Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Close to my Heart October Blog Hop - Tricks and Treats

Welcome to our October Blog Hop featuring Tricks and Treats. 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 Julie at her Blog. If you came from Christine's Blog then you are in the right place! 

This is the first time I had the chance to play with our new Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge and had a blast creating this shadow frame.  Most of the cuts came from the new cartridge but I also used some icons from the other cartridges as well.  I cut tissue for behind the windows and the background is tissue as well.  I did some stamping in the windows but sadly it doesn't show well.





Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Terry Ann's  Blog.
If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle's Blog   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 Designer Creations. So mark November 15th on your calendars
and hop along with us.

Monday, September 15, 2014

September Blog Hop with Close to My Heart

Welcome to our September Blog Hop featuring our Favorite New Things. 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 Julie at 12 x 12 Travels . If you came from Brandy's Canadian Scrappers then you are in the right place!



I made this fun little card by heat embossing the image first and then colouring in with the markers. The paper is from the Seaside collection.


When I saw the sneakers I knew I would be filling in all the little shapes with colours and the markers are perfect for that.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Terry Ann's Just a TAD Crafty . If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle S Blog, My Creations with Michelle , 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 Trick or Treats,for Halloween. So mark October 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Anything Goes Blog Hop


My first time in eons (yes eons) to participate in a blog hop!!  If you came from Alice's blog you're on track and I'm the last of the participants.  Since I'm a new (again) consultant I mostly have the Skylark paper to work with so I created these 4 cards.





I love the stamp sets that match this paper pack.  I chopped up one sheet of the paper using some of my favourite parts for the fronts of the cards and the back of the sheet for stamping my sentiments on. I distressed the edges and stamped with Desert Sand ink, did a bit of pop dotting added some twine and shimmer tape - easy peasy four cards completed.  


You can go to the beginning of the hop following this link.   Natalie's Blog