December-Oh Deer HWBH

Welcome to the Hearts of the West Blog Hop!

This month we are featuring the Oh Deer Paper Pack !
If this is the first time joining us you will love it. It features Close to My Heart Consultants from all across Canada showing you their projects. The Hearts of the West team was founded by Nancy Klein.
This paper pack is from the new CTMH Holiday Expressions! There is lots of amazing paper inside.
Check it out.
If you came from Donna's Blog you're in the right place. This is a go around blog so you can start anywhere. Just in case, the full list is at the bottom of this post.
Grab a beverage and enjoy the hop!

My project is a decor piece and was inspired by a card I saw on Facebook. It was a card posted by Creative Expression, a Sue Wilson Shadow box die. I really liked the idea so I decided to design my own. The holes are not perfectly aligned and my cutting is far from perfect but I like the idea of it. It's 3 layers. The first one is cut from fern cardstock. The other two are White Daisy. I made them different sizes and poked holes with the Piercing and Embossing Tool(Z2046). I cut 4 spaces for the display on the last one and poked holes around each of them as well. Each layer is popped up by 3D foam tape(Z1151)
I used the Oh Deer paper(X7214B) and Complements(X7214C)

Hope you enjoyed my project. If you are interested in any of the items used in my project please click HERE.

Check out the December Stamp of the Month. For just $50. you can get the stamp set for $6. until the end of December.

Next stop is Linda's Blog! Check out her great project!

Have a great day!!

1.Nancy's Blog

2.  Donna's Blog

3. Corinna's Blog (you are here)

4. Linda's Blog

Cricut Flower Market Blog Hop

              Welcome to the Cricut Flower Market Blog Hop

The Close to My Heart Cricut Flower Market cartridge has 700 images.
You can get a Physical cartridge or Digital but you get 3 stamp sets and the Adventure cardstock with either one. (Z3285) or (Z3290)

If you have come here from  Brenda Lapp'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 HERE

This month we have approximately 22 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

I enjoyed making this card! The sugar skull is traditionally Halloween/Day of the Dead but I know someone who loves sugar skulls so I was excited to make this card.  All the cut outs are from the Flower Market cartridge! So many occasions, so many images!
The cardstock I used was Cashmere, New England Ivy, Fern, White Daisy and Cranberry.
I used some Whimsy paper for the skull and Oh Deer paper for the background. I used Cashmere ink for shading and edging the paper. Cranberry ink for the lace on the jar.The twine is Fern thick twine.
Hope you enjoyed my card!

If you are interested in any of the products represented here, contact your local CTMH Consultant or click here .

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

Have a great day!!

November Cross Canada Blog Hop

Welcome to the November Cross Canada Hop!

This month we are featuring the Color of the Year-Seaglass!!

 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 Michelle Stewart
 If you came from Donna's Blog then you are in the right place! 

Now on to my project:

I used the Seaglass cardstock and Glitter paper for my card. I also used a piece of Oh Deer paper. The border is from Art Philosophy(retired) and I welded it to a rectangle in Design Space. The tag is from Artiste(retired). The sentiment is embossed with gold embossing powder (Z2066) and from the Season of Magic stamp set(C1665). The stars are from Woodland Wishes(D1696).

Hope you enjoyed my project!

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Candra's Blog

If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle Stewart as she 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 projects featuring Traditional vs Nontraditional.. So mark December 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Have a great day!

CTMH Featured Products Blog Hop-New Cricut Cartridges

Welcome to the CTMH Featured Products Blog Hop!

This week we are featuring Cricut Cartridges!

If you have just joined us you can start here and continue on, as this is a circular hop or if you get lost along the way you can find the complete list at the end of this post. If you came here from Annette's Blog you are in the right place.

Now on to my projects!

This project I really enjoyed making! I made a different one for another hop. The Mason Jar, Pine needle branches, Holly branch bundle and snowflake all came from the Flower Market cartridge

Z3285 Cricut® Flower Market Collection (physical cartridge) $126.00

Z3290 Cricut® Flower Market Digital Collection (no cartridge) $100.00
I used Cashmere cardstock and ink as well as Cranberry ink. I used Fern thick twine and Oh Deer paper(X7214B Oh Deer! Paper Packet $12.75

This project is from the City Sidewalks cartridge(Z4017 Cricut® City Sidewalks Digital Collection (No Cartridge) $44.50

The background is from the Oh Deer paper pack. I used Crystal blue to edge the paper, snowflake "ground" and the Crystal blue, Willow, Cranberry, White Daisy and Black cardstock. The mail box and puppy are popped up . I used the Shimmer brush to add some shine to the Season's Greetings, the top of the snowhill and the top of the mail box.

Thanks for checking out my projects!

If you are interested in any of the products shown or any additional supplies you can buy them here . If you enjoyed my project please comment below as we love feedback! Next on our blog hop is Lauren's Blog Make sure to check out her amazing work!

1.Lauren's Blog

2.Janna's Blog

3. Annette's Blog

4. Corinna's Blog

October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to the October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop~

So excited to start Christmas!
The stamp set for the October Stamp of the Month is called Yuletide Joy 

Yuletide Joy  has beautiful Christmas designs that you can colour.  Seven stamps for only $6. with a $50. purchase. This stamp set is only available until the last day of October.

The star and stocking  have coordinating cutouts from the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge.

If you have come here from  Paige Dolecki '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 HERE

This month we have approximately 34 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

The first card is a 5X7" card. I used the City Sidewalks paper pack(X7213B), The star from the Stamp of the Month, White Daisy cardstock inked with Fern and Ruby Exclusive inks using a retired stamp set (D1562) and silver sequins. The stars were embossed with Ranger embossing powder(Z2067) and Recollections tinsel embossing powder. The sentiment is from Woodland Wishes(D1696).


The second card is a 4X5.5" card. I also used the City Sidewalks paper pack. The Daisy White cardstock is popped up with 3D foam tape.  I used the presents from the Stamp of the Month. I covered up parts of the stamp so I could give the presents dimension. I embossed all presents with the Ranger silver embossing powder and tinsel and green pearl embossing powder from Recollections. The bows were made with retired bakers twine and some twine from my stash. The branches from the tree are from a die cut from my stash. The sparkles are retired CTMH. The stars on the presents were colored with Golden Yellow Touch twin markers.
The sentiment was also embossed and is from the Stamp of the Month. I added some closer looks as my photography is not the greatest. 

If you are interested in any of the products represented here, contact your local CTMH Consultant or click here .

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

Have a great day!!

CTMH Featured Products blog hop base and bling 2016

CTMH Featured Products Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to our CTMH Featured Products Blog Hop. This week our featured
product is (base and bling).

If you have just joined us you can start here and continue on. This is a circular hop. 

If you came here from http://littlecropshop.blogspot.com/2016/02/base-and-bling-creations-for-ctmh.html
 you are in the right place.

Now on to my project:
This is my rendition of a suncatcher.
I used 2 oval glass covers. I took 2 heart stickers from the Georgia complements and matched them up and stuck them to the inside of the glass covers. I glued them together with Liquid glass. I then took some glacier twine and separated it so I could use a single strand which I glued, with liquid glass, around the outside of the glass covers. I added a ribbon and rhinestone charm and a clear sparkle is attached to give it some bling.

This project was a gift I gave at Christmas. This project was inspired from another consultant who participated in a chinese gift exchange with a group of CTMH consultants.I used the retired base and bling with a Holiday style sheet and the retired Christmas charms. The 2 square pendants were glued together opposite to each other so the charms could be hung from the bottom. I added a green ribbon to give it a pop of color.

Thank you for checking out my projects. If you would like to purchase our featured product of the week or any additional supplies you can buy them here (corinnamurphy.ctmh.com). If you enjoyed my project please comment below as we love feedback!
 Next on our blog hop is  http://littlecropshop.blogspot.com/2016/02/base-and-bling-creations-for-ctmh.html
 . Make sure to check out her amazing work featuring this same product.


See you on Wednesday (March 2) as we will be featuring (embossing folders)!

 Have a great day!

November's White Pines HWBH

Welcome to the Hearts of the West Team Blog Hop!

If this is the first time joining us you will love it. It features Close to My Heart Consultants from all across Canada showing you their projects. The Hearts of the West team was founded by Nancy Klein.

This months challenge is the White Pines paper pack brought to you by the new Holiday Expressions.







If you came from Donna's blog you're in the right place. This is a go around blog so you can start anywhere. Just in case, the full list is at the bottom of this post. Grab a beverage and enjoy the hop!







As with most of the Christmas paper packs, I love love the design and colors of this one. There are many Complements to use in all your projects and the Assortment has very cute buttons as well.




My first project is the Base and Bling faux silver circle pendants with the snowflake, jingle bell and red beads. Instead of using the holiday style sheet I used the white pines paper and punched out a 1" circle that fits perfectly. These will make a great gift for Christmas.

















My next project is cards. The first one I used a white daisy base. I used cranberry ink and used a brayer on white daisy cardstock. Need a little practice in the brayering department. When it was dry I used the edge distresser around all the sides. I opened up one corner so I could add a little complement . I used the white pines complements for all the other embellishmnets as well as 3 red enamel gems to finish it off. I popped 2 of the flowers up with 3D foam tape to give it some dimension.






The second one I used a white daisy base, glacier cardstock and the white pines paper pack. I used white pines complements, silver shimmer trim and red enamel gems. The sentiment is from Festive trees hostess rewards stamp set(ask me how you can receive this very nice stamp set)









My final project is a two page layout. I used the chocolate cardstock as my base. with the white pines paper pack for coordinating colors. I used many of the Complements to embellish the pages and some white daisy cardstock as frames for some of the pictures. I used the White Pines scrapbooking stamp set and a retired CTMH cranberry marker to make the berries stand out on the " In the Air there's a feeling of Christmas" stamp. I had to fussy cut this stamp as I have not received my Artistry cricut cartridge yet. The Christmas Eve 2014 letters were cut out from the Artbooking Cricut cartridge in cranberry. I also used Fern ink for the stamps. My layout is quite busy with the crazy Christmas sweaters but I like it.


























I hope you enjoyed my projects and hopefully it will give you some inspiration.




Your next stop is -Kim Loewen - http://scrappinwithheart.blogspot.ca/.../novembers-hearts...




Nancy Klein - http://nancyklein.blogspot.ca/.../hearts-of-west-blog-hop...


Donna Digby - http://datsmystyledj.blogspot.com/.../hearts-of-west-19th...


Corinna Murphy - http://corinnacraftfun.blogspot.ca/.../novembers-white...


Kim Loewen - http://scrappinwithheart.blogspot.ca/.../novembers-hearts...


Sonia Parent St Jean - http://scrappingsonia.blogspot.ca/.../hotw-november-white...


Kerry Hammel - http://scrapbookfunbykerry.blogspot.ca/.../november-white...


Janet McCormick - http://worksofheart2011.blogspot.ca/.../white-pines...




Thanks so much for joining us and come back next month to see more creative ideas.

Have a great day!

Christmas cards #3

Week 3 Embossing
#christmascardtutorials2015

This card is cut from daisy white cardstock. The snowflake ornamnets are from a memorybox diecut. I embossed them each 4 times with Ranger superfine white and Recollections Tinsel embossing powders. The branches are cut from an io die with ponderosa pine and new england ivy from CTMH. The sentiment was embossed with the tinsel embossing powder on vellum. Old rubber stamp I had. The joy is from recollections(Michaels) The bling is glitter gems from CTMH.

Christmas cards #2

Here are 2 more cards from my Christmas card tutorial with Justine Hovey, the Twilight Stamper.

#christmascardtutorials2015 

We worked on distressing for week 2. 

I used CTMH chocolate cardstock for the bases of my cards. The patterned paper is from  My Minds Eye Vintage Christmas paper pack that I purchased from Michaels. I distressed the pattern paper with Tim Holtz Tea Dye distress ink. I think I should have distressed it more. You can hardly tell. I used April Stamp of the Month for the typewriter, C1510 for Merry & Bright and C1557 for the friendship sentiment.Used memento ink to stamp the typewriter and sentiments. 

I used Ruby and Ponderosa Pine for the background of the small strip across card. Glitter gems and bitty sparkles for one card and a retired embellishment and a straight pin with a couple beads for the other.

The tag was a bonus tutorial Justine used distress paint but I do not have any so I stamped some honey, topiary, pear and cranberry inks from CTMH and then sprayed them with water and then dragged the tag that was cut out from the Artiste cartridge through until the tag was completely covered.  I cut out a border from Artbooking, holiday cheer is from C1481 and the large embellishment is from a stash of stickers I have. I need to do some practicing with this technique but I enjoyed doing the cards and the tag.

If you are interested in any of the Close to My Heart products please go to my OBA  corinnamurphy.ctmh.com and check out all the great supplies you can use to preserve memories.

Christmas cards

I am part of a Christmas card Tutorial  #christmascardtutorials2015 and the first card was on a night sky and masking. I don't have distress ink so I used CTMH inks- Gypsy(Z2190), Indian Corn Blue(Z2130), and Black(Z2105)
The stamp set is a past Stamp of the Month(S1310). Cardstock is White Daisy and the pearls are from Michaels- Recollections
Thank you Justine Hovey for the great tutorial. Anyone interested in participating in the class please contact Justine The Twilight Stamper.

Background is the same as the first but I used green  pearl embossing powder-Recollections

and stamp set (D1625) which I can't seem to find so it may be retired. Added bitty sparkle(Z126)

The cardstock for the base is New England Ivy((1282) The snowflakes are from(D1380)retired, stamped with White Daisy ink(Z2163)

Christmas cards for an annual craft & bake sale

Well it's 40 days until Christmas. I've been working on Christmas cards for a craft and bake sale that we do every November for an Oil Wives group I am part of.
Thanks to all the great card makers that shared their beautiful card ideas.
Some are my own creation.
Some of the supplies I used were from Close to My Heart, others from Michael's and online stores.
Hope you like them.

November Hearts of the West Blog hop

Welcome to the Hearts of the West team blog hop!

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If this is your first time joining us you will love it. It features Close to my hearts Consultants from all over Canada showing you their projects. The hearts of the west team was founded by Nancy Klein.
This months challenge isYuletide Carol paper pack, brought to you by the new Annual Inspirations, hand picked from Nancy Klein.
If you came from Kerry Hammel's blog - http://scrapbookfunbykerry.blogspot.ca/2014/10/hearts-of-west-november-blog-hop.html
 then you're in the right place, this is a go around blog hop so you can start anywhere! Just in case, the full list will be at the bottom. So, as always, grab your coffee, tea, water, relax, and hop around the team with us.

I did a mini album for our Oil Wives craft and bake sale in November.
Most of the supplies are Close To My Heart unless otherwise stated.
I used a Hip Pics Album(Z1956)
Yuletide Carol paper pack(X7187B) and Compements(X7187C)
Inks-Ruby, New England Ivy
Ruby Chevron Washi Tape
Stamp pads-D1498,Cricut Art Philosophy Seasons, D1380, Just For The Holidays,
C1567 Santa Claus Holiday Some of these may be discontinued.
Posh Journaling Spots are in the while supplies last
Hook & Loop dots
Red Stickles glitter glue from Michaels
Recollections pearls, glitter brads, pop dots from Michaels

I dont have it totally completed but its close.
All items that are edged are in Ruby and New England Ivy.
The journaling spot was cut down smaller and hook & loop dot added.
Lots of areas to put pictures and journaling.
Hope you enjoy!!

Your next stop is Sonia Parent St Jean bloghttp://www.scrappingsonia.blogspot.ca/2014/10/hearts-of-west-november-yuletide-blog.html

 

Thanks for joining us this month and come back next month to see what creative projects we can bring to you! Thank you for stopping by and please feel free to leave a comment.

 

1. Nancy Klein's - http://nancyklein.blogspot.ca/2014/10/hearts-of-west-blog-hop-yuletide.html

2. Chantal Pearson's - http://www.itsahoot.ca/2014/10/novembers-hwbh.html...
3. Donna Digby's - http://datsmystyledj.blogspot.ca/2014/10/hearts-of-west-7th-blog-hop-yuletide.html
4. Freya Hall Dunbar's - http://freyassimplecreations.blogspot.ca/2014/10/november-hearts-of-west-blog-hop.html
5. Linda Pekrul's - http://blueskyscrapping.blogspot.ca/2014/10/november-hearts-of-west-blog-hop.html
6. Justine Hovey's - http://www.justinehovey.com/2014/10/hearts-of-west-yuletide-blog-hop.html
7. Julie Kerr's - http://jewelspapergems.blogspot.ca/2014/10/hearts-of-west-blog-hop-yultide-carol.html
8. Kerry Hammel's - http://scrapbookfunbykerry.blogspot.ca/2014/10/hearts-of-west-november-blog-hop.html
9. Corinna Murphy's - http://corinnacraftfun.blogspot.ca/2014/10/november-hearts-of-west-blog-hop.html
10. Sonia Parent St Jean - http://www.scrappingsonia.blogspot.ca/2014/10/hearts-of-west-november-yuletide-blog.html
11. Terry Ann Diack - http://terryanndiack.blogspot.ca/2014/10/yuletide-hwbh-mini-album.html
12. Anna Miller - http://annasscraps.blogspot.ca/2014/10/november-hotw-blog-hop.html
13. Janet McCormick's - http://worksofheart2011.blogspot.ca/2014/10/yuletide-carol-hw-blog-hop.html
14. Holly Young-Bowers - http://heartfeltmemories2.blogspot.ca/2014/10/yuletidecarol-hotw-blog-hop.html
15. Heather Myers - http://hlmyers.blogspot.ca/2014/10/hearts-of-west-november-blog-hop.html