Scrappin with Heart: March 2020

Sunday, March 15, 2020

"Distressed Much?" CTMH Technique Blog Hop

Welcome to our Technique Blog Hop!

This month there are 10 of us highlighting the “Distressed Much?” Technique! This blog hop is a great big circle so you can start wherever you want and continue through to see all the fabulous artwork incorporating this technique.

If you get lost along the way Melissa has a complete list of hop.

If you are coming from Valerie's Blog, you are on the right track!

I have a layout that I created using this technique. I hope you enjoy it.

There are so many ways that you can Distress and I have used a few different ways.

I have ripped a portion at the top of this page and that is 1 way to add a distressed look.

I distressed most of the paper using Espresso ink along the edges. I love the look this gives a project. The only paper I didn't distress with ink was the French Vanilla cardstock and the Espresso dot paper 1/2 " strips.

I used my scissor edge to distress the 1/2 " espresso dot paper.

Supplies used:

Z2829 Espresso Ink Pad

X7254F Yesterday & Today Vellum Die-Cuts

X7254S Yesterday & Today Paper Packet & Sticker Sheet

X7254C Yesterday & Today Coordinating Cardstock

Gold Glitter Gems

Thanks for stopping by! Please continue onto Haley's Blog where you will find some additional artwork highlighting this technique! Be sure to leave a comment and let me know what you thought of my variation and happy hopping!

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

March/April Catalog New Product Blog Hop

Welcome to our New Product Blog Hop! We will be featuring new products from the March-April 2020 catalog. If you have come here from Becca Whitham'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.

We have around 20 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using the 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 had so much fun creating this fun, interactive card. I will be playing with these products lots more in the future. I have so many new favorites in this catalog. Just got another box of new products a few minutes ago, unfortunately not enough time to play with them before this hop. I am taking part in another blog hop tonight though featuring the new Yesterday & Today Collection and created a couple layouts for it. You can check it out here to see what I did with those products.

I chose to feature the new Dreams Take Flight Stamp & Thin Cut set and the Card Front Spinner Thin Cuts. I also used the Sentiments by Melissa Esplin stamp set. I have been wanting to play with the card front spinner die for a while but haven't had the time until now. I am in love with both it and this stamp set. I also tried out a new technique to me, Bokeh and will be posting a tutorial video next Tuesday on my Facebook & Instagram accounts on how to do it.

Dreams Take Flight stamp & thin cut set.
This is a great set for graduation, birthdays, layouts and much more.

Card Front Spinner Thin Cut
I am so glad they are continuing to make more stamps to coordinate with this thin cut.

Sentiments by Melissa Esplin stamp set.
This is such a beautiful sentiment set.

I hope you enjoyed this project. I would love to hear what you think of it.

Now "Hop" on over to Valerie Kapsha'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 products in this catalog are only available until the end of April! Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to get the products featured in this blog hop!