Happiest Place Blog Hop

Welcome to our Happiest Place Blog Hop!

We will be featuring amazing artwork created from the July Special, Happiest Place.  If you have come here from Krista Hershberger'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 13 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's special 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!

So over the weekend I sat down to create a workshop designed by a fellow consultant, even though I wasn't feeling my best.  Bad idea....what happened you might ask?  Well I cut all of the paper wrong.  Have any of you done that?  Well I didn't let that deter me, I used her guide to keep me moving but put my own twist on all the layouts.  Here are 3 different layouts that I was able to salvage to the point that they look pretty darn good.  Wrong paper, but if I didn't tell you all of that, you probably would of never of known I messed up.  LOL!  

This next layout, I cut the patterns so that they were in the wrong direction, so another improvise had to occur. Bam, a totally different look.  It really was comical.

Can you guess what happened here?  Yup, patterns running in the wrong direction and another improvise to the design.  Either way, I love how all 3 turned out!

I hope you got a bit of a chuckle out of my cutting errors, as at the time I didn't think it was funny at all....but seeing how I actually love how my mistakes turned out, I'm digging it.

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 Happiest Place special is only available until August 30th or while supplies last!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this special at a discount!


Always craft with  <3

July Cross Canada Blog Hop - Summer Vibes

Welcome to our July Blog Hop featuring artwork created using the Summer Vibes 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, I also happen to be the first stop when you are hopping from the East Coast to the West Coast. If you came from Kristine Ponte's blog then you are in the right place! 

I have been playing with many stamp sets with the Summer Vibes collection.  Here I've used the Summer Vibes stamp and Thin cut set and coloured the fish with Mint and Lagoon Shimmer Brushes.  I added Cool Mint Stickles to the bubbles, looks so cool in person.  The Gnome card is popped with 3D foam tape to create that layered look.  Finally I used A Koala-ty Day set for the final card.  

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Colleen Dewis.
If you get lost along the way, you can come back here to the list:

Michelle     YOU ARE HERE

Colleen 

Pam  

Brae

Brandi

Dorothy

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 Timber collection. So mark August 10th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Always craft with  <3

July/August New Product Blog Hop

Welcome to our New Product Blog Hop!

We will be featuring some amazing new products from the July-August catalog.  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 16 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this lots of 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!

I have been having tons of fun creating with the Summer Vibes paper, and for these cards I've used 3 different stamp set/thin cut collections.  A Koala-ty Day, Summer Vibes Cardmaking, and Gnome Matter are the sets featured.

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! 


Always craft with  <3

July SOTM Blog Hop - My Beautiful Friend

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

We will be featuring July's SOTM, which is For My Beautiful Friend, a set of 20 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 18 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 I masked the center of the card so that I only stamped the border with the bouquet that the girl is carrying.  All images for all 3 cards are coloured with the Spectrum Noir TriBlend markers.  I ended up smudging some ink from my fingers onto the card so I decided to layer the girl overtop the card base.

I was inspired by a card on pinterest that I had saved a few months ago, and I was so happy to be able to utilize the design here.

I just love how the look of this stamp set changes when you change the colours used.  I had a rectangle stitched mat left over from another project and I was excited that it fit this project.

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


Always craft with  <3