Fabulous Birthday Card!

Today I'm sharing a  card I made for several challenges. I love it when I can multitask!

Heart 2 Heart: Use the colors Sugarplum, Sapphire and Sage

Double Trouble: Thing 1- make a sweet treat, Thing 2 - use the Mood Board Thing 3 - any type of sparkly embellishment

Use Your Stuff: draw inspiration from their Mood Board. I used the cake idea.

Once I decided to go with the cake idea from the Mood Board (Thing 2 & Use Your Stuff) and to use the Fabulous Birthday stamp set, somehow the idea came to popped into my mind to show the stages of a cake (Thing 1). Well sort of. LOL I first measured out the compartments for my cake pieces and dry embossed a line to define the boxes. I got busy stamping the individual pieces of cake along with the finished cake on the right side. There is texture paste on the frosting then the candle flame and the frosting are covered in sparkly shimmer from the Clear and Sugarplum Shimmer Brushes (Thing3). The colors all come from the Heart 2 Heart challenge. They said you could add Neutrals so I added Pebble for the frosting.

Close To My Heart products

• Stamp Set: Fabulous Birthday
• White Cards and Envelopes Value Pack
• Exclusive Inks: Sugarplum, Sapphire, Sage, Pebble
• Cardstock: White Daisy, Sapphire
• Embossing Tool with the Paper Trimmer
• Shimmer Brushes: Clear, Sugarplum
• Texture Paste: Matte with a Palette Knife

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Michelle

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Heart 2 Heart Two Faced Challenge

Heart 2 Heart Two Faced Challenge

This week the challenge is to use both sides of our two sided patterned paper! Close To My Heart has so many beautiful two sided papers that sometimes it's really hard to put one side face down!

Here I've made two layouts with two different paper kits. The first one is For Always and the second is Frosted. Both are retiring at the end of January.

You can make one simple change in a layout and it creates a very different look. It may be as simple as changing a color, paper, embellishment, etc. In the two layouts below the design is the same.  I've used papers, inks and embellishments to compliment the photos. But I had photos with different presentations: one vertical and one horizontal. 

So I just rotated the layout 90 degrees! 

All materials are Close To My Heart:

-Cricut Artbooking cartridge (overlays and circles)

-Paper Packs--For Always, Frosted

-Cardstock--Sky, Black, White Daisy, Twilight, Colonial White

-Ink--Twilight

-Glitter Paper--Black & Grey, Brown & Tan

-Embellishments--Black Mini Medley, Base & Bling Black Jewels, Black Flourishes, Brown Sparkles, Gold Polka Dot Washi Tape, Lagoon Houndstooth Washi Tape

-Buttons, Bits and Bobs stamp set

Each layout is displayed in a Designed Decor Frame.

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Thanks for stopping by.

Michelle

H2H Bunny Hop

Join us on the first H2H hop....the Bunny Hop! You'll see ideas for Easter and Spring to inspire and delight you! 

Click here or on the H2H Bunny Hop badge on the right to see links to all the blogs participating in the Bunny Hop!

It's SPRING! Even if it's only the calendar that says so. 

I see lots of birds in our yard these days, looking for food and things to make their nests. The trees are leafing out and looking more green every day. These are the things that inspired this 6" x 4" side fold card!

All supplies are Close To My Heart:

D1467 Trees & Things

X7133B Miracle Paper Kit

Z2122 Chocolate Exclusives Ink

Z2153 Sweet Leaf Exclusives Ink

Z1377 Kraft Color-Ready Borders

Z1365 Chocolate Brads--Basic Collection

This is one of my new favorite sets! I can't wait to try out some more ideas. I'll be sure to share when they're finished.

Thanks for stopping by!
Michelle

H2H Challenge and Mojo Monday--a double challenge!

This week I decided to play in both the H2H Challenge and the 

Mojo Monday sketch challenges. 

This week the H2H Challenge was to use 3 specific colors: 

I love this color combo and couldn't wait to get started! 

This is a 6" x 6" side fold card.

Stamps sets I used are:

Flower Pot--flowers and message

Universal Backgrounds--on paper flower

Spring Up--center of paper flower
The Background & Texture paper is from the Hooligans Kit.

 The paper flowers are from the Just Blooms Spring Blossom collection. OH...check out the scalloped border at the top! That is one of our Kraft Color-Ready Borders! I sponged black ink on it and voila! It's self adhesive so it's easy to add to your projects! Finally, I added some Licorice Opaques as accents. 

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Here is the Mojo Monday 180 sketch for this week. 

Michelle

H2H Challenge

Are you tired of the COLD yet?

That's the challenge for this week. I can honestly say that YES I am tired of the cold. To be honest....it's not really that cold around here compared to other places...but I am tired of it!

So the challenge is to show COLD be it in colors, theme or whatever makes you think COLD!

Thinking about cold makes me think about a snowy winter night. The image is clear embossed. Then I sponged color for the background to create a glow effect. The moon is a circle of cardstock covered in Glitz Glitter Gel and mounted on foam.

Supplies used:

C1423 Captured Moments

Ink colors: Pacifica, Lagoon

Cardstock: White Daisy, Lagoon

Clear Embossing Powder

Versamark Embossing Ink

Heat Tool

Glitz Glitter Gel

3D Foam 

What makes you think COLD?

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Michelle