Congratulations on Your New Home!

My brother and his girlfriend bought their dream home out in the country and this is the house warming card that I made for them.

I used BoBunny's Forever Fall 6 x 6 paper pad with a Bazzill Brown cardstock.

To embellish the card, I used an EK Success Border Punch and the Stampin' Up Photo Corner Punch.

I used Tiddly Inks Harmony at Home, Lili of the Valley A5 Verses, CTMH Treasure Life (discontinued) and CTMH Just To Say... stamp sets with CTMH Cocoa ink.

Color My Heart Challenge Blog - Color Dare #146

This week at Color My Heart Challenge Blog our Color Dare #146 is to use Close to My Heart Colors: Barn Red, Glacier, Juniper, Cocoa & Colonial White. All of these colours are found in the Jackson Paper Packet.

I used Close to My Heart's Jackson Paper Packet with CTMH Cocoa cardstock.

To embellish 8 x 8 layout, I used CTMH's Artiste Cricut Cartridge, CTMH Brave Enamel Shapes, CTMH Jackson Assortment, CTMH Buttons (discontinued) and embroidery floss from my stash.

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, June 18, 2015 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.

Congratulations Andrea & Clint!

This is the card I made for my niece and her fiance.

I used Fancy Pants Happy Go Lucky Paper Pad and My Mind's Eye Wood Paper Pad with a Bazzill Green cardstock.

To embellish the card, I used Stampin' Up ribbon, Basic Grey Buttons, embroidery floss from my stash, straight stitch on my sewing machine and a CTMH Sponge Dauber with CTMH New England Ivy ink.

I used Stampin' Up's World of Dreams and Love & Laughter stamp sets with CTMH Cocoa and New England Ivy inks.

Cup of Tea Card

I used Close to My Heart's Jackson Paper Packet with CTMH Juniper cardstock and White Copic Paper.

To embellish the card, I used CTMH Colonial White brads (discontinued), My Favorite Things Heart Stax Dies and a CTMH Sponge Dauber with Cocoa ink to distress the edges of the papers.

I used CTMH's Treats of Friendship stamp set and a No-Name stamp set that comes with the CTMH's Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge with CTMH Black ink and Memento Black ink.

Copic Markers used are: BG70, BG72, E18, E89, G85 & W2.

Donna's Terrific Tag Tuesday - Post #10

Donna's Terrific Tag Tuesday - Post #10

This tag was made for my friend, Irene's, birthday gift.

The 4 inch tag was cut out using Close to My Heart's Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge. The Heart is from My Favorite Things Heart Stax Die-Cuts.

I used CTMH's Colonial White cardstock.

To colour the tag, I used CTMH Spray Pens with Water & the following Re-inkers - Cashmere, Goldrush, Autumn Terracotta & Saddle. I also sponged CTMH Cashmere & Cocoa inks on the tag.

To colour the bird, I sponged the following CTMH inks - Cashmere, Goldrush, Autumn Terracotta & Saddle.

To colour the heart, I sponged the following CTMH inks - Cashmere, Saddle & Cocoa.

The Ribbon is from Vintage Pixie and the embroidery floss is from my stash.

I used CTMH's Paper Bird - Hostess Rewards, Holiday Tags and Zoology stamp sets with CTMH Cocoa ink.

Congratulations Andrea!

I made this card for my niece, Andrea, who graduated from Confederation College this year.

I used Doodlebug Design's Cap & Gown 6 x 6 Paper Pack with a Close to My Heart White Daisy, Bazzill Blue & Bazzill Black Prismatic cardstocks.

To embellish the card, I used Making Memories Brads, Tim Holtz Faded Jeans Distress Stain and the zig zag stitch on my sewing  machine.

I used Unity's Diploma Cap & Gown and Moment by Moment stamp sets with Tim Holtz Black Soot Distress Ink.

CTMH Bluebird Crush Book - Pages 8 & 9

Welcome to our Close to My Heart My Crush Book Blog Hop!

Close to My Heart's June Promotion is all about My Crush Books. Purchase anyone of CTMH's My Crush Books and it's matching assortment and you will receive the coordinating stamp set for FREE!

If you came here from Wendy Kessler's Blog, you are on the right path!

The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around. If you get lost along the way, you'll find the complete list of participating consultants here on Melinda Everitt's Blog.

For this Blog Hop we have 32 Close to My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using CTMH's My Crush Books, Assortments & stamp sets and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one. Here we go!

Donna's CTMH Bluebird Crush Book - Pages 8 & 9

To embellish my pages, I used CTMH's Brave Enamel Shapes, CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge to cut out the flowers, CTMH Confetti Wishes Assortment, CTMH Bluebird Memories Assortment, CTMH Bluebird Favorites Assortment and Doodlebug Designs' Swimming Pool Sprinkles.

I used CTMH's Glamour Uppercase Alphabet, Glamour Lowercase Alphabet, Solos 9 (discontinued), Hoppy Birthday - Australia, Hooray Bouquet and Love This stamp sets with CTMH Twilight (discontinued) ink.

Now "Hop" on over to Krista Hershberger's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their blogs to get some great crafting ideas.

I have a CTMH Order going in on:
Sunday, June 7, 2015

For more information, please email me at ddigby@shaw.ca.