CTMH Stamp of the Month Blog Hop for May

Welcome to the CTMH Stamp of the Month Blog Hop for May.   This month we are featuring the stamp set "Pinwheel"!   

Hope you'll join us this month - we have CTMH consultants from across the US and Canada who have created some great projects for you featuring this month's stamp set.    The variety of ideas are sure to leave you feeling creatively inspired!

If you've come here from Allisa's Blog, then you are on the right path.  If my blog is your first stop, that will work too! Just keep hopping until you get back here again!   You'll find a link at the end of each post to move to the next site.  Enjoy :-)

For this month's hop I have created a set of cards.   I think this month's stamp set is so versatile and I wanted to create some cards that could be used for males or females on a variety of occasions.

Here is what I came up with:

Card Sketch from: Less is More #117

 Card sketch from: Freshly Made Sketches #83

Card Sketch from: Sketchbook Saturday #95

Materials Used:
CTMH May 2013 Stamp of the Month - Pinwheel
CTMH Paper Collection: "Tommy"
CTMH Brads - Cranberry, Honey & Outdoor Denim
CTMH Harvest Bakers Twine
CTMH Ink: Cranberry, Honey, Outdoor Denim
Pinwheels cut with CTMH Artiste Cricut Cartridge
Cardstock: CTMH White Daisy, Outdoor Denim
Foam Tape

The May stamp of the month is available from your consultant (or from me) from May 1st to 31st.   Buy it for just $17.95 or get it for just $5 with your purchase of $50 or more during the month of May.

To see more great artwork using this stamp set - - keep hoppin!   The next blog in the line up is MICHELLE JONES.

You Rock card with CTMH Dakota & La Belle Vie

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Never would have thought to combine the new Dakota and La Belle Vie paper packs, but on this card we made at the recent CTMH Convention - it totally works!  

Materials Used:
Doilies cut with CTMH Cricut Artiste cartridge
Dakota paper pack (wood grain paper)
La Belle Vie paper pack (pink pattern paper)
Flirty Raspberry cardstock - available in the Flirty Paper Pack
Colonial White cardstock
Pun Fun acrylic stamp set
Approved acrylic stamp set
Slate dye-based ink
Harvest Bakers Twine
Slate Mini Medley accent pack
Colonial White bulk card base & envelope
Foam Tape, Glue Dots

Celebrate with CTMH Elemental

Hey everyone - hope you are having a great summer.  I'm back from CTMH Convention in Dallas, followed by a week of holidays with the family . . . trying to get back into the swing of things & back creating again.  I have so many new goodies in my craft room - can't wait to start playing!  

I'm still working on the big memory keeping project for my grandparents' 60th anniversary as well (I originally blogged about that HERE).   The anniversary is now less than 2 weeks away - so I'm getting down to the wire.  I've created over 70 two-page layouts in Studio J for an album I'll be presenting to my grandparents as a gift.  Will be sharing some of those here on the blog in the coming weeks - so watch for that!  I can't say enough good things about Studio J and how great it is for scrapbooking a big project like this!   I never would have been able to compile so many pictures & memories in such a short time if I were doing a traditional album.  Another great thing is that I can order copies of the pages from CTMH for any family members who wish to have this great collection of family memories in their own homes.   Now that the album pages have been ordered, I'm working on the slide show for the reception which I'm co-MC'ing with my cousin Wendy.   I so hope that my grandparents enjoy this walk down memory lane . . .

Thought it was probably about time I shared some new artwork with you.  This past weekend we had a birthday party for my Dad - here is the card I created for him.

I find that simple is always better when creating masculine cards & layouts.  This card was inspired by a card I saw HERE created by Dena Hughes, a fellow CTMH consultant.

My card is 5x7 size.  The corrugated stars are part of the CTMH Milepost Shapes collection of corrugated kraft embellishments.  The blue star and bracket sentiment block were cut the with CTMH Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.  The sentiment stamp set is one of the great sets that comes included in the Art Philosophy Cricut collection. The paper is the soon to be retired Elemental pack (available until July 31st).   Ink: Pacifica & Cranberry.  Cardstock: Kraft, Colonial White, Pacifica.  Sparkle: Red/Pink/Purple Collection.

Have a great rest of the day :-)

CTMH Back Country Level 1 Cards

Close to My Heart's Level 1 Scrapbooking Kits are obviously a great tool for your scrapbooking pages - QUICK, EASY and BEAUTIFUL pages every time! But have you tried using your Level 1 preprinted layouts for something other than a scrapbook page? Some amazingly talented CTMH consultants have done some amazing things with Level 1 kits - check out Lisa's Creative Corner for some great ideas!

Another consultant who has also done some amazing work with Level 1 kits is Lori Miller. I absolutely loved a set of 16 cards Lori did a while back using the Level 1 Backcountry kit - and I just had to recreate it for myself!

I changed up a few stamps and sentiments - but the card designs, etc. are almost exactly as Lori did them. Thanks Lori!!

I love how these turned out - - I'm always in need of more masculine cards and these are just perfect!! And by using a Level 1 kit - you save time and paper - but still get fantastic results!

Give it a try - - challenge yourself to see what you can do with a Level 1 Kit - - and if you do, be sure to post a link here to your creations - I'd love to see them!!