January Cross Canada Blog Hop - Valentine's Inspiration

Welcome to our January Blog Hop featuring Valentine’s Inspiration. To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local consultant to place an order.  For my customers, or if you do not have a consultant and see something you would like, you may order from my website or contact me. 

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… now on to our hop!

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this hop goes from east to west and I am the geographic start.  If you started elsewhere, then you came from Kristine of Home With Studio K and you are in the right place!

I loved making handmade Valentines each year for my children to give out to their classmates.  But they are now both in junior high so my little cards with Owl Be Your Friend Forever! and You're Outta this World Valentine! are no longer cool.  I really liked the January Stamp of the Month artwork showing the Designer Creations Paper Bags used to hold cookies.  My husband and children are real cookie monsters, so I though this would be a great Valentine's project.  Here is my version.   

Supplies:

Z2036 Designer Creations Slate Paper Bags 

Z2038 Designer Creations Ruby Paper Bags

     

S1501This Moment

Z1985 Gold Shimmer Trim

Other supplies include:

Z2012 Sequins Gold Assortment

Z2013 Sequins Silver Assortment

Z2643 Canary Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad

Z2641 Glacier Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad

Z2173 Slate Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad

Z2170 Ruby Exclusive inks Stamp Pad

Z2448 Carmine Shin Han Touch Twin Markers 

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Michelle of My Creations With Michelle.   If you get lost along the way, Michelle also has the complete blog list.

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. We hope you will join us again next month when we will be featuring Card Creations using our How To Books. So mark February 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Team Brae-er November Blog Hop - Workshop Wonders

Welcome to our November Team Brae-er Blog Hop. Each stop on our hop will show artwork featuring Workshop Ideas.  To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, kindly contact your local consultant to place an order.  For my customers, or if you do not have a consultant and see something you would like, you may order from my website or contact me. 

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you want to follow our team's blogs, then please start at the beginning and join Sheri at the Sheri Says Just Scrap It.  If you came from Tamara at Mara's Journey then you are in the right place!

Gift cards and gift certificates have become very popular for Christmas. birthday and teacher gifts.  But they tend to look boring and not very personal.  I have been creating different and unique ways to package gifts certificates and to offer them as a fun workshop for my customers.  I've seen the coffee cup gift card holders on pinterest and YouTube. These are  perfect for a gift card from your recipients favourite coffee house.  This one was inspired by my CTMH sisters Dawn Montagano and Chantal Pearson.

Some of my customers would prefer to give a gift card to their children's teachers for their favourite smoothie bar.  So I created this alternative:

And finally, I also sell premium loose leaf tea and designed this to hold a gift certificate for the recipients choice of tea.  This could be given with an infuser or other small items.

Stamp Sets:

B1404 Cup of Cheer

B1467 You Mean the World To Me

Supplies:

• B1404 Cup of Cheer
• B1467 You Mean the World To Me
• S1307 Sweet Life (retired)
• Z1995 Honeycomb Embossing Folder
• Z1994 Floral Embossing Folder
• Z1998 Chevron Border Punch
• Z1918 Teal Shimmer Trim
• 1272 Cranberry Cardstock
• X5763 Smoothie Cardstock
• 1246 Hollyhock Cardstock
• X5762 Lagoon Cardstock
• X5642 Cocoa Cardstock
• 1301 Bamboo Cardstock
• 1386 Black Cardstock
• 1385 White Daisy Cardstock
• 1388 Colonial White Cardstock
• Desert Sand Textured Cardstock (retired)
• Z2116 Cranberry Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
• Z2114 Cocoa Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
• Z2105 Black Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
• Z2170 Ruby Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
• Z2440 Shin Touch Twin Marker - Carmine
• Z2450 Shin Touch Twin Marker - Cherry Pink 
• Z2454 Shin Touch Twin Marker - Leaf Green
• Z2456 Shin Touch Twin Marker - Mahogany
• Z2459 Shin Touch Twin Marker - Pastel Green
• Z2461 Shin Touch Twin Marker - Peacock Green
• Z2463 Shin Touch Twin Marker - Sap Green

Your next stop on the Team Brae-er Hop is Heather from Heather's Paper Playroom. If you get lost along the way, you can head to Sheri's blog at Sheri Says Just Scrap It, as she has a complete blog list.

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope you enjoyed seeing our workshop ideas and that we inspired fellow consultants with new ideas for their workshops.  For our customers, we hope this encourages you to create on your own or join a workshop with your local consultant.

 

Annual Inspirations - New Product Blog Hop

I'm joining other Close To My Heart Consultants to celebrate the release of Annual Inspirations, the brand new annual Idea Book from Close To My Heart.  If you follow the link, you will also have the option to download the .pdf  One great thing about the new annual format is that customers and consultants alike get to see the Stamp of the Month for the whole year.  I decided to make a card using the August Stamp of the Month S1408 What a Hoot.

I used the new ShinHan Touch Twin Markers to colour in the owl. The paper and cardstock came from the new X7192B Seaside Paper Packet and I embellished with Z1853 Aqua Dots and Z679 Liquid Glass.  I usually buy the Workshops on the Go Kit for their great value.  G1089 Seaside Scrapbooking Kit includes the Aqua Dots used in this card.   Exclusive Inks used were 44751 Archival Black, Z2118 Desert Sand and Z2164 Sorbet.  The pattern used was 9042 Make It From Your Heart Volume 2, Pattern 25.

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

This card is based on the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #66. This is my first time entering the challenge.  

For this card I used some of my favourite new products from the Close To My Heart Annual Inspirations: X7192 Seaside Paper Packet, and the stamp set D1627 Your Own Kind of Wonderful.  I also used several of the ShinHan Touch Twin markers that CTMH carries to colour in the butterfly.

 

Other products I used were: 44751 Archival Black, Z2128 Hollyhock and Z2195 Lagoon Exclusive Inks, 1246 Hollyhock and X5762 Lagoon Cardstock, Z679 Liquid Glass and Z1327 Blue and Green Sparkles (retired)