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Welcome to this month’s Technique Blog Hop where we the theme is to “Creative with Cardstock” with Close To My Heart products.
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I thought for this I would focus on tone on tone stamping & sanding to create a gunged up look for my card.
I randomly stamped images from the Level Up stamp set in Harbour ink onto Harbour cardstock. I then sanded the cardstock lightly to revel the whit core & to give the background some texture.
I stamped one of the game controls in Charcoal Ink onto Charcoal cardsock & cut it out. I stamped the saying onto French Vanilla & used the medium stitched rectangle & popped that up onto 3D foam tape.
I hope you enjoyed my interpretation of the Creative with Cardstock theme, I would love for you to leave a comment before you head on over to Darlys Recker to get more Creative with Cardstock ideas
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Welcome to this month’s Technique Blog Hop where we the theme is to “Stunning Stencils” with Close To My Heart products.
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This month we are incorporating stencils into our artwork, I did consider using a Thin Cut die or even using the Cricut to cut one out but decided to use one of the ones that we have avaialbe.
I used the leaf stencil from Card Front Stencil Pack 2 – I really like this stencil. I thought I would combine it with even more leaves from the Sprigs & Sentiments Stamp set.
I started with my background I sponged the stencil with a mixture of Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide™ Ink & Peeled Paint Distress Oxide™ Ink. I then stamped my leaves & coloured them in assorted green TriBlend™ Markers.
I hope you enjoyed my interpretation of the Stunning Stencils theme, I would love for you to leave a comment before you head on over to Haley Dyer to get more Stunning Stencils ideas
If you like to get any of the products that I have used in this project, please contact your Close To My Heart Consultant or if you do not have a consultant & are an Aussie, I would love for you to place an order with me on my website
The fun thing about fantasy mythical images is that you can have sooo much fun creating anything with them because they give you permission to try things out & have fun with the images. The Meowgical Stamp is the perfect stamp set to do just that.
For my first card creation I had fun creating this background with an embossing folder & Distressed Oxide Inks watered down.
Now when I created the above card I had some white daisy sitting under the cloud openings & basically used it like a stencil & I had the starts for this wonderful card.
AND I also created another card with all the cut out clouds – love the fact that this one cloud background I created int he Cricut allowed me to make 3 different cards.
I thought one of the Meowgical Caticorns would be fun to add as a cake topper!
I created my cake using the Happy Cake Day stamp set onto white daisy that had been cut from the inner part of the Slimline Shaker Window Thin Cuts. I decided I wanted to use some of the colour of the year Wild Berry Cardstock which allowed me to choose what to colour the cake & caticorn. I used the pattern black & white from the Sweet as Honey Paper Packet to tie it all together.
The rainbow of colour was sponged from various Distress Oxide Inks efore adding some water spritz to create the speckled look. I thought that the Meowgical Caticorn in the donut was a fun image to have at the end of the rainbow.
As you can see really the ideas of things you could try with the Meowgical stamp images is really endless options of fun creative ideas. Hopefully one of these will spark an idea for you to try out. I still have a shaker card that I want to complete & try out some ideas using Vellum with them.
Idea straight from the Catalogue
And just in case what I have created is not enough inspiration check out this Scrapbook Layout from the January–February 2022 Catalogue.
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The Take It Easy Stamp set is a fun one to create with. The sloth images certainly represented how I was feeling over the Christmas/New period.
The fist card I created with these adorable Sloths was a slimline card.
I used the Dots Slimline Thin Cuts cut from white daisy as the background to add some visual interest & I used the inner scallop rectangle from the Slimline Shaker Window Thin Cuts. I used the thin cuts to cut out a couple of Take It Easy Sloths & leaves & coloured them in with assorted TriBlend™ Marker colours. The inner scallop rectangle was raised up with some 3D foam tape & the sloths positioned onto it. I really liked the white on white with the pop of colours from the Sloths & leaves.
So onto the next card. The Deck the Palms Card Front Thin Cuts die is still available & well those leaves just had to have some Sloths hanging from them!
So I started off cutting the Deck the Palms Card Front Thin Cuts & thought I would only used the one layer. I then stamped, die cut & coloured in my sloths (you can see me do that over on Tik Tok) & then I decided I needed some more colour/texture on the Deck the Palms Leaf die & thought the quickest way was to use the Gloss Sprays. So I sprayed this with some Lime Gloss Spray & Gilt Gloss Spray. Now until I did this I thought I was going to use some coloured cardstock for the background – but once I mopped up the left over spray on some white cardstock I had nearby I realised I accidentally created a background perfect for this card. I curled up some of the leaves with a quilling tool & then slightly trimmed everything down so that there was a nice white border once added to the card. I finished off with the Thank You Sentiment that has an embroidered Border stamp on the edge that matched the theme of the card.
For the next card I had this background sitting in my stash waiting for the perfect opportunity for me to use. It was created with the Botanical Embossing Folder & left over Distressed Oxide inks on my Blending tools & I sprayed water over it & then embossed the Distress Watercolor Cardstock with it.
I cut up the background & added a thin strip of Harbour cardstock to the edge of one of them & then in the gap I stamped one of the Perfectly Imperfect Patterns images stamped in second generation in Sage which seemed to match the background. I stamped Hang in there over this & added my stamped, coloured & die cut sloth to complete the card.
I sponged over the vine leaf stencil with Distress Oxide ink & spritz with water – allowing this to run a bit so the design is a bit hidden. I dried it with the heat gun & then went over with a different colour & lightly spritz this & again dried with the heat gun. I added some extra dots with the Perfectly Imperfect Patterns stamp to just add a little bit more texture. I added my stamped, coloured & die cut sloth over a cut out stamp strip sentiment & layered that with some Harbour cardstock. I finished off by matting with the Harbour cardstock & the card was completed. This one came together nice & quickly – even the background technique didn’t take that long.
Ideas straight from the Catalogue
And just in case what I have created is not enough inspiration check out these two creations from the January–February 2022 Catalogue.
Specials & Offers
Make sure you check out our other great promotions. Meet the new Smitten collection of Valentine’s crafting items that will have you falling head over heels! Or why not Sign up as a Maker with Close To My Heart. Signing up is a better deal this month than ever, because you can sign up for just $20 and you’ll get $22 back in CTMH Cash! Or maybe you want to rediscover Chantilly – a popular and stylish paper collection with coordinating stamp sets! Or be a VIP customer & join us for a VIP scrapbooking workshop – VIP Highlights or add a Craft with Heart™—Subscriptions with Heart! for easy Scrapbooking & card Making options.
Welcome to this month’s Technique Blog Hop where we the theme is to “Let’s Get Geometrical” with Close To My Heart products.
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Today we focus on a Geometric Shape/Pattern to enhance our artwork. When this theme came up my mind went right to the Geometric Circle Digital Art. I have been meaning to use this for a project since it was released & with this theme it is the perfect time to use it.
I cut out three Geometric Circle Digital Art from white daisy cardstock & placed behind the Circle Windows Slimline Thin Cuts die. I then cut some flowers from the Cricut® Love Each Day Collection & the Sawyer Digital Art Collection. I stamped a thank you from the For All Occasions stamp set. The Geometric Circle Digital Art works perfectly on this card & I look forward to using it on a different project.
For my next idea I created the Geometric Pattern from an overlay from the Cricut® Artbooking Collection.
I cut it so that it fit the width of the card. I added some Sawyer Paper above & below it & a strip of Glacier. I cut out a hanging pot from the Cricut® Flower Market Collection. I stamped some of the cacti from the Succa for You stamp set & the Wishing You Well from the For All Occasions stamp set.
I hope you enjoyed my interpretation of the Let’s Get Geometrical theme, I would love for you to leave a comment before you head on over to Michelle Johns to get more Let’s Get Geometrical ideas
If you like to get any of the products that I have used in this project, please contact your Close To My Heart Consultant or if you do not have a consultant & are an Aussie, I would love for you to place an order with me on my website
I used the Rosemary Cardstock as the background & cut one of the As You Grow Paper on top of this & added some doodled lines. I then cut a medium square stitched fram & added a smaller white daisy in the centre of that along with some more doodled lines. I added a strip of mulberry pattern paper from the As You Grow Paper collection.
I then stamped & coloured in the fox from the Stamp of the Month October 2021: Wildflower Friendship & fussy cut him out. I choose colours from the markers that I could see in the papers to make sure that he worked well.
I finished off with stamping a little note with a doodle border & some dots created with the Rose Gold Liquid Pearls
I was so happy how pretty this card turned out.
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