Floral Happiness

Welcome to our March Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! This month's stamp from Close to My Heart is "Floral Happiness" and is available exclusively through your Close to My Heart consultant from March 1 - 31, 2013. You can purchase this stamp set for only $5 with a qualifying purchase.

If you have just hopped onto my blog, please start at the beginning at Lucy's blog – Love 2 Create If you came from "Priscilla   " of " Priscilla's Paperie then you are in the right place!

For my base I used a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 white card base. To that I cut a 4 x 5 1/4 piece of buttercup card stock, a 3 3/4 x 5 piece of twilight, and a 3 1/2 x 4 3/4 patterned paper from the Chantilly paper pack. I   then stamped 4 of the small roses in cotton candy ink, and out lined the center of the flowers with a cotton candy marker from Close To My heart. The markers come as a duo, and I used the darker pen of the 2. I stamped the smaller leaves in Pear, and then the stems in Topiary. I added a wee bit of silver glitter glitz to the center of the roses. The bow is seam binding ribbon. The sentiment is heat embossed using midnight black opaque embossing powder (from my stash), and the sentiment is from Scrapbook statements-Poets.

Supplies:

March SOTM
Card base (Stash)
Chantilly paper pack
Pear ink
Topiary ink
Scrapbook Statements-Poets (C1539)
Seam binding ribbon
Cotton Candy Markers
Midnight Black opaque embossing powder (stash)
Silver glitter glitz

All supplies Close To My Heart unless otherwise noted.




Your next stop on our "Floral Happiness" hop is " Traci"  of  Paper Crafting 101 


Lucy ~ Love 2 Create
Darla ~ Caution: Crafting is Contagious
Amber ~ Scrapper's Therapy
Jennifer ~ 4 Hearts Scrapbooking
Priscilla ~ Priscilla's Paperie Link <-----------You came from here
Theo ~ Celebrate Crafts  <-----------You are here now
Traci ~ Paper Crafting 101  -------------Go here next
Jane ~ Jane's Scrap Shack
Michelle ~ My Creations with Michelle
Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you.

Happy Valentine's Day

Welcome to our January Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! We are starting a new year of blog hops for you all featuring Close to My Heart's Stamp of the Month.

This month Close to My Heart is offering a stamp set called "Happy Valentine's" throughout the month of January. This versatile set can be purchased exclusively through a Close to My Heart Independent Consultant for only $5 with a qualifying purchase of $50. (That’s a $17.95 value!)

This set is just so pretty and has 4 different sentiments included!






In this hop, you will see projects featuring this beautiful stamp set from many talented crafty ladies! Enjoy our blog hop!

If you have just hopped onto my blog, please start at the beginning at Lucy's blog – Love 2 Create

If you came from Priscilla ~ Priscilla's Paperie then you are in the right place!

For my project, I wanted to do something a little different with this stamp set than say, a card or a layout. I remembered some of my crafty friends had made boxes and put candy in them, and I thought perfect! I decided on the largest flower in the set to be my main image, and after that all I needed to do was decide on the box size. This box was cut from the Artiste cricut cartridge, page 49. To make the base, use 3D object and the letter o, and to make the lid, use shift 3D object and the letter O. The box is cut at 5 3/4 for both pieces.

I stamped the flower stamp in my white daisy pigment ink. I stamped the Happy Valentine's day using smokey plum pigment ink, which can be found in the mini pigments pads set, enchantment. I then decided that my box could use a little bling, so I got out my sparkles flourishes. The sparkles were a little too big, so I cut them to the size I needed. I used seam binding ribbon for my bow.

This box is large enough to hold 20 of the candies you see. I was not sure what size to cut it at, so I messaged my friend Bonnie Donaghy to see how big she made her boxes at Christmas. She cut hers at 4 inches and 8 candies will fit in the box. This box would also be great for notes, cards, or other small gifts.















Supplies:
Black card stock  1386

Artiste cricut cartridge Z1790

Janurary stamp of the month S1301

White daisy pigment ink Z2163

Mini pigment pad set~enchantment Z2502

Sparkles flourishes Z1708

Color-ready seam binding ribbon Z1732


Your next stop on our Valentine's hop is Stephanie ~ The Quilted Scrapper

Here is the complete lineup in case you get lost along the way:

Lucy ~ Love 2 Create
Darla ~ Caution: Stamping is Contagious 
Jennifer ~ 4 Hearts Scrapbooking
Priscilla ~ Priscilla's Paperie
Theodora ~ Celebrate Crafts <----------- You are here
Stephanie ~ The Quilted Scrapper<---------------- Go here next
Cat ~ CatScrapbooking
Donna ~ Diary of a Scrapbook Addict
Michelle ~ My Creations with Michelle


Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you.