Flower Market (Cricut Cartridge)

Flower Market is the new Cricut collection from Close To My Heart.  It features blooms and blossoms for every season of life.  All of the designs feature botanical details of some kind, from flowers and leaves to branches and wreaths.  Designed to span an entire year's worth of themes and occasions, this collection features shapes for holidays, card making, and everyday scrapbooking.  You can see all of the images at the bottom of this post.     

If you arrived here from Corinna's Crafts blog, you are hopping through our circle of Close To My Heart consultants sharing their projects using the new Flower Market cartridge.  

For this quick and simple card, using the Flower Market Cricut cartridge, a tree truck was cut using a woodgrain paper from the Oh Deer! paper packet, and the leafy portion of the tree is from a different patterned paper from the same Oh Deer! kit.  The green paper with gold highlights is a simple paper to cut for the outline of the tree branches.  The two different papers from the Oh Deer! kit coordinate very well together to create a simple Holiday card.  The green and gold stars on the paper gives a nice character to the tree branches.  A sentiment from the Very Merry stamp set was embossed using Gold powder to give a little dimension to the card.  

CYBER MONDAY SPECIAL!!  **Monday, November 28 only**  When you place a $30 order, you can buy one of the CTMH Cricut collections at 30% off!  

Each "function key" of the Cricut has a unique type of item associated with it.  Following is the Shape Index for the new Cricut Flower Market cartridge.  You can view the entire Flower Market Handbook in PDF format via the link on the left.       

If you get lost along the way, the complete list of participants is available on Melinda's 'If You Bling It' blog.   

Please visit Show and Tell, with Michelle to continue along our Blog Hop featuring the Flower Market cartridge.

All papers and stamps are from Close To My Heart (CTMH).
#ctmh #ctmhOhDeer #ctmhFlowerMarket #cardmaking #holidaycard #cricut 

	Sheila Bennett Close To My Heart Independent Consultant (913) 485-4355

New Year's Cheer (November SOTM Bog Hop)

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop.  This month, the New Year's Cheer stamp set includes some great images for creating an invitation to your NYE party, creating a card to wish someone a fabulous new year, and scrapbooking photos from your fun festivities.           

If you have come here from Papercrafting Princess, you are on the right path!  Blog Hopping is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one!  

The gold stars and speckles on a paper from the Oh Deer! packet creates a great background for champagne bubbles.  The flutes and sentiment from New Year's Cheer were embossed using Gold powder, which adds a nice sheen and texture to the card.  Influenced by the gold in the background paper, a piece of vellum with gold dots from the Uptown Fundamentals was added over some Sea Glass (color of the year) cardstock.  The timeless sketch for the card is pattern #20 from Make It From Your Heart Volume 2.           

Place a $50 minimum order this month (November 2016) and you are eligible to purchase the New Year's Cheer stamp set for only $5. It is also available for $17.95 without a qualifying purchase.  

Now "Hop" on over to the Scrap Stamp Share blog to see her work.  Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their blogs to get some great crafting inspiration and other fun ideas. 

list of participants

If you get lost along the way, the complete list of participants is available on Melinda's 'If You Bling It' blog.   

All papers and stamps are from Close To My Heart (CTMH).
#ctmh #cardmaking #ctmhOhDeer #newyearsday #newyearseve  

	Sheila Bennett Close To My Heart Independent Consultant (913) 485-4355

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Pumpkin Wishes

Had a lot of fun playing with the Autumn Wishes stamp set.  It comes with these two great pumpkin images and the two sentiments.  For a perfectly-cut pumpkin, use the coordinating shape on the Artbooking Cricut cartridge.  

You may notice that the two cards are virtually identical, just using different papers and the slightly different stamps available in Autumn Wishes.  For the top card, I decided to play with the vivid colors of Jeepers Creepers papers.  And was so pleased with how the card turned out, that I re-created it using some woodgrain papers in the Oh Deer! packet. This pumpkin is actually embossed using gold embossing powder, which gives it a nice metallic sheen.  It is really interesting to see how completely different the cards look using such drastically different color schemes.  Yet the layout and dimensions of the two cards are exactly the same.  

With the Fall season upon us, one of this month's themes on the Heart 2 Heart Challenges blog is "woodgrain".  

All papers and stamps are from Close To My Heart (CTMH).
#ctmh #cardmaking #ctmhOhDeer #ctmhJeepersCreepers #pumpkin #autumn 

	Sheila Bennett Close To My Heart Independent Consultant (913) 485-4355

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Autumn Wishes Goes Uptown!

Chic, elegant, posh ~ these words are all synonyms for "Uptown" which is one of the challenges this month on the Heart 2 Heart Challenges blog.  

The two different pumpkin images in the Autumn Wishes stamp set are so fun to create with.  For this card, one of the pumpkins was embossed with a combination of both silver and gold embossing powders.  This is what reminds me of "uptown" is the shiny, shimmery effect of the metallic embossing.  The gold and silver elements of the patterned paper from the Oh Deer! kit, along with a gold metallic ribbon from the Uptown ribbon pack really make the card shine.  

All papers and stamps are from Close To My Heart (CTMH).
#ctmh #cardmaking #ctmhOhDeer #pumpkin 

	Sheila Bennett Close To My Heart Independent Consultant (913) 485-4355

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