Canadian Blog Hop - January/February 2021

 Welcome to our January/February Blog Hop featuring artwork created using New products from our Bi-Monthly catalog. 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 came from Kristine's Blog then you are in the right place! 

My first card I wanted to keep it simple but lots of fun.  I started by pulling out the Wood Grain collection of papers to pair up with the Tile Letters stamp/thin cut set.  I matted the wood grain on black cardstock and wrapped some twine around the wood grain.  I used 3D foam to pop the wood grain up off the black cardstock.  The Letters are stamped in Espresso Ink. The Tiles are Almond cardstock, and the woodgrain pattern is stamped in Toffee Ink.  I wanted a pop of colour so I pulled out the wooden heart embellishments and added Red Shimmer Brush.  It really pops right?

My second card was just as super simple as my first, I used the Happiness Lives Here paper collection and the Happiness Lives Here Cardmaking Stamp/thin cut set.  I stamped the Hello in Smoothie Ink and it is popped up over the banner with 3D foam tape.  The Banner is from the Pennant Thin Cut set.  Again I dug into the Wooded Heart Embellishments and again added Shimmer Brush, this time in Sangria.  I just love the shimmer on the heart.  Clean and simple is sometimes my favorite style of card.

Your next stop on our Canadian Blog Hop is Brandi.

If you get lost along the way you can come back here to the full hop list.

Michelle Stewart You Are Here

Brandi Robinson

Brae Montgomery

Kim Loewen

Kristine Ponte

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 in March when we will share with you products from the March/April catalog, so mark March 20th on your calendars and hop along with us.

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Perfect Match Blog Hop

Welcome to our Perfect Match Blog Hop!

We will be featuring the Perfect Match Promotional products.  If you have come here from Catherine Nowak 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 these fabulous 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!

For my project I chose to keep it simple. I started with a Black card base and used the colour washed pattern as the base for my design.  I added a raised sentiment matted on Black Cardstock.  The Heart is stamped in Ballerina with the sentiment stamped ontop in Black in.  I added some Black Pearl dots for embellishment and coloured 2 of our wooden hearts in Flamingo Shimmer Brush.  I thought they needed something so also added the Black pearl to the hearts.  To finish off the card I doodled some lines around the sentiment.

Now "Hop" on over to Maureen OSullivan'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 Perfect Match Special is only available until February 28th!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can purchase this special

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January/February 2021 New Product Blog Hop

Welcome to our 2021 New Product Blog Hop for January/February

We will be all kinds of fun new products to inspire yoou.  If you have come here from Cat Nowak, 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 19 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using 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 projects I new I had to play with the Sweet Safari stamps and thin cut sets.  I used both the cardmaking set and the scapbooking set as they really work well together.

My first card is one of our new slimline cards, I used Chipped Sapphire and Peacock Feathers to create the sky, then using the Fancy Boarders Thin Cuts I created the rolling hills in Green Apple CS.  I coloured the images using the Spectrum Noir TriBlend Markers.

For this card I layered 2 of the patterns from Sweet Safari to create the page, then I used Sundance, Lagoon, Candy Apple and Bluebird ink to stamp the sentiment.  I then fussy cut the letters out and layered them over the black sentiment.  I used a black journal pen to trace around the letters just incase any black ink showed through it would be consistant.  I matted the sentiment on Bluebird CS.

Now "Hop" on over to Maureen O'Sullivan to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas! Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can purchase these amazing products!


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January 2021 SOTM Blog Hop - Every Thank You

 Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

We will be featuring January's SOTM, which is titled Every Thank You is a set of 25 stamps.  If you have come here from the artwork of Catherine Nowak, 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!

I decided to create 2 cards for this month's blog hop, just starting to create to send out to all my 2020 customers.  I started with the colours I wanted to work with with, Desert Rose, Black and White Daisy.  I then decided that I wanted to keep them clean and simple and what better way to do so then to work with cardstock and Thin Cuts.  I used the Stitched Scalloped Brackets ( Z3688) for the sentiments, and then pulled 2 different full size card front Thin Cuts for the cards themselves.  The one of the left is Floral Background (Z3693) and the 2nd card I used the Stitched Lattice Background (Z3681).  

The Floral card is backed with Black cardstock and I used the light side of the Desert Rose, then used the original colour on the Bracket for the sentiment.  I added White Enamel Dots to the centers of a few flowers to add a pop. 

For the Lattice card I used Black stickles and Clear Sparkles to fill in the open centers created by the Thin Cut design.  I added the Black Velvet Ribbon (Z3568) under the sentiment.  I also stamped 2 stars on the Bracket in Desert Rose Ink and added some Black Stickles for added embellishments.

Now "Hop" on over to the creative Michelle Loncar 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 January 31st!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!


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