Rose gold simplicity!

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Have you seen the rose gold papers that CTMH carries?  There are 6 different designs, with rose gold foil on them!  They are so shiny and pretty!  They are perfect for cards, and like with a little black dress, you can dress it up or dress it down!

These two cards use the exact same measurements, but with the different papers, they look so different!  One looks a bit more ‘formal’ than the other.  I love how just changing a paper can make a world of difference!

Just look at all that shine!

These cards were first inspired by this week’s challenge over at H2H Challenges!  You should check them out!  Then, I started looking at the Make it from your Heart book, volumne 1, and pattern 20 was my starting off point!

I hope that these cards inspire you to try the Rose Gold Papers!  They are beautiful and fun!  (and so easy to use!)

Do you have problems with making masculine cards?

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I know that sometimes I do!  I thought that the Oh Deer challenge over at H2H Designs was perfect to get in a fun guy card!  And the great news, it’s fairly easy, too!

I grabbed a deer image off of one of the CTMH cartridges, and did some editing.  I cut it out a couple of times, so that I wouldn’t have to worry about foam tape on those teeny antlers!!

I used three different distress oxides to color the back panel, then sprinkled some water droplets on it, then sprinkled some gilt gloss spray over the oxides.

I used just a scrap of the french vanilla cardstock to help the sentiment pop off the card.  The sentiment itself was embossed with gold embossing powder.

The card went together super quickly!  And I could imagine it working with any number of color combinations!

I would love to see what you come up with, with the inspiration you get from the other ladies participating in the H2H Challenges!

Until next time, I hope you are able to stay crafty, my friends!

 

~ Michelle

H2H Inspires Tags!

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Aren’t these tags just adorable?  I used the As You Grow PML cards!  The longest part was the coloring on this adorable new coffee cup!

 

The challenge this week over at H2H Challenges is all about Tags.  By themselves, on a card, on a package, you name it!  You could always use this to get your Christmas or Holiday tags ready!

The mink twine is still available, but there aren’t many left in stock!

I colored all of the coffee cups with the TriBlend markers, and I love how much they pop!  The sentiment comes from the October Stamp of the Month, and it just worked so perfectly!

I hope I have inspired you to create some tags!  They don’t have to be super complicated, and are a great use of scraps!  I would love to see what you make!  Share in my FB group, or tag me when you share online!

 

Thank you for stopping by my new site!  I would love to hear what you think!

 

Until next time, 

Michelle

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H2H Challenge: Get Inky!

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This is such a fun and easy challenge to do!  If you stamp, you can play along!

I had fun making this card for a class!  It turned out so beautifully!

 

 

So, go and grab some inks, and get inky!  And join us over at the H2H blog, and share your inki-ness!

 

Let’s Celebrate Connections!

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Welcome to Spring!  It’s May, and the flowers are popping up all over the place!  Along with the flowers is another challenge over at the H2H blog!  You should definitely check out the challenges and play along!  They are so fun!

Today I have a super fun card, that is going out to a friend that I haven’t seen in a bit.  I hadn’t gotten a chance to play with the white pearl paper yet, so I did!  It turned out so fun!!  (I wasn’t sure if my technique was going to work, or not!  I’m so glad it did!)

So, I grabbed my scraps bag and picked out a few colors that I thought would work well together.  I wanted one to be a very neutral color and one to be a bright pop of something.  I think I succeeded there, what do you think?

I am using Almond and Raspberry cardstocks along with the white pearl paper.  I stamped the image from the May SOTM in Mink ink, directly on the pearl paper.  Then I grabbed a piece of scrap printer paper, and ‘dabbed’ it over the pearl paper, to remove any excess ink.  Since this paper does have a shine, it wasn’t going to take as much ink as normal cardstock would.  Then I took my heat tool to it, just to be safe.

Then I just lined everything up!  I did just use scraps of the Raspberry paper under the pearl, and the Almond is just a couple of strips as well!

I popped the sentiment up on some thin foam tape, after stamping in Raspberry ink, of course!  I wrapped a smidge of the mink twine around it, and viola!

And!  Those adorable dots!  I WISH we had them in raspberry!!  But, believe it or not, those started as white!  I used the dark red blend and the bright pink blend markers to create the raspberry color!  It’s hard to photograph with the sheen of the pearl paper, but they match almost perfectly!  I was so pleased!

Join me, Monday night as I make another card just like this!  5pm Pacific over on my Facebook page!

Thanks so much for checking out my little card today!  I do hope you stop over to the H2H challenge blog to see what the other fantastic ladies have for you!  (They are all super cute, btw!)  Then, maybe you can play along as well!

~ Michelle

Old & New, the next H2H Challenge!

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Hey guys!  It’s time for another challenge!  This one was super fun to do!  It was one of those cards that changed about 15 million times from concept to finish!  Have you had that happen before?  I’ve had cards that evolve as I am making them, but not many that change as many times as this one did!

So, Old and New.  Well, I have a bunch of new(er) products on this card.  I’ll name them at the bottom, but can you find them all before you see the list?

 

I decided that I wanted to go with a slimline card.  I grabbed one of the old CTMH books to get a sketch to use.  Then I just went to town!  I did a bunch of stamp surgery and even more masking, and I don’t know about you, but I just LOVE LOVE LOVE how this card turned out!

 

 

I even added a sentiment on the inside of the card!  (which, I don’t normally do, but I just didn’t have enough room on the outside!  LOL!!)

 

 

This card just makes me so happy!  It’s kind of ridiculous how much so!!  LOL!  Oh! I might need to grab a pen and add a comma after coffee and glitter…. hmmmm . . . what do you think?

 

Oh, and the “old”  It is both the older CTMH book (retired) and the packing material that I had, to use for the coffee cup sleeves!

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope my card has inspired you!  If so, come on over to the H2H challenge blog and play along!  Plus, you can see all of the other designers’ creations!

~ Michelle

 

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Are you in for another 100 days?

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Hey there!

So last year, my good friend Danielle and I did a thing, we created 100 projects over the course of 100 days! We had over 350 in our Let’s Flock Together of participants! It was such a rush, and felt great to create each day. That group of 350, have access to the projects to recreate them as they please whenever they please!
AAAAAAAAAAND . . . we are doing it again! 🙌 YAY!
Did you know that the average virtual paper-crafting class is $15 -$25? That virtual crops start at $50 per day? Michelle and Danielle are very happy and excited to share that this 100 day journey is less than $1.00 a day (under our Early Bird period)

Classes Begin May 3rd

This year in addition to the 100 projects from last year, you can look forward to:

  • 4 Virtual Crops designed to get your creativity flowing
  • 7 styles of classes EACH week:
    • 6×8 pages
    • Mixed Media
    • Fun fold cards
    • Giftables
    • 12×12 layouts
    • Cricut tutorials/projects
    • LFT Page Sketches
    • LFT Card Sketches
  • 100 Re-usable projects with video instruction
  • Cricut links to tutorials and projects
  • 28 LFT sketch’s to print and keep.
  • Live instruction days (recorded for later viewing)
  • Recorded classes for replay during 2021
  • A private Facebook Group for sharing projects
  • A private Forum on our website to discuss and share ideas and more.
To learn more and to sign up, click HERE
The early bird special is only good through May 5th!
P.s. Subscribe to our mailing list HERE and don’t miss another event – like our summer virtual retreat June 5th
Can’t wait to see you all soon!
Michelle
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It’s going to be a whole truckload of fun!!  We would LOVE to see you there!

Pocket Card Perfection Blog Hop

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Welcome to another fun blog hop!  Today we are focusing on the PML cards!  So, right now, there is a special on these fun cards, they make scrapbooking super easy, but they can also be used for cards, like I am showing you today!  So, if you got here from Darlys’ blog, perfect!  If you started here, also perfect!  The hop is a circle, so you should end up back where you started!

My card today uses a few different things!  I have the Lovely PML cards (well, one of them), the current Mix In paper packet, the Lovely paper packet, the rectangle dies, and the March Stamp of the month.  I used one of the patterns from the MIFYH V4 book (though, I adjusted it a bit to fit the 3×4 card).

 

 

This card went together really very quickly!  The Blue Belle cardstock was a bit too plain for my liking, so I stamped the butterfly wings from the March SOTM in mink ink to give it just the tiniest bit of texture.

 

 

I love how perfectly this whole thing came together!  I would love to know what you think!  After you leave a comment (pretty please!), hop on over to Lauren’s blog to see what she has for you!

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

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March/April Catalog New Product Blog Hop

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Welcome to another blog hop!  This one is for all sorts of new product!  As I am sure you know by now, the new book came out at the beginning of the month, and so we have more paper and more stamps, and more fun things to play with!  Today you will get some fun examples of what you can do with all of those fun new things!  Today you may have gotten here via Darlys’ blog, or you may have started here.  It’s perfect either way!  The hop is a circle, so when you are done, you should end up right back where you started!  That being said, let’s get to the pretty stuff, shall we?

I decided to use the Daisy Meadows paper packet, and make a super easy, super cute little gift bag!  This would be perfect for something small, like I have shown for someone, for any reason, really!  This paper is obviously themed for Easter, but there are some other papers in this paper packet that could be used for any number of things!  (plus, we all have paper, right?)

I got the idea and the measurements from Jackie Bolhuis.  It went together so quickly!  This would be the perfect little party gift bag!

I tucked in some Easter grass, some fun pearls and shimmer brushes, and of course some chocolate bunnies!  What would YOU tuck into this adorable little bag?  Leave me a comment below and let me know!  Then, hop on over to Lauren’s blog to see what fun stuff she has for you!

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

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It’s a Color Challenge with a Midas Touch!

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I do love to work with color challenges!  And this week we have a new one!  The challenge is GOLD!  That’s the only ‘given’.  You can mix and match with any other colors that you would like!  I don’t know about you, but this gives me a perfectly good reason to use the Gold Foil Patterns Paper Packet!

So, I will admit, that I didn’t know what exactly I was going to do at first.  I wanted to use the gold foil paper packet and the new Daisy Meadows paper packet.  I didn’t know which of the papers from either packet, so I went and played on Pinterest.  I found the start of a great idea, and went with it!

How beautiful is that paper??  So, when you get the gold foil patterns paper packet, it is white paper with gold foil.  No other colors.  So, I grabbed the water color pencils and added some in!  I didn’t want to use the markers, because those will also color the foil, and if I’m being honest, I didn’t want to have to be that careful!  LOL!!  

The sentiment is stamped in peacock ink to match the background paper.  I added two of the tiny pink dots from the Daisy Meadows dots to the right side to create the visual triangle.  This card went together really quickly, even with the coloring!  Join me at 5pm as I make this card over on my FB page!

Gold Foil Pattern Papers

These are the patterns of the paper packet, aren’t they fun?

I encourage you to play along with both H2H in their bi-monthly challenges and also with me in my 52 weeks of Cards challenge!

I would love to hear what you think of this card!  Which of the gold foil patterns is YOUR favorite?

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