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15 years of Close to my Heart goodness!

Bunny loves Coffee

This week’s challenge over at Heart 2 Heart is Out with the old and in with the new.  So, I thought, why not pair the two together!  As crafters, we don’t use up our stuff often enough!  (I can see you over there, hoarding your favorite paper!)  So, I grabbed a few new things and a few old things, and made this absolutely adorable card!  Then, I did it again, on a FB live!  That means that you will get a chance to play along and make the same thing!

The Happiness Lives Here paper packet is perfect happy colors for this card!  I have listed all of the supplies below, and made them clickable, so that they are that much easier to plop into your cart!

Go ahead and hop over to my FB page to watch the Live video!

And, remember, join in on the weekly card challenge!

This week, along with the H2H challenge I participated in the JUGS challenge, this week, their challenge is to use the word HELLO.  

Each week, I will give you two different challenges or prompts to help you create some cards.  Make at least 2 cards and share them on my FB page, with the photo from this card!  I cannot wait to see what you come up with!

 

CTMH Products Used:

 

 

Happiness Lives Here

Well, any papercrafter is always happy when there is new and adorable paper to be had, right?  Well, enter one of the new paper packs from CTMH!  Happiness Lives Here!  This is just one of NINE paper packs that is available to you RIGHT NOW from CTMH!  (and that doesn’t count the papers that are retired but still available!)

This paper is a whole bunch of sweetness!  Pinks and blues, almost a country-ish feel to it!

As you may know (or not, if you are new to my blog and/or CTMH), you have many different options when it comes to a paper line!  Let me show you just some of the goodness that you can get with this paper pack!  (Each title is linked to the shop, so you can easily add it to your cart!)

Paper Pack                                                                                                                                 

 

     Paper Pack with Sticker Sheet                   

 

Coordinating Cardstock                                                                                                          

  Embellishments: Wood Shapes                                   

PML Cards

 

Cricut Cartridge

(Image coming soon!)

 

 

Cardmaking Stamp and Thin Cuts

Scrapbooking Stamp

Scrapbooking Workshop Kit

Cardmaking Workshop Kit

 

 

All that goodness!  Isn’t it fantastic?!?!  This week I will be showing you some fun creations using this great paper pack!  There will be a few challenges shared along the way!  Make sure to check back each day!

 

I hope you enjoy your crafty time, and that you are making sure to schedule some for yourself at least once a week!!

 

 

National Papercrafting Month : Home Sweet Home

Did you know that January is National Papercrafting Month?  Isn’t that awesome!  CTMH has come out with a fantastic kit for you to enjoy the whole year through!  This fun frame kit will allow you to customize it for your own wants and is just absolutely adorable!

 

During the month of January, I will be doing some videos on my FB page, where I will put all the circles together and offering tips and tricks for some of the circles.  I will also have a few extra surprises for you!  I can’t wait to show you!

If you missed it, I did a walk through of what you would get in your kit on my FB page earlier today.  Head over there to catch it, and if you haven’t yet, please like my page, and comment on the video!

Click here to check out the Home Sweet Home Kit!

This will be so much fun!

Until next time!

January Stamp of the month meets Whole Latte Love

It’s a new month, which means another new Stamp of the Month!  This one is one that everyone could use!  We all should be sending thank you cards, right?  This set gives you so many ways to say thanks!  And!  It’s free for VIP customers with a qualifying order! 

This card was so fun and easy to make!  I loved being able to use so many different products with it!  (and you could use ANY paper that you have in your stash, or any of the new papers available today!

I did a quick video, that I then sped up for you to watch how I made it!  I was inspired by pattern 25 in the Make it from your Heart volume 2 for this card set up!

I hope you enjoy it!

I can’t wait for all the craftiness that will happen this year!  Watch over the next week for different challenges and such that I will be adding to my blog!

 

 

CTMH Items used:

Gifts from the Heart with H2H

Have you been watching the Crafting with Santa series?  It happens every Wednesday on my FB page.  Santa joins me and we craft a little something, that is a surprise to him until right then!

This last week we made these adorable little treat holders!  I even shared the design space file for it!  Makes it even easier!

 

The red and pink ones were the samples, and we made the green ones in the video!  I love how well they turned out!  Head over and watch the video and join in on the crafting with Santa!

H2H’s Peace on Earth

This week’s challenge over at the H2H blog is “Peace on Earth”.  This was a hard one for me, at first, because I don’t have any nativity type stamp sets.  So, I had to do some thinking as to how to make that work.  I think I succeeded!  🙂

I grabbed a piece of the watercolor paper, and decided to do a slimline card.  I cut my piece down to 3.5 x 9, and then started ink blending.  I used mostly our water based inks on here, however did not add any extra water.  I used: Glacier, Bluebird, Peacock, Sapphire inks, and then completed the blending with some black soot distress oxide.

Once I finished with the blending, I grabbed my clear shimmer brush and created some splatters, and then added some white dots with a white gel pen.  Next up was some snow banks, made easy with the fancy borders thin cuts and some white daisy cardstock!  I used some thin foam tape behind the top of the hills, and glued the bottom of the hills flat.  It gives it such a unique look!

Once I was done with that, I decided I needed something else for the card.  I couldn’t find a sentiment that was small enough, and understated enough for the card.  The first star I was going to go with, wasn’t quite big enough.  It got lost with some of those larger spots of shimmer brush.  But, I started thinking outside of the box, I mean, that IS how the whole thing got started, right?  I found this fairly perfect ‘star’!  It is actually the asterisk from the Brushed Letters Alphabet!  Stamped it with versa mark ink, and heat embossed it with some silver embossing powder.

I really love how this card turned out!  I hope you like it as well!  I would love to hear your thoughts, should I have stuck with the silver, or should I have gone with gold for the star?  

CTMH Items used:

 

I look forward to hearing from you all!  Thanks for checking out my card!  

Until next time!

Do you have Inky Fingers?

I know I do! I have been playing with the papers from the current books, and am just IN LOVE! For today’s hop, you may have started here, or you may have arrived from Wendy’s blog, either is great! The hop is a large circle, so you will end up where you started!

Today’s card was super fun to put together!  I used some leftover papers from the Serenity Cardmaking WYW kit.  I looked in the MIFYH 4 book for a fun easy card to make so that I could add some fun inky background to it!

 

I used our colored pencils to color in the flowers, no water needed!  a bit of the silver embellishing thread to wrap around, and it’s just adorable!  I used Sapphire ink with a sponge in the background to get the fun color ‘splash’! 

 

This card turned out SUPER cute!  (even if I did have to stray from my original plan because I didn’t have the right distress ink colors!)

 

 

I would love to hear your thoughts on this fun card!  Leave a comment below before you hop over to Maz’s blog!

 

Thank you so much for stopping by!

 

CTMH Items Used:

Serenity Cardmaking WYW

Intense Black Ink

Watercolor pencils

Sapphire Ink

 

 

 

Lovely Thank You

It’s time for another challenge over at H2H!  This week’s challenge is “Thankful”.  You can take that to mean whatever you would like.  I decided to go with a Thank you card.

I had a ton of fun using the card guide for the new Serenity cardmaking workshop with the Lovely Paper Packet!  I LOOOOOVE that the guides are perfect not only for the paper that they are shown with, but also with other papers as well!  This uses the pattern for card 3.  Isn’t it so pretty with the Lovely paper??

I used the Thanks thin cuts for the sentiment.  Vellum was the perfect shadow background!  Then I used two layers of white daisy and topped it all off with the White Opal Liquid Pearls!  I’m not quite as good at using them for that as some other big named people out there, but the card turned out SOOOOO fun!!

 

This card went together really fairly quickly!  The patterned papers are the front and back of one sheet!  I could easily get 4 cards out of it!  If you haven’t yet, pull out an older card-making workshop’s instructions, and use them for a different paper pack!  I bet you will LOVE how they turn out!

 

Items used today:

 Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you go and play along with the H2H challenge this week!  You have a whole month to play along!

Until next time, keep crafty my friends!

November SOTM Blog Hop – You Warm My Heart

Welcome to the November Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  If you’ve been around for a while, you see that I participate in these sometimes.  It is fun to see all the different card creations that people come up with (and layouts too!!).  This month, the stamp is SUPER adorable!  (It has to do with coffee and tea, so, of course I would love it!)  Today you should have arrived from Haley’s blog.  But, if you started here, no worries, you will make it back around to her blog!

 

This card turned out suuuuper cute!  I thank Andrea Sherman for doing a Youtube tutorial for this card!  Mine is different, mostly because I didn’t have all of the supplies that she did.  But, I wanted to show you that that’s ok!  You can still take inspiration from something and make it your own!  I even did a FB live with it today, giving you some tips with the liquid pearls and stickles!  You will want to watch that!

Here you can see the stickles and the different pearls!  I am seriously IN LOVE with these pearls!  You guys, they are AMAZING!

 

 

When I was doing the video, I had an idea to add some of the pearls to the poinsettias at the bottom.  What do you think?  With or without the red pearls?

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So, what did I use for these fabulous cards?  Well, most of the supplies are pretty basic!  I used some of the paper from the Wood Grain paper pack, I used White Daisy Cardstock and some Espresso cardstock.  The rest is ink and ‘fun’ stuffs!

So, let’s start with the measurements, shall we?

Now the inks that I used:

Other tools I used:

And the Fun Stuff!

Stamps:

With this wood paper and espresso cardstock combination, you could make the cups be any color you wanted!  And the sentiment could be anything as well!  I love love love this set!  

Now, before you hop along and see what Brandi has to offer you, I would LOVE it if you would leave a quick comment!  I am POSITIVE you will get a TON of ideas with this hop!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Remember, VIP customers can earn this stamp set for free!  If you don’t have a consultant already, I would love to help you!

 

Christmas Comes Early

Sometimes . . . right? If you are a crafter, it’s time to start thinking about what you are going to be doing for Christmas this year! If you aren’t going to be able to be around your family, you will want to get it in the mail a bit earlier than in years past!

This project started out as a simple little project, and got to be so much more by the time I was done! Do you ever have that happen??

So, today’s fun project is a paper bag that is filled with some fun things! A super cute card hides in the very back pocket, and in front, there are two cocoa packets, two instant coffee packets, and two little spoons!

I literally just used scraps of paper for this project! I bet NONE of you have ANY of those! 😉

The card was super fun, and so easy to put together as well! I did have to cut some pieces for it (a few extra to give it the chipboard embellishment feel), but it was soooo easy! Except for the card base itself, every bit of this card came from scraps as well! It was a project that was just meant to be!

And, of course, I couldn’t NOT do the inside as well! Yup, you guessed it, more scraps!

I hope you love my little project! Take a peek over at the H2H challenge this week (Christmas comes early), and play along!

Products used to create this project:
Comfort & Joy Paper Packet
Comfort & Joy Cardmaking stamps and thin cuts
New England Ivy Cardstock
Black Cardstock
Card base & Envelope
Foam tape
Liquid Glass
Versamark Ink
White Embossing Powder
Twine (from stash)

Tools used:
Fiskars Paper Trimmer
Micro tip Non Stick scissors
Heat Tool
Mini Stapler