A Few of My Favourite Things - H2H Challenges

Today I am bringing you a post from one of my design teams, the H2H Challenges and this weeks challenge is all about A Few of My Favourite Things. So we are hoping you will join us and share a few of your favourite projects, embellishments or techniques with us. 

Here is what I have....

I chose this layout as one of my favourites for a variety of reasons. First off, I used it to scrapbook pictures of my family at our cottage, one of our very favourite places to go. Cottage Country in Ontario, Canada is absolutely breathtaking and this is from a beach loving Southern California girl! Second, just look at those papers, absolutely stunning. And I lastly, I love the title I created with my Silhouette, I was just learning how to create titles like this and I was so happy with how this one turned out! So that is why this was one of my favourites! Click here to see the original post featuring this paper pack and all the supplies I used to create it!

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

Easter Blessings - H2H challenge

Hello! Welcome back to my blog, today I have a project for you for the Heart 2 Heart Challenges design team and this week we are all about sponging. 

For this weeks project, I did some stash busting and pulled out my retired Daisy Meadows, I need some Easter cards and I just love this paper for Easter, specifically the plaid in this collection.  For the sponging challenge I used my Mint ink and used a stencil to ink on the pattern, it looks like a water background to me. I did Mint ink on Mint paper for a subtle background. 

Products used:

Paper:

- Daisy Meadow (retired)

- Mint, Peach and White Daisy card stock

Stamp:

- A1246 Happy Easter Bunny

Ink:

- Black Memento 

Colouring:

- Milan watercolour pencils

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 H2H Challenges, simply click here for all the information and entry requirements for this challenge. 

 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

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

Spruced Up - H2H Challenges

Hello and Happy Monday to you all. I am a bit late in posting today due to some home renovations going on at my place....sorry about that! I have a card today for the Spruced Up challenge with H2H challenges. For this challenge I went easy and used the Spruced Up paper pack from Close to My Heart but you do not have to, just what ever your working on...spruce it up a bit, use spruce leaves, the colour of spruce...whatever Spruce up means to you. 

Here is what I created:

Products Used:

Paper:

- Spruced Up

- Sangria and French Vanilla card stock

Ink:

- Black Memento

- Tri Blend Marker Dull Green

Embellishments:

- Clear Sparkles

- Mink Twine

Stamps:

- S1712 A Little Bit of Pun (retired)

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

Make a Wish - H2H Challenges

Today I have a card for you from the H2H challenges. Our challenge this week is all about Celebrating the good times. What celebrations do you and your family celebrate? Birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, all are welcome in this challenge...show us how and what you celebrate by clicking here to play along.

This is a card I made for one of my workshops, the Into the Woods workshop and it also double duty for one of my daughters birthdays, her favourite colour is blue so she will LOVE this!

Products Used:

Paper:
- Into the Wild
- Linen and White Daisy card stock

Stamp:
- CC61913 - Birthday Joy

Ink:
- Sapphire

Embellishments:
- Blue Burlap Ribbon
- Central Park sequins (retired)

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

Amish Cinnamon Bread - H2H Recipe challenge

Hello! Happy Monday to you all. Today at H2H Challenges we have a recipe challenge for you. The recipe can be an actual cooking type of recipe, a sketch or challenge recipe type, or anything that requires you to follow a "recipe."

I chose to do an actual recipe, see I bought the Cut Above Recipe Kit - Kitchen Traditions about 6 months ago and the Holiday version from the Holiday Expressions Idea Book and I have not touched it yet. So this was the perfect opportunity to get it out and get started documenting our recipes.

I chose a family favourite and one I knew had pictures of one of my daughters helping me make and that is my husband's favourite...Amish Cinnamon Bread. 

Products Used:

- Z4168 Cut Above Recipe Kit - Kitchen Traditions
- White Daisy card stock
- D1770 Kitchen Traditions stamp set
- Z2105 Black Ink
- Black Cricut Pen


Now that I have this one done and in the album I am committing myself to writing out one recipe per week, this keeps it manageable and less daunting of a project. I also have some family members that I will be asking to write out the recipes that they make that our family favourites. I wish I had some of my moms old recipes that she made all the time but never had written down and now that is gone for over 20 years memories are fading and it would be awesome to have those memories in her writing to hand down to my girls. While I missed the opportunity with my mom, I will not miss anymore. I will also be having my girls write out their own favourites that we make when I teach them how to make our family favourites.

Until next time, happy crafting!
Brandi

Take a Hike - H2H Challenges

Today I am featuring one of my favourite CTMH paper packs, this is one of my all time top 5 if not number one. I have so many cottage pictures and this paper pack is just perfect for those lazy cottage summer days.  Today however it is all about hiking! I did created this for my Fresh Air workshop but new it would be perfect for the Relax and Unwind theme for this weeks Heart 2 Heart Challenges. For me, hiking is not relaxing but it does wear my girls out so later I get to relax while they are fast asleep! I do have many friends who love hiking and find it peaceful and relaxing....

Products used:

Paper:

- Fresh Air

- New England Ivy and White Daisy card stock.

- various brown shades of Bazzill card stock

Embellishments:

- Fresh Air wood shapes

- Wood grain washi tape (retired)

Silhouette:

- Take a hike title

Cricut:

-  Pine trees, Bear, Boots and Clouds

Thanks for stopping by and visiting me and my work, I welcome any and all feedback!

Until next time....happy crafting!

Brandi

Caught in the Act - H2H Challenge

This week our theme at Heart 2 Heart Challenges is "Framed" now many in the paper crafting world would think frames and matting and beautiful stuff like that but not me. I have 3 very beautiful but wild and crazy girls who are always into and up to something so my first thought was busted! I also had a customer request a layout about being busted or caught in the act for our upcoming workshop as she has a little guy who like my girls is always up to something. So they are "framed" because we are always watching them. 

Products Used:

Paper:

- Stargazer

- Sapphire, Canary, Cranberry, and White Daisy card stock

Embellishments:

- Stargazer Dots

- Clear Sparkles

Ink:

- Sapphire, Cranberry, and Pacifica

Stamp:

- D17157 - Stargazer Scrapbooking

Cutting Machine:

- Silhouette Cameo

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my project. I hope you will join us and play along at Heart2Heart Challenges by clicking here!

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Out of this world - H2H Challenges

Hello! Happy Monday to you! I have a new challenge for you all, this week at Heart 2 Heart the challenge is Out of this World. What do you find to be "Out of this World?" 

I have an out of this world layout for you this week. I created this layout for my workshop ladies, this was a super fun layout to pull together. I love the title, Love you to the Moon and Back!

Products Used:

Paper:

- Stargazer

- White Daisy, Poppy, Pacifica, Goldrush, and Black

Stamp:

- Stargazer card and thin cuts

- Stargazer Scrapbooking

Ink:

- Poppy

- Pacificia

Tools:

- Water Blending Pen

- Silhouette Cameo

We look forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge. You have until April 30th to enter for this challenge. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

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

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. 

Girls Night Out - H2H Anything Goes

This week at Heart 2 Heart we are having an Anything Goes theme and I have a layout that I did a few months ago that I never posted but it is one of my favourites and I really was very proud of this layout so even though the paper pack is retired I am going to post it anyways. I did this one for one of my workshops from the Prickly Pear paper pack and really loved how different it was to the image of Prickly Pear with the Cacti and Llamas.
The title was cut out using my Silhouette and some fonts I had on my computer.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and see what I created. We would love to see what you come up with.

Until next time, happy crafting!
Brandi

Counting my blessings - H2H Challenge

The theme this week at Heart 2 Heart challenges is Count your blessings. For me my family is my greatest blessing. It has not been an easy road at all, and it has been a long long road for us to become a family, a road we are still travelling. Adoption is not for the faint of heart I have come to learn but it is worth all the work, effort, heart ache, late nights, early mornings, worry, school meetings, and countless (but fun) play dates. I love my family...yeah they drive me bonkers from time to time but I really really do love my husband and my girls. I am thankful for my family and I count them amongst my greatest blessings!

Products Used:

Paper:
- Falling for you
- Fern, Goldrush, Saffron, Toffee, and White Daisy card stock

Stamp:
- S1710 - Feel so Blessed

Ink:
- Goldrush

Silhouette Cameo:
- Fall Set by Ms. Kate Cuttables


Thanks for stopping by and visiting my work. We would love to see your work featured within our challenges. You can join us here!

Until next time, happy crafting!
Brandi

Friends - H2H challenges

Hello! In honor of national best friends day, I created a card for the ladies who attended my Prickly Pear workshops. I really loved playing with this paper, the flowers and colours were so fun to work with. 

Products used:

Paper:

- Prickly Pear

- White card stock

Ink:

- Blossom

- Poppy

- Tangerine

Embellishments:

- White Shimmer trim

- Sparkles

Stamp:

- Prickly Pear Scrapbooking Stamp and Thin Cuts

I hope you like the card, please feel free to check out the rest of the design team here. And feel free to join us at H2H challenges, we would love to see how you honour your friends.

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi