Yes, it is just as delicious as it sounds! I got this recipe from my friend, Nadine, who happened to grow blueberries and mint in her garden this year for us to use.

What a way to make a livin' ;). It's getting close to that time of going back to work for me - eek! In the meantime, we at Close To My Heart have been working hard to get ready for the release of our new Annual Inspirations idea book, which goes LIVE September 1! Contact me to get your copy.

Here is another look at one of our NEW paper collections, Zoe. I made this card to celebrate our friend's little guy turning 3! He loves "working hard" with his toy trucks.


Now it's your turn to be inspired by our Workin' 9 to 5 theme at Heart2Heart!

How cool, it is the 200th sketch for Freshly Made Sketches! I started off in one direction with this card but totally went another way after being inspired by this card from the sponsors' design teams gallery! My overall design takes a few liberties with the sketch, but I hope it still counts ;)

...just add water ;)

When I saw this stamp from Art Impressions I began to think of numerous people who would love it. I recently got some watercolour pencils and am enjoying experimenting with them! I am linking up with the Anything Goes challenge at Art Impressions, the beach challenge at The Paper Players, and the layout over at Retro Sketches!

I used some tips from my Auntie Karen, who designs for Art Impressions and has a fabulous Photographing Cards Tutorial. I am quite happy with how the picture of the card turned out :)

This week at Heart2Heart our theme is Ticket to Ride. This challenge will be open for the rest of the month!
It was our third anniversary in July and I like to scrapbook a page for each year. Chris bought me a paddleboard this year and I absolutely love it! It has been my "ticket to ride" across the lake as much as I can this summer :).

Here's another card I created today using some of my new Verve to make a card for a friend's upcoming birthday! I wanted to play along with the Mojo Monday sketch and am also linking up to the Diva Inspirations Challenge. I just love this colour combo!

A first birthday party is coming up for a special little girl this month, so I thought I would get onto making her card early! I wanted to try out making my own spinner card...and I definitely learned a thing or two in the process. It was also tricky to photograph! I am linking up with the birthday bash challenge over at Heart2Heart and the colours at Color Throwdown, too.

In preparation for the September release of our next Annual Inspirations catalogue, Close To My Heart is releasing a NEW paper collection: Zoe!