CTMH Everything is Better with a Friend

On July 21, 2015 By patriciamanhireIn Cardmaking, Stamping4 Comments

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This month CTMH have a special deal for hostess stamps. Normally you can only buy these stamp sets when you host a gathering but this month they have offered the stamps sets to anyone who purchases a stamp set for just $32.50 for just $6.50 which is a massive savings.

One of the stamp sets is the Everything is Better with a Friend. I love the sassiness of this stamp set and it would be great for both scrapbooking and cardmaking.

I made these cards for a cardmaking class last week and they proved to be very popular. Colouring in is really popular now with adult colouring in books etc but stamps are also great to colour in. I have done three cards and used three different colouring techniques- watercolour pencils, ShinHan Touch Twin markers and paper piercing. The vibrant colours of the Scaredy Cat papers really went well with these cards.

Materials used:

Cardstock – White Daisy, Thistle, Sunset

Paper – Scaredy Cat

Stamp – Everything is Better with a Friend, Just to Say

Ink – Memento Black, Black

Watercolour Pencils

ShinHan Touch Twin Markers – YR24 Marigold, P282 Peony Purple, Z2463 Sap Green.WG4 Clay, Y222 Golden Yellow, YR29 Barely Beige, BR96 Mahogany, BG61 Peacock Blue

This stamp set as well as all the other Hostess stamp sets from the Seasonal Expressions 2 and the Annual Inspirations Book are available for just $6.50 when you purchase a stamp set for just $32.50. This is such great value so get in quick before the end of the month and you can start shopping here and click on the Jump On It July link to make your selection.

These cards will be available for sale at Gift Hutt.

Have a good week and Happy Crafting.

Patricia

Get Well Wishes from CTMH

On July 12, 2015 By patriciamanhireIn Cardmaking, Close to My Heart, Cricut11 Comments

Welcome back.

I am getting low on get well cards at Gift Hutt so I got down to work to make these lovely cards. I am finding that I am using my Artfully Sent cartridge more and more for unique and individual cards and I particularly love the lattice sleeve cards to create backgrounds for my embellishments.

For these cards I have used all four CTMH cartridges – Artfully Sent, Art Philosophy, Artiste and Artbooking. I love using Cricut Craftroom to put all the images together to help make it easier to cut the images out. I have used the sleeve from page 16 of the booklet and cut them at 4″ x 5 1/2″ and I have backed the lattice with Glacier cardstock for a lovely soft combination.

The frame has been cut from the Artbooking cartridge page 47 using White Daisy cardstock at 4″. For the first card I cut the centre out but then I had a ‘doh’ moment and used the hide/contour function to cut the full background image out for the second card.

The flowers are what I have left from previous projects. The flowers are cut from both the Artiste cartridge – page 54 in the booklet and the Art Philosophy cartridge – page 50 of the booklet. To see how I have made these flowers please click here. I have coloured the centres of the flowers in Canary ink and sponged the edges in Pixie ink.

The leaves have been cut in Pear cardstock from the Artiste page 54 – I am sorry I cut these some time ago and can’t remember what size I cut them out (possibly about 1 1/2″)

I have stamped the image from Sincere Expressions (which is sadly retiring) in Outdoor Denim ink (which is also retiring).

To finish off I have used Junebug Puffies to create the look of forget me knot flowers and some white shimmer trim.

Here is the second one with the centre that has not been cut out. As you can see it is better without the cut.

Here are some close ups.

Materials used:

Cardstock- White Daisy, Pear, Glacier

Stamps – Sincere expressions

Ink – Pixie, Canary, Outdoor Denim

Cricut Cartridges – Artiste, Art Philosophy, Artbooking, Artfully Sent

Junebug Puffies

Gold Glitter Gems

White Shimmer Trim

It is that time of the year for a new Annual Inspirations book to be released with a lot of new products and to make room for these new products there are a large number of current products retiring. Please check out my website here for a list of retiring products and get in quick before they disappear. There is also more products on the ‘while supplies last’ button.

Have a good week and Happy Crafting.

Patricia

Australasian CTMH SOTM Blog Hop – Life is Wonderful

On July 1, 2015July 14, 2015 By patriciamanhireIn Close to My Heart, CTMH SOTM, Scrapbooking16 Comments

Hello and welcome aboard our Stamp of the Month Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop. If you have arrived here from Jenny’s Blog The Creative Heart, then you are in the right place. If you landed here by accident, no problem, please join in by following the link at the end of this post.

Today I would like to share with you this layout that I have made which features July Stamp of the Month Life is Wonderful available exclusively throughout June for NZ$33 or for just NZ $5 when you spend NZ$75.

My son was very fortunate to have gone to Japan on a school trip and I have finally started scrapping his photos. I have not used the Wanderful papers much but these are perfect for doing travel photos. And the travel overlay and other travel related icons from the Artbooking cartridge goes so well with this. I particularly like this overlay as you can get a lot of small images to use for the rest of the album.

Yes I probably should have put the ‘is about to happen’ underneath the two stamped images but I am happy with how it has come out.

Life is Wonderful is only available until 31st July from your CTMH consultant. I’d love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop, Maz’s Blog, Inky Fingers

Materials used:

Cardstock – Crystal Blue, Colonial White, Flaxen

Paper – Wanderful

Stamps – Life is Wonderful

Have a good week and Happy Crafting.

Patricia

CTMH Elegance

On June 28, 2015June 28, 2015 By patriciamanhireIn Cardmaking, Die Cuts, Dry embossing, Marianne Craftables8 Comments

Welcome back

I have had a chance to make a couple of cards today and just managed to get the photos done just before the sun went. We have just had the shortest day of the year but it is going to be a few months before we get more sunlight hours.

I have been inspired by a blogger in England who does the most beautiful cards using white on white cardstock and lots of different dies for layering. I have made two cards and here they are:

First up this card was very quick and easy to do once I had the flowers made. I have used the same technique that I used in a previous post here to make the flowers but this time I sponged the the centres with Canary ink and the edges with Pixie ink to make a different colour. The flowers have been cut using the Art Philosophy cartridge pages 50. The photo below features the flowers from the Artiste cartridge page 54.

I used two different embossing folders – Damask and Stripes on a piece of White Daisy cardstock – 4″ x 5 1/4″ to layer onto the base card. I cut the leaves from Pear cardstock at 1″ using the Art Philosophy cartridge and then I using a sharp embossing edge to create the lines and placed them under the flower. To finish off I added the beautiful stamp from the upcoming August SOTM set

Here is the second card:

I have used the Artfully Sent cartridge to cut the card base at 7″ x 5″ from page 39 and then used CCR to resize the same shape to fit into it.

I placed a piece of White Daisy cardstock to layer underneath the front fold and put the shape on top.

I must admit to using some dies that I have had for some time as I wanted very fine leaves underneath the larger flowers.

I have stamped the sentiment from the Happy to Be Friends stamp set onto the shape before adhering it to the card. I then played around with the placement of the die cuts.

Here are the leaves that I have prepared for the flowers. I like the pop of colour of the flowers and leaves over the white on white base card.

Here is a close up of the flowers with some glitter gems in the middle of the flowers.

I apologise for the watermark. I am still working out how to use Lightroom.

Materials used:

Cardstock – White Daisy, Pear

Stamps – Framed, Happy to Be Friends

Inks – Black, Pixie, Canary

Cricut Cartridges – Artfully Sent, Art Philosophy, Artiste

Glitter Gems

Dies (non-CTMH) Marianne Creatables – LR0206, LR0107, LR0151

I hope that enjoy my creations and as usual these will be available for sale at Gift Hutt.

It is not long now before the new Annual Inspirations catalogue arrives and there are a lot of products that are retiring to make way for more fabulous products so pop on over to my website here to see what is retiring and also what is new on the while supplies last list.

Have a good week and Happy Crafting

Patricia

CTMH Artiste Masculine Card

On June 23, 2015June 23, 2015 By patriciamanhireIn Cardmaking, Close to My Heart4 Comments

Welcome

I am a couple of days late but the light has been against me for taking photographs and then I downlaoded Light Room on my computer and that took ages as well. Never mind I am all sorted now.

So it is a very quick post showing off the versatility of the Artiste cartridge. There are over 700 images on this cartridge which makes it very cost effective for the price which also includes 3 coordinating stamp sets as well as some dimensional shapes. I love how you can do boxes, cards, layered images and more for any project you can imagine.

Today I have done the lovely masculine card with a coordinating envelope using Seaside papers. Father’s Day was last Sunday in the United States so this is an appropriate card to show I think. I got the instructions for the dimensions from Joy at Obsessed with Scrapbooking here and it was super quick and easy to make.

I have used the dots embossing folder for the tie and pocket to add some interest to the card.

And here is the back – oops there is a sneak peak of the upcoming August SOTM here.

You can cut the collar to help with opening the card up to write inside but I thought that I would put this on the back for ease of use.

This card did not take me very long at all.

Materials used:

Cardstock – Desert Sand

Paper – Seaside

Stamps – Framed

Ink – Desert Sand

Embossing Folder – Dots

Sparkles – Black and Grey Assortment

This card and many of the other cards I make are available for sale at Gift Hutt.

Have a good week and Happy Crafting

Patricia

Australasian Operation Smile Blog Hop

On June 15, 2015June 15, 2015 By patriciamanhireIn Cardmaking, Close to My Heart, Stamping20 Comments

Hello and welcome to the Australasian Operation Smile Blog Hop. If you have come here from Mandy’s blog Hall of Indulgence you are in the right place. If you have landed here by accident no problem, please join in by clicking on the link below.

Operation Smile is a private, not for profit organisation providing reconstructive surgery to children and young adults born in developing countries. On 1^st April Close to My Heart Consultants released the 2nd Seasonal Expressions Idea Book. On the back page of this Idea book you will find the D – sized, Happy Everything stamp set. By purchasing this set at full retail price of NZ$33 you can help change the life of achild as CTMH will donate $US3 from your purchase to Operation smile.

Today we will be sharing some inspiration using “Happy Everything”. We hope you will be compelled to purchase this set and in so doing, contribute to the life changing work of operation smile.

This stamp set is perfect for cardmaking and here are some cards that I have made with this stamp set:

I have cut this swing card using the Artiste and Art Philosophy cartridges using the Blossom papers at 4 3/4″.

These two cards I made today for my cardmaking class using the Brushed papers and the A Budding Friendship stamp set.

Another card using Seaside papers and the Treasured Friendship stamp set and complements.

Finally I thought I would have some fun with the cute little bees. I have tried using the Honeycomb embossing folder and trimming it down and making it look like a beehive. I had some fun using the Shower Flowers stamp set to create the background with fussy cut out flowers on top. It hasn’t quite turned out how I wanted but it was fun to do.

For more information about Operation Smile please click on this link here.

This stamp set is available until the 30 August from here.

Please feel free to leave a comment and then pop on over to the talented Lauren at CTMH Craftings to continue on the hop for more inspiration.

Materials used for the cards:

Cardstock – Glacier, White Daisy, Juniper, Pixie, Sorbet, Canary

Papers – Blossom, Brushed, Seaside

Stamps – Happy Everything, A Budding Friendship, Treasured Friendship, Shower Flowers

Inks – Black, Pear, Cotton Candy, Desert Sand, Juniper, Lagoon

Cricut Cartridges – Artiste, Art Philosophy

Embossing Folder – Honeycomb

Complements – Blossom, Seaside

ShinHan Touch Twin marker – Black

Aqua Dots

Pink Shimmer Trim

Silver Sequins

Happy Crafting

Patricia

CTMH Artfully Sent Baby Card

On June 14, 2015 By patriciamanhireIn Babies, Close to My Heart, StampingLeave a comment

Welcome back.

I have been busy with the next Australasian blog hop so it is just a small post today. I have been playing on the Artfully Sent cartridge and came up with this baby card. It is not perfect but it is a start. I apologise for the quality of the photos but I think it is time to start looking for a new camera unfortunately.

I have cut this card at 7″ on Cricut Craftroom and used Blossom papers for the decorations. I have used scraps of Slate cardstock and Blossom paper behind the cut out of the pram and then covered with the inner Lagoon cardstock. The toys have been coloured using the ShinHan Touch Twin markers from the Nursery Charms stamp set and fussy cut out and placed on the front of the card.

Inside I have cut the baby clothes from the Blossom B&T papers and used the retired SOTM Cross Stitch Wishes to create the string to have the clothes hanging on.

I am always aware of having somewhere to write on a card and placed a peace of White Daisy cardstock and stamped and coloured the rattle in with the ShinHan Touch Twin markers for something different.

I have stamped the buttons onto Glacier cardstock and coloured in the rim and the threads and then used Liquid Glass to create the shiny dome.

Materials used:

Cardstock – Glacier, White Daisy, Slate, Lagoon

Paper – Blossom

Stamps – Nursery Charms, Cross Stitch Wishes

Inks – Black

ShinHan Markers – Bronze, Clay, Mahogany, Tender Pink, Turquoise Blue,herry Pink, Golden Yellow

Liquid Glass

Have a good week and Happy Crafting

Patricia

Wishing Well with CTMH

On June 7, 2015 By patriciamanhireIn Cardmaking, Close to My Heart, Stamping5 Comments

Welcome back

I have been busy today with crocheting squares for the upcoming International Yarnbombing Day on Thursday and haven’t had a chance to do paper crafting today. So I have picked a card I did a couple of weeks ago.

This card uses papers from both the Blossom and Seaside B&T paper packs. I am loving how I can mix and match between all the range available.

The flowers have been cut using the Art Philosophy cartridge at 1″ and the bird is a cut out from the Artfully Sent cartridge that I used for another card that I featured a little while ago.

Materials used:

Cardstock – Glacier

Paper – Blossom, Whimsy Paper Fundamentals, Seaside

Stamps – Artfully Sent Just to Say, Shower Flowers

Ink – Desert Sand, Pear

Cricut Cartridges – Art Philosophy, Artfully Sent

Scallop edge punch

Coral Reef Sequins

Black and Grey Assortments

Sparkles

All these products are available on my website here or just click on any of the highlighted links above.

Have a good week and Happy Crafting.

Patricia

CTMH Australasian SOTM Blog Hop – Ice Cream Dream

On June 1, 2015June 23, 2015 By patriciamanhireIn Cardmaking, Close to My Heart, Scrapbooking, Stamping23 Comments

Hello and welcome aboard our Stamp of the Month Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop. If you have arrived here from Simone’s Blog Scrappy Matters , then you are in the right place. If you landed here by accident, no problem, please join in by following the link at the end of this post.

Today I would like to share with you this layout and a couple of cards that I have made which features June Stamp of the Month Ice Cream Dream available exclusively throughout June for NZ$33 or for just NZ $5 when you spend NZ$75.

The Confetti Wishes papers work so well with this stamp set and I had fun with colouring in with my ShinHan Touch Twin markers. The pattern is from the Make it From Your Heart Volume 2 book pattern 14. I coloured all the images on separate cardstock and then fussy cut them all out and placed them on on the layout. The sentiment is also great for colouring in as well and the colours of the markers went so well with the colours of the papers.

I apologise for the quality of card photos – I had a flat battery on my camera and had to use my phone and I couldn’t get too close without a shadow.

I used my Art Philosophy cartridge to cut the scalloped circles to highlight the sundae and dog. The sentiment on the top card has been cut out of the Confetti Wishes paper which was a very quick and easy way to put the sentiment on a card. Once again I have used the fabulous pattern 28 from the Make It From Your Heart Volume 2.

Can you see that I have used the end of the dove tailed banner on the layout and it just finished the next card off. I don’t like throwing anything away that I could possibly use again. I love the Blossom paper and the blue patterned paper is so versatile to go with a lot of other papers in the catalogue and here I have cut the celebrate wording and candles and placed it over the blue paper and it gave a nice soft background for the bright vibrant colours of the rest of the card. I have coloured the silver sequins with the Peony Purple ShinHan Touch Twin marker to coordinate the colours to match.

Materials used:

Cardstock – Pacifica, White Daisy, Canary, Thistle

Paper – Confetti Wishes. Blossom

Stamp – Ice Cream Dream

Ink – Black,

ShinHan Touch Twin Markers – WG4 Warm Grey, BR116 Clay, BR96 Mahogany, Y49 Leaf Green, BR99 Bronze, P282 Peony Purple, RP198 Tender Pink, YR24 Marigold, Y222 Golden Yellow, BG61 Peacock BlueB62 Marine Blue, R5 Cherry Pink.

Silver Squins

Cricut Cartridge – Art Philosophy

Embossing folder – Quatrefoil

Ice Cream Dream is only available until 30 June from your CTMH consultant. I’d love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop, Georgia’s Blog Georgia Creates.

Have a good week and Happy Crafting

Patricia

A Taste of Summer in Autumn

On May 24, 2015 By patriciamanhireIn Cardmaking, Close to My Heart, Cricut, Scrapbooking, Stamping2 Comments

Welcome back

This week I will be featuring a layout that I have done with the gorgeous bright and vibrant papers A Taste of Summer that are part of the National Scrapbooking Month from CTMH. We are just going into autumn in New Zealand and these papers are a lovely reminder that spring and summer are just a few months away.

At the last minute CTMH added a stamp set to match which has added to the fun.

Here is a layout that I have done for my workshop that will be at Gift Hutt on Sunday 31 May.

For this clean and fresh layout I have used pattern 11 from the Make It From Your Heart Volume 1 book. I love how the Thistle and yellow Canary works so well together and the lemons go so well with all the colours. The lemons have been stamped with Canary ink and then rolled around the edges with Sweet Leaf ink. The leaves have been cut from the Art Philosophy cartridge in New England Ivy cardstock and I have crumpled them a little to make them look like leaves from a lemon tree. The title has been cut from the Artbooking cartridge in Canary and shaded with Slate cardstock. I have used strips of Paper Fundamentals thistle coloured paper to anchor the two pages together. I love the journalling stamp from the Artbooking cartridge and have added it here to balance the layout.

Materials used:

Cardstock – White Daisy, Thistle, Canary, Slate, New England Ivy

Papers – A Taste of Summer, Paper Fundamentals

Stamps – A Taste of Summer

Inks – Canary, Thistle, Black, Sweet Leaf, New England Ivy

Cricut Cartridges – Artbooking, Art Philosophy

Topiary Ribbon

We will also be doing three cards and I have had a request to teach how to do the Bokeh technique which is very popular with the CTMH consultants at the moment. This technique replicates the background created in photography when focusing on an object. It is easy to do and the hardest part is working out which colours to use. There are lots of tutorials on YouTube on how to do this technique.

This card has been made using Flaxen, Sweet Leaf, Bamboo and White Daisy inks on the background and I have used the retired A Happy Hello stamp set as well as the Artfully Sent Just to Say stamp set for the flower and the sentiment.

For this card I have used Pixie, Thistle and Gyspsy inks with White Daisy pigment ink for the background. The heart comes from the Hostess stamp set Paper Bird and I have used the rock and roll technique with Thistle and Gypsy inks.

For the last card for the workshop I have used Flaxen and Lagoon inks with White Daisy pigment ink. The bird is from the Paper Bird stamp set and I have again used the rock and roll technique for the bird using Flaxen and Lagoon inks.

Here is another card that I have done using the same colours as the first card. This time I have stamped the flowers from the Happy Autumn stamp set in Desert Sand ink onto the background and then trimmed the cards to make the three panels from the Make It From Your Heart Volume 2 book pattern 28. I have backed the panels with Sweet Leaf cardstock and used the Flaxen coloured paper from the Paper Fundamentals for the trim across the card. The tags are stamped in Flaxen ink using the Holiday Tags and Perfect Fit – Frames 2 stamp sets. I have finished off with a Flaxen coloured butterfly from the Junebug Puffies which is still available on the While Supplies Last tab.

Materials used:

Cardstock – White Daisy, Thistle, Gypsy, Sweet Leaf,

Paper – Paper Fundamentals

Inks – Desert Sand, Glacier, Lagoon, Pixie, Thistle, Gypsy, Flaxen, Sweet Leaf, Bamboo, White Daisy pigment ink.

Stamps – A Happy Hello (NLA), Holiday Tags, Perfect Fit – Frames 2, Artfully Sent Just to Say, Happy Autumn, Paper Bird

Thistle Ribbon

Junebug Puffies

Cricut Cartridge – Art Philosophy

All these products are available on my website here.

The workshop will be held at Gift Hutt, 136 High Street, Lower Hutt on Sunday 31 March at 10 am to 4 pm.

Have a good week and Happy Crafting

Patricia

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