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Monday, September 14, 2015

Go ahead and Quote me on that!!!

This project was prepared for our challenge on Between The Folds, which is a Close To My Heart Weekly Challenge Blog! Every Tuesday we will be choosing themes that will challenge your creativity! We hope you play along!

This week our challenge was to add a quote to your project! I love quotes! I often incorporate them into my layouts and build my page around the quote! I decided on the one I used because when I read it, it reminded me of my daughter. I just love the young lady she has become and she really does put the "wonderful" into the world... at least my world!

The adorable quote card came from one of our new Picture My Life Pocket Scrapbooking Kits, Beautiful You. The classy black and white pattern paper is from the new La Vie En Rose Paper Pack. I decided to combine it with the September Stamp Of the Month, Paper Garden to add just a pop of color! Since my daughter's favorite color is purple, I chose Gypsy. I added a little strip of the new Gold Foil Tape to match the gold on the card.

Here is a close look:

From the moment I saw the September Stamp of the Month Artwork, I was in love with the stamp set and the sample layout. I just switched up my colors and changed a few things and voila! I wanted the focus on the quote, so I added less flowers than the original sample shown below. I love this stamp set even more after using it.

If you have not tried Pocket Cards in your projects, I urge you to give it a try! Our new cards now come with the same image on the front and back of the cards, but it is horizontally on one side and vertically on the other! No more wishing it was the other way!

I love the second generation stamping image you get with this stamp set. Combined with the vibrant color of the flowers and the leaves, it looks beautiful. I topped it all off with some Gold Sequins! I love how this layout turned out.

Products used in this project are as follows:

CTMH Exclusive Cardstock Colors: Gypsy

Beautiful You Picture My Life

Sequins Gold Assortment

Cricut Artiste

Don't forget to check out the inspiration from the other designers over at Between The Folds Weekly Challenge... we hope you will play along!

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Embossing with Black and White

This project was prepared for our challenge on Between The Folds, which is a new Close To My Heart Weekly Challenge Blog! Every Tuesday we will be offering themed challenges that will challenge your creativity! We hope you play along!

This week our challenge was to add some type of embossing to your project! I really took my time with this one and found a new appreciation for embossing powder and my heating tool in the process! I absolutely love how this layout turned out. I just ordered one of our Shadow Box Frames so I can frame it and put it in my office!

I really wanted to do a classic black and white layout, but when I started planning my page, I decided I wanted a little bit of color. I love the classy look of the Glacier Paper Fundamentals (now retired), so I used that as my base page. I accented with Lagoon to give it a brighter, but still subtle pop of color... and finished it off with some Lagoon colored enamel Aqua Dots (and some black gems, now retired).

Here is a close look:

To get the effect above, I stamped the Pretty Petals coordinating stamp on the image cut using the Art Philosophy Cartridge. Added some white embossing powder and used heating tool to set.

To get the frosted look on the tips of the roses, I rolled the cut pieces to form the roses, held them and dipped the tips in white ink, followed by white embossing powder and then used heating tool to set.

To get the shaded embossed look on the butterfly, I used Lagoon paper (with black as the base) and just pressed the top layer of the butterfly into the ink, followed by embossing powder, followed by the heating tool! Love how it turned out. The heat embossing adds that hard enamel look, so it looks like the butterfly is popping off the page.

You can see I also quickly dipped the edges of the smaller black flowers in ink, powder and embossed!

I hope I have inspired you to get your embossing tools and heating tool out!

Products used in this project are as follows:

CTMH Exclusive Cardstock Colors: Black and Lagoon

Pretty Petals

White Daisy Pigment Ink

Ranger White Embossing Powder

Aqua Dots

Craft Heater

Art Philosophy Cricut Collection

Don't forget to check out the inspiration from the other designers over at Between The Folds Weekly Challenge... we hope you will play along!

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

To BLING or not to BLING... is that even a question???

I was inspired by the stamp set, Balloon Wishes (D1667), which was part of the August Marker Roll-up Combo Promotion. I was further inspired by the artwork on page 81 of the new Idea Book (photo below). I really loved the new Kaleidoscope paper pattern so I just changed up the colors to concentrate on the purple and pink. I added a little more bling and a few extra layers here and there and voila! That's what I love most about our "catalogs"... they really are Idea Books!!!

Here is a close look:

Here you can see the White Shimmer Trim, White Enamel Gems from the Grey Enamel Gems collection and the small clear sparkles from the Sparkles Clear Collection. I colored the sparkles with the Lavender Shin Han Marker.

Here you can see more of the clear sparkles, colored pink and purple, with the Cherry Pink and Lavender Shin Han Markers. I also used Liquid Glass on the row of pink dots and the little stripes. Sometimes all you need is a little Liquid Glass to give parts of your pattern an enamel look.

Products used in this project are as follows:

CTMH Exclusive Cardstock Colors: Pixie, Gypsy and White Daisy

Shin Han Markers: Colors: Cherry Pink, Lavender, Tender Pink and Peony Purple