Posted on Saturday, February 6, 2016

CTMH – Share The Love Blog Hop

Welcome to CTMH – Share The Love Blog Hop! On this blog hop, we are featuring the new special stamp set to support Operation Smile™, an organization that provides surgeries to repair cleft lips and palates for children all over the world!

Share The Love (CC1060) is a D-size stamp set filled with adorable icons and loveable sentiments, this stamp set will be a beautiful addition to your collection and perfect for making love cards/notes, scrapbooking layouts and pocket scrapbook cards. Not only will you be getting a high-quality, swoon-worthy stamp set by taking part in this promotion, but Close To My Heart will also donate $7 USD of the proceeds from this stamp set to Operation Smile™.

If you arrive from Jen’s blog, you are are on the right path. If you happen to be here first, you can continue to hop to make the loop to see all the projects created by participated consultants. You can always go to Melinda’s Blog to see the full list of participants for this hop.

I made a Valentine card set using the Share The Love stamp set. And I decided to go with clean and simple style note cards with stamping images and some embellishments.

Supplies I used to make my cards are:

Share The Love Stamp Set (CC1060).
La Vie En Rose Paper Packet (X7201B, included coordinating cardstocks).
Exclusive Inks Pads: Poppy, Pomegranate, Ruby, Hollyhock and Black.
Embellishments: Durable Triangle Studs, Flamingo Dots, and Red Enamel Hearts.

Your next hop is Sheila’s blog to see what she has created for you! THANK YOU so much for stopping by my blog today.

Have a fun blog hopping and a great day!

Posted on Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Always Pray And Do Not Lose Heart

Jesus loved teaching using parables when He was with his disciples or among the crowd. He used parables because he wanted them to know who God was and His Kingdom.

In the last 3 weeks, I have been doing the Growing Through Prayer study from Love God Greatly (you can get the study book journal here). This is a journey of faith for me, to live a prayerful life. It is not easy because in reality there are too many challenges to focus and set aside time to just pray. But here’s an amazing and great news to all of us, God, our Loving Heavenly Father, gives us the Holy Spirit to help us to pray and to pray for us when we do not know what to say. Holy Spirit knkws exactly what God’s will for us. We need to humble ourselves and surrender under His authority and grace to grow in our prayer lives.

The parable of the persistent widow is one of the parables Jesus used to teach them to pray. It is interesting isn’t? Especially when we read the passage, the widow pleaded her case before an unjust judge.

What is actually Jesus trying to show us from this passage?

I learned these 3 lessons from this parable:

Always ask = never stop praying.
Do not lose heart if there is a delay = have faith
God is just = He will act justly and quickly

In prayer, we come before the throne of the Just God with faith and hope. Do not lose heart, Jesus said. It is not only a suggestion, it is a command for us to keep praying until God answers according to His will.

How long?

That is uncertain. God is the one who knows the best time to answer our prayers.

Do not lose heart in waiting for His answer.

I pray God will encourage your hearts today while waiting for His answer to your prayers.

Posted on Monday, February 1, 2016

CTMH February SOTM Blog Hop: Balloon Animals

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! We will be featuring February 2016 Stamp Of The Month (SOTM), Balloon Animal (S1602), a set of 13 stamps.

This month we have 40 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using the February 2016 SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This blog hop is simple to do – just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one. So, here we go!

If you have come here from Wendy’s Blog, you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here antd work your way all around. If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog.

I had fun making these cards using this cute stamp set:

I stamped the images with Pixie, Honey, Pear, and Crystal Blue Exclusive Inks Stamp Pads on a 4″ x 5.5″ White Daisy cardstock. Aren’t they gorgeous for Spring color combo? 🙂 I made a mask from post it note to stamp the Honey Giraffe Balloon so it looks like it is behind the Pixie Horse Balloon.

And for the balloon strings, I drew them using Marvy® Uchida® LePen™ Journaling Pen.

I cut a 3/4″ paper strip of Penelope Paper Packet for the border. Then I fussy cut the sentiment label tag using Non-Stick Micro-Tip Scissors. And I added on the card using thin 3D foam tape. I finished my card with some Coral sequins assortments.

The next 2 cards I made for a birthday girl and a birthday boy 🙂

For the background on these cards, I stamped the Ink Blot stamp set using Honey Ink Pad and Gypsy Ink Pad. I stamped the sentiment randomly for fun 🙂

I stamped the animal balloons on White Daisy cardstock using the same ink pads with my first card, and then I fussy cut them using Non-Stick Micro Tip Scissors. I added them on the card using thin 3D foam tape and drew the balloon strings using Marvy® Uchida® LePen™ Journaling Pen.

I finished both cards by adding some Durable Triangle Studs for the boy theme card and Flamingo Dots for the girl theme card.

The SOTM – Balloon Animals (S1602) is only available until February 29, 2016! You can grab it for only $5 with qualifying order of $50 or more. Please contact me or leave me a comment if you any questions 🙂

Now hop on over to Vickie’s Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their blog to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas!

Thank You so much for stopping by at my blog today and I hope you find some inspirations here to create!

Posted on Monday, February 1, 2016

Share The Love

Hello February! Can you feel the air is full of love already? 🙂 Let’s share the love all around with words, actions, sending handmade cards and love notes…

Share The Love

During the month of February, you can share the love with kids around the world that needs surgeries to repair their cleft lips and palates by purchasing the exclusive My Acrylix® Share the Love D-size stamp set (CC1060). Filled with adorable icons and loveable sentiments, this stamp set will be a beautiful addition to your collection—but there is more to this stamp set than meets the eye!

Not only will you be getting a high-quality, swoon-worthy stamp set by taking part in this promotion, but Close To My Heart will also donate $7 USD of the proceeds from this stamp set to Operation Smile™, an amazing organization that provides surgeries to repair cleft lips and palates for children all over the world!*

Check out CTMH social media channels – Facebook and Instagram – all month long to see this stamp set in action, and remember to post your own artwork using the hashtag #ctmhsharethelove to help bring attention to a wonderful and worthy cause.

Here what I created using this cute stamp set on my February planner page:

Thank You so much for visiting today and shopping with me at Close To My Heart!

Have fabulous and blessed week!

Posted on Friday, January 29, 2016

DIY Page Tabs With Envelope Punch Board

Today I am sharing a tutorial how to make page tabs with WRMK Envelope Punch Board.

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Since I do not have tab punch, I make my own page tabs using WRMK Envelope Punch Board. It is very easy to make and you can do in any sizes you need for your Bible journaling, or planner, or use them on any projects you want.

Here are the steps:

Cut paper or cardstock in sizes you desire. I cut mine on the video in 2 inches x 1.5 inches.
Score and fold.
Place it under the punch.
Punch one side.
Flip over and punch again.

Hopefully the picture video is clear enough to show you how to make them. Fell free to ask me questions in the comment if you have 😊

Have a blessed Friday and Happy Crafting!

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