Beloved Bouquet SOTM Blog Hop

Welcome to the Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! Today CTMH Consultants will be shocasing the January Stamp of the Month set, Beloved Bouquet, a set of 14 stamps. If you've arrived from Michele Rowley's blog you are on the right track! If you find you are lost along the hop please visit Melinda's blog for a list of all participating consultants.

The layout is based on the Main Frame - Quilt Blocks sketch in the Reflections How-To Book, one of my favorite scrabooking resources! The blocks are a great way to use some of the small embellishments from your stash.

The flowers and leaves were heat embossed with gold embossing powder and then colored with watercolor pencils. I combined several colors on a piece of scratch paper and blended them with our watercolor brush to create a unique color palette that coordinates with the Sangria paper pack.

The rest of the embellishments (arrows, puffy hearts, foil chipboard pieces) are from the new Seasonal Expressions Charlotte line. It always amazes me how CTMH is able to coordinate all it's products making it really easy to mix and match product lines and still have one cohesive project!

Thank you for checking out my project. I hope you've enjoyed it! Now please hop to Maureen's blog to see what she's created with this beautiful stamp set.

The Beloved Bouquet stamp set is only available until January 31, 2016. If you like to purchase it (or any of the other products used in this layout) please contact your CTMH Consultant or visit my website  { HERE }.

12x12 Scrapbook Layout Recipe:
S1601 Beloved Bouquet SOTM, Z2114 Cocoa Ink, Z891 Versamark Ink Pad, Z2066 Ranger Gold Embossing Powder, Z555 Craft Heater, X7199B My Reflections Sangria Kit, 1388 Colonial White Cardstock, X5642 Cocoa Cardstock, 9037 Reflections How-To, 3505 Watercolor Pencils, X7205C Charlotte Complements, Z3203 Treasured Puffies, Z3167 Artistry Cricut Cartridge, Z1151 3D Foam Tape

Seasonal Expressions 2 Blog Hop

Welcome to the Seasonal Expressions 2 Blog Hop! I'm so excited for this Seasonal Idea Book and very thankful you've hopped onto my blog to check out my project! If you're coming from Haley's blog you are on the right track!

This hop is a great circle so just keeping checking the links near the end of the post to hop to the next blog! If you happen to get lost along the way you can go to THIS LINK for a complete list of CTMH participants.

For my project I used the new Blossom paper and Blossom Complements to create this two page layout featuring my adorable hubby in his youth! Oh, and the layout was completely done in Studio J! I love the versatility of Studio J and how seamlessly it coordinates with my traditional scrapbook layouts. CTMH does an awesome job of adding new products into its digital kits so quickly!

In fact, the only real difference (aside from the physical vs. digital aspect) is that I'm able to resize the Blossom Complements to fit my page perfectly! In this layout I enlarged the "Joy" quote to 108% of its original size.

I also sized the "Delight" stickers to 85% of its original size so they would fit in the title section.

Don't worry...if digital scrapbooking isn't your thing you can totally recreate this layout in the traditional style with the following supplies:

Blossom Paper Packet	Blossom Complements	12" X 12" Colonial White Cardstock	12" X 12" Lagoon Cardstock
Versamat	Ruler	Chocolate Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad	Sponge Daubers
Duck Easy-Stick%u2122 Adhesive

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Thanks for checking out my project! I look forward to sharing more beauties from the Seasonal Expressions 2 Idea Book so please stay tuned. Now, please hop to Gina's blog to see what wonderful project she's made!

~Michelle

Seasonal Expression Blog Hop

Welcome to our Seasonal Expressions 1 Blog Hop!  Over 30 CTMH consultants will be featuring new products from the first Seasonal Expressions Idea Book.  This book contains all new products not found in the Annual Inspirations Idea Book.

If you have come here from Michelle'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 all around.  

For my project I used the new My Creations Mini Black Book and the Hopscotch Picture my Life Cards (PML) to record my family's Thanksgiving trip to Colorado! I kept the embellishments to a minimum to make this a very quick and easy project.

 

 For the cover I used one of the 4" x 6" PML cards and the zip strip from one of the Heartstrings paper pack. The twine is also new and knots beautifully!

For this page I added a small strip of the beautiful new Blue Shimmer Trim...I have to have a little bling after all!

Every once in awhile I take a video that I like to incorporate into my mini albums. I simply upload them to YouTube, create a QR code and print a photo of the code! 

I had a lot of food photos so I made a collage out of them in Picassa and printed as one 4" x 6." 

Have two 3" x 4" spaces but want a 4" x 6" photo? Simply cut it in half and insert into the pockets! 

In these pages I had a 4" x 6" slot but didn't have  alot of journaling so I added a small photo to one of the journaling cards!

I like the orange chevron card but it was a little plain for my layout so I added a 3" x 4" card to it!

Don't forget to decorate the mini album covers! I wanted a little summary of our trip so I used one of the calendar cards in the PML kit and created a pocket for the last page of my album!

Products Used (all CTMH unless otherwise noted)
Paper: Heartstrings (X7193B), White Daisy
Inks:Indian Corn Blue, Smoothie
Stamps:Hopscotch WOTG (G1091)
Other: Hopscotch PML Cards, My Creations Mini Black Book, Extra Thick Twine (Z3036), Blue Shimmer Trim (Z3025), Corner Rounder, Hopscotch Assortment (Z3016)

Thanks for taking  a look at my little mini-album. I look foward to making many more of these beauties...shh, the kids may just find one in their stocking this year! Now "Hop" on over to Lalia's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas!

The Seasonal Expressions 1 Idea Book is available December 1, 2014 - March 30, 2015. To receive your copy of the Seasonal Expressions 1 Idea Book please contact your CTMH consultant or visit my website HERE.

*If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog:  http://ifyoublingit.blogspot.com/p/stamp-of-month-blog-hop-list.html.