August SOTM Blog Hop - Floral Celebration

        

Welcome to the August 

Close to my Heart Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

We will be featuring August's SOTM, which is "Floral Celebration", an amazing set of 20 stamps!! WOW!! You can get this set for only $5 with a qualifying order.  It will be fun to see the crafting inspiration found on this hop.  

If you came here from Brenda Lapp's Blog you are on the right path!  The blog hop is a complete circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.  If you get lost along the way, you'll find the list of participating consultants on Melinda's Blog: HERE

This month we have approximately 18 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using the August SOTM and other great CTMH products on the 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!

When I'm at a loss to create, I go to the CTMH "How-to Pattern Books".  I love making cards and there is always a need for a last-minute card so I went to the Make it From Your Heart Vol. 4,  a book of 24 patterns for cards. The hardest part is deciding which pattern to use!  I wanted to display a cluster of the available flowers from this stamp set and decided to use pattern # 2 found on pages 8 - 9.  I felt the center rectangle was too small, so I increase the evergreen paper by 3/4" length and width and the gold lining was increased by 5/8". 

I used the timber paper and zip-strip, the flowers and leaves are gold embossed and then colored with the watercolor pencils.  I also added some gold thread and ribbon.  Behind the evergreen paper from the mix-in paper-pack, I added gold foil paper. The sentiment is stamped in ruby with a ruby red CS border.

Now "hop" on over to Lauren Moore'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 August SOTM is only available until August 31!  Contact your CTMH consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set for $5!