My latest woo-hoo's! Yeah!

Close To My Heart had recently revamped their internal "Make It From Your Heart" contest for consultants. Now they have the contest tied in with releases of new Idea Books, and I sent in entries for the first one: the Summer 2010 contest. I am excited to say that two of my entries placed! The winning artwork has been posted on the Close To My Heart website, you can see it here: Summer 2010 Contest Winners. I had previously posted the cards in an earlier post sharing new artwork. I placed under the "My Reflections Passages" category:



And I also placed under the "My Acrylix Something Splendid August Stamp of the Month" category:



Thanks for looking!

Dani

Long time, no post!

It's been busy, busy, busy! I have still been doing some creative stuff, but I simply haven't had time to post anything. With the end of school combined with a lot of away soccer tournaments, free time was at a premium.

Here are a couple of the projects that I've been doing -- better late than never, right? First, I got the awesome new Go-To Sketches book by Paper Crafts. And I also got the coordinating Card Companion kit by Doodlebug Design to make 18 of the cards shown throughout the book. So I've been making one or a few cards here and there when I found an opportunity until I finally finished all 18 of them:

Sorry for the nasty pics, I just snapped quick ones on my craft table. The cards turned out really cute! If you prefer step-by-step directions, with clear instructions on putting everything together -- this is definitely not for you. :-) You are given a pack of supplies, you have the pictures shown of the finished cards in the book -- and that is just about it. In addition, you also have to cut out every single printed embellishment provided, nothing is die-cut.

There are more than enough supplies provided though, I have a lot of scraps -- more than enough to make more cards:

I have cardstock, patterned paper, templates, and even embellishments leftover. I did decide a few times to add my own sentiments and accents here and there from my stash, so not all of mine are EXACTLY as originally shown too. It's all going into a bag to work on later, as I have a lot of other projects to get to now.

I've also been working on a project for Delaney's soccer team. I decided to make a digital print this time around instead of a mini scrapbook, as I knew we were cramped for time and I could easily make one for everyone on the team a lot quicker. Here is Delaney's version:

I thought they turned out really nice. Now we just need to find a frame and a spot in the soccer room to hang up Dee's new picture.

Now, I'm afraid I have some hemming and altering to do. I'd rather be papercrafting, so hopefully it won't take too long!

Dani