Bliss Club Pages for Friday!

A little peek at the pages we'll be making Friday at Monthly Memories Club...


 


Club papers for September are Dreamin' form the new catalog - so pretty!

Economy Kit: $15, includes Papers + 1 embellishment item
Basic Kit: $30, includes Papers, 1-2 Embellishment items, plus a C-sized exclusive stamp set!
I Want It All Kit: $40, includes Basic Kit plus 1-2 additional new embellishments!

Prices for club members include monthly club scrap night with light dinner provided - the BEST deal in scrapbooking!

June Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!

Welcome to our CTMH Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! We will be featuring June's SOTM Jubilation, which is a super versatile set of 24 stamps. This is a stamp set loaded with possibilities!


If you have come here from SHEILA'S BLOG you are on the right path. If you get lost, you may want to go back to Helen's Blog to find the entire list of blog hoppers!


This month we have over 50 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their artistic creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. Hopping 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!

Since this month's set can be used for so many special occasions, I wanted to make a simple, quick card that could be adapted for any occasion. Here I used Bamboo cardstock, dry embossed on a angle to create an elegant diamond background. I added a stripe of Bliss B&T (the floral and the stripe), plus a bit of Colonial White Crochet ribbon. Topped off with the Cake from the Jubilation set and the Celebrate fireworks sentiment (see tip below), this would be a nice birthday or Wedding card (if you chopped off the candles). I accented the dry embossed background with Opaques self adhesive pearls, and added some Glitter Glitz to the cake frosting.

One quick tip on marker masking - the sentiment I used here is the word "celebrate", but in the set that word is embedded in an image of fireworks. I simple colored just the word with my Cocoa Marker and stamped it without the fireworks background. Sometimes I feel like my Cocoa marker just isn't as dark as I'd like when doing a marker masking technique like this, so I like to dab the brush tip of the marker onto my freshly inked Cocoa Pad to make sure that my markered image will be as dark as I like it to be. You could also trim the image apart to use the word separately, but since this one is so small, marker masking seemed the way to go!

You could easily adapt this card to any of the images in that set, subbing in B&T patterns for the dry embossed CS - there are loads of possibilities, all in this quick 5 minute card!


Now "Hop" on over to LEANNE'S BLOG to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants in the hop to get some great crafty ideas for more fun projects! Remember, the June SOTM is only available until the last day of the month. Be sure to ask your CTMH Consultant how to get yours FREE (or click here) - and don't forget to order your absolutely FREE Studio J jpg file, this month only! 

Mojo Monday 175

It's Mojo Monday! Love the sketch today - and I made a card with no stamping on it! I broke out the new Bliss papers...yes, the ones I said I wasn't too sure about...until I saw them in person. I should know better by now. The paper is gorgeous in person!

I sanded all the Desert Sand Cardstock, and inked all the B&Ts in Desert Sand ink. Then I made one of the new puffy scallop flowers I'm obsessed with - you're gonna see a bunch of these in my next few posts.

I'm working on a video on how to make them, but they are so sweet and easy! You stack up scalloped punches and secure them with a Bigger Brad in the center. Scrunch up each layer until you've squished the whole flower, then un-squish it a bit to make it resemble a little carnation. Voila! Sometimes I'll re-squish it a bit flatter with an acrylic block...or an open stamp pad to add some color distressing. The new 2" scallop punch is just one of my favorite new things!

Finally, I grabbed some printed satin ribbon from my stash and added the sentiment line, highlighted that with a double row of Opaques pearls. I trimmed a butterfly out of one of the Bliss B&Ts and popped that up with a bit of Bitty Sparkles to highlight the body. So much fun! now you go out and make up the sketch - thank you Mojo Monday!