Sunday, January 31, 2016

Heart's of the West 22nd Blog Hop - Charlotte Paper Packet


Welcome to the Hearts of the West Team Blog Hop!

This Blog Hop features Close to My Heart Consultants from all over Canada showing you their creative projects.

This month's theme is using Close to My Heart's Charlotte Paper Packet from the Mini Seasonal Expressions 1 Catalogue.

If you came from Nancy Klein's Blog, then you are on the right track. This is a go around blog hop so you can start anywhere. Just in case, the full list of participants is at the bottom of this post. 

So as always, grab your beverage of choice and hop around the country with us.
I used Close To My Heart's Charlotte Paper Packet with CTMH's Black & White Daisy cardstocks and Scrapbook Sally's Gold Shimmer cardstock.

To embellish the 6 x 6 card, I used CTMH's Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge for the heart die-cut, CTMH's Floral Embossing Folder, CTMH's Treasured Puffies, CTMH's Black & Gold Ribbon, CTMH's Charlotte Complements and the straight stitch on my sewing machine with black thread.

I used CTMH's Just To Say... stamp set & Stampin' Up's Love & Laughter stamp set with CTMH Black ink.

Now hop on over to Kim Loewen's Blog.

Thank you for joining us this month. Please join us again on March 1st for our next Heart's of the West Blog Hop featuring CTMH's Penelope Paper Packet.

1. Nancy Klein
2. Donna Digby - You are here.
3. Kim Loewen
4. Kerry Hammel
5. Corrina Murphy

Friday, January 29, 2016

You Mean So Much To Me Card


I used Close To My Heart's Charlotte Paper Packet with CTMH Glacier & White Daisy cardstocks.

To embellish the card, I used CTMH's Live Your Day Picture My Life Cards, CTMH Stripe Embossing Folder, CTMH Corner Rounder, MFT Heart Die Stax and Echo Park Hello Winter Enamel Dots.

I used CTMH's January Stamp of the Month - Beloved Bouquet with CTMH Slate ink.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Charlotte Happy Birthday Card



I am participating in the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge - #144.

I used Close To My Heart's Charlotte Paper Packet with CTMH White Daisy cardstock.

To embellish the card, I used CTMH's Treasured Puffies and CTMH's Springtime Wishes Thin Cuts.

I used CTMH's February Stamp of the Month - Balloon Animals (Happy Birthday), Share the Love - February Promotion (inside sentiment) and Springtime Wishes stamp sets with CTMH Black ink.

Friday, January 22, 2016

Color My Heart Challenge Blog - Post #177




I used Close To My Heart's Paper Fundamentals - Basics - Whisper with CTMH Crystal Blue, Peacock & White Daisy cardstocks.

To embellish the 12 x 12 Layout, I used CTMH's Artistry Cricut Cartridge for the title, CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge for the snowflakes, CTMH White Enamel Gems, CTMH's Damask Embossing folder, CTMH's Dot Embossing Folder, CTMH's Diamond Embossing Folder and the straight stitch on my sewing machine with white thread.

You may use any products to participate in the Color My Heart Challenges, but we encourage you to use CTMH products. For this Color Dare Challenge, you have until Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time to submit your project.

For more information about our challenges, please check us out at Color My Heart Challenge Blog: http://colormyheartcolordare.blogspot.ca. I look forward to seeing what types of projects you can inspire us with.

Friday, January 15, 2016

Cross Canada Blog Hop - Water Colouring


Welcome to our January Blog Hop featuring Watercolour Creations.  To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local Close To My Heart consultant to place an order.

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you want to follow us across Canada then please start at the beginning at Michelle's Blog.

If you came from Carol's Blog then you are in the right place!

I used Close To My Heart's White Daisy cardstock and CTMH's Watercolour Paper.

To embellish my card, I used CTMH's Quatrefoil Embossing Folder, CTMH's Watercolour Paints, CTMH's Stuck On You Thin Cuts, Refillable Water Blending Pen and CTMH's Marvy Journaling Pen.

I used CTMH's Stuck on You and Birthday Calligraphy stamp sets with Ranger Black Archival Ink and CTMH's Goldrush ink.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Cheryl's Blog.

 If you get lost along the way, there is a full list of participants at the end of this post.

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. We hope you will join us again next month when we will be feature Cardstock Creations .  So mark February 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

3. Nicky
4. Arlene
5. Carol
6. Donna - You are here.
7. Cheryl
10. Kirstin
11. Candra

Friday, January 8, 2016

Color My Heart Challenge Blog - Post #175




I used Close To My Heart's Paper Fundamentals - Whimsy - Glacier with CTMH White Daisy & Glacier cardstocks and CTMH's Silver Glitter Paper.

To embellish the 6 x 6 Desk Calendar Layout, I used CTMH's Artistry Cricut Cartridge for the snowflakes, CTMH Artbooking Cricut Cartridge for the 5" Calendar & "January", CTMH White Enamel Gems & CTMH's Silver Sequins.

You may use any products to participate in the Color My Heart Challenges, but we encourage you to use CTMH products. For this Color Dare Challenge, you have until Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time to submit your project.

For more information about our challenges, please check us out at Color My Heart Challenge Blog: http://colormyheartcolordare.blogspot.ca. I look forward to seeing what types of projects you can inspire us with.