Close To My Heart Spotlight Blog Hop: Reinkers

This month we are featuring reinkers for the Close To My Heart Spotlight Blog Hop. If you are coming from Luisa Morgan'sblog, you are in the right track. If you are hoping from another blog, don't worry, this is a full circle hop, so just keep on hoping and you will do a full circle.

So for this month, I decided to combine two things together. First the LeaderShare swap cards and my Blog Hop item. I'm getting a head start on the Holidays, by making some gift card envelopes. Hope you like them!

I used the reinkers in "Sky" and water with the CTMH spray pens, to spray the white circle in the background.

Supplies:
X7145B Believe Paper Packet
White Daisy Ribbon
Cranberry Brads
Art Philosophy Cartridge
D1494 Christmas Cheer Stamp set
A1115 A Holiday Stamp Set
Z1380 Spray pen
Z2294 Sky Reinker

Now it's time to hop on over to Mary K Parker's Blog and be inspired by creative ways to use your reinkers.

Close To My Heart Spotlight Blog Hop

This month at the CTMH Spotlight Blog Hop we are featuring the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge. And if you are coming from Wendy Kessler's blog, you are in the right path.

It was very hard to decide to make a card, layout or something 3D, so since I've been testing the water with a lot of 3D things, I wanted to keep the momentum going.




Bren Yule will be hosting a Close To My Heart Leadeshare here in San Diego in October and I have decided to donate this frame to her Operation Smile Silent Auction. This will be one of the several things that I am working on for donation pieces.


DIY:
- Buy wooden frame from Michael's in the dollar bin
- sand any rough edges and remove inner chipboard
- Place Tulip cardstock on working surface, place wooden frame face down.
- with dry embossing tool, trace inner and outer edges of frame
- with paper trimmer cut the inner and outer edges on the embossed lines
- glue the cardstock to the frame, make sure you get all the edges
- on the Cricut, cut our one 5" rose and the rest in 3"
- Choose, "Font" and "Shift Lock" and "Banner/Heart" for the roses
- Assemble roses and glue to the frame.

I will have a video tutorial for this in the next coming weeks. If you are new to my blog, I am a very part-time blogger so please be patient. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me at MyCreativeInkCTMH@gmail.com.

I hope you try this project, it is very simple to do and very elegant.

Now go on to Elizabeth's Blog, she is the next fabulous stop on the our blog hop.

Enjoy!!!

CTMH Product Spotlight "Relay Race"

Hi There Everyone!!!

This months spotlight is a little different, we have a "Relay Race".  We  started with an inspiration piece,  found in the CTMH  Idea Book, and took off from there.  If you are coming from Haley's blog, then you are in the right spot.  If not please start at Nikka Geers blog and see what the original piece looks like and visit the following blogs to see how the original piece of artwork changes from person to person.  All the participants only saw the piece before them, so their inspiration came ONLY from that piece.  The picture below was my inspiration and it came from Haley Dryer.

 Here are all the participants of the Relay Race, I invite you to see some pretty amazing artwork and all the different types of artist in the world of scrapbooking and card making.

1. Nikka Geers

2. Adeline

3. Haley Dryer

4. Corina Mitchell (ME)

5. Terry Metzger

6. Tamytha Jenkins

7. Jena

8.Tracy Oleksak

9.Vicki Wizniuk

10. Wendy

11. Kristie

Now please head on over to Terry Metzger's blog and check out what she created using my card as her inspiration.  I know you will love it too!!!

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 

CTMH Spotlight Blog Hop

Hello Everyone!

It's time for the Close To My Heart Spotlight Blog Hop!

I hope you are joining me from Tracy Oleksak's blog.  This month we had a special treat as we got to choose a color palette from Jeanette's Color Me Monday Blog posts.  I want to be very honest with you about this challenge.  I DID NOT sit in front of my computer and go through all her posts and decide on the perfect color palette that I wanted to showcase. 

What happened was this... I was finishing up my kids Valentine treats and realized that I did not buy enough of the same treats to include all of  Hunter's class mates.  So I rushed to Micheal's and of course they are all sold out of cute and easy to assemble treats.  So as I'm standing in line waiting to pay for an adhesive, I saw these cupcake liners and a box of lollipops.  I sneaked to the ribbon section really fast and grabbed the 50% off spools ($0.25!!), what I thought was yellow ribbon, turned out to be like a Buttercup color.

Fortunately, I had my tool bag in my trunk and I assembled 15 treats in the car, while I waited for Hunter to get out of preschool.  I took pictures of the steps for you all to see how easy it is to make these little flowers, you will see the tutorial on the post before this!  After I took the pictures, I remembered that I had to make a project for this blog hop and the a little light bulb BLINGED on top of my head. I jumped on Jeanette's blog and searched for the perfect color combo to go with my flowers and VOILA!!!

 

The steps and pictures on how to make these super cute flowers are on the post just before this one, so take a peek...Now go on to your next destination to LAURIE FLANNERY'S  to see more fabulous artwork!  Don't worry if you did not start at the beginning of the Hop, it's a full circle anyway you follow so enjoy!!! 

CTMH Spotlight January Blog Hop: Valentine's

 Hi Everyone!

This month at the CTMH Spotlight we are featuring Valentine's Day!  It is one of my favorite days, simply because we can express our love for our friends and family more openly than any other day.  I am #8 on the blog hop list, so you should be arriving from Haley's Blog.

 The inspiration for this is a Chinese Food "To Go" box.  I love it because it can work for almost any occasion and the matching fortune cookies, have special love messages attached to the ribbon.

 

I used the new paper packet "Sweetheart" from Close To My Heart and the matching stamp set also named "Sweetheart".  But the best part was using the new "Spray Pens" for the backgrounds. 

 I hope you are inspired to share the love and create some treats for all your loved ones! Next on our hop is the very talented Debbie Carriere.  

Don't forget to show your love and leave a comment on your favorites, we sure do appreciate it when we your comments!!!

Recipe:

B1370 Sweetheart Stamp Set

Z1380 Spray Pen

X5753  Tulip Ink Refill

Z1039 Create a Shade Pearl Paint

Z1147 Foundry Bookplates

Z1335 Licorice Opaques

Z270 White Ribbon

X7134B Sweetheart Paper Packet Level 2

Z1386 Sweetheart Level 2 Assortment

C1422 Unity Stamp Set

Cardstock: Tulip, White, Black, Cotton Candy

I've had several emails requesting the template for this project.  I finally found the link for the website... Can I just tell you that I have WAY TOO MANY BOOKMARKS in my computer.  I need to organize those a little better too.  Well, the template was only $5 and it's super easy to recreate.
CLICK HERE

CTMH Spotlight December Blog Hop & Heart 2 Heart Challenges

Hi There!

I am so happy to announce that I have joined the 

CTMH Spotlight Blog Hop.

Every month I will be posting an entry to this blog hop with amazing and talented Close To My Heart consultants.  For this month, we are featuring Sparkles and Pearls because it's all about the bling during the Holidays and I am "Lucky # 7" on the list of blogs to visit during the blog hop, so hopefully you are coming from "Vicki Wizniuk Blog". 

 

Technique:

I crumpled white card stock and brushed it over with Z1039 create-a-shade paint, immediately after that I sprinkled Z134 prisma glitter and let it dry for a good 15 minutes. 

Now it's time for you to go to the next blog for some more fabulous inspiration and amazing artwork on "Traci's Blog"

Thank you for visiting my blog and I am always looking for new friends to follow my blog, take a moment to click on "Follow" on the left side column.  I look forward to sharing more cards, layouts and tutorials with you!!!

Products used for this card:

1385 White Daisy Cardstock for the 5 x 7 

Z1039 Create-a-shade paint in pearl

Z134 Prisma Glitter White Daisy for the Medallions 

(punch is not CTMH) 

D1366 Holiday Trinkets for the snow flakes 

D1324 Christmas Greetings for the phrase

Z270 White Daisy Ribbon 

Z669 Silver Embossing Powder 

Z891 Versa Mark 

Z1104 Sparkles 

Z1335 Licorice Opaques