Cross Country Blog Hop - Cedar & Pine

Hi everyone!

Welcome back to another Cross Canada Blog Hop!

The December Cross Canada Blog Hop for CTMH consultants is all about the beautiful Cedar & Pine paper collection this month!

To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, please contact your local consultant to place an order.  For my customers, if you click on the links that I have hi-lighted, they will take you directly to my online business account.

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 has inspired you. Comments help us to create posts that will give you the information that you are looking for.

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop. If you came from Brandi's blog then you are in the right place!

I actually used a piece from the Holly Jolly collection to mat my coloured digital image from Lili of the Valley, as I felt it matched Santa's hat better. 

(For those of you who don't know, Lili of the Valley sells digital files of some of their stamps that are pre-coloured.  You just print them off in the size that you like and use them on your cards.)  

This image is called "For Someone Special" which I thought was suitable, as the card is for a very special little nephew over in Cuba who will be celebrating his first Christmas this year!

I decided to enter this card in Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday Challenge - Traditional Christmas as it fits all the requirements.

The rest of the mats on the card, however, all came from the Cedar & Pine collection.  I also used some of CTMH's white glitter paper as a mat and to create the beautiful snowflake that was cut with a Tim Holtz die called "Fanciful Snowflake".  The Merry Christmas die cut is another Tim Holtz die called "Christmas Ribbon" and it was cut from CTMH's gold foil paper.

The poinsettias were cut from the piece of red paper in Cedar & Pine using a Spellbinders die called "Cinch and Go Poinsettia".  Once they were cut, I lightly painted them with white gesso, and dabbed them with Nuvo Fresh Snowfall Glitter Accents. Embellishments for the snowflake and the poinsettias are from my stash.

For the inside of the card, I used more of the red paper from Cedar & Pine, and embellished it with stickers from the paper collection.

Thanks for hopping along with us!  I hope you have been inspired by the Cross Canada Blog Hop to try out some of the designs,

products and techniques you have seen! 

Watch for the Cross Canada Blog Hop again next month when the paper collection featured will be the beautiful, woodsy 

  Spruced Up!

Be sure to mark January 10th on your calendar!

Happy creating,

Linda

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is at Brenda's blog.

In case you get lost, here is a list of the consultants who are featured on the Blog Hop this month:

Colleen
Rosalynd
Sheena
Brandi
Linda - that's me!
Brenda
Kim

Cross Canada Blog Hop - Holly Jolly

Hi everyone!

We're getting closer to Christmas and the November Cross Canada Blog Hop for CTMH consultants is all about the Holly Jolly paper collection this month!

To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, please contact your local consultant to place an order.  For my customers, if you click on the links that I have hi-lighted, they will take you directly to my online business account.

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 has inspired you. Comments help us to create posts that will give you the information that you are looking for.

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop. If you came from Brandi's Blog then you are in the right place!

I chose to make this cute little HoHoHo card that is featured in the new Cricut cartridge "Complete Creativity".

I used Holly Jolly paper for the background and White Daisy and Candy Apple cardstock for the cutouts.  The bow is from the Striped Ribbon Bows embellishment package.

Here's a close-up to see how I added Julep Loose Sequins and Bitty Sparkles to the snowflakes and drew a border around the outer edge using a black journaling pen.

Complete Creativity has a lot of images and "quick to make" cards and layouts.  

Thanks for hopping along with us!  I hope you have been inspired by the Cross Canada Blog Hop to try out some of the designs,

products and techniques you have seen! 

Watch for the Cross Canada Blog Hop again next month when the paper collection featured will be the lovely woodsy Christmas collection

 called Cedar & Pine!

Be sure to mark December 10th on your calendar!

Happy creating,

Linda

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is at Janet's blog.

In case you get lost, here is a list of the consultants who are featured on the Blog Hop this month:

Michelle
Rosalynd
Sheena
Brandi
Linda (That's me!)
Janet
Brenda
Kim
Kristine

Cross Canada Blog Hop - Hawthorn

Hi everyone!

Well, a month has flown by and it is already time for the October Cross Canada Blog Hop for CTMH consultants.  This month we are featuring the Hawthorn collection.

To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, please contact your local consultant to place an order.  For my customers, if you click on the links that I have hi-lighted, they will take you directly to my online business account.

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 has inspired you. Comments help us to create posts that will give you the information that you are looking for.

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop. If you came from Jessica's blog then you are in the right place!

On this post I talked about how much I like the Card Making Workshops that CTMH always includes in each catalogue, and for THIS post today, I am STILL feeling the love for the workshops only this time it's Hawthorn!  I absolutely fell in love with the included stamp set and HAD to have it... you probably know how that goes!  ;)

I followed the workshop instructions to create the background mats, but then I went in a different direction using other stamp sets that I have and love.

First up is the one with the beautiful exclusive workshop stamp set.  For this one, I followed the directions as stated, but I stamped extra pinecones and popped them up in the center of the leafy spray.  I used Sangria ink on the saffron patterned paper and it created a lovely brown.  I also added a couple of wooden leaves that I had in my stash.

Next up I used D1872 Sunflower Sympathy on the card.  I love this sunflower stamp!  I stamped it out 3 times and fussy cut the three separate layers.  I then popped up each layer to give it some lovely dimension.

I stamped the sunflower on the saffron patterned paper and coloured the outer tips with Sangria ink.  I also used Sangria to colour the inner fringe, and the edges of the middle piece.  Then I took a small piece of jute and snipped it into 1/8" pieces which I used to cover a blob of glue that I placed in the middle of the sunflower.  Here's a close up for you:

For the third card I made from this workshop, I used a frame stamp that I purchased from an earlier catalogue this year called Flourishing Frame A1235.  I stamped it with Paprika ink and topped it with a butterfly from the Every Little Thing Cardmaking Workshop G1189 that was stamped on the saffron paper.  The sentiment and other embellishments are from my stash.

Thanks for hopping along with us!  I hope you have been inspired by the Cross Canada Blog Hop to try out some of the designs,

products and techniques you have seen! 

Watch for the Cross Canada Blog Hop again next month when the paper collection featured will be the fun and cheerful Christmas collection

 called Holly Jolly!

Be sure to mark November 10th on your calendar!

Happy creating,

Linda

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is at Janet's blog.

In case you get lost, here is a list of the consultants who are featured on the Blog Hop this month:

Sheena

Brae

Brandi

Jessica

Linda - You are here.

Janet

Valerie

Kristine

Cross Canada Blog Hop - Every Little Thing

Hi everyone!

This month I have joined some fellow CTMH consultants in a Cross Country Blog Hop featuring CTMH's beautiful new collection "Every Little Thing".

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 has inspired you.  Comments help us know what you like to see and learn! 

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop.  If you came from Jessica then you are in the right place! 

I'm sharing two 5x7 inch cards that I made using this collection.

To make the two cards, I used a Spellbinder's die that I had in my stash.  CTMH's colour of the year this year is Julep, and I used the Julep glitter paper to create the accents for the cards, 

as well as the Julep glimmer gems for the center of the flowers.  I think Julep looks stunning over top of the Sapphire card stock.

The white hearts are a new embellishment package called Acrylic Hearts.

For the inside of the card, the same Spellbinders die was used as well as an unknown label die to stamp the sentiment on.  The sentiment came from the June CTMH Promotional stamp set CC61916 "Share the Joy".

Thanks for hopping along with us!  I hope you are inspired by the Cross Canada Blog Hop to try out some of the designs, products and techniques you have seen! 

Watch for the Cross Canada Blog Hop again next month when the paper collection featured will be the beautiful fall paper "Hawthorn".

Mark October 10th on your calendar!

Happy creating,

Linda

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Janet

If you get lost along the way, just come back here, to see the complete list of the other consultants on the Cross Canada Blog Hop.  (Click on the names.):

Michelle

Colleen

Sheena

Brae

Brandi

Jessica

Linda YOU ARE HERE

Janet

Brenda

Kristine