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

You've Got a Friend

I just wanted to share a couple super sweet 6 x 6 layouts made recently.  The first was made a couple months ago as a free make and take with my CTMH Consultant Donna.  When I brought the layout home I searched my pictures and this photo was too perfect.

Last summer, one of my best girlfriends (going back to grade 7) came home with her kids for a visit.  We hadn't seen each other in probably seven years and we spent the week as if no time had passed at all.  Our girls got aquainted again, they had only met when they were very young.  We were at the marina this day and we got a super awesome picture of the girls looking out on the overpass.  We asked them to get a picture of us too :)

So the first layout is the free make and take with myself and my girlfriend.  Today I finally got around to making a matching layout using the photo of the girls, my daughter is in the middle.  Whatever the filter was that was used on the photos that day, made them a perfect match to these papers.  Gotta love iPhones and their apps!!  Thanks Donna, I love these layouts :)

Happy Camper

Hello :)

This is the card I made for hubby's 49th birthday.  Although we don't have a trailer anymore, we do have a motorhome and we love to get away in it when we can.  The plan is to retire early and travel more.  That's 'the plan' anyway :)  He's still such a boy, he gets so excited every time we're planning a road trip so I thought this stamp set from CTMH was absolutely perfect for him.  I love the whole Timberline set also and made sure to stock up before it was retired.

I'm entering my card over at Seize the Birthday 'Anything Goes' Birthday Challenge, even though I didn't use the black and white toppings :)

I'm also entering this in the Shopping Our Stash Challenge - ABC's.  My ABC's are:

A - Aqua Dots, B - Birthday, C - Camper

All products CMTH (except for the dies)

Stamps:  Camper Crazy

Paper:  Timberline paper pack, Chocolate and Colonial White cs

Ink:  Chocolate and Ponderosa Pine Ink, Lagoon, Twilight and Goldrush marker sets

Accessories:  Aqua Dots, Timberline Complements and Assortment, MFT circle dies

Quick side note:  I wanted to give a shoutout to Tiffany Kuehl who created my new blog design.  She was very patient with me and I love what we came up with!  Thank you :)  Tiffany has a link on my sidebar if you want to check out her other designs.