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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Hearts of the West Blog Hop

Welcome to the Hearts of the West Team

monthly Blog Hop!

In this blog hop today, we are featuring the brand new

CTMH paper pack "Sugar Rush".

You will find "Sugar Rush" in the new Seasonal Expressions catalogue

that goes on sale TOMORROW, January 1st.

If you came from Anna Miller's blog , then you are on the right track.

This is a circular blog hop so you can start anywhere. Just in case you get lost, the full list of participants can be found at the bottom of this post.

For this card, I used the "Spread the Love" D1711 stamp set and watercoloured the little girl. I think the sentiment "This card is a Paper Hug" is my favorite of all the CTMH stamps! It's such a lovely thought to send to someone you care about!

I've embellished the card with some pink twine from the Adventure Ribbon pack and pretty new gems "Sugar Rush Dots". The card components were cut with a die set from Papertrey Ink called the Scalloped A2 Die.

Thanks for joining us on our Blog Hop today!

Next on the hop is Brenda Gieck. Be sure to check out what she's made with the Sugar Rush papers!!

Blog Hop participants:

Anna Miller

Have a wonderful New Year's Eve tonight and I'll see you next year!!

Linda

Edited on January 1st. Yesterday when I posted my card, I wasn't entirely happy with the watercoloured image... however I had a deadline so I posted it anyway. Today I worked with it a bit again, and thought I would show you what a difference removing a little paint can make.

This is the version I am now happy with. To fix it I wet a paintbrush and painted over the background which I thought was too dark, and then dabbed it with a paper towel to pull the paint off. I'm happy now that the background isn't the first thing catching your eye anymore... it's now the little girl who is the focal point on the card as it should be!

Friday, October 31, 2014

November Hearts of the West Blog Hop

Welcome to the October Hearts of the West team blog hop! If this is your first time joining us, I know you are going to love it.

This hop features Close to my Heart consultants from all over Canada. The Hearts of the West team was founded by Nancy Klein.

If you came from Freya's blog then you're in the right place!

This is a circular blog hop so you can start anywhere! Just in case you should get lost - the full list can be found at the bottom of this post.

SO, as always ... grab your coffee, tea, or water ... relax ... and hop around with us!

This month we are featuring the beautiful Christmas paper pack "Yuletide". I am planning on making a Christmas mini album and I used Yuletide to create a box to store it in. The basic box that I started with, is the My Creations Journaling Cards Box .

The hinge, top plate, and corners are brass metal pieces that I had in my stash. I embellished the top with a retired CTMH canvas button, and a piece of brass from the Yuletide Carol Assortment pack.

I also used some canvas buttons for the feet.

The Santa postcard is from the Yuletide Carol Complements pack.

Thank you for joining us on the Hop today! Be sure and check back to see the coordinating mini album that I will be creating to go in this box!

Linda

The next place you will be hopping to is, Justine's Blog.

If you should get lost, here is a complete list of all the blogs on the Hop:

1. Nancy Klein's -

Saturday, August 30, 2014

September Hearts of the West Blog Hop

Welcome to the September Hearts of the West team blog hop! If this is your first time joining us, I know you are going to love it.

This hop features Close to my Heart consultants from all over Canada and is founded by Nancy Klein.

If you came from Chantal's blog then you're in the right place!

This is a circular blog hop so you can start anywhere! Just in case you should get lost - the full list will be at the bottom of this post.

SO, as always ... grab your coffee, tea, or water ... relax ... and hop around with us!

This month we have decided to feature the paper pack Pathfinding. Pathfinding has such beautiful coordinating chipboard elements, that I decided I wanted to make a wall hanging with them using our Pennant Frame. All the chipboard was inked with Barn Red ink.

To cut the front paper for the frame you use the Artbooking Cricut Cartridge.

To make the flowers, I used a retired stamp set "Friendship Bouquet", and coloured them with the also retired, CTMH markers in Barn Red, Goldrush, Autumn Terracotta, and Sweet Leaf. Then I added sparkles in a brown and tan assortment to the centers.

I was able to achieve a lot of depth to the flowers by stamping them each 3 times and popping up each layer with thin foam tape. When I reached the top layer, I also cut between the individual petals so that I could fluff them up a bit.

The top and middle layers were then shaped as shown below.

Here's a view that shows you how full the flowers are.

The frame was finished off by adding bows made from our beautiful new Black Striped Twill Ribbon and tucking in a few pieces here and there from the Pathfinding Assortment set!.

Thank you for joining us on the hop today!

Your next stop is Donna's blog.

If you should get lost, here is the complete list of blogs to visit:

1. Nancy Klein

2. Chantal Pearson

3. Linda Pekrul - That's me!

4. Donna Thomson-Digby

5. Justine Hovey

6. Chelsey Vorosmarty

7. Terry Ann Diack

8. Freya Hall Dunbar

9. Sonia Parent St Jean