Spruced Up Cards & Layouts Workshop

Good Afternoon!

I finished a new workshop the other day using the Spruced Up collection.  

This workshop creates 2 double page layouts, 1 single page layout and 8 cards.  

Here is the whole workshop.

These are the Days Layout

Together Layout

Winter Layout

Close up of the Winter title, I used the clear shimmer brush on the title to add some pizzazz.

Thank You card #1

Thinking of You card #1

Best Wishes card #1

Thank you card #2

Thinking of you card #2

Best Wishes card #2

Best Wishes card #3

Thinking of you card #3

Supplies needed for this workshop:

• Spruced Up paper packet with stickers
• Spruced Up coordinating cardstock
• Spruced Up - Cardmaking Stamp & Thin Cut set   (On sale starting today for Stamptacular)
• Spruced Up wood shapes
• 8 card bases and envelopes
• Espresso ink pad
• New England Ivy ink pad
• Mink ink pad
• Micro glue dots
• thin 3-D foam tape
• scissors
• sponge dauber
• tape runner
• die cutting machine
• paper trimmer
• black journaling pen

If you purchase the supplies needed for this workshop (those highlighted in yellow) from me then I will send you the cutting guide and directions to make this workshop.  

I would love to hear what you think of this workshop.  

Today, the Stamptacular Sale starts and you can save up to 50% off.  There are stamp & thin cut sets, stamp sets and 5 exclusive old favorites that they have brought back just for this sale.  The sale goes for the whole month of February but it is while supplies last.  I am sure some of these will sell out fast at these discounts so shop early in the month to have the best selection and to not miss out on your favorites.

New Product Blog Hop

Welcome to our New Product Blog Hop!  We will be featuring new products from the January-February 2020 catalog.   If you have come here from Brenda Lapp'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 19 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 painted the angel as well as the sentiments using my ink pads and a water brush.  Just squeeze the lid of your ink pad against the pad and then use the lid as a palette.

 I chose to feature the new Spruced Up paper and the Angel Hugs Stamp & Thin Cut set.  I have had a lot of people in my life dealing with loss and difficult things in the past few weeks.  So, I needed to create some cards for them.  This stamp set is perfect for this and so much more.  Here is a closer up of the shimmer on the card I made.

I used the clear shimmer brush on the hair, wings, flowers and gown of the angel.  It adds such a nice pop, it looks way better in person of course.

Supplies used:

Z3634 Angel Hugs Stamp & Thin Cuts

Z6506 Lilac ink (flowers)

Z2828 Toffee ink (hair)

Z2827 Almond ink (skin)

Z2833 Pebble ink (scalloped border)

Z4189 Intense Black ink (sentiments & angel)

Z2824 Linen ink (wings and sentiment backgrounds)

Z6503 Mint ink (gown)

Z2060 Thin 3-D foam tape

Z3293 Clear Shimmer Brush

Z3225 Medium round waterbrush

Z3274 Clear Sparkles

X7253B Spruced Up Paper Packet

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

Now "Hop" on over to Cat Nowak'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 February!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to get the products featured in this blog hop!

Cedar & Pine - Cross Canada Blog Hop

Welcome to the Cross Canada Blog Hop!

This month we are featuring the Cedar & Pine Collection.

Grab your drink, put up your feet and be prepared to be inspired

 by artwork from 7 different

consultants from across Canada.

Contact your consultant to purchase anything you see along the hop. 

 If you don't have a consultant feel free to shop with me.

You should have arrived here from Brenda's blog.  

This is a circular hop, so you can start anywhere and make your way around it.

Cedar & Pine Paper Packet & Sticker Sheet.
You can also purchase the paper without the  stickers.

Today, I started working on a 1 sheet wonder 10 card workshop

 using the Cedar & Pine bulk paper which is found in the Cedar & Pine Cardmaking Workshop Kit.  

I paired it with the December SOTM, Reindeer Crossing.  

Reindeer Crossing, available only for the month of December.
Click here to check out how you can get it for only $6.75

Here is card #1 

Here is a pinwheel style card.

Close up of the tone on tone stamping of the deer images.

Card #2

Simple but lovely Christmas card.

Close up of inking on layers.

Supplies used:

-  Cedar & Pine Cardmaking Workshop Kit  (card bases, linen & saffron cardstock and Cedar & Pine sheets)

- Evergreen cardstock

- White Daisy cardstock

- Saffron ink pad

- Evergreen ink pad

- Linen ink pad

- White & Gold Skinny Ribbon

- Gold Flecked Gems (retired)  but Gold Glitter Gems would work the same.

- Reindeer Crossing, Stamp of the Month

I hope you enjoyed these cards. The rest will be coming in the next few days.

 Thank you for stopping by.  

I would love to hear what you thought of these cards. 

Please leave comments along the way so that we can better serve you.

Next up is Colleen, go check out what she has created for us. 

Mark January 10th on your calendar for our next 

Cross Canada Blog Hop where we will be featuring the Spruced Up Collection.

Contact your consultant to purchase anything you see along the hop. 

 If you don't have a consultant feel free to shop with me.

In case you get lost along the way, here is a complete list of all the consultants on the hop.

1. Colleen

2. Rosalynd

3. Sheena

4. Brandi

5. Linda

6. Brenda

7. Kim that's me 

December SOTM Blog Hop - Reindeer Crossing

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  We will be featuring December's SOTM, which is Reindeer Crossing, a set of 10 stamps.  If you have come here from Darlys Recker'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.

 This month we have 16 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 had a lot of fun playing with this stamp set.  I have created 3 very different projects for you using this set.

To start, here is a Christmas card.  I have stamped the sleigh in Black Intense ink and then colored it in using my small waterbrush and Black, Candy Apple and Saffron ink pads.  I then added some clear shimmer brush to the red on the sleigh.  I used the Make it from Your Heart Vol 4 book for the pattern for this card.  The paper used was Cedar & Pine, White Daisy and Peach cardstock. The edges of the cardstock were inked with Peach ink.  

I have created this ornament using the Custom Ornament thin cut set, White & Gold Skinny Ribbon, Sapphire shimmer brush, Almond & Black ink and White Daisy cardstock.   I am in love with this ornament thin cut set.

Lastly, I have a bookmark.  I have been wanting to get into Bible journaling, and this stamp set seemed perfect for this verse.  I used the branches stamp to stamp around the edges in Evergreen ink. The deer are stamped in Almond ink and then I painted with the Bluebird ink pad and the Medium Flat waterbrush.  (I forgot to clean it after using it last time so it had some purplish color in it too.)  The S is a little messed up as my kids were fighting right at that moment and I made it backwards.  I fixed it to the best of my ability.

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

Now "Hop" on over to Miss Carries Creations 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 December 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!

Holly Jolly Scrapbook Workshop

Good Evening!

I have been working on a Holly Jolly Scrapbooking Workshop over the past few weeks.  I have incorporated some Cricut images as well as used the Holly Jolly - Scrapbooking Stamp & Thin Cuts set.  This is the same stamp & thin cuts set used for the Days of December Album ( I am teaching an online class Nov 27th at 7 pm and would love to have you join me.)  and I used it on a card I made on yesterdays blog post as well.

This workshop contains 3 - 2 page layouts.  You can get the directions for the workshop from me when you spend $30 with me before shipping & tax. Including a Design Space cutting file.  Just send me a message letting me know that you would like the directions for this workshop.  If you are interested in a pre-cut kit send me a message or comment and we can figure that out.

Layout #1

Layout #1

Layout #2

Layout #2

Layout #3

Layout #3

Holly Jolly - Scrapbooking Stamp & Thin Cut Set

A card I made using a whole bunch of the Holly Jolly collection as featured on yesterdays blog post.

Supplies Needed for this workshop:

X5965 - Ruby Cardstock ( 3 sheets )

X5959 - New England Ivy Cardstock ( 3 sheets )

X6038 - Candy Apple Cardstock ( 1 sheet )

X5960 - Fern Cardstock ( 1 sheet )

X7250B - Holly Jolly Paper Packet

Z1836 - Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors

Z3274 - Clear Sparkles

Z3293 - Clear Shimmer Brush

Z697 - Round Sponge

Z3440 - Tombow Dual-tip Permanent Glue Pen

E1041 - Brushed Letters stamp set

Z4213 - Silver Embellishing Thread

Z3529 - Holly Jolly Scrapbooking Stamp & Thin Cut Set

1385 - White Daisy Cardstock - 7 sheets

Z3518 - Snowflakes Embossing Folder

Z3517 - 0.05 Black Journaling Pen

Z1151 - Thin 3-D foam tape

Z6507 - Clover Ink Pad

Z6509 - Candy Apple Ink Pad

Z2870 - Ruby ink pad

Z2835 - New England Ivy ink pad
Z2850 - Fern ink pad

Z2841 - Glacier ink pad

Corner Rounder

Z2045 - Non-stick mat

Paint brush

die cutting machine

Cricut machine

Paper Trimmer
Y1005 - 1" x 6.5" block
Y1000 - 1" x 1" block
Y1003 - 2" x 2" block

ruler

Cricut images used from: CTMH Flower Market, CTMH Seasons of Joy, CTMH Artistry, CTMH Art Philosophy, CTMH Artbooking, Merry & Bright, and Basic Shapes   All of these can be acessed with Cricut Access or if you purchase the cartridges.  Please use my affiliate link to purchase Cricut items (Including Cricut Access) as you are supporting a small business by doing so, and  I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you.

If you have any questions please let me know.  

I would love to hear what you think of this workshop.

Have a great night and thanks for stopping by!

"Paper Layering" CTMH Technique Blog Hop

Welcome to our Technique Blog Hop!  

This month there are 10 of us highlighting the “Paper Layering” 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 Darlys Blog, you are on the right track! 

I have 2 projects that I created using this technique.  I hope you enjoy them.

Card #1 - Season's Greetings  
For this card I layered embossed paper, strips of Holly Jolly paper, a stitched rectangle and die cut holly.  I love the look of the background paper that is embossed with the snowflake embossing folder.  The dimension you get when you layer paper makes a card or layout pop.  I used a bit of thin 3-D foam tape behind the holly die cuts.  

I have added Diamond Stickles to the elves hats.

Supply List for Season's Greeting Card:  

G1191 - Holly Jolly Cardmaking Workshop Kit

Z3529 - Holly Jolly Scrapbooking Stamp & Thin Cut Set

C1800 - Holly Jolly Cardmaking Stamp Set

1385 - White Daisy Cardstock

Z3518 - Snowflakes Embossing Folder

Z4189 - Intense Black Ink Pad

Z3517 - 0.05 Black Journaling Pen

Z2497 - Dark Red TriBlend marker

Sorry retired ShinHan markers as that is what I had for green & skin  but these current markers would be the same.

Z2485 Light Green TriBlend marker

Z2476 - Fair Skin TriBlend marker

Z3563 Diamond Stickles

Z1151 - Thin 3-D foam tape

Z6507 - Clover Ink Pad

Z6509 - Candy Apple Ink Pad

 Card #2 - Christmas Blessings
I have used a few other paper layering techniques in this card using the
November Stamp of the Month - Family Time and the Connecting Circles overlay from the Artbooking Cricut Collection.  Here is a picture tutorial of how I created this card.

Finished Card.  Just look at all those layers and dimension.

To start with I stamped out like a million of the leaf image in Candy Apple and Clover ink.  I also stamped out the centers in Saffron ink.  I then fussy cut them all out using my favorite our non-stick scissors.  There will be a layout coming soon using these too.  

I cut a circle using the 2nd smallest of the Basic Circles thin cut (approximately 1.5").  I then layered the Clover leaves and Candy Apple leaves using the Tombow liquid adhesive to adhere.

Finished last layer of Candy Apple leaves, trimmed out center and adhered it.  I then added clear shimmer brush to all the leaves and center.  I love the sparkle it gives.  On some of the pictures you can see it.

I then used my fingers to curl up the leaves/petals of the poinsettia I created to give it more dimension.

Stamped the word Blessings from the stamp of the month in Black ink and fussy cut around it.  Stamped Christmas from the Say it in Style stamp set, dovetailed the right side and sponged Candy Apple ink around the edges.  Stamped the stitched border on the top and bottom of the card base in black ink.

Adhered the overlay using the liquid glue, next comes the patterned paper.  I added thin 3-D foam tape to the back of the word Blessings.  Adhered the poinsettia with liquid adhesive.

Tucked the dovetailed strip with Christmas under the poinsettia.  Curled the dovetailed edges up using my fingers.

This stamp set is very versatile and is only available for this month.  

Supply List for Christmas Blessings Card:  

X7250B - Holly Jolly Paper Packet

S1911 - November Stamp of the Month - Family Time

D1283 - Saying it in Style stamp set

Z4189 - Intense Black Ink Pad

Z2851 - Saffron Ink Pad

Z3318 - Basic Circles Thin Cuts

Artbooking Cricut Cartridge

Z1836 - Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors

1385 - White Daisy Cardstock

Z3274 - Clear Sparkles

X254 - White Daisy cards and envelopes

Z3293 - Clear Shimmer Brush

Z1151 - Thin 3-D foam tape

Z6507 - Clover Ink Pad

Z6509 - Candy Apple Ink Pad

Z697 - Round Sponge

Z3440 - Tombow Dual-tip Permanent Glue Pen

Thanks for stopping by!  Please continue onto Melissa'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!

Holly Jolly - Cross Canada Blog Hop

Welcome to the Cross Canada Blog Hop!

This month we are featuring the Holly Jolly Collection.

Grab your drink, put up your feet and be prepared to be inspired

 by artwork from  different

consultants from across Canada.

Contact your consultant to purchase anything you see along the hop. 

 If you don't have a consultant feel free to shop with me.

Holly Jolly Paper Packet and Sticker Sheet

You should have arrived here from Brenda's blog.  

This is a circular hop, so you can start anywhere and make your way around it.

If you get lost you can find the full list of participants on Michelle's Blog.

I have been busy working on designing a scrapbook workshop using the Holly Jolly Paper Packet, Holly Jolly - Scrapbooking Stamp & Thin Cut set, silver embellishing thread, clear shimmer brush, Candy Apple ink & cardstock, Clover ink, 0.03 Black Journaling Pen, thin 3D foam tape and White Daisy Cardstock.  I used the Brushed Letters stamp set for the title. The inspiration for this layout came for the Make It From Your Heart Volume 3 book, Pattern 5.

So, often we get caught up in all the stuff at Christmas and really the 

most important thing is to BE PRESENT with those around you!

I have pictures of my Grandma and parents being PRESENT with my kids.  

My Grandma passed away this year and I know

 I treasure the times of her being Present with all of us.

I have inked around all of the edges of the papers with either Clover or Candy Apple ink using a sponge.

I have added silver embellishing thread behind the holly.
I have added clear shimmer brush to all of the holly as well.

Using a ruler I added the lines using the 0.03 Black Journaling Pen.

I will be posting more layouts in this workshop in the next week.  Just finishing them up and then making the guides for the workshop.  

Holly Jolly - Scrapbooking Stamp & Thin Cut Set

I hope you enjoyed this layout.  Thank you for stopping by.  

I would love to hear what you thought of this layout. 

Please leave comments along the way so that we can better serve you.

Next up is Kristine, go check out what she has created for us. 

Mark December 10th on your calendar for our next 

Cross Canada Blog Hop where we will be featuring the Cedar & Pine Collection.

Contact your consultant to purchase anything you see along the hop. 

 If you don't have a consultant feel free to shop with me.