Happy November!

Good Morning my friends! And Happy November! I did a little better posting this time, it's only been a couple of weeks. It's been a very busy time for me, working my part time job, which has lately been full time and still making time for my Cricut Swarms.

As I mentioned in my last post, I was able to attend a Scrapbooking Retreat in Americus Georgia and I had posted several things I had done. Well I have a more things to share this time. Beware! I posted quite a few things, so picture heavy! :)

 These are all the cards I managed to get done.

 And the layouts I got done.


The Halloween Layout we made for the September Cricut Swarm.

 For our October Cricut Swarm we made this mini Christmas Album, using the Close To My Heart Artbooking Cricut cartridge.

Novembers Cricut Swarm project:

A get well card I made for a good friend of mine.

That's all folks! I have been a busy bee (taking December off from my Swarm) and look forward to the coming holidays! Everyone have a wonderful day and I will see you at the next post! Until then, BIG HUGS to you all.

Another Month Gone By

Hello my friends! I can't believe another month has gone by and I am just now posting. In September I went to a scrapbooking retreat with a wonderful bunch of ladies to Americus, GA. What a blast that was. My project for this retreat was to create all the cards I needed for my October celebrations, October is one of my heavy months. I am happy to say I did it and even managed to get a couple of scrapbook page layouts completed too. So here's what I did,

For my Brother In-Law

My Mother In-Law

My nephew

My sweet friend

My Mom and Dad's Anniversary

For My Sweet Friend

For My Sweet Friend

The Layouts I managed to get done

For My Sweet Friend

There are still a couple of cards I can't show since the recipients haven't gotten them yet. I so enjoyed this time and plan to go again.

Until next time (hopefully it will be sooner than a month, not promising), BIG HUGS to you all!

A Little Late

Hello my friends! I know I'm a bit late posting my Fathers Day cards. I've been really busy working my part time job and working my Close To My Heart business, plus starting the Callahan Country Bugs Cricut swarm back up. Had our first swarm in June and working on Julys. It was such fun and am really looking forward to the next one. I'm also posting the pictures from the Swarm.

These are the cards I made for Fathers Day using Simon Says Die and Stamp set. I just love how quick I was able to put these together. These could also be cut apart and just use the words you want. I'll have to try that.

My first Cricut Swarm. Had a wonderful turn out and look forward to Julys swarm.

Linda with her free style card she made.

I was so pleased that everyone seemed to enjoy the projects they were making.

Frances with her creation.

Debbie with her card.

Freda with her card and Freda hardly ever does cards. 

Layout we are going to make at the July Cricut Swarm, using CTMH Artbooking cartridge

And finally, the card we're going to make. I'm showing a cool technique, coloring glitter.

I hope you enjoyed seeing all the pictures and projects and wish everyone a wonderful day. Until next time BIG HUGS to you all!

Scrapbook Layouts

Hello my friends. As you know I am a new consultant with Close To My Heart. I can't believe all the goodies I received with my starter kit. One of the things included was the Skylark Workshop On The Go kit. I created five layouts using only this kit and I still have stuff left over. I am planning on using the scraps and left overs to create cards.

I really like this monochromatic layout. It think it came together so nice.

Okay, I did use my Cricut for the title. And I like the little strips that are at the end of the 12x12 sheets you can use for accents. No waste here.

I wanted to show how versatile this paper can by using it with the Star Wars pictures. 

I hope you like what I did with this wonderful paper collection and can see it's not just for frilly pictures. If you would be interested in ordering this kit , you can click on my link above to go to my website.

Until next time BIG HUGS to you all.

Vacation and Something Exciting

Hello my friends, sorry it's been so long since my last post. Between going on vacation and then going back to work, time has slipped away. What I wanted to share with you are some scrapbooking layouts I created of our vacation. We spent a few days in Gatlinburg, TN and while there it snowed. We are such Floridians and tourist, everytime there were some flurries we were taking pictures and sharing with everybody. We even managed to get some pics using a real camera. I just get so tickled everytime I think of it because we were so excited to be able to see snow, but was so happy to leave it too.

While in Pigeon Forge we went to the Super Scrapbook store, always have to plan to go someplace that has scrapbook stores. During the visit I picked up these papers specifically for these photos.

I just really love the simplicity of these pages. I wanted to highlight the pictures without to much "stuff".

Here we are in downtown Gatlinburg and all that snow. I know you guys further north are laughing at me aren't you. 

And these are pictures that my husband and son took in the wee hours of the morning when they realized it had snowed, so they went to find more.

I hope you enjoyed seeing our pictures as much as we enjoyed experiencing this winter wonderland.

Now on to my Something Exciting portion. I wanted to let you know that I am officially a Close To My Heart consultant. This is something that has been on my back burner and decided to sign up when they had this amazing offer for those like me who have been on the fence. Not only do you get all those wonderful starter goodies you also get to select one of their Cricut Bundles (which is a $99 value alone), I chose Art Philosophy since I already had Artbooking.  All of that for just $99, how could I not do it. I'm looking forward to my new adventure. I am planning on working my business as a business, not just hobby. So if anyone is interested in trying or restocking these wonderful products or if you want to signup, please contact me
pattibomgardner.ctmh.com    Check out the online catalog and the Stamp Of The Month special and all the other delicious goodies CTMH carries. You can also contact me at pattibomgardner@gmail.com

Until next time my friends, BIG HUGS to you.

Project Life Album

Good evening my friends. I hope everyone has been having a good week. I was fortunate enough to have this past weekend off and had a good friend come over to do some crafting. She made her Valentine cards and I made a card for a friend and was able to work on my Project Life album.

Becky Higgins created these albums to get pictures in scrapbooks to preserve them, versus sitting in boxes. I love to scrapbook, but I have so many old photos (the ones I worked on are 2001 & 2004)  I needed something to help me along. These albums have photo slot pages that need little or no embellishments. I wanted to share with you what I put together for these few pages. I do want to apologize for the poor quality of the photos, it was night time and just couldn't get good shots but you will get the idea.

I got my kit from QVC that included the pages and the journaling cards. I know Michaels now carries these albums and everything you need to put them together. If you just need to get your photos in scrapbooks, but don't really have a lot of time to do the traditional scrapbooking, then give this a try.

Well it's back to work for me tomorrow, so have a wonderful weekend and BIG hugs to you all.

Project Life Album

Good evening my friends. I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend. Back in April my son got married, it was an outdoor wedding.  Even though we are in North Florida, South Georgia it usually isn't very cold, chilly, but not cold. Well it was one of the coldest days we had in a long time, along with it raining. Luckily, the rain stopped and everything went off without a hitch. The following weekend was just as nice and warm as it could be. Oh well it was a very memorable day.

I decided to use my small Project Life album to place their wedding pictures. Since they both had been married before they decided to have a small intimate wedding. Which worked perfectly for the smaller album.

Please pardon the flash reflection, I tried without the flash and was to dark and the many photos.

I used a rub on for the fairy tale beginning.

The theme of the wedding was based on Beauty and the Beast.

Because most of the photo slots are landscape I just rotated the portrait photos so I could use most of the them..

I hope you enjoyed my album. I really enjoyed putting it together. I have a  12x12 album that I am looking forward to using.

Have a good night everyone and BIG HUGS to you all.