CTMH Cross Canada Blog Hop - March

Bienvenue to the March blog hop featuring artwork created by Close To My Heart consultants from across Canada using products from the So Much Happy collection. To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local consultant to place an order.

If you came from Colleen's blog then you are in the right place!

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The So Much Happy collection includes coordinating Picture My Life cards (X7241E). These double-sided pocket cards feature unique designs, sentiments, and icons. You get 12 each of  4"×6" pocket cards and 3"×4" pocket cards

Here I chose 2 cards, trimmed off the edge of the long side to 5.5"x4" so it fit the front of a card.

 

I used clear shimmer brush to add some sparkle in spots like the clouds in the card above and the moon in the card below.

Easy-peasy.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Sheena's blog HERE. If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle S Blog, http://mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca, as she has the complete blog list.

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you…

And don't forget

Friends don't let friends craft alone.

à bientôt,
Dominique

CTMH Cross Canada Blog Hop - November

Bienvenue to our November Blog Hop featuring artwork created by Close To My Heart consultants from across Canada using products from the 'Tis The Season collection.

To purchase any of the items seen in this blog hop, contact your local consultant to place an order.

If you came from Michelle's blog then you are in the right place!

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The patterns on this paper are the perfect holiday colours. Here is one card two ways, just rotate it from landscape to portrait.

This first card used one of the zip strip across the middle.  and the stamp is from the Saison de Noël set (B1622).

This second card uses the small stamp set called Christmas Script (M1209)

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Diana's blog HERE.


Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. Please take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers... whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do... by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see.

If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle's blog here, she has the complete blog list from East to West across Canada.

And don't forget
Friends don't let friends craft alone.
à bientôt,

Dominique

CTMH Cross Canada Blog Hop - April

Bienvenue to our April Blog Hop featuring artwork created from Close To My Heart products inspired by the theme "Celebrations".

To purchase any of the items seen in this blog hop, contact your local consultant to place an order.

If you came from Michelle's blog then you are in the right place!

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When I think of celebrations, I think birthdays. I for one can never have enough birthday cards on hand. So I decided to showcase a birthday card using two of the French stamps that CTMH currently sells as well as a sneak peek of one of the new paper collections that will be available starting May 1st.

Birthday card / Carte de fête

The card cover is made with two 2"x2" squares of Central Park paper. The sentiment and the bubbles are from the Invitation (French) stamp (C1701)

For the inside, I used another of Close To My Heart's French stamps, the gorgeous Bonne Fête (A1212). It is stamped in archival black ink to give a crisp glossy image. The delicate flowers and leaves are coloured with Shin Han alcohol markers.

Supplies
Pattern Paper: Central Park (coming May 1st)
Cardstock: Canary (X5982)
Ink: Canary (Z2843), Sapphire (Z2848)
Embellishments: Sapphire Dots (Z4177)
Card base/envelope (X254)
Stamp: Invitation (C1701) and Bonne Fête (A1212)

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Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Caroline Creations blog HERE.

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. Please take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers... whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do... by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see.

If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle's blog here, she has the complete blog list from East to West across Canada.


And don't forget
Friends don't let friends craft alone.

à bientôt,
Dominique

CTMH Cross Canada Blog Hop - January

Welcome to our January Blog Hop featuring artwork created from Close To My Heart products found in the new the Seasonal Inspirations 2018 catalogue.

To purchase any of the items seen in this blog hop, contact your local consultant to place an order.

If you came from Nicky's blog then you are in the right place!

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I decided to showcase how one of new papers coordinates perfectly with a stamp and diecut from the annual catalogue. Here is a quick card for a baby shower, wedding shower, wedding, or Mother's Day.  Stamp an appropriate sentiment for the occasion and voilà you're ready to go!

This card is made by using the Gimme Some Sugar paper. The floral pattern is cut at 5.5" x 3", and green piece at 5.5" x 0.5".

The Beautiful You die was used to cut the flower and 2 leaves out of Daisy white cardstock. A third leaf was cut out of vellum. The medium-sized flower was stamped with pale Bashful pink ink and the second layer in Pixie. The middle of the flowers was made with ShinHan marigold marker. The two leaves were stamped in Juniper. I embellished using Bitty sparkles in the center of some of the little flowers and a sparkle on the large flower.

To tie everything in, I like to decorate the envelope - this time I stamped flowers across the flap.

Supplies
Paper:pattern: Gimme Some Sugar (X7228B), vellum (Z3367)
Ink: Bashful (Z2819), Pixie (Z2844), Juniper (Z2865)
Marker: Marigold (Z2487)
Embellishments: Bitty Sparkles (Z1263), Clear Sparkles (Z3274)
Card base/envelope (X254)
Tool: Beautiful You stamp/diecut (Z3384)

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Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Brae's blog HERE.

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. Please take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers... whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do... by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see.

If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle's blog here, she has the complete blog list from East to West across Canada.

And don't forget
Friends don't let friends craft alone.

à bientôt,

Dominique