May Monthly Memories Club!

I can't believe how fast this year is flying by! It's already May, and the first Friday of the month means it's time for Monthly Memories Club. Hip, Hip Hooray!

Here's the trio of pages that we'll be creating Friday night using the lovely Florentine Papers. For this first page I figured a page with umbrella, sunshine, and spring birds is entirely appropriate for May in Oregon! I love the hearts raining out of the umbrella, which is paper pieced from Cricut Art Philosophy shapes. The bird and the sun are from the new Garden Wood Shapes - stamp-able, ink-able wooden diecuts. Can you say stinkin' cute? My two year old can...wonder where he learned it! I'm linking this to the Heart 2 Heart April Showers Bring May Flowers Challenge.

Our second set of pages was giving me fits to photograph! I had set it aside with the stitching under the hearts partially finished. When I came back to take the pics I couldn't figure out at first why it looked so weird...the needle and thread was still sticking out of it! The background is sprayed with the Spray Pen and is much more blue in person than I was able to get it in this photo without distorting the colors in the foreground. Perhaps a Photography course is in my future? It's so pretty and soft in person...

I have to admit that Brown Bag is not usually my favorite color...I have the same pack of it I originally bought when it became a color. It's not my bag, baby!

But here, heavily sanded with that pretty floral and lovely script paper...it's just the right color. There's a grouping of those Garden Wood shapes up in the corner. They are thin, so they layer up beautifully!

So that's it - Bring list will be in your inbox tonight, club members! See ya Friday!

Want to try out a month? In June we are doing my favorite papers from this catalog, Stella - the pages are sure to be stunning!

Kits for my club start at $15 for an Economy level kit! Click here for details - if you are local, the price includes a free crop night with dinner in my 900 square foot stamp pad. I fully believe Monthly Memories Club is the best deal in scrapbooking!

Stella Monthly Memories Club Options

Economy Stella MMC Kit$15.00 USD Basic Stella MMC Kit$30.00 USD I Want It All Stella MMC Kit$40.00 USD Make Mine To Go! (ship to you)$5.00 USD Consultant Stella MMC Kit with License$15.00 USD

CTMH Consultants: Due to popular demand, I am now offering a Consultant kit for teaching my six page workshop based on the WOTG kit! The Consultant kit includes Dark Chocolate Velvet Rub-ons, a PDF of the instructions including expanded cutting guides, and the license for your classes all for just $15! 


Thank you for the lovely comments and support - you are all the heart of why CTMH is such an amazing company to be a part of!

Florentine Card #2

One last swap card to post - this one might be my favorite! So simple - a few layers of sanded/inked paper, a Cricut Art Philosophy sentiment frame, and some sponge daubed white baker's twine.  I accented the flower centers on the Florentine B&T with dabs of glitter glitz and that's about it.

Lucy pages coming soon - have a fun weekend!

TCP #201: Florentine Swap

OK - Here's yet another swap card I whipped out for Tina's swap - this time with the Florentine paper and this lovely blue green and lemon color palette from The Cat's Pajamas challenge 201.

I stamped the heart from the WOTG set repeatedly in my color palette. Then I handstitched a line across each row of hearts (Thank you, Piercing Ruler!). The ruler makes all the difference in the stitching - see my close up below? I never used to get such nice results before! And I stitched it at the play park while keeping an eye on two of my young hooligans gentlemen while balancing a cuppa coffee on my knee.

I hand dyed a bit of the Color Ready ribbon - it looks streaky in the photo, but it's so pretty in real life. I layered 4 of the Just Blooms with a bitty brad to make my carnation, then topped the brad with a medium sparkle. My lighting must have been off, because that blue is so blue here, and it's really a more teal tint to it (Twilight, to be all CTMH about it), and the colors are all so dark here. Dear hubby assistant, I need another lamp!

The sentiment frame I cut using my Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge and I layered it with 3-D foam tape for more pop!