Have you seen the fun and
exciting new products in the Fall/Winter edition of the Close to My Heart Idea
Book? Whether or not you have, our New Product Blog Hop is a terrific way to
see a lot of that new product used in many different ways.
The hop features more than
30 independent Close to My Heart consultants and some of their latest work. If you have come here
from Karen Fullam‘s blog, you’re in the right place!
The Blog Hop is a great big
circle. Start here and work your way around. If you get lost along the way
you’ll find a complete list of participating consultants here. You can use this
list to pick up where you left off.
Off we go!
I frequently try to kill
two birds with one stone when making a project for this hop. With each new
catalog our local group of consultants holds what we call a Shoebox Swap. Each
participant creates just one card and then cuts as many pieces as are needed
for all of the participants to duplicate that card. We use some sort of
container to hold all of the ink pads, stamps (already on blocks), card bases, embellishments,
and all other pieces needed for our card. When we get together to swap, we pass
our box to the left and then keep passing until we’ve all created each other’s
cards. This last time we each came home with 10 new cards plus our own for a total
of 11.
I took inspiration from one
of the cards I’d noticed in the new Idea Book and decided to design my card
without any patterned paper. I did, however, choose to use the color palette
from the new Sarita paper pack. It includes Cotton Candy, Goldrush, Gypsy,
Outdoor Denim, and Lagoon. I combined this with the fun new One-Way Borders
stamp set, as well as one of the stamp sets from the new Cricut Artbooking
cartridge to come up with this colorful and playful card.
To finish the card off I
added a couple of the Pink Glitter Gems and a piece of the Sarita Textiles
rather than using ribbon. I also added a couple pieces of our new Washi Tape.
I’m actually sharing a
second project this time, which is the Designed Décor Frame Kit. I recently
attended an overnight crop with my CTMH sisters and put this kit together using
photos from my family’s recent trip to California.
I love this kit, but I also
love that you can buy the frame separately and then use our Cricut cartridges
to cut out more photo frames and banner pieces to create a whole new piece of
artwork!
Now “Hop” on over to Haley Dyer’s blog to see her work, and be sure to visit each consultant’s blog to
get some great crafting inspiration and other unique ideas! The current Idea
Book is good through January 31, 2014.
9 comments:
Neato frame! Great tip about the cricut and cutting more mats.
I love your frame! The sea shell is so cute. Great job.
Love your card and the use of the border stamps.! Your frame is beautiful...love it:)
Beautiful!
Love the trendy card!
Both items are really cute
Love your projects, especially the Decor Frame kit. Nice work!
Cute card! Great job on your frame kit!
Love your card! I used the same stamp set for my Blog Hop entry. :)
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