December SOTM Blog Hop - Reindeer Crossing

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

We will be featuring December's SOTM, Reindeer Crossing, a set of 10 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 16 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this December'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 the Cedar & Pine Evergreen Print.  Using the rectangle stitched frame thin cuts for my stamping.  I masked the stitched edges and stamped the greenery in 2nd generation Evergreen Ink, then on another piece of White Daisy I stamped again in Toffee Ink and cut out the pinecones to adhere to the stitched rectangle.  The sentiment is stamped in Evergreen and Candy Apple Inks.  I think it makes a striking, simple card.

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, Reindeer Crossing is only available until December 31st!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!



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November Cross Canada Blog Hop - Holly Jolly

Welcome to our November Cross Canada Blog Hop featuring artwork created using the Holly Jolly 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'm the first stop when hopping from East Coast to West Coast. If you came from the amazing creations of Kristine then you are in the right place! Now let's get started.

For my project I wanted to use up some of the squares from cutting the Multi Square Window Thin Cut(Z4023), so I cut another in White Daisy and filled the inside squares with the Holly Jolly paper(X7250B).  So festive.  But I wasn't done there.  Next I pulled Green Apple, Smoothie and Candy Apple Ink and stamped these super cute presents from the Holly Jolly Cardmaking stamp set(C1800).  The sentiment is also from this stamp set, and is stamped in Black Ink.  I dove tailed the sentiment creating a banner, and added some doodling.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is featuring some amazing art from Rosalynd.
If you get lost along the way, you can come right back here, I'm sharing the complete blog list:

Michelle  YOU ARE HERE

Rosalynd

Sheena

Brandi

Linda

Janet

Brenda

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 the Cedar & Pine collection. So mark Deccember10th on your calendars and hop along with us.

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New Product Blog Hop

Welcome to our New Product Blog Hop!

We will be featuring New Products from our November/December issue.  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 21 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this so many great new 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!

When I first got a look at this Holiday issue supplement and seen the ornament Thin Cuts I knew this would have to be part of my first order.  I used Candy Apple Red, Clover and White Daisy Cardstock as well as the Silver Glitter paper to create these ornaments which I plan to use as gift tags.  The Reindeer are embossed with Silver Embossing Powder.

The Thin Cuts will all nest together to cut the first set of ornaments, I used Washi tape to hold them all in place since I was cutting multiples. 

The Reindeer image came from the stamp set For the Tree, and is designed to work with this Thin Cut set.

D1891

Z3533

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, the products featured in this hop are available until December 31st or while supplies count!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get purchase any or all of these amazing products.


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SOTM Blog Hop - Family Time

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

We will be featuring Novembers's SOTM, which is Family Time, a set of 18 stamps.  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 20 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using November'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 this month I chose to use the Mix In Paper collection.  I pulled the Peach and Smoothie Ink and used that to create the flower, an used the Hugs to You just stamped in Black Ink.  To finish off the design I added some doodling, just a quick and simple card.  

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, the November SOTM is only available until November 30th!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!


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October SOTM Blog Hop - Autumn Air

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

We will be featuring October's SOTM, which is Autumn Air, a set of 14 stamps.  If you have come here from Lauren'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 28 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!

When I seen this stamp set I knew I had to dig out this photo of my oldest daughter, Jaymee.  I knew the colours would pair perfectly with the Hawthorn paper collection.  The beautiful fall colours in the background work so well with the Paprika and Saffron ink, that I used those colours for my leaves and the sentiment.

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 Autumn Air SOTM is only available until October 31st!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!




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AHSC # 333 - Happy Anniversary

This week's sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge was one that came together quickly.  I really enjoy working with my sketches again.

September is not only the start of a new school year, but it was many anniversaries in which I need to send out cards.  I pulled out the Every Little Thing stamps and thin cuts, used the card making as well as the card workshop exclusive set to create for this card.  I used the Mix In paper collection and coordinating cardstock, laying all the various elements for this card.

Here is the sketch:

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Cross Canada Blog Hop - Every Little Thing

Welcome to our September Cross Canada Blog Hop featuring artwork created using the Every Little Thing(ELT) 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 are new to our blog hop we start on the East Coast and hop across Canada to the West Coast.  If you are starting with me then you are at the first stop. If you came from the amazingly talented Kristine Ponte then you are in the right place!

I decided to make a trio of cards using various aspects from the Every Little Thing collection.  I started with the PML cards and choose 2 that I thought would make stunning card fronts.  The 3rd card I decided that I wanted to create my own background paper. Let's take a close look.

For this card I started by trimming the 4x6 PML card down to 4"x5.25".  I decided to add some shimmer to the card so I added the Clear Shimmer Brush to the flowers.  Then I added some Bitty Sparkles to the card.  I wanted the flowers to pop, so I matted the PML card on Sapphire cardstock.  The sentiment is from the ELT cardmaking workshop.  The featured exclusive stamp set in this workshop now comes with a coordinating thin cut set.

The second card using the same steps as the first card, also utilizing Sapphire cardstock for the mat, but here I used regular Sparkles on the sentiment, and I coloured the flower using the Julep Shimmer Brush.

This final card uses the ELT cardmaking & thin cut set as well as the stamp set from the card workshop.  The pattern paper is my own created background using the stamps found in the Card workshop.  I then took my waterbrush and then smooshed ink onto my all purpose mat, picking up the ink and adding it to the stamped images.  Remember when doing this technique you should use the Intense Black Ink so that the image won't bleed.  The sentiment is stamped on White Daisy cardstock. I did a light wash using Julep Ink before stamping.  The image surrounding the sentiment is popped using 3D foam tape, and is stamped on the lighter side of Wisteria cardstock.

Well, I hope my cards inspired you, continue on to Colleen, as I'm sure her artwork is astounding.

If you get lost along the way, you can pop back here to find your way:

Michelle   You Are Here!

Colleen

Sheena  

Brae

Brandi

Jessica

Linda

Janet

Brenda

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 the Hawthorn collection. So mark October 10th on your calendars and hop along with us.

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New Product Blog Hop - September 2019

Welcome to our New Product Blog Hop!

We will be featuring all new products from our 2 new catalogs.  If you have come here from the fabulous artwork of  Melissa Robinson, 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 some awesome NEW 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 projects I decided to use the Mix In papers(X9007), I just love the colours in this collection.  I concentrated on 2 of our brand new colours, Wisteria and Julep.  Julep is our Colour of the Year.  Also used is the stamp set Heart Pattern(C1812) which coordinates with the Stitched Heart Thin Cuts.

I also used the SOTM, Random Act of Cardness for the sentiment.  The shape that the sentiment is stamped on comes from the September Special, Share the Seasons.  I felt that these cards needed just a bit of bling, so I pulled out some Sparkles.  Both Thin Cut shapes are popped using some 3D foam tape for dimension.

Mix In Collection

Heart Pattern

Random Act of Cardness

Share the Seasons

Now "Hop" on over to see some stunning artwork from Melinda Everitt! 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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September SOTM Blog Hop - Random Act of Cardness

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

We will be featuring September's SOTM, which is called Random Act of Cardness, a set of 17 stamps.  If you have come here from the blog of Michelle Johns, 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!

For my project I pulled out the Mix In Paper collection along with the coordinating Cardstock.  I used 3 patterns from this collection, Safforn Cardstock and Sapphire Ink.  To finish off the card I doodled around the edges.

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


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You're Amazing - AHSC # 331

Wow, it's been a while since I've created artwork using my own sketches.....but here I am.  I've made a commitment to myself to find the time to create for me and I'm so happy to say I'm back.

My artwork today is using the Craft On Paper collection as well as August Stamp of the Month from Close to My Heart.

Here is the Sketch for this week, and you can find the link up here:

Thanks for stopping by, and if you haven't seen the designs created by the AHSC Design Team you can head over by clicking here.



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August Cross Canada Blog Hop - Craft On

Welcome to our August Blog Hop featuring artwork created using the Craft On 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 stop when you are hopping from the East Coast to the West Coast. If you came from Kristine's Blog then you are in the right place!

For my project I choose to create a layout using Craft On.  I wanted to highlight the colour in in the photo and pulling the Raspberry was a perfect match.  I used the Stitched Flower Thin Cuts for embellishment, and used up some left over letters in my stash as well as the Alphabet Thin Cuts to create my title. The scallop is the reverse of the backgroung paper, and the black and white plaid is the zipstrip from the same page.  The Pink tone on tone with hearts is also from the Craft On collection.  I pulled that colour to create the flowers as well as Lemon Cardstock which is also used to mat the photo.

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 full hop list:

Michelle  You Are Here!

Sheena

Brandi

Jessica

Terry Ann

Valerie

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 Every Little Thing collection. So mark September 10th on your calendars and hop along with us.

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August SOTM Blog Hop - From Me to You

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

We will be featuring August's SOTM, which is From Me to You, a set of 38 stamps.  If you have come here from CatScrapbooking, 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 14 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!

This first card was made using the True Love collection.  I had a few pieces left of the cut apart sheet, and it looked really fancy, so I trimmed along the lace and used that as a decorative piece. The sentiment is stamped in Sapphire Ink and is also a piece from the cut apart sheet.  The flower is from the Stitched Flower Thin Cut, and the colours are Sugarplum and Fern.  The flower and sentiment is popped using 3D Foam Tape.  I also added some Rose Gold Sequins.

For the second card I created I dug into some scraps from Sweet Girl, I used the Border Thin Cuts(sold out sorry), to create the grass, it is a fringe cut.  Totally awesome right.  Again, I used the cut apart sheet, that is where you will find this awesome hedgehog.  The sentiment is stamped in Black ink, and I doodled using the journalling pen.  Again I added some Rose Gold sequins.

Now "Hop" on over to Wendy'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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