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NSM Slimline Celebration Blog Hop

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  Welcome to this SPECIAL blog hop that features products from our Slimline Celebration!   This will be a quick hop featuring 9 blogs!  If you arrived here from  Wendy Kessler's blog you are on the right track!  To keep going, look for the link to the next blog at the bottom of my post!   If you get lost along the way you can see the entire list of participants   HERE .  I've seen many SLIMLINE cards and have created several myself but I also wanted to share that the Star and Circle Clusters Thin Cuts do NOT have to be limited to Slimline card use!  In this hop, I'm sharing a fun A4 standard size card using the Circle Cluster Thin Cuts and the Fishy Greetings Stamp Plus Thin Cuts set!  I used several of our Distressed Oxide inks for this card, first using the Tattered Rose Distress Oxide on as my base color for my Thank You Stencil.  I used Chipped Sapphire, Mermaid Lagoon, and Mowed Lawn on the Stencil.   The circle clusters were cut on the light side of Lagoon cardstock.

September/October Catalog New Product Blog Hop

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Welcome to our September October Catalog New Product Blog Hop!  In this hop, we will be featuring some of our newest products in our September October catalog.  If you arrived here from Melinda Everitt's blog you are on the right track!  Look for the link at the bottom of this post that will take you to the next blog.  When you get back to the blog you started, you will know you completed the hop!  If you get lost along the way,  you can find the entire list of hoppers  HERE .  I can't get enough of this Pumpkin Spice paper.  I used the Pumpkin Spice Paper and stickers.  I added a border at the bottom using our new Border Stencil and Vintage Photo Distress Oxide Ink.  I also add several dots of Platinum Glitter glue. I created this card with some leftover scraps of Pumpkin Spice paper.  I strung the leaves from the Autumn Sequins onto gold embellishing thread to string across the card.  HINT:  to make stringing with the embellishing thread easier, I added some white Tombow glu

Core Catalog New Product Blog Hop

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  Welcome to our Core Catalog NEW Product Blog Hop!!  Our Core Catalog is our MAIN catalog for Close To My Heart.   It contains all of the CORE products that any crafter will need such as inks, cardstock, tools, embellishments, and even several special paper packs that will be available all year long! This catalog was just released on September 1 and there are so many exciting new products!   This blog hop will showcase many of these new products!   I can't wait to see what everyone has been working on!  If you came from Lauren 's CTMH Craftings Blog  you are on the right track.  The hop is a big circle so when you arrive at the blog you started, you will know you completed the hop! If you get lost along the way, you can find the entire list of hoppers  HERE . Recently I hosted a four day retreat.  One of the 'gifts' to my attendees is a pre-cut layout that they can put together to document their time spent with friends crafting for the weekend.  The layout I designed s

September SOTM - Grateful for This Life Blog Hop

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  Welcome to our  September Stamp of the Month Blog Hop . In this blog hop we are featuring  Grateful for this Life.  This set includes 16  word images to share the things that you are grateful for! If you arrived here from  Lauren's CTMH Craftings  you are on the right track. This hop is a big circle. Just look for the next blog link at the bottom of my post. If you are just getting started on the hop, when you get back to me you will know you have completed the circle! If you get lost along the way, you can find the entire list of hoppers  HERE .  I had fun using many of our new products from our 2021 - 2022 CORE Catalog.  This page absolutely did NOT start out to end up like this.  How many times have you started a card or layout with an image in mind of what your final product will look like but it ends up totally different?   That was me on this one!   I purchased the new Pumpkin Spice Digital Art Collection (it downloads right away to your CTMH Digital account when you purch