Here's some more catching up!
During
National Scrapbooking Day in October my friends at The Crop Room, an online
group that I belong to, and I made a number of cards for challenges set by the
lovely Sue. I'm not a real card maker, but usually try to participate in these
challenges and make a few. I don't ever buy anything special, but mostly use up scraps
from my stash and stamps that I have purchased over the years. This year because I have started selling Close to my Heart (CTMH) products, I used some of that for many of my cards too.
Here's a
look at what I finished.
Challenge: Use yellow, orange and teal.
Uses scraps from my stash.
Challenge: make a one layer card. For this card I put ink inside the embossing folder before embossing the butterflies. It was a bit plain, so I added the music background (Darkroom Door) and more ink around the embossed butterflies, the swirl and the sentiment. In the end I didn't like it at all and had another go at this challenge!
Challenge: make a one layer card - take 2. Ahh, much better!
This card uses all Close to my Heart products:
Challenge: Make a Thanksgiving card
The card base is Close to my Heart Colonial White cardstock. I used TLC paper scraps and Stampin' Up's French Foliage stamp set with CTMH Goldrush, Olive and Barn Red pigment inks from the Enchantment Pigment ink set.
Challenge: Quick sketch challenge. Uses all CTMH products-
Challenge: Make a card with a repeated stamp pattern.
Made using CTMH Colonial White cardstock base with Whisper cardstock embossed with Stampin' Up's hexagon embossing folder. Indian corn blue pigment ink from the Enchantment Pigment ink set. Star stamps from the Love Life stamp set. Happy Birthday sentiment stamp unknown maker.
Challenge: sketch
And finally, here are some things I made for the Close To My Heart open house/launch I had at my house demonstrating some of the products.
Card: i ♥ you
ATC: Love lives here
Colonial White cardstock base
Love Life stamp set (words and hearts)
Frame Flair stamp set
Exclusive Inks stamp pad - Lagoon and Desert Sand
Stitch Guide ruler (I love this tool!)
Corner rounder and DMC floss
Card: Follow your dreams
White Daisy cardstock
Black cardstock
Whisper cardstock
Tommy Workshop stamp set
Exclusive Inks stamp pad - Black ,
Pear, Lagoon and Desert Sand
Round sponge
Stitch Sampler
I so love the Stitch Guide ruler - probably has to do with the fact that I was a cross stitcher before I was a scrapbooker, LOL! Anyway, I thought it would be good to show all the stitches available on the ruler so I just started punching holes with the ruler and then stitching them with DMC floss from my stash. I also added a few stamps to show that the two things can go together.
I hope you enjoyed seeing some of my projects - please leave me some comment love if you did ☺. Till next time, happy days!
I made this
layout for the My Creative Sketches December Sketch Challenge. I loved this sketch as
soon as I saw it! I decided to use the monthly kit from my LSS since I hadn't
done anything with that yet. The papers were very bright so lent themselves
well to being cut up into smaller pieces as in the sketch. I'm very pleased
with how this turned out, and I love this photo of my daughter getting her
makeup done for her year 12 formal. Hopefully soon I'll get to scrapping the
photos of her all done up as well. She looked beautiful, but then I am biased!!
