Smitten Blog Hop

 Welcome to our Smitten Blog Hop! 

Have you tried creating with the Smitten special?  If you haven't I hope you will be inspired to try creating with it after you check out all of the amazing art we have created for this blog hop.

  If you arrived here from Melinda Everitt, 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, HERE is a complete list of all the participating consultants.  

 There are about 7 Close To My Heart Makers/Consultants sharing their Smitten creations during this blog hop.

I decided to play around with the Smitten stamp & thin cut set and combine it with the Sweet as Honey cardmaking workshop kit.  I wanted to show that you can take a workshop kit designs & switch it up by changing the stamp set.  I designed these for my VIP customers.

Here is my remake of card #1 from the kit.  

Card #2

Card #3

Card #4

For these cards I used the same supplies as the kit called for plus some clear & paprika shimmer brush and some Tri-Blend markers for colouring (Orange, Citrus, Ice Grey, Brown Grey and Pale Pink.)  The supplies called for are Black ink pad (I used both Archival & Intense Black), Sundance ink, Rosemary ink, Sponge daubers, thin 3-D foam tape and adhesive.

I hope you enjoyed these cards and I would love to hear what you think of them.  Which one is your favourite?  This collection does not need to be Love or Valentine themed and I hope I showed you that.

Now "Hop" on over to see what Scrappin Katy has created! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas!  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

January SOTM - Sweet Little Things Blog Hop

 Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! I hope you will hop along with us and check out all of the amazing artwork created using the January SOTM, called Sweet Little Things it is a set of  10 stamps.

 

This set is only available for the month of January.  It is $25.75 or you can get it for $6.75 with a $60 order.  Or for free with a $60 order if you are a VIP customer.)

If you arrived here from My Heartfelt Sentiments, 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.  

 This month we have around 11 Close To My Heart Makers/Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 

Can you believe that today is the beginning of a new year?  Well with a new year, I have set some creative goals and one of them is to get photos onto my layouts and to get all these photos that I have printed scrapbooked.  So, what started out to be a card turned into a double page layout of my oldest.  This stamp set is perfect for so many things and 1 of those things is recognizing the special people or moments in life.  I will be adding my journaling of these special things to the squares with the flower border.  My almost 15 year old would appreciate not everyone seeing it.  LOL.

I used the new Sweet as Honey paper collection as well as the Sweet as Honey Digital Art collection to create this layout.  I cut the hexagons & the stencil for the inked background with the Digital Art collection.  So, if you have a machine that can cut SVGs you are good to go with this collection.  I love to use our how to books and used pattern 4 from the Make It From Your Heart Vol. 1 book.

I stamped the cute little mouse in Intense Black ink and then used Avocado, Sundance, Mink ink pads and a water brush to colour with.  I stenciled on Mink Cardstock & inked the edges with the Mink ink pad and added doodle lines with the .03 black journaling pen.  The sentiments were stamped in the Sundance ink.  I love the strips of the Black Ore paper.  The title is cut in black cardstock using the New Slim Alphabet Thin cuts.  I also added some bitty sparkles and clear sparkles. 

Here is the Process video for how I created this layout.

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

Now "Hop" on over to Haley Dyer'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 January SOTM is only available until the 31th!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!  If you are in Canada and don't have a consultant I would be happy to help you.

Blessings,  Kim

December SOTM - Owl Love You Forever Blog Hop

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! I hope you will hop along with us and check out all of the amazing artwork created using the December SOTM, called Owl Love You Forever it is a set of  9 stamps.

 

This set is only available for the month of December.  It is $25.75 or you can get it for $6.75 with a $60 order.  Or for free with a $60 order if you are a VIP customer.)

If you arrived here from ScrappinKaty, 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.  

 This month we have around 10 Close To My Heart Makers/Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 

I have been having fun creating tags lately and so I decided to use this stamp set to make a shaker tag.

I used a tag from the Buildable Tags Thin Cut set as the base.

I stamped in Intense Black ink and then used Tri-Blend markers to colour with.  (Gold Brown, Antique Pink, Jade Green, Orange and Light Yellow)  I inked the edges with the black ink pad and added doodle lines with the .01 black journaling pen.

I added sponging with Ballerina ink to the base tag for the belly.  I trimmed out the belly of the owl with my craft knife, added acetate & foam tape, then filled with bitty beads and silver star confetti.  The gold splatters were created with the Gilt Gloss Spray.

Here is the process video.

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

Now "Hop" on over to CatScrapbooking 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 December SOTM is only available until the 31th!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!  If you are in Canada and don't have a consultant I would be happy to help you.

Blessings,  Kim

CTMH November SOTM - Created to Shine Artwork & Tutorials

 I have been very busy creating a wide range of different artwork using the November Stamp of the Month - Created to Shine.  

It can be used for so many things.  Check out all these process videos & artwork that I have created using this set.  In each video is a full supply list and measurements in the description box.

A Christmas card using a sketch:

A Shaker card:

A fingerprint doodle card:

A Slimline card:

Creating Flowers using the lightbulbs:

And lastly I have the Stamp of the Month Kit that I created especially for anyone who purchases the November Stamp of the Month from me. 

I would love to hear from you on which of these projects is your favourite?  

I hope they inspire you to get creative.

Have a blessed day,  Kim

Free November Stamp of the Month Kit

 Good Afternoon Everyone!  

I can't believe that we are already over half way through November.  

Can you?  Are you ready for Christmas?

I wanted to hop on here and tell you about a special kit that I would like to bless you with if you purchase the November Stamp of the Month - Created to Shine from me.  Here is a peek at this stamp set.

Which sentiment is your favourite?  I love this set as we were all created to Shine and this set is perfect for encouraging others, documenting life and even for Christmas cards.  

Are you singing "This Little Light of Mine" now? 😊  

I have been having fun with this set, creating lots of things with it. (Up on Facebook & Instagram) Including Christmas 🎄cards 😉.  I am working on editing the videos of these to put up on YouTube, I just started a channel, it is called Creativity with Kim

Here is the full playlist of videos of projects I created with this stamp set.  I hope you enjoy it.

Here is a look at this kit and all the details.  I just posted this video and all the supplies/links are in the description box.  I will be creating videos as well for those who purchase the Created to Shine Stamp set.

I would love to know what you think of this kit and stamp set.  

This card kit is my free gift to you when you order the November Stamp of the Month called Created to Shine from me. How can you get it? Simply order this Stamp set from me and I will pop the free kit in the mail to you. I will also give you access to exclusive videos teaching you how to create these 4 cards and all the techniques in them. Which there are several 😉 techniques. There are 3 ways to get the SOTM (short for Stamp of the Month.) 1. Purchase it for $25.75 2. Get it for $6.75 when you place a $60 qualifying order. 3. Get it for FREE if you are a VIP member with a $60 qualifying order.

Have a blessed Day!

Kim

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. 

April SOTM Blog Hop - Scandinavian Folk Art Greetings

 

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! I hope you will hop along with us and check out all of the amazing artwork created using the April SOTM, called Scandinavian Folk Art Greetings it is a set of 17 stamps.

 If you arrived here from Gina'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.  

 This month we have around 12 Close To My Heart Makers/Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 

So, I wasn't a huge fan of this set when I got it and I challenged myself to create art with it that would make me and people like me fall  in love with it.  I think this is the most art I have ever created for a SOTM blog hop and I have lots more ideas.  My original thought was to do some masking of the flowers growing out of the tops of everything but I didn't end up doing that.  I am very happy with the 4 cards I created using this set and the variety of ways I used it.  

So, the first 2 cards are based off Pattern 17 of  Vol. 4 of the Make it From your Heart book and were inspired by a card Shannon Smoldt created using the March SOTM.  When I saw her card it was like a light bulb went off in my head and I was like here is a way I can use this set that I like.  These were the first things I created using this set and I plan to create some layouts using the boot image this way to create base pages for some Cowboy photos of my son.  

The base layer was sanded and then stamped on and again sanded.  I used Fern & Sapphire cardstock & ink for them as well as Black Archival ink and the Floral Lace embossing folder.  There is lots of sanding on these cards.  LOL.  

Then the next 2 cards I combined the Kitchen Gnomes set with the SOTM and used 1/2" strips of paper.  This a great way to use up paper scraps and I learned how to create this background from Sara Baktin.  I did a video yesterday showing how to create this background. You can view it HERE.

I used a few of the SOTM stamps to do tone-on-tone stamping on the Sage & Peach strips.  The colouring was done with the Tri-Blend markers and shimmer brushes.  I added some Liquid Glass, Liquid Pearls and Stickles to add some dimension & interest.

Products Used:

- Scandinavian Folk Art Greetings stamp set

- Kitchen Gnomes stamp & thin cuts set

- White Daisy cardstock 

- Sapphire Cardstock

- Fern Cardstock

- Sage Cardstock

- Desert Rose Cardstock

- Peach Cardstock

- Pewter Cardstock

- Sapphire ink

- Fern ink

- Archival Black ink

- Peach ink

- Sage ink

- Blue Belle ink

- Intense Black ink

- Liquid Glass

- Thin 3-D foam tape

- Diamond Stickles

- Silver Stickles

- Gold Glitter Gems

- Floral Lace Embossing Folder

- Blue Belle shimmer brush

- Red shimmer brush

- Bisque Liquid Pearls

- 0.05 Black Journaling Pen

- Silver Loose Sequins

- Fair Skin marker

- Dark Red marker

- True Black marker

- Ice Grey marker

- Earth Brown marker

- scoring tool

- scissors

- sanding block

- card bases & envelopes

- Make it from the Heart Vol 4

The Stamptacular Sale is also happening this month and you can save up to 50% on stamp & thin cut sets and save up to 35% on stamp sets.

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

Now "Hop" on over to Miss Carrie'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 April SOTM is only available until the 30th!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!  If you are in Canada and don't have a consultant I would be happy to help you.

Blessings,  Kim

Pocket Card Perfection Blog Hop

Welcome to our  Pocket Card Perfection 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 Pocket Card Perfection special.  These products are available only until the end of March.  Check out all the other Pocket Card Collections we also carry HERE.

 If you arrived here from Lauren'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 11 Close To My Heart Makers/Consultants sharing their creations using Pocket Cards/PML/Picture My Life Cards and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 

I did a Facebook Live this morning showing both sides of all the cards in the Pocket Card Perfection special (Party Time & Lovely) if you want to see it go HERE.

I decided to create a layout using the Party Time PML cards and a few photos from almost 11 years ago of my son's Birthday.    I used Pattern 4 from the Make it from you Heart Vol. 3 book to create this layout. 

Right now we have the Cardstock Carnival also happening so I decided to mostly pair the Party Time PML cards with some of our cardstock and show off the white core of our cardstock.  If you want to see a video of how I did this you can go HERE.  I used Nectarine cardstock with an older CTMH embossing folder that is almost like the Cascading Dots embossing folder.  The 1/2" strip is Charcoal cardstock and I used scissors to edge distress the edges. I used Green Apple for the base, Sapphire for the mat and used a scoring tool on them for the lines.  I brought out the white core by sanding them.

I had to run the paper through 2 times in the embossing folder to do the full 12" strip.  I love that our embossing folders have a slit at the top so you can just slid it through.  Here you can see what it looked like before & after sanding it.  Which effect do you like better sanded or not sanded?

I just got some of the Copper Ore paper and WOW.  I love it, just an 1/8" strip has such impact.  I will be using this lots.

I love the scored journaling lines, such a fun look. If I need more I can add a few more.

I fussy cut along the scallop of this card to create this part of the title element.  I did the stamping on White Daisy cardstock with Nectarine ink and inked the edges with Sapphire ink. The stamp set I used was the Pennant Banner Alphabet.  I added the nd with a Black 0.05 Journaling Pen.  The striped paper is from the Party Time Paper Package.

 

I just love how this turned out, I was able to personalize this PML card.

Party Time Picture My Life Cards

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

Now "Hop" on over to Pam'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 Pocket Card Perfection & Cardstock Carnival specials are only available until the 31st!  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

In This Together Blog Hop

Welcome to our In This Together 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 In This Together collection.  These products are available only until the end of March.

 If you arrived here from Haley'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 this In This Together collection and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 

I decided to create a card using some of my leftover scraps from the In This Together Workshop Kit.  I loosely used Pattern 2 from the Make it from you Heart Vol. 4 book to create this card.

I used Chipped Sapphire distress oxide ink to stamp the sentiment from the In This Together stamp set, ink the edges of the strips of pattern paper and to blend on the card base to give the soft blue under the overlay.  The overlay is the Stitched Lattice Background thin cut, I blended a little Peacock Feathers distress oxide on top of it.    The girl is from the Besties- Lucy stamp & thin cut set.  Her dress was stamped on the yellow striped pattern paper and then fussy cut and pieced on top.  I used Earth Brown, Fair Skin and True Blue Shades of Tri-Blend markers to do the colouring.  She was stamped in Intense Black ink and popped up with thin 3-D foam tape.  I embellished with a few of the In This Together Dots.

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

Now "Hop" on over to Michelle'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 In This Together collection is only available until the 31st!  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