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

"Altered Wooden Shapes" CTMH Technique Blog Hop

 Welcome to our Technique Blog Hop!  

This month there are about 11 of us highlighting the “Altered Wooden Shapes” 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 the hop participants.

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

I created this cute card using a few different techniques to alter the wooden hearts.

The first technique I did was ink the medium heart with Peeled Paint distress oxide ink, I just rubbed it across the ink pad.  

The second technique was to ink the small heart using the ink blending tool and Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide ink, then using the Peeled Paint ink I stamped a floral image on the heart which you can see faintly.

Then I backed the open heart with a piece of cardstock and filled it with liquid glass and white beads.  After it was dry I trimmed it from the cardstock and brushed the top of the heart with my Black shimmer brush.  There are a few areas that are still brown as those spots had a little liquid glass on them and it acted as a resist to the shimmer brush.

The stamping was all done using the March Stamp of the Month - Winged Masterpiece and Intense Black ink.  The colouring was done with the Coral, Green Turquoise, Light Yellow and the Green Citrine Metallic Marker.

It is the Cardstock Carnival this month so I wanted to feature some of our beautiful 2-toned cardstock.  I used Sage, Peach and Mint, this colour combo I found in the Love of Color Vol 1 book.

Thanks for stopping by! Please continue onto Tamara'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!

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

March SOTM Blog Hop - Winged Masterpiece

 

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 March SOTM, called Winged Masterpiece it is a set of 15 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 19 Close To My Heart Makers/Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 

A new idea book just launched today so you are going to see lots of new goodies along with the the March SOTM.

I decided to create a layout using the Stamp of the Month, and the Daisy Meadows paper and Scrapbooking stamp & thin cut set.  I kept it fairly simple but added little details.  It looks better in person.  

I used Tattered Rose distress oxide ink to stamp the floral from this large butterfly along the edges of the White Daisy cardstock base page.  I did the same thing with the vine image on the top and bottom of the Espresso cardstock.  The butterfly was stamped in Intense Black ink and coloured using the Coral, Light Green and Citrus Tri-Blend markers.  I then went over the black antenna with the Black shimmer brush and the rest of the image with the Clear Shimmer brush.

The Title was stamped with Espresso ink and it and the flowers below the photo are from the Daisy Meadows Scrapbooking Stamp & Thin Cut set.  I embellished the page with the silver loose sequins.

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

Now "Hop" on over to Katy'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 March 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

Pocket Card Perfection

Good Morning Everyone!

I just wanted to pop on here and share with you the new, limited time Pocket Card Perfection special.

Close to My Heart just released Picture My Life (PML) cards or pocket cards that co-ordinate with the Lovely & Party Time paper collections from the Core Catalog.  These are available until the end of March.

You can purchase them individually or get both as a discounted bundle.

These pocket cards can be used for so many things.  If you are a pocket scrapbooker then just slip them into your page protectors and add your photos & journaling.  If you are a cardmaker these are great for popping on a card.  If you are a traditional scrapbooker these are great to use as titles, journaling spots and extra papers.  You can fussy cut out some of the elements.  Really the sky is the limit.

Here is a closer look at the pocket cards and co-ordinating paper collections.

Lovely Picture My Life Cards:

Lovely Paper Packet & Sticker Sheet:

Party Time Picture My Life Cards:

Birthday Time Paper Packet & Sticker Sheet:

Then we have the Pocket Card Perfection Bundle which contains both sets of Picture My Life Cards:

If you have any questions please let me know.  You can see our whole line of pocket scrapbooking products HERE.

Have a creative day!

Kim

Bring Back My Pack - Blossom Blog Hop

 

Welcome to the Bring Back My Pack - Blossom Blog Hop.  We are excited to have you join us today and hope that our projects inspire you to create with this fun and updated collection.

If you arrived here from Judy's Blog then you are in the right spot.  The blog hop is a big circle so you can start right here and hop all the way around.  If you get lost along the way you can find a list of all the blogs participating on Melinda's Blog.  We have about 16 Makers participating in this blog hop.

I created a couple of projects using the Blossom collection for you.

To start with I created this cute card using the Gnome Matter stamp set (still available online), Smoothie & Sage cardstock and distress oxide inks (Peacock Feathers, Abandoned Coral, Peeled Paint).  I also used Intense Black ink for the rest of the stamping.  I love how just the 0.25" strip of the zip strip from the Blossom paper pack just pops this card.  

Next I created this layout using the Blossom Paper package and the Cherished Blossoms stamp & thin cut set that is part of the Blossom collection.  

This was a fun layout to create.  As you can see I used the same zip strip as I used on the card on this layout as well as a couple of the patterned papers and some of the co-ordinating cardstock.  The title is stamped with Abandoned Coral and Peacock Feathers distress oxide ink, there is also some splatter with both those inks in the top left corner of the layout.  My flowers were stamped using Glacier, Smoothie, Nectarine, Peacock and Green Apple inks and the centers of the small ones are silver sequins.  

This layout was inspired by this layout from the January/February idea book.

Well I hope you enjoyed what I had to share with you and I would love to know what you thought of my projects.  

Next up is Miss Carrie's Creations and I know she has something amazing to show us.  

Remember that the Blossom collection is only available until February 28th.  If you are in Canada and don't have a consultant I would be happy to help you.

Blessings,  Kim

February SOTM Blog Hop - Doodled Borders

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 February SOTM, called Doodled Borders, it is a set of 36 stamps.

 If you arrived here from Judy'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.  

In Canada this set is $25.75.  Or with a qualifying order of $60 you can get it for $6.75 or if you are a VIP then you can get it free with your qualifying order.  

 This month we have around 23 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 

Here is the card I created, isn't it just the cutest?  I used pattern 15 from the Make it from you Heart Vol 4 how to book.  These are a great resource to have.

Using the Doodled Borders set, I created the background textured paper.  I stamped tone on tone using sage, smoothie and blue belle cardstock & inks with 3 of the different stamps.  I also used Archival Black ink to stamp a couple of the other borders on the edge of the card and sentiment piece.  

I used the Winter Penguin set to stamp the cute penguin with Intense Black ink and coloured the toque with Blue Belle shimmer brush and the pom-poms with Diamond Stickles.  

The sentiment is from the exclusive VIP - We are Good Together stamp set. (If you aren't a VIP yet, I highly recommend it (a) because you will get 15% of what you spend back in VIP credit for a future order. (b) every month you can get a SOTM for free with a qualifying order (in Canada this is $60), (c) you can get exclusive VIP things like this. )

To embellish I used some black shimmer trim and the Blue Belle sequins. 

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

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 February SOTM is only available until the 28 th!  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