My Creative Ink: March 2011

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Heart 2 Heart Challenges Blog : Sketch

Hello Everyone!
This week our challenge on the Heart 2 Heart Blog is to create a card using this sketch.

I was in the middle of a crop of 7 Close To My Heart consultants when I remembered that I had NOT started my card for the week. So I put all the birthday cards that I was making for the Divas and got to my sketch. I kept the them of birthday and I love, love, love the Sweetheart paper and I just think that cupcakes go great with this paper packet. I used a combination of cardstock and our clear cards to make the circle as a window.

So guess what everybody?....

For this week only, Heart 2 Heart is doing a prize for one lucky person who enters this weeks challenge.

So hurry, create something amazing and uploaded to us at H2H within this week and you may be the lucky winner this week. Can't wait to see what you all create!!!

April Sponsors will be announced soon, so check back to see who April sponsor will be.

Heart 2 Heart Design Team

Monday, March 21, 2011

Sophia Layouts

Hello Everyone!

Here are the Sophia layouts that I made for this months March workshop. I hope you are inspired to create your very own. These layouts cost a total of $55 plus tax and shipping, to make if you purchase all the items separate, however, if you join me for my monthly workshops, it's just $30!!! All layouts are pre-cut, pre-stamped, pre-everything... All you have to do is assemble!

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Heart 2 Heart Challenges Blog : Baby

Hi Everyone!

This week at Heart 2 Heart Challenges Blog it's all about the BABY!

So this week, was a little challenging for me, time wise. But I was able to make this simple but adorable baby shower goodie for you all to see. I first saw these little baby bottles in Tijuana inside a store window display. So of course I wanted to create them using Close To My Heart paper and as luck would have it, the challenge this week was about babies. This is a simple project and it really just took me about 5 minutes to make.

You can make these in every color you can think of and they are just adorable for your guest to have as a little reminder from a baby shower or you can print your baby's information on the white cardstock and use them as little birth announcements.

Project Recipe:

Hollyhock cardstock : 6 1/4" X 1 1/4" strip, dry emboss with lines and sand paper to show white lines

Desert Sand Cardstock or Kraft paper: 3" Circle fold in half, and a little rectangle for the nipple.

Plastic storage bags 3" X 4": Walmart in a package of 100 units, they are very inexpensive, I use them for extra embellishments, jewelry, etc...

White card stock for the inside

Candy,

Ribbon

and paper flowers.

Don't forget!... you have the entire month to play along with these challenges. Deadline to enter all March challenges is March 26th, 2011 at 10 pm EST. The more you play, the more chances you have to win the prizes from our lovely sponsors Angela Parchey and Lori Brown.

I hope that you are now inspired to create your very own "Baby" creation and share it with us at H2H!

Monday, March 14, 2011

CTMH Spotlight Blog Hop: Technique

Hello Everyone!

This month on the CTMH Spotlight Blog Hop, we are featuring techniques. If you just joined me from Tracey Oleksak's blog, you are in the right path. If not... No worries, it's a full circle! Continue on your journey and you will be able to check out all the fabulous artwork.

It was very tough to decide what to do and which technique to use. After long consideration, I went with the good old "Embossing".

Instead of going the traditional embossing on paper, I used our "Clear Cards" Z1323. I selected these little flowers that go very well with the Sophia stamp set and ran the clear card through the Big Kick. I stamped the matching flower images, cut them out and placed them in the same places as the embossed flowers.

The sparkles are on the outside of the card and for more dimension, I added some flowers to the outside too. There is first and second generation stamped images for the grass. The flowers were stamped with Creme Brulee and then I used the finger dauber to add Hollyhock ink to the stamp and then re-stamped right on top of the original image.

I have to be very honest with you all... I really don't like to add sentiments to the cards I make. Recently, I have been adding sentiments because of the challenges, but I like having the option of having blank cards for any occasion. Once I know what I'm going to use the card for, THEN I stamp the appropriate sentiment. LOL!!!

Now head on over to Laurie Flannery's blog and check out some more fabulous techniques!

Here is the list of all the participants

Wendy Kessler 
Tracy Oleksak 
Corina Mitchell (ME) 
Laurie Flannery 
Tamytha Jenkins 
Haley 
Jill (Scrap Wench) 
Adeline Brill 
Luisa Morgan 
Nikka Geers

Stamp sets used for this card:

B1379 Sophia (exclusive only on the Sophia WOTG)

D1436 The Present

Techniques:

First, second and third generation stamping

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Heart 2 Heart Challenges Blog: From Your Heart To Ours "Home Decor"

Click on the pictures for a larger view!!!

Hi Everyone!

This week at H2H we are creating "Home Decor" pieces. This is one of my favorite challenges because I love to make things for the home with Close To My Heart products that are useful. I'm a minimalist at heart and believe that the less clutter around the house... means less things to clean. LOL!

So when I create things for my home, they pretty much have to be very useful like this FABULOUS and functional cork board for my son Nathan's room.

For this project I used the "Lucky" Level 2 paper packet from CTMH and the matching embellishments. This happened to be my son's favorite paper packet, so I surprised him with this board.

I didn't want to use thumbtacks (just because I don't want the paper to get ruined and I don't want Nathan to get hurt) so I made matching photo mats for his pictures. The corner stamped images serve at the perfect holders, you simply tuck the pictures in the corners for a perfect fit.

The board has a lot of detail without having too many 3D pieces.

For this "In-box" I used the "Storage Solutions by Thicker"

I purchased mine at Paper Tales in Point Loma, however, you can find them on the web. The link above for for "Buy.com", but I found them on Ebay, Amazon, Sears.com and more.

I cut the organizer to 6" and decorated it, I think that's my favorite part of the board. Now Nathan has a place to put his tests, notes and weekly paper work from his teacher.

So now please take a moment to check out what the other DT's created for the challenge.

I hope that you are now inspired to create your very own "Home Decor" creation and share it with us at H2H!

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Heart 2 Heart Challenges: 3 Times

Hello Everyone!

This week at Heart 2 Heart Challenges blog we are creating scenes with THREE or more images.

I don't know what it was about the word "Scene" that all I could think about with this challenge was a nice view of the beach, desert or forest. So when looking for the perfect stamp sets, I was able to find a couple of sets in my inventory. And what was even better was that both stamp sets are current and still in the idea book. Woo-Hoo!!!

I hope that you are now inspired to create your very own "3 Times" image creation and share it with us at H2H!

Don't forget - you have the entire month to play along with these challenges. Deadline to enter all March challenges is March 26th, 2011 at 10 pm EST. The more you play, the more chances you have to win the prizes from our lovely sponsors Angela Parchey and Lori Brown.