Sunday 15 December 2013

December 15 2013 Blog Hop

Welcome to our December Blog Hop featuring creations  that we plan to give as gifts this Christmas.   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 at mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.com. If you came from Carol of craftycarol55.blogspot.com then you are in the right place! 


I decided to try my hand at the Christmas Trees that graced the Holiday Sparkle and Shine mini catalogue as gifts for a few of my clients that I see regularly. It took me considerably longer than two hours per tree, but hopefully if I make more they will go much quicker.
































Products used to create these Christmas trees:
C1567 My Acrylix Santa Claus
Z7176B Sparkle & Shine Paper Packet
X5927 Ruby Cardstock
Z2170 Ruby Exclusive Inks Pad
Z1861 Mini-Medley Accents Ruby Collection
Z1829 Black & Grey Glimmer Paper
Z1893 Base & Bling Red Jewels
Z1846 Ruby Chevron Ribbon
Z1848 Red Shimmer Trim
Z1907 Sparkle & Shine Washi Tape 3-Pack
Z1311 1 1/4 " Circle Punch
Z679 Liquid Glass
Z1790 Cricut Artiste Collection
Z1686 Cricut Art Philosophy Collection
Z1906 Cricut Artbooking Collection
Cricut Craft Room (Software) used to adjust the diameter of the circles while not changing the size of the pleats.
Skewers

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Brandy of canadianscrapper.blogspot.com.
 If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle S Blog at http://mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca, 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. Join us again in the New Year when we will be featuring some of the products that will be retiring, so if you see anything you would like to create, this could be your last opportunity to purchase them.  We hope you will join us again on January 15th, 2014.

Friday 15 November 2013

November 15 2013 Holiday Gift Guide Blog

Welcome to our November Blog Hop featuring creations made with products from the Mini Holiday With Heart Gift Guide.   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 . If you came from Carol then you are in the right place! 


INSTRUCTIONS/RECIPES/LIST OF SUPPLIES

For this card I cut the card using the Cricut Artiste cartridge and cut the Merry Christmas using the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge

Supplies used:


1 White Daisy Card Stock
1 Ruby Card Stock
1 Sparkle & Shine B&T Duos®
1" Juniper Washi Tape
1/2" Ruby Washi Tape

 


Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Brandy. 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. Join us again in December when we will be featuring projects that would make great gifts.  We hope you will join us again on December 15th.

Tuesday 15 October 2013

October 15 Base and Bling Blog

Welcome to our October Blog Hop featuring the NEW Base and Bling line. You will see creations from our participants that will include necklaces, rings, bracelets, headbands and so much more.  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's blog. If you came from Brae's blog  then you are in the right place! 





 For my project I used the Fabric Necklace Kit Z1905 in the Base & Bling line. I had fun making this and now my grandchildren have all put in requests for the different projects in the catalog.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Brandy'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. Join us again in November when we will be featuring the projects from the new Mini Holiday Gift Guide.  We hope you will join us again on November 15th.

Sunday 15 September 2013

September 15blog hop

Welcome to our September Blog Hop featuring Jeanette's Archived Stamps. You will see creations from our participants that will include 1 of 5 stamp sets that Close To My Heart has taken out of Jeanette's Archived collection.  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 at mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca. If you came from Carol of craftycarol55.blogspot.ca then you are in the right place! 




For this card I used 1 piece of 8 1/2" x 11" card stock cut to 7" x 10" to make a 5" x 7 " card.
List of supplies:

From Jeanette's stamp archive: "Teddy Bear Birthday" My Acrylix stamp
White card stock
Gypsy exclusive inks stamp pad
Pacifica exclusive inks stamp pad
Cranberry exclusive inks stamp pad
Various shades from our Watercolor Pencils
Liquid glass topped with Glitz Glitter Gel Stardust on balloons
Pear, sunset, cranberry, pacifica and gypsy cardstock to use as background for the card, balloons, and to outline the bear.
To make the party hat and gifts to stand out I also used 1/2" glue dots

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Brandy of canadianscrappers.blogspot.ca.
 If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle S Blog, http://mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca, 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. Join us again in October when we will be featuring the Base and Bling line.  We hope you will join us again on November 15th.

Wednesday 15 May 2013

May 2013 Canvas Display Hop

Welcome to our May Blog Hop featuring our Canvas Display project.  We have 2 sizes available to purchase, the larger one comes in a WOTG Kit and measures 12x12.   The kit is $39.95 (G1062), it comes with directions, an exclusive stamp set and Embellishments to decorate your canvas, you can find this on page 23.  The second size available measures 6x6, it can be found on page 126, and is $4.95(Z1818).
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 at mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca. If you came from Carol of craftycarol55.blogspot.com then you are in the right place! 












Everything I used this month except for the picture came with the Canvas Art Kit Workshop on the Go (G1062). I did a little bit of mixing up of the two sets of Dimensional Elements included in the kit.

For the letters in the penants I used the  exclusive inks stamp pads  Z2105 black  and Z2116 cranberry for the heart in the circle above the picture.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Brandy of candianscrappers.blogspot.com.
 If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle S Blog, http://mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca, as she has the complete blog list. Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to create your 

Monday 15 April 2013

April 15th Home Decor Blog Hop

Welcome to our April Blog Hop featuring a Home Decor project of our choosing.

My Creations Bracket Frame
12"x12" Chalkboard Sheet
For Always Textiles
For Always  Paper Packet
ICE Stickles Glitter Glue in Gold (I believe Almond Glitz Glitter Gel will work)
Gold Embossing Powder
Large Brads from a previous season Gold Tone

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 at mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca. If you came from Carol of craftycarol55.blogspot.ca then you are in the right place! 










To create this Chalk Board I wanted to go black and then pop with accents. I used Gold Coloured brads that match the Gold embossing powder fairly closely.

The embossed birds on the bottom are made using an older CTMH stamp set.
I used the Gold Ice Stickles to outline all of the flowers from the birds up. Both the inner and outer edges of the frame were worked with CTMH black distressing ink to give the illusion of a black frame.
If you want to use this as a message board you can use regular chalk. I wanted a permanent message for my office door so I chose to used the CTMH chalk marker.

My Creations Bracket Frame Z1797
For Always Paper Packet X7165B
VersaMark Ink Pad Z891
Gold Embossing Powder Z668
Almond Glitz Glitter Gel Z1769
Chalk Marker Z1767
For Always Textiles Z1820
12"x12" Chalkboard Sheet Z1789

Contact your nearest Close To My Heart Consultant to order the products used to make this project.

Thanks for stopping by. Cheryl


Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Terry Ann of terryanndiack.blogspot.ca.
 If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle S Blog,mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca, as she has the complete blog list.


Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to create your own projects using some of the designs and paper seen along the way. Join us again in May when we will be featuring some Canvas projects.

Friday 15 March 2013

March 2013 Hinged Display Blog Hop

Welcome to our March Blog Hop featuring our Hinged Display Tray. This Display Tray is a 5"x7" fold out wooden tray with divided sections. It can be found on page 125 of the 2013 Spring/Summer Idea Book for $18.95. You can purchase one from your local CTMH consultant.
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 at http://mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca. If you came from Carol of http://craftycarol55.blogspot.ca then you are in the right place!

This month I wanted to keep things simple as I find when you have something like this it is already busy due to the multiple boxes. I used various pages from the Chantilly Paper Packet and the Chantilly Complements Dimensional Elements. I jazzed things up a bit using liquid glass when I just wanted a bit of shine, and Glitz Stardust Glitter Gel for Sparkle.




This is the completed project, you will see in the upper left hand corner I did not insert a picture. I just love this one paper style and decided to use the Chantilly Dimensional elements to emphasize it. I popped them up with half inch glue dots.








 One of my other passions is gardening, so I thought this was the perfect venue to show off two of my favourite past-times. I also added a shot of my daughters puppy at the time because was the last time he was small enough to fit under anything.





 We had a lot of Monarch Butterflies last year, and that was the first time since I had moved to Manitoba that we had so many in our neighbourhood.







 The Glitz Glitter Gel just adds a nice sparkle to the dimensional elements.I used the Liquid Glass in the centre of each flower in the border accent on the left side. It made the pink centres show up brighter.

Supplies used:

Hinged display tray Z1838 $18.95
Chantilly Paper Packet X7163B $9.95 Page 18
Chantilly Comlements Dimensional Elements X7163C $4.95 Page 18
Glitz Glitter Gel Stardust Z1313 $2.75 Page 130
Liquid Glass Z679 $6.95 Page 130
Bonding Memories Glue Pen Z553 $4.50 Page 132 (This was great for precision gluing along the edges of the frame.)

 
Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Terry Ann of http://terryanndiack.blogspot.ca.
 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 create your own scrapbook layouts using some of the designs and paper seen along the way. Join us again in April when we will be featuring Home Decor Projects.

Friday 15 February 2013

February 15 2013 Cross Canada Blog Hop

Welcome to our February Blog Hop featuring a 2 page layout. This is the first Blog Hop for us where we have featured just scrapbook layouts. 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 S. Blog at mycreationswithMichelle.blogspot.ca. If you came from Teresa Riglin 
 countrycraftingmama.blogspot.ca then you are in the right place!


My two page layout this month is based on the Chantilly Workshop on the Go on page 21 of the Spring Summer 2013.

I did not use the kit itself in error but recreated my own design using the Chantilly line from Paper Packet X7163B.



For the leaf and flower stamps I used the Alphabet set E1019

The leaves are done in Sweet Leaf Z2153

The Flower in the upper right I used Cranberry Z2116






 The eyes in the half circle at the top right of page one, and bottom left from on page two are from the Sparkles, Red, Pink and Purple Assorted Pack Z1326. I used the large pinker ones on the purple sheet in the pack.








 I have put a flip flap in the centre so that I can make more use of pictures, and/or to journal once side and have a picture on the other. I haven’t quite decided yet.

 

I cut 18 one inch circles in half to create the semi –circle borders, outlining using the Cranberry marker Z2316

The two one inch circles are outlined using the same marker.




For the three inch circle in the bottom left of page one I used White Daisy cardstock for the base and then  I cut pie shapes using both sides of the different patterned papers included in the Chantilly paper pack. The middle circle is one of the two one inch circles described above. The centre is one of the Chantilly assorted covered buttons.




 







On page two the main difference is that I inserted three 3” x 5” rectangles to attach pictures to at a later date.





 The semi-circle in the upper left was done using a three inch circle cut in half and pie shapes cut from some of the two sided pages included in the Chantilly paper pack.





 

The flower at the bottom right of page two came from the Chantilly Complements Dimensional Elements X7163C.


 





I thought the birds on the Chantilly Paisley sheet were so beautiful that I used one as the centre of my border on page two.




Supplies used:

Chantilly Paper Packet X7163B
Alphabet set E1019
Exclusive Inks Stamp Sweet Leaf Z2153
Exclusive Inks Stamp Cranberry Z2116
Exclusive Inks Marker Z2316
Sparkles, Red, Pink and Purple Assorted Pack Z1326
Chantilly Complements Dimensional Elements X7163C


Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Terry Ann Diack of terryanndiack.blogspot.ca.
 If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle S Blog, http://mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca, as she has the complete blog list.



Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to create your own scrapbook layouts using some of the designs and paper seen along the way. Join us again in March when we will be featuring our new 5x7 Hinged Display Tray.

Tuesday 15 January 2013

January 15, 2013 Blog Hop - Consultants Choice




Welcome to the first Blog Hop of 2013. Our January Hop is featuring a “Consultants Choice”, so each consultant has a unique project to share with you. I 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 S ~ My Creations with Michelle. If you came from Carrie of scrappinwithcarrie then you are in the right place!
 


For my blog I created a Valentines Card For My Husband


 For this card I used brown cardstock cut down to 8 1/2 " by 11"
I then cut 2 pieces of white card stock 5" x 8" one piece for the front of the card the other piece for the insert.
On the front I used paper from the Reflections Paper Pack Kit X7134B layering 4 different hearts to create a raised effect.
I like to cut my hearts freehand as I like the freedom of imperfections.
I used three different stamp sets to create this card on the front Happy Valentines Day is January 2013 Stamp of the Month.
The cloud burst in the upper left corner is from D1782 the Love Life Stamp Set as well as the Live, Laugh, Love.




 For the Card insert the twin hearts and the stamp Two hearts beat as One I used D1445 Amore, I also used this stamp set for the top heart on the front cover.
The With all my Heart stamp is also from the January 2013 SOTM set.
The remaining stamps were from D1482 the Love Life Stamp Set.

I used Vineyard Berry and Outdoor Denim to create a more masculine affect.

I hope you all enjoy this project.







Your next stop on the cross Canada Hop is Sheri of Sheri says-justscrapit