Friday, June 5, 2020

Combination blog hop - Father's Day/Let's Stay Home


Glad you could join us today!  

Welcome to our combination FATHER'S DAY - LET'S STAY HOME blog hop.

A blog hop is just one big loop of fun and creative ideas. So if you're joining me here, grab your beverage of choice, and sit back ready to be inspired by creative ideas for using all the new Close To My Heart Father's Day and  Corona Virus Inspired Specials.  If you are coming from Brandi's blogyou are on the right path.  At the end of this post you will see a link to Krista"s blog for you to continue following the hop.   

Here are links to see the various products you may see featured in this hop:

Legendary Father's Day - see three stamp sets

Let's Stay Home   - see three stamp sets and 3 SVG files

For my project I am featuring the Let's Stay Home Stamp set in a 2 page 
scrapbook layout for my grandson's scrapbook.  




(You can click on the pictures to get a closer view.)


Here's a closer view of some of the stamping and coloring I did.   I stamped the houses with CTMH intense black ink and colored them in with the Tri-color Spectrum markers.




Another detail shot - lots to journal about this historic time in his life.  
We talked about how life changed for him when we met each day for an online visit.



After seeing all the great ideas in this blog hop, hopefully you'll be inspired for some of your own projects.  All these products are available through your Close To My Heart consultant or find them in these links.


Legendary Father's Day - see three stamp sets

Let's Stay Home   - see three stamp sets and 3 SVG files


Thanks for stopping by today.  
Join me as we hop on to see the creative ideas on 

Be sure to visit the other consultants who have joined in on this
 blog hop for lots of inspiration.  If for some reason you get lost along the way, you can find the entire list of participating consultants on Melinda's blog to get back on track.




Monday, June 1, 2020

June Stamp of the Month blog hop - Garden Tags


Welcome!

Glad you could join us today!  A blog hop is just one big loop of fun and creative ideas. So if you're joining me here, grab your beverage of choice, and sit back ready to be inspired by creative ideas for using this new Close To My Heart stamp of the month.  If you are coming here from Lauren's blog , you are on the right path.  At the end of this post you will see a link to Miss Carrie's blog for you to continue following the hop.  

The stamp of the month, Garden Tagsis a set of 8 stamps that will be wonderful for designing cards, tags, bookmarks, or scrapbook page embellishments.  As you go through this hop, you'll see lots of creative and fun ideas for using this stamp set.  



The Garden Tags set is available only through the month of June.  After seeing all the great ideas in this blog hop, you're going to want to add this to your stamp collection.  You can purchase this set for $18.95, or get it for only $5 with a qualifying order of $50 (US) through your Close To My Heart consultant or find it here .

For my project I made several cards using a design I found on pinterest.  Some people call it a bare midriff card, others call it a split middle card.



The verse on this card is from C1835 -Sentiments and Stitches.
The yellow enamel dot is actually a white enamel dot 
that I colored with a Tri-Blend marker.



Just wanted you to see how the card looks standing.


The sentiment on this card is from D1920 You Make Me Happy.
The shimmer on the dragon fly doesn't show,
but I used a clear shimmer brush over the coloring I
did with the the Trip-Blend markers.  To get the glitter gems to
match, I again colored them with a Tri-Blend marker.

The sentiment is from D1920.
To get the color of twine I wanted for this, I used Mink twine
and colored it by rubbing it across a Peacock ink pad.

Thanks for stopping by today. 
Join me as we hop on to see the creative ideas using this stamp set on


Be sure to visit the other consultants who have joined in on this
 blog hop for lots of inspiration. If for some reason you get lost along the way, you can find the entire list of participating consultants on Melinda's blog to get back on track.