Welcome to the Joyful Stars blog hop for October! If you have arrived here from my sweet friend Krista's blog, Krista's Crafty Corner, you are on the right track.
This month, I would like to share a Swan Lake purse that I made after seeing one made by the very talented Tina Law. Tina ever so sweetly helped me create my version by posting a step by step video of her Jeepers Creepers purse. You should visit her website some time and check it out. My purse is made with a sheet of Peacock Cardstock for the base and handles, and a sheet of Swan lake for the body, tag and edging of my purse. I used up some scraps of cardstock to create my cute little flower using our CTMH Flower Market cartridge. I love that cartridge, and I love using up scraps!
Just sharing a quick and easy layout today. It was designed by CTMH, but I added my own touches. I started with CTMH Swan Lake paper, and working with two sheets of White Daisy and one Glacier sheet of cardstock, I began building my layout. I stamped the flowers and sentiments from our With You stamp set. Using Gold Glitter Paper and one of the new CTMH Thin Cuts, I made the word "hello". A few Gold Sequins, and voila, a cute, quick layout! Want to pin this layout? Click on the title of this post, scroll to the bottom and you should see the Pinterest button!
This month, Close To My Heart has a special promotion called "Create Kindness". It comes as a bundle with 8 little stamp sets and 24 little 3"x3" pastel cards and envelopes (along with ink, a block and a great organizer. I made those little cards, but decided to put the stamp sets to use with our CTMH Swan Lake paper package. I love how they turned out! I colored the images using our CTMH ShinHan markers, they are amazing, and I feel I have more control than I do with my Copics. I cut out shimmery little scalloped circles from our Sea Glass Glitter paper, a favorite of mine. Each little stamp set is available for only $2.95 by clicking HERE! That is a steal in my opinion!!!
