Share The Love Valentine Card and a Video

Close To My Heart is committed to being a company that not only has great products, but that does great things.  We have been a proud supporter of Operation Smile for many years.  Since February is a month all about LOVE, CTMH decided to SHARE THE LOVE with Operation Smile.  They created an exclusive stamp set called Share the Love that can be purchased this month.  $7 of the proceeds from each stamp set go straight to Operation Smile.  How cool is that?!!!

I created this fun Valentine using the Share the Love set.  I had fun creating that arrow background by using a Lagoon stamp pad to stamp them on Lagoon Cardstock.  I think creating your own patterned paper is something that people forget they can do with stamps. Give it a try!

I will actually be sharing something I created with the set each Friday, right here on my blog. It's Friday, so here's my first share.  CTMH will also be sharing artwork with this set throughout the month on their social media channels.  AND, they want you to do the same. If you create something with this set, just add the hashtag #ctmhsharethelove to bring attention to this worthy cause.  To purchase this set and share the love with children in need, just click here. It takes $245 to pay for one operation. That means for every 35 sets sold, we are paying for a brand, new smile on a child.  COOL beans!


Last year our own Monica Wihongi (CCO at CTMH) went to Mexico on an Operation Smile mission and got to see first hand the marked difference this charity makes in the lives of so many. Here's a video of that mission (and yes, that's Kate Walsh from Grey's Anatomy).