You Make Me Smile

Today I'm sharing some of my favourite techniques - as requested at Heart 2 Heart last week :)

One technique I love is die cutting or cutting with my Cricut or Silhouette (yes I'm spoiled and have both).  And the icing on the cake is having coordinating stamps!!  LOVE that about CTMH and Cricut.

Another fav technique is adding glitter/sparkle/shimmer to an image.  That's the frou frou in me.

One more technique (if you want to call it that) I almost always do when creating cards is decorate the inside of the card.  It doesn't feel complete unless I do - I love coming up with new ideas to match the inside to the front.

For this card I used Mojo Monday's Sketch 363.

Everything used is CTMH except where noted:

Stamps:  Frame Flair, Hooray Bouquet and Ariana Workshop on the Go stamp set
Paper:  Ariana paper pack
Ink:  Outdoor Denim
Accessories:  Bow from Ariana Accessory pack, Cricut, Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge, Smooch Pearl Top Coat

Baby It's Cold Outside

Hi again!!  I'm sharing two cards today - I used two of the critters from CTMH's Bundled Buddies stamp set and changed up the colours.  The Heart 2 Heart Challenge this week is to share your favourite stamp set.  This is one of my favourites, there's many!!  I totally fell in love with these little guys as soon as I saw them.

I alsos used this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch 235.

The little dear is coloured with copics and his scarf and hat with CTMH's alcohol markers.  The little raccoon was coloured with the CTMH alcohol markers only except for his little pink ears.  I masked both of the critters and stamped the trees behind them by stamping off first and then stamping over them.

All products CTMH except where noted:

Stamps:  Bundled Buddies
Paper:  Sparkle and Shine; ruby, slate, white daisy and juniper cs
Ink:  Ruby and Juniper ink; Ruby, Juniper and Slate Alcohol Markers; Memento Tuxedo Black ink; copics
Accessories:  MFT die; rhinestones from stash

Winter Wonderland

My friend Donna is the September Guest Designer on the Heart 2 Heart Challenge Blog.  I decided to play along with their Challenge:  Scrapbook with your favourite colour/colour combo.  I love CTMH's slate cs, it's right up there with kraft cs on my list of favourites.  I love the combination of slate, juniper and ruby in their Sparkle and Shine paper pack.  I used them earlier on this Christmas card.  I decided to make a scrapbook page with these papers since I thought my photos really popped on the ruby paper from that pack.  The photos are of my daughter and her little sister a few winters ago.

I used some white colour mist to create the snow effect on the slate cs and that cute pom pom ribbon was in last year's goodie bag from Scrapbook & Cards Today's Crop & Create.  I can't wait to go again next month!!!!  Anyway, love how this turned out :)

Stamps:  CTMH Snowflakes and Winter Joy
Paper:  CTMH Sparkle and Shine paper pack and Slate cs
Ink:  CTMH Slate, Versamark
Accessories:  CTMH Shimmer Designer Brads, CTMH Slate Polka Dot washi tape, CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge, Mister Huey's Color Mist Opaque White, Hero Arts White embossing powder, MFT label die, Maya Road tree clip, Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher