Close to my Heart October Blog Hop - Tricks and Treats

Welcome to our October Blog Hop featuring Tricks and Treats. 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 was

used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like,

and what you want to see. Thank you... now on to our hop!

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you

want to follow us across Canada then please start at the beginning and join Julie at her Blog. If you came from Christine's Blog then you are in the right place! 

This is the first time I had the chance to play with our new Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge and had a blast creating this shadow frame.  Most of the cuts came from the new cartridge but I also used some icons from the other cartridges as well.  I cut tissue for behind the windows and the background is tissue as well.  I did some stamping in the windows but sadly it doesn't show well.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Terry Ann's  Blog.

If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle's Blog   as she has the complete blog list. 

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some

of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. We hope you will join us again next

month when we will be featuring Designer Creations. So mark November 15th on your calendars

and hop along with us.

September Blog Hop with Close to My Heart

Welcome to our September Blog Hop featuring our Favorite New Things. 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 was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you want to follow us across Canada then please start at the beginning and join Julie at 12 x 12 Travels . If you came from Brandy's Canadian Scrappers then you are in the right place!

I made this fun little card by heat embossing the image first and then colouring in with the markers. The paper is from the Seaside collection.

When I saw the sneakers I knew I would be filling in all the little shapes with colours and the markers are perfect for that.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Terry Ann's Just a TAD Crafty . If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle S Blog, My Creations with Michelle , as she has the complete blog list.

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. We hope you will join us again next month when we will be featuring Trick or Treats,for Halloween. So mark October 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Anything Goes Blog Hop

My first time in eons (yes eons) to participate in a blog hop!!  If you came from Alice's blog you're on track and I'm the last of the participants.  Since I'm a new (again) consultant I mostly have the Skylark paper to work with so I created these 4 cards.

I love the stamp sets that match this paper pack.  I chopped up one sheet of the paper using some of my favourite parts for the fronts of the cards and the back of the sheet for stamping my sentiments on. I distressed the edges and stamped with Desert Sand ink, did a bit of pop dotting added some twine and shimmer tape - easy peasy four cards completed.  

You can go to the beginning of the hop following this link.   Natalie's Blog

Well that didn't go very well did it???  I've been crafting and creating like mad and just never got to posting anything.  Here's hoping I'm back and can keep at it this time.  Here's a few pictures of the items I've been working on:

 

 

 

 

 

A New Blog :)

Well here it goes - starting fresh with new ideas, dreams and challenging myself to work on some wonderful projects.  This year I hope to use up lots of my stash working on altered projects, seeing if I can make Project Life a reality and just enjoy the whole creative process again.

For project life I've collected a few supplies, worked on my cover page and spent way too much time on Pinterest gathering ideas ;)  I plan to keep it organized and easy to work on.  Taking pictures will be the easy part, remembering to print them off might be a bit more of a stuggle.

I'm also working on altering some clocks.  A few base coats are painted, some stamping and a bit of embossing.

Stay tuned, I hope to post pictures soon of the projects...

Hugs, Sandra