These are my People Blog Hop

Welcome to our These Are my People Blog Hop!

We will be featuring products featured in this special promotional product line.  If you have come here from Wendy Kessler'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 18 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using these amazing products 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!

I used our Spectrum Noir TriBlend Markers in Coral, Bright Pink and Light Green to colour the images.  The Stamping is done in Sapphire Ink.  The front panel is a Smoothie cardstock mat, layered with White Daisy.  The back panel is Sapphire cardstock with the White Daisy cardstock. 

Now "Hop" on over to Melinda Everitt'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, these promotional products are only available until April 20th!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get These Are My People!


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April Cross Canada Blog Hop - Seas The Day

Welcome to our April Blog Hop featuring artwork created using The Seas The Day collection. 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 and I am the first spot when you are hopping from East Coast to West Coast. If you came from Kristine Ponte's Blog  then you are in the right place! 

I had lots of fun playing with the Seas The Day paper and Scrapbooking stamp and thin cut set.  I used the Spectrum Noir markers to color the images.  The lighthouse uses the Earthbrown, the Ice Grey, Dark Red, Dull Green and Cirtrus Yellow markers.

The sailboat uses the True Blue, Ice Blue and the Dark Red markers.  For this one I wanted to used a distressing technique, so I sanded the Sapphire cardstock for a more rustic look.  I tore the sapphire to represent waves and layered them onto the tag.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Rosalynd Kelly.

If you get lost along the way, you can come right back here, I've posted the full lineup.

Michelle YOU ARE HERE

Rosalynd 

Brandi

Jessica

Janet

Kim

Kristine

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 artwork using Aurora collection. So mark May 10th on your calendars and hop along with us.

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Butterfly Hugs

How have you all been coping with the stay at home orders?  Me, I've been doing okay, I really don't go out much since I am a stay at home mom/work from home.  Now having the kids home with me for the past 3 and a half weeks, well, we've had some trying times, but so far everyone is still alive.

I have 3 children, ages 15,10 and 9.  They can be obnoxious, loud, irritating at times, but then again they are kids, and I'm sure at that age we were the same way.  Monday we started school from home for my high schooler and today we are starting the 2 younger kids.  I am not a teacher, so this should be entertaining to say the very least.

I hope that you have been finding time to still get some crafting done! I have been here and there between breaking up fights and housework.  Is it me, or does the house not stay clean when the kids are not in school?

Over the weekend my oldest daughter sat down with me and helped create 100 cards for the local seniors residence. Since then I've been making some more cards to send out to family members that are out of province and those that are now by themselves.

That is the theme of today's card using AHSC Sketch # 363.

I used some retired paper from the Boutique Collection, and I had the butterfly stamped from another project.  I used the Sending Hugs sentiment from the You Make Me Happy, Operation Smile stamp set.

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April SOTM Blog Hop - O-Fish-Ally Awesome

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

We will be featuring April's SOTM, which is O-Fish-Ally Awesome, a set of 37 stamps.  If you have come here from Wendy Kessler, 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 21 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!

 I had so much fun colouring and then fussy cutting the all the different images on this set.  I used a large variety of colours when colouring these images both from the Shinhan collection(retired) and the Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend collection.

The top image here is my version of a fish tank, and I've included the sign, sand castle and treasure chest.  I added Gold Stickles to the chest to make it appear as real gold, the water bubbles are stamped in Carolina Ink and then the whole water area is sponged with the same colour.  I then used the Clear Shimmer Brush and coloured in the bubbles as well as flicked the brush onto the paper.  The sand is stamped and sponged in Toffee Ink.

The second card I didn't want it to be as busy so I used the fishbowl and added some twine(retired) from my stash.  The fishbowl is popped up from the card using 3D foam tape and the same coloured were used to sponge the water and sand.  The mat for the card is Crystal Blue cardstock which I sanded all the edges to give it a distressed look. The pattern paper is from Seas the Day collection.

Now "Hop" on over to Alyson Mayo'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, the MONTH SOTM is only available until MONTH 30th!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!


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AHSC # 362 - Thinking of You

Today I'm making cards to send to my customers to let them know that even though we can't get together and create and socialize that I'm thinking of them.

I've used this week's sketch for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.  I rotated the sketch and added a butterfly to the design.  I used pattern paper from the line Boutique from a few years ago.  The background or mat for this card has been sanded to give it some texture.  For the butterfly I added colour with the Spectrum Noir markers and then went over it with the clear shimmer brush.

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