New Product Hightlight: CTMH's Hello Lovely Creative Collection

Close to my Heart's Creative Collection: hello lovely

~hello lovely with it's soft floral's speaks all things wedding, love and togetherness.

Featured Colors:

colonial white, desert sand, fern, new England ivy, sea glass, sorbet, whisper and white daisy

Like all of our Creative Collections, hello lovely comes in a background and texture paper packet, coordinating cardstock pack, complements and additional matching embellishments.

hello lovely Creative Collection

Paper Pack

hello lovely Coordinating Cardstock

12 - 12"x 12" cardstock sheets (3 ea of Fern, Sea Glass, Sorbet, Whisper)

hello lovely Complements

hello lovely Coordinating Embellishments

hello lovely Workshops Your Way

The Workshop Your Way comes with everything you need to create three, 2-page coordinating scrapbook layouts.

Using your remaining workshop materials and a few extra supplies you can create 9 cards, 3 of each these designs.

Here are images of additional items created using the Hello Lovely Creative Collections.

Head on over to the CTMH store to see all the matching acrylic stamp sets.

CTMH's Seasonal Expressions I 2017 Release

Oh the things inside this little beauty.....

I'm so excited to announce that the first Seasonal Expressions of 2017 is now available and full of beautiful items. Through the next couple of months I will feature some of the items in here on the blog so be on the look out for the New Product Highlights. As well as details about a giveaway where you can win some free NEW product and get your FREE copy of the SE1 2017 in your hot little hands.

More will be reveled soon...

Calypso ~ Seasonal Expressions II 2016 New Release

Its so fun to share with you the last of the three NEW Seasonal Expressions II 2016 paper packs.

I present Calypso!

X7210B Calypso Paper PacketThe paper pack comes with 12, 12" x 12" background and texture paper with zip strips. That's 2 each of 6 double sided designs. The sixth sheet being the Picture My Life cards that are also 2 sided and come in both horizontal and vertical. The Calypso paper pack is item # X7210B. The Calypso featured Colors: Black, Cotton Candy, Honey, Lagoon, Pear

 The Compliments are 2, 6" x 6" Coordinating Sticker Sheets and Assorted vellum die-cuts. The Calypso Compliments are item # X7210C. 

Z3215 Calypso Sequins

Z3219 Calypso Washi Pack

G1109 Workshops Your Way™ Calypso Scrapbooking Kit

The Calypso Workshop Your Way is incredible. I was able to put together 4, 2 page layouts and make 9 total cards (3 each of 3 designs) just by adding ink pads, a stamp set and a card and envelope value pack. Directions for the workshop is available to download directly off the website. Below are the samples of what I made using the Workshop Your Way.

Created by: Nina of Nina's Art Spot

Created by: Nina of Nina's Art Spot

Now, I didn't follow the directions exactly. I spiced it up a bit. It was lovely to get these pictures from 1998 scrapbooked. In 1998 my daughter was 2 years old and she's now 20 so I'm WAY behind to say the least! Harvey the Flamingo is stinkin' cute. Doesn't he look like a Harvey?

Created by: Nina of Nina's Art Spot

Created by: Nina of Nina's Art Spot

These next set of layouts are pictures taken from 1997 and are a skinny version of me. I worked so hard to loose my pregnancy weight and as a treat I went on a end of the summer trip to the beach in Rhoad Island. It was a quick trip but oh so wonderful.

Created by: Nina of Nina's Art Spot

Created by: Nina of Nina's Art Spot

Created by: Nina of Nina's Art Spot

Created by: Nina of Nina's Art Spot

and here are the three designs of cards that I was able to make from the Workshop Your Way. Now the workshop called for the stamp set One in a Melon C1650 but I used Tickled Pink C1651 because I fell in love with Harvey and had to use him in these cards. So I spiced things up a bit in true "Nina" fashion.

Created by: Nina of Nina's Art Spot

Created by Kendra Halverson

Supplies Used:

1. G1109 WYW Calypso
2. C1650 One in a Melon Stamp Set
3. Z1263 Bitty Sparkles
4. Z3167 Artistry Cricut Cartridge
5. Z2060 3D Foam Tape
6. X254 Card/Envelope Value Pack
7. Z2643 Canary Ink Pad
8. Z2197* Pear Ink Pad
9. Z2105 Black Ink Pad

*Retiring August 2016

Created by Jenny Johnson

Supply List:

1. X7210B Calypso Paper Pack
2. Z3215 Calypso Sequins
3. Z3167 Artistry Cricut Cartridge
4. Z3132 Watercolor Paints
5. Z3188 Paintbrush Set

Here are some other wonderful items made using Calypso. Please note all the creative artist.

Created by: Susan Williams

Artwork provided by Close to my Heart Corporation

Created by: Card Monkey

Created by: Jennifer Smith

Artwork provided by Close to my Heart Corporation

Created by Jennifer Smith

Created by: Jennifer Smith

Created by: Jennifer Smith

Created by: Julie Webb

Just Released Seasonal Expressions II 2016

Seasonal Expressions
May 2016 - August 2016

Its always so exciting when a new SE (Seasonal Expressions) is released and we get to show all the new and fun products we have to share with you. I decided that for this release I would give you an in-depth view into each of the new papers over the next few months.

Although the Seasonal Expressions is now available for you to view online I do have some available for purchase at $1 each, or you can get them for a limited time for FREE. Check out the MAY National Scrapbooking Month Special Offers to see how you can get yours for FREE!

There are three new Paper Packet's available in this SE. The first is Florence and it will be the first I will showcase for you this month. The second is Magical and the third is Calypso. Of course there are an as sundry of stamp sets that are also new and Workshops Your Way that go with the new Paper Packets. I can't feature them all but I will do my best to get in as many of the new items as I can or at least highlight a bunch that stand out for me.

Florence Workshop Your Way G1107

Florence
Featured Colors: Flaxen, Peacock, Poppy, Ruby, Saffron & Whisper
Special Embellishments: Florence Complements, Rose Gold Foil Tape & Florence Sequins

I worked with the Workshop Your Way (WYW) and really got into making the six pages. I can't wait to put pictures of my four kids into them. I went ahead and made all the Picture My Life cards as described in the WYW instructions but didn't put together the layout yet.

The 7 Picture My Life Cards on the Right are those I made and those on the left are the extras

I went onto create the additional cards that you can make along with the layouts but instead of using the suggested A Bunch of Love stamp set I used the May Stamp of the Month, Celebrate with Cake.

May Stamp of the Month Celebrate with Cake and Florence WYW

I'm still amazed at the Workshops Your Way and how much you can get out of these kits for the price. I made all the above items with only adding the card bases a stamp set and the ink pads and I still have all this left over to work with.

That is nearly a full roll of Rose Gold Foil tape, over 2/3 of the Florence Sequins, about 1/4 of the complements but I did use some of them on the cards I made and I did layer those, I have probably enough paper to make about 10+ 3" x 3" cards which I love to use as gift bag cards and order Thank You's. The compliments by the way on the Florence are gold foiled and quite beautiful.

Items I did not use or highlight which would have gone great with the Florence Papers would have been the A Bunch of Love Stamp Set and Thin Cuts or the Ornate Blossoms. Anyone who orders both the Florence Paper and the Ornate Blossoms and is interested in a Scrapbooking Layout Instruction Sheet let me know and I'd be happy to share it with you.

That is it for now on the new Seasonal Expressions II. I will be back next month showcasing the next paper pack Magical!

Happy National Scrapbooking Month,

Nina