Love your Layout

Use Studio J®, Close To My Heart's online scrapbooking software, to create a beautiful layout in just minutes by watching this month's Love Your Layout video. You'll learn creative techniques on how to design with My Stickease® images, create your own custom titles, and more. Log in to Studio J to create it yourself while you watch!



This layout was created using the Clementine papers if you'd like to scrap it traditionally.  Funny thing....I used the same papers and layout to create a traditional layout.  Here's a link to my pages.

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FREE Workshop on the Go Kit
How would you like to get a free Workshop on the Go kit?  How, you ask?  Simply purchase any five (5) Workshops on the Go in one order and you'll get the sixth one FREE!  Plus, receive $25 in free Hostess Rewards.  That's $54.95 in Free products!  Don't forget, you can also get the Stamp of the Month for only $5 with your order.  In order to take advantage of this special, you must email your order to me.   Do not place the order from my website as you won't be able to enter the free items there.

Visit my website to see all of the Workshops on the Go that are available.  This offer is good March 1-March 31 and only available through Suzastampin.

Create a Card

For this card I used Close To My Heart's Clementine My Reflections® Kit.  The stamp set used is D1525 Casual Expressions.

Here are the cutting instructions:

4 ¼” x 5 ½” side fold card base

4 ¼” x 5 ½” Sorbet card stock

4” x 5 ¼” Twilight card stock

1 ¼” x 2 ¼” Twilight card stock

1” x 2” Crème Brulee card stock

3” x 3” Crème Brulee card stock

2 ¾” x 2 ¾” Clementine Background and Texture paper Floral Side

1” x 4” Clementine Background and Texture paper Sorbet side

Stamp sentiments with Twilight ink.

Attach Twilight card stock to Sorbet card stock

Attach Clementine Sorbet Side ½” from bottom.

Attach Clementine Floral to Crème Brulee card stock. Attach ¾” from left and top.  Attach Sorbet waxy flax as shown.  Cut random triangles for banner and attach. Attach sentiments as shown.  Tie bow in Sorbet Baker’s Twine and attach.

Create a Card

This week's card uses papers from Close To My Heart's Clementine My Reflections® Kit.
The stamp set used is D1525 Casual Expressions.

What you need to recreate this card:

4 ¼” x 5 ½” top fold card base

4 ¼” x 5 ½” Twilight card stock

4” x 5 ¼” Clementine Background and Texture Floral Paper

1 ½” x 3 ¼” Clementine Background and Texture paper  (Other side of floral)

1 ¾” x 3 ½” Sorbet card stock

2” x 2 ½” Crème Brulee card stock

1 ¾” x 2 ¼” Blue dot Background and Texture Paper (from the retired Dreamin' Kit)

Round top corners of the Crème Brulee card stock and blue dot background and texture paper.  Distress edges of dot Background and Texture paper

Distress edges of both Clementine Background and Texture pieces.  Ink edges with Desert Sand.

Stamp sentiment with Twilight ink

Attach Clementine Background and Texture paper to Twilight card stock.

Attach Clementine Background and Texture paper to Sorbet card stock.  Attach to card front ½” from right and  3/8” from bottom.

Attach Dot Background and Texture paper to Crème Brulee piece and attach to card front ¾” from bottom and 1 ¾” from right side.  Attach sentiment with foam dots.

Wrap Crème Brulee Baker’s Twine around your fingers a few times.  Attach to Blue Dot  Background and Texture paper.  Attach sparkle button in center.  Attach flowers and tiny pearls to centers.

Stamp a Stack Cards

For our January Stamp a Stack club, we used the CTMH stamp set D1525 Casual Expressions.

The papers that we used are also from Close To My Heart.  The top five cards were created using X7156B Clementine and the bottom five cards were created using X7157B Dakota.

Would you like to join the Stamp a Stack Club?   It's only $27 a month and you will receive all the papers, embellishments and the stamp set used. You may join the club whether your are local or long distance.  Email me if you'd like more information.

December Guest Artist

December's Guest Artist is Cindylynn Daniel.  Cindylynn worked with CTMH's Clementine Workshop on the Go kit.

Thanks so much for being a Guest Artist, Cindylynn!

You can find more Clementine artwork and instructions under the Idea's and Inspiration section of my website.

I'd love to have YOU become a Guest Artist! 

Here's the details of the Guest Artist program.

1. If you would like a chance to be a guest artist, please send me a link to artwork on your blog, or, if you have no blog, email me pictures of some of your art. Put Guest Artist in your subject line.
2. On the first of every month, I will choose the guest artist for that month.
3. Upon choosing the artists, I will send you one of Close To My Heart's Workshop on the Go kits. You will need to create the featured layout in the kit (you may jazz it up or put your own spin on it). Then, with all the products left over in the kit, you'll make as many items as you can. You may choose to do another two page layout and some cards, or a one page layout & cards, only cards, or choose something of your own to alter.You will have until the 15th of the month to get all of this done :)
4. When you finish creating, you will send me photos of everything you've created so that I can post them on my blog. If you have a blog, you'll also post them there.
5. You'll get high praise and recognition on my blog.

Does this sound like something you'd like to do? If so, send me your blog link or photos of your artwork.

Magic Club

This is the second layout the Magic Club did for September.

It was created using X7156B Clementine.  The flowers used are from Z1710 Paradise Paper Flowers. 

Magic Club

For our September Magic Club we used X7156B Clementine CTMH paper packet.  The flowers are from Z1794 Cottage Assortment.

The colors used are Champagne, Saddle, Cashmere and Sorbet.