Artistry Cricut -Blog Hop

Welcome to our October Blog Hop featuring CTMH’s newest Cricut Collection, Artistry.  To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local consultant to place an order.

We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop! 

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you want to follow us across Canada then please start at the beginning and join Michelle . If you came from Donna's Blog then you are in the right place! 

I used the new artistry Cricut to create two cards.  The first with my absolute favorite image from the cartridge the deer. I added a red gem to make him look like Rudolf.  The next card I created in craft-room (I know I am old school).  The new font on Artistry is awesome.  I am going to try a few more like this, Inspired by Lisa Stenz.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Brandy Ortiz-Lees 

 If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle S Blog, as she has the complete blog list. 

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. We hope you will join us again next month when we will be feature Preparing for Christmas.  So mark November 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Holiday Spotlight Blog Hop

Welcome to the SOTM group's Holiday Expressions Blog Hop.

We are featuring projects made from the product in the holiday expressions catalog. 
If you came from Angela White's Blog Then you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.  If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog:  http://ifyoublingit.blogspot.com/p/stamp-of-month-blog-hop-list.html.

I created two small projects for this hop the first features the Nevermore paper CTMH's Halloweeny Paper Pack. The little coffin is for teacher Halloween gifts, Cut using the artist Cricut Cartridge.  It was inspired by a gathering activity from last year.  The small cards are treat bag toppers for small bags for my scouts groups. 3x4 rectangles scored at 2 inches and embellished with our Halloween stamps. 

The second project features the white pine paper pack.  I am making these cards to top bags of Hot Chocolate for a local Craft Sale

Thanks for Hopping By the products used can be purchased on my online store at Createbythelake.ctmh.com

the next stop is back to the beginning of the hop Melissa Robinson's Blog

STOM October Blog Hop

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  We will be featuring Octobers's SOTM, which is Twinkle, a set of 15 stamps.  If you have come here from Judy Faye Garner's Blog, you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.  If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog:  http://ifyoublingit.blogspot.com/p/stamp-of-month-blog-hop-list.html.

This month we have 40 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

I was inspired by the Ideas from the idea book with my own twist.


the first card is and ombre of embossing powder the middle is a mix of both gold and silver powder. I used whisper twine and our silver pen to embellish. On Pomegranate card-stock on a colonial white base. 

This card was inspired by the scrap-booking layout I used, fern, sapphire, lagoon, peacock, black and white daisy inks.  I used the poppy fundamentals paper. Gold shimmer trim, retired washi tape and whisper twine to embellish. On a white daisy base. 

Now "Hop" on over to Jeanie Burch's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the October SOTM is only available until October 31 at 1159 MST!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here)to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount!