More About the Shimmer Brush

Here's a quick video to give you some information about Close To My Heart's Shimmer brushes for all the little tips, hints, and tricks:

Want your artwork to shimmer?  You can use the Shimmer Brush (much like a water brush) to pick up ink from the cover of your ink pad to color our images.  Then you have color with shine.

Happy Stamping!

Gimme Some Sugar Featured Paper Blog Hop

Welcome to our Featured Paper Blog Hop featuring the beautiful papers and stamps of GIMME SOME SUGAR!  We will be showcasing items from our Gimme Some Sugar Paper Pack with various projects created by talented Close to My Heart consultants so buckle up for a little ride.

If you are visiting from Shirley Ross' Blog then you are on the right track.  If not, you can start at the beginning with our hostess Haley Dyer's blog, or you can just continue as the hop does go around in a circle and you'll end up here.  Next check out Julie Scott's blog, but please feel free to check out my artwork before you go....

Below is a standard size card and I used the cardmaking set for Gimme Some Sugar.  I am really into the oranges this year (you should see my new car, a bright orange Subaru Crosstrek) and Tangerine color was just speaking to me!  And I just love the "whip it" saying.  LOL!

Papers:  Gimme Some Sugar
Stamps:  Z4156 Gimme Some Sugar - Cardmaking; D1770 Kitchen Traditions; C1685 Inspire
Inks:  Peacock, Black Exclusive Inks
Embellishments:  Black Pearls (retired)
Other:  CTMH Thin Cuts Scallop Borders

Next a picture showing the contrasts:

This is the inside of the Card:

And a close-up look at the front--paper pieced in the tangerine:

To create this card, I used Card Pattern #28 from CTMH's Make It From Your Heart Volume 2.

You can get more information on our How-To books here:  https://kattisch.closetomyheart.com/ctmh/products/how-to-pattern-books.aspx

Here are the stamp images used...

Z4156 Gimme Some Sugar - Cardmaking:

D1770 Kitchen Traditions:

C1685 Inspire:

Be sure to check out the next stop on the bloghop and see what eye candy you will find at Julie Scott's blog.

Happy Stamping!

March Card Workshop

I finally have a few minutes to post the March card workshop.  It was customer appreciation so there was no charge.  You just have to have fun sometimes, right?

Here are all the cards collectively:

The first card:

Inside of Card:

Papers:  Chelsea WYW Papers, Black and White Daisy Cardstocks
Stamps:  M1199 Easter Basket, C1706 Easter Animals
Inks:  Black Exclusive Inks; Clay and Turquoise Blue ShinHan Markers
Embellishments:  z3314 Black and White Dots

Second Card:

Inside Card:

Papers:  Gimme Some Sugar WYW Papers, White Daisy Cardstocks
Stamps:  C1706 Easter Animals
Inks:  Black and Pacifica Exclusive Inks; Golden Yellow and Marigold ShinHan Markers
Embellishments:  z3360 Bashful Glitter Paper
Other:  z3348 Scallop Border die

Third Card:

Inside of Card:

Papers:  Stargazer WYW Papers, Black, Canary, and White Daisy Cardstocks
Stamps:  z4161 Rain or Shine Paper Doll Stamp & Thin Cuts; C1685 Inspire; S1802 Sunny Thoughts (Feb. SOTM, ret.)
Inks:  Black Exclusive Inks; Golden Yellow, Clay, Carmine, and Marigold ShinHan Markers
Embellishments:  Gold Glitter Tape
Other:  Spellbinder Scallop Oval and Oval Dies

Hope your Easter was blessed!

Happy stamping!