Share a Smile Blog Hop

Welcome to the CTMH Share A Smile Blog Hop

We will be featuring the the CTMH Share a Smile card kit.

The exclusive Share the Smile card kit gives you all the materials you need for creating 
32 Adorable cards using the "Punny Pals Stamp Set" and matching Thin Cuts. 
Available only during October. 
With the purchase of every Punny Pals stamp set, Close To My Heart donates $7 USD of the proceeds to Operation Smile™, an organization that provides surgeries to repair cleft lips and palates for children around the world. 

If you came here from Michelle Loncar'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: HERE

This month we have approximately 19 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using the exclusive From the Heart card kit 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 on!  Here we go!  

Now "Hop" on over to Brenda Lapp's blog to see her work!  Be sure to visit all the consultants at their blogs to get some great crafting ideas!  To get any of the products you see, contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here)

CTMH Technique Blog Hop - Terrific Tags

Welcome to the October CTMH Technique Blog Hop

For the October CTMH Technique Blog Hop, we will feature the use of tags, Thin Cuts, Tag Kits or any product designed for tags. I'm excited to see the variety of paper crafting ideas that we will find on this  hop.  

 If you are coming from Melissa's blog you are on the right track.  In case you get lost, you can also get a complete list of participants at the bottom of Melisssa Robinson's blog. This month we have approximately 9 Close to My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using the new CTMH Thin Cuts or Tag Kits along with a variety of other great CTMH products.  To enjoy this hop is quite simple to do - just click on the link at the bottom of the post on each blog to move to the next one.
Here we go! 
There are several options for tags in both the Annual Inspirations and Holiday Expressions. I couldn't decide and only quit when I needed to get some sleep.
So I started with the Cut Above Tag kit Annual Inspirations pg 31 I'm at a water color class at the North Casades Institute so naturally I needed to color in the flowers and and used the tag make a card.

The sentiment is from "Many Congratulations"


The I've always liked the Box Fold Card and thought it would be great to make a card that looked like a gift. I used the Whimsy Paper and ribbon pack. Also used the Thin Cuts - Basic Tags found in the Annual Inspirations page 96.

This card folds like a box and works great with our double sided papers. 

 I will post instructions if anyone is interest. 

There are a lot of stamps that fit on the Tag Thin Cuts.
For the Box Card, I used "The Thought That Counts" Holiday Expressions Pg. 55

I also used, "Season of Sweetness" Pg 40 on the Holiday Expressions. You don't only have to use stamps designed for the tag Thin Cuts - other stamps also fit, such as, "Pince of Peace" pg 56 in the Holiday Expressions. Last but not least, I used the stamp set from our "Share a Smile" special of the month. $7 of each stamp set purchased goes for Operation Smile, helping children around the world providing corrective surgery for cleft lip and pallette. There are 13 adorable critters with 23 "Punny" messages.

                       

Now, hop on over to Debi McBain's Blog to see what kind of fabulous art she's created.   Be sure to drop a comment, we enjoy the encouragement.  I hope you enjoy the Hop!

October SOTM Blog Hop - Christmas Tunes

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

We will be featuring October's SOTM, which is "Christmas Tunes", a set of 7 stamps.  If you came here from Tracie Cassidy'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: HERE.  This month we have approximately 26 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using the October 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!

I love the new Beary Christmas Paper Packet.  

I masked the tree stamp and first stamped it in fern 

and then used cranberry for "Christmas". 

All stars were colored with the Golden Yellow ShinHan markers. 

 Random sparkles were also colored yellow with the markers. 

Bitty sparkles were added to the some of the stars on the tree 

and one regular Sparkle was added to the top star.     

The twine is from the Enchantment Ribbon Pack.

The tree was backed with Fern CS and lifted with foam tape. 

The wreath was stamped in Fern ink and instead of the banner I added 

the Thistle ribbon from the Whimsy Ribbon Pack. 

The holly leaves were colored with Fern using the watercolor brush 

and the Bitty Sparkles, colored them with Lavender ShinHan markers, 

were  added as Holly berry clusters. 

The wreath is framed with layers of Thistle and Gold Foil Paper. 

O Holy Night was stamped by masking the banner and adjusting the curve, 

three gold sequins with a thistle colored sparkle in the center 

were added to balance out the sentiment. 

The wreath is stamped in Fern and the banner was stamped in Thistle. 

A thin layer of  gold was added with the Gold Shimmer Brush

The holly leaves were colored with Fern using the watercolor brush 

and the Holly berry clusters were water colored with Thistle ink. 

The wreath is framed with layers of  Gold and Thistle card stock. 

The bottom panel is a layer of Thistle Card Stock and Gold CS 

topped with the Thistle ribbon from the Whimsy Ribbon Pack. 

Now "Hop" on over to Janna Gray's blog  to see her inspiring work!  Be sure to visit all the consultants at their blogs to get some great crafting ideas!  Remember, the October SOTM is only available until October 31!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!