September SOTM Blog Hop - Family is Forever

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop featuring September's SOTM, Family Is Forever, a set of 7 stamps. 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 80 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 used our 6x6 canvas display to create my project.  I used some sponge daubers and added Ruby, New England and Cocoa  Pigment Ink.  I just had to carefully add the colour where I wanted and had a q-tip to wipe away ink in the spots where I didn't want it.  The heart is stamped in 2nd generation behind the sweet moments just to add a little character to the canvas.  After my ink was all dry, I sealed the canvas with some Modge Podge.

Now "Hop" on over to Shelia'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, September's SOTM is only available until the 30ht!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount or even free!

Tis The Season with AHSC #70

I've really been in the mood for making Christmas cards lately and really like this new Hostess Stamp Be Jolly(B1455).  Hostess stamps are only available to those who hold parties, or place a large enough order to obtain the rewards.

I also used the stamp set Yuletide Greetings( D1553).  I coloured the holly leaves and berries using the New ShinHan Alcochol Markers, using the same colours for the holly and berries on the sentiment.

Here is this weeks sketch:

 

Here is my card:

Supplies:

Ruby Cardstock

White Daisy Cardstock

Olive Cardstock

ShinHan Alcohol Markers

Ruby Chevron Ribbon(retired)

3D Foam Tape

Epoxy Bubbles

I hope that you will now head over to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and visit the Design Team members and see what they have come up with for this weeks sketch.

Grateful with AHSC #69

This week's sketch I decided that I wanted to try the new technique of using Painter's Tape to apply ink to my card.  I've seen some fabulous creations using this technique and couldn't wait to play, but I decided I wanted to use 2 techniques....my all time favourite technique is resist embossing.

So here is this week's sketch:

Here is my creation:

I used Versamark Ink for the images and sentiment, adding White Detail Embossing Powder and heat set it. Then I grabbed my roll of painters tape and inked up 2 stripes of each of the 3 colours, Glacier, Crystal Blue and Indian Corn Blue.  I applied the painters tape to the card and gently rubbed across the top to transfer the ink to the card.  I hope you enjoyed my creation this week, and I hope you decide to get inky too.

Now hop on over to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and visit our Design Team and see some of their amazing creations, I know I was blown away at their creations this week.

August Cross Canada Blog Hop - PML Cards

Welcome to our August Blog Hop featuring alternative ways to use your Picture My Life cards.  To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local consultant to place an order. This month the constant campaign is featuring the Picture My Life cards.  When you purchase any of the kits you can purchase a second sleeve package for only $3.00. Shop now!

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, but if you want to follow us across Canada then please start at the beginning and join Julie in Newfoundland. If you came from Deanne's blog then you are in the right place! 

For my project I decided I was going to make a set of 5 greeting cards.  I choose to use the Laughing Lola PML kit. There are currently 13 collections to choose from, and I'm sure one will kit your style.
Luckily for me, I still had some scraps of Laughing Lola paper left and was able to quickly pull these cards together.  I used some Shimmer Trim, Aqua Dots and some Sparkle Gems to dress the cards up. I did not use any stamping. Here are my creations.

This first one I cut 2 little flags and popped them in behind the 4x3 PML card, and added 3 small Sparkle Gems.

For the second card I used the zip strip to seperate the 2 patterns, and then from a second Zip Strip, cut the saying and flagged the end and layered it over the PML card.

The third card is just layers, with some Sparkle Gems at the bottom in 3 different sizes.

This fourth card was made with a 4x3 card that I trimmed down to a square.  I used some Shimmer Trim and Aqua Dots to dress it up.

My last card, I just adhered the PML card to some pattern paper and added two banners from some Shimmer Trim.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Nicky.

 If you get lost along the way, you can come back here to my blog as I have the full list of hoppers available.

Julie ~ 12X12 Travels

Deanne ~ My Little Piece of the Puzzle

Michelle ~My Creations With Michelle You Are Here!

Nicky ~Timeless Cottage

Krista ~Simply Creating

Lucy ~ Lucy's Creative Expressions

Brae ~The Brae-er

Michelle H ~ The Right Hughes

Carol  ~Crafty Carol's Place

Christine ~Chris' Creative Life

Jessica ~ Create By The Lake

Terry Ann~Just a Tad Crafty

Nancy ~ Nancy Klein

Kristine ~ @ Home with Studio K

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 our favourite new products.  So mark September 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Yuletide Greetings for AHSC #68

I really had fun redesigning my card for this sketch. As I've told you before in previous posts that I normally write down my intentions for my sketches...but I don't always follow through with my notes.

This is the case for this week's sketch.

Another reason why I didn't follow my notes for this sketch is I ended up being called into work and didn't have a chance to finish it the way I wanted too....either way, I am happy with how it turned out, and will be making more of this card for my craft markets.

Supplies:

Yuletide Paper

New England Ivy Cardstock

ShinHan Alcohol Markers 

New England Ivy Ink

White Daisy Cardstock

Artiste Cartridge

3D Foam Tape

Now, I would love it if you would head over to Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, visit each of the Design Team and leave them some blog love.  We all like hearing from each of you.  Have a inky day!