I RECEIVED MY NEW "CLOSE TO MY HEART" CONSULTANT KIT!

I received my consultant kit for Close To My Heart last Friday, and looked through it for all sorts of goodies.  I signed up for the card-making kit, and so on Saturday I went to a day-long crop at a local church and took some of the stamps and ink I got with me.  I already had some cards from another kit that I was working on, but I did want to have something to show from CTMH.  The cards I am showing you are card kits from Annie's Cardmaking Club, which I used to belong to, but the stamps on the cards are from Close To My Heart, so is the pretty ink.  I loved the stamps!  They make such a clean and precise image with minimal pressure.  I hope you like them!

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BEAUTIFUL SCENE IN THE SNOW AND DEER IN THE CEMETARY

On the day before Thanksgiving we had a pretty good snow, and there was much more up in the mountains, so after lunch, we and our daughter and her family drove up to the National Park and through Cade's Cove to see the beauty. There was quite a bit more snow there - and tourists. There was a "Bear Jam" right before we got to the Cove, with loads of cars and people with cameras. Where there are bears, there are always 1 or 2 rangers around to keep people away from them. You wouldn't believe how foolish some people are, thinking a black bear with cubs will let you get close enough to take a really good picture. NOT! Every year here, there are some bear incidents involving people who didn't keep their distance, and the ones who suffer are the bears. First they get transported to another area of the park, but if they keep coming back because people are feeding them, they end up having to be euthanized. Always a sad thing! Anyway, we drove back to a Primitive Baptist Church and walked through the cemetery. There were a number of deer grazing there, and I was able to get some film. Enjoy!