Live, Laugh, Love - CTMH May Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to our monthly Stamp of the Month (SOTM) Blog Hop!!!

If you have come here from Shelia's Blog, you are on the right track!!

This month, we will be featuring the EXCLUSIVE May SOTM stamp set called "Live, Laugh, Love".

This blog hop is a great big circle, so you can START HERE & work your way around to the many consultants on this “hop”! If you get lost along the way, you’ll find a complete list of PARTICIPATING CONSULTANTS by clicking HERE…

This month we have 26 Close To My Heart Consultants that will be sharing items using this month’s stamp set.  So, sit back & enjoy your tour as you click on the link at the end of each post to see what EVERY consultant has created.

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Here is this months EXCLUSIVE stamp set....

These block, flowery letters are all the rage, and are so fun to create with!  Today, I'll be sharing 1 of the 3 cards I created with this stamp set.  

Let's take a look.... 

This fun, card sketch, came from our How-To-Book - Make It From Your Heart, volume 1!  I hadn't used this sketch book in a while, and challenged myself to pull a pattern from this book. 

If you take a close look, you may notice I used TWO different paper packs for this card. 

I used the BRAND NEW "Little Dreamer" paper pack, as well as the EXCLUSIVE paper pack available during May - "Live Beautifully" (the small polka dots).  Since May 1st is the DEBUT of our Newest, Seasonal Expression 2 Idea Book - neither of the paper packs may be familiar to you...so let's take a LOOK!

X7219B Little Dreamer Paper packet

CC1212B - Live Beautifully paper pack
CC1212C - Live Beautifully stamp set

The word "Love" was heat embossed with white embossing powder....

...while the flowers & leaves, were heat embossed by using the whisper pigment ink pad & clear embossing powder.  

I wanted a "pink" (smoothie) colored string for the left side of my card, and wasn't quite sure how to do that...since we only had white. 

Then I remembered...ANYTHING white can be colored to whatever you need it to be!  So...I cut off a piece of White Twine & "pulled" it through my Smoothie ink pad to give it some color.  Yay!!  A Smoothie colored accent! :)

I also did something I haven't done in a LONG time...and that was to use my Stitch Guide & stitched some white twine around the card edge! :)  FUN...and it adds a little bit of "extra" to the card. ;) 

Here is the list of products I used for the card above...
S1705  Live, Laugh, Love Stamp of the Month
CC1212B  Live Beautifully Paper pack
X7219B  Little Dreamer Paper Pack
Cardstock colors: Emerald, Thistle & Smoothie
Z2503  Pigment Ink - Basics
Z2896  Smoothie Ink
Z3236  Black Glitter Paper
Z2068  White Embossing Powder
Z2088  Clear Embossing Powder
Z1852  Stitch Guide
Z1859 Foam Mat
Z3314 Black & White Dots
Z3216  White Twine

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I hope you are enjoying this blog hop & are getting LOTS of ideas for when you create with your OWN Stamp of the month stamp set. Happy Crafting to each of you! 

Now – it’s time to head over to Miss Carrie's Creations blog to see what FABULOUS items she has created using this stamp set!

Be sure to visit ALL the Consultants at their blogs to get some GREAT crafting ideas!!  We always love to hear any feedback you’d like to share as well, so feel free to leave a comment below. 

****Remember*****

The May SOTM – ”Live, Laugh, Love” – is ONLY available until May 31, 2017.

It can be yours at the retail price of $17.95 OR pay ONLY $5 when you purchase $50 in CTMH products this month!!!  I have a few more cards to share using this stamp set, so feel FREE to come back to my blog, to see what OTHER goodies I've created throughout the next couple weeks. :) 

Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here if you need a consultant ) to answer any questions you many have. 

Blessings to you for a WONDERFUL day!!!

Krista 

I'm so EXCITED that the My Craft Channel videos from CTMH are back!!! Wooohooo!! 

Come join Kristine & Monica, as they share with us an exciting "BURST" of creativity!!

After you watch this video, feel free to check out the WONDERFUL Stitch Guide ruler and Foam Mat they mentioned in this clip.  I LOVE this tool, and highly recommend it!  There are so many different ways you can use it!!

REMEMBER that OCTOBER is "Mystery Hostess Party" month!!!

This means that it is YOUR chance...

to win $40 of CTMH items 

OR

a 1/2 price item 

each time you place a CTMH order on my website during October 2013!!! 

 CLICK HERE for all the details!!

Happy Watching and have a WONDERFUL day!!!

Blessings to you!!!

Krista Hershberger J

CTMH New Product Blog Hop!

Welcome to the

Close To My Heart

NEW Product Blog Hop!! 

A HUGE thanks to fellow consultant, Tresa Black, for getting this hop together!!!

This is such an EXCITING time, for us Close To My Heart fans!!
 Our NEWEST Idea Book was just released on August 1st and we as consultants have so much to SHARE with YOU!!!!

Today, I chose to share with you a NEW product line from CTMH!!  It is called “Jeanette’s Stamp Archive”.  J

As an Extravaganza teacher at this past June’s annual CTMH Convention, I was privileged to receive new item to work with prior to anyone else!  What fun!! 

In my package, I received this ADORABLE stamp set called “Stitched with Love” and I recognized this stamp set as one of Jeanette Lynton’s handrawn designs from the D.O.T.S. years!  D.O.T.S. was the 1st name of this company and it stood for “Dozens Of Terrific Stamps”  This stamp set includes a little girl Rachel, and was drawn in honor of Jeanette’s daughter! 

I used one of our NEW paper packs….Huntington , but chose to create my own BACKGROUND by using the stamped images in this set for the top part of my card!


The frame around Rachel, was cut from our NEW Artbooking Cricut cartridge…I used the "2 of a kind" Key on page 78 of booklet and cut the frame by using the "REAL DIAL SIZE" button and setting my measurement to 3.1. 

and I also chose to use our Fabulous NEW Stitch Guide to create the 2 hearts on the bottom right of the card. I love the extra touch this brings to Rachel on this card!

I used our watercolor pencils & blending pen to color in Miss Rachel...any tips you’d like to share with me would be wonderful!! J

Take a moment to check out ALL of the stamp sets in Jeanette’s stamp Archive!!  There is a total of 5 different sets…and  these stamp images will take you down memory lane. J You may have these stamp sets in the wood design…how WONDERFUL that we can now get them in clear acrylic…AND at the fraction of the cost we once paid!!! J

Enjoy viewing more of the NEW products just released from CTMH. 

How will you do that?  Continue clicking on the pictures at the bottom of this post to see my fellow consultants GORGEOUS creations!!!!! 

Happy Hopping!!

This blog hop is open for members of the CTMH Blog Boosters. Please do not enter if you are not a member of the group.