Love of Color - CTMH Technique Blog Hop

Welcome to the CTMH Technique Blog Hop

The theme for the December CTMH Technique Blog Hop is "Love of Color".  This blog will highlight artwork using the newest CTMH "How-to Book", a fabulous reference book that

           * Fits inside our Everyday Life albums for easy and                                              convenient transportation.

          * Includes breathtaking artwork that illustrates how to create                                perfectly balanced color combinations.

          * Loose, 3-ring hole-punched pages; 8⅜ x 6⅞ 

If you are coming from Marciava Warrell's blog , you are on the right track.  In case you get lost, you can get a complete list of participants at the bottom of  Melissa Robinson's blog. This month we have 14 Close to My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using the "Love of Color" to inspire their art. 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!  

The CTMH Love of Color book is amazing.  I really hadn't checked it out so thoroughly and glad I joined this hop to see all the great ideas and "Artwork Tips".  My inspiration came from pg 35 using the following color combinations. sapphire, fern, goldrush, raspberry and pixie.  It's been a long time since I made one of these origami wreaths.  I first learned to make these from Julie Reynolds.  They really are easy. Today I was crafting with kids at church (19 total, though not all at the same time.) I really needed to look at the directions, though one of the 5th graders who learned to do the wreath 2 years ago was making one and quickly tutored me!  So FUN!!

Now hop on over to Catherine Nowak'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.  If you see an item(s) you would like to purchase, contact your CTMH consultant or you can shop HERE.

Holiday Anything But a Card Blog Hop

Welcome to the CTMH 

"Holiday Anything But a Card Blog Hop" 

For this blog hop, the challenge was to use current product to make anything but a card, plus, it had to have a holiday theme.  I'm curious what inspiration we will discover among our collective, creative brains.  For this blog hop we have 7 CTMH consultants participating. Haley Dyer'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 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!

For my "anything but a card", I decided to create an origami ornament.  This Saturday, I have planned a craft day with the kids from church, their friends and siblings.  This gives parents time to shop and wrap gifts without the kids.  I set up creation stations and the kids are really awesome, helping each other to create gifts, tags, cards, or some just like to color.  It's a great way to get rid of some of my stash, teach techniques and provide a fun time; a gift to my friends, their kids and I really feel like it's a gift I give myself - creative time with kids.... cannot get much better!
I had one hour to prepare and photo this orgami ornament - it's really FAST!  The hardest part is figuring out the instruction from the directions

https://snapguide.com/guides/make-an-origami-ornament-for-christmas/print
I love our white and gold skinny ribbon, perfect for these ornaments. 
I cut 6 inch squares from the "Season Mix" (green) and used both sides of the green "Tis the Season"
Looks like it just needs a touch of the gold shimmer brush!! haha!!
  I love all paper crafting. One year I made all my wrapping paper from Amazon packing paper -smoothed it out and rolled it up after stamping it with white snowflakes. (over 7 yards!!)

Now "Hop" on over to Katy Taylor  to see her work!  

Be sure to visit all the consultants on their blogs to get some great crafting ideas! Please leave a comment, we love your encouragement. To get any of the products you see, contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here.)

December SOTM Blog Hop ~ Candy Cane Alphabet

Welcome to the December SOTM Blog Hop

Candy Cane Alphabet

We will be featuring the December SOTM, which is "Candy Cane Alphabet", a set of 44 stamps!!  
  It will be fun to see stamping inspiration found on this hop. 

If you came here from Lauren Moore'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 14 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using the December 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 word JOY - and as I was thinking about what word I could stamp with this image, keeping in mind I need Christmas cards, I realized the word Joy was perfect - and I could add some holiday "JOY" using a wreath for the "O".  I found wreaths in two CTMH Cricut cartridges; several in Flower Market and one in Artistry.  My favorite is the  Pine Berry Wreath in the Cricut Flower Market Collection and used Fern for the Wreath and  Candy Apple for the Candy Canes.  The scalloped squares are from the Cricut Artbooking collection.  The red ribbon is from a strip of white and gold ribbon cut in 1/2 and colored with Candy Apple ink using a sponge dauber. 

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