Sweetest Little Things - SOTM Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the first blog hop of 2022! Tonight we are featuring the CTMH Stamp of the Month for January which is titled Sweet Little Things. If you are joining me from Michelle Loncar from Show and Tell with Michelle you are in the right place! If you are starting here with me, welcome to go through the blog hop all you need to do is click the links at the bottom of each blog post to see how my fellow consultants are using this stamp of the month. 

Now onto the project! I created this card using the Sweet Little Things stamp set. I had no plan in mind, I just played with it and and did what felt right. I wanted to keep it simple. I used Peach card stocks and scored the paper every 1/2 inch and sanded it to bring out the distressed look. I added some of the Jan-Feb Mix in paper which is matted in White Daisy card stock. I used a blending brush to add Glacier (for the sky) and Sage (for the grass) with blending brushes. 

I stamped the bunnies in our Intense Black ink as I was not sure if I was going to use alcohol markers or water colour pencils, I opted for a softer look and went with the water colour pencils. After colouring the sweet bunnies I fussy cut them out and used foam tapes popping them up. I let the card sit for a day or so to see if I felt it needed more but I really liked the simplicity of this one. 

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. 

 

It is now time to hop along to our next participant, Maureen and see what fabulous project she has for you today. 

 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

July-August New Product Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to our blog hop tonight featuring new products that you can find in the CTMH July/August idea book. If you are joining me from the super talented Becca Whitham, welcome!  If you are starting here at my blog, welcome, we are glad to have you! We have 14 consultants sharing projects with us tonight so be sure to scroll through all the blogs by clicking the links at the end of each blog post. 

Now, onto the artwork! For tonight's project I am featuring our Wander paper pack. I love, love, love this paper pack and will be buying lots of it. For me and most of my customers the colours in this one paper was more of a desert feel to it (and while I do have pictures that will work with that from my childhood) living in Ontario, Canada we have more cottage than desert pictures so with the help of my Cricut and the Wander Cricut collection (click here to view it) I changed the feel of the paper to create a more cottage feel for both me and my customers. 

As you can see, this is the original design of the paper:

And I wanted to make a more cottage feel so I used the layout below that comes with the Wander Cricut collection to cut out the sand in Toffee, grass in Evergreen and water inGlacier card stock and layered it over the Paprika, Sundance and Peacock.  I also used the cloud from the layout below but cut them in White Daisy.  

For some added details, I "fussy" cut the title sticker that said Wander apart and popped the letters up with foam dimensional tape. The sun below, I took some Sundance card stock and cut the 2nd largest stitched Circle thin cut and popped it up over the spot where the sun was on the printed paper and stuck a cloud behind the sun. 

To finish the layout off, I added some White dots from the Black and White dots set, some trees that I cut out from the CTMH Timber Cricut collection and added some stickers from the sticker sheet. 

I hope you like the changes I made to this paper to adapt it more to fit the needs of the pictures I have. 

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. 

 

It is now time to "hop" on over to the oh so talented Melissa Robinson at 

My Heartfelt Sentiments to see what fabulous artwork she has for us tonight. 

 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

New Product Blog Hop - Core Idea book

 Hello and welcome to another Blog Hop! Tonight 23 consultants from all over are featuring projects using products that can be found in the newest CTMH Core Idea Book. If you are joining me from Jen Rubio, you are absolutely in the correct place and welcome! If you are starting here at my blog....also welcome! If you get lost along the way and need to start at the beginning of the hop, just click here!

Now onto the projects that I have for you for tonight! I have two cards created with our Lovely paper pack. I love the soft spring like colours in this paper pack. They are just so soft and pretty...

Here is a closer up view of each card:

Happy Anniversary:

Paper:

- Lovely

- Sage, Ballerina, and White Daisy card stock

Ink:

- Canary

Stamp:

- S2010 - With all my love

Embellishments:

- Silver Glitter Gems

Happy Birthday:

Paper:

- Lovely

- Sage and White Daisy card stock

Tri-blend:

- Pale Pink and Dully green blends

Ink:

- Black Memento

Stamp:

- S2010 - With all my love

Thin Cuts:

- Scalloped Circle

- Stitched Circle

Embellishments:

- Silver Glitter Gems

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. 

It is now time to "hop" on over to Lauren Moore and see what fabulous project she has for us. Be sure to leave all the makers some blog love and let us know what you like about our projects!

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Floral Celebration - SOTM BH

Hello and welcome to the August Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! Tonight Close to My Heart consultants from all over the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand will be coming together to showcase artwork they created using the August Stamp of the Month - Floral Celebration. 

If you are joining me from Gina Brandstetter, welcome, you are in the right place and if you are starting here..welcome!

Tonight I have two cards I created using this stamp set. I love how I got two completely different looks just by changing the colours I used. I used both of our current paper packs Timber and Summer Vibes, I actually used some scraps I had...I love when I can use up my scraps!

Card 1 - Timber. 
I used the wood grain paper from the Timber paper pack and paired it with the large bracket thin cut. My ink colours are some of my favourites, Ruby, Saffron, Fern and Sapphire. And just added a few clear sparkles to finish it off. 

Card 2 - Summer Vibes

I used some Glacier, Candy Apple and White Daisy card stock. On this one I random stamped the flowers in Candy Apple, Lemonade, Glacier, Nectarine, and Smoothie. I stamped the sentiment in Black ink to help ground it a bit. I used some red Shimmer Trim, the scalloped oval is from the Stitched Together Cricut Collection. 

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 now time to "hop" on over to the very talented Colleen Dewis

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

My Beautiful Friend - SOTM blog hop

Hello and welcome to the July Stamp of the Month for S2007 - My Beautiful Friend. If you are joining me from Alyson Mayo, welcome! If you are starting with me, we are happy to have you. Tonight consultants from around the world are joining together to show off the July Stamp of the Month, If you are 

I created this card for a friend, I just love the little girl with the bouquet of flowers, she is so sweet, look at those knee socks...adorable! 

Products Used:

Paper:

- Stitched Together

Stamp:

- S2007 For My Beautiful Friend

Ink:

- Black Memento

Tri - Blend Markers:

- Dark Red

- True Blue

- Light Yellow

- Pale Pink

- Bright Pink

- Fair Skin

- Citrus

- Orange

- Green Turquoise

- Light Green

- Dull Green

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 now time to "hop" on over to Michelle Loncar's blog and check out her fabulous artwork. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Let's stay home with Legendary Father - SOTM BH

Hello and welcome to the Legendary Father and Let's Stay Home blog hop! Tonight CTMH consultants from all over are showcasing their artworks using a variety of new stamps available. You likely are joining me from the uber talented Katy Taylor so welcome!

Here are the projects I made using the Stamp sets for the Legendary Father release. 

For both of these projects I used the Aurora paper pack. The stamps are CC6205 Legendary Father's Day (on the card) and layout and the CC6206 Someone To Look Up To. I used the Dull Green Blend and Iced Gray Blend of the Tri-blend markers.  Charcoal, Sapphire and Black Tuxedo by Momento inks. The triangle studs are CTMh but 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. 

It is not time to hop on over to the super creative Kathy Burrows and see what great items she has in store for you!  If you get lost along the way, just check in here with Melinda and she will get you back and hopping again! Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Garden Tags - June SOTM BH

Hello and welcome to the stamp of the month blog hop for June 2020! Tonight we are featuring S2006 - Garden Tags in our projects to see myself and my fellow CTMH consultants use the Garden Tags Stamp of the Month in our projects. Tonight we have 22 consultants participating, if you are coming to me from Krista Hershberger
you are in the right place! If you are starting with me, welcome!

Here is my artwork with this stamp set:

I recently hosted my first virtual crop and at the end of the day we did a prize draw and I put the prizes in these bags and stamped and coloured a tag from this stamp set as a way to say thank you for those joining in. 

I used black memento ink to stamp the image and my Spectrum Noir Tri-blend markers to colour them in. 

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 now time to "hop" on over to Stefani and see what amazing art work she has in store for you with the Garden Tags stamp of the month!

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Time to Celebrate - May SOTM

Hello! Welcome to May and the CTMH stamp of the month blog hop. Tonight we are featuring the stamp set Time to Celebrate! Tonight we have 20 different CTMH consultants from around the world participating. If you are joining me from Gina Brandstetter welcome. If you are starting the hop here with me, welcome! If at any point you get lost you can get back on track by visiting Melinda Everitt to get back on track!

For my card tonight I started with the stamp set, Time to Celebrate and used up some of my These are My People paper to create this card for a friend of mine who is struggling a bit with the social distancing so I want her to know I am thinking of her!

Products used:

Paper:

- These Are My People

- White Daisy and Green Apple

Embellishments:

- Black and White Dots

- Ribbon - White

Ink:

- Black

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 now time to hop on over to Darlys Recker and check out her fabulous artwork!

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

Family Legacy - SOTM BH

It is time for the Stamp of the Month Blog Hop, if you are joining me from 
Darlys Recker or starting here at my blog, welcome! Tonight we are featuring artwork created with the Close to My Heart Stamp of the Month Family Legacy. This set features 17 different images that are sure to help you create amazing projects. 

Here is my project, I created a two page layout for our family portraits. I am not sure if I will use black and white or colour photos on this, waiting to get my prints back to see which I prefer on it. I have one photo spot for a 5 X 7 where I will put a picture of the 5 of us and then individual spots for each of our girls. 

Products Used:

Paper:

- Yesterday & Today

- French Vanilla, Espresso, and Toffee

Ink:

- Espresso

Stamp:

- S2003 Family Legacy

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 our next participant, Jen Rubio. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

It's Stamptacular Time!

Welcome to the Stampulcar Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! Tonight we are featuring the stamps and stamp sets that are currently on sale with Close to My Heart as a part of the Stamptacular special. If you are joining me from Gina welcome, you are in the right spot! If you get lost along the way, just click here for a full list of hoppers!

I created two cards for tonights blog hop. I have been wanting the Celebrate Today - card making set for a bit and finally got it with the sale, I was so excited, I love a good bargain!

Products Used:

Paper:

- Celebrate Today

- Mint, White Daisy, and Bluebird card stock

Stamp/Thin Cut:

- Z3629 Celebrate Today - card making

- Z3348 Scallop Border

- Z4181 Stitched Circles

- Z3639 Scalloped Circles

Ink:

- Black and Lagoon

Embellishments:

- Black and white dots

- Bitty Sparkles (on the rim of the glasses)

Products Used:

Paper:

- Mint and White Daisy card stock

Stamp/Thin Cuts:

- Z3626 Card Front Spinner

- C1823 Rainbow Wishes

Ink:

- Glacier, Wisteria, Ballerina, Carolina, and Mint

Embellishments:

- Clear Sparkles

It is time to hop on over to Haley's blog to see what she has created! 

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. 

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Cherishing Her -- February SOTM BH

Hello and welcome to the February Stamp of the Month blog hop! Tonight it is all about the stamp set, Cherishing Her. You should be joining me from the super talented 
Katy Taylor if so, you are in the right place, welcome! If you are starting here with my blog, welcome! This blog hop works in a circle, just follow the links at the end of the blog posts to hop on over to the next blog and check out their terrific projects. 

Now onto what I created with this stamp of the month:

I really had no plan for what I wanted to do with this card so I just stamped the floral image and started to colour and just decided to let it go where it went. I do not have a ton of markers so I had to make due with what I have. I decided to use Necatrine to mat this card because 1. I love orange and 2. I love how the orange flowers came out and wanted to help them pop. I decided to random stamp in Nectarine ink the small hearts that are included in this set. 

Products Used:

Paper:

- Nectarine, Black, and White Daisy card stock

Stamp:

- S2002 Cherishing Her

Ink:

- Black Memento

Markers:

Tri Blend:

- Hydranga, Birhgt Pink, Lavender, Ice Blue, Dull Green, Gold Brown blends

Copic:

- G94 and G99

- YR04, YR07, and YR09

Shin Han:

- R11

Embellishments:

- Black Shimmer Trim

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 the creative and talented Alyson Mayo and check out what beautiful creation she has for us!

Until next time, happy crafting!

Brandi

Everyday Magic - January 2020 SOTM Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to the first blog hop of 2020! I am excited to continue participating in the Stamp of the Month blog hops. Tonight we have a great new stamp of the month that starts the new year off in a positive note. But before we get started let's make sure you are in the right place, you should be joining me from my good friend, the very talented Haley Dyer, if you are welcome! If you are starting your hop here, welcome!

And now about my card, I created this card for a workshop I am doing in January and while waiting for my new goodies to ship from the new idea book, I used some left over Holly Jolly papers, I think this has a bit of a Valentine feel to it with the red and peach. 

Products used:

Paper:
- Holly Jolly
- White Daisy, Candy Apple, and Sorbet

Ink:
- Candy Apple

Stamp: 
- Everyday Magic

Embellishments:
- Red Shimmer Trim
- 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 jump on over to the next talented scrapper, Michelle Loncar. Be sure to leave some blog love to let us know what you think of our projects or how you think you will use this awesome Stamp of the month. For a complete list of the blog hoppers, click here. 

Brandi