New Product Blog Hop featuring Julep!

If you're joining me from Michelle's Blog, welcome to our New Product Blog Hop!!! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.

If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog

This month we have many Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using product just released from our newest Seasonal Expression Idea Book!

Welcome our newest colour JULEP to the Close To My Heart family!!! 

This quite possibly could become your new favourite colour, as it has mine!

I created this layout using some of our *new Mix-In papers, Julep cardstock and Julep Glitter paper.  (I will have a full list at the end of this post)

Time to get more trip photos scrapbooked and into albums! This was a selfie taken at the top of a tower in a heritage park in Thailand...it was a scorcher of a day, super humid AND all females had to cover their arms and legs to enter the park.

I've used a SVG cut for the stacked 'joy' title and backed the 'O's with scraps of the mix-in pack. I also cut out several leaves from Charcoal cardstock and used our *new Thin-Cuts layered Leaves, which has been added to my favourite things list as well!

We joined forces with renowned calligraphy and lettering expert Melissa Esplin...I've added the image 'today, I choose joy' from the *new Joy by Melissa Esplin exclusive stamp set! This was stamped in Charcoal ink and backed on White Daisy cardstock, cut from our Stitched Circle Thin Cut die. The Julep glitter paper matting this sentiment was cut from the inside of the Shaker Thin Cut die...I absolutely LOVE the fonts used in this set.

You may have also noticed the lovely butterfly above?...meet our Exclusive Stamp & Thin Cut included in the *new Every Little Thing Cardmaking Workshop kit! Ummmm...yes please!

Thanks so much for taking the time today to check out our Hop...I know you'll have found LOTS of new product you LOVE...most of the products you'll see are only available September 1st to October 31st...so don't delay if there's some items you must have! Contact your Consultant to place an order or head to the Consultant locator on closetomyheart.com to find one near you!

Now head on over to Lauren's Blog to continue on with the Hop!

Supplies Used:

X6029 Julep cardstock

X5953 Charcoal cardstock

1385 White Daisy cardstock

X9007 Mix-In Paper Packet 

Z3506 Julep Glitter Paper

Z3507 Julep Glitter Gems

Z3523 Thin-Cuts Layered Leaves (6 dies)

D1868 Joy by Melissa Esplin (8 stamps)

Z2831 Charcoal Ink Stamp Pad

Z2805 Black Ink Stamp Pad

Z3367 Vellum Paper

Z4181 Stitched Circles  (4 dies)

Z4309 Shaker Window & Confetti (4 dies)

Just Nick digital SVG 'joyful'

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June SOTM Blog Hop - It's Your Day to Sparkle

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  

We will be featuring June's SOTM, which is called 'It's Your Day to Sparkle', a set of over 30 stamps !!! 

If you have come here from Valerie's Blog, you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.  

If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog   

This month we have 19 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 

This card was created using the 'paper piecing' technique. 

You simply stamp various different patterned papers and cardstock with the same image, in this case the cake, and fussy cut out the different layered images. Add foam tape for extra dimension when layering and adhering your image together.

As you can see, I'm at the Lake! 

Papercrafting with this as our view...best of both worlds this weekend!

It's a great way to incorporate the same papers in a collection for easy layered stamped images, especially if you're like me and not quite an expert in colouring and blending those images in with your markers or pencils!

Products Used: 

June SOTM - It's Your Day To Sparkle - S1906

True Love Paper Packet
Lace Border Thin Cuts - Z4060
Black Ink
Sparkles
Foam Tape

Now "Hop" on over to Heather's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! 

Remember, the June SOTM is only available until the 30th of June!  

Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!

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May SOTM Blog Hop - To My Bestie

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  

We will be featuring May's SOTM, which is called 'To My Bestie', a set of 19 stamps.  

If you have come here from Valerie's Blog, you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.  

If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog   

This month we have 20 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. 

I really am loving all our newest thin cuts and I had fun making this card with all the layers PLUS the added embossed vellum with our new Flower Garden embossing folder!

I'm still playing and learning with the watercolour pencils, but adding the waterbrush to blend the colour helps!

I used our Carolina and Intense Black inks plus the Carolina cardstock for a fun pop of colour.

Products Used: 

May SOTM - To My Bestie

Thin Cuts - Stitched Rectangle Frames

Thin Cuts - Stitched Square Frames

Thin Cuts - Doily

Thin Cuts - Fancy Tags

Party Balloons Stamp & Thin Cuts

Vellum

Sweet Girl paper pack

Fern Cardstock

white ribbon

Now "Hop" on over to Stefani's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! 

Remember, the May SOTM is only available until the 31st of May!  

Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!

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September Cross Canada Blog Hop

Welcome to our September Blog Hop featuring artwork created using the Boutique collection in our newest Holiday Expressions Idea Book!!!! To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local consultant to place an order. 

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 is a circular hop, but if you want to follow us across Canada then please start at the beginning and join in at Michelle's Blog.

If you came from Janet's Blog then you are in the right place! 

The colours in this paper collection work well with so many events but in the end, I found this photo of my girl and I when we went to New Orleans for her 21st Birthday last year! 

I stamped the ink blots using the 'Bunches Of Love' Stamp set in Charcoal Ink but then I wanted more splatters so I grabbed the Black Shimmer Brush and gave it a tap to splatter it onto my page...I did that by accident a week ago and discovered it works quite well that way!

I've clustered some heavy sewing machine thread under the chipboard roses...and frayed the Mink Twine on the tags.

I created the tags using our new and FABULOUS 'Fancy Tags' Thin Cuts (LOVE LOVE LOVE them) on the PML cards in the paper pack. 

I could've just hand journaled but then I found our Alpha Stickers from the Story By Stacy Workshop kit...and then I was done!

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. 

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Michelle!

We hope you will join us again next month when we will be featuring artwork using the Grateful Heart collection. 

So mark October 10th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Products Used:

X7235B - Boutique Paper Packet
X7235C - Boutique Complements
Z4234 - Boutique Puffy Stickers
Z4221 - Mink Twine
Z4224 - Black Shimmer Brush
D1815 - Bunches of Love Stamp Set
Z4305 - Fancy Tags Thin Cuts
Z2831 - Charcoal Ink
Z4217 - Story By Stacy Short Story Workshop Kit (black and white alpha stickers only)
White Daisy and Charcoal Cardstock
Misc. Date Stamps (Staples)

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September 1st sketch from Let's Scrap!

Good day my creative friends!

As promised, a new sketch from a new Design Team at Let's Scrap...some returning and some new, but all of us love the sketches and are super happy to be able to play with them and hopefully inspire you to play along with us too!

Here's the sketch...and when you click the link at the end of the post to the Let's Scrap Blog...you'll see what the rest of the Design Team put together with the same sketch! 

You'll notice that we all have our own unique style and take on the same sketch...which is what makes scrapbooking those memories such a fun and creative process...we look forward to you playing along and uploading your finished layout to our Let's Scrap Blog...you could even win some scrappy goodies :)

I've started digging into all the wonderful Close To My Heart products from our newest Annual Inspirations Catalog...the paper lines I've used are from the Basics Fundamentals Creative Collections and I'm in love!

*remember you can click on the images to get a closer look*

What do you think of this new mint green? It's CTMH's newest 'colour of the year' called Sea Glass...an exclusive colour for just this next year until the release of our new annual catalog August 2017...I am loving it!

This is our new Happy Thoughts embossing folder in the Sea Glass card stock...lightly sanded because our CS has a white core which is fantastic! It was a perfect fit for the theme in this layout ;) 

You'll notice several things in this photo, the glitter chipboard, sticker, letters and word are ALL from our You & Me Complements pack. We also now have some thin cut dies...the one I used here is a set of three hearts...love the thin outline and also the fact that I can use the insides of the heart for future embellishing!

Oh! I almost forgot the vellum with the gold polka dots! It's in a new Uptown Fundamental paper pack...I really love getting a transparent accent into my layouts and vellum is a great way to add some contrast or texture without changing the look too much.

I hope you enjoyed this peek today at the new Let's Scrap sketch...head on over to the Blog to see what the rest of the Design Team created this week and Happy Scrapping!

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Cheers!

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Products Used:

Z3263 Uptown Fundamentals
Z3289 Uptown Ribbon Pack
Z3269 You & Me Complements
Z3262 Rustic Home Fundamentals
Z3294 Memo Fundamentals
Z3249 Happy Thoughts embossing folder
Z3260 Hearts thin cuts

If you are Canadian, you can shop directly from my Close to My Heart Website.

If you are from Australia, New Zealand or the United States...you can still follow that link but instead you'll be directed to a Consultant nearest you!