CRAFT STORAGE SOLUTIONS FOR RIBBON AND SHIMMER TRIM FROM CLOSE TO MY HEART - SNEAK PEAK - AVAILABLE SEPT 1 2015

WOOHOO YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST

SNEAK PEAK OF WHATS COMING SEPT 1, 2015

Are you for ever struggling to find storage for your shimmer trim or ribbon's

Sssshhhhh, Mum's the word, well look whats coming on September 1st.  Here's a little sneak peak for you.

I cant tell you what its called right now but be sure and check

back here on September 1st 2015 to hear all about it.

Looking for somewhere to store your Ink Pad reinkers ?

Well guess what ?  ssssshhhhhhh they fit as well, lol

I cant tell you what its called just yet, not long to go now

but this is it here.  SSSSHHHHHhhhhhhhhh !!!!!!!!!! 

CTMH HANDMADE MONSTER HIGH BIRTHDAY CARD AND NECKLACE - BASE AND BLING FROM CLOSE TO MY HEART

My dd12 is invited to a friends Monster High birthday party today

and asked me if I could make her a card and a necklace using the

CLOSE TO MY HEART BASE AND BLING

Well it was a little bit of a challenge because close to my heart don't sell Monster high, so of course I didn't have anything other, so I printed off a colouring in page of the Clawdeen Wolf Monster High doll (which I coloured mainly with our Shin Han Alcohol markers) and the monster high image, which I shrunk to a 1"square and set it in our

Base and Bling Square Pendant with some Liquid Glass and Square Glass cover.  Perfect, now to add some of Gorgeous Charms,  I found a used jewellery box and decorated it with Confetti Paper pack, Pink Shimmer Trim and a bow. 

MIXED MEDIA CARDMAKING WITH CLOSE TO MY HEART - CTMH PRODUCTS - HAPPY MOTHERS DAY CARDS - CRICUT CUT STENCILS

Happy Mother's Day everyone.  Here's the card i made to give my mum today.

Im just loving incorporating mixed media with my Close To My Heart Products.  Above I started with our basic white card from our White Value Pack of cards and envelopes.  So that the card held the weight of the mixed media, I layered it with 2 layers of alternative colours in this instance i used Kraft and Glacier so the colours would co ordinate with the papers.  The final layer of paper is our new limited release Blossoms Paper Packet 

(Comes with Card stock which you can use as your base layering).

Next - I needed to cut out my stencil. Using my Cricut Expressions 2 and Close To My Heart - CTMH Artbooking Cricut collections cardtridge  I chose the arrow stencil to place over my Blossoms paper and covered it in home made texture paint and then set it aside to dry.

Next came time to cut out my Cricut Die Cut roses.  Using Close To My Heart Artiste and Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridges I cut out an assortment of cricut  cut roses in different shapes. Rolled them and adhered them with ctmh liquid glass.  I also cut out the stamp shape with the Art Philosophy cartridge.  Close to My Heart have a huge range of charms from our Base N Bling range and i have chosen a few to accent the card.  I filled some of CTMH Spray pens with water and Reinkers in selected colours to match the Blossoms paper, colours used are Pear, Sorbet and Glacier.

Before placing the flowers and charms  I stamped the Die Cut chip board shape with the Co Ordinating Mum stamp from the gorgeous Flowers for Mum stamp set, still available while stocks last.  All flowers and charms were coloured before attaching them to the shape.  The texture paste should be dried by now and you can paint on your choice of colours from the reinkers without diluting them.

HEAT EMBOSSING CARD WITH CLOSE TO MY HEART CHOOSE HAPPY AUSTRALASIAN BLOG HOP

Hello, Welcome to our Close To My Heart Australasian February Stamp of the month  -  Blog Hop. If you have arrived here from Kays - Kreative Kay blog  then you are in the right place. If you landed here by accident, no problem, please join in by following the link at the end of this post. We'd love you to leave a comment on each blog hop post along the way to let us know you've enjoyed your hop !!!!!!!!!! 

THIS STAMP SET IS CALLED CHOOSE HAPPY

Its available for purchase all year round for $27.00 from your CTMH Consultant

.or from February 1st - 28th you can purchase it for only $5.00 with EVERY $75.00 you spend.

From the moment I saw this stamp set, this card immediately sprang into my mind.

You know when you just need to make that quick and simple card that's yet elegant, well this one is it.

I've used the heat embossing technique on this card using our SOTM and the Ranger Silver embossing powder with Versa mark ink.  And heat embossed the images from the stamp set.

 

To bring the card to life, I have embellished the card using our Border Scallop punch, Shimmer Trim and our gorgeous Black stripped Twill Ribbon.  You might notice that the Shimmer Trim is scalloped and so is the bottom of the black card.  I first used our scallop punch to punch a long the bottom of the card.  A handy tip when using the punch to ensure you shape comes out even, butt your cardstock up to the edge of the punch and line the corner of the card with the image on the top of the punch, they way you will always start the pattern of correctly.  Another HANDY TIP, is use the images on either side of the head of the punch to line your already punched card, remembering to keep the card butted up against the edge and continue on using the shadow guide to line up your card stock.

Finally my 3rd HANDY TIP, is there is a small degree of difficulty using any punch to border punch shimmer trim, so my tip for you all is to turn it over and punch it along on the peel off side of the SHIMMER TRIM.  This is handy firstly to ensure a crisp even cut of the punch but also to, stop your punch from becoming blunt sooner. 

Continue on with the blog hop now and head on over to Lauren Moore's  -  CTMH CRAFTINGS.

  

CLOSE TO MY HEART HEARTSTRINGS PAPER PACK SCRAPBOOKING PAGE

Close To My heart love preserving memories through scrapbooking.

Im relatively inexperienced with my scrapbooking, however using Close To My Heart

makes it so much easier.  In this page I have used our 3"x 4" flip flaps so I can add extra pages

FLIP FLAPS

 

I just love Close To My Heart Shimmer Trim, we have 10 fab colours to choose from and in this page I have used white and red.  Close to my Heart Picture my life cards help to fill your layers on your pages and your journaling.

HEARTSTRINGS PAPER PACKET

 

PICTURE MY LIFE HEARTSTRINGS

 

SHIMMER TRIM AND ACCESSORIES