Holiday Expressions Blog Hop

Welcome to the Holiday Expressions Blog Hop! If you've come here from Wendy's Blog you are on the right track!  This hop is one big circle but if you get lost along the way you can find the complete listing of all participating CTMH bloggers HERE.

Since Heart2Heart Challenges has a great sketch this week I decided to use it again to make my project for today. I recently saw a Frankenstein card that had this sentiment stamped on it (click here to see the original by Audrey Pettit) and I knew as soon as I saw it that I had to create it with my CTMH Artistry font and my Little Monsters stamp set.

Our Holiday Expressions Idea Book will be live only until December 31st so don't delay in picking up your favorite seasonal stamps and papers!  You can shop my store here:

www.Paige.CTMH.com 

Products used:

Nevermore Paper Pack

Little Monsters Stamp Set

Shinhan Touchtwin Markers

Artistry and Artfully Sent Cartridges

Honey Cardstock

Now hop on over to  Priscilla's Blog and see what she has created for us!

Heart 2 Heart Challenges - Doodling!

Today we have a doodle challenge at Heart2Heart Challenges and I have a confession to make.  I'm really, really not good at drawing.  Yup, it's true.  I stink at drawing pictures which is why I love to stamp because then I can look like an artist!  So I came up with a way to FAKE doodle - you heard that right - I'm going to teach you how to FAKE doodle!

If you have a Cricut Explore machine you know that we can draw on our projects with the pen accessory.  I decided I'd use that feature to help me fake it.  First I picked an image from our new Artistry cartridge that was simple and felt kind of hand drawn.  I changed the image from cut to drawn and attached it to a 4x5.25" square. I used our watercolor paper as I wanted to play some more with that medium. This is what it looked like when it came out of my machine.

I used my new Watercolors and applied color within the drawn lines.  Then I added some background color and when it was dry some Silver Metallic Marker doddled stars (yeah, I can draw stars) and a doodled frame.  I then went over the machine drawn lines with my journaling pen to really give it a hand drawn look!

I totally adore our new Silver Foil Tape - so shiny and fun to use on projects.  For the life of me I couldn't find my silver sequins so I wound up using some gold sequins and coloring them in with our black Shinhan marker - I rubbed most of the color off which gave them a nice gray patina.

I hope you enjoyed my "fake" doodle tutorial!  I really like the way this one turned out and best of all it is one flat piece to pop into the mail!  

Now hop on over to the Heart2Heart Challenges blog and join us in some doodling or "fake" doodling this week!

Want to get the products I've used?  Visit my shopping site at 

www.Paige.CTMH.com 

or click the links to these specific products:

Artistry Cartridge

Watercolor Paper

Watercolor Paints

Metallic Markers

Journaling Pen

Foil Tape

Sequins

Shinhan TouchTwin Marker