October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to our October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop featuring S1110 Holiday Magic, a set of 18 absolutely darling Holiday stamps!

If you have come here from Helen Onulak's Blog, you are on the right path!  You can find a list of all the partipant's in case you get lost here: http://bowlofstamps.blogspot.com/p/sotm-blog-hop-list.html

This month we have nearly 60 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. Blog hopping 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!

Now "Hop" on over to Beth Naumann's blog to see her beautiful eye candy! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, the SOTM is only available until October 31st!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set for $5!

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Below is one of the ways I decided to use this stamp set.  It is a 5" x 7" size card.  Note that you can click on the picture to see details.

Here is just a closer look at the detail (showing the sparkly brads (retired) and the sparkles.

Supplies:  Holiday Magic Stamp Set; Believe Workshop of the Go Papers; Black, Sweet Leaf, White Cardstock, Topiary, Sky, Black Exclusive Inks; Clear Sparkes, Red Sparkles; Glitter Brads (Retired); Border & label punch from SU; Spellbinder Dies; Quick Cut Scallop Die & Spellbinders Circle Dies.

Compatibility with CTMH Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge:  I was doing some playing around and found that you can cut the perfect outline shapes with your Cricut for the stocking stamps setting the size to 3-1/4".  The cutting shape is found on page 67 and it is the shift key + 7th key on bottom row.  See below and click to see detail better:

For the Christmas tree/banner (however you use it).  I had to make a height and width adjustment.  I use Cricut Design Studio because I'm a visual person and it just works so much better for me.  Anyway, I set the height to 3.5" and the width to 2".  The cutting shape is found on page 31 and is she shift key + 1st key in 2nd row.  See below and click picture to see detail better:

So that's why I've got a cutting machine!

Halloween Banner

My last workshop turned out to be a lot of fun.  We made a Halloween banner and it didn't take a lot of time and turned out pretty "spooky".  I wanted to make one similar to the one in the Idea Book in the Mischief Workshop on the Go (WOTG) section, but I didn't want to use up all my paper packet to do it.  I also didn't want to make everyone buy the WOTG packet just to make the banner.  So, we ended up using only one sheet (from the consultant bulk paper package) and 1 sheet of Black CS.  I added in some Sunset paper.  Okay, here is my true confessions.  I am a ribbon and embellishment hoarder.  So, it wasn't too hard to come up with those finishing touches.  So, here it is (click to see more details):

Below are the individual pennants:

Supplies:  Mischief WOTG kit; Mischief Workshop Stamp Set; All Hallow's Eve Stamp Set; Sunset, Olive and Black Cardstock; Black and White Exclusive Ink; Silhouette Creative Basis B&T papers; Cricut Art Philosphy Cartridge (letters); Black Mini-Medley Accents; Sparkles (skull eyes); Pearl opaques, liquid glass; Martha Stewart Scary Fence Punch; Theresa Collins Black diamonds (on the "k").

I think I'm ready for Halloween now!

Treat Bag using Cricket Art Philosphy Cartridge

There are so many amazing images on the art Philosphy Cartridge--700 to be precise!  This is one of the boxes that you can cut from this cartridge using the Mischief papers.  It took about 15 minutes to create! 

And one more view

Supplies:  Mischief WOTG kit and stamp set; Mixed Shapes Dimensional Elements VersaMark, Clear Embossing Powder; Sunset Exclusive Ink; Liquid Glass; Black Organza Ribbon and Orange Organza Ribbon.

Below is a pictures of some of the amazing shapes on the CTMH Cricket Art Philosophy Cartridge (click to see details):

I just love the 3D flowers and the doilies are so amazing.  I never knew you could get such detail from a cutter!