Pinwheels

Hello friends! 
I’m loving the May Stamp of the Month:  Pinwheel.  It’s fun & best yet—most of the shapes are compatible with my Artiste Cricut Cartridge. 
This card was designed by Jayme Malme.  I had a chance to create one at our March team meeting.  We each designed a card and brought enough for everyone to create one.  We had a little rotating card workshop where we created one of each card that was brought that night.  It was so fun to learn new techniques and quickly create new artwork!  I’m rarely the workshop attendee, I’m usually the workshop designer. 


Pinwheel is only available in May.  You can order it for $17.95 or get it for just $5 with a $50 purchase. 
 

If you order on my website this month, join the “Celebrate with Lalia” gathering and you’ll get 2 free handmade cards from me.  If your order is over $50 you’ll receive 10% of your order total in Hostess Rewards.  That means you’ll get a minimum of $5 in free product.  That’s a minimum of an ink pad, reinker, markers or My Stickease!  Shop online or contact me to place an order if you’re local.  I’m closing out an order this week! 
Would you love to be part of my CTMH team?  It’s been very exciting this month!  We’ll be swapping artwork and getting together each month (n person or virtually) to share ideas.  Click here to get more details about being a consultant. 

Teacher Gifts

For the last 3 years I have participated in a homeschool Co-op for our son.   This co-op doesn’t replace his home curriculum.  It enhances it.  Think of it as a morning full of elective classes and fun for both of us.  It’s wonderful to be part of an amazing group of women and their children.  As a co-op, we do everything ourselves, including lead classes.   As the year was wrapping up, the leadership  wanted to thank the moms who taught spring quarter.  Here’s how we celebrated our moms/teachers this last Monday…

There’s a story behind these boxes and how they were inspired.  Our fearless leader Libby found this adorable teacher thank you gift on Pinterest. Here’s the original post on www.skiptomylou.org.

It looked so simple to replicate. Gloves: Check! Seeds: Check!   Chalk board adhesive vinyl:  CTMH sells that too!  Container: Ikea is 50 miles away and affordable options at local stores were not found.  
I also really disliked the thought of investing in something that could end up being tossed.
The perfect solution…. I love cutting boxes on my Cricut with my Art Philosophy or Artiste Cricut cartridges.  However, I rarely have anything to put inside of them.  Oh joy!  Now I can play with paper and make something purposeful.  Or 21 purposeful items in this case!
The pillow box and the 3D flowers were cut using the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge.  I cut and rolled 2 dozen flowers while watching a movie one afternoon.  With the quilling tool that CTMH recently added to their Idea Book, it was a cinch and didn’t take my full concentration.  Everything else was assembled by our advisory team around my dining room table one evening last week.  It was quick and simple.  There was plenty of laughter and chocolate too. 

The flower and sentiment is a magnet keepsake.  The magnet, seed packs and pillow box are all held together with twine.  The recipient could easily reuse or recycle this pillow box. 
Inside the box are quality gardening gloves just like in the original picture and CHOCOLATE which seemed to missing in the original teacher gift.  (do you see a theme here?)

I love how these two Cricut cartridges are so versatile and go far beyond scrapbooking and card-making to blessing our hardworking teachers of our Co-op. 

I've just added this to the Heart to Heart Challenge blog for this week:  Teacher Appreciation week.  It was entirely made with Art Philosophy and Artiste Cricut shapes and some retired green paper.  Sorry, no current CTMH product except for Liquid Glass.

Dakota: Happy Birthday with a country flair!

Another simple card!  Perfect for the guy, horse lover or friend who loves all things country. 
Dakota was introduced in 2012 so it will only be around for a couple more months.  Get it now before it’s gone!

Paper:  Dakota
Ink:  Pacifica Exclusive Inks
Bling:  from last year’s Avonlea card kit (discontinued)
Stamp:  Joyful Birthday
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It’s a race! And I need your help to win!

I'm in a contest and I need your help to win!

It's not often that I beg for your help, but I'm doing it today.  I've been presented with a contest and I'd really like to win.  If I win, you'll win too!
You've heard that our Consultant Kit is only $49 and comes with $155 in goodies.  This month, all new consultants are also getting the Dream Pop paper pack for free in their kit.  It's normally $10 with a $35 purchase.  (Basically $45+ shipping & handling.)  Can you see where I'm heading?  Buy the kit and get lots more for the nearly the same price!

Your obligation once you get this kit:  NOTHING. 
Keep it or gift the items (your friends will love you). 
You can be a hobbyist or build a business to support your own personal dreams or goals.  It's totally up to you.  I'll help you any way you want. 
Here's the reward:  If you all help me be promoted to the next Manager in my group, I'll give you a Workshop on the Go or $29.95 in product hostess rewards type product (ink, papers, stamps, acrylic blocks, & Studio J layouts).
Another reward:  If you have $300 in sales in the first 30 days after getting your kit, you'll get another $25 in product directly from CTMH.  I'll help you host your first gathering whether it be online or locally.
This $49 kit will could potentially turn into $200+ in product for you and potentially $66+ cash back (22% commission on $300 in sales).  That's a lot of CTMH product for little net cost! 
Don't forget about the Dream Pop papers.  They're so fun and they're included this month! 

Are you ready?  Go here to sign up.
Not sure?  Email me, text me or call me at 425-35O-6879.  (Psst:  Don’t copy and paste this number, it has an "o” instead of a zero in it so spammers don’t pick up my phone number.)
Since this is a race, please do not wait until the end of the month to decide on signing up.  I may not win.  Let's win tonight! 
I appreciate your support! 
Lalia Harris
425-35O-6879
LaliaH@live.com

You Make Me Smile

We created this simple card at last month’s Fun & Fabulous card workshop. 

“You make me smile” is one of my favorite sentiments. It’s from the Hooray Bouquet stamp set.
It was a super simple stamp set as there weren’t a ton of supplies used. 

• Paper:  Chantilly & Outdoor Denim Cardstock
• Butterfly: Just Blooms Flutter paper shapes.
• Ink: Cotton Candy Exclusive Inks
• Bling:  Sparkles Clear Assortment
• Other:  Tombow adhesive & a pink Bic Mark-it (permanent) marker to color the sparkles pink!

I was inspired by Rachel Ventura's blog post that I had pinned a year ago.  You can see her Pemberley version here.  
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Have a great day!