Life's like a Bowl of Stamps: September 2014

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

October 2014 Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

Welcome to the October Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! The featured stamp of the month is S1410 Home for the Holiday--a set of 7 images. Below are the images in this stamp set that is available only thru October 31st. You can click on the image to see details.

If you have come here from Lela Norris' blog you are on the right path! You can find a list of all the participants (in case you get lost) here: http://bowlofstamps.blogspot.com/p/sotm-blog-hop-list.html. This month we have over 70 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this set. The hop is simple to follow - just click on the link provided in the post to move to the next blog!

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My item is a standard size card using pattern #25 from the Make It From Your Heart Volume I book. While many of the images can be cut with the Cricut's Art Philosophy cartridge, the pieces were fussy cut here.

This is a close-up of the details. The eyes are black sparkles:

Finally a photo that shows the dimension:

Papers: Snowhaven Scrapbooking kit, Whisper, Cranberry and White Daisy Cardstocks

Stamps: S1410 Home for the Holidays

Ink: Whisper, Cranberry, Glacier, and Black Exclusive Inks

Embellishments: z1809 Black Shimmer Trim; z3011 Scaredy Cat Assortment; z1754 Black & Grey Sparkles Assortment

Other: Shinhan Tender Pink marker

Time to hop on over to Brenda Lapp's Blog to see her beautiful eye candy! Be sure to visit all the Consultants' blogs to get some great crafting and fun ideas! Remember, the SOTM is only available thru October 31st! Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this stamp set for $5!

Happy hopping!

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Scaredy Cat Card Workshop

Workshops are the highlight of my month and this month was no exception. I didn't realize how much I loved the Scaredy Cat papers until I started working with them and then I was addicted! But, that happened along the way of the last two posts!

Below are the standard size cards that we made in this workshop. First off, I must credit talented consultant Jaime Llewellyn for inspiration on several of the cards. She is responsible for the two Halloween card designs, and the Birthday card as well as idea for the Sympathy card (I think of it as a sympathy card anyway and I LOVE that stamp set). One of my workshop group asked for a Thanksgiving card and thus the turkey card was born! So first the whole set of cards, then each individual cards with recipes to follow (click to see details):

1. First is the sympathy card:

2. Below is the first Halloween card with the cutest little witch:

3. The next Halloween card has the cutest little hooligans:

4. Next the Thanksgiving card - OMG the turkey from this stamp set is such an amazing stamp! This was inspired by Brenda Rose from a card she did last year with this set.