Party Time!

For this card, I used the Tinkerin' paper packet, Gear Up and Placement Guide stamps, Clover Meadow, Sunny Yellow, Twilight and Goldrush cardstock, Twilight and Clover Meadow inks, White Daisy Grosgrain ribbon from the Animal Cookies Creative Basics pack, White Daisy Embroidery Floss and a small chipboard circle from a retired Dimensional Elements set.

I think this would make a really cute invite for a birthday party - the "Gear Up To Party" saying is so cute. The Placement Guide stamps make it so easy to incorporate hand stitching on a project. Just stamp the design you want, use the Paper Piercer to poke the holes, and stitch your design right on the project. This is one of those color combinations I would never come up with myself, but I really love how CTMH put them together for this paper packet.

Gears, Gears, Gears!

I'm loving the gears in this new Summer Idea Book! These are my scrap club layouts for May, and I'm so excited about how well these work for stamping accents, backgrounds and titles as well! My good friend and fellow scrapbooker Kirsten and I were having a discussion one day about the need for some type of shape that would work for boys like flowers work so easily for girls, and I do believe I've found them - gears!

For these layouts, I used the Tinkerin' paper pack from the new book. I used Robot Power, Gear Up and Today's Date stamp sets. I also used twill ribbon, silver brads, Holiday Red craft buttons, Holiday Red and Sunny Yellow bigger brads, and Twilight, Clover Meadow, Sunny Yellow and Goldrush cardstock. Technically, the color of orange for this kit is Sunflower in the catalog, but I liked how Goldrush went with the orange in the striped papers and I think it tones the brightness of the pages down as well. I took a close up photo on the second layout so you could see the details on the robots that I stamped. I used the "paper piecing" technique to add dimension and variety in color to the robots.

Fun and Easy Layout

This layout was so easy and fun to put together. It is using the Tinkerin' paper pack from the brand new Summer Idea Book - available May 1st! These photos are from Alex's fifth birthday dinner last month. I thought they went perfect with these papers and stamps. I used Gear Up stamps, Tinkerin' papers, Sunny Yellow, Twilight and White Daisy cardstock, Summer Carnival craft buttons in Holiday Red, Clover Meadow and Twilight inks, Tinkerin' My Stickease and Badge Buttons.

This is the feature layout for the May Allison's Challenge. This challenge provides a fabulous opportunity for you to get more scrapbooking and card-making done at home, and rewards you for doing just that! Here are some of the details on how the challenge works:

- Challenge includes a beautiful, full-color workshop guide with photos, cutting guide and step by step instructions for a new 12x12 double-page scrapbook layout. These layouts are not in any of our "how-to" books - they are BRAND NEW!
- Challenge begins on the 10th of each month and ends on the 10th of the following month.
- Challenge bundle includes a complimentary accessory packet prepared for you at no extra charge.
- Three product purchase levels - you can choose what you want to buy for each challenge. These levels consist of Basic (around $20), Better (around $40) and Best (around $55).
- Challenge product bundle includes products needed to complete the challenge projects and have some left over afterward!
- On or before the 10th of the month, let me know you want to participate in the challenge for that month. At that point, I will order your product bundle. I will deliver the guide and your products to you when they arrive (one week-ten days later) and you'll have the remaining time to complete the 12x12 layout at home by the end of the challenge.
- Complete the challenge layout by the end of the challenge and you'll receive a $5.00 gift certificate good for any order from the CTMH Idea Book.
- That's not all! On my website, there are cutting guides and photos for two additional 12x12 double-page scrapbook layouts and cards to make using our Cherish, Imagine, Reflections and Originals books. If you complete the original two layouts in the flyer, and all of the online projects at home by the end of the challenge, you'll get a $15.00 gift certificate good for any order from the CTMH Idea Book.