December Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to the December Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! If you just arrived from Laura's blog, you are on the right path.

This month there are over 60 Close To My Heart consultants participating. We are featuring the December Stamp of the Month Notice the Details, a set of 41 stamps.  I can't wait to see the various projects that all of the participants will be showing.  This set has a lot of potential for some fun projects.

The title of this stamp set made me think about my Project 365.  Let's just say I haven't kept up with that the way I'd intended.  But this set is exactly what Project 365 is about--noticing the little everyday things, and keeping track of it.  I used this set in my layout for the week of Spring Break.  I took the week off of work to spend with my son.  We had a fun week, doing a bunch of little things.  I'm glad that I was able to spend that time with him, and even happier that I documented it.

 

 

 

 

Papers: CTMH Colonial White, Sweet Leaf and Twilight cardstock
Inks: CTMH Sweet Leaf and Twilight

Techniques: Second-generation stamping
Stamp Sets: Notice the Details, Friendship Alphabet, April Word Puzzle, and Today's Date

And, because I know someone will ask, yes that is a giant rattlesnake in the picture.  Photo is at the very bottom of the post (so if you're squeamish, don't scroll past the link to the next blog).  

Remember, Notice the Details is only available December 1st-31st, 2009.  Contact your Close To My Heart consultant, or click here, to order one for yourself.

Now hop on over to Katy's blog to see what she has created!

If you find any broken links along the way, Jena has the complete list on her blog.

Giant snake photo below

Do you really want to see it?

Don't say I didn't warn you...

Seriously, you've been warned.

Last chance....

Now imagine trying to take a picture of a flower and hearing your little one say "mom, there's a snake", and then turning to see this thing about 6-8 feet away from your kid.  Good thing I'm not a screamer...  If I hadn't stopped to take that flower picture, I would have walked within striking distance of that thing.

Project 365

After seeing Project 365 in this month's Creating Keepsakes magazine, I decided that it was something I would do this year. CK has a kit available (well, it may not be available, it seems that they ran into a lot of technical difficulties as well as too little supply). Lucky for me, I had intended to use CTMH products all along, so I wasn't affected by the snafu. The idea is that you take one picture each day, and journal about the picture. These will go into the pocket pages of your Project 365 album. Using 6-pocket Photo Storage Pages, you will have a space for a title, each day's picture and journaling (2 days per pocket) in each two-page layout. Since the 1st fell in the middle of the week, I opted to do the first week as a one page layout. Here is my week one layout:



For more info on the project, check out Becky Higgins' blog. To purchase supplies to make your own, check out my CTMH website.

I plan to do something more with the title, and I took the picture before I put in my journaling for today's picture. I'll take care of that tomorrow. I think this is going to be a great project for helping me use my stash of paper and other scrap stuff...