Anniversary Card with Atlantic Hearts Sketch #177

Here is a lovely card I made for my some special people.  The flowers were fussy cut from Stampin' Up's Gold Soiree Specialty Designer paper.  I was using up some stash so I used Close to My Heart Moonstruck paper.  The greeting is from CTMH Happy Couple which is newly retired.  The gold sequins have drops of White Opal Liquid Pearls.

Here's another look so you can see the shiny sequins.

My card was inspired by this fabulous Atlantic Hearts sketch:

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

Atlantic Hearts Sketch #116 Meets Pals Paper Arts Challenge #259

Welcome back to another Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge blog post!  Here is the sketch:

Here is my card:

Here is the color palette I used from Pals Paper Arts #259:

Although it may be difficult to see the scalloped border is actually silver foil CS.  I created the border in Design Space using Close to My Hearts Artbooking cartridge.  You can use my cut file here.  The joined hearts are a cut from Gypsy Wanderings which was actually a group of 4 that I trimmed down.

Close to My Heart products used:

     Artbooking cartridge

     White Daisy CS

     Tulip CS (retired)

     Moonstruck CS (retired)

     Say it in Style stamp (retired)

     Moonstruck ink

     Metallic Silver CS (retired)

Other products:

     Gypsy Wanderings heart border image

We would love to see what you can create using the above sketch. Please check out what the other fabulous Design Team members have to share and link up your creations here.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

Red, White and Blue Birthday Card With Freshly Made Sketch #193

Here are two quick cards I made following Freshly Made Sketch #193:

Close to My Heart products used:

     Artfully Sent cricut cartridge

     White Daisy CS

      Tulip CS

      Moonstruck CS (retired)

      Moonstruck B & T paper (retired)

      Ruby Twine from Mini Accents Medley

Here is the sketch I followed:

The color scheme at Less is More and Seize the Birthday is Red, White and Blue so I'm entering this card into those challenges also.  

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

Celebrating Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #100--Blog Candy Alert!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge has posted it's 100th sketch challenge!  I'm going to be giving away a Close To My Heart stamp to one lucky US reader in celebration of this event so be sure to scroll down to the end of this post for more information.  Be sure to check out what the rest of the Design Team has posted as many of them will be offering prizes also.

Close to My Heart products used:

     Art Philosophy cartridge for frame cuts

     White Daisy CS

     Canary CS

     Paper Bird stamp set (Hostess reward set available April 1)

     Season of Thanks

     Thistle Ink

     Black Ink

     Moonstruck CS (retired)

     Moonstruck Ink (retired)

     Just Blooms flower sponged with Thistle Ink (retired)

     3D Foam Tape

    

Other products

     Lavender pearls by Want 2 Scrap

     Tiny wiggle eye

Are you wondering how I was able to perfectly line up the purple bamboo image?  It was with a cool new tool I found called the MISTI (Most Incredible Stamping Tool Invented).  The manufacturer is My Sweet Petunia and you can find lots of You Tube videos on it's use.  I love using it!

The theme of this week's Bitten by the Bug challenge is "Frame it" so I'm also entering my card into their challenge.

Here is the fabulous 100th sketch by Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge:

You have until Sunday evening to join us with your direct link.  We hope you have fun with this sketch AND enter it in our challenge.

On to the Blog Candy notice:

Can you believe it; we have reached Sketch 100! Everyone at Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge is so excited to celebrate this milestone with all of our followers and participants.

To celebrate Sketch 100 we will be giving our some blog candy and all you have to do is visit our fabulous design team members blogs and leave a comment on their design for Sketch 100 and you are entered.

 We will be drawing several names at random from the comments. To increase your chances of winning, leave comments for all of the design team members!  And to be fair, you can only win 1 time!  Please invite your friends and family to join the fun!

Thanks again for being part of our challenge community and we are all looking forward to the next 100 fabulous sketches and your awesome creations!

Happy Crafting!

The Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge Design Team

Lauren Moore

http://laurenctmhcraftings.blogspot.com/…/atlantic-hearts-s…

Marie Flayer (that's me!)

http://njstampingqueen.blogspot.com/…/celebrating-atlantic-…

Lisa Mensing

http://thecraftingcave.blogspot.com/…/sketch-100-with-atlan…

Linda Norman

http://www.scrappytherapy.com/…/atlantic-hearts-sketch-chal…

Brandi Robinson

http://crzy4scrapbooking.blogspot.com/…/sketch-100-from-ahs…

Stephanie Keats

http://stephsshoebox.blogspot.com/…/happy-100th-atlantic-he…

Wendy Coffman

http://www.stampingrules.com/…/day-30-atlantic-hearts-sketc…

Jasmina Bursic

http://jazzy-crafts.blogspot.com/2015/03/ahsc-100.html

Michelle Stewart

http://mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.com/…/ahsc-100-time…

Kelly Janes

http://papercraftingwithkellyjanes.com/2015/03/23/ahsc-100/

Candra Holmes

http://www.paperdragonfleur.ca/…/atlantic-hearts-sketch-cha…

Lisa Bzibziak

http://www.facebook.com/l.php…

Barbara-Ann Himelman

http://barbarahimelman.blogspot.com/…/03/lets-celebrate.html

Laura Davidson

http://www.lauraleesdream.blogspot.ca/…/ahs100-birthday-car…

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

Have an Ice Day for Numerous Challenges

Don't you just love penguins?  I think they are really cute and I decided to play with numerous challenges today.  My favorite penguins are retired Hostess Rewards from Close to my Heart called Wintry Wishes.

Close to my Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

     Moonstruck CS (retired)

     Wintry Wishes stamps (retired)

     Moonstruck Ink (retired)

     Silver Embossing Powder

     Stardust Glitz Glitter Gel

     Art Philosophy cartridge  (snowflakes and scalloped rectangle)

     Silver metallic marker

Other products;

     Prismatic Reflective Paper by Colorbok

The Atlantic Hearts Sketch inspired me with this layout:

Other challenges that I'm entering are:

     The House That Stamps Built-What If Wednesday--Blue, Silver and White

     Bitten By the Bug--Snowflakes

     House of Cards--Glitter

     Die Cutting Divas--Photo Inspiration

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

Another Ice Fishing Card for Dee Dee's Digis and Send a Smile for Kids

I'm still having fun playing with this delightful Ice Fishing Digital stamp!  Here is a more masculine version:

Close To My Heart products used:

     White Daisy CS

     Cotton Candy CS

     Moonstruck CS (retired)

     Moonstruck B & T paper (retired)

     

Other products

     Dee Dee's Digis January Stamp of the Month Ice Fishing--FREE this month!

Challenges entered:

      Send a Smile for Kids--Valentine or Love cards

      Dee Dee's Digis--January Digi of the Month

      The Male Room Challenge Blog--new beginnings--I see it as a new relationship....

      Pile it On--Digi Papers or Precolored Digis

      Crafty Creations Challenges--"Brrr, the blues!"

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

P.S.  My next post I will be returning to creating with acrylic stamps!

     

Glittered Happy Birthday Card for Simon Says

This card was inspired by the sketch at Crazy4Challenges.  I adapted it with some glitter so I could enter it into the Wednesday challenge at Simon Says.

Close to My Heart products used:

    Moonstruck CS (retired)

    Moonstruck B&T paper (retired)

    Moonstruck Ink  (retired)

    Star Spangled Blue ribbon (retired)

    White Daisy CS

    Heartfelt Birthday Wish stamp

    Silver Glitz Glitter Gel  (retired)

Other:

    Goose Bumpz embossing folder

Here is the sketch I followed:

  

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

     Seize the Birthday--Birthday

     Cards in Envy--Anything Goes in A2 size

     Stampin' for the Weekend--Anything Goes

     Fussy and Fancy--Birthday

     Love to Create--Clean and Simple and/or Classy and Elegant

     Just for Fun challenge--Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

p.s. Please stop back tomorrow for a new Color My Heart Color Dare challenge!

    

Gelato Background for Atlantic Hearts Sketch #27

Atlantic Hearts always offers a great sketch to follow and this week is no different.  Blues are my favorite colors and I love trying out new products so when I saw a set of Faber-Castell Gelatos in shades of blue I knew I'd have to have them.  They look like tubes of chapstick and have a waxy feel to them.  After you apply them you use some water and a paintbrush to blend them.

Before I applied the Gelatos to regular white CS I clear embossed 60 from the retired Close To My Heart Friendship Alphabet.  I used a heat gun to dry the paper and then used red liner tape to adhere it to a Moonstruck CS background.  The background panel is Heavenly Blue and the White Daisy strip was run through the Cuttlebug with a Darice Embossing Folder.  The ribbon is holographic curling ribbon that I bought for wrapping Christmas presents.  

Here is the Atlantic Hearts sketch #27:

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!

:) Marie

Sequins and Chevrons for CAS-ual Fridays #116

I've been wanting to use sequins on a card for a long time and this week's challenge at CAS-ual Fridays gave me the opportunity to do so.

Supplies used:
White Daisy CS
Heavenly Blue CS (retired CTMH)
Moonstruck CS (retired CTMH)
Happy Autumn stamp set
In The Background stamp set
Kaleidacolor Blue Breeze Ink
Sequins
Ribbon
Memory Book Mini Glue Dots

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a wonderful week filled with fun and creativity!
:) Marie

I Made My Own Bling!

This card features the Close To My Heart March Stamp of the Month "Potential", Say it in Style stamp set and the colors Lagoon and Moonstruck. I wanted to add some bling to it and decided on 6 points. Instead of using glitter gel or sparkles I glued small hole punched circles from holographic paper! This cuts down on the weight of the card and the bulk of the card (and also the cost). (Gift bags can be good sources of holographic paper.) Hope you like the card and can use the idea.

Can you imagine all the possibilities of making your own bling? Different sized punches, or cricut cuts? I hope I've got you thinking....

If you are visiting this blog on 3/31 or 4/1 you could help my son out by voting for him to be selected to be in a WMMR band. Please text vote WC1 to 39333. More details are in the previous post. We would very much appreciate it!

Inspired By Challenge #6

This is a "garage inspired card". After looking at the photo provided by the Inspired By blogsite I tried to capture the colors of the storage bins in my card. In order from top to bottom the colors are all from Close To My Heart--Sky, Dutch Blue, Indian Corn Blue, Moonstruck, Pacifica. I used a Cranberry flourish cut by CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge to imitate the bike in the photo. The ovals were also cut using the Art Philosophy cartridge and the greeting is from CTMH Card Chatter Birthday Set. I curved the edges of this stamp set and I like how it turned out.

Here is my card:

Here was the inspirational photo:

I had fun designing this card from a garage photo. What do you think of my interpretation?

My Rock the Block Challenge--Day 3

Although I love the large corner floral stamp which I featured the last 2 days, I also like the other stamps in this set. Today I'm sharing a card that was made with a circle border stamp from the Rock the Block set. The paper colors are White Daisy, Moonstruck and Pear. The ink colors are Pear and Dutch Blue. The font is from the "A Typeface" set. The Pear colored bottom stripe was cut with the Art Philosophy cartridge. I used a Dutch Blue marker and a ruler to draw a line on the White Daisy strip and embellished with CTMH Clear Sparkles.

You can see all the other stamps in this set at this link.

My Rock the Block Challenge--Day 1

Happy New Year! One of my goals this year is to create more cards and to share them more often so I am promising myself to post a new card everyday for a week. I will be using the Close To My Heart special offer during January 2012 called "Rock the Block" which features a stamp set and collage blocks. For more details check out this link.

These are the stamps that were designed to fit on the 2 x 2 collage blocks:

My Day 1 card uses Buttercup, White Daisy, Spring Iris and Lagoon CS, Lagoon, Moonstruck, and Spring Iris inks. The ovals were cut using the CTMH Art Philosophy cricut cartridge. The ink was applied to the large floral stamp using a tissue to sponge 3 different colors onto the stamp before stamping onto the paper. The greeting is from D1475 Card Chatter--Birthday. Pearl adhesive gems were placed onto the flower centers.

November Stamp of the Month and Card Pattern Sketch #89

I've had a lot of fun lately playing with Close To My Heart's November Stamp of the Month called "A Little Thanks".  The stamp set is pictured here:

It is a very versatile set which is only available during November 2010.  The price depends upon how much other CTMH product you purchase and can range from $22.95 to FREE with a $100 purchase.  In addition Close To My Heart is extending thanks to those customers who spend $100 and offering a stamp set of their choice for FREE also.  You can get 2 stamp sets for FREE this month.  It is a very good deal! You can check out the catalog through my website.

Here are some cards that I've made from this set.  The first one follows Card Patterns Sketch 89:

I used Olivia papers, Barn Red CS, Barn Red Ink and Autumn Terracotta brads.  (The flowers were made with a Martha Stewart punch.) It was very quick to do.

The next card uses Sunset Ink, Barn Red Ink and CS and some gold edged ribbon.

The third card features Splendor paper, Moonstruck CS, Topiary CS and Goldrush Ink.  Cream opaques sit on top of the green buttons.

The next card features Magnifique papers and Pacifica Ink:

The last of these cards features paper from the Creative Basics Mistletoe Collection.and Cranberry Ink.  (The flourished square frame is a Martha Stewart punch.).

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