Gina's Little Corner of StampinHeaven

 Welcome to our New Product Blog Hop!!  This week, Close To My Heart released TWO new catalogs!  One is our CORE Catalog which will be good all the way through August 31, 2020!!  The 2nd catalog is our September/October Supplement.  The products in this catalog will be available only through October 31.  This hop will give you a great opportunity to see what some of our favorite products are how we are using them!  If you came from  Becca Whitham's Blog ,  you are on the right track!!  Look for the next blog to hop to at the bottom of this post.  This hop is a big circle, so when you get back to me, you will know you completed the hop!   If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog .   Let's get started! I love sunflowers so this set was at the very top of my MUST HAVE list!  Sunflower Sympathy can be purchased as just a stamp set but you...

Close To My Heart has a new product in their Annual Inspirations that you may have overlooked.  It is the new embossing diffusers on page 122.  These nifty clear plastic plates are perfect for using with our embossing folders when you want to emboss a selected area of your project.  On the card below I used the Square Diffuser with the Dot Embossing folder.  When I ran it through my cuttlebug it left a square with no embossing. This makes a great place to stamp! Don't you love the stamp?  It was one of my immediate favorites in the Holiday Inspirations book. Spray of Joy A1174 You may be wondering how I stamped this image with the Fern and Cranberry Inks.  Here is a short visual tutorial on the masking technique that I used.   First, stamp the image on a post it note - make sure that part of the image is on the sticky part of the note!  This helps to temporarily adhere in place while you are stamping. Next I cut away the p...

Welcome to the February  Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! This month we are featuring A Happy Hello , a set of 12 fun stamps. If you have come here from Nancy's Womersley'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 around. If you get lost along the way, you'll find the complete list of participating consultant's HERE . Here is my card I created with this set.  I stamped some of the flowers directly onto the card and I also stamped flowers that I cut out and layered on the card.  The card is pretty simple so I added some detailing by using my embossing tool to emboss some lines around the card and also in the flowers.  Those might be harder to see in the picture. For finishing touches I added the Flaxen Extra Thick Twine and sparkles.  This will be my next Technique Tuesday card for February so if you are local to me, contact me to sign up for this class! Remember!  T...

Close To My Heart has five new embossing folders!  I was so excited when I learned that CTMH would now be selling these.  I couldn't wait to order mine and start using them.   Here is a card I created using the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches. I used the Damask (Z1927) folder with the Blush cardstock and the Stripe (Z1960) folder with Sweet Leaf.   I ran the cardstock through my Cuttlebug going against the grain to get the white center of the cardstock to show through.  The stamp is new for Spring and is Joyful Wishes (A1152) .  I stamped it in Desert Sand and then used alcohol markers to color.   I also stamped the image in Blush ink and cut out words "JOY", "LOVE" and "DO" and adhered them on top of the same image.  I also colored and cut out two of the larger flowers and adhered on top of the same flowers.   Bitty Sparkles and Hemp Bakers Twine accent the card. Here is the Freshly Made Sketch : Get an Em...

I didn't do anything creative yesterday.  Instead I went shopping.  Gasp! I really don't like shopping much anymore.  I left the house at 8:30am to get to one of my favorite stores that was having a sale - and if you got there before 10 am you got a $10 gift card.  I needed a few new clothes - mine seem to have all shrunk.  So I hit the sale and then I met up with a friend to do more shopping at the annual Hollydays Market Place.  It was fun but by 2:00 we were shopped out (we are pathetic shoppers). So I headed home to take a much needed nap.  I was so worn out and my feet were aching I couldn't even get myself to my scrap room to do anything. This afternoon, I did make it to my scrap room armed with a bunch of challenges I wanted to give a shot at.  I was really inspired by the photo on the Inspired By Challenge and decided to combine it with the Deconstructed Sketch.   The stamp set I used is sold exclusively with the Frosted Cardmaking ...

What a busy time of the year it is for me!  Graduation is coming up soon - May 18 to be exact.  Plus, in the midst of getting ready for that, we are in the middle of the High School District Softball tournament!  Rain came in Friday night and set in for the weekend so the games were cancelled on Saturday.  My first thought was "YEAH!  I'll spend all day Saturday in my scrap room and create! Nothing better to do on a rainy day!".  Or so I thought....  I ended up spending ALL DAY Saturday shopping with my daughter looking for the required "dark dress" that she needed to wear underneath her graduation gown.  So, we set out about 10:30 to look for a black dress.  Finding a black dress (or even a dark color dress) in May is not easy!   Most that we did find, looked better on the hanger than actually on!  Too long, too short, etc.  FINALLY about 3:30 that afternoon we found the dress.  By the time I got home, I was no longer in ...

Christmas is past and the New Year is fast approaching.  I had so much fun the last couple of months creating Christmas cards! But it's time to put away all my Christmas stamps and start some new projects!  I've been planning a technique card workshop in January and needed one more card.   Mojo Monday provided the perfect sketch to use!   My workshop - Cards With EDGE will be focusing on embossing!  This card is one of four cards we'll create. Here is the Mojo Monday sketch: (I used the square sketch for my 6x6 card) For this card I used the Hooray Bouquet (D1491)   stampset which coordinates with our Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge (Z1686) .   I cut the large flower <Flower6> at 2 3/4" and a smaller flower at 2".  The large flower was cut onto the Sorbet B&T from Elemental Level 2 (X7141B)  and the smaller 2" flower was cut on Colonial White Cardstock.  Even though the large flower was a print, I st...

Here is a quick card for Freshly Made Sketches .   I used Cocoa, Twilight and Colonial White for my cardstock colors on this 5x7 card.   The stamp is Close To My Heart's Glory To God (D1483).   I used with cocoa and gold embossing powders for the images. I used the Art Philosophy cartridge to cut my shape for "Peace on Earth".  I cut colonial white piece <Shape 7> at 2".  I layered it on the same shape at 2 1/4".  The ribbon is from the Chocolate Stripe Grosgrain Ribbon. I made several cards this weekend and I'll be sharing over the next few days so come back to visit!

Here is another card with my new stamp set Holiday Wishes!  For this card, I used the sketch from Clean and Simple Stamping .   I cut one star out with  Art Philosophy  cricut cartridge (a perfect fit) and then moved the measurement up 1/4" and cut another one to layer so that one star would stand out.  Notice my 'Baker's Twine'?  I got the tip to make my own from Close To My Heart's Facebook page.  I twisted together White and Crystal Blue Waxy flax to make my Baker's Twine.   Today I recieved a 'goodie box' from my upline Chris Szczechowski.   It was all about embossing!  I got embossing powders in Silver and Clear Detail, a Versamark ink pad and refill, an embossing pen and prisma glitter!  Chris also gave me this tip:  Mix Clear Detail embossing powder with prisma glitter for a cool effect.   I tried it out on the stars!  You can see the prisma glitter shimmering.    I first stamped the star ...

If you read my post the other day, you know I was getting tired of making fall cards!  I've got some really pretty winter and Christmas themed paper that I've been wanting to play with not to mention a bunch of new stamps to go with them!  So, to ease into the winter/Christmas season I decided to start with winter card with ONE snowflake.   But get ready.... for the next few weeks this one snowflake will bring on more wintery cards! I'm submitting this card for 2 Challenges this week - Heart 2 Heart and Mojo Monday .  Over at H2H the challenge is the make a card with only one stamp - and that stamp must be a sentiment ONLY.  Mojo Monday provided the sketch that I cased for this card.   I had a choice of round or square so I went with the square sketch. Here is the sketch: My Card: For this 6x6 Card I used White Daisy, Crystal Blue and Petal Cardstock.  I used a snowflake from the Top Coats Icing Overlays (Z1468) layered on t...

I was going strong this week with my creativity and I had a goal to complete all 4 Moxie Fab sketches before the week was out.  I achieved my goal but I think my creativity was waning near the end.  I was not entirely happy with the last card but I wanted to share it anyway since I used a new to me technique.  It's called Ghosting .   How appropriate for a Halloween card! The idea for this card came to me as I was actually trying out this technique on another card I was creating.   That seems to happen to me alot.   Ghosting is stamping an image on a light piece of cardstock with Versa Mark ink and use clear embossing powder to emboss.  Once the embossing is cool, use a sponge and dark ink and rub over the embossed image.   This part I've done many times on artwork.  The shinyness looks cool and ink doesn't adhere to the embossing.   Now... this is the cool 'ghosting' part.   Take a scrap piece of paper and lay it over y...

I said I was going to attempt to do all 4 Moxie Fab sketches this week and after tonight, I'm half way there! I almost started this one last night but it was getting late.  I knew if I started it, I would be up well past 11:00 pm and I do get up very early for work.  So I went to bed with this sketch on my mind and thought about my idea all day.   Here is sketch #2 -- The Horizontal Sketch And here is my interpretation -- I silver embossed a snowflake onto a 2" square of Crystal Blue Cardstock.   Then I cut it into quarters.  Instead of using the 4th quarter, I used a big Rhinestone Designer Brad.  (Don't you just love that BLING?) My sentiment is also silver embossed.  I added Bitty Sparkles to the snowflake pattern in the paper.   Hope you like it!   Recipe: Cards & Envelopes - White Value Pack X254 Wonderland Level 2 Paper Pack - X7146B Crystal Blue Cardstock (included in Wonderland Level 2 Paper Pack) ...

I pulled out my Background - Charmed stampset this morning to create something with the stamp that had pumpkins and vines.   I used this stamp set the other day to make a Halloween card.  You can see that post HERE if you missed it.    I wasn't sure WHAT I was going to do so it took several efforts to finally get to my final product.   Each time I stamped the image I thought of a 'better look' and proceeded to create the idea.   You can see here  - it took me 4 tries to get to the stamped image that I was happy with! I started out with Olive on White Daisy.  Hmmm.... this might look better with Chocolate Ink on Olive Cardstock....  Well maybe Chocolate Ink on Goldrush cardstock.   Still not there!  HEY! How about Cocoa Embossed on Goldrush?  FINALLY. Final Product: I used Elemental paper along with Dreamin' paper for my 5x7 card.  The Elemental Paper just mixes in with any of the other Level 2 Paper packs ...