CTMH: HUGS AND KISSES...REVISITED

Here we are, a nice sunny Monday here in Vegas and a post for Heather Flaherty, Close To My Heart Consultant.  A little sentiment goes along way when you are making cards.  I like being able to make simple combinations with a big impact from the sentiment.  

For this card I am using the My Relfections Heartstrings (X7193B) paper collections along with Cranberry solid cardstock for the base of my A2 card. 

The sentiment is a single stamp XOXO Occasions (M1054), I just adore this stamp and the font is perfect to dress up any card.  I stamped on Vellum and die cut it out with a circle die, placing a smaller white circle on the back to (1) help hold the string (2) to make the sentiment pop

I added the Shimmer Trim (Z3024) which to my surprise has a sticky back...bonus!!!  I have a thing for extra sparkle so I added some sequins in random spots

I hope that you have a wonderful week and that you find some time to add in some crafting to your schedule.

Click this link to be taken to Paper Crafter Anonymous where you will be able to shop products used for this card.

Thank you for stopping by

xoxo

MY BESTIES: ANYTHING GOES WITH A BESTIES PRINTABLE/ADD A FLOWER

Challenge #3 on the My Besties Pretty Pre-Colored Printables Blog is underway and for me I have Valentine's Day on the brain, so I came up with a plan that will allow you the busy person to mass produce 12 cards in one shot.  So gather your paper, circle punch and favorite Washi Tape and lets get started.  

These are the 1 inch bottle caps, 12 come to a sheet as shown above that can be purchased in the 

Scrapbook Stamp Society web store

I wanted to be able to make a clean and simple card that I could mass produce with ease.  I chose to use a A2 card as the base.  Then I cut a mat and then cut that mat in half diagonally.  Using a strip of Washi Tape I ran it along the edge and popped up the bottle cap as a center piece, stamping Happy Valentine's Day with black ink

You can make 12 cards with ease.  I used a 1 3/4 circle punch allowing me to have a white border around my image.

I hope that you have found some inspiration in my mass production idea using the bottle cap sheet from Sherri Baldy.  Don't forget to head over the My Besties team blog for more inspiration for challenge #3, we hope to see your entry for this challenge.

Thank you for stopping by

xoxo

CTMH: CAMERA LOVE

It's Monday and guess what?  It's time for another Close To My Heart Design Team project for 

Heather Flaherty of Paper Crafters Anonymous 

It's not February yet, but it's never to early to celebrate love, so I am sharing the love of the holiday with this cute little shaker card that I made using my trusty Cricut machine and the CTMH Artbooking cartridge

I focused on the center to make the shaker portion of the card. I used foam tape and placed it around the center building an enclosure for the sequence to stay in place.  Using a piece of acetate from an old package I use my spellbinder circle die to cut a circle bigger than the opening and adhered it in place

Because I wanted to have an even layer of adhesive for my layers on the heart and the camera base I used my Xyron machines, the Create A Sticker machine and the Xyron 510.  The sentiment is from the Holiday Tags Occasions Set (D1560) 

I truly hope that you enjoy today's project and that when you are in the market to shop CTMH that you will click on the link and go to Paper Crafters Anonymous, Heather Flaherty is an awesome consultant and will ship your order right away.

Have a wonderful week,

xoxo

Challenges Entered:
The Pink Elephant

CTMH: STARTING THE YEAR WITH LOVE

Eeeek I am super excited about this post.  I have figured out how to make the inlay card using my Cricut machine....Oh wait Happy New Year and welcome to the first post of 2015, I am designing for Heather Flaherty who is an awesome Close To My Heart consultant and with then new product available I will be making some really cool projects....But back to my excitement about the card I have made.  I have seen this style of card all over the internet and just had to try, but I wanted to use my Cricut machine.  I am a big fan of Cricut and the Artbooking cartridge, just because of the many options available

I was inspired by Papertrey ink designer Laura Bassen when I made this card.  I used Tim Holtz distressing ink to make the ombre look on the card, then I took to the Artbooking cartridge and cut the XOXO out at 8 inches with the center cut feature on for exact placement.  With most of my cut templates I make a few cuts first on scratch paper to make sure I get things right

After cutting the colored image, I cut it out 3 more times from white paper, gluing all 4 layers together.  I like stacking to give a chipboard look.  The sentiment is from the Holiday Tags D1560 stamp set.  Stamping the sentiment on black paper and embossing in white powder, I made a mini flag and popped it up with foam tape for dimension

I just love how this card came out and hope that if you are looking to purchase CTMH products that you will use Heather Flaherty as your CTMH consultant.  Click on her name to be taken directly to her sales page.

Again Happy New Year and thank you for stopping by my blog today

xoxo

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