STAMPAGANZA FOR JUNE!

Incredible!

The special for June is buy two sets of My Acrylix Stamps and get one free (of equal or lesser value)!  Now how can you beat that?  This is amazing and only comes around once a year.  This includes all sizes of stamp sets but excludes the Workshop on the Go stamps (which are unique to that set of papers and assessories) and excludes the custom name stamps. 

Buy two get one free!  Awesome!

Now is the time to get those stamp sets you have coveted from the Fall/Winter 2011 Idea Book as they are only available until the end of July!

I'm going to get at least 3 stamp sets from the Fall/Winter 2011 Idea Book as they are totally beautiful and awesome.  Most of the ones I love are the ones with woodsy animals such as a bear, eagle, reindeer, wolf and moose (Nature's Gift $13.95 - C1424 pg. 71 of the Fall/Winter 2011 Idea Book), and Christmas stamps that have Santa, a sleigh and 2 different reindeer (I Believe $13.95 - C1427 pg. 80 of the Fall/Winter 2011 Idea Book) and the other lovely vintage-look Christmas stamp sets.  The ones I've listed here I especially love because they have all these scrolly designs within the stamp which I can color in with paints or pens! 

You can go to my Pinterest site to view the above stamps and some of my other favorites at http://www.pinterest.com/pinkcottagegirl/ and view the board entitled "Acrylix Stamp Sets I Love". 

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Email Me!

If you have any questions at all or would like to find out more about my classes, workshops and home gatherings, please email me at:

pinkpapercottage@yahoo.com

I will soon have a schedule posted of my classes.

My Close to My Heart Website

My Etsy shop link is: MyPinkPaperCottage.

I hope you will take time to visit my shop and enjoy my little paper and fabric treasures, and a few vintage fabrics and tea towells. I LOVE collecting vintage fabrics and laces, and I have sold quite a few of my own fabrics from the 70's and 80's. I haven't listed them all yet, so visit often!  

Marilyn

OLD LACE!

What a find!

I was making some cards for my giveaway on June 15th, and looking for some little pieces of lace for embellishments, and what did I find but all of my old lace from 30 years ago!  What a find!  A girlfriend and I were so into making quilted pillows with lace on them, and at that time (in the late 70's and 80's) there were The Lace Ladies, in the Portland/Vancouver area.  They would go around to places like bazaars, school events, etc. and set up their lace tables - full of all kinds of lace!  We loved it all, and of course bought it all too!  We were drowning in lace!  I've used alot over the years, but still have alot left and I've finally found a use for some of them.  Here are a few that I thought would be good to embellish cards and SB pages.  Can you tell I like pink and green even back then?

All the lovely laces.

I love the look of crocheted lace.

See how I can add it to a strip on a card - lovely!

I can add the little flowered lace on top of a strip.

 I'm going to add some lace trim to a couple of my give-away cards that I'm making and I'll post those when done.

I think I'll use the pretty crocheted lace for some Lucy papers and make a few cards.  I love pink and green and the look of old vintage things so this will work nicely on the gorgeous pinks of the Lucy papers. :-)  (I love Lucy).

So gals... go look for that stash of old lace.  Now I have something new to look for at garage sales!

PLAYING WITH PHOTOS.

Today, I should be working on cards I am giving away for my June 15th drawing for anyone who signed up for my Newsletter!  but instead..........I'm playing with my photos on my computer!  Good thing is.... I do have 3 of those cards done and will post them in a couple of days.  I just love all of my photos of my flowers that I have taken over the last few years and never tire of looking at them.. One of these days I'm going to do a scrapbook of just my flowers!  I think I'll use Close to My Heart Studio J to do my digital scrapbook.

I went outside a couple of weeks ago and took some awesome pictures of my rhododendrons that were in full bloom.  We live at a high elevation (about 1300 feet) so things bloom late around here.  We have some yellow ones that you just don't see too often around here.  Am posting a few pictures here, just to share them with you.  I've been playing around on Pinterest too, and boy is that addictive!  Have pinned some of my favorite flower pictures and a few of rivers and trees that I took.  I just love photography and wish I had a better camera.  One of these days............. that's the next thing on my list, well under a few other things........Cricut Expressions, My Story Book Binding machine, better sewing machine.......

For today, let's enjoy the beauty of nature!

My beautiful yellow rhododendron.

My "garden window" that I painted from old frame - the shrub in the foreground is from LaPine, Oregon.

Who can not also love these palest pink rhododendrons!

ABOUT ME

I love scrapbooking, paper crafting, quilting, gardening and photography! I am a semi-retired mother of two, and now have time to make up for all the hours I didn't have time to craft and create during my working and child raising years. Between kids, full-time jobs, horses and husband(s), I never felt like I got to fulfill this passion of mine enough!

Somehow though, I did manage to squeeze in my passion at that time, which was sewing. While I sewed, my boys used to sit on the floor beside me, playing with their little cars. I have such sweet memories of that! And as they got older, I always made their Halloween costumes and school costumes, hemmed their pants and made them clothes. In their teen years, they always cornered me to "fix" something, sew something "on" their coat, or hem their jeans. 

I used to stay up until the wee hours of the morning, sewing on my special projects. For many years, I handmade everyone's Christmas and birthday gifts! (I wonder now, how did I do that with two little kids?!!)

As I've  gotten older, I have more of a passion for preserving memories and experiences with photos and journaling. That is why I love to scrapbook, and why I love the ease of digital scrapbooking. I can spend hours, playing with my beautiful papers, doo dads, ribbons, lace, buttons, stamps, inks, pens, and fabrics. I can also spend hours on the computer, digital scrapbooking. It is so fun and creative! 

I vowed when I retired that I would spend more time being creative. I joined Close to My Heart in March, 2012, so I could have a venue to share, create and teach, and use all of their gorgeous products. I want to use this Blog to share my ideas, my photography, projects, creations and all that Close to My Heart has to offer. I love their Studio J digital scrapbooking program and hope to teach it to others so they can learn another fun way to preserve their photos and memories. I also may, now and then, slip in some of my quilting and sewing projects, as all of my wonderful fabrics that I've gathered over the last 40 years seem to be becoming very good friends with all my newly acquired, beautiful CTMH papers!  Some of my favorite photos that I have taken over the years may also find their way to this Blog!

I have so many ideas for projects... I can hardly wait to share them with you!

STAMP OF THE MONTH FOR JUNE!

Beautiful Stamps, Amazing Discounts

Every month, Close to My Heart has a "stamp of the month".  Each month, you can enjoy a new D-size stamp set (normally $17.95) for just $5.00, when you place an order of $50 or more in Close to My Heart products.  Each month's stamps are shown in detail in the back of each Idea Book and they are only offered during that one month! 

Here is the June stamp of the month - Life is Tweet (S1206).

Spend $50 and get this Stamp set for just $5!

To view a picture of the set of stamps, go to my website at http://www.pinkpapercottage.ctmh.com/ and view the Products Section "Stamp of the Month".  There are cute little birdies with stick legs, flowers, a little branch with leaves and flowers, balloons, and birthday and anniversary sentiments.  It is so Tweet!  You'll love it!

There are also several different projects and pictures shown there, and how-to instructions for each project.  Go get inspired!