CTMH and Freshly Made Sketches #117

Happy Friday evening friends! Hope y'all are having a 

great weekend so far! I got off work at noon today so I was able

to do a bit of running around and cleaning before finally

sitting down and relaxing a bit!

I thought I'd share a card this evening that I made using the current

sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. For this card all the products I used

were from Close To My Heart products except the embossing

folder which is a Darice folder. I used the Sarita Paper Pack

and cut five banners out of various paper from the pack.

I added a strip of Teal Shimmer Trim (from the new catalog! 

Available February 1st!) and stamped a star from the You are My

Happy stamp set (no longer available) in Goldrush ink. I then

stamped a sentiment from Card Chatter-Birthday in Outdoor Denim ink.

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original sketch:

Damask Diva's January Blog Hop

Good morning friends! Hope y'all are enjoying the Damask Diva's

January blog hop featuring the Babycakes paper pack!

If you came from Jessica's page then you're in the right place!

If you just stumbled upon the hop you can start from the beginning

by going to the Damask Diva's blog.

I made two similar cards for this blog hop. I of course used the Babycakes

paper pack. Just to show you how versatile this pack is, I made

one baby card and one that can be used as a birthday card for anyone!

For my first card I used a stamp from a special hostess rewards 

stamp set called Party On. I inked the corners of my papers in chocolate

ink using a bit of my sponge. I stamped the sentiment in sunset ink.

I added some bronze shimmer trim for some sparkle and some 

Durables Triangle Studs, they're in the new idea book :-)

(I got this card idea from a fellow consultant, Ashley Denny, 

you can see her card by visiting her blog here.)

For my second card a used a stamp from the December SOTM set.

I inked the corners of my papers in chocolate as well as stamp

my sentiment in chocolate ink. I again used some 

bronze shimmer trim for sparkle.

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On to the next Diva in the hop, please head on over to Brenda's page. 

If you want to start over,or make sure you haven't missed anyone, 

head on over to the Damask Diva's blog and start from there!

Twisted Tuesday #66

Happy Christmas Eve everyone! Hope y'all are having a 

great holiday time hopefully spent with family!

Are you ready for another Twisted Tuesday challenge??

Well here it is!

New Beginnings

The Challenge:

Show us something crafty new to you, either bought, or received as gift

The Twist:

Make your creation something new or the beginning of something

(marriage, baby, new house, ect...)

My creation:

Supplies: All Close To My Heart

For Always paper pack

The happy Couple stamp set

Ruby Shimmer Trim

Black and Ruby ink

Edge distresser, sponge

Scrapbooking with Studio J: part 5

Today I am sharing my last project with Studio J... for now

anyways lol! If you haven't read my first post about Studio J, please

click here and read it first! I just love how

beautifully these come out! And how unbelievably simple

it is to do! With no software to buy or even download! Not to mention

you can create your layouts for free and they are saved for up to 

one year so you can decide to purchase whenever you want!

(Please note these are photos of my layouts so the quality

isn't near as good as the real thing...)

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Scrapbooking with Studio J: part 4

I hope y'all are enjoying my Studio J projects! They were

so fun and easy! As you can probably tell, I'm not much of a 

scrapbooker, I'm a cardmaker. Scrapbooking is difficult for me

but not so with Close To My Heart's online scrapbooking, Studio J!

If you missed my first Studio J post, please go here and read it first!

(Please note my layouts were photographed so it

diminishes the quality from the original image... aka

they look so much better in person!!)

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