CTMH Dotty for You and Beautiful Friendship Card

This was my first time inking up my Beautiful Friendship stamp set.  I love the intricate medallion from this set and am looking forward to playing around with the lovely sentiments as well as the butterfly image.  This card design is pretty funky - I found the layout on a card out at Pinterest and wanted to copy using the scalloped banner from the AP cart.

For the button I threaded some Baker's twine through the button and slipped the folded ribbon inside.  I tightened it up to make the bow tying a knot on the back of the button.  Its a fairly flat treatment for mailing as there is no knot on the ribbon and I like how clean it looks.

Follow these links to my online shopping area and purchase these materials:

Dotty for You Paper

Beautiful Friendship Stamp

Lagoon Ink

Color Ready Seam Binding

Neutral Baker's Twine

Green Assortment Buttons

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you have a fabulous weekend full for fun and sunshine!

Paige

Tiger Lily Card with CTMH Dotty for You

We're in the last week of the Dotty four You promotion.  If you haven't picked up a package of this fabulous paper yet, you only have a week left to get it (the promotion ends on May 31st).  I'm having so much fun playing with all the funky trendy patterned papers in this set!

The flowers have been rock and rolled in a mix of Sunset and Smoothie inks - the two tones are pretty similar so the shading is subtle.  I added a dash of Bronze Glitz to the stamens to give some pop.  This card puts me in the mood for SUMMER!

Click on the links below to visit my online shopping area and get your supplies:

Dotty for You Paper

Chocolate Cardstock

Dreams Come True Stamp Set (retired)

Smoothie Ink, Sunset Ink, Sweet Leaf Ink

Bronze Glitz Glitter Gel

Sweet Leaf Ribbon  (here is a different set of green ribbons)

Sweet Hedgehog card with CTMH Dotty for You

I've always loved this very sweet hedgehog from an old Stamp of the Month set called Happy Forever.  Isn't he just adorable flying through the air with his balloons?  

To make his balloons fly off the edge I simply stamped him in the center with his balloons mostly off the edge.  Then I stamped just the balloons in Lagoon and Sunny Yellow, trimmed, pop dotted and liquid glassed them to give some dimension.  I used our watercolor pencils and blending pen to color the hedgehog and sponged the blue sky on afterwards.  I kept this one flat and simple as I need some easy to mail cards without bulk.

Click the links below to visit my online shopping area and purchase these supplies:

Dotty for You Paper Special

Happy Forever Stamp (retired)

Watercolor Pencils

Blending Pen

Liquid Glass

Sky Ink

Thanks for stopping by today! 

Paige

Polka Dots and Stripes Challenge for Heart2Heart Challenges!

This week's challenge at Heart2Heart Challenges is a salute to trendy polka dots and stripes!  Get your spotty polka dotty fun on and create a project to share with us this week.  Want to step it up a design notch?  Add some stripes for flair and pizazz!

This week's challenge works perfectly with the new Close to my Heart special "Dotty for You" papers.  So perfectly our entire design team independently chose to work with these papers this week!  To get your set of 24 papers (2 each of 12 double sided patterns) for just $5 click this link to visit my online store! 

While you don't have to use this particular paper, you do need to use Close to my Heart products and mention the challenge site in your post.  Have fun playing this week and head on over to Heart2Heart Challenges blog to post your project using our Mr. Linky!

With the exception of the Milk Carton and the scallops on the roof, everything was cut with the AP cartridge - love that thing!  The roof was three layers of paper scalloped with our corner rounder.  I cut the Milk Carton with my new Bags, Tags, Boxes and More 2 cartridge so mine is slightly smaller (2.5" square at the base) than the CTMH ready to decorate Milk Carton which is 3" square at the base.

Enabler's List of Products to Purchase - click on the links to go directly to my online shopping area:

Paper:  Dotty for You (special - ends May 31 so hurry and get your 24 sheets for $5!), Kraft Cardstock

Other:  Color Ready Seam Binding, Bronze Glitz Glitter Gel, Corner Rounder (for roof scallops), Art Philosophy Cartridge

Thanks for stopping by today!

Paige

Mother's Day Card with Diagonal Banner and CTMH Dotty for You

It really pays to follow the original link to someone's blog from a Pinterest post!  The other day I followed the link from an adorable card so I could comment directly to the artist and found super directions for a short cut on making diagonal banner cards!  Click here to check our Laurie's original idea and post!

I had never made one of these before because in my head I was thinking it meant cutting a strip for the center and then matching the edges, getting the angles correct, etc. but instead she had the brilliant idea of simply using a square that matches the width of your card and cutting it on the diagonal for two pieces.  Totally brilliant, right?  Plus it lets you use smaller amounts of your gorgeous paper!  So here's what I made for Mother's Day using our fabby Dotty for You paper.

Hope this inspired you to try a diagonal card!  Now I need to make another copy of this one and get them in the mail this week!  I'm also entering this one in this week's Heart2Heart Challenge for flower cards!

If you'd like to make this project, get these supplies:

Paper:  Dotty for You ($5 with $35 purchase special), Kraft Cardstock

Stamp:  Old World Alphabet

Ink:  Lagoon

Other:  Pearl Opaques, Sweet Leaf Stitched Grosgrain, Liquid Glass, Stardust Glitz (in centers of flowers)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Paige

Friendship makes life colorful with CTMH Dotty for You

My "Dotty for You" paper pack special showed up at my house last week.  When I wiped all the drool off my chin I began cutting into this gorgeous bright and fun paper pack - 24 sheets (2 each of 12 double sided patters) for just $5 with a $35 purchase from the Idea Book.  Score!  Let's just say I didn't get just one pack.  Here is the link to my website if you'd like to get in on the action and grab a set or two for yourself - this special is good through the end of May!  I have an open party at the bottom right corner of the first screen that anyone can join.

I'm a color obsessed kind of girl so I love all colors but these cheery trendy prints just have me swooning and mooning over all the fun projects I can make with this paper.  This is the first one from my creative session.  Love this paper with this sentiment!  Once again I colored my sparkles with Sharpies.

If you'd like to make this project, get these supplies:

Paper:  Dotty for You, White Daisy

Ink:  Lagoon

Stamp:  Buttoned Together (retired)

Other:  Sparkles, Paradise Baker's Twine

Hope this put a smile on your face today!

Paige