CTMH Butterfly and Music Notes card with CTMH Universal Backgrounds, Kraft Ready Borders and Find Your Style

Here's one I made while in a flurry of Valentine's Day preparations.  It uses several products that I adore - the new background stamp called Universal Backgrounds with those beautiful music notes, our new Kraft borders and the January Stamp of the Month with that awesome butterfly!

The butterfly images are actually stamped directly onto the cardstock over the music note stamping.  To get the image to pop I simply outlined the butterfly with a fine tip Sharpie pen.  I've added some Glitz Glitter Gel to the Kraft border strip and a little bling and we're done!

If you'd like to make this card, purchase these products:

Paper:  Bliss

Stamps:  Universal Backgrounds (awesome set with music notes and more), Find Your Style (Butterfly - Jan Stamp of the Month)

Ink:  Gray Wool, Gypsy

Other:  Mocha Opaques, Purple/Pinks/Red Sparkle Assortment, Sparkles, Kraft Ready Borders, Glitz Glitter Gel, Paper Flower (purple ones are retired but white ones can be dyed to match)

Welcome Friend banner using new CTMH pennants, Wings and Find Your Style

Here is the banner project we will be creating at the 22 January Crop. This class will start at 2PM (to help you plan in case you can't make the whole day).

This banner was inspired by a post from a fellow CTMH consultant, Lisa Stenz, on our consultant bulletin board.  I've made a few changes but I really loved how she combined the Wings Workshop stamp with Find Your Style (Jan SOTM) on this banner!  We'll be learning several new techniques on this project:  how to mix and spray with our new Spray Pen, how to create accordian flowers and emboss resist. 

Close to my Heart January 2011 Stamp of the Month Blog Hop featuring....

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop!  We will be featuring January 2011's SOTM, Find Your Style.  If you have come here from Vickie'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 here.

This month we have over 50 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using the SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs.  To view all the great artwork just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one!

The soft vintage feel of this set and the beautiful sayings really spoke to me.  My mother suffers from early onset alzheimer's disease so the phrase "a friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and will sing it back to you when you forget the words" really choked me up.  What a beautiful sentiment and so perfect for giving to a special friend in your life.  The idea of giving this sent me on a quest to play with a home decor / gift item for my project this month.

Here I've used a 5x7 picture frame that I've literally had for years and done some altering to create a one-of-a-kind gift.  The butterfly was stamped directly on the glass using black Staz-on ink.

The title "beautiful friend" was embossed directly on the background paper and the definition was embossed in black and then matted.  You can see from this shot the dimensionality to this piece - all of the paper and some of the embellishments are below the glass while the flowers and sparkles all are mounted directly on the glass.

I really enjoyed creating this piece and am planning on making more of these darling frames in the future!  Here is the full picture of "Find Your Style" the Jan. 2011 Stamp of the Month:

Materials Used:

Paper:  Jingle Level 2 , Black Cardstock, Olive Cardstock

Stamp:  Find Your Style

Ink:  Black Staz-on, Versamark,  Colonial White Marker (to color the white crocheted flowers to Colonial White)

Other:  Heartfelt Whimsy Collection, Colonial White Ribbon Rounds, Just Blooms Big Pinks, Sparkles, Mini Medley Autumn Garden, Black Embossing Powder

Now "Hop" on over to Nicole'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 January SOTM is only available until 31st.  Click HERE to see how you can get this wonderful set for a discount or for FREE!