Tag Time

Simple Tags For Christmas

Cut tag from All Purpose Tags. Stamp To and From with a

Christmas icon and mount to a coordinating Christmas paper.

Inspired by Color My Heart Christmas Colors:

 Brown: Toffee with Red and Green

Share your browns and 2 colors at Color My Heart.

Oh, Deer

It's Tag Time

I'm still working  on my Christmas tags. 

I just think this deer is so cute for a special Christmas package.

After opening the gift it can also be used as a Christmas tree ornament.

Oh, deer, it's your turn to share your deer 

treasure with us at Heart 2 Heart.

Tic Tac Toe Time

At Color My Heart

I'm still working on my Christmas tags. My snowy 

wrapping paper will go perfect with these tags and

 the colors Carolina, Sapphire, and French Vanilla. 

Choose your tic tac tow colors and share at Color My Heart

 

Tag Time

At Christmas

I'm getting ready for my annual Christmas Tag Event.

The color challenge at Color My Heart looked like a good place to start.

My colors are Wisteria, Bluebird, and Sage. To lighten the

 boldness of Bluebird I used second generation stamping. 

This tag can be used on a gift or a Hello card.  

It's good to have options. 

Use these fun colors and share with us at Color My Heart.

Color Dare 284

With a Glacier & Pacifica

Mother's Day Card

Making border cards is a fun way to add character to your card.

This side border card made it easy to add the flowers from the

Four You Darling stamp set and Thin Cuts with the colors

at Color My Heart. 

Use these colors to make your own card to share with us at Color My Heart

Using Your Scraps

On Your Silver & Gold Tags

It's a silver & gold challenge at Heart 2 Heart and a Non Traditional color

challenge at Color My Heart.

Using the Cut Above Tag kit add some scraps to to the silver tag and make a tree.

Tear some white daisy to make snow and add gold snowflakes. Attach your tag

to a gift box covered with the B&T paper from Silver & Gold paper pack. Quick & Easy!

Share with us at H2H and Color My Heart to enter a drawing for a prize.

CTMH Supplies:
B&T Duos: Silver & Gold
Cardstock: White Daisy
Stamps: Holiday Tags
Ink: black
Embellishments: White & Gold Ribbon
Gold Glitter paper
Cut Above Tag Kit

Freshly Made Sketch 253

Oh Deer

A new paper pack from the Holiday Expressions features 

basic colors of browns, grays, and a touch of soft greens.

The outdoor rustic look with the pine cones from Perfectly Pine

stamp set and the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches make this 

a fun holiday card. 

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Oh Deer

Cardstock: White Daisy, Cocoa, Sea Glass

Stamps: Perfectly Pine. Short & Sweet

Ink: Desert Sand, Cocoa

Christmas Tags

Going Vintage This Year

Every year I make homemade decorations at Christmas. This started when my first born was crawling and wanted to eat the ornaments on the tree. All ornaments had to be safe if put in the mouth. I have continued making homemade Christmas decorations all through the 47 years of marriage.

This year I decided to go vintage with all my best vintage decorations. I wanted to make some vintage tags to adorn my Christmas packages. The color dare this week at Color My Heart worked perfectly into my plan. The vintage colors: Cocoa, Cashmere, Cranberry, and Fern.

First Set: Making vintage tags is easy as 1-2-3

1. Cut tag shape using cashmere CS and sand to get the worn look

2. Stamp a background with Cocoa ink or tone on tone Cashmere ink

3. Add your vintage embellishments (see suggested list below)

Second Set: Making vintage tags is easy as 1-2-3

1. Cut white Daisy tag and brayer with cashmere ink.

2. Stamp a background with Cocoa ink or tone on tone Cashmere ink.

3. Add your vintage embellishments (see suggested list below)

Suggested vintage embellishments:

Lace, twine, gingham ribbon, seam binding ribbon

Antique gold or brass hardware

Silk flowers, opaques, charms, brad accents, antique buttons

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: White Pines

Cardstock: White Daisy, Cashmere

Stamps: vintage sets through the years

Ink: Cocoa, Cashmere, Cranberry, Fern

Embellishments: Assorted vintage embellishments from my stash

Artbooking Meets the Party Colors

Artbooking Fun with Color My Heart 

Gypsy, Pacifica, Topiary, Honey, Sunset and Desert Sand

These colors at Color My Heart this week gave me the "party" colors to make 

some fun birthday cards and an Artbooking PML scrapbook page.

Using the overlay on page 64 cut at 3 inches made the

circles and stars just perfect to fill in with colorful paper

Fundamentals for this birthday card. This idea was inspired

by the sample artwork for future August SOTM 

 Using the Artbooking font these letters were cut using paper

 Fundamentals and then punched with circle punch for "happy" 

 Artbooking Made Easy,  looks at how to use the Picture My Life scrapbooking 

program to create a fun layout. Choose your photos, insert in the desired 

section of the page protector and design your PML sections using Artbooking.

Now It's your turn to share with us at Color My Heart.

CTMH Supplies:
B&T Duos: Seaside
Cardstock: White Daisy, Paper Fundamentals
Stamps: Holiday Tags, Snapshot Memories
Ink: Honey, Topiary. Sunset, Gypsy, Pacifica, Desert Sand
Embellishments:  Enamel Shapes, Blossom Assortment, Bakers Twine

Remember Those Library Cards?

At the Christmas Card Buffet

Remember the Library Card Stamp Set?

Fun to use as a background for the layered stars. Also,

try putting a hemp bow behind the stars for some 

interesting dimension to your card

CTMH Supplies:
B&T Duos: Yuletide Carol
Cardstock: Colonial white
Stamps: Library Cards, Holiday Tags
Ink: ruby, New England Ivy
Embellishments: Hemp

A "No Stamping" Challenge

At Heart 2 Heart

Most of the time when I make a Cricut project with no stamping it just look too naked. So for me a Cricut project was not going to work for this challenge. So I decided to use the My Crush Holiday Happenings Assortment cards. The assortment comes with 4 X 6 cards, 3 X 4 cards, 2 X 2 cards, stickers, alphabet stickers, and envelopes. Easy ingredients to make some fun tags for this Heart 2 Heart challenge.

A 3 X 4 card with a sticker tag at the top. The trees are triangle shapes cut from one of the 2 X 2 cards

Added some holly leaves and a My Crush Holiday Badge Button to make this Merry Happy Holiday tag.

A 3 X 4 card with a 2 X 2 card centered in the banner. Added a sticker tag with some more cut trees and some banners off to the side made using one of the stickers.

A 3 X 4 card with a 2 X 2 card with "joy and peace" make from alphabet stickers. Added a little lace, ribbon, sequins and holly leaves to complete this fun tag. 

With the assortment of cards in the My Crush Holiday Assortment the mixing and matching designs are endless. You can view more Holiday tags Here as well as Gift card holders.

Share your "No Stamping" project with us at Heart 2 Heart.

CTMH Supplies:

Tags: My Crush Holiday Assortment

Embellishments: Sequins, Sparkles, Glitter Gems, Epoxy Hearts, Bakers Twine, Holiday Badge Buttons

Other: Assorted lace and ribbon from stash

Color Dare #113

Art Philosophy Holiday Tag

with Cranberry Canary and Glacier

Art Philosophy has some cute cut out tags and cards that

are just right got the holidays. When I saw these color for this weeks

challenge at Color My Heart I was already working with the

Snowhaven paper pack that has the Cranberry and Glacier

colors. So... I just added some Canary yellow centers in the

poinsettia. So now you can show us your Cranberry,

Glacier, and Canary creation at Color My Heart.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Snowhaven

Cardstock: Glacier, Cranberry, Canary

Stamps: Holiday Tags

Ink: Slate

Embellishments: Silver Sequins, Bakers Twine, Sparkles

Trick or Treat Sweets

Pop Up Box Card

Those cute little faces of Halloween pop up out of the box for a 

fun surprise. The box card folds flat and can be delivered in a 

Happy Mail coordinating envelope. The Halloween colors for

this project are Sunset, Thistle, and Pear and Black. 

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Scaredy Cat, Brushed

Cardstock: White Daisy, Thistle, Sunset, Pear

Stamps: Trick or Treat Sweets, Holiday Tags

Ink: Black, Thistle, Pear, Sunset

Embellishments: Thistle Ribbon, Scaredy Cat Assortment

A Birthday Treat

With Confetti Wishes and a few Hershey Nuggets

Hershey nugget treat box:

Cover 6 nuggets with 1" X 3" scraps of Confetti Wishes

Insert nuggets into a crystal clear box ( I get mine from Clearbags.com) 

Design a belly band to wrap around the clear box.

Add some bling and you're ready to party.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Confetti Wishes

Cardstock: White Daisy, Thistle

Stamps: Holiday Tags, Perfect Fit Frames-2

Ink: Pacifica, Thistle

Embellishments: Gold Sequins, Purple Shimmer Trim

Other: Crystal Clear Box from Clearbags.com #FB92

For all Studly Fathers

A Happy Father's Day

The Heart 2 Heart Challenge this week is a call 

for studly masculine cards.

A Clean And Simple card for Dad.

Using the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch makes this card

easy and fun for Dad. Adding the Triangle Studs gives 

a little masculine touch to the card.

Now it's your turn to go "Studly" at Heart 2 Heart

or go Clean & Simple at CAS(E) this Sketch

or go both.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Timberline

Cardstock: White Daisy, Goldruch

Ink: Ponderosa Pine, Lagoon, Goldrush

Stamps: Washi Wonder, Holiday Tags

Embellishments: Triangle Studs

For the Guys

Timberline Rocks

Making cards for the guys is as easy as 1-2-3-4

1. Use the CTMH Timberline paper pack

2. Choose an outdoor stamp set or a masculine greeting

3. Add a wood or metal embellishment

4. Choose a simple pattern from Make It From Your Heart How To Book

Masculine greeting from Holiday Tags

Pattern #25 Make It From Your Heart Vol. II

You can also use "Happy Birthday" from Holiday Tags.

Use the Triangle studs for embellishments.

Stamp some trees first and second generation. Add some 

critters from"Pure Adventure" and a simple greeting.

Pattern #23 Make It From Your Heart Vol. II

Use some wooden trinkets for embellishments.

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Timberline

Cardstock: Colonial White, Ponderosa Pine, Lagoon

Ink: Chocolate, Goldrush, Lagoon, Ponderosa Pine

Stamps: Perfect Fit Frames-2, Holiday Tags, Pure Adventure, Frosted WOTG stamp set, This is Good

Embellishments: Triangle Studs, Trinkets

It's a Banner Day

At Heart 2 Heart

Banners are the challenge this week at Heart 2 Heart. 

This also goes along with the sketch at CAS(E) this sketch.

With so many birthdays coming up in our family I needed to make

birthday cards. This card is sorta generic with the blue, green, and

yellow colors along with the stars. I can dress it up with ribbon and

sparkles to make it a bit more for the girls.

This is a fun sketch at CAS(E) this sketch for birthday cards. 

So it's your turn to make a banner project and share at Heart 2 Heart. 

CTMH Supplies:

Cardstock: Olive, Indian Corn Blue, Buttercup, White Daisy

Ink: Olive, Indian Corn Blue

Stamps: Holiday Tags, Artbooking Collection "Sweet & Lovely"

Country Flair With Embossing Fun

CTMH New Embossing Folders

Get your ticket to the country fair with this Jubilee embossed card. 

It's country flair time at Heart 2 Heart so come play along with the flair.

Embossing with Jubilee paper pack. Emboss the top 2/3

of the card with the quatrefoil folder. Using the back side

attach a bow border and embellishments from the paper pack.

To make bow border cut two 1" bows and one 3/4" bow.

Cut the two 1" bows in half and place on each side of the card.

Place the 3/4"bow in the center and attach a bakers twine bow.

Embossing with Ariana paper pack. Emboss stripes 2/3 down 

from top. Add a Bow border made with Ariana papers and

embellish with some Ariana butterflies.

Embossing with Lollydoodle paper pack. Emboss the polka dots on 

the top 2/3 of the card. Punch 1/4" circles using the polka dot 

print paper. Using the glue pen randomly adhere the paper 

dots to the embossed dots. Make bow border.

Color it up with the chevron embossing folder. Emboss the top 2/3

of the card. Emboss three colors using scraps. Cut the colored chevron

stripes in single and double rows. Attach to the embossed area as desired.

Embossing with Balloon Ride paper pack. Emboss the top 2/3

of the card with the chevron embossing folder. Emboss some scraps

 of  Saddle, Sky, and Creme Brulee.Cut out the chevron stripes 

and attach to the card. Make the bow border and stamp a 

sentiment at the bottom. 

Embossed stripes with 2 colors. Cut each section as desired. Leave a 

gap between the 2 colors to add a sentiment and embellishments.

I missed the embossing folder blog hop but you can take the tour starting here. 

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Ariana, Lollydoodle, Balloon Ride, Jubilee

Cardstock: Ariana: Crystal Blue, Outdoor Denim

                  Lollydoodle: White Daisy, Cotton Candy, Sorbet, Pear

                  Balloon Ride: Colonial White, Saddle, Sky, Creme Brulee

                  Jubilee: Indian Corn Blue, Colonial White

                  Two Colors: Sky, Sweet Leaf

Ink: Outdoor Denim, Cotton Candy, Saddle, Cocoa, Sky, Topiary

Stamps: Big Hug, Holiday Tags, 

Embellishments: Lollydoodle assortment, Flamingo Dots, Balloon Ride Assortment, Wooden Mini Medley,

Enamel shapes

Free Download from CTMH

Quick Valentine cards

Get this free download from Close to my Heart 

To make these quick valentines cut each card out and inserted into the

My Creations Paper Pouches. The pouches are available at a discount on my website.

Attach a Valentine message on the front and fill the pouch with a Valentine candy treat.

CTMH Supplies:

Cards: Free Download

Pouches: Discounted on my website

Stamps: Holiday Tags

Ink: Black, Cotton Candy

Sneak Peek All Week

Valentine Treats With Ivy Lane

A tisket a tasket what's in your basket?

Hugs and Kisses

If you're not using your zip strips you don't want to miss this one 

that comes with the Ivy Lane paper pack. I used it on this basket handle 

and it is currently embellishing all my Ivy Lane cards. 

CTMH Supplies:

B&T Duos: Ivy Lane

Cardstock: Hollyhock, White Daisy, Smokey Plum

Stamps: Holiday Tags

Ink: Hollyhock, Smokey Plum

Embellishments: Ivy Lane Assortment