January 2011 Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Happy New Year to Everyone and welcome to our January Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! We are featuring January's Stamp of the Month, D1452 Find Your Style, a set of 9 beautiful stamps giving you style and beauty for all your projects!  Plus you will not believe what Inspirations (the new mini catalog with a preview of the Spring/Summer Idea Book that you can download by clicking on the picture in the upper right of the page) has to offer this month!  Huge discounts and 5 different stamps set when you purchase the Wings Workshop on the Go!  WOW!~

If you have come here from Helen Onulak's Blog, you are on the right path!  You can find a list of all the partipant's in case you get lost here: http://bowlofstamps.blogspot.com/p/sotm-blog-hop-list.html

This month we have nearly 60 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

Now "Hop" on over to Tonya Whitehurst's Blog to see her beautiful clear card eye candy! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the SOTM and Inspirations Mini Book is only available until January 31st!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount or even free!

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Below is one of the ways I decided to use this stamp set:

Supplies:  Find Your Style Stamp Set; Wings Level II Paper Pack, Black and Vineyard Berry Exclusive Inks, Black Mini Medleys; White Mini Medleys.  Layout is from ORIGINALS Lucky Three

I decided to try one of those cool folded flowers.  They look neat but will they travel through the mail?  Well, maybe in a padded envelope.  :-)  Here are the "general" instructions for fan-fold/yo-yo flowers CLICK TO ENLARGE:

I also thought you might enjoy a slide show of our monthly exchange which you can find here.  Now have fun along the way!!

MojoMonday 171

Oh my gosh I just LOVE these sketches and knew what I must do before the day was out!  I also just had to use the new Wings papers with the January 2011 Stamp of the Month (D1452 Find Your Style).  All of these will be available January 1st!

Supplies:  Wings Level 2 Paper Packet; Vineyard Berry, Juniper, Sweet Leaf & Black CSs and inks; Pleated Twill Tape; Black Mini Medley Collection (Courdoroy brad); Find Your Style Stamp Set.

And, in case you were wondering here is the MojoMonday 171 sketch:

Fun sketches, aren't they!

Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse

Did any of you stay up or wake up last night to see the Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse? Do you realize that the last time this event happened it was 1378? Anyway, I wasn't up and I didn't get to take any photos because I was thinking it was tonight instead of last night, but here a double exposure picture shows the moon and the monument of The Savior of The World during the total lunar eclipse as seen from San Salvador.

I hope you are enjoying your Christmas season.  I really have done quite a few pieces of artwork and promise to get some loaded soon.  Are the holidays as crazy for you as they are for me?