Friday, October 18, 2013
This week at Color My Heart's Color Dare,
we're using a monochromatic colour combo: Crystal Blue and Twilight. Take a look at all the Design Team's beautiful work -- the colours really set a seasonal tone. I hope you'll play along with us
and take the Color Dare this week!
But while most of my DT teammates went with wintery and holiday inspired ideas, I went another way. Let's go swimmin'!
But while most of my DT teammates went with wintery and holiday inspired ideas, I went another way. Let's go swimmin'!
My Project: Fishy Treat Bag
This adorable little treat bag is part of my weekend Treat Bag workshop and I think he's just the sweetest! All pieces are cut from CTMH's Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge, except the scaly overlay, which is from our newest cartridge, Artbooking. It's really amazing to see what you can do with some basic shapes and a little creativity.
Now it's your turn. What can you make using this
week's colours Crystal Blue and Twlight? Create something then go
and enter for your chance to win at the Color My Heart Color Dare
blog.
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Here are some of the other treat bags I came up with:
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| The Critters Collection |
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| Halloween Spooksters |
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| Christmas Cuties |
Email me at justscrapit@sympatico.ca if you would like to order a kit for yourself. $20 for 10 treat bags (2 each of 5 designs) plus postage.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Welcome to our October Blog Hop
featuring our new Base & Bling line! This line of products lets you
have fun – and you can wear your art. It’s
headbands, rings, bracelets, necklaces and hair clips, but it can be so much
more – just let you creativity go! So
join us as my fellow Canadian CTMH consultants show you what you can do with
Base and Bling.
ABOUT THE HOP
- This is a circular hop so you can start here and go all the way around.
- If you came from the talented Krista’s “Simply Creating” blog, then you are going in the right direction!
- And if you want to follow us from coast to coast, then please start at the beginning with Michelle S.’s "My Creations with Michelle" blog. The complete blog list is also found here if you get lost along the way.
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MY PROJECT:
MY PROJECT:
OK, so I’m not much of a jewellery person. I don’t wear it often, and quite honestly, I
didn’t quite know what to do with Base & Bling … in the beginning. But then I started thinking about the things
I DO like to make, especially at this time of year, and thought that the
B&B would work WONDERFULLY to make ornaments for my Christmas tree.
So here they are. Two
adorable and different ornaments that you can clip right onto your tree
branches, using the Base & Bling hair clip.
I simply got my Christmas Creative Mojo going and built the ornament
using stamps, CTMH papers and my wonderful Cricut Artbooking cartridge. Then, I used the Base & Bling adhesive to
attach it to the hair clip.
** REMEMBER: Make sure you attach to the back with the hair
clip “tongs” pointing the right way!
The first ornament I made was the Flakey Friends
snowflake. Super cute, especially when
embellished with just a touch of silver Glitter Gel. I used 3D foam in between each layer to give
it some dimension.
The second ornament I made was this super cute springy
Santa. It’s using a new stamp in the Holiday
mini, and our awesome self-adhesive springs – I love how Santa boings and
dances!
These clips were originally designed for the tree, but they
can also be used to dress up a gift bag for someone special!
** WARNING **
These
ornaments can be addictive! As I was
making these,
I kept coming up with ideas to do more and more.
Santa, please bring me time to create them
all!
KEEP HOPPING & LEAVE COMMENTS,
PLEASE!
Your next stop on the Cross Canada
Hop is the amazing Brae’s “The Brae-er” blog.
Please 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.
Thanks for hopping along with us -
we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs,
paper and techniques seen along the way. Join us again on November 15 when we
will be featuring projects from the new and spectacular Holiday Gifts from the
Heart mini catalog. I can’t wait, can
you?
Friday, October 4, 2013
This week at Color My Heart's Color Dare, we're picking up the colours from the awesome CTMH paper pack Pro Player and playing around. The Design Team has some amazing artwork to share (as always) and my project is shown below. I hope you'll play along with us and take the Color Dare this week!
My Project: File Folder full of Goodies!
My Project: File Folder full of Goodies!
This weekend, I'm hosting a weekend retreat, and whenever I hold a retreat, the Scrapbooking Fairy comes along and leaves little treats for my guests. This is one of them. I cut the folder from the Artbooking cartridge -- it's a 2 page spread from a mini album! Then I stamped and embellished away, using the "Reel Life", "It's in the Details" and Later Sk8r WOTG stamp sets, using this week's colours Ruby, Pacifica and Outdoor Denim. Add a sparkle, some baker's twine and a paper clip, and it's ready for the Fairy to leave behind. (I won't tell you what's inside, so that it stays a surprise!)
Simple but lots of fun.
Now it's your turn. What can you make using this week's colours Ruby, Pacifica and Outdoor Denim? Create something then go and enter for your chance to win at the Color My Heart Color Dare blog.
Friday, September 20, 2013
This week at Color My Heart's Color Dare Challenge, we are celebrating Fall with rich colour: Autumn Terracotta, Goldrush and Olive.
Come along and play with us, after you check out what I've made:
Simple but fun ... I love the charm that's created by having the cameras on an angle. FUN!
OK, I DARE YOU to come and take the Color Dare at Color My Heart. Make something with these three great colours -- it doesn't have to be a Fall project, but just something that makes you happy.
Come along and play with us, after you check out what I've made:
Simple but fun ... I love the charm that's created by having the cameras on an angle. FUN!
OK, I DARE YOU to come and take the Color Dare at Color My Heart. Make something with these three great colours -- it doesn't have to be a Fall project, but just something that makes you happy.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Welcome to our September Blog Hop
featuring some wonderful hand-drawn stamps created by our founder and fearless leader, Jeanette Lynton. Thirty years ago, Jeanette started drawing and creating her own stamps right in her kitchen. Today, this amazing company has grown and this season, we are going back to our roots and celebrating by bringing back some of Jeanette's original designs. They are cute, cuddly and great for colouring! So join us as my fellow Canadian CTMH consultants show you what you can do with them
ABOUT THE HOP
- This is a circular hop so you can start here and go all the way around.
- If you came from the amazing Arlene's "Creative Space" blog, then you are going in the right direction!
- And if you want to follow us from coast to coast, then please start at the beginning with Michelle S.’s "My Creations with Michelle" blog. The complete blog list is also found here if you get lost along the way.
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MY PROJECT:
This month's challenge really got my juices flowing and I have a couple of different sets of cards to show you. I'm also new on Pinterest (check out my boards here) so I found some great inspiration for layouts there.
My first cards are my favourite.
Ever since I saw the dolly in "Stitched with Love", I could NOT picture her being used straight on. I always thought about her peeking in from the side, or the bottom, or over top of a sentiment. I love how they look warm and vibrant with the Laughing Lola papers, and this layout worked perfectly.
My second cards lived in my brain for quite a while. I wanted to keep them simple and heartfelt.
Using score lines as part of the card is one of my favourite techniques. And the little quilted squares really pop with this simple layout. The card on the left uses Autumn Terracotta ink and Slate cardstock. The righthand card uses Twilight and Ruby ink, with Chantilly B&T.
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| paperintolove.com |
KEEP HOPPING & LEAVE COMMENTS,
PLEASE!
Your next stop on the Cross Canada
Hop is the clever Carol's "Crafty Carol's Place" blog.
Please 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.
Thanks for hopping along with
us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the
designs, paper and techniques seen along the way. Join us again on October 15 when we will be featuring amazing talents and creativity using our new "Base & Bling" line.
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