Heartfelt Sentiments: #ctmhkitchentraditions

Friday, July 6, 2018

Stampazanza Blog Hop - A Parade of Our Favorite Stamps!

Welcome to our Stampaganza Blog Hop where we are featuring any stamp sets of our choice. Not familiar with Stampaganza? It's Close To My Heart's stamp sale where, during July, you can buy ANY TWO My Acrylix stamp sets at the full retail price and get a third stamp set of equal or lesser value FREE!

You can choose from stamp sets in the current Annual Inspirations or Seasonal Expressions 2, plus the popular Solos number and letter stamp sets that we've brought back just for this month!

Solos stamp sets can be purchased individually or in two different bundles, one for letters (26 sets, retail value of $258.70) and one for numbers (10 numbers retailing at $99.50), for even more savings! HUGE SAVINGS!

This image shows you the two bundles. You can find complete details through this link.

If you are coming from Darlys's Blog, you are on the right track. You can continue using the links at the bottom of my post to make your way around the hop. Should you get lost along the way, you can find a list of participants here.

If I had to pick my three of my favorite current stamp sets, where I would get one FREE, it would be those needed to create these three cards!

I especially love the sentiments and images included in this Documented - Scrapbooking stamp set. The coordinating Thin Cuts allow for ease of cutting, allowing you to make these images whatever color you desire.

While this stamp set, "Kitchen Traditions", is intended for use in a recipe book - which I totally love, I also appreciate you can mix up the sentiments for any other type of artwork.

And last, but definitely not least, is this "Punny Pals" stamp set which I have enjoyed using. The cute images and sentiments are perfect for any occasion.

I truly appreciate you stopping by and hope you enjoy the rest of the artwork we have to share with you!

Head on over to Cat's Blog to see what she has created. Enjoy your weekend!

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Lovely Layers - CTMH Technique Blog Hop

Welcome to this month's Technique Blog Hop where we are using Close To My Heart products to create, "Lovely Layers". Participating Consultants are able to interpret that theme however they seem fit. I look forward to seeing what they have to share with us and hope you are too!

If you are coming from Marciava's Blog, you are on the right track. You can find a complete list of participants at the bottom of this post, if you were to get lost along the way.

To create layers on my creation, I decided to do so with Cricut Cut Flowers. I love that our cardstock has the two tones - one side lighter than the other. You can see I used that effect on the yellow flower, adding some dimension. A little flower cluster and I think this makes for a simple but cheerful card.

I used the Flower Market and Artistry Cricut Collections, exclusive to Close To My Heart.

Here is a link to the DS file for the flowers and leaves, if you would like it for easy recreation: https://design.cricut.com/#/design/91246793

If you're wondering where the sentiment is from, I pulled the sayings from this Kitchen Traditions stamp set.

Thank you so much for stopping by. Please let me know what you think of this creation, if you're willing to leave a comment and then head on over to Michelle's Blog to see what fun she has to share with you.

Enjoy the rest of your week!