Paper Trail Blog Hop - Anything Goes!

Welcome to the Paper Trial Blog Hop! 

You should have arrived from Karen's blog, but this is a circular hop so it doesn't really matter where you begin.  ;)

Each month the Paper Trail Blog Hop features a specific Close To My Heart paper pack, but with a new Idea Book starting August 1st and 8 whole new paper packs to choose from, the powers that be have decided that this month the theme is "anything goes"!  So we are allowed to choose whichever paper pack we want to work with. 

I decided to work with the Mischief paper pack because it works perfectly with Wicked, the August Stamp of the Month.

(Unfortunately at the time of my getting ready for the hop, my order of new product had not yet arrived so I had to use cardstock in the same colors that are in the Mischief paper pack.)

Now the obvious use for Mischief is Halloween themed projects, but if you take a close look at the papers in this pack you'll see that you could easily use most of them for any antique themed purposes, too.  Very cool.

So some quick notes about my card...

• I stamped the "honeycomb" image onto Desert Sand cardstock with Desert Sand ink
• I used my Cricut to cut the black triangular shapes
• I created my paper yo-yo with a 1 1/4" x 12" strip of Grey Wool cardstock, scored at every 1/4"
• I stamped the sentiment onto my paper yo-yo with black ink to give the cardstock some pattern
• I clear embossed my main image and sentiment
• I sponged Black ink onto the outer edges of each piece of cardstock before assembly

I hope you enjoyed my card.  Please continue along the Paper Trial Blog Hop to see what Betsy has created.

If by chance you get lost along the way, here's the list of Paper Trail Blog Hoppers:

Betsy

Linda

Terri

Pam

Mary

Lynne

Karen

Vicki (you are here)

Happy creating! :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  Black, Grey Wool, Sunset, Barn Red, Desert Sand, Colonial White Cardstock

Stamp:  Wicked - Aug. SOTM

Inks:  Black, Desert Sand, Versamark

Embellishments:  Chocolate striped grosgrain, Licorice Adhesive Gems, Sunset Button, Pewter Designer brad

Other:  Clear Detail embossing powder, Craft heater, Cricut and George & Basics Shapes cartridge (Provo Craft), Score Board (Martha Stewart), Micro-tip scissors, Sponge, ScorTape (ScorPal)

Cherish The Day

A little old meets new in this card.  I used an old retired set called Oriental Foliage that I had purchased from another Consultant when it had already been retired for quite a while.   {Just goes to show that these old sets are still out there if you ever are looking for a specific set.}

The sentiment is from a new set called Cherish The Day which will be available in November as the Stamp Of The Month.

I like this card.  It's simple, yet elegant in its own way.

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  Colonial White, Kraft, Smokey Plum CS

Stamps:  Cherish The Day - Nov. SOTM, Oriental Foliage (retired)

Inks:  Gypsy, Desert Sand

Embellishments:  Purple sparkles, Chocolate grosgrain

Other:  3D foam tape, ScorTape (ScorPal)

3x3 Card Set and Fold-Up Holder

I found some time to play with my inks and stamps and created this pretty little set of 3x3 cards with an easy-to-make, cute little holder.  There's room in there for the envelopes, too.  ;)

I'm still waiting on my new product order from the new Close To My Heart Idea Book - available August 1st.  Once it arrives, I think I may just have to make another one of these sets with new product.

I random stamped my Kraft cardstock using the I Am stamp set from an old kit called Tickled Pink.  You could very easily use any floral set in it's place, though. 

(Or if you don't feel like random stamping, just use B&T instead.)

I used a stamp set called Tasty Treats on the belly band that wraps around the holder, along with the same flower and leaf images from the I Am set.  {I'm not sure if the Tasty Treats set is retired or if it's still available, but I do have a brand new set if anyone is looking to buy one.  I ordered it a while back by accident, and I'm more than willing to sell it.  I don't really need 2 of them...  lol}

Quick instructions to make the holder and belly band:

Holder - Kraft CS:  3 1/4" x 12"; score at 2 1/4", 2 3/4", 6 1/4", 6 3/4", and 10 1/4"

Belly Band - Smokey Plum CS:  1" x 8 1/2"; score at 2", 2 5/8", 5 7/8", and 6 1/2"

Finished holder size:  3 1/2" (h) x 3 1/4" (w) x 1/2" (d)

 

I hope you enjoyed my project today.

 

Why don't you give it a try?

They make a great little hand-made gift.

I'll be giving this one away myself on Monday to one of my Workshop attendees as a door prize.

 

Happy creating!  :)

 

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  Kraft, Smokey Plum, Colonial White CS

Stamps:  I Am from Tickled Pink kit (retired), Say It In Style, Tasty Treats

Inks:  Desert Sand, Chocolate, Gypsy, Garden Green

Embellishments:  Chocolate grosgrain, Amethyst buttons, Colonial White waxy flax

Punches:  Dotted Scallop border (EK), 2" circle (Fiskars), 2 1/4" circle (EK)

Other:  Sponge, 3D foam tape, ScorTape (ScorPal)

You're Sweet

I took a break from creating wedding cards to make this sweet card.  Don't you just love ice cream?  My fave flavor is chocolate!  What's yours?

I stamped the circles in Chocolate ink onto Baby Pink cardstock to add some pattern to my card.  And I clear embossed the Colonial White ink, AKA the vanilla ice cream layer, to help it stand out a little more against the White daisy cardstock.

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I'm sure this will be a busy week for me because the hubby took the week off.  So we'll be doing lots of stuff around the house.

Until next time, happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper: Kraft, Baby Pink, Colonial White, Chocolate, White Daisy CS

Stamps:  Fanfare, You're Sweet, Hit The Spot

Inks:  Chocolate, Cotton Candy, Colonial White, Desert Sand, Versamark

Embellishments:  Cotton Candy pom-pom ribbon, Hollyhock button, Colonial White waxy flax, Chocolate grosgrain

Other:  Clear Detail Embossing powder, Micro-tip scissors, ScorTape (ScorPal), 3D foam tape, Craft heater, Nestabilities Lg. Labels die (Spellbinders)

Follow Your Heart

Still on my mission to have some wedding cards in my stash, I created this beauty yesterday.

I have a 50/50 mix of Prisma Glitter and Clear Embossing Powder that I keep on hand; I used that on my butterfly.  The embossing powder seals the Prisma Glitter onto the butterfly so it doesn't flake off all over the place.

You can find the link to the tutorial for the Bachelor Button flower right HERE within this post.

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I created another card yesterday, but I'll save it to post for another day.

Happy creating!

Supplies (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  Night & Day DSP (SU); Black, Grey Wool, Sorbet, White Daisy CS

Stamp:  Follow Your Heart

Inks:  Black, Sorbet, Versamark

Embellishments:  Licorice Opaques, Black satin ribbon (Walmart)

Punches:  Lg. Monarch Butterfly (Martha Stewart), Giga Scallop Heart (Marvy Uchida), Leaf (Martha Stewart), Scallop border (SU)

Other:  Prisma glitter, Clear embossing powder, Craft heater, Micro-tip scissors

It's Time To Sell Them Off...

Other than wedding cards, it seems that I have a rather large stash of cards.  How on earth would I ever use these all???

That has me thinking that it's time to offer them up for sale.

If you see any card on my blog that you would like to purchase, please contact me and we'll work out the details.  As long as I still have it in my possession, it's yours!

Just email me with the posted date of the card and a brief description, and whether you live in Canada or the US (or elsewhere), and I'll get back to you.


Have a wonderful day!  :)

 Edited to add:  Just to clarify, my box templates are not being offered as a bonus with purchase of these items.  Those templates are only available with puchase of specific handmade cards that you can view HERE.  :)

CTMH July Spotlight Blog Hop... Color-Ready Kraft Borders

Welcome to the CTMH July Spotlight Blog Hop!  This month we are spotlighting the Color-Ready Kraft Borders.  These come in a handy pack of 50, with several different border patterns and with each at 12" long, you have so many choices.  These borders can be stamped (like I did on my card above), inked, embossed, or left as is, and they are self-adhesive which is perfect to add a quick border to any project.  Love these!

You may have arrived from Wendy's blog, but don't worry if you didn't because this is a circular hop, so it doesn't matter where you begin.

For my card, I started with stamping with Black ink using a small damask pattern from Damask Tiles onto my Color-Ready Kraft Border and built my card from there.  I love how the Kraft color peeking through works so well with the Creme Brulee color. 

I used the Two-Step Backgrounds to make my patterned paper.  I'm loving my background stamp sets, so I've been putting them to good use a fair amount lately.  Gotta get your bang for the buck, I tell ya!  I love backgrounds just for that reason.  You can totally create and then re-create something entirely different with them.  But I digress...  ;)

About my felt flower;  I recently got a new washer and dryer set from Sears for our new home and they had large pieces of black felt wrapped around each of their tops measuring about 1 metre x 1 metre.  I totally saw the potential in this "packaging material" and saved it to use it in my scrapbooking.  You can find tutorials on how to make these flowers, but basically I cut a rough circle by hand (about 3-4" in size), then cut it in a spiral starting from the outside and working in towards the center.  Then I just used my very old glue gun to glue it together and then added some white stamens to the center.  Easy peasy.

I hope you enjoyed my card.  Please continue along the hop to Mary's blog to see what she did with the Color-Ready Kraft Borders!

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):
Paper:  Colonial White, Black, Creme Brulee CS
Stamps:  You & Me, Two-Step Backgrounds, Damask Tiles
Inks:  Black, Creme Brulee
Embellishments:  Color-Ready Kraft Border -scallop shape, Mocha Opaques adhesive pearls, Black felt (unknown), White Pearl Stamen (Wedding Garden)
Punches:  2" scallop circle, 2 1/4" circle (EK)
Other:  Glue gun (unknown), 3D foam tape, ScorTape (ScorPal), Micro-tip scissors

Love Is All You Need... {Color Dare Challenge #1}

There's a brand new challenge blog out there called the CTMH Color Dare blog.  I think it's great to have a color challenge blog based soley on Close To My Heart colors.  So I took on the challenge this week.

Our colors to use this week are:  Twilight, Pansy Purple, Sunset, Cranberry, and Sorbet.  We are to use either all of the colors or pick the ones we want to use from the selection.  I chose Twilight, Pansy Purple and Sunset for my card. 

Inspiration for my card came from one done by fellow CTMH Consultant Tammera Wisterman.  She used the same retired Happiness stamp set in a very similar way on her wonderful card, and it inspired me to dig my Happiness stamp set out of my "for sale" pile and put it to use.

I also pulled in a little (neutral) black ink onto my card, stamping the musical notes background onto my Colonial White cardstock.  I inked up the image and stamped it off once onto scrap paper before stamping the image onto my cardstock, making it not so dark and allowing it to blend into the background better.

I had punched the circle shape out of my top layer and attached a Pansy Purple piece of cardstock in behind it, but afterthoughts have me thinking that if I created this card again I would change it to a matted piece instead; having the Pansy Purple mat the Colonial White piece and layering it on top of the Twilight.  But it's too late to change it now.  ;)

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I'll be back tomorrow with a blog hop project.

So until then, happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  Twilight, Pansy Purple, Colonial White CS

Stamps:  Universal Backgrounds, Happiness (Retired), My One & Only (Retired)

Inks:  Twilight, Pansy Purple, Sunset, Black

Embellishments:  Sunset button, ribbon and metal tag; Natural Hemp, Love Story Rub-on (Retired)

Punches:  1 1/4" circle, Cornice border (Martha Stewart)

Other:  Sponge, Paper piercer, ScorTape (ScorPal)

Hold On To Each Other {Mojo Monday #199}

Edited to add:  Gosh, sorry for the blurry photo... I need to check the settings on my camera, I see.

I had a friend stop by to drop off her son last night so I could take care of him while her and her hubby fly away for a week to attend a wedding on the East Coast (we live in Western Canada), and she asked me if I had a wedding card.  Ahem, me?... the card-maker... of course I do... don't I???  After some digging through unpacked boxes I did finally find one I could let her have.  But that definitely caught my attention.  I NEED wedding cards! 

So here we go... over the next while, I will be building up my stash (of numerous cards) to also include a selection for weddings.   Funny how one can have soooo many cards, yet still not have what you need when you need it.  How is that possible???  lol

So for my first card to add to my stash, I used the Mojo Monday sketch #199.

I used a similar color combo that I used for an upcoming blog hop I'm participating in on July 15th (be sure to watch for that!), minus the Grey Wool.

My paper rose is a cream colored one that I had bought at the local dollar store, and I sprayed it with a mixture of water/rubbing alcohol/Creme Brulee re-inker in my spray pen.  I trimmed off the greenery attached to the bottom of the store-bought flower and added my own leaves I created/cut out of Black cardstock.

My damask paper is made by stamping in Black and Grey Wool inks with the Two-Step Backgrounds stamp set.  Once again, an all-cardstock card.  Seems to be my thing lately.  ;)

Off for now... gotta do some little boy entertaining.

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):
Paper:  Colonial White, Grey Wool, Black CS
Stamps:  Two-Step Backgrounds, Bliss, My One & Only (retired)
Inks:  Creme Brulee, Grey Wool, Black
Embellishments:  Paper Rose (MultiCraft Imports), Opal Grey 5/8" satin ribbon (Walmart)
Punches/Dies:  2 1/4" and 2 1/2" circle punch (EK), Double Scallop border (Martha Stewart), Scallop Circle Nestabilities die (Spellbinders)
Other:  Spray pen, Paper crimper (Fiskars), Micro-tip scissors, Sponge, 3D foam tape, ScorTape (ScorPal)

I made the Top 10 for June at the H2H blog!

I made the Top 10 for June at the Heart 2 Heart Challenge blog for the BINGO challenge with THIS card.  Love that card. 

You should go check out the other artwork that was chosen for the Top 10.  Great work, ladies!

Exciting!  ;)

You Are In My Thoughts

I created another all-cardstock card, once again using my stamps to make my own patterned paper.

On this card I used the Universal Backgrounds and Rosy Regards stamp sets.

I still had my cardstock and inks out from creating yesterday's card and from all those colors, I picked out Pear and Lagoon for my main colors for today.  Love these colors together. 

I stamped the script background in Black ink onto Colonial White cardstock, and then stamped the roses in Lagoon ink and the leaves in Pear ink randomly to fill in the spaces.  With the denseness of the pattern of my background paper, it really makes the sentiment pop with all it's white space.

I made my bow in two pieces.  I wrapped a flat piece of ribbon around the card and adhered it in place with ScorTape.  And the bow I tied as a separate piece, then attached it in the center with ScorTape.  I like the look of bigger bows.  They're just fun. 

Hope you liked my card today.  Now why don't you pull out your stamps and make some randomed stamped papers???

Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):
Paper:  Pear, Colonial White, Black CS
Stamps:  Rosy Regards, Universal Backgrounds
Inks:  Pear, Lagoon, Black
Embellishments:  Black brads, Black polka-dot satin ribbon (Walmart)
Punches:  2 1/4" and 2 1/2" circle (EK), Apron Lace border (Fiskars)
Other:  Paper piercer, 3D foam tape, ScorTape (ScorPal)

Copics for sale...

I have 9 Copic markers for sale that I just don't use, so I need to find them a loving new home. 

3 are Originals

6 are Ciaos

(all like new - barely used, if at all)

Originals: 

• E11 Bareley Beige
• E33 Sand
• BV31 Pale Lavender

Ciaos:

• E04 Lipstick Natural
• YR00 Powder Pink
• Y11 Pale Yellow
• YG95 Pale Olive
• G00 Jade Green
• B45 Smoky Blue

$40, includes shipping within Canada or to the US.

I can accept Paypal for payment.

Selling as a bundle.

You can either email me or leave a comment with your email address if you want them.
vwizniuk@pris.ca

(Note:  my initials are written on them.)

Thought Of You Today... (H2H Inspiration Challenge)

This week at the Heart 2 Heart Challenge blog, there is an inspiration challenge going on. 

And this is our inspiration (below):

I took the bright summery colors from the inspriation photo and ran with them for my card.   I also decided to make it a long card (4" x 8 1/2") because of the way the inspiration photos are displayed in a long row.

I've had this Smiles stamp set that I used on my card for quite a while now, but I haven't played with it much (I think like once...), so I pulled it out to put it to some use today.  It's a very cute, whimisical set.

Until next time, happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):

Paper:  White Daisy, Pear, Sunny Yellow, Tulip, Ocean CS

Stamp:  Smiles

Inks:  Pear, Sunny Yellow, Tulip, Ocean, Sorbet, Black

Embellishments:  Sunny Yellow button, Crystal Blue waxy flax

Punch:  1 1/4" circle

Other:  Paper crimper (Fiskars), 3D foam tape, Paper piercer

You're Out Of This World! {Mojo #198}

Well it's Monday again!  You know what that means.... it's time to play along with the new Mojo Monday sketch #198.  They have another great sketch for you to try out.

A couple of little details about my card:  I used liquid glass on the window of the spaceship, and white rub-ons for the stitching detail -- the little Xs.

I love the CTMH Fanfare paper pack and MyStickease.  I find the papers and stickers very playful and fun to create with.

I also pulled out my Copics (that I need to use way more often than I do) to color my (Papertrey Ink) rocketship and flame images.

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Oh, and before I forget, I want to wish a big Happy 4th of July to my American peeps!

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Happy creating!  :)

Supplies used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted):
Paper:  Fanfare B&Ts; White Daisy, Black, Pacifica, Sky, Sunny Yellow CS
Stamp:  Boy Basics:  Out of This World (Papertrey Ink)
Inks & Copic Markers:  Black, Versamark; B97 Night Blue, B00 Frost Blue, Y08 Acid Yellow, YR16 Apricot, R46 Strong Red (Copics) 
Dies:  Rocket, Double-Ended Banners (Papertrey Ink)
Embellishments:  Fanfare MyStickease - star, Across The Board Rub-ons - stitching Xs
Other:  Liquid Glass, 3D foam tape, Micro-tip scissors, Clear Detail embossing powder, Craft heater

Happy Canada Day!..... and get the most Bang For Your Buck with CTMH

Happy Canada Day!

Well now that it's July, that means that there's something new being offered from Close To My Heart.

Only during July is when you can get the most "Bang For Your Buck"!

From now until July 31st, when you place a minimum order of $50, you can add one featured item for just $1.  Wow!

Here's the list of featured items you can get for $1:

X5811 Creative Basics^® Mistletoe (retail value: $9.95)
X5807 Creative Basics^® Animal Cookies (retail value: $9.95)
X8624 My Originals^® Bits & Pieces Card Kit (retail value: $14.50)
X8622 My Originals^® It’s Your Day Card Kit (retail value: $14.50)
X8623 My Originals^® Around the Holidays Card Kit (retail value: $16.50)

Let me know if you would like to place an order.  :)