What A Hoot SOTM Blog Hop - August/14

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop featuring August's SOTM, What a Hoot, a set of 17 stamps.  This is the first hop featuring product from the newest Close To My Heart catalogue, Annual Inspirations. If you have come here from the creative Melinda'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 here.

This month we have approximately 67 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've decided to use this stamp set to create treats for my kids classes for Halloween 'Owloween.  This fall I have 2 kids in school, and need to make twice as many goodies.  The treat tube was fun to put together, and I had some of the boxes from a previous campaign and scanned one and created my own file in Explore to cut the box out to hold the tube.  It is filled with purple and black jelly beans.  I used Black Pigment Ink to stamp all the images and heat set them before colouring.  I used the ShinHan Touch Twin Markers to colour them in.  The second treat is a bag topper, which is just a 3x5 piece of White Daisy CS scored at 2.5" and folded over and stapled to the bag.

Marker colours used:

Warm Grey WG7

Warm Grey WG4

Marigold YR24

G46 Vivid Green

P83 Lavender

Now "Hop" on over to Alyson's Blog to see her fabulously creative work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, August's SOTM is only available until the 31st!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount or even free!

Happy thoughts with AHSC #66

I've been able to get quite a bit of craft time lately and I've been playing with some new product.  Wow, are you all going to love the new Stuff in the Annual Inspirations Catalogue.

Here is this week's sketch:

It's a somewhat simply design with so many options.  This sketch is wide open to interpretation.

Here is what I've come up with:

I've used one of our new paper packs, Brushed as my base for this card, and layered 2 rows of Honey Triangle washi tape to create the strip (I think if I was to do this again, I would of applied it to white cardstock first so that it stands out more). I used A Budding Friendship (D1602) to stamp the flowers, leaves and stems. The flowers are stamped in 3 of our new colour inks, Canary, Pixie and Flaxen(the centers).  The Pixie flower is layered, and the bottom flower I created more depth by adding some shading using out new markers, Cherry Pink and Tender Pink. The leaves are Pear, and the stems I used the Markers, Sap Green and Leaf Green. The Pink flower is popped with 3D Foam Tape to add dimension, and the leafs I curled using my bone folder. See below for a close up on the pink flower.

Now head on over to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge to see all the fabulous creations made by the wonderfully crafty ladies of the Design Team.

2014-2015 Cardstock Club Kickoff

I am so happy to be able to show you the new collections for this next round of Cardstock Club.  Our catalogue is now year long, with 2 Seasonal cataolgues being released in December and April.  These 2 catalogues will have all NEW products featured inside and will run for 4 months, and will include 2 NEW paper packages.

I've gone through the paper collections and selected this round of Cardstock Club very carefully.  In the 2014-2015 Annual Inspirations Catalogue you will find 9 beautiful paper collections.  Adding 4 more with the Seasonal Expressions makes 13 paper collections in 12 months.   I decided to let you have a choice in September between Scaredy Cat and Pathfinding, (or you can choose both for $60 and get the stamp of the Month for FREE as a bonus).

Pictured below is the 9 collections that are planned out, leaving room for the collections that will come from the Seasonal Expressions(unknow at this time).

The new catalogue goes live for customers on August 1st, and current items are disappearing quickly.  Don't delay, order your favourite items now before they are gone. You can find the retiring items here.

To learn more about my Cardstock Club you can visit the tab at the top of this page, or just click here.

AHSC #65 - Congratulations

I think it's kinda funny when I get stuck on my own sketch......even with my notes wrote beside it on what I want to use, when the time comes to actually create it, it doesn't come together.

This isn't the first time this has happened either, but I didn't give up, and I managed to create a card that I'm very happy with.

Here is this week's sketch:

Here is my creation:

I started with a White Daisy cardbase, and layered a piece of pattern from Balloon Ride.  I then cut an oval from one of my cricut cartridges from a second pattern from Balloon Ride.  I choose Desert Sand as my mat and the colour for stamping my sentiment from Casual Expressions (D1525).  The flowers and leaves are from A Mother's Love a Hostess stamp.

I hope you will take the time to hop on over to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and check out the amazing creations from our Design Team.

Thinking of You AHSC #64

I have difficulty making masculine cards....whether it is birthday, sympathy or just a thinking of you card.  So when I sketched out this card I had a vision for it, so wrote down what I planned for it.

Here is the sketch:

This is my creation for this weeks sketch:

So I  used Autumn Terracotta Cardstock and for the 2 panels I stamped a background image in Chocolate Ink, the stamp is In The Background(D1540).  The panels are matted on White Daisy Cardstock.  I stitched a partial circle using Chocolate Embroidery Floss on the main layer.  To tie the 2 panels together I added Chocolate Brads and Autumn Terracotta Baker's Twine.  I distressed the main piece with Barn Red Ink, and the sentiment is stamped in Chocolate Ink from Casual Expressions(D1525).

Now head on over to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge to see what our talented, super creative Design Team has created using this Sketch.