Pocket Card Perfection Blog Hop

This blog hop will showcase the exclusive 

CTMH  Pocket Card Perfection special PLUS, ANY other of our current PML cards.

Enjoy awesome discounts on a selection of Picture My Life™ Cards with the Pocket Card Perfection special! The pocket cards featured in this special coordinate perfectly with the Lovely and Party Time paper collections from the 2020–2021 Core Products Catalog. To learn more about this special, review the materials on this LINK.

If you came here from Catscrapbooking 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 complete list of participating Makers on Melinda's Blog HERE.  This month we have 12 CTMH Makers sharing their creations using items from the Pocket Card Perfection special and other PML cards with 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!

 

Fastest cards ever!! Cut and paste, no stamping, and I still have left overs to make a couple more cards.  I purchased the special bundle and only used the PML cards from the "Lovely" Collection. and plan to buy more because they are so, so LOVELY!!

 Now "Hop" on over to Michelle Johns' blog to see her lovely work!  Be sure to visit all the Makers on their blogs to get some great crafting ideas. Please leave a comment, we love your encouragement. This special is only available through March 31, while supplies last. To get any of the products you see, contact your CTMH consultant or click HERE.

March/April Catalog New Product Blog Hop

CTMH has two catalogs. 

#1)  Core Products  September 2020 - August 2021. 

#2) A bi-monthly CTMH Catalog March-April, full of new products. This hop will show-case the new products from this newest bi-monthly catalog.

If you came here from Haley Dyer 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 complete list of participating CTMH Makers. HERE.

This month we have 16 CTMH Makers sharing their creations using products from our March-April CTMH Idea Book.  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!

 

The timing is perfect, I need a card for a friend who's been challenged with the devastating effects of ALS.  We have a group of friends providing meals via "Meal Train"; tomorrow's my turn and I need a card to go with the meal.  This is what I've created using materials found in our newest bi-monthly catalogue.  I love the Craft With Heart Cardmaking subscription for the inspiration I get.  So this month, I'm switching up a couple cards from the kit and creating a unique card for Ali. We know her hope is in Christ and she will once again be able to sing, no longer in the Whatcom Chorale, but in heaven's choir. The first symptom she noticed was the loss of ability to sing. We grieve with her and her family. We miss hearing her voice, her laughter, and pray daily for God's mercy. 

 

Close-up to show the clear shimmer - I couldn't get it to show the flowers 

and the butterfly at the same time.  Love the butterfly, just couldn't leave him out!

Paper:  Daisy Meadows

Cardstock: White Daisy

I used the stamp set from the cardmaking subscription

"Sending Many Prayers Your Way"

Also used the heart shaker supplies found in the subscription.

Stamp set with the flowers and butterfly is Daisy Meadows Scrapbooking Stamp + Thin Cuts 

Colors for the butterfly and flowers are 

Ink Oxide: Picked Raspberry and Spiced Marmalade (out of stock- returning TBD)

 Clear shimmer brush on the butterfly and flowers.

Color inside the heart, Mint, added with a sponge dauber - with the very light circular touch. - multiple repetitions.

Inks: flowers and butterfly (Intense Black)

and Sentiment (Peacock).

Now "Hop" on over to Michelle Johns' blog

to see her great work!  Be sure to visit all the CTMH Makers 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 Maker (or click here.)  FYI: If you place an order, you will get a FREE catalog.

CTMH Technique Hop - "Altered Wooden Shapes"

This blog hop will showcase techniques using "Altered Wooden Shapes".

This month we have 11 CTMH Makers sharing their creations using unique techniques with "Altered Wooden Shapes" and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This blog hop is a complete circle so you can start wherever you want and continue through to see all the "Altered Wooden Shapes" artwork. 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!

If you came here from Wendy Kessler's blog you are on the right path!  If you get lost along the way, you'll find the complete list of participating Makers on Melissa's Blog HERE.  Here we go!

I was stumped with this challenge, all I could imagine is changing the wood to look like metal by embossing the wood shape; so that's what I did!!  The wood shapes take well to coloring with markers, shimmer brush, inking them, so, why not alter the wooden shape with embossing powder!?            I'm eager to see the other "Altered Wooden Shapes."  

Items used

• Daisy Meadows-stamp and thin cuts - Z3932
• Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide - Z3833
• Spiced Marmalade - Z3829 
• Picked Raspberry - Z3827
• Daisy Meadows paper pack - X7266B
• Gold Embossing Powder - Z2066
• VersaMark Ink Pad Z891
• Mini Ink Blending Tool Z3886

Now "Hop" on over to Katy Taylor's Blog to see her work!  Be sure to visit all the Makers on their blogs to get some great "altered wooden shapes" 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.

In This Together Blog Hop

Celebrate happy memories made over the last several months with the In This Together collection! This fun paper suite features a brand-new paper packet and sticker sheet, In This Together Dots, and the My Acrylix® In This Together stamp set. The In This Together special also includes three bundle options, each available at a 20% discount.

 

This blog hop will showcase the exclusive 

CTMH  "In This Together Special"!

If you came here from Melissa Robinson'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 complete list of participating Makers on Melinda's Blog HERE.  This month we have 16 CTMH Makers sharing their creations using items from the "In This Together" special with 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 created a Gate Fold Shutter Card for my sister who's been living alone, in her condo, faithfully staying home except for doctor appointments and trips to the grocery store and wearing a mask. She's getting her second vaccine tomorrow and so excited that she will once again be able to attend church and worship in person. She only has TV, no internet, so really very isolated! She's a Champion!! 

Gate Fold Card Front

  

Open to see the shutter reveal a sticker mask that says,

 "I AM SMILING" 

Card inside

I saw the shutter card some time ago and it popped up 

again as I was recently visiting Pinterest and found great instructions on Lisa's Stamp Studio.z

Here's what I was able to create using the "In This Together" paper, stickers and stamps. I used the lined paper on the outside and the mask paper on the inside with a touch of a Zip-Strip (an extra matching strip of paper for a layout or card, with a list of the coordinating card-stock colors on the reverse side.) I stamped and fussy cut, "We Got This", "Social Distance Champion" and "Virtual Hugs", added the stickers, "COVID 19", "Quarantine" and "take a hike".

Embellishments: Wooden heart, Silver Glitter GEMS colored with the Orange TriBlend marker. If I could have found them, I would have used the "In This Together Dots"! Matching colors in 3 sizes. LOL!!

 

Open the card and the magic happens: the center opens like a shutter to reveal the mask sticker and statement, "I AM SMILING". This card looks complicated, though really is quite easy to put together. 

 

BASE: Nectarine CS cut at 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 & scored at 2 1/8 on one of the short sides, fold to the center to create the gate-fold. The opposite side isn't scored, just fold it to the center so it will meet at the middle of the card.  

The center of the card has three parts. 

1. The middle panel with a circle cut with the 2 1/2 inch circle die cut. A 2 x 2 scrap under the circle for the sentiment,  between the sentiment and the circle 

2. Two V cut shutter mechanism:

 cut at 4 x 3 - scored on the short side at 1/2 and the opposite side cut the V from the corners to the middle point of the 4 X 3 paper. overlap the two V cut rectangles so that the scored portion is lined up within the gate folds, apply adhesive to only the 1/2 inch portion, fold down the "gates" onto the glue, hold firmly, when adhered, lift the gates and the "shutter" will open.

 

Now "Hop" on over to Alyson Mayo's Blog to see her lovely work!  Be sure to visit all the Makers on their blogs to get some great crafting ideas. Please leave a comment, we love your encouragement. This special is only available through March 31, while supplies last. To get any of the products you see, contact your CTMH consultant or click HERE.

March SOTM Blog Hop - Winged Masterpiece

 Welcome to the monthly CTMH SOTM blog Hop!

This Hop will feature the March SOTM, which is "Winged Masterpiece", an amazing set of 15 stamps & it could be yours for only $5. It will be fun to see the stamping inspiration found on this hop. 

If you came here from  Miss. Carrie'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 Makers on Melinda’s Blog: HERE!  

This month we have approximately 19 Close To My Heart Makers sharing their creations using the March 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 decided to create a Double Z-fold Card.

Such a great stamp, so many possibilities, I random stamped the butterfly.  Though, have other ideas, it's a work in progress and I need a 36 hour DAY!! 

Second attempt - larger size card (5X7)

to accommodate the large butterfly

Also decided to ink the butterfly using

Ink Oxides

 

Materials:
Paprika and White Daisy cardstock 

 Intense Black Ink

The White Daisy Z fold card measures 7" X 10-1/2" 

scored at 2-3/4, 5-1/2.

 

The smaller inserted Z card measures 

4" x 9" scored at 3" and 6"

To create a contrast, I colored the butterfly using

Distressed Oxide inks: mixed "Mustard Seed" with "Candied Apple" to emphasize the larger flowers creating the Paprika tone and colored around them with Peacock Feathers 

 I wasn't happy with my first attempt.

I needed a larger card 

4 1/4 X 5 1/2 just wasn't large enough 

for that lovely butterfly!

Paprika and White Daisy cardstock with Intense Black Ink

Now "hop" on over to Alyson Mayo's Blog

to see her inspiring work!  Be sure to visit all the Makers at their blogs to get some great crafting ideas!  Please leave a comment, we love your encouragement.  Remember, the March SOTM is only available until  March 31!  Contact your CTMH consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set for $5! or even FREE as a VIP.