Blessed Beyond Measure Cards

I just had to play with the CTMH September stamp of the month set, Blessed Beyond Measure.

I paired it up with the new CTMH Swan Lake papers.

For the card below, I random stamped the leaves onto a piece of White Daisy cardstock to create a pretty patterned paper, in the same colour scheme as Swan Lake.

Happy creating!   :)

♥

Build-a-Cake Money Holder Birthday Card

Cole was invited to a birthday this past weekend.

I find it is easiest to give money or gift cards to people we don't know well enough to know exactly what they would like, so I made a tall birthday card so he could gift her some cold hard cash.  

I used Heartstrings and Hopscotch papers, and the Build-a-Cake stamp set.

On the inside I created a simple pocket to hold the money,

and used the Belated Birthday stamp for the sentiment.

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used are all CTMH:
Paper:  Heartstrings, Hopscotch; White Daisy, Flaxen CS; Blue Glitter paper
Stamps:  Build-a-Cake, Belated Birthday
Inks:  Black, Flaxen, Glacier, Lagoon
Embellishments:  Black Enamel Stars, Clear Sparkle, Teal Shimmer Trim
Other:  Black Journal Pen, 3D foam tape

Stella Workshop (WOTG)

Yesterday I held the Stella Workshop in my scrappy studio in my home.

These are the Stella Workshop on the Go layouts and cards (images from Close To My Heart):

I had quite a lot of paper left over after creating my layouts and cards, so I came up with another 12x12 layout for my workshop attendees.

(inspiration for my layout came from this one)

If you are local and would like to be on my email list for information on upcoming classes/workshops, please let me know.  My contact email is at the top of the page.

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH):

Stella WOTG kit - includes Stella paper packet, Stella WOTG stamp set, extra Colonial White cardstock, Bohemian Assortment, Dimensional Elements Hearts, Instructions

Stamps:  Token Alphabet, The Best Things stamp

Inks:  Cocoa, Lagoon, Sunset

Embellishments:  Paradise paper flowers, Clear sparkles

Other:  Die-cut Colonial White cards, Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge, Micro-tip scissors, 3D foam tape, Scoring tool

Winning MIFYH Contest Entry #2

Alright, so here we are onto my 2nd winning project, which is another card.

This card won for the August Stamp of The Month - Wicked category.

I love how it turned out and I am happy that it won.  ;)

The cat was embosseed with Black embossing powder, and I added a little Clear Sparkle to it's neck/collar.

I'll be back tomorrow with a winning 3D item...

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH):
Paper:  Mischief B&T; Black, Colonial White, Sunset CS
Stamp:  Wicked - August SOTM
Inks:  Black, Chocolate, Sunset, Versamark
Embellishments:  Black button, Dk. Chocolate Striped grosgrain, Olive embroidery floss, Clear Sparkles, Rhinestone designer brad
Other:  Wishes, Black embossing powder, Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge, Corner rounder, Sponge

October Paper Trail Blog Hop... Believe

Welcome to the October Paper Trail Blog Hop!

You should have arrived from Pam's blog, but if you are starting here, that's okay because it is a circular hop.  ;)

This month we are featuring the new Believe paper pack.

This is the 8" x 3 1/2" card I made using this Chistmas themed paper pack.

I like to show the different side to themed papers, so instead of making a Christmas card, I changed up the theme and made a birthday one!

I used the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge to cut the present, circle and scalloped circle, so this card came together fairly quickly.

This card is pretty simple, but it's pretty cute, too.




Please continue along the Paper Trail Blog Hop by visiting Lynne's blog.



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If you get lost along the way, here's a list of our 9 hoppers:


Besty
Pam
Vicki (you are here)
Lynne
Linda
Mary
Terri
Karen
Connie





Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH):

Papers:  Believe B&T; White Daisy, Black, Sky, Sweet Leaf CS

Stamp:  Art Philosophy Celebration

Ink:  Black

Embellishments:  Holiday Red and Sky buttons, Licorice Opaques, Black grosgrain, Black embroidery floss

Other:  Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge, 3D foam tape

3rd non-winning MIFYH contest entry

Here's #3 of my non-winning entries I submitted to the Make It From Your Heart contest.

This one was for the October SOTM category.

I like to use non-traditional papers in less obvious ways to show how versatile they are, so I made this Christmas card with B&Ts from the Sonoma paper pack.

When you look at Sonoma, it doesn't really scream Christmas... lol

but look how pretty it is!

The snowflakes are stamped in Smokey Plum, then I restamped over them with Versamark and added a mixture of Prisma Glitter and Clear Detail embossing powder to give them a little dazzle.

Then I added purple sparkles to the center of each one.

Be sure to come back tomorrow for my next non-winner!

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH):

Paper:  Sonoma B&Ts; Colonial White, Cocoa, Smokey Plum CS

Stamp:  Holiday Magic - October SOTM

Inks:  Cocoa, Olive, Smokey Plum, Black, Versamark

Embellishments:  Designer Wooden buttons, Neutral embroidery floss, Purple Sparkles, Olive twill, Antique Copper brads

Other:  Wishes - Roundabout, Prisma Glitter, Clear Detail embossing powder, Cricut Art Philosophy, Micro-tip scissors, Sanding kit, Sponge

Humble Artists Swap card for August

It's now time to share my swap cards!

These are my swap cards I made this past July for the Humble Artists Swap which were for the August swap.

It was my turn to set the guidelines and these were what we all had to follow:

• 3 1/2" x 8" sized card
• Use a card design from Wishes or Originals
• Use one of your favourite colour combos from Jeanette Lynton's blog
• Use a circle and a square or rectangle somewhere on your card
• Use ribbon
• Use 2 other embellishments
• Have a minimum of 7 layers

I used a 50/50 mix of Prisma Glitter and Clear Detail embossing powder on the main bat stamped image, to give it a little glittery goodness.  I don't think my camera picked up the glitter very much in the photo.

I thought they turned out pretty cute, although I never really seem to give Halloween cards!

But they were fun to make, nonetheless.  ;)

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Layout:  Originals - Puzzle Backdrop

Paper:  White Daisy, Black, Clover Meadow, Twilight, Grey Flannel, Sunflower CS; Splendor B&T

Stamps:  Beware, Believe in Your Dreams

Inks:  Black, VersaMark

Embellishments:  Black stitched grosgrain, Pewter hinge, Pewter photo hanger, Pewter brads

Punches:  1 1/4" circle (CTMH), 1 1/2", 1 3/4", 2 1/2" circles (EK)

Other items:  Prisma glitter, Clear Detail embossing powder, Craft Heater, Paper piercer, Micro-tip scissors, 3D foam tape, Circle Coluzzle (retired), Pinking shears (Singer)

My non-winning entry #1 for the Make It From Your Heart contest

I received a call from CTMH Corp. office yesterday telling me that I won for 2 of my entries for the Make It From Your Heart Contest for Consultants before each new Idea Book release.  Yay!

So now I can show you my non-winning entries.  Instead of showing them all 3 of them in one shot, I'll post them one at a time over the next little while. 

My 2 winning entries will have to wait until October for me to be able to share them with you here.

This one is a 3 1/2" x 8" double tag card, with one of the tags designed to hold a gift card.  You can easily attach a gift card with a glue dot.

So come back soon, as I'll be posting my second non-winning entry...

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH):

Paper:  Magnifique B&Ts; Colonial White, Chocolate, Pacifica, Lagoon, Sky CS

Stamps:  The Present, Classmate Alphabet

Inks:  Versamark, Chocolate, Pacifica, Lagoon, Sky

Embellishments:  Chocolate polka dot organdy, Colonial White round edge anchors, Chocolate brads

Punches:  1 1/4" cirlce punch, Corner rounder

Other items:  Clear Detail embossing powder, Craft Heater, Circle Coluzzle (retired), Sponge, 3D foam tape

Wish Upon A Star... H2H8 challenge

It feels soooo good to get my fingers inky again! Sorry I’ve been MIA, but we were away for the long weekend, and then I was just too busy the past couple of days to play.

I LOVE to create my own patterned papers by random stamping, so when I saw that this week's challenge on the Heart2Heart challenge blog for H2H8 was to random stamp your own background, I just HAD to play again this week.  ;)

This fun card uses 6 different stamp sets (listed below).  I pulled out my old pinking shears from my sewing days for the decorative edge on the black cardstock piece.  I also used CTMHs Wishes card book (Top Band) for the card layout.

Why don't you play along?

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):
Papers:  White Daisy, Sunflower, Clover Meadow, Twilight CS
Stamps:  Noted Backgrounds, Star Power, A Twinkle, Believe in Your Dreams, Card Commentary, Wishes - Petite Perk
Inks:  Black, Sunflower, Clover Meadow, Twilight
Embellishment:  DE Stars
Tools:  Sponge, Pinking shears (Singer), Tombo Mono Multi (LSS)
Other:  Wishes Card Confidence Program

A new color combo for me...

I haven't put this combo together before (Sweet Leaf, Juniper and Twilight), but I likey! I saw a covered notepad on Debbie Olson's blog here and wanted to recreate it into a card using my CTMH products. So this is my version of her project, turned into an 8" x 3 1/2" card. I'm happy with it, other than I had to draw my stitched lines on because there is something seriously wrong with my sewing machine. It's probably just the operator! Or perhaps it may be from trying to sew through glue and all the sticky build up on my needle! lol But even after cleaning, checking it over, breaking a needle, checking it and trying it out again, it still didn't want to sew properly. It seems I only pull my machine out for my scrapbooking lately, so I'll have to try to stich without gluing it first next time. So anyways, for today I had to give up on sewing my stitches and resort to my white gel pen and a black journal pen. C'est la vie!

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted): Damask Tiles, Say It In Style, Tiny Typewriter Alphabet, Many Thanks, and Intrinsic Backgrounds stamp sets; Juniper, Sweet Leaf, Twilight, and White Daisy CS; Juniper, Sweet Leaf, Twilight, and Black inks; Signo Uniball White gel pen (SU); Black journal pen (CM); Circle Coluzzle; 2" circle punch (Fiskars); Make-up sponge (other); 3D foam tape (other).

Soccer card for Coach

This is a re-make of a card I did last year (done in team-color green), in which I CASEd the design from fellow CTMH Consultant, Heather Girard. To make my life somewhat easy, I mostly copied the design from my last card, and just changed the (team) color to yellow... but do you think I could find my soccer stamp set I used last year??? I must have loaned it out, because it is nowhere to be found. (Mom always said, "never a lender nor a borrower be...") I can't remember who I would have loaned it to, though. Luckily I had a few stamped images left over (and stored) from my green card, so I was able to make it work. I had to add a jersey because I could only find two stamped images. My son's jersey # is 16, so I added his number to personalize the card from him to his coach.

What I used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):
Best Shot stamp set
Sports Jersey's stamp set (retired)
Thank You stamp set
Argyle Backgrounds stamp set
Star Struck stamp set
Game On B&Ts
Sunny Yellow, Bamboo, White Daisy and Colonial White CS
Sunny Yello, Sunflower, Bamboo and Black inks
Black journal pen
Pewter mini brads
Edge distresser
Pop-dots (other)
Make-up sponge (other)

Another birthday...

Well, Cole had another birthday party this past weekend. For a gift, I ended up just getting a gift card. It's so hard to buy for people you know well, never mind for people you don't know at all. My son wanted to give his friend a toy that I couldn't find in the store, so...when all else fails, I give gift cards. Cole picked the stamp set he wanted to use and colored in the images himself. I picked cardstock from the colors he chose to color with and simply assembled a card. I made a simple pocket inside to hold the gift card and voila! Easy, peasy!

Celebrate... a birthday card

I pulled out my Originals book again and decided to give this card a try. It's called Center Sash, found on pg. 16. It's great how 'realistic' the cupcakes are getting in everyone's cards I've been seeing lately, and I love this SS. It's so fun to play with!

What I used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):
Originals - Center Sash
Cupcake Sprinkles SS
Happy Birthday SS
Unforgettable B&T (oh and That's Amore B&T for the top part of the cupcake)
Colonial White CS
Chocolate and Sorbet inks
Liquid Glass
Sorbet ribbon
Scallop Ovals (Spellbinders Nestabilities)
Scallop Edge punch (SU)
Make-up sponges (other)
Pop-dots (other)

Smile (with singing bird) card...

Well, I have to say, I really like the new book format of the Originals. This design is called Tie Back Tag and I altered it to a 8x4 card (instead of 8x3.5). I used the Evensong Creative Basics stripe B&T and just covered the red stripe with 1/2" strips of Olive C/S. Then I took some White Daisy C/S and ran it through my paper crimper and cut 1/4" strips and placed those down the center of the Olive strips. Adds a little extra character with the corrugated look, even though it doesn't show very well in the photo - it looks really cool IRL. The polka dots were done with a 1/2" circle punch.

What I used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):
Originals - Tie Back Tag design
April Word Puzzle stamp set
Evensong Creative Basics B&T (altered)
White Daisy, Bamboo, New England Ivy, Olive and Sorbet C/S
Olive, New England Ivy and Sorbet inks
Sorbet ricrac
Sorbet brads
Sorbet Token (CC)
Paper crimping tool (other

Girly birthday card (to hold a gift certificate)

Cole has a birthday party to go to today, so last night I made a card to fit the gift certificate. This past week I went into the Northern Toy Box to find a gift, because it's much more fun to open a present than a gift certificate, but of course there were way too many things and it was a tad bit overwhelming. What would she like? Does she already have one? I should of just asked her mom what she's into right now; would of made my job a little easier, but no. LOL So Cole and I left with gift certificate in hand. Kinda boring, so hopefully the card makes up for it a little. ;o)

Happy Birthday, Emily!


What I used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):
The Best Way stamp set
Happy Birthday stamp set
Birthday Wishes stamp set
Whoops-A-Daisy B&T
Hydrangea, Watermelon and White Daisy C/S
Hydrangea and Black inks
White Daisy Ricrac ribbon
Corner rounder (scallops)
Clear Dew Drops (Michaels)

Take Your Best Shot card

I've been ogling Heather Gerard's (fellow CTMH Consultant) fantabulous work with the Game On paper pack and finally found the time to do some work, using her creativity. (Thanks Heather!) I love the look of Clover Meadow with these B&Ts, as you will see when I get my LOs completed (hopefully today) and get them posted, too. The size of this card is 8 x 3.5.

What I used (all CTMH):
Best Shot stamp set
Star Struck stamp set
Game On bulk B&T
Clover Meadow, Bamboo and Colonial White C/S
Black and Clover Meadow inks
Black bitty brads
Distressing tool
Pop-dots (other)