August CTMH Blog Hop

This is my first blog hop as a part of the Close to My heart Brae-er's group!  You should be coming from Brae's page but if not, please click on her link so that you don't miss her post!
I am excited to show you some new products that are available!

First up, is the August 2015 stamp of the month card.  You still have 11 days left to get your order in.  If you purchase $50 or more then you can get the stamp set for $5! It is the border around the happy birthday sentiment as well as the happy birthday! Other items used for this card are: White daisy card stock, Happy Everything stamp set for the inside sentiment, assorted edges stamp set for the background, sunset, hollyhock, pear inks and seaside paper pack.

I wanted to make a somewhat manly card for my step fathers birthday so I went with the seaside set and coordinating colours. Yep thats the good thing about the catalogues as they tell you which colours go best with the papers!

Here is another simple variation using the same stamp set but with Glacier and pear inks as well as the ribbon off of the Brushed paper pack.

 Next on my list to show you is the new Close to my heart embellishment organizer!  I was hesitant at first but I am too glad I bought it as I have things lying everywhere and can never find them!

 This item right now comes with freebie stickers or square inserts to put in your base and bling jewellery so I took advantage!

 Look how organized I am now!!!!!

Alright! now that you've seen my stuff, feel free to comment below, click on the link to purchase anything from me and/or then hop on over to Chris Robertson's Page to see her wonderful work! Thanks soo much!

Christmas in July #2!

When I made this card, I had inspiration from Donna Digby's card  and decided to use the same ink colours (Hollyhock, Olive and Sunset) but semi different stamp sets. I did still use the August stamp of the month for the sentiment but I used the "Dizzy circles" CTMH stamps for the  background.  I always underestimate the beauty of a simple card but I am really satisfied with this one!

Christmas in July #1!!!

This baby was made with the august SOTM and Dizzy circles from CTMH.  I used Ruby and Olive inks which work well together! I also embossed the top red sheet to give it a little dimension!

Inside of my Bar Mitzvah card

Quick card for a bar mitzvah

One of the boys that I tutor for invited me to his Bar Mitzvah.  I wasn't sure what the protocol was so I made a card for him with my new Simon Says Stamp Congratulations stamp and some CTMH alphabet stamps and the star in the background from the Hanukah set. I attached it with foam so that it popped out and made sure to distress the blue paper to give it some dimension. I didn't like so much white, so I added the ribbon and some black bling as it was for a boy and I didn't want it to look too girly!

Scrapbooking layout for mothers day!

My friend shown above has two little boys.  They are awesome!  My friend spends all her time scrapbooking their books but what about one for her? I decided to do one for mothers day because its very seldom that there are pictures with her and her kids.  I took the idea from nichol magouirk's layout http://www.nicholmagouirk.typepad.com/. I am quite please at the turn out!

Birthday card with new ctmh stamps

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Sympathy card

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Masking stamps technique

The holidays have begun!

This week starts Hanukkah and while I don't celebrate it at all, I have many friends and students who are Jewish.  I decided to learn a little more about it this year and made some goodies!

 I was quite pleased with the way this card turned out!  I used some of Salty Ocean distressed inks, CTMH outdoor denim and some random yellow ink.  I then used some recollections glitter tape and some random Michaels card stock and stamped the star with Glacier ink (CTMH). I am really loving the tone on tone colours lately!

I also used my new circuit explore (a late birthday, early christmas gift to myself!) to make this cute banner for the family who I tutor for!
Not crazy about my picture of it hung because my upstairs is quite narrow but you get the drift! ;)

Playing with watercolours!

Inspired by Brandy!

So tonight my dad left. He was visiting from Ohio for the week and helping me around the house with handyman things.  I didn't know what to do with myself and was still not ready to get started on school stuff (it's coming soo soon!!!).

Anyway, I went online to look for Halloween cards because I have a lot os sentiments cut out from the circuit that I wanted to use up.  Well.... you know how we get when we go on youtube...... You start clicking video after video and end up with something totally different than what we were looking for.  That happened to me today and I came across Brandyscards.com where Brandy shows you how to do 10 cards in 20 minutes.  This intrigued me as I am trying to get out some cards on etsy to get a fair amount out of the way once school starts (and hopefully gain some more income!).

Brandy is a stamping up demonstrator so I did the same idea but with Close to my heart stamps.

What I did was use 4.25 by 5.5 black card stock as the background.  The white cardstock was roughly 8 by 5.25 which I folded in half for the card.
I cut the following scallops from my circuit and alternated paper
2 3/8, 1 3/4, 1 1/4, 7/8.  On the white cardstock, I stamped the "Cricut bundle sweet and lovely" and "Art Philosophy seasons stamp set". Both came with the circuit cartridges and can not be purchased by themselves.  I stamped them in black ink and layered them with foam dots.
I stamped the "thank you" sentiment which I love and not from CTMH.
Lastly, I took scrap white paper and stamped the same stamp on it to create the "ribbon" effect on the side of the card.  I topped the middle with a crystal and Voila!
I think they are super cute and love how I can assemble them in no time!  Thanks #brandyscards for your idea!

See you later!

CTMH order came in!!!

Yesterday, I got the ever so exciting package in the mail of the close to my heart items that I had ordered!  I went straight to the designing board and practiced with a couple of my new stamps/inks!

Used Kaboom's stamping set, Balloon talk, Hopscotch alphabet, one way borders along with the art philosophy cartridge to make the heart and circle.

I used the art philosophy cricut cartridge to make the maple leaf with the seasons stamp set which comes with the cartridge.  I also used the one way borders (because I love them!) and Balloon talk for the Miss you sentiment.