this because I was taking Stacy Julian's Finding Photo Freedom class and had all these great pictures of Hilary sitting in her category drawer. So here it is!

I covered the box with CTMH Sophia paper, stamped the word "smile" and covered it with liquid glass to give it a little dimension and shine, added some bling to the flowers and another couple of stamped images.

The quote I added was a digital stamp from Designer Digitals just copied into word, printed and cut out.

The box comes with 24 3x3 squares to I simply covered them with more paper and then added a picture to each square. These are just cute pictures of Hilary that I wanted to showcase in some way. Needless to say she LOVES looking at this and took it to school the very next day to show off to her teacher and friends. This was a very easy project that anyone could make in an evening. It would make a great grandparent gift too.

CTMH Card Box Creations

Inspired by this project by Sara Batkin, I decided to make a Christmas 2007 mini album. Inside I put a collection of all the things we did in December as if I had actually done a December Daily that year.

Here is a picture of the album pulled out and you can see that I glued the last page into the box to secure it.

Here is the album with the flaps out. I could have added many more if I wanted to get more pictures in.

All of the products used are Close To My Heart except for a bit of ribbon and a few stickers from my stash. The Believe Paper that I used is retiring at the end of January but the card box is still available.

I also decorated this card box to hold some Christmas cards that I want to keep.