Feels Like Home And Budding Peony Card

Welcome to GIRLplusPAPER and my entry for the Mojo Monday sketch challenge number 507.

These challenges can really jumpstart your creativity if you need a little push.

Today I am sharing a card made with Close To My Heart’s Feels Like Home paper paired with the Budding Peony Stamp and Thin Cuts set.

You might also notice that I used Close To My Heart's Stitched Rectangular Frames Thin Cuts to create the bottom two layers of my card.  I then drew in my stitches using a LePen.

After stamping the peony with Intense Black Ink, I used my favorite Watercolor Pencils along with my handy dandy Clear Shimmer Brush to shade my flower and leaves.  Look carefully and you might see that the peony sits upon two Thin Cut Circles, one from the Stitched Circles Thin Cuts, and another from the Basic Circles Thing Cut set.  And that little piece of Sugarplum Glitter paper...that was made with our Decorative Borders Thin Cuts!

To embellish my card even more, I glued down some tiny sequins from my Silver Loose Sequins pack, and added some Silver Embellishing Thread.

Thank you, Mojo Monday, for another inspiring sketch!

Something Fierce Cards

Something Fierce, one of the newest paper suites in Close To My Heart's Spring of 2019 lineup.  It's more than just dinosaurs, and I wanted to prove that to you!

I had left over flowers after making my National Papercrafting Month Magnolia Frame Kit.  So, what to do with them, right?  Well, I was sitting at my CTMH Seasonal Expression Product Launch back in December, and had just been given some Something Fierce paper, so I came up with some really quick cards.  And since I was playing with a January special and January featured paper pack, I also went with the January Stamp of the Month from CTMH, Card Captions.  I love that Card Captions is only $5 this month with a qualifying purchase.

And so, these three cards came to be.  I presented them, along with my Magnolia Frame, to all of the other CTMH Consultants in attendance.  It was so much fun!
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CTMH More Magical Cards

Do you remember the More Magical Toy Story themed layout that I made a week or so ago?  

Well, did you also know that there was a CTMH workshop to go along with it?  It makes 4 double layouts and 8 cards!  I made the layouts, and set to work on the cards.  I was supposed to create 4 of each of two designs.  But, you probably know me well enough to know that isn't how it went!

Instead, I used my scraps to create 8 different cards.  The only thing that I added was a few clouds cut out of our CTMH Artistry Cricut Cartridge.

Oh, and the clouds on this one got a little bit of hard to see Clear Shimmer Brush glitter.  Funny, I did not notice the word dream all over the card above until just now.  Didn't see it when I made the card, and not when I photographed it.  I like it though!

This card, shown above, is one of the two CTMH designs.  I loved it, but wanted to see how it looked with other little bits of paper.  So the card below was created.

This card, shown above, was also one of the original designs.  I went a little crazy with the Journaling Pen accents though.  It might not have needed quite as much as I added lol!  The card below is a simple variation of this pattern too.

Want to create your own CTMH More Magical cards?

Here are the links to the products that I used.

More Magical Kit

Black Ink

Clear Shimmer Brush  

Cricut Artistry Cartridge

Journaling Pen

For the Love of Crafting Card

CTMH's For the Love of Crafting...it's the August 2018 Stamp of the Month.

Designed just for girls like us!  You know, the crafters out there.

I whipped up a quick card with this set today.  This isn't just an ordinary card though.  It is special because it gives you a little glimpse into a few of the new, not yet released, products coming from CTMH on September 1st.  Here is my For the Love of Crafting card for you to look at, and below we can talk about the new goodness.

So, where to start?  Let's start with the Sneak Peek of the new color of the year.  Sugarplum.  You can see it at play in the Glitter Paper, Ink and Glitter Gems.  Isn't it so trendy and pretty.  It is like a dusty, plumy, pink.  So pretty.

Next up you may have noticed a little Silver Embellishing Thread?  It adds a fun, quirky little pop to your projects.  Lastly, you might have spied a new color cardstock called Sage.  It goes so well with the Sugarplum and Sapphire. 

My favorite new Sneak Peek isn't something so easily spotted.

Did you notice the unique, yet cohesive color palette?  It is from this AMAZING new color theory book called, Love of Color.  It covers the CTMH color rainbow, makes color combination suggestions and it has gorgeous, inspiring artwork.

The For the Love of Crafting stamp set is available this month only!  It is only $5 with a qualifying purchase on my website.

As for the new products, you will need to wait until September 1st for those to be available to the public. 

Or, do you????

You could join my GIRLplusPAPERhearts team today and you will have early access to all of the new goodies too!  Click here to join my team today.