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

May SOTM - Flowers for You 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 May SOTM, called Flowers for You it is a set of 14 stamps.

If you arrived here from Becca'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 17 Close To My Heart Makers/Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 

It is National Scrapbooking Day today and so while I am listening to Jill cut paper on the CTMH Facebook page I created this layout using the SOTM.  I am in love with this set.

I used a combination of the new Hillside Cottage paper and the new Mix-In collection of paper.  I also used White Daisy and Flamingo cardstock.

I stamped using VersaMark ink and the gold embossing powder.  I added the you inspire me stamp into my journaling using Archival Black ink.  This is a fun thing to do.

I added a little stenciling with the Abandoned Coral distress ink.  I also used this ink on the larger photo mat.  The white photo mat is using the Floral Lace embossing folder. 

These are the layered butterflies and I have added the same ink to them in a variety of ways as well as the gold shimmer brush to the white one.  I absolutely love these thin cuts.

The flower is created with the 3-D flower thin cuts, I used the smallest 2 and added the bold bitty beads to the middle.

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

Now "Hop" on over to Melissa'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 May SOTM is only available until the 31st!  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

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

Paper Ink Swiping Technique

 Good Evening Everyone!

I wanted to pop on here and share some artwork with another technique that I learnt at the CTMH album retreat just over a week ago.  I taught this technique live on Facebook on Saturday during my Good Stuff Virtual Weekend Crop the link to that video is HERE.  I did this technique near the end of the video as it was a video on Distress Oxide and Stencils.  So, here is the card I created using a few of the techniques from the layouts that are below.  I love how you can take techniques and use the same technique on both a layout and a card.  

Card with ink swiping and distress oxide with stencils.

Layout with ink swiping technique.

Layout with Distress Oxides with Stencils.

I would love to know what you think of these layouts and the card.  If you are interested in making them please let me know.

Supplies used:

X8019 - Gold Foil Paper Packet 

X7264S - Happiness Lives Here Paper Packet & Sticker Sheet

X9023 Mix-In Paper Packet (Jan-Feb 2021)

Z3919 - Whole Latte Love stamp & thin cut set

D2008 - Counting My Blessings stamp set

Z3676 Blue Belle Loose Sequins

Z3850 Pink Acrylic Hearts

Z3884 - Stencil Pack 3

D1966 -  Simple Serif Uppercase Stamp Set

Z4189 - Intense Black ink pad

Z3825 - Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide ink pad

Z3834 - Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide ink pad

Z3830 - Mustard Seed Distress Oxide ink pad

Z3831 - Peeled Paint Distress Oxide ink pad

Z3837 - Pumice Stone Distress Oxide ink pad

Z1279 - All-purpose Mat

Z3886 - Mini Ink Blending Tool

Journaling Pen

Cinnamon Cardstock

Peach Cardstock

Raspberry Cardstock

Nectarine Cardstock

Black Cardstock

White Daisy Cardstock

Sundance Cardstock

Sapphire cardstock

Glacier Cardstock

Desert Rose Cardstock

Almond Cardstock

French Vanilla Cardstock

I recommend our CUSTOM12 or CUSTOM24 cardstock packages where you can choose your colours in multiples of 2s.  They are a great way to get just a few sheets of multiple colours instead of 24 of a single colour.  

NOTE:  The Distress Oxide inks have been a hot seller and have been selling out but they will be coming back in stock so just check back if the colour you want isn't in stock.

Also, if you are interested in getting your supplies at a discount then check out becoming a VIP customer or a Maker/Consultant.

It is $45 to become a VIP and you get back $20 of that in VIP credit.  Then you can earn 15% in VIP credit on each order and are able to get 1 stamp of the month for free each month with a $60 order.  There is also a special workshop coming up that is just for VIPs.  Here is the You-tube video about that special event.

There are a couple days left to become a Maker and this is the lowest I have ever seen it be to sign up in the almost 7 years I have been a Maker/Consultant.  You can sign up for $20 and we give you $21 in CTMH cash to spend.  So, we pay you a dollar.  You have until the end of January to get this price.  As a Maker you get a minimum of a 25% discount/commission.  You also get to see & order new products before everyone else which is a huge perk.  

Here are photos of the VIP only workshop.  I can't wait to create with this exclusive kit, mine just arrived today.  The sticker sheer and stamp set are exclusive to our VIPs and this special is available to order until the end of March.

Thank you all for joining me and if you have any questions please let me know.

Good night,

Kim