Close To My Heart LeaderShare San Diego

Seriously, I do NOT self tan!!! I just need to start wearing hats to soccer practice and soccer games. Or better yet, I need to stay in doors for a few weeks.

These are my two besties, Heather Plotzke and Alisse Stephens.

Close To My Heart Spotlight Blog Hop: Reinkers

This month we are featuring reinkers for the Close To My Heart Spotlight Blog Hop. If you are coming from Luisa Morgan'sblog, you are in the right track. If you are hoping from another blog, don't worry, this is a full circle hop, so just keep on hoping and you will do a full circle.

So for this month, I decided to combine two things together. First the LeaderShare swap cards and my Blog Hop item. I'm getting a head start on the Holidays, by making some gift card envelopes. Hope you like them!

I used the reinkers in "Sky" and water with the CTMH spray pens, to spray the white circle in the background.

Supplies:
X7145B Believe Paper Packet
White Daisy Ribbon
Cranberry Brads
Art Philosophy Cartridge
D1494 Christmas Cheer Stamp set
A1115 A Holiday Stamp Set
Z1380 Spray pen
Z2294 Sky Reinker

Now it's time to hop on over to Mary K Parker's Blog and be inspired by creative ways to use your reinkers.

CTMH Necklace & Bracelet

This jewelry set is the second item that will be donated to the silent auction at this weekends LeaderShare. I always think about the type of person who will wear a particular item that I make. The last set was more shabby chic, with the vintage sparkles and pewter base. This girl, is more earthy, grounded and spirited.

The leather cording was easy to find at Home Depot. Just ask for leather strips or leather shoe lases. I looked at the ones at Walmart and Michael's and the leather there was very thin and over worked. This raw leather gives it a more earthy look & feeling.

Supplies:

Z1633 Harvest Charms Embellishments

Antique Copper lobster claw findings

Antique Copper split ring

I can't wait to see who buys this set!

DIY: CTMH Earrings

I've been working this week on making some items to donate at this weekend's CTMH Leader Share in Mission Valley. The items I made will be donated to the silent auction, benefiting Operation Smile. So instead of going the traditional way and making paper projects, I experimented with the Close To My Heart's embellishments to create jewelry.



Here are two pairs of earring that I made using the Designer Brads (Z1360) and the Heirloom Assortment (Z1635). They come in a gold color and a greyish color with a hint of lavender. As you may remember, this is my beautiful daughter modeling the earrings.

Stay tuned for the other set of accessories I made for the silent auction.

Close To My Heart Studio J 5 Pack

Hello Everyone!
Today, I woke up early to work on my Studio J 5 pack that Close To My Heart gifted all the consultants that will be attending this year's Leader Share in San Diego, California.

Since I am NOT that familiar with Studio J, I saw this an awesome opportunity to learn how to navigate the program and get some well deserve and very needed layouts done. If you want to take a gander at Studio J, I invite you to click on the link to the right of my blog and start discovering the great possibilities with digital scrapbooking. It was great to be with the kids and travel around the house with my laptop and create these adorable layouts.

So, here are my 10 layouts I finished today and I am so excited to get them during Leader Share this Saturday!