February SOTM Blog Hop - A Happy Hello

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  We will be featuring February's SOTM, which is A Happy Hello, a set of 15 stamps.  If you have come here from Adeline's Blog, you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.  If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog.  

This month we have approximately 60 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

For my project I started with a white daisy card base 6.5" x 5" and used Indian Corn Blue, Glacier and White Dasiy cardstock for the matting.  The stem is stamped in Ponderosa Pine.  For the blud flower I chose to do a combination of generational stamping aswell as reversing the stamp and using that as a background to using colored cardstock.  I used Indian Corn Blue and Glacier Ink.  The second flower is done using the same techniques but using Smoothie Ink and cardstock.  They are adhered together using 3D Foam Tape for dimension. Below is a close up of the layered 3D effect.

Now "Hop" on over to Melinda's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, February's SOTM is only available until the 28th!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!

Making kids Valentine's with AHSC

This week over at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, we had a very basic simple sketch.  Hmm, easy right?  Wrong!  I had such trouble creating a card for this sketch.

I fiddled with stamping, and I tried sponging....nothing I was doing came out right....I just was not happy with my projects at all.  Then my 10 year old daughter came down to my craft room, and started snooping through my newest order and discovered my newest Stamp Set Love Ya Silly (B1470).  She asked if we could use that to make Valentine cards for her classroom.  So off we set.  She picked all the colors and did the stamping, and I assembled....so today's project is a combined effort between myself and my daughter. We hope you like our Silly Valentine's Day card.

So head on over to Atlantic Hearts and see what our Design Team has created to inspire you this week.

January Blog Hop: Valentine's Inspiration - Cross Canada

Welcome to our January Blog Hop featuring Valentine’s Inspiration.  To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local consultant to place an order.

We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop! 

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you want to follow us across Canada then please start at the beginning and join Julie in Newfoundland and hop across Canada. It just so happens she is the stop before me too.

For this first card, I used a strip of pattern from the Brushed paper pack, pink shimmer trim and slate cardstock.  I used the Heart Embossing folder and then lightly sanded the hearts.  The sentiment and image is from Forever in my Heart (C1604).

This card was really fun to put together, I used Pear, Hollyhock, Cranberry and Canary cardstock, all colors found in the Brushed Paper pack. I used the Heart Embossing folder.  I did a little doodling with my journaling pen, and added some puffies.  The heart and banner are from January's SOTM.

For this card I used some patterned paper from Ariana. I really liked the wreath that is featured on page 17 of Seasonal Expressions (1st edition) and attempted to follow the directions.  I really liked how soft it looked once done. I matted it on Hollyhock cardstock, added some doodled borders and a little bling.  The stamp is called Happy to Be Friends (C1605).

I tried it again using the colors that they called for, and used Hollyhock and Glacier cardstock.  I ran the Glacier through my cuttlebug with the Heart Embossing folder and then distressed the edges and embossed hearts with Glacier ink.  I doodled along the edge of the circle, and also inked the edges of the banner in Glacier ink.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Rosalynd.

I've provided the full blog hop list, incase you get lost:

·  Julie ~ 12x12 Travels

·  Michelle ~My Creations With Michelle  YOU ARE HERE

·  Rosalynd ~ In My Scrappin' Room

·  Nicky ~ Timeless Cottage

·  Brae ~ The Brae-er

·  Carol ~ Crafty Carol's Place

·  Christine ~ Chris' Creative Life

·  Brandy ~Canadian Scrappers

·  Terry Ann~ Just a Tad Crafty

·  Janet ~ Jan's Works of Heart

·  Chantal ~ It's a Hoot PaperCrafts

·  Nancy ~ Nancy Klein

·  Kristine ~ Home With Studio K

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. We hope you will join us again next month when we will be featuring Card Creations using our How To Books.  So mark February 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Team Brae-er Blog Hop - Year Noted

Welcome to our January Team Brae-er Blog Hop that focuses on the promotion for National Papercrafting Month - Year Noted.   You will see creations from our team that may include any item featured in this promotion along with their own choices of products from either our Annual Inspirations or Seasonal Expressions catalogs. To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today,kindly contact your local consultant to place an order.

We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we really love feedback from our blog viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop! 

If you have hopped onto my blog from the amazing work from Arlene then you are in the right place.

I decided to use the Kraft mini Album from this promotion as I was playing with the Pear and Partridge PML kit trying to finish my Christmas album from this past Christmas.  I decided that I wanted to get a mini album started for Christmas 2015, so all I would have to do is write in it and put in the photos as I went.

I've only taken photos of a few pages as I didn't want to make this post photo heavy.  Luckily I still had a few embellishments left over from the compliments that coordinated with the Pear and Partridge paper. Here is the cover, followed by some of the pages.

Cover

This project was so easy to put together. I can't wait to create more mini albums.

Your next stop on the Team Brae-er Hop is Alyson.

If you get lost along the way, you can head to Brae's blog as she has the complete blog list.

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way.

AHSC #90 Mother's Day Card

Wow, these past 2 weeks have really taken there toll on me.  I'm just completely exhausted, and was in need of some rest.  So I apologize for being extremely late in posting my creation for this week's sketch. However on top of creating for this weeks sketch, I also have created projects for 2 blog hops.

Here is this weeks sketch:

Here is my creation:

I started with a piece of patterned paper from the Brushed paper packet and Canary Cardstock.  The sentiment and flowers are from the stamp set Flowers for Mom (B1473) found in the 1st edition of Seasonal Expressions.  The mat for the sentiment is Pixie cardstock.  To achieve the look of the smaller flowers peeking out behind the large ones I stamped the larger flowers on some scrap paper, trimmed them out and layered the so that they look layered.  This is one way in which to do the masking technique. The flowers in the stamp set have 2 types of stamps, the outline and the filler.  The outline is stamped in black, and for the filler I used Pixie and Hollyhock ink.  The 3 flowers off to the side are in the same colors, however, the top one is stamped in 2nd generation Hollyhock.  The flower centers are stamped in Canary.  The mat and flowers are all popped using 3D foam tape.

I hope you will now hop on over to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and see the creative talents of our design team.

With Love for AHSC #89

This week I've started creating for Valentine's Day, and I wanted something that maybe had a bit of a masculine feel to it.  Something that isn't red, purple or pink.  I played around with some colors and really liked the combination. I hope you like my choices too.

Here is this week's sketch:

Here is my creation:

I decided to leave off the bow, as I didn't want to dress it up.  I used a 5 1/2" square card base, and layerd Kraft paper, and then patterned paper from from Pathfinding.  I cut my squares and tacked them down and created the background.  Then I stamped the flowers and fussy cut them out.  They are adhered using 3D Foam Tape.  The sentiment is also adhered with 3D Foam Tape.

I used Goldrush and Olive ink to create this card.  The flowers are stamped using both a detail and background stamp.  The detail is stamped regularly, and the background is stamped in second generation. The stamp set used is Someone Special (C1607) found in the Seasonal Expressions Catalog.

I hope you take the time to head on over to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and check out all the fabulous creations from our Design Team.