The Everything ABC's Blog Hop - letter C

Welcome to the Everything ABC's Blog Hop!

For this hop we will be featuring the letter C.  This may be the name 

of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment.  Whatever the crafter has

 chosen as their C element will be featured in their post.

If you came from Wendy Kessler's - My Scrapbooking Blog, then you're on the right track!

For my "C" inspiration, I love my Cricut Cartridges and the sound of Cutting with the 

Cricut machine.  I'm a Card maker and so the inspiration I Concocted for this hop is a 

Cute Cricut Cut Cake Card. 

I cannot wait to see all the C inspired Creations. 

Love how quick and easy it is to make cards with the CTMH Artfully Sent cartridge.

The "Happy Birthday" sentiment is from one of the Art Philosophy stamp sets (D1497)

Also loving the Charlotte Paper Packet.

Your next stop on our Everything ABC's blog hop is Tonya Whitehurst of With All My Heart & Soul Blog

In case you get lost along the way...go to Catherine Nowak for a complete list of participants!

Seasonal Expressions 1 New Product Blog Hop

Welcome to the CTMH New Product Blog Hop!   We will be featuring items from the new Seasonal Expressions 1.  If you have come here from Jacquelin Green'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, the list of participants can be found HERE

This month we have approximately 31Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using new items from Seasonal Expressions 1 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 chose to work with the Penelope Workshops Your Way kit (G1106)  

It makes 4 layouts, and there are also instructions for cards.  

 I just opened the packages and in 30 minutes had a 5 X 7 card of my own design.  

Using the choices of papers, compliments, Washi tape and puffies.

Kit Contents

1. G1106Workshops Your Way™ Penelope Kit (includes):
2. 1 – Penelope Paper Pack
3. 1 – Penelope Complements
4. 2 – Cardstock Sheets
5. 1 – Limeade Washi Pack
6. 1 – Playful Puffies

Each workshop has Picture My Life Cards. The back of this view repeats each card in a second view.  If this side is horizontal, the other side has the same image in a vertical view. 

The sentiment is from this month's Stamp of the Month

Now "Hop" on over to Kirsten Jade'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 items in Seasonal Expressions 1 are only available from January through April 2016. Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get these products!

Texturizing Techniques

These are four fun ways to add some texture to our art.

Looking forward to crafting next week at the FIRS Conference Center Bellingham

Wednesday though Sunday 

1-20-16 through 1-25-16

click here for details.

Crafting with great friends, it's the best!
will post the results of all the new techniques I'm exploring.

Everything ABC's Blog Hop - letter B

JUST TOO BUSY............

BUSY BEE.....................

I missed The Everything ABC'S Blog Hop - Letter B , 

but do have a Bee Buzzing in my Bonnet 

and it's the Bokeh technique.

The hop list is found on 

Catherine Nowak's Blog  

Create a beautiful background with the Bokeh technique

Here's a great tutorial for the Bokeh Technique.

Simple and Short

Technique Blog Hop - Bokeh Stamping

For this blog hop we are featuring the Bokeh technique.  If you came here from  Priscilla Gotham'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 Melissa's Blog 

This month we have 9 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using the Bokeh stamping techniques along with a variety of our great CTMH products. To enjoy this hop is quite 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! 

The difference between these two cards is that I spritzed the second one with a little water.  So very simple and quite easy really!

I love this technique and hope to play more and 

will be adding more art to my blog as I explore this technique.

This is another card I made some time ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaH0QE01D1s

I've also posted it on my blog.

 Now hop over to Marianne Hancock and see what amazing art she has created.  Thanks for stopping by.  Please, be sure to leave a comment and let me know what you thought of my inspiration.

CTMH National Papercrafting Month Blog Hop

Welcome to the CTMH National Papercrafting Month Blog Hop!  

We will be featuring the January Constant Campaign, which is the exclusive Picture My Life™ Live Your Day scrapbooking program—available for this month only! This collection was designed to coordinate perfectly with the sensational Everyday Life™ 2016 Planner Pages and My Crush^® Everyday Life Pages, so you can seamlessly integrate pocket scrapbooking into your 2016 planner. Whether in the planner or on their own, these cards make it easy to preserve your everyday moments all year long..  If you have come here from Lela N'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:  http://ifyoublingit.blogspot.com/p/stamp-of-month-blog-hop-list.html.

This month we have approximately 19 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's National Papercrafting special, "Live Your Day" PML cards 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've never used the PML cards other than to make cards.  So I'm now challenged to make some layouts and use these in my planner, but I'm also "Time Challenged" so for this hop, I made a REALLY quick and easy card. Here it is.

Now "Hop" on over to Haley Dyer'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 January National Papercrafting special is only available until January 31!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this exclusive PML, Live Your Day scrapbooking program!

January SOTM Blog Hop - Beloved Bouquet

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  We will be featuring January's SOTM, which is Beloved Bouquet, a set of 14 stamps.  If you have come here from Catherine Nowak of Catscrapbooking, 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:  http://ifyoublingit.blogspot.com/p/stamp-of-month-blog-hop-list.html.

This month we have  approximately 33 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!

 

This card is so simple.  I used Sorbet paper and White Daisy. The "Base and Shade" stamps are fun to use.  See page 55 of the CTMH Annual Inspiration for more information.  The large flower is stamped first in a solid underlayer with Honey and then I used the Rock and Roll technique to add Sorbet around the edges. Second, I used Sorbet for the detailed stamp.  The smaller accent flowers are stamped in Pomegranet.  The leaves are stamped in second generation Fern for the solid layer and then the details also stamped in Fern.  The message was also stamped in Fern.  Want more bling?

I added gold sequins, sparkles and the new Black and Gold Ribbon found on Pg 5 of the newly released CTMH Seasonal Expressions 1.

Now "Hop" on over to Haley Dyer of The Inky Scrapper 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 January SOTM is only available until January 31!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!