Thank you Delivery! - AHSC 367

There is so much going on in our world right now, we are all struggling in different ways and through different things so it is my goal to try to spread a bit of joy and appreciation where possible. Of course in the middle of all of this of course I need to replace my washer and dryer...perfect timing! So we do have a delivery scheduled for this coming Friday to have them delivered and installed. I made this card (two of them) for the delivery guys to let them know I appreciate them and the essential service they provide, being able to do laundry with a family of 5 is essential!

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 consultant. If you do not have a CTMH consultant 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 consultant local to you for ordering. 

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

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Happy Birthday - H2H Stripes

Hello! Happy Monday! Can you believe another weekend is come and gone. I am not sure where you are reading this from but here in my neck of the woods in Canada we have been in semi lockdown mode for 7 weeks now...7 weeks stuck at home with the kiddos. I love them to death but yeah we all have a bit (ok a lot) of cabin fever at this point. The upside to being stuck at home is crafting time...

The challenge this week from H2H is all about Stripes! I was all over this one, I absolutely love this striped paper from the Seas the Day paper pack, it is my favourite and I want to Hoard it all and just buy more and more of this. For this card, I stepped out of my comfort zone, I do not typically stamp right onto patterned paper but I wanted the stripes to show through. I also tried something new with the Sapphire Crochet thread and embellished it with 3 of the large Seas the Day dots.

Products Used: 

Paper:
- Seas the Day
- Peach card stock

Embellishments
- Sapphire Crochet Thread
- Seas the Day Dots

Ink:
- Sapphire

Stamp
- C1837 Birthday Banners

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 consultant. If you do not have a CTMH consultant 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 consultant 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

Sunkissed Cutie - H2H challenges

Hello! Happy Monday to you all out there. I hope every one is doing well out there while social distancing, it is a difficult time that is for sure. One thing I am thankful for during all of this is that my hobby is one I can do inside and while I did miss out on joining some friends for a crop weekend, with social media we are all still able to connect and created.  Today I am bringing you a challenge from Heart 2 Heart (H2H) Challenges and it is "Life's a Beach" so we want to see all your beachy creations! Here is one of mine - Sunkissed Cutie! I had a lot of fun making this layout, it is nice dreaming of the days we can get out of the house again, go places and enjoy each others company. My daughters are so hopefully we will be able to enjoy the pool and beach and friends this summer and I am hopeful too. 

Products Used:

Paper:
- Seas the Day w/ sticker sheet
- Peach, Canary, Sapphire, Candy Apple and White Daisy card stock

Tools:
- Scallop Border Thin Cut (retired)

Silhouette Cameo:
- Playing in the Sandbox by PPbN Designs (sun only)
- I do not recall the fonts I used, I really must write them down!

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 consultant. If you do not have a CTMH consultant 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 consultant 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

Seas the Day - Cross Canada BH

Hello and welcome to the Cross Canada Blog Hop! Tonight we have 5 Close to My Heart consultants participating and we are featuring projects using the Seas the Day paper pack. If you are joining me from Rosalynd you are in the right place. If you are starting here at my blog, welcome! 

I am in love with this paper pack, I love the beach vibe and the colours, the Sapphire, Candy Apple, Mint, Peach oh all the colours make my heart happy! This layout will be great for some pictures I have of my girls at the beach by us. I love watching them play in the water and have a great time, it reminds me of my own childhood and spending days at the beach with my family. I just hope we will be able to get to the beach this year and that the social distancing we are all participating in ends soon!

Products used:

Paper:
- Seas the Day
- Candy Apple, Canary, Linen, Sapphire, and White Daisy

Silhouette:
- Life is better at the Beach by Miss Kate Cuttables (79511)

Embellishments:
- Seas the Day 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 consultant. If you do not have a CTMH consultant 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 consultant local to you for ordering. 

It is not time to Hop along over to the next talented consultant Jessica

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

O-Fish-ally Awesome - SOTM BH

Hello and welcome to the Stamp of the Month Blog hop for April. This month we have an adorable stamp set call O'fish-ally Awesome and it is officially awesome in my opinion! If you are starting here or joining me from the very talented Michelle Loncar, welcome! This month we have 22 different consultants participating, to view all of their artwork using this stamp of the month, simply follow the links at the end of each blog post to hop on over to the next participant. 

Now onto my projects. I have two tonight, one I created for this blog post and one I created earlier for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge but I thought I would re-share it here too. 

Products used (on both cards)

Paper:
- Seas the Day
- Mint, Sorbet White Daisy, and Sapphire card stock

Stamp:
- S2004 - O'fish-ally Awesome

Ink:
- Black Memento

Markers:
- Tri- Blend by Spectrum Noir
     - Dull Green, Gold Brown, Ice Grey, Orange

- Copic
     - E23, E25, RV10, 

- Shin Han
     - BR96, BR99, BR116

Embellishments:
- Twine - Mink
- 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 consultant. If you do not have a CTMH consultant 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 consultant local to you for ordering. 

Time to hop along to the super creative Darlys Recker. If you get lost at all along the way, simply click here and it will take you to the first consultant in the hop. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Keep on Swimming - AHSC 362

Hello! I hope you are all safe and that everyone is doing well in your friends and family circle. We are in some trying and very unusual times right now, everything about every day is heavy, sad, and unprecedented to say the least. I have made it a challenge for me to start flooding my loved ones with mail, for as long as mail is delivered.... I am hoping to spread some good will and cheer along the way...

And that is where this card comes from for the AHSC design team today. Keep on swimming...it is punny but fighting, we just need to keep on moving through this as best we can and for many people we love being cooped up, possibly alone is hard so if you can, send them so love in the mail to remind them that are important and that you are thinking of them. 

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 consultant. If you do not have a CTMH consultant 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 consultant 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

Hello There - H2H Challenges

Hello There! How are we all doing these days? I hope you are hanging in there if you are practicing Social Distancing as we are here. It is a challenge for the kids, they want to be with their friends so bad but they are doing pretty good under these challenging times. For me, this is perfect...stay home...scrapbook (in-between chores, housework, cooking, entertaining kids, etc.)

Our challenge this week is paper tearing. This is a challenge for me as I live by clean lines, straight edges and want everything perfect. But I did tear a bit off the mint piece to add some visual interest. 

I did this card with the message in the bottle because that is how I feel right now, isolated. It seems a bit weird to not seeing people every day, I can still chat, text, call, and "see" them on social media but it is just not the same so the message in a bottle just kinda stuck with me with all that is going on right now.

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 consultant. If you do not have a CTMH consultant 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 consultant 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

CTMH New Product BH - SOTM BH

Hello, and welcome to the new product blog hop for the March / April Idea book from Close to My Heart. Tonight my fellow consultants and I will be showcasing different projects we have created using products in this new idea book. If you are joining me from Michelle Loncar you are in the right place. If you are starting here, welcome!

Now onto what I have created. I created this fun punny card for tonights hop. I am addicted to punny stamps and when I saw this one in the idea book it combined my love of the ocean and puns, I could not order fast enough! 

Products used:

Paper:

- G1200 Seas the Day Cardmaking Workshop Kit (this included the paper, stamp & thin cuts)

Ink:

- Mink and Sapphire

Embellishments:

- X7255F Seas the Day Dots

Here are some additional project I made with new products but have been previously published on my blog but since this is all about new products and ideas I thought I would share them again. 

Family

Whale be Ok

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 consultant. If you do not have a CTMH consultant 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 consultant local to you for ordering. 

It is time to hop on over to Darlys Recker and see what fabulous project she has for us tonight. If you get lost along the way, check in at Melinda Everett's for the complete list and to get back on track. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

It WHALE be ok! - H2H Challenges

Hello! Welcome to Monday and another new challenge by H2H challenges. I have a fun card for you today as our theme this week is "So Punny" and is all about the Puns and I just love a good punny card, they are my favourite so the hardest thing about this challenge was deciding which Punny stamp set I was going to use!

I decided to use my Seas the Day card making kit and while it comes with some adorable cards, I decided to put my own spin on this one. I tried to create waves with the Borders Thin Cuts and I cut some clouds from the Cricut Artiste collection. 

Products Used:

Paper:
- Seas the Day
- Sapphire, Smoothie, and White Daisy card stock

Thin Cuts:
- Z4241 Decorative Borders
- Z3657 Seas the Day Cardmaking Workshop 

Stamp:
- Z3657 Seas the Day Cardmaking Workshop 

Ink:
- Sapphire and Smoothie

Embellishments:
- Bitty Sparkles
- Black and White Dots
- Clear Shimmer Brush

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 consultant. If you do not have a CTMH consultant 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 consultant 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