Canadian Blog Hop - March/April 2021

Welcome to our March/April Blog Hop featuring artwork created using new and fabulous products found in our current 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 have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, I'm also the first stop on our Canadian Blog Hop. If you came from Sabrina's blog then you are in the right place!

I used a layout design from an exclusively taught workshop for inspiration, making some minor changes to paper choice and positioning of stickers and embellishments. My layout uses the Daisy Meadows paper collection. I just love this paper collection and with Easter just 2 weeks away this is a perfect layout.

Your next stop on the Canadian Blog Hop is Brandi's blog.

If you get lost along the way, you can come right back here as I have posted the full blog hop list

Michelle Stewart You Are Here!

Brandi Robinson

Kim Loewen

Joanne Glasbergen

Brae Montgomery

Sabrina Armstrong

A lineup will be provided 2 days before the hop goes live, I will have a complete list on my blog, if you choose to have it on your blog please make sure all links are correct....

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 for our next hop, (March 20th, 2021) (May 20th) ect…...

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February SOTM Blog Hop - Doodled Borders

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

We will be featuring February's SOTM, Doodled Borders, a set of 36 stamps.  If you have come here from the artwork of Melinda Everitt, 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 22 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 pulled Peach and Blue Belle from the pile of scraps I had laying on my table for inspiration.  I used muliple stamps to great the layers on this card, alternating between the Peach and Blue Belle.  The top row is Peach solid hearts with the outline stamped in Blue Belle, the 2nd layer is tone on tone stamping which is replicated at the bottom as well.  Then you see 2 rows of the joy happiness xo love stamped in Blue Bell.  Next row is the mini hearts border, followed by the plaid stamped in Blue Belle. The sentiment is from the Month's of the Year - February stamp, and to finish is off I took a Wooden Heart and coloured in with Blue Belle Shimmer Brush.  This was such a fun card to make. 

Now "Hop" on over to Brenda Lapp'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 February SOTM is only available until Februray 29th!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!

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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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