Color My Heart Challenge Blog - Color Dare #122

This week at Color My Heart Challenge Blog our Color Dare #122 is to use Close to My Heart Colors: Sorbet, Cranberry, Olive & New England Ivy.

I used Close to My Heart's New England Ivy, Cranberry, Olive & Sorbet cardstocks.

To embellish the card, I used a CTMH Edge Distresser, CTMH Olive Baker's Twine (discontinued), CTMH Damask Embossing Folder and a CTMH Spray Pen filled with water to spray my cardstock to allow me to crumple the cardstock up into a ball and iron out flat with my iron.

I don't think I have ever used my iron to iron my clothes, but I have used it to iron my paper and my ribbon.

I used CTMH's Best Christmas and Yuletide Carol Scrapbooking Workshop stamp sets with CTMH Olive, New England Ivy and Cranberry inks.

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, December 18, 2014 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.

Warm Winter Hugs

Well I have been a bad girl...I stopped making my Christmas cards for this year and played with a card for next Christmas.

I have already stamped out all the rest of my cards for this year, I just need to glue them all together, address them and mail them out. The repetition with my head down makes me quite ill with my concussion, so I took a break to play with my BoBunny Prize Package that I just received in the mail.

I am participating in Sparkle Creations Weekly Christmas Card Challenge - Christmas Card Challenge Week #1.

Sparkle's Weekly Challenges for Christmas 2015 began on the first Sunday of December. I am going to try and play along every week. We shall see how this goes.

I used BoBunny's Candy Cane Lane Collection 6 x 6 Paper Pack with BoBunny Charcoal, Honey Mustard & Jade Double Dot cardstocks and Close to My Heart Colonial White cardstock.

To embellish the card, I used Marvy & EK Success snowflake punches, Close to My Heart Aqua Dots, My Mind's Eye Cut & Paste Charm "Smile" Enamel Dots, binding ribbon from Vintage Pixie and the zig zag stitch on my sewing machine with grey thread.

I used Unity's ...like a snowflake stamp set with CTMH Slate ink.

When my printer printed this challenge out, it printed the light green out as yellow and not light green...hence the yellow in my card. I still love how the card turned out and I am making four of these cards for my Christmas 2015 Card Stash.

Thinking of You 3 x 4 Card

With leftover scraps from my 4 x 4 mini album, I was able to make a 3 x 4 Thinking of You card that would be perfect to add to a bouquet of flowers or something similar.

I used Close to My Heart's Heartstrings Paper Packet with CTMH Slate & Whisper cardstocks.

To embellish the 3 x 4 card, I used CTMH's Diamond Embossing Folder and CTMH Junebug Puffies.

I used CTMH's Sincere Expressions with CTMH Slate ink for the sentiment.

CTMH's Seasonal Expressions Blog Hop

Welcome to our Close to My Heart's Seasonal Expressions Mini Idea Book/Catalogue Blog Hop!

If you came here from Lalia Harris' 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 38 Close to My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using products from the New Seasonal Expressions Mini Idea Book/Catalogue 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!

This 4 x 4 mini album is the project I am making with my Stamping Five Groups.

I used Close to My Heart's Heartstrings Paper Packet with CTMH Slate and Glacier cardstocks.

To embellish this 4 x 4 mini album, I used CTMH's Art Philosophy & Artbooking Cricut Cartridges to cut out my heart shapes and the ribbon is from Vintage Pixie.

I used CTMH's Heartstrings Card Making Workshop, Forever in My Heart, Amour and Assorted Edges stamp sets with CTMH Slate ink.

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

If you don't have a copy of the New Seasonal Expressions Mini Idea Book/Catalogue, then you may contact me at ddigby@shaw.ca to make arrangements to get your copy today.

Don't forget about the CTMH's 12 Days of Christmas Seasonal Expressions Scavenger Hunt that I am offering a prize of a CTMH Large Organizer to the winner. 

You must have received your Seasonal Expressions from me in order to play along.

Deadline: Friday, December 12, 2014 at midnight.

This New Mini Catalogue is good from December 1, 2014 - March 31, 2015.

8 x 8 Santa Layout

This 8 x 8 layout that I did of my children's visit with Santa Claus & them after decorating the Christmas tree is a part of my family's Christmas gift.

I used BoBunny's Mistletoe Greetings with BoBunny Avocado Double Dot cardstock.

To embellish the layout, I used Close to My Heart's Corner Rounder, CTMH's Comments stamp set (discontinued) with CTMH Topiary ink & Stampin' Up's Handsome Hunter Marker, My Creative Time Stitched Button Dies and embroidery floss from my stash.

Color My Heart Challenge Blog - Color Dare #121

This week at Color My Heart Challenge Blog our Color Dare #121 is to use Close to My Heart Colors: Cranberry & New England Ivy.

My inspiration for this card came from Sheila Bennett.

I used Close to My Heart's Colonial White Card Base with CTMH Colonial White and Cranberry cardstocks.

I used CTMH's Brushstrokes, Perfect Fit-Holidays and Be Jolly stamp sets with CTMH New England Ivy and Cranberry inks.

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, December 11, 2014 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.

8 x 8 Halloween Layout

This is an 8 x 8 layout I did of my children on Halloween as part of my family's Christmas gift.

I used Doodlebug Designs Petite Print papers with Doodlebug Designs Halloween Parade 6 x 6 paper pad.

To embellish the layout, I used Doodlebug Designs sequins, Stampin' Up Label Punches, Doodle Charms Cricut Cartridge (spider) and a googly eye from my stash.

For the title, I used Mickey Mouse Font Cartridge for "Disney" and Close to My Heart's Perfect Fit - Halloween stamp set for "HALLOWEEN" with CTMH Black ink.