Countdown to Convention

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

I hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day! I just relaxed and cleaned house a bit. My oldest son came over and brought me the most adorable card. My hometown school mascot was the fighting bees and check this out...



I love it! The details were so amazing. I'll never be able to make a card like this. I sure do love this son of mine who made me a Mom for the first time. I also got to meet his girlfriend. She is a sweetie and adorable.

I went to a crop last Saturday and was feeling very creative. I got several pages completed...sans photos.  I'm going to take photos today to share here. I went shopping, I know - oh boy - yesterday with a close crafty friend. We hit Hobby Lobby, Kohl's and Michaels. It is so much fun shopping with a friend or two. I got some good ideas for cards at the crop, thanks Linda Bullen. Now I just need to get the 2 Close To My Heart dies to get busy.

We have crop time coming up on Wednesday. It will be a small group, so I hope I get some things done.  Tonight is paint & wine night and four of us are going...that will be tons of fun. If my painting is any good, I'll try to post tomorrow!!

Look for my artwork later today or tomorrow morning!

Happy Crafting,
Shelly, Consultant
Close To My Heart
shellysheartfeltart.ctmh.com
slott523@gmail.com
407-247-9574

Saturday, May 12, 2018

WOW - it has been way too long since my last post. Most of you know why I didn't post November thru mid-February. My Mom passed away and I was out in Tucson, AZ helping my Dad get things settled. Even though my Mom had made all the final arrangements, there was so much to do.
It was tough getting back into the swing of things.
We just finished up at the Stamp and Scrapbook EXPO, which was a lot of fun, but a lot of hard work. I'm so glad I had so many friends stop by our Close To My Heart booth. It was fun showing off our many products.
I'll be getting ready for our convention in the next few weeks. It's being held in Las Vegas this year. One of my favorite places. I just know it is going to be fun and I can't wait to see what CTMH has in the way of new products and our new Annual Expressions Idea Book.

Right now we just launched our new Seasonal Expressions 2 and it is filled with so many wonderful new products. This Idea Book really has some beautiful papers and wonderful embellishments...as always.

Better sign off now. I just got home from a crop and got 3 2-page layouts done, so I'm happy with that!

Happy Crafting,
Shelly
shellysheartfeltart.ctmh.com
407-247-9574
slott523@gmail.com