Dear Santa - AHSC 401

Hello! I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas! I still have a few Christmas cards to share with you as I was very late in getting my cards done this year, but better late than never!

While I was shopping at Michaels for some stuff for the kids for Christmas I came across these square card bases and I had not done something like this before so I thought I would buy a pack and see how I liked playing with them and surprise one of the first AHSC challenges was a square card...perfect timing! It was fun having a bit bigger of an area to play with so, so far so good but I will have to play with more to really see if this size is for me, I am a creature of habit!

Products Used:

Paper:

- Comfort & Joy (retired)

- Scarlet and White Daisy card stock

Thin Cuts

- Scallop Circle

- Stitched Circles

Stamp:

- The Jubilee Crew

Ink:

- Black Memento

- Scarlet

Tri- Blend Markers

- Dull Green

- Dark Red

Embellishments:

- Black and White enamel dots

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, I welcome any and all feedback. If you would like help with purchasing any of the products mentioned my post today, please contact your local CTMH Maker. If you do not have a CTMH Maker and are in Canada I can absolutely 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 AHSC, simply click here for all the information and entry requirements for this challenge. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Blissful Brackets - Technique Blog hop

 Hello and welcome to the technique blog hop tonight. Tonight CTMH consultants from all over will featuring projects using our various bracket thin cuts to show how you can mix them up and create all different kinds of projects with them. If you are joining me from Darlys Recker

You are in the right place! If you get lost along the way just click here!

Now onto my projects:

Merry and Bright...I was inspired by Julie Carrier with this one, the snow on the bracket, so simple yet I would have never thought of doing this. I love that idea so I borrowed it. 

This one is a bit of a joke, I realize the paper(Oh Deer) is long retired but I just had to use it with this stamp from the Black Friday sale on a card for my mother in law, she say "Oh Dear" to everything so it was perfect for her. She also loves the birch wood and deer look so I pulled it out for a special card for her. This is actually going to be a Thank you card for her, we have all had quite a year and 2 weeks ago, after doing everything possible to protect our family from COVID my husband got it and she and my father in law have been fabulous in shopping for us, bringing us supplies and ordering take out for me so I don't need to cook so while it is retired, it is perfect for her and has a bracket so I included it!

Who does not love these little Gnomes. This is just a fun one I put together using our Jingle Joy papers and the Gnome for Christmas stamp and Thin cut set. 

While the stamp set was only available during the Black Friday sale, I just had to use it considering we are a COVID house in lockdown for some of our Christmas cards! If we cant find humour in this horrible situation we will definitely go bonkers, at least in this house. And I do know there is nothing funny about COVID, I just have to laugh to stay sane. My husband is extremely high risk, so I get the severity of this situation!

This layout features the Party Time paper pack and was featured on the H2H challenges blog but after I posted it, I realized I never did any journalling on the layout so I grabbed some Glacier card stock and my bracket thin cut and typed up some journaling and put the bracket thin cut through my printer to print right onto it. 

Here is a closer look at the journaling block!

It is now time to hop on over to Tamara Sandwisch and see what fabulous artwork she has for you tonight!

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, I welcome any and all feedback. If you would like help with purchasing any of the products mentioned my post today, please contact your local CTMH Maker. If you do not have a CTMH Maker and are in Canada I can absolutely 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. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Merry Little Christmas - AHSC 394

 Hello! Back again with another Christmas card from the Comfort and Joy workshop I held and as I often do I used the AHSC sketches for my design inspiration for the workshop! 

I have really enjoyed working on the cards for this workshop as poinsettias were my mothers favourite flower. It was not Christmas until there is a poinsettia in the house for her and it continues with me, she just loved them so very much so I continue the tradition. I always remember one year when my oldest brother Rob was working part time in high school at a department store called Gemco and he had to work Christmas Eve and while he was at work for the closing shift we were all at my Aunt Barbara's house for Christmas festivities and when we got home out entire living and dining room was covered in poinsettias, they were beautiful and EVERYWHERE! When we left for my aunts house we only had one and now there were easily 20-30. My mom shrieked and my brother who was getting ready to go out with friends came running to see what the issue was and she asked where they all came from and my brother said that the managers said if anyone wanted any they could take them because on the 26th they would all be tossed as no one will want them after Christmas. Of course none of his friends wanted any but he made them help him load up his VW bug and bring them home for my mom and poinsettia bomb our house. It was magical and my mom was so happy. Every Christmas when I see a poinsettia I go right back to that night and it brings me happiness when I miss my mom the most! Anyhoots now that I am all teary....onto the project!

Here is the sketch:

And here is what I did with it!

Products Used:

Paper:

-Comfort & Joy

- White Daisy card stock

Ink:

- Evergreen

- Scarlet

Stamps:

- Z3772 Comfort & Hoy - scrapbooking

- B1455 Be Jolly (retired)

Embellishments:

- Clear Sparkles

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, I welcome any and all feedback. If you would like help with purchasing any of the products mentioned my post today, please contact your local CTMH Maker. If you do not have a CTMH Maker and are in Canada I can absolutely 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 AHSC, simply click here for all the information and entry requirements for this challenge. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Noel - AHSC 393

Hello! I am back with another card for you today! I have been busy working on cards and layouts for my Comfort and Joy workshop, lots of Christmas going on here!

Here is the sketch for this week:

And here is my take on it:

I had every intention of doing the circle and scallop circle like the ones in the sketch but to fit the Noel and the flower that I wanted my circles were not big enough so I had to compromise and just use the full circles. I hope you all don't mind....lol That is the great thing about sketches, you can use them exactly or use them as jumping off point, alter them a bit if you need to so that it works for your project like I did. 

Products used:

Paper:

- Comfort and Joy

- Scarlet and White Daisy card stock

Stamp:

- Z3773 Comfort & Joy - scrapbooking

- S1510 Twinkle (retired)

Embellishments:

- Black and White Dots

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, I welcome any and all feedback. If you would like help with purchasing any of the products mentioned my post today, please contact your local CTMH Maker. If you do not have a CTMH Maker and are in Canada I can absolutely 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 AHSC, simply click here for all the information and entry requirements for this challenge. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Merry Everything - AHSC 392

Hello! Today I am bringing you a card I created for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge Design team. I love using their sketches for most of my cards, they take a lot of the stress out of making cards and make like so much easier for me when I am making a lot of cards especially at this time of year. 

Here is the sketch:

And here is what I did with it:

This card came together super easy and was a lot of fun to make. 

Products used:

Paper:

- Comfort and Joy

- Evergreen and White Daisy card stock

Stamp:

- Z3773 Comfort & Joy - scrapbooking

- S1510 Twinkle (retired)

Embellishments:

- Red Shimmer Tape

- Black and White Dots

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, I welcome any and all feedback. If you would like help with purchasing any of the products mentioned my post today, please contact your local CTMH Maker. If you do not have a CTMH Maker and are in Canada I can absolutely 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 AHSC, simply click here for all the information and entry requirements for this challenge. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Christmas Love - H2H Challenges

 Hello and Happy Monday to you!

Today I have a challenge for you from Heart 2 Heart Challenges; the challenge is to create a project that showcases the colour black. We want to see how awesome black can be as the stand out colour in your projects. Black is a basic, but we know it can be so much more! 

Here is my project for the challenge. This is a Christmas Card I created for this challenge but also was used as one of my workshop projects. 

Products Used:

Paper:

- Comfort and Joy

- Scarlet and White Daisy card stock

Stamp:

- Z3772 Comfort & Joy - scrapbooking

- CC10188 Love with all the trimmings (retired)

Ink:

- Black

- Scarlet

Embellishments:

- Silver Glitter Gems

- Sliver Embellishing Thread

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, I welcome any and all feedback. If you would like help with purchasing any of the products mentioned my post today, please contact your local CTMH Maker. If you do not have a CTMH Maker and are in Canada I can absolutely 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 H2H Challenges, simply click here for all the information and entry requirements for this challenge. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Christmas Cardinal

 Hello, Happy Monday to you! It is that time, time to start with posting Christmas cards! I hold off as long as possible but the challenge this week from Heart 2 Heart  Challenges is Christmas is Coming Early so a Christmas card it is! It is all good, I need to get started on my Comfort and Joy workshops so it is my kick in the bum I need!

As soon as I saw this stamp set I had to have it. I love it for winter and Christmas cards. 

Products Used:

Paper:
- Comfort and Joy

- Scarlet, New England Ivy, and White Daisy card stock

Stamp:

- C1871 Christmas Cardinal

Ink:

- Black Memento

Tri-blend markers

- Earth Brown

- Dark Red

- Dull Green 

- Light Yellow

Embellishments:

- Clear Sparkles

Thanks for stopping by my blog today, I welcome any and all feedback. If you would like help with purchasing any of the products mentioned my post today, please contact your local CTMH Maker. If you do not have a CTMH Maker and are in Canada I can absolutely 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 H2H Challenges, simply click here for all the information and entry requirements for this challenge. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi