Damask Divas Laughing Lola October Blog Hop

Hi everyone! Hillary here! Hope y'all are enjoying the Damask Diva's

October Blog Hop featuring the Laughing Lola paper pack!

If you came from Amanda's page, you are in the right place! 

If you have jumped here and just discovered our blog hop,

 feel free to check the list at Damask Divas blog to find the 

complete list of blog hop participants.

The card I have created uses a bit of all but one of the B&T

papers from the Lola paper pack. I also added some

Lagoon and Gypsy cardstock for some added color!

I used the white seam binding and dyed it using gypsy ink and 

a bit of my round sponge. I finished this card off using

the Heartfelt Bday Wish stamp I inked in lagoon and gypsy

 and popped up on pop dots.

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The next blog on the hop list is Lilian, go check out her Lola creation!

 Hope you have a great time on our hop and checking out all the creations using Laughing Lola!

 If you get lost, just hop on over to Damask Divas Blog for the full list.

CTMH Huntington and Cardabilities #83

Good evening crafty friends! Hope y'all are

having a great weekend so far! We had some good rain

this morning that brought in a wonderful cold front!

I wore a hoodie today and I was super excited!

The card I have for y'all this evening I made following this

week's sketch from Cardabilities. I used all

Close To My Heart products in the exception of the 

embossing folder which is from Darice. I used the 

Huntington Paper Pack along with some added Olive

and Colonial White cardstock. I distressed the edges of

my background paper with the CTMH edge distresser and also

distressed over the embossed image using the sanding cube 

from the CTMH sanding kit. I then inked the edges with

Desert Sand ink and sponged some ink randomly over the 

embossed area. I stamped the sentiment from Always Grateful

in Olive and stamped the flowers from the National Stamping Month

You Are My Happy special stamp set which you can only get

until Monday in Stazon timber brown on olive, gold rush and red barn

cardstock and fussy cut them out and glued them together 

in a way where you can see a bit of all the colors. I finished off the flowers

by adding some Opaques Pearls and Durables Round Studs.

CTMH ProPlayer simple birthday

Good morning friends! It's almost the weekend!

Have any great plans? I think I will craft and go with

my sisters thrift store shopping to try and find 

some items for our halloween costumes!

Here today I have just a simple Birthday card suitable

for a guy of any age. I used the CTMH ProPlayer paper pack, 

a stamp from the Tech Speak stamp set, and the 

Heartfelt Bday Wish mini stamp. My card base for this

card is a 5.25 x 5.25 square. The ink colors I

used were ruby and pacifica.

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CTMH Laughing Lola and Viva la Verve

Good morning friends! Hope y'all are having a great day!

I am having a better day today than yesterday that's for sure!

My hair dryer broke and someone slashed a 9 inch cut

into my convertible top so they could unlock my car

and go through my glovebox... Hope they had fun, not sure why 

anyone would do that for my tiny two seater with a glovebox

the size of my fist... nothing in there but a tiny hairbrush, bottle

of hair spray and my insurance info... Now it's going to cost $1k

plus to replace since you can't 'fix' a hole in rag top. Oh well,

insurance will mostly likely help a bit. Can't get it looked at

for 2 weeks so I have to figure out a patch job until then because 

it's going to rain this weekend... 

Anyways... enough of my whining, I have for y'all this morning

a card using Laughing Lola paper pack as well as some

gypsy and lagoon cardstock. I used the sketch from Viva la Verve

week 4 for this card. The inks I used are black, lagoon, and gypsy.

 I also used the stamp set from the Laughing LolaWOTG kit

for the flowers which I stamped in black on

colored cardstock then cut out. I used a bit of the black hemp

that comes with the kit for the ribbon and bow and a purple

button from my stash.

Original sketch:

CTMH ProPlayer and Viva la Verve

Good morning friends! I'm back from my anniversary

trip to San Antonio with my hubby! We had a fabulous time!

Didn't want to come come but I am glad to be back 

crafting at my desk! I have another CTMH card for y'all

today using the ProPlayer paper pack and following

the week three sketch from Viva la Verve.

I am digging this paper pack! I am having so much fun

making birthday and thank you cards for guys using

this pack along with the Tech Speak stamp set!

I also used the Heartfelt Bday Wish stamp on this one. I inked

this stamp in slate for the birthday and in ruby for the happy.

The other ink colors I used are pacifica and black.

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Supply list: CTMH unless otherwise noted

Paper: ProPlayer paper pack

Stamps: Heartfelt Bday Wish, Tech Speak

Inks: black, slate, ruby, pacifica

Misc: EK success border punch, Nesties sm and lg circle dies

original sketch:

CTMH ProPlayer and Viva la Verve

Good morning friends! Hope y'all are having a great week

so far! I work week ends today and doesn't start back

up until Tuesday! WooHoo! The hubs and I are going

to San Antonio for our anniversary! Or as my hubs

says it's our quarterly trip to Texas... So in case you were wondering 

where Okies go for vacation, there it is, Texas!

I have a card to share with y'all this morning. I used week 2

sketch from Viva la Verve. For this card I used paper

from the CTMH ProPlayer paper pack. I just love this

paper pack! So great for boys and men! Or maybe it's

since my hubby has his own computer business I find it perfect!

I also used the stamp set Tech Speak and I stamped the images

on my ruby and pacifica cardstock with their coordinating inks 

to give it a little something extra! I stamped the next level stamp in 

slate on white daisy cardstock and cut it out. It can be cut out perfectly if 

you have the Cricut Artiste cartridge!Then after I cut my circles 

 I stamped Heartfelt Birthday Wish in pacifica and ruby inks.

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original sketch:

CTMH ProPlayer and Mojo Monday #310

Good Sunday morning friends! Hope y'all have had a 

fabulous weekend so far! I thought I'd pop in

right quick before getting ready for church to show my

first card I've made using CTMH ProPlayer paper pack.

I followed this week's sketch from Mojo Monday.

Besides the ProPlayer paper I also used a lot of stamps

from the Tech Speak stamp set along with one

of the borders from the One-way Borders set.

I adore both of these stamp sets! It's so hard sometimes

to find good paper and stamps geared towards guys...

My husband thought this paper and stamps were

pretty cool. The CTMH inks I used were

black, pacifica, and ruby.

original sketch:

CTMH Huntington and Viva la Verve Sept week 1

Good Lord's Day my friends! Thought I'd pop in and show

off a card I made the other day before I head to church!

I used the Sept week 1 sketch from Viva la Verve for this card.

I used paper from the Huntington Paper Pack as well

as some added goldrush and olive cardstock. I stamped my images

from Count Your Blessings on colonial white cardstock with Versamark

 and heat embossed them with a brown embossing powder and then I 

colored them with redbarn, olive, and goldrush inks. I also

took a paper doily and sponged redbarn ink onto it.

I then used the always grateful stamp from the Always Grateful

set and stamped it in redbarn. 

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original sketch:

Intro to Close To My Heart

My first-ever video! I mainly did this little CTMH intro so I could figure out the videoing and editing stuff...  I'm pretty with the results so soon I will have some tutorials and technique videos made

CTMH Huntington and Count Your Blessings #2

Good morning everyone! Hope y'alls weekends are 

off to a good start! It sure is getting toasty here in central OK

considering it's September... Oh well guess that's what happens

when you have a mild July/August...

Well I have another card for y'all this morning using 

Close To My Heart products. 

The card base is 4.5 x 6.25 cut from a sheet

of Colonial White cardstock. I then cut a smaller

rectangle from Barn Red cardstock as a mat for a rectangle piece

of Huntington B&T both come in the Huntington paper pack.

I stamped my image from Count Your Blessings in Versamark

then embossed it in a brown embossing powder. (from Hobby Lobby)

I then used CTMH inks in Goldrush, Olive, Barn Red and Gypsy as

well as MFT ink in Kraft to 'paint' my image using water brushes (HL)

I also distressed the edges of my image panel and sponged

on in in Barn Red. The Blessed is stamped in MFT Kraft.

I then cut a strip of Barn Red and B&T papers and colored

some White seam binding with my Olive ink and sponge, and 

cut a strip of Bronze shimmer trim to make the 

strip down the side of the image. The double bow I

made using a Bow-Easy.

Be on the lookout for a YouTube video I will we putting

up soon showing how I paint my images

using CTMH inks!

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Supplies List: from CTMH unless otherwise notes

Paper: Huntington Paper Pack, Colonial White ct

Stamps: Count Your Blessings

Ink: Olive, Gypsy, Red Barn, Goldrush, MFT Kraft

Misc: Bronze shim trim, seam binding, sponge, edge distresser

CTMH Huntington and Mojo Monday 309

Good morning everyone! It's Friday! Whoop whoop!

Hope y'all have fabulous plans for the weekend!

I plan to clean and make more cards! I was

hoping my CTMH order would be in but alas, the labor

day weekend through shipments off a day or two...

This morning I have for y'all a card using this week's

sketch over at Mojo Monday! I used paper from the

Huntington Paper Pack as well as some Goldrush and

Colonial White cardstock. I used stamps from Always Grateful

and Count Your Blessings stamp sets. I stamped those

images in Versamark then embossed them in Bark ep

from Michaels. I colored them using Barn Red, Goldrush,

and Olive inks. I also used white seam binding that I

sponged Olive ink on. Tied my double bow with

the Bow-easy.

Supplies list: CTMH products unless noted

Paper: Huntington pp, goldrush cs, colonial white cs

Stamps: Always Grateful and Count Your Blessings

Ink: Goldrush, BarnRed, Olive, Versamark

Misc: white seam binding, bark ep (Michaels)

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CTMH Huntington paper and C1555 Count Your Blessings stampset

Good morning everyone! Hope y'alls week is going well!

It's already all most Friday! Whoop whoop! I should

be getting a new box of CTMH goodies tomorrow!

Until then I decided to pull out the Huntington paper pack

and make a few cards! For this first card I used the

card on page 44 of the new Idea Book as my inspiration.

I made a 4.5 x 6.25 card base out of Barn Red cardstock

that comes with the Huntington Paper Pack. I then cut a smaller

rectangle out of Goldrush cardstock. I inked the edges of both

the Red Barn and Goldrush with their matching inks.

I stamped the cornstalk and small pumpkin from 

Count Your Blessings in Versamark and embossed it in a 

brown embossing powder I got from Hobby Lobby. I cut

out the pumpkin and distressed and inked the edges of the cornstalk

image in Barn Red ink. I then used my Red Barn, Goldrush and Olive inks

 along with some water brushes (also from HL) to paint my stamped images.

 I will be doing a YouTube tutorial this weekend about painting

with ink pads so be watching for that!

For the stitched part, on a piece of white computer paper

I drew the image I wanted then using my needle I poked holes

along the image about ever 1/8th of an inch. I then used a 

small piece of tape to tape my template to my B&T piece

and then poked through the holes in my computer paper onto

my B&T paper. I used some embroidering floss I had that was close to

the Goldrush color and then just stitched the image!

I stamped the Blessed in Barn Red and also used

a strip of Bronze Shimmer Trim to finish off the outside of this card!

The inside stamp is from the set Always Grateful.

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Supplies list:

Stamps used: C1555 Count Your Blessings, C1559 Always grateful

Inks used: Red Barn, Olive, Goldrush, Versamark

Paper used: Huntington Paper Pack, Goldrush cardstock

Misc: Bronze Shimmer Trim, burnt orange em. floss,

Bark embossing powder, edge distresser 

CTMH Cricut Artbooking made easy! Video #1

CTMH September Stamp of the Month!

Good morning everyone! Can you believe it is already

September?! Wow does time fly! Well I thought

I'd pop in this morning and let y'all have a look at

the September stamp of the month!

When you spend $50 or more you get this great set

retailed for $17.95 for only $5!! Not to mention you can 

pair it up with the National Stamping Month promotion

I blogged about on my last post Here, so you'll get 4 stamp sets

 for only $15!! How amazing is that!! :-)

September SOTM: Poster Tidings S1309A

I love these stamps! Can't wait to get my order in!

There is so much you can do with them! For one you don't

have to use the whole stamp, just block off what

you don't want on your creation (like the little card in the pic)

Or you can have some words different colors!

Are you ready to put in an order to get the great promotions

this month?! Just visit my website HERE and get

that order in!!