Festive Friday Bog Hop

Welcome to the Festive Friday Blog Hop!  If you have come here from Jamie's Blog you are on the right track!  

For today's card, I used our gorgeous Frosted paper pack with our Quick Cards - Bright all Night hostess rewards stamp.  

I used our Juniper pigment ink and then clear embossed for the center piece.  Once I had an emboss resist surface, I added Olive ink to the trees using a dye ink pad and a waterbrush.  I love the softly muted watercolor look it gives the trees.

This is one of my new favorite ribbon treatments!  I cut a small piece of our Slate polka dot ribbon and scrunched it in the center adding a loop of our Silver Glitter tape to hold it in a bow shape.  Sparkly and fun!

Thanks for stopping by for our Festive Friday hop!  Now head on over to Mary Ellen's Blog and see what she has created to give you holiday inspiration!

Stay crafty my friends,

Paige

If you'd like to make this project, click on the links below to purchase these supplies:

Frosted Paper Pack

Quick Cards - Bright all Night (Hostess Rewards stamp - view it in the Idea Book)

Whimsy Pigment Ink

Clear Embossing Powder

Olive Ink Pad

Blender Pen

Slate Polka Dot Ribbon

Silver Shimmer Trim

Penguin and Artbooking Card for Festive Friday Blog Hop

Welcome to our Festive Friday Blog Hop!  If you came here from Jamie's Blog you are on the right track!

This hop is devoted to sharing holiday themed Close to my Heart cards and projects with you for the next 6 months.  Any holiday is game for this hop so you can see everything from New Year's to Christmas and everything in between featured on this circular hop!  If you keep hopping through eventually you'll wind up back here but if there is a broken link or you get lost along the way, just come back here for the full listing at the bottom of this post.

My first month' entry features one of the adorable penguins from the new C1560 Wintry Wishes Hostess Rewards sets.  I loved the Artbooking overlay used on the catalog sample so I lifted that element and paired it up with our Frosted paper pack.  His sweet little scarf and hat are paper pieced.

This shot is all about the wonderful texture these overlays add to your artwork.  His skates shine with a bit of metallic silver marker!

Click on the links below to purchase the products used in this project:

Frosted Paper Pack

Wintery Wishes Stamp Set (Hostess Rewards only so set up an online party with me to get this!)

Artbooking Cricut Collection

Silver Metallic Marker

 Now hop on over to Mary Ellen's Blog to see what she's created! 

Thanks for stopping by today my creative and crafty chicks!

Paige

Here is the blog hop list in case you need it!

1. Diane Tuggle
2.Rebecca Brown
3.Michelle Bowley  
4.Carol Loftus
5.Linda Pekrul
6.Jamie Barney
7.Paige Dolecki
8.Mary Ellen Driggs
9.April Grigson
10.Theresa Miller
11.Brenda Lapp
12.Ashley Denny
13.Mary Schwimer(Ida's Attic) 

ARTBOOKING Snowman card with Frosted

Welcome to the Close to My Heart new product blog hop! The new Fall/Winter 2013 Idea Book and Catalog is finally released on our sites for you to shop and view!  My favorite part of the product extravaganza we get twice a year is creating artwork to share with you.  This time around I got to play with our ground breaking Artbooking cartridge - a product that will create double layouts and mini books with literally a touch of a button!

I'll be showcasing some of the mini books and layouts on my blog over the next few weeks.  What about all you cardmakers out there?  Are you limited to just Art Philosophy and Artiste?  NO WAY!  This cartridge works GREAT for making cards!  It has so many fun shapes, titles, overlays, frames and script font that cardmakers are going to LOVE using this one too!  All you need to do is touch the "Real Size" button and all the images can be cut at any size you need!

This adorable snowman and the title phrase are from the Artbooking cartridge sized down to fit on a standard size card!

I backed the title block with some of our silver glitter paper and added a few Licorice Opaques (our awesome self-adhesive pearls) to give this guy dimension and texture.  I adore how he came out and paired him up with the soft vintage-vibe Frosted paper!

To head directly to my shopping area and pick up some of the awesome products showcased CLICK HERE!


For more inspiration and ideas, visit my fellow CTMH consultants participating in this New Product Blog Hop! Just click any of the photos below to continue.

This blog hop is open for members of the CTMH Blog Boosters. Please do not enter if you are not a member of the group. If you are a consultant and would like to join our group for the next blog hop, please visit us on facebook.

Stay crafty my friends,

Paige

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