Great Job Card

Good morning! I'm excited today to share a card that's a wee bit different than my normal style. I was inspired by the new Sketch #68 from Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge. 

I used the new set called Great Job, which I got as a gift from CTMH for participating in the Consultant Art Showcase at Convention this summer. I grabbed color inspiration from Color Throwdown. I chose Lagoon, Cranberry, and Whisper to match. 

I did some basic coloring with the new Shin Han markers, blending down the Turquoise Blue Color. I added Stickles over the marker coloring and a bit of black penwork to finish off my card.   It was so fast and simple!

Here's the sketch - hop over to Atlantic Hearts to check out the Design Team goodies and link up your own card!

New Product Blog Hop Holiday Mini Album

Welcome to the CTMH New Product Blog Hop in celebration of the new Annual Inspirations Idea Book.. There are 54 consultants sharing their creative ideas for all the new goodies on this hop. You should have arrived here from HEATHER'S BLOG. If you get lost along the way, you can find the full list of hoppers HERE.

Today I'm excited to share with you a festive mini album made from some of the newest CTMH products. To create this quick mini album I used the newly introduced Designer Creations Ruby Paper Bags. On the front cover there you spy one of the new Designer Creations Mini Frames. These products were meant to be used for quick and adorable gift wrap projects, but they are also sturdy and wonderfully versatile. I even used one of the Ruby Paper Bags to create the binding for this book, which doesn't feel like it's made from gift wrapping bags at all!

The embellishments in the book (plus many of the photo mats and pages inserts) came from the My Crush Holiday Happenings Assortment, intended to be a companion to the new My Crush Holiday book. Here you can see a few of the ways I've used the assortment cards to dress up my mini album project. I've used the cards intact (in 4x6, 3x4, and 2x2 sizes). I've cut out the card elements to create other embellishments. Of course, I added some glitter, because, well, glitter! How cute ate the tiny envelopes? There's also 4 sheets of coordinating sticker images and two sheets of alphabet stickers for me to finish off my journaling when I'm ready to add pics to this sweet album! I'll have more to share on this album project next week.

Now it's time to hop over to SHEILA'S BLOG and see what crafty goodness she's cooked up for us!

Annual Inspirations Hop #4

It's day four of the Annual Inspirations Hop, so I'm back with a new project. I couldn't stay away from those cute August SOTM owls, and I was in a party kind of mood after having an awesome time at my Brother's wedding...so I figured if one owl is cute, a gaggle of owls would be a celebration indeed. (I looked it up...it's a parliment of owls...but that's not very festive.)

I hopped out to Color Throwdown for some inspiration and they had a cool and summery combo for this week that I interpreted as Lagoon, Pear, Topiary, and Carmine (I used the new ShinHan Marker for my masks). I stamped the background in a gradient from Lagoon to Pear, rocking the sentiment stamp in two colors to bring the colors down the background cardstock. I pulled my thanks bubble from Cuddly Salutation, which is a hostess only set on page 10 of the new Annual Inspirations Idea Book, and the adorable What A Day set CTMH gave us at Convention down in DisneyLand.

I used post-its to make a mask of the owl body and stamp a grouping of owls. Then I cut the eye area out of my mask and used that to protect their faces as I stamped on the cute patterns (which are actually more owl eyeball options). I based my card on the new Atlantic Heart Sketch. I hope you'll grab the sketch and pop over there to share a card of your own!

Have you been keeping an eye on all the fabulousness in this on going blog hop? I've been travelling, so I hope that tonight I'll get a chance to sit down and feast my eyes on this collection of crafty goodness!

Annual Inspirations Hop #3

Since I'm winging my way back to Spokane today after spending a few days with my family for my brother's wedding, I figured that today was a good day to share with you the card I made for the happy couple Thursday night before I got to packing. I wish I was more organized...but the happiness and love was still there in my last minute craftiness!

I saw this awesome (and simple) sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. Knowing I was short on time, simple was important. Their colors/theme were purple and sunflowers, a little bit country, a little bit fancy.  The card is hung off the white gift bag that held their gift so it's sentimental and useful too! While pressed for time, this was still a wedding card, so it needed some love and bling...so I grabbed my new Gold Embossing powder and my very, very old heat gun and got to work.

I inked up my new Chevron embossing folder with Colonial White pigment ink and pressed it onto Colonial White Cardstock to imprint the chevron pattern. Then I coated it in the new gold powder and heated it up. Strips of Gold Shimmer tape stood in for the three stripes in the sketch. I Stamped some sunflowers and tiny purple flowers using one of my favorite new sets called Lifetime of Happiness. That's also where I got the sentiment that I embossed on purple CS. I layered all my little handmade goodies on with foam tape and topped them off with the new gold sequins, bitty sparkles, and platinum Stickles. I hope the love I have for my brother and his beautiful bride shines through! 

Here's the Blog Hop linky party again - keep checking back for more Annual Inspirations happiness through August 7th!

Annual Inspirations Blog Hop #2

Welcome back to Day 2 of the Annual Inspiration Blog Hop! I'm off in Sunny California watching my Brother get married (yay!) but I've got the last of the 6 pages I promised this weekend. You can find the first 2 installments HERE and HERE. 

After all the paper piecing and work I put into the first layout, I wanted pages 5-6 to be easier. Luckily this Pathfinding paper has awesome zip strips...you know, the piece that you usually cut off and toss out? Chevrons and bitty heart circles = swoon! 

And the woodland animals in the Pathfinding Complements are just so cheeky and adorable! I'm trying hard to resist the urge to pop wiggly eyes on every one of them. Don't you just love his faint chevron patterned coat? Here's the Hop Linky party again - remember we'll be posting new stuff for 7 days total, so keep checking back for more CTMH Annual Inspirations goodness!