Shin Han Marker Blog Hop

Welcome to our Shin Han Marker Blog Hop! We will be featuring projects using the new Shin Han Markers from the 2014-2015 CTMH Annual Inspirations idea book. If you have come here from Lela Norris' 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 HERE.
We have over 42 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using these markers with CTMH 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! 

Supplies used:

Fabulous You stamp set, Snowhaven papers

Cardstock & Ink: Pacifica, Glacier, Black, Flaxen

Shin Han: Carmine, Cerulean Blue Light, Sap Green

Baker's Twine, Clear Sparkles

Purchase all these supplies HERE 

I only purchased three Shin Han Marker colors, so I could try them out before taking the plunge and buying more.  I love them and they are wonderful to work with!  So yes, I will be investing in more colors, but for now I just have the three.  I'd decided to buy colors that I could use to make Christmas cards, so I got a red, green and blue.  But for this project I wanted to make something that wasn't a holiday card.  So...I designed my card using the Fabulous You Stamp set.
I'm not much of a coloring type of person, but I want to learn!  And I think with this type of art, the best thing is to learn by doing, the more you do, the better you get.  I need more practice, but this is what I was able to do this go-round.
I started off by using the painter's tape technique to establish a background with Flaxen and Glacier ink on Glacier card stock.  Then I stamped in black and colored. 
When I went to assemble my card, I wound up using Snowhaven papers.  Even though this collection is 'snow themed', I think the colors went well with my stamped piece.  Then I finished it off with baker's twine and some bling.
Now "Hop" on over to Carol-Anne Grenier's Blog to see her work. Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! 
Thanks for stopping by!

October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! We will be featuring October's SOTM, which is Home For the Holidays, a set of 7 stamps. If you have come here from April Nourse'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: HERE.

This month we have 73 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH 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!

Supplies Used:

Yuletide Carol papers

Ink & Cardstock:  New England Ivy, Ruby

Cricut Art Philosophy

Baker's Twine Neutrals

For my card, I just had to use the cute polar bear image!  I cut the shape using the Art Philosophy cartridge, and stamped.  Then I stamped again and paper-pieced the rectangle and scarf over my ruby-stamped image.  I Cricut cut another stamp shape using the green patterned paper from Yuletide Carol.  Lots of layering of cardstock and patterned papers= no need for lots of embellishments.

Here is what the whole set looks like:

Now "Hop" on over to Melissa Robinson's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the October SOTM is only available until October 31st! 

Get this stamp set HERE or go to my online store at
www.ctmh.com/dmhaight

Thanks for stopping by!

Dawn

Artfully Sent - now available!

YES!  The wait is over - you can now get your very own Artfully Sent Cricut collection!

Order yours  HERE or go to:  www.ctmh.com/dmhaight, click on <Shop> and go to the Cricut Collections tab on the left side of the page.

I can't wait to get mine and start playing!  You can see images from this cartridge by going to Products, Cricut Collections and then halfway down the page you can click on a link to bring up a pdf of images and another pdf of cards you can create.  Click here to get to that page

Order yours today!

Start Shopping!

www.ctmh.com/dmhaight
Thanks for stopping by,
Dawn

#30 Years of Happy Blog Hop

Welcome to our National Stamping Month #30 Years of Happy blog hop! We will be featuring '30 Years of Happy', which is a set of stamps you can receive for FREE when you make a qualifying purchase of $30 in stamps during the month of September. If you have come here from Melissa Robinson'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 HERE.
This month we have 40 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this stamp set and other great CTMH 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've created two cards using the same design from Originals called "Triple the Fun":

 I chose the flower stamp and first random stamped it in second-generation Glacier on each Colonial White square.  Then I inked it up using Glacier and then rock & rolled it in Lagoon and stamped it in the center of the square.  Here is a closer look (the camera didn't really pick up the random stamping, but it gives a nice subtle effect in real life):

Supplies used:

Pathfinding Papers

Cardstock & Ink:  Colonial White, Goldrush, Glacier, Chocolate, Lagoon

Bronze shimmer trim

Green & Blue epoxy bubbles

And here is the other card using the same pattern with Seaside papers and colors.  This time I chose the camera and 'it's your day' stamps to place in the squares.

  And a closer look:

 Supplies used:

Seaside Papers

Cardstock & Ink:  Sorbet, Kraft, Glacier, Desert Sand

Clear sparkles

Scallop edge punch

Here is what the whole set looks like:

Now "Hop" on over to Katy Taylor's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, this stamp set is only available until September 30th! Find this and other great CTMH products HERE.

Thanks for stopping by!

Dawn

Tour My Craft Room Part 2

What's behind the doors?  Here is the second part of my craft room tour.  If you missed part one, see it here.  Again, the arrangement of supplies is an ever-changing thing - I may have rearranged again since taking these photos last month!  :-) 

So I just went thru and opened the cabinet doors before taking a snap shot.  This one is closest to my work space and I can reach cardstock from where I'm working.  Since the cabinets are super-deep, I'm able to fit one of the paper organizers (purchased from Michaels) inside the cabinet. I placed it on its side so that it can hold multiple colors - I tried it horizontally but it was too difficult to slide colors from the bottom of the stacks.  I keep the sections pretty tightly packed so I don't have to worry about the papers becoming bent in a weird way. The middle shelf  holds three paper organizers with bulk packs of black, white daisy and colonial white.

 Another set of Michael's paper organizers with oversized E stamp sets, and book-making supplies, along with specialty card stocks.  The middle has all of my embossing plates and cuttlebug.  On the right, I have a set of plastic paper organizers, I think I got them from Scrapbook.com.  I keep non-CTMH cardstock there, mostly Bazill.  You'll also see a few Iris cases, and my Xyron stuff. 

 This cabinet was squeezed in under an area where a heat vent or something had to be dry-walled around, so the ceiling drops here.  It's a shorter cabinet, but I've made maximum use of the space.  I keep a CTMH medium sized organizer here packed with embellishments - mini medley packs, bling, etc.  The center shelf holds a small CTMH organizer with the 3x3 boxes to hold more embellies.  And a couple iris cases containing ribbon and other small bits.

This cabinet is close to my Cricut counter, so it holds organizers with cartridges and cutting mats.   The iris case organizer is currently mostly empty, I've cleaned it out so I can add new embellishments from the new catalog when I get them.  One of the boxes holds flat embellishments like dimensionals and stickers.  And a couple of Iris cases on the top shelf.  (The top shelves of all the cabinets hold stuff I don't often use since they are hard to reach)

And the corner cabinet holding ribbon that won't fit on the wall organizers, and my old CTMH organizers with brads and eyelets.  My Gypsy is plugged in on the second shelf.  I also store my Crop-o-dile and other tools there.  The top shelf is mostly empty Cricut boxes since I don't want to throw them away.  I can't really reach that shelf so it's a good home for stuff I don't need access to often.

  Curious puppy!

 

This is the bank of drawers: card blanks, adhesives, non-ctmh doo-dads like eyelets and brads, and my card stock scraps drawer.

 My junk drawer.  And it's where I keep my stamping blocks - this is right next to my work space.

And this is the other large drawer, I keep more envelopes and flat embellies like rub-ons and letters in here.

The other cabinets hold large tools and my bag of punches, more paper organizers and so on.

Hope you've enjoyed a peek into my craft room!  I like looking at how other crafty people organize their stuff so I can get ideas, so I hope I've inspired a few of you out there. 

Thanks for stopping by!
Dawn

30 Years of Happy Sept Campaign

CTMH is having an awesome campaign for the month of September:  Make a qualifying purchase of $30 in stamps and get this super-cute stamp set for FREE!

Click HERE to shop my online store  or go to www.ctmh.com/dmhaight

Stay tuned for an upcoming blog hop featuring projects made with these stamps.

Thanks for stopping by!
Dawn

September Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Family is Forever

Welcome to our Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! We will be featuring September's SOTM, which is Family is Forever, a set of 7 stamps. If you have come here from Stefani Ewing'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 HERE.
 
This month we have 80, yes, 80! Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH 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've had this project in mind for quite some time.  When I was working on the Haight Ancestry books ( see my post about that here ) I made plans to place my husband's grandfather's pocket watch in a shadow box.  This month's Stamp of the Month was perfect for this project.

I created a background cardstock by random stamping the sentiment 'family is forever' with tone-on-tone in whisper. 
 

 Then I stamped the tree in slate on the b & t papers and placed the Artiste cutout of 'Family' over it.  I tried to keep everything clean and simple because I knew I had a lot of items I wanted to include.

Along with the pocket watch, my mother in law gave me some buttons from grandpa's army uniform, and I wanted to somehow include the shoelace that grandma used to wear the pocket watch as a necklace.  I did a simple chain stitch to make it smaller and to make it easier to place on the page.

Here is what it looks like in the shadowbox:

(Sorry about the glare - glass is really hard to photograph!)

Supplies used: 

 Avonlea papers (retired, but you can find this pattern used in the Picture My Life program)

Cardstock & Ink:  Whisper, Slate Chocolate

Slate ribbon (retired)

Now "Hop" on over to Nikka Geers' Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas. Remember, the September SOTM is only available until September 30th! 
Find this and other great CTMH products HERE or go to:  www.ctmh.com/dmhaight

Thanks for stopping by! 
Dawn

Pathfinding Cards

Hello everyone!  It's been awhile.  We've been busy - hubby took me on a little trip to see Mt. Rushmore.  Neither of us had ever been, and it's really not that far from Colorado.

It was nice to get away for a few days and explore someplace new.

Now back to "work":  Here are a few cards I made using the Pathfinding Workshop on the Go cardmaking kit.  Have I mentioned how much I love these kits?  Everything you need (except ink, blocks & adhesive) to make 15 cards is included in the kit.

Here are mine:

 I like to decorate the insides of my cards & the envelopes as well:

And I had leftovers to make a card holder too:

I like to have lots of 'Thank You' cards handy, and this kit has added to my stash.   The sentiment could also easily be changed to make birthday cards.

Purchase the Pathfinding Cardmaking kit HERE, or go to my online store at www.ctmh.com/dmhaight.

Thanks for stopping by!
Dawn

"Like" HaightMark Scrapbooking

I've set up a page on Facebook, and it would be great if you would 'Like' my page!

Find me here:www.facebook.com/scrabookingathaightmark

You'll be able to keep up with the latest happenings with Close to My Heart - it will be right there in your feed.

I'll be posting more artwork & a second part to my craft room tour soon.
Thanks for stopping by!
Dawn

Isn't it Wanderful?

I have more new products to show you today.  Next up is the Wanderful Workshop on the Go.  Purchase it Here

These kits are fantastic because they come with all the supplies you'll need to make two double-page spreads with lots of leftover supplies.  This kit comes with the Wanderful complements and a full roll of Washi tape (15 yards!), along with a D-size stamp set ($17.95 value) exclusive to the workshop and Wanderful papers and card stock.

This layout was created using cuts from Cricut Artbooking, but the included guide has directions for creating another version of this layout without using the Cricut.  So don't worry - you can still make this workshop if you don't own a Cricut!


And like all Workshops on the Go, the second additional layout instructions can be found on my website.  Instructions for the Wanderful workshop additional layout can be found here:  Additional Layout: Wanderful
Here are some closer views of the embellishment clusters:

 (in case you're wondering, yes, I did not adhere the 'you' to the page - it needs to be attached to the photo placed in that section so I left it on the carrier sheet temporarily)

Super - fun!  I know I'll be able to use this stamp set on lots of other travel scrapbook pages.  Workshops on the Go, or WOTG for short, are awesome for a quick 'to go' project to take to crops since all your supplies are already together.  Just add ink & blocks!

Check out my online store for all of the great workshops that CTMH offers.  And keep checking this blog for more great projects made with new stuff!
Thanks for stopping by!

New Product Blog Hop

 Welcome to our New Product Blog Hop! We will be featuring projects using new products from the 2014-2015 CTMH Annual Inspirations idea book. If you have come here from Michele Rowley'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 HERE.
We have over 50 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using new CTMH 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'm calling my project "Snowhaven Meets Yuletide Carol".

First, I made the Snowhaven Cardmaking Workshop on the Go:

THEN, I changed it up using the Yuletide Carol papers & colors:

Here is a closer look at each card:

Supplies Used:  Snowhaven Cardmaking Workshop,

Ink & Cardstock: New England Ivy, Ruby

New Gold Shimmer Trim

Sparkles Black & Gray

Yep, as many of you know, I get started on my Christmas cards in August.  I am blessed to have a HUGE group of friends and family to send cards to every year, so I make about 125 or so.  This means Christmas starts very early for me! 

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

Find these and more new products at my Online Store HERE.
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Want to see more projects using the Snowhaven Cardmaking Workshop?  Continue on...

 This is a card holder I made by folding a 12 x 12 piece of b & t.  I left the zip strip on and folded it down to show on the inside of the folder. 

 I kept it simple by using a couple of black eyelets (retired) and ribbon (also, sadly, retired), and made pockets using super-strong Scor-Tape.

 And this card holder was made using the Cricut Artiste cartridge.  Simple Ruby, Black, and new Glacier cardstock was used and decorated with stamps from the workshop.
Here is a closer look at photos of each card from that workshop:

My favorite is the stamp with the line of Christmas trees.  I think this stamp set will get a good workout this year - so many options for creativity.  I love it when a workshop goes further than the project it was designed for.



Thanks for stopping by!