Sunday 15 July 2018

July Cross Canada Blog Hop - Central Park

Welcome to our November Blog Hop featuring artwork inspired by the Holidays. 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, plus I'm the first stop when you Hop from East Coast to West Coast.If you came from Diana's Blog then you are in the right place!

For my project I decided to showcase the Card Workshop that was designed using the Central Park paper. 
It comes with everything pictured above. I also used the following: 
 Archival Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad (Z3271)
Poppy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad (Z2852)
Watercolor Paints (Z3132)
Paintbrush Set (Z3188)
Thin Cuts—Basic Circles (Z3318)
Thin 3-D Foam Tape (Z2060)

This kit allows you to create 12 cards, 2 designs with 6 of each.



The instructions come with the kit, and explains how to cut the papers, and how to assemble the cards.  These kits make it so easy to have a great selection of cards for any occassion.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Sheena.


If you get lost along the way, you can come right back here, I've provided the complete list

Michelle You ARE HERE

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 our Holiday Celebrations. So mark November 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.


Always craft with  <3

Friday 6 July 2018

Stampaganza 2018 Blog Hop

Welcome to our Stampaganza Blog Hop!


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We will be featuring a variety of stamp sets from both the current annual and the Seasonal Expressions catalogs.  If you have come here from Catherine Nowak'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 12 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's promotion 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!

The first piece of artwork I want to share with you is using Fresh Air paper and Hunting for Words stamp set.  I created this Easel card and it was really quite easy to create, really need to make dimensional cards more often.




These next few pieces are artwork that I've created using various stamps throughout the past year.


Sweet Baby Stamp Set (D1726)


Beautiful You stamp set (D1741)


For You Darling stamp set (C1690)


Sweet Birthday stamp set (B1532)


Remember that these stamp sets will be retiring at the end of August, so now is the time to take advantage of the Stampaganza promotion, Buy 2 Get 1 FREE, of equal or lesser value.

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, the next blog hop is August SOTM and is featured on the 1st of the month!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!


Always craft with  <3

Sunday 1 July 2018

July SOTM Blog Hop - Highlight Reel

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!


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We will be featuring July's SOTM, which is Highlight Reel a set of 23 stamps.  If you have come here from Cat Nowark'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

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This month we have approximately 15 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 card I used up some scraps of the paper Collection called Documented.  For the balloons I used colors as close to the those found in the paper and used the water colors and waterbrush to create this painted loook


Now "Hop" on over to Melissa'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 November SOTM is only available until August 31st!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!


Always craft with  <3

Introducing Central Park 1 Sheet Wonder, 20 Card Workshop

Central Park is finally ready and I'm so excited to be able to share it with you. This workshop like my others is a teaching workshop, utilizing a single sheet of pattern paper you are able to maximize it's use by learning how to cut the paper.

The great thing about this 20 card workshop is that you can break it down to teach a maximum of 4 people from 1 guide, they would each get to create 1 of each card. You could also work it to teach 2 people per guide for 10 cards each, 2 of each design, or the full guide per person, with 4 of each design for 20 cards.



Let's take a look of each of the designs more closely.

CARD 1

CARD 2

CARD 3

CARD 4

CARD 5
Atlantic Scrappers Team members have full access to all my workshop files, want to join my team, start now.


Purchase Central Park files here:





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