Chelsea Gardens Note Card - AHSC 576

Hello, Happy Monday! I am back again with another entry for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge. This week I went deep into my stash to pull out one of my favourites, Chelsea Gardens and created this week's card with some scraps. Outside of the Whisper Twine, all products are from the Chelsea Gardens collection. 

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, I welcome any feedback. If you would like help purchasing any of the products mentioned in my post today, please contact your local Stampin’ Up! demonstrator. If you do not have a Stampin’ Up! and are in Canada, I can assist you in ordering. If you are in the United States, New Zealand or Australia, I can help you locate a Maker local to you for ordering. 

 

To play along with our challenge today at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge, click here for all the information and entry requirements for this challenge. 

 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

 

Colour your life - SOTM Blog Hop

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  We will be featuring April's SOTM, which is Colour your Life a set of 12 stamps.  If you have come 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 on Melinda’s Blog:  http://ifyoublingit.blogspot.com/p/stamp-of-month-blog-hop-list.html.

This month we have 26 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM 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 is a card I made for a very special volunteer who is there to help my girls during difficult days during our adoption process. There is a special volunteer recognition event coming up and I really want her to know how special she is to us. 

Products used:

Paper:

- Chelsea Gardens

Ink:

- Charcoal

Stamp:

- S1804 - Colour your Life

Embellishments

- Clear Sparkles

- Clear Shimmer Brush

- Whisper Extra Thick Twine

Now "Hop" on over to Shelly Mendenhall's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the March SOTM is only available until !  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!

Thanks for stopping in and checking out my projects. I hope you will loop through and see all of the other great artwork created with this months SOTM.

Brandi

Chelsea Gardens - H2H challenges

Happy Monday! Monday is H2H challenges day and the challenge for this week is to design a project inspired by the SE1 - Seasonal Expressions 1 cover art work. Here is a picture of the Season Expressions 1 artwork.

And here is my creation based off the cover art:

Products used:

Paper:
- Chelsea Gardens
- White Daisy card stock

Embellishments:
- Whisper Extra Thick Twine
- Chelsea Gardens Gems

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my work, I would love to see your take and what inspires you from the SE 1 cover art, join us at H2H here!

Until next time, happy crafting!
Brandi

Thank you - AHSC #250

Hello! Today is a huge day for us at AHSC, we are at our 250th sketch! WOWZERS! I think I came onboard to the design team at Sketch 26! I have been here almost since the beginning and while I may not always have sketches every week, I do try to have one for each of the weekly challenges!

Today I have a card that I put together for my Chelsea Gardens workshop.

 

 

 

Products used:

 

Paper:

- Chelsea Gardens

- White Daisy and Sweet Leaf

 

Ink:

- Fern

 

Embellishments:

- White and Bronze twine (with the bronze removed)

- Clear Sparkles

 

Stamp:

- S1802 Sunny Thoughts

 

Thanks for stopping by and visiting. I hope you will join us at AHSC and show us your take on our sketch!

 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi



Happy Easter - H2H challenges

This week at Heart 2 Heart challenges we are bringing you a sketch challenge. You can use any sketch from any Close to my Heart Sketch or inspiration book. Do not have one that is fine, take any project from the current Idea Book or Seasonal Expressions Idea Book and use it as a guide and make it your own!

Here is my project. I just the CTMH Make It from Your Heart Volume 2 book. it is pattern 1 on pages 6 & 7. I can not picture it here for copyright reasons but if you have this book you will see I altered my layout a bit. Instead of a 9 1/4 X 7 3/4 photo I changed it to a few 4 X 6 and 4 X 3 photos. I also changed the 2 1/4 square on the right hand page with
3 X 3, my customers prefer larger photos and since I am using this for one of my workshops, I want to work to make them happy!

Products used:

Paper:
- Chelsea Gardens
- White Daisy, Sweet Leaf, Glacier and Heather card stock

Ink:
- Espresso

Embellishments:
- Water Colour pencils
- Shimmer Brush

Silhouette:
- Fonts: Berlin Sans FB and Meagan Font

Sunny Thoughts - February SOTM Blog Hop

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  We will be featuring February's SOTM, which is S1802 - Sunny Thoughts, a set of 19 stamps.  If you have come here from Katy Taylor'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 on Melinda’s Blog:  http://ifyoublingit.blogspot.com/p/stamp-of-month-blog-hop-list.html.

 

 

 

 

 

This month we have Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM 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!

 

 

Products Used:

Paper:
- Chelsea Gardens
- Heather and White Daisy card stock

Stamp:
-S1802 - Sunny Thoughts

Ink:
- Juniper

Embellishments:
- Chelsea Gardens Dots and Gems
- Whisper Twine

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 and other fun ideas! Remember, the SOTM is only available until !  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!

 

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my project!
Brandi

 

Stargazer - Seasonal Expression 1 blog hop

Welcome to our New Product Blog Hop! The Close to my Heart Seasonal Expressions 1 came out on January 1st and we are showcasing new products through some of our artwork.  

 

If you have come here from Brenda Lapp'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 on Melinda’s Blog:  http://ifyoublingit.blogspot.com/p/stamp-of-month-blog-hop-list.html.

 

This month we have approximately 20 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using CTMH products from the new Seasonal Expression 1 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 is a fun card I made as a thank you card for a friend. I love the bright bold colours of the Stargazer papers and cant wait to have more time to play with them and make some fun layouts!

Products Used:

Paper:
- Stargazer
- Canary, Pacifica, and White Daisy card stock

Stamp:
- B1557 Thanks a Million

Ink:
- Pacifica

Embellishments:
- Poppy Extra Thick Twine (retired)
- Arrows Embossing Folder (retired)

 

Here is some additional artwork I have created with Chelsea Gardens paper pack, these were previously featured on my blog.

 

 

Now "Hop" on over to Darlys Recker's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, products in the Seasonal Expression 1 are only available for a limited time. Contact me (or your consultant) to order these great new products.

A million thank yous - AHSC 245

I had a wee bit of time in my scrap area today while my girls were playing nicely before some friends came over for a play date and I was able to quickly pull together this card for the AHSC. I love working with sketches and some are obviously easier than others and this one was super easy to pull together.

 

 

Products Used:

 

Paper:

- Chelsea Gardens

 

Ink:

- Charcoal

 

Stamp:

- B1557 - Thanks a Million

 

Embellishments:

- Z4154 - Cream Ribbon

- Z3274 - Clear Sparkles

 

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my project. I hope you like it, feedback is always welcomed. For more great designs using this sketch please visit AHSC here!

 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi



Bloom & Grow - January Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  We will be featuring January's SOTM, which is S1801 - Bloom & Grow, a set of 15 stamps.  If you have come here from Brenda Lapp'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 on Melinda’s Blog:  http://ifyoublingit.blogspot.com/p/stamp-of-month-blog-hop-list.html.

 

 

 

This month we have Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM 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!

 

Products Used:

Paper:
- Chelsea Gardens
- Glacier card stock

Stamp:
-S1801 - Bloom & Grow

Ink:
- Glacier

Embellishments:
- Clear Sparkles
- Whisper Twine

Now "Hop" on over to Darlys Recker's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the SOTM is only available until !  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!

 

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my project!
Brandi

 

Something New - H2H Challenges

Happy New Year! Welcome to 2018 and the first of many post creative projects I will have for the new year.

This morning I am bringing you a project for the Heart 2 Heart Challenges site and the theme for this week is "Something New."  Something new could be a new technique to your, a new product or line you have never worked with before. It could be the something new from a wedding...a new gift or item you are documenting.

My something new is....one of CTMH's new paper packs...Chelsea Gardens. I am so in love with the spring feel of this paper pack and the soft colour palette.

For this card, I used the CTMH Watercolour pencils and instead of using a water brush to blend the pencils together I used my Shimmer Brush and it gave my leaves and flowers a wee bit of sparkle.

 



 

 

Products Used:

 

Paper:

- Chelsea Gardens

- White Daisy  and Charcoal card stock

 

Ink:

Charcoal

 

Colours:

- Water Colour pencils

- Shimmer Brush - Clear

 

Embellishments

- Gray Enamel Gems

 

Stamp:

- Z4158 Chelsea Gardens Card Making Stamp & Thin Cuts

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my work. For more great designs please check us out at H2H Challenges here.