Cricut Cartridges Featured Product Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to our CTMH Featured Products Blog Hop. This week our featured product is Cricut Cartridges.

If you have just joined us you can start here and continue on, as this is a circular hop or if you get lost along the way you can find the complete list at the end of this post.   If you came here from Corinna's Crafts you are in the right place. Now on to my project:

I created a set of three floral cards featuring the beautiful Swan Lake Papers and some of the flowers from the new Flower Market Cricut Cartridge. I also used sentiments from one of the matching stamp sets that comes exclusively with this Cricut cartridge, and is full of wonderful sayings!



For the first card, I matted the Swan Lake paper in Glacier cardstock and added three of the flowers using Sorbet and Canary cardstock. I love this flower as the cartridge automatically cuts multipple layers at the correct sizes so there is no guesswork involved!



The second card features the same flower in Peacock and Glacier colours, with a sweet pennant and a white embossed background using rhe Chevron embossing folder. I stamped the sentiment before embossing the cardstock.



For the third card, I chose to use the sunflower image with a stem, and added some Aqua shimmer trim. Sunflowers are so cheery that I thought the sentiment fitted perfectly with this card.



Thank you for checking out my project. If you would like to purchase our featured product of the week or any additional supplies you can buy them here. If you enjoyed my project please comment below as we love feedback! Next on our blog hop is Janna from Reflection Of Me. Make sure to check out her amazing work featuring this same product.

See you in another fortnight as we will be featuring Gift Tags! Have a great day!

Complete list of blogs participating: 

1. Lauren Moore

2. Janna Gray

3. Annette Clark

4. Corinna Murphy

W is for Westlake

Welcome to the Everything ABC's Blog Hop!

For this hop we will be featuring the letter W. This may be the name of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment. Whatever the crafter has chosen as their W element will be featured in their post.

If you came from Catherine then you're on the right track!

For my W, I decided to do a layout of Westlake, our local park that currently has some beautiful swans residing in the lake.

Unfortunately, every time we go there I have forgotten to take photos recently, but I have the layout ready to go for when we next head there with the camera!

I had to use the Swan Lake paper, which also had some fabulous PML cards that I used for the journal boxes and decoration. The Westlake title (cut from the Cricut) background even has teeny swans on it!



Your next stop on our Everything ABC'S blog Hop is Darlys of Crafty Happy.

In case you get lost along the way…go to Catherine Nowak for a complete list of participants!

U is for Us

Welcome to the Everything ABC's Blog Hop!

For this hop we will be featuring the letter U. This may be the name of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment. Whatever the crafter has chosen as their U element will be featured in their post.

If you came from Catherine then you're on the right track!

I created a layout using the word 'US' from the All Together Complements, paired with the Rustic Home Fundamentals Paper Packet and the Swan Lake Paper Packet.



I added some extra embellishments from the All Together Complements, and cut the hearts from the Swan Lake paper using the Hearts Thin Cuts.



Your next stop on our Everything ABC'S blog Hop is Darlys!

In case you get lost along the way…go to Catherine Nowak for a complete list of participants!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #180

I am in love with the With You stamp set, and I knew it would pair perfectly with this week's sketch at Atlantic Hearts.

I paired this stamp set with the Swan Lake Paper Packet and the coordinating Black Shimmer Ribbon. The background was created using a non-CTMH embossing folder.



The flower was cut from the Flower Market Cricut cartridge and stamped in Poppy Ink. I added a Black Gem to the centre of the flower to tie it all together. The sentiment was stamped in Black ink and is from a retired Stamp of the Month, Candlelight Garden.

The finished card is very elegant in my opinion, and I love the colour combination of Black, Poppy and White! What do you think?

Holiday Expressions New Product Blog Hop

Welcome to our Holiday Expressions New Product Blog Hop!

If you have come here from Gina's Blog, you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.  If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog. 

This month we have over 25 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's newly released products on their blogs. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

I wanted to create a layout for a special family photo- and as soon as I saw the 'blessed' stickers in the Swan Lake Complements I knew that I wanted to use it as my title.

This layout uses the Complements as well as the new Swan Lake Paper Packet for all the patterned papers and the journal box.

The Swan Lake Complements have the most amazing gold foil detail! I also love the colour combination of Black, Poppy and Glacier.

I used the Flower Market Cartridge to cut some flowers, which were then stamped with the new coordinating With You stamp set. These particular flowers used a Honey Background and were then stamped with Sunset ink over top. The sentiment under Blessed is also from this stamp set, which I stamped in Peacock ink.

The banner was made using pieces of the paper packet. I cut more flowers from the cartridge to match the stamp set and used 1st and 2nd generation stamping in Poppy and Peacock to create the base and shade image. I strung the flowers together with White Twine and used Blue Glitter Dots in the centre of the blue flowers.

I can't wait to put the photo of my in laws surrounded by their grandchildren on here!

Now "Hop" on over to Michelle's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas! 

A simple Hello

I have playing with the scraps from my Swan Lake Paper Packet, and thought that i could use some of the leftover PML cards as card bases.



I am playing along this week with Just Add Ink- Just Add P. I used a Picture My Life card as the background of the card, which already had the word hello printed on it as well as some pretty leaves.

I am also joining in with this week's Color Throwdown colours, as the black and gold were already paired together in the beautiful shimmer ribbon and I added a blue flower from the With You stamp set.

This card came together very quickly from some scraps I had left on my craft table!