Have you seen the 2010 Close To My Heart Spring Idea Book yet?

With every new year comes a new season of Idea Books from Close To My Heart (there are three per year). It's an exciting time! There are lots of great products including four new paper packs, new embellishments and new stamps!

You can view the Idea Book online and contact me to place your order.

Don't forget when you place your order you could earn the stamp of the month for FREE or at a discount. January's stamp of the month is only available for a few more days, get it while you can!

A wedding cake
A good friend of mine recently got married. Sure, it's not really "wedding season" but these two love birds didn't do much that followed tradition. For starters, the best man was a woman and the bridesmaid was a man. The ceremony was at Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Garden, not exactly a hopping place in the middle of winter! The reception was at Salt Tasting Room on Blood Alley in Gastown. What? Doesn't that say romantic to you? It was these types of details that made the wedding very unique and authentically suited to the bride and groom. I was very impressed at how all the details came together and showed how well suited they are for each other and how much in love they are too.

While I didn't exactly follow their cue to make a non-traditional wedding card, I still managed to make their list of favourite wedding cards! (This is a huge compliment because they have lots of talented artsy friends).

In case you're curious what kind of cake they really had at their wedding, you should check out the best man's blog here. She made the cake herself and it was AMAZING! I'm not a huge cake fan but this was the best cake I have ever had. I still drool just thinking about it.