Sept/Oct NEW PRODUCT Blog Hop!!!

WELCOME TO OUR NEW PRODUCT BLOG HOP! yes that was ALL CAPS because we are all super excited with ALL the fabulous products now available for you to play with!

If you've arrived from Kathy's Blog, you are on-track...if you get lost along the way head back to Melinda's blog for the full lineup of Hoppers.

Once I dig into a paper collection I like to use it all up! This layout was fun to create because I used up my leftovers PLUS I ended up playing with so many new products!

The patterned paper base was from a retire mix-in pack. The moon was hand drawn/trimmed out and the small striped scrap and stickers were from my leftovers in the Got Candy? paper pack!

The Wisteria stamped star came from the Got Candy? stamp set along with a few of the direct stamped stars on the base page.

I added some vellum behind the photo to frame my photo without adding any colours or heaviness to the image area.

You may also see the black acrylic arrows which are some of the all new embellishment offerings we have available now for the entire year!

So is this star shaker '2 cute' or what?!!!!  You got it, this new thin cut and foam and acetate star shape is one of the new shapes available now and I'm in LOVE! 

Notice the fun Got Candy? loose sequins in that shaker star?!!

Let me also point out the ALL NEW Simple Serif Bundle, which includes the thin cuts for uppercase and lowercase PLUS the coordinating stamp sets. The '2' is cut 3x's for some more dimension and I've used our new *AVOCADO colour which I have to say is now tied with Lagoon for 1st Place in my favourite colour competition...way to go Close To My Heart!!! I wanted to keep 'cute' in White Daisy cardstock and the 'spook' is Mint cardstock and stamped with Black for some extra pop.

I LOVE the size of both of these and that I can add to them with the stamp OR leave them as thin cut alphas as well. So versatile!

I hope you're getting as excited as me to play with all the new treasures Close To My Heart has available in the new CORE and Sept/Oct Seasonal Catalogs !

Head on over to Cat's Blog to continue with the Hop and contact your CTMH Maker with your WishList...if you don't have a CTMH Maker yet, head on over to our website and find one near you!

Products Used:

Got Candy? Product Bundle (CC8206)

Got Candy? Loose Sequins (CC8205)

Spooky Gnomes stamp and thin cuts (Z3782)

Star Shaker Window (Z3871)

Simple Serif Bundle (Z3865)

Wisteria, Tangerine, Black Inks

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Scrapbook Challenges Sketch 302

Good Morning and welcome to another Scrapbook Challenges Sketch for this week...only this time, I'll be presenting my layout with this sketch as one of their new Design Team members!!! So excited and so thrilled that they wanted me!!!

Now this is the single page version above and the double page version below...I decided to work with this sketch in the double page version because I had lots of photos of Marissa's Handball season...and you know how I am about trying to get the school albums up to date and complete...

now here's my take on sketch 302...

Now as you can see, this sketch certainly is loaded with photos, so for those of you that have so many pictures that you can't live without, this sketch is totally for you!!!

I had more trouble with using less paper...I found some sporty paper and some patterned paper that had a wood flooring look to it that reminded me of the hardwood floors in school gymnasiums...

I made the embellies from a piece of patterned paper with pre-printed images on it, dug into my corrugated stash of stars and misc. buttons and twine...easy peasy, lemon squeezy...not my favourite layout, but done nonetheless :)

Make sure you check out the SC site for more creations with this sketch from some of the other Design Team members and thanks for popping in today!!!

School Days

Good Morning! 

I love sketches...have I said that before??? Yes, I'm quite sure I say it very often ;) This sketch is awesome and I sure hope you decide to play along with it too...I think I might even create another one.

I flipped a couple things to make this sketch work better with what photos I had on hand, I also got a chance to play with my Cricut and my CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge...

When you need just the right colour for your title, this AP cartridge does the trick, I used my Creme Brulee cardstock to add some more yellow to this layout with these letters.

Can you see the white splatter...I filled my CTMH spritzer with some rubbing alcohol and some White Daisy re-inker...played with spritzing and loved the final result, just a little distressed

Twine has got to be my perfect go-to item for a dash of texture and colour

seeing as I'm a huge fan of all types of shapes...stars and school of course are fantastic together and this layout needed some star treatment...I even ran the large start through the embossing folder and my Sizzix...thanks so much for stopping in for a visit today, enjoy your Wednesday and I hope that you have fun with this sketch :)
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More great sketches !

Well better later than never I always say! I have to confess that I've been crazy busy with various activities...and even though I am still creating, I'm not being so diligent with actually posting!

This past week, Let's Scrap posted another great sketch...as a Design Team member there we have been super busy creating {Inter}National Scrapbooking Month Challenges! 

So make sure to pop over there to check them out and to try to play along if you can!

Here's last weeks sketch:

and this is what I created from it:

I happened to just look through my stash of already printed photos...I have had these ones printed since 2001 !!! We went to Florida, Disney World actually, soon after my father had recovered from his Prostrate surgery...all was good and we wanted to celebrate this by having our entire family on a holiday at the Happiest Place on Earth!!!

I had fun rolling some of the patterned paper into a cluster of candles for his Birthday...not sixty! but a few anyways and seeing as I love twine and have loads of Disney stickers, they were as great addition to this embellishment :)

I covered some CTMH star chipboards with more paper and stickers to add some dimension and of course needed some more twine and buttons :) 

Thanks for stopping in today!

Having some fun creating with some more Let's Sketch designs by Cheri O'Neill!

I've been hanging onto these photos for some time and it was nice to finally get them scrapped...Jaime's Birthday at Tugboat Junction in Harrison Hot Springs back in 2005!

I am working on the second double page layout with the balance of the photos I have...trying to use some of the same papers so that they will flow when I get them in an album!

Mojo Monday 197

Here's this week's Mojo Monday sketch for a round or square card...for those of us that can't seem to make up our minds...or, if you end up inspired and full of Mojo...make a square one and a round one!!!

Here's mine:

Supplies Used:

patterned paper: October Afternoon, Teresa Collins, Scenic Route

stamps: CTMH 'Shining Star'

ink: CTMH Holiday Red

dies: Sizzix, Stars#2, Spellbinders, Labels One

brad: BoBunny

Have a great Tuesday everyone!