National Scrapbooking Day Celebration Blog Hop

Welcome to our National Scrapbooking Day Celebration Blog Hop! I hope you will hop along with us and check out all of the amazing artwork created using the special products in the National Scrapbooking Day collection.  These products are available only until the end of May and while supplies last.

  If you arrived here from Miss Carrie's Blog, then you are in the right spot.  The blog hop is a big circle, so you can start here and work your way around.  If you get lost along the way, Melinda's Blog has a complete list of all the participating consultants.  

 There are about 14 Close To My Heart Makers/Consultants sharing their creations using this National Scrapbooking Day collection and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 

 I love, love, love these kits and am so excited to create other artwork with them.  For today I chose to use the exclusive stamp set from the Sending You Hugs Cardmaking Workshop Kit. 

I decided to try my hand at creating a Bendy card for the first time after watching a tutorial Gail Gross did.  

I love how it turned out and it is so easy to create.

I just love this cute Koala and the thoughtful look on her face.  The background paper is from the Eat Play Love paper collection.  Sentiment is stamped in Archival Black ink and the edges of the card & fern paper are inked in Fern ink.

I stamped her in Intense Black ink and coloured her using the True Black, Coral, Light Green,  Pale Pink and  Brown Grey Tri-Blend markers.  I put thin 3-D foam tape under just her arms & chin.

I scored the middle of the card so it can lay flat to mail but you can bend it to stand up.  Look at all that dimension.  The white cardstock base is 5.5" x 4.25", pattern paper is 5.25" x 4", black cardstock is 6" x 1"(scored at 0.25" on each end.), and fern cardstock is 5.5" x 0.75". 

Sending You Hugs Cardmaking Workshop Kit

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

Now "Hop" on over to Gina's Blog to see what she has created! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the National Scrapbooking Day Celebration collection is only available until the end of May!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can purchase these products!  If you are in Canada and don't have a consultant I would be happy to help you.

Blessings,  Kim

Check out all the kits.  You can save 30% if you get the bundle of them all. 

Stamptacular Blog Hop

Welcome to our  Stamptacular Blog Hop! I hope you will hop along with us and check out all of the amazing artwork created using the stamps & thin cuts that are in the Stampacular Sale.   This amazing sale goes only until the end of April.  You can save up to 35% on stamp sets and up to 50% on the stamp & thin cut sets.  

 If you arrived here from Miss Carrie's Blog, then you are in the right spot.  The blog hop is a big circle, so you can start here and work your way around.  If you get lost along the way, Melinda's Blog has a complete list of all the participating consultants.  

 There are about 20 Close To My Heart Makers/Consultants sharing their creations using stamps that are a part of the Stamptacular sale and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 

I have created a few different things today using some of my favourite sets.

I love the Fairy Tales Magic stamp & thin cut set as there is so many different things you can do with it.  

Today I created a card loosely using Pattern 17 from the Vol. 4 Make it From Your Heart book.  I will put a list of everything used at the bottom of this post.

Next up I have a Christmas card using the Reason for the Season stamp set.

I used the Patten 11 sketch for this one.

Lastly I used a combination of 3 different sets for the last card. 

Cherry Blossoms

Seas the Day - Cardmaking stamp & thin cut set

Seas the Day - Scrapbooking stamp & thin cut set

I stenciled in the background.

Products Used:

- Fairy Tale Magic stamp & thin cut set

- Seas the Day - Scrapbooking stamp & thin cut set

- Seas the Day - Cardmaking stamp & thin cut set

- Reason for the Season stamp set

- Cherry Blossoms stamp set

- Daisy Meadows paper

- Eat Play Love paper

- Stencil Pack 3

- White Daisy cardstock 

- Glacier Cardstock

- Fern Cardstock

- Pewter Cardstock

- Sapphire ink

- Fern ink

- Archival Black ink

- Mink ink

- Intense Black ink

- Liquid Glass

- Thin 3-D foam tape

- Diamond Stickles

- Floral Lace Embossing Folder

- 0.05 Black Journaling Pen

- Blue Belle Loose Sequins

- Fair Skin marker

- Dark Red marker

- True Black marker

- Ice Grey marker

- Earth Brown marker

- True Blue marker

- Ice Blue marker

- Dull Green marker

- Gold Brown marker

- Citrus marker

- Pale Pink marker

- Hydrangea marker

- scissors

- card bases & envelopes

- Make it from the Heart Vol 4

I have a 4th card however as I went to post this I see that this set has sold out already.  Which just goes to show you that if you want a set make sure you scoop it up now before it is gone.  I thought you would all still enjoy seeing it.

This was the You're not Old stamp & thin cut set but it has sold out.

I hope you enjoyed these cards and I would love to hear what you think of them.

Now "Hop" on over to Maureen's Blog to see what she has created! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the Stamptacular Sale is only on until the end of April!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can purchase these products!  If you are in Canada and don't have a consultant I would be happy to help you.

Blessings,  Kim

March/April Catalog New Product Blog Hop

 Welcome to our March & April Catalog New Product Blog Hop! I hope you will hop along with us and check out all of the amazing artwork created using the special products in the March/April Catalog.  These products are available only until the end of April.

If you arrived here from Miss Carrie's Blog, then you are in the right spot.  The blog hop is a big circle, so you can start here and work your way around.  If you get lost along the way, Melinda's Blog has a complete list of all the participating consultants.  

 There are about 16 Close To My Heart Makers/Consultants sharing their creations using products from the new March/April catalog and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 

I kept it fairly simple today and created this layout, I am sure I will add some embellishments after I add my photos & story.

I combined the pattern paper from the Eat Play Love collection with some cardstock that matches this paper.  I used Fern, White Daisy, Glacier and Candy Apple cardstock (It is Cardstock Carnival right now and you can save up to 30% on our amazing 2-tone white core cardstock.).  I inked all the edges of the squares with Fern ink.  Can you see the texture on the Fern Cardstock?  Well I inked up my Floral Lace embossing folder and then ran my paper through my machine.  I love this look, it is so elegant.  I also misted the edges of my layout with the Turquoise Gloss Spray (currently out of stock but check back often ).

I cut the title out using the Simple Serif Uppercase thin cuts.  For the word family I stamped the co-ordinating Simple Serif Uppercase stamps on top with Archival Black ink.  For the word Fun I stamped a dotted background using the Daisy Meadows - Scrapbooking stamp set in Candy Apple ink.  On the strip of Glacier paper I stamped 3 words from the Food + Memories stamp set using Mink ink to say "Gather With Family"  I love that this set can be used for documenting other things than just food.  

Daisy Meadows - Scrapbook Stamp & Thin Cut set

Simple Serif Bundle

Eat Play Love Paper Packet with Sticker Sheet

Food + Memories Stamp & Thin Cut Set

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

Now "Hop" on over to Aggie's Blog to see what she has created! 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 see how you can purchase these products!  If you are in Canada and don't have a consultant I would be happy to help you.

Blessings,  Kim