Monday, March 25, 2013

Fun with Close to my Heart

I had a lot of fun participating in the Spirelli Technique challenge at Crafting by Designs, and was so excited to learn that I was their February prize winner! Let me tell you, I've been eagerly awaiting my Close To My Heart goodie package from CTMH consultant Cindy Leek! And boy, I wasn't disappointed. I received lots of yummy paper of different weights, a book of sketch ideas, some adorable metal clips, and a set of clear stamps. Oh CTMH, you had me at "paper"!

Anyhoo, I was very excited to be able to participate in the challenges at Heart 2 Heart, as I've never had enough CTMH products to meet their requirement (I have some flocking and bottled ink). They are having a special month-long prize challenge going on, so I'm hoping to enter a few more of their March challenges if time allows [by the time I posted this, I had made all the cards for March!].

Speaking of Time... I had actually wanted to enter their "Spring Forward" challenge when it was posted back on March 4, but I couldn't figure a good way to use said flocking & inks. So imagine my joy when I received a Time-themed stamp set! Whoop! I inked up that bad boy and made a quick card using a sheet of CTMH's My Reflections DP.



All the stamps are from the CTMH set, except the sentiment which is from Stampendous. I stamped the watch frame in bright yellow and heat-embossed it with yellow, so it's really yellow! I inked the inside with a little SU! Barely Banana ink and stamped the sentiment in black. Everything on the blue band is heat-embossed in white; I colored the sentiment with a marker.



Inspiration/Challenges:
ColourQ #181: Color
Heart 2 Heart: Spring Forward + CTMH products (Time + paper & stamps)
Seize the Birthday #11: Feminine Birthday + Sketch (This isn't exactly girly, but I think it's pretty feminine)

Update: Whoop, I was the random Grand Prize Winner for the Heart 2 Heart March Madness challenge!

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5 comments:

  1. Hey CG - I love this! Great use of the colors!!! Thank you so much for playing with us at the colourQ!

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  2. what a lovely card! thanks for playing along at Seize the Birthday!

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  3. So pretty and I love those colors together! Great CTMH images and paper!
    Thanks for joining us at Seize the Birthday.
    Lynn

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  4. Love that pop of yellow..how fun. Thanks for joining us at Seize the Birthday.

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  5. So happy you now have enough CTMH products in your hands, so that you could play along with us this past month at Heart 2 Heart! I love how you combined the challenges and I really like the watch in yellow. I wouldn't have thought to do that, but it looks great!

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