CTMH Grateful Heart Gather at the Pumpkin Patch Layout

Welcome to my post for the last of my CTMH Grateful Heart layouts.  This layout is another of my favorites.  It grew out of the pumpkins from both the Grateful Heart Complements and from the pumpkin Picture My Life card from the Grateful Heart paper pack.  

I knew I wanted it to be a curly mess of vines, and I wanted it to have tall, skinny pumpkins as well as shorter, chubby pumpkins.  All pumpkins can't be the same size, right, or the patch would be a boring place!  I loved the pumpkin on the CTMH You Are Here Cricut Cartridge, but it only came in one size.  To fix this issue, I unlocked the proportions of the image in Cricut Design Space and created the pumpkin of my dreams.

The vines were cuts from our CTMH Flower Market Cricut cartridge.  I love how you can play with all of the CTMH Cricut cartridges at once in CDS.

My next design road block came in the form of which papers would work for the pumpkins.  I wanted variety.  I decided not to go with solid cardstock, and instead went with three of the patterned cardstocks in the Grateful Heart paper pack.  I manipulated their colors by dabbing with some of our soon to be retired, small pigment ink pads.  I also added a little gold shimmer with the help of our Shimmer Brush-Gold.

"Patch" from the title was cut from Gold Glitter Paper using the Block Alphabet Thin Cuts.  The little words "at the" were stamped using the cute little Modern Type Alphabet stamp set.The wooden looking hearts are also from the Grateful Heart Complements, and I added some little cork leaves, which are from the Grateful Heart Cork Shapes.

All of the new products will be available on September 1, 2018, at which time I will update the links.

Finally, let me share with you the Cricut Design Space file for this layout.  Here is the link:

https://design.cricut.com/#/design/97002516

CTMH Grateful Heart Gather Together Layout

This Grateful Heart layout is among my favorite creations.  When I saw that pretty Sapphire lattice paper from the Grateful Heart paper pack, I knew that it needed some pretty flowers and a layout idea was born.  

I drew two points of inspiration from our new CTMH Love of Color book.  First, the circular arrangement of the flowers on the left page was taken from a layout with the occasional hearts placed in the manner, from the book.  Second, the colors were also suggestions to pull together from CMTH Love of Color.  It is a priceless reference book, and should be on the top of your wish list from the new Holiday Expressions 2018.  

 Did you happen to notice the "floral tiles" that are stamped in White Daisy Ink?  Those are from the awesome new Snug Backgrounds stamp set.  I love how they anchor the asters (I call them daisies) from the CTMH Flower Market Cricut Cartridge, to the page.  Just the perfect addition of texture in my opinion.  I relied heavily on the butterflies and little chipboard flowers from the CTMH Complements to round out the layout embellishments.

Some Silver Glitter Gems add just a little more sparkle to the layout, don't you agree?

All of these products will be available on September 1, 2018, when the Holiday Expressions catalog goes live.  I will be back to link to all of the products used at that time.  Thanks for looking!

And here is the link to the Cricut Design Space file:

https://design.cricut.com/#/design/101924255

CTMH Convention 2018 Layout for Joyful Stars July blog hop

Welcome to my entry for the Joyful Stars July 2018 blog hop!  If you have arrived here from Joyce's blog, you are on the right track!

I have made a quick and easy layout that I would like to share with you today.  I had the distinct honor of being one of six Extravaganza Presenters that got the privilege of unveiling artwork based on a never before seen CTMH paper suite. 

 Although I can't yet share that with you, I did want to start getting some of my own scrapbooking underway.

The layout is made with a CTMH Convention exclusive stamp set, as well as pieces of patterned cardstock from the Central Park and Beautiful Friendship paper packets.  It is an easy layout to replicate, and you could use any stamp set that fit your photo theme.

Now please, hop along to see what the very talented Debi has to share with you today on That Might Look Good on a Card.  See you next hop!