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I am on the Design Team for a new challenge blog: useitorloseitctmh.blogspot.com.  This blog is focusing on using up your stash.  Challenges will be every other Friday and will feature Close to My Heart products.  Be sure to check it out!

The first challenge is to use your first CTMH stamp set.  I chose Celebrate Life which was one of the stamp sets I received in my consultant kit.

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Supplies used are all Close to My Heart: Celebrate Life stamp set, Ribbon Rounds – Chocolate Collection, Colonial White & Olive cardstock, Sunset, Olive, & Chocolate inks, and Opaques Pearl Adhesive Gems, and Bitty Opaques Pearl Adhesive Gems.

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I was planning on showing you some more artwork using Stella today but I was busy making this instead.  It is a gift for my husband’s grandma who is recovering from surgery.  Shhh!  I haven’t delivered it yet!  I found the vase and pebbles at the Dollar Tree.  I used pearl-tipped pins from Michael’s and attached the flowers to a foam ball that sets on top of the vase.  I did go through more than one roll of glue dots (used to hold the flowers together).  I’d say if you don’t count the time it involves it’s equal to a vase of real flowers except this will last forever.  And it was more fun too.

The flowers are cut using the CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge.  I love the variety and am so glad I tried them all out.  This is a sample of 5 out of the 6 flowers you can cut from this cartridge.  I have one of those new (non-sticky) Cricut mats and the 6th flower just wasn’t cutting well.  I’m guessing the ball is about 4″, the vase is about 6″ tall, and I cut all the flowers at 3 inches.  There’s 60-70 flowers total.  I’ve got some left over and I’m thinking of making a card to go with it.  Maybe that can be tomorrow’s project.

I got these mini paint cans at the Target Dollar Spot and knew I would have a use for them.  The top one was used for a teacher’s gift.  The second can was part of a gift exchange for my daughter’s 5th grade girl gift.  We also made a journal which I will post in a couple days.  These are Christmas, but you can decorate them for any occasion.  All supplies are from my stash and I used the CTMH Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge for my diecuts.  I also added a tag with ribbon to the handle of the can.

Supplies used: Unknown paper from my stash, Prima flowers, Close to My Heart cardstock, Cricut Art Philosophy Collection by CTMH, Alphabitties stickers, American Crafts Trademark Rubon Letters, Die Cuts With A View Vellum Quote, Kaiser Fozz Felt, and Basic Grey Opaline Designer Half Pearls.

I used a sketch from Sketch Inspiration.

This layout was made from a Close to My Heart kit that was a constant campaign awhile back.  I can’t remember the name of it but I just love the layout and how I was able it was easy to fit a few or many photos.