Bloom & Grow

2018-01-06 CTMHSOTM

Welcome my crafty friends!

Wow as the old saying goes if you don't like the weather wait a minute it will change that is true here in Maine.  Last few weeks were -20 on many days and that is without the wind chill factor then blizzard then 20 above which was like a heat wave now it is 46 and pouring rain.

Today I am posting a picture of a couple cards that I designed for our Close To My Heart Stamp of the Month Club which meets once a month.  There are 6 of us and we go to our consultant's studio where we each have a month that we are hostess for a party and we get the rewards that month. The month that you are hostess you design a project using the Stamp of the Month, which is only available for that month, and a new paper pack and as I was hostess for January I created these 2 cards.  Same pieces of background and texture paper only paper flipped to show a different look and using different stamp from the stamp set.

Close to My Heart Products:      

January 2018 Stamp of the Month - Bloom & Grow S1801

Paper Pack - Chelsea Gardens

 

Elizabeth craft Designs Products:




Hope you like my quick post these cards are easy and fun!

Comments

  1. bcparkisonJanuary 13, 2018 at 3:27 AM

    Us too weather wise.
    Sometime the more simple the more pretty.

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  2. christinepoolerJanuary 14, 2018 at 11:27 PM

    Yes sometimes simple is better but sometimes I have a hard time remembering that!

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  3. bcparkisonJanuary 15, 2018 at 1:26 AM

    Me too. they are hard for me to do in cards any way.

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