October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop - Home for the Holidays

Here we are hopping thru the blog again.
If you are coming from Jilena's Blog, you are on the right track,
otherwise you can start here and do a complete circle.
This month's stamp set is called Home for the Holidays and looks like this:

The ones with red lines around them work with our Cricut Cartridge Art Philosophy! The size listed is what to set your dial on the Cricut to cut and the stamp will fit inside it!

Here is the card I made:

The top layer behind the bear is Washi Tape, then there is a strip of our Teal Shimmer tape followed by a section of our Christmas Paper called Snowhaven - there is a sheet that is all different strips - making it look like I layered several items behind the bear!

I stamped the tag in Cranberry to make it a pop of color. It's raised with foam tape. I also added glitter glue on the snowflakes to add a little more sparkle. (Sorry I think the glue is discontinued).
Thanks for looking and now hop over to  Sarita's blog to see what great things she created with this stamp set!

September Stamp of the Month - Family is Forever

Here we are hopping thru the Blog hop again!  If you've come from Haley's blog, you are on the right path, otherwise, you can start here and you will do a complete circle.

September's stamp set is Family is Forever:

 I created this card from the stamp set:

I used the tree for the base of my tree. 

I used Pathfinding Paper Pack and a 1 inch circle punch. (I hit an acorn perfectly!)

The Family is Forever Stamp I blocked out each section when I stamped.

You can't tell but the edges for the circle are up on the bottoms.

 

 Here is the inside of the card and the other half of the stamp.

Thanks for looking ~ please leave a comment.

Now hop over to Michelle's Blog for more great ideas with this stamp set!

My Sister's Birthday Card

My sister has a great yard filled with tons of flowering plants and trees.  She has a garden of fruits and veges throughout  her yard as well.  She literally removed all her grass and did plants and paths everywhere.  So for her birthday, I did a Strawberry Pop Up Card!  She's got a ton of those too!

The card is part of a set at SVGCuts.com and I made it on my Cricut using MTC software.

I post on Facebook and forget to put things here!

Shop for these and many more items on my website: Mary Eisen @ CTMH

Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment!
Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

Birthday Boys Gifts

Three brothers, three birthdays and they all love sports, so I made three hats and filled them with gift cards, Big League Chewing gum and sour patch kids!

The logo is two of the brother's baseball team's logo.

I purchased the file from SVGCuts.com and cut it all on my Cricut.

 Check out  my website: Mary Eisen @ CTMH

Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment!
Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

August Stamp of the Month - What a Hoot!

This is the stamp of the month for August:

This is the silly card I made:

You can see from the top shot below that I used foam tape to make the eyes, wings and flowers stick out.  The flowers and wings have foam tape only on the top so they are raising off the page.

I USED OUR NEW MARKERS TO COLOR THE OWL!

(you can see them tomorrow with the new catty online)

I used the fat side to do his body and the small end to do the wings.

Also the flowers are with the markers too.  I used just our regular inks to stamp the image.

I just didn't color over the stamped image a lot.

I random stamped the pumpkin on the bamboo paper.

Thanks for looking! Please leave a comment.

Stamp of the Month Blog hop - Circus Alphabet

We are hopping again thru the blog hop.
If you came from Shirley's blog, keep hopping and you'll do a complete circle
- or start here and continue a circle from here.

The stamp of the month is Circus Alphabet:

When I did this layout last week I knew what I would be doing with the photos!

I used the stamp set to do the words: CARNIVAL FUN

We attended Greek Fest in Milwaukee and my daughter went on every ride a dozen times!

A close up of the letters. I used our old markers (hint hint) to color the letters in.
The paper was a June Special paper pack!

Thanks for looking, please leave a comment.
Now hop over to Katy's blog to see her great artwork with this stamp set!

Teacher gifts

My Daughter Jeanie asked me to make something special for her student teacher and her teacher.  These are what I created with SVGCuts.com:

 

The front little pocket is for decoration. Going to fill them with candy and gift cards! The paper is from when I started at CTMH 8 years ago!  Loved it then and works great for this project now!

Thanks for looking!

June Stamp Of The Month - Kaboom S1406

Jumping thru the blog hop you should be coming from Katy's blog, if not, start here and continue and you will make a complete circle.

Here is the stamp set:

First Card with random stamping and washi tape creating bling!

This second card I white embossed the fireworks to look like raised flowers and then sponged yellow ink over it softly.  I also added some strong yellow lines using our water color pencils.  The green grass and stems are all water color pencils.  The grass was blended, not the stems.

Thanks for looking and please leave a comment.  

Then hop over to Kathleen's blog to see her great artwork.

Mother's Day Card

Sorry I've been away from scrapbooking for awhile.  Here is a card I made for my mom for Mother's Day:

 Layout was purchased from SVG CUTS.com

 Card folds up and fits into an envelope

Shop for these and many more items on my website: Mary Eisen @ CTMH

Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment!
Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

May Stamp of the Month - You've Got a Friend

Hopping thru the Stamp of the Month this month - if you are coming from Jill's blog, you are on the right track, otherwise, keep hopping and you will make a complete circle.

This is the May stamp of the Month:

 I made a card:

Can anyone guess the old baby apple stamp I used to create a border?  

I also created layers with the apple stamp and glued them together to form a rounder apple

 

The paper is Timberline. 

Thanks for looking - now hop over to Joy's Blog for more great ideas for this stamp set.

April Stamp of the Month: Balloon Talk

We are hopping again thru the stamp of the month.  If you came from Kathleen's blog, you are on the right track, otherwise, start here and it will do a complete circle.

This month it's Balloon Talk:

See the red line around some of them - they can be cut with one of our Cricut Cartridges.

Here's the whole layout - both pages.  Sorry iPad doesn't like wide photos

Left Side

Right Side

Thanks for looking! Please go to Carla's Blog to see some more great artwork with this stamp set!

Shop for these and many more items on my website: Mary Eisen @ CTMH

Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment!
Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

March Stamp Of The Month - Happy Place

If you are coming from Krista's blog, you are on the right track.  If you are starting here, keep hopping and you will do a complete circle.  This month is a fun set:

 I used the Like Mother/Like Daughter stamp and the heart for my one page layout:

Sorry somewhat blurry iPad didn't want to work for me. (The iphone didn't do much better.
Wanted to get these posted in time so the top one isn't clear.)

 

3 Generations cooking Greek Cookies for a Girl Scout Event. 

Here are some close ups:

 Before powdered sugar

( So that you can tell they are cookies.)

 After Sugar - there's about 4 layers of cookies stacked.

Thanks for looking! 

Now hop over to Kim's Blog to see what she created with this stamp set!

Jeanie's Birthday Cake

I created a roller skate out of paper using two kits from SVG Cuts.com. 

One kit has an ice skate and the other has round gift boxes - 

put the two together and created the roller skate I needed.

My daughter had her 8th Birthday Party at the local roller rink with some friends and family.

Thanks for reading and feel free to leave a comment!
Sincerely,
Mary Eisen

Da Bling! CTMH Way!

 

At our meeting last weekend we were treated to the Close To My Heart Jewerly!

Kathy McGraw, our upline, provided us all with a chain, a charm and the parts to make our own necklace!

These just came out this month! How Awesome!

I took the hanging piece off the end of the chain and brought it forward and added a camera charm! 

I'm ordering the diamond charm to add to it too! What fun!

 Click photo above to see all the NEW STUFF!!!

Thanks for looking!