April Stamp of the Month Type Noted

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  We will be featuring the April  SOTM, which is Type Noted, a set of 19 stamps.  If you have come here from Tracey's Blog , you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.  If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog:  here.

This month we have over 65 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

Here is a close up of the details on the layout.

Now "Hop" on over to  Chris Lothians Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the March SOTM is only available until the 30th!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!

Choose Happy card

Here is a super quick card using this month's Stamp of the Month from Close to My Heart- Choose Happy. It was so fun to do a little colouring with the ShinHan Touch marker and some tone on tone stamping. Throw a bit of Gold Polka Dot wahsi tape and you get a cute card. 

Here is a close up of some of the details of the card.

 Don't wait too long to get you Stamp of the Month- Choose Happy

Enjoy! Chris

Pretty Butterflies

This was a card I made to say thank you to someone special. I thought it might be fun to try something new. I am loving embossing right now. So I did all my stamping with the Archival Black ink from Close to My Heart then covered it with clear embossing powder and heat set it. I used the same technique on the butterflies but to take it up a notch I rubbed them with pigment ink and added a second layer of clear embossing powder. This made the butterflies all shiny! I love the results and trying something new! 

Here is a close up of the shiny butterflies.

Enjoy! Chris

March Cross Canada Blog Hop- Easter

Welcome to our March Blog Hop featuring Easter Creations.  To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local consultant to place an order.

We hope that you will 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. Thank you… now on to our hop!

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you want to follow us across Canada then please start at the beginning and join Michelle  at   mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca. If you came from Carol of  craftycarol55.blogspot.ca then you are in the right place!)

This is my Easter inspired Picture My Life page all ready for the photos!

Here are the detail pictures:

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Jessica of Create By The Lake.
 If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle S Blog, http://mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca, as she has the complete blog list.

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. We hope you will join us again next month when we will be featuring xxx creations.  So mark April 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Close to My Heart products used:

• Cricut Art Philosophy
• Cricut Artfully Sent
• Heartstrings PML
• Triangle Border Punch
• Paper Fundamentals Adventure 
• Pink Glitter Paper
• Pear Cardstock
• Gypsy Cardstock
• White Shimmer Trim
• Bakers Twine
• Black&Grey Epoxy Bubbles

Brae-er Team Blog Hop Get It Before It's Gone

Welcome to our March Team Braer Blog Hop that focuses on items from the Seasonal Expressions 1 Idea Book.   You will see creations from our team that may include stamp sets,patterned paper,inks, embellishments and more from the  Close To My Heart Seasonal Expressions 1 Idea book. To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today,kindly contact your local consultant to place an order.

We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we really love feedback from our blog 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. Thank you… now on to our hop! 

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you want to follow our team's blogs, then please start at the beginning and join Brae at  The Brae-er.com . If you came from Brae of The Brae-er  then you are in the right place! 

My layout features tons of products you need to get before they are gone!! Don't you agree! There is a complete list of the items that are gone after this month at the bottom of this post.

Here are the detail photos.

Your next stop on the Team Braer Hop is Tamara of Mara's Journey, here.

If you get lost along the way, you can head to  Brae's blog at www.brae-er.com, as she has the complete blog list. 

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. 

Close To My Heart products used:

• Hopscotch paper pack
• Hopscotch Complements
• Hopscotch Picture My Life 
• You're The Bomb Stamp Set

This Weeks Creative Challenge

If you have been playing along then you know that I have been participating in most of the Creative Challenges put out by Jeanette from Close to My Heart. She puts out a weekly challenge that is fun and anyone can play along with. Here is this weeks challenge.

This week's challenge was given to Creative Communications Manager, Jill Broadbent, to show how the Annual Inspirations book is just that - inspiration! Read more- here.

So this is what I created. I love to look through the Close to My Heart Idea Books for layout ideas. This is inspired by a layout on page 129 of the Annual Inspirations Idea Book.

Show what you have created as inspired by Annual Inspirations. Be sure to reference the page number so we can follow along. Post your creations by midnight on Sunday with the hashtag #jrlcreativechallenge for a chance to win a prize! #CTMH #cardmaking #annualinspirations

Are you going to play??

Enjoy! Chris