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