A fun card making evening!

I went to Jill's last night after kids were settled with Daddy and we had a wonderful time making cards and laughing till we hurt from laughing. It was a great time for both of us and a good end to a busy fast week. Here are the creations we made!

Using the CTMH Stamp of the Month to make stripes

Another use for CTMH stamp of the month

A creation using the Sweet Home paper set in the Autumn/Winter 2009 CTMH catalog

Same card but with the new Grace paper and the Childhood Portrait Stamps from new catalog

More stripes with Stamp of the Month

Love this circle card using a template from the CTMH Wishes Book

Love this card with the new paper Grace and Childhood Portrait stamp set

It pays that Jill is a Director with Close to My Heart so she gets goodies from the new catalog early!

More cards

I have been having fun making cards with a friend of mine. We have a great set of directions that uses a Level 2 Paper Pack (CTMH) and makes 50 cards out of it (you add the cards) - you make 5 different cars and make 10 of each. It is so fun. I did it in our stamp group and we swapped them out. I did the black and white set for my sister using CTMH Silhouette and then I did this set for my secret sister at church using CTMH Paper Garden (which I love). I have made so many sets from these instructions that I created a new set of instructions which makes 60 (yes 60) cards from one level two kit. This one makes 10 different cards and you make 6 of each. Tomorrow I will post the pictures of them as they turned out so good using CTMH Caprice.

Failed miserably

Well, my best intentions just weren't good enough. I could give a lot of excuses including my 37th birthday, going back to work more regularly, closing of the candy store, volunteering in kids classrooms, registering Chase for kindergarten, etc, etc, etc - but I won't.

Life has been busy but I have enjoyed some fun craft time and had to post a picture of the cards and birthday calendar book I made for my sister's birthday (and she loved them too!).

It is late and I just got the last batch of butterhorns out of the oven so I am head to bed.

Good night!