June SOTM Blog Hop

Welcome to the June Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! Wonderful Friend is a set of 9 stamps that include nice texture stamps an sayings.

If you have come here from Michelle Loncar's Blog you got a taste of the talent represented in this hop! We have over sixty Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations, using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products. It is simple to hop along - just click on the link at the end of the post to move to the next one!

Here is what I made this month.  More out of the pocket ideas for page protectors. 

The cardstock is twilight and the ink colors are twilight, tulip and creme brule.  The argyl stamp was used to create a border for the clear card front.  Dimensional "d" was sponged with creme brule and then stamped with tweed stamp in tulip as were the  Color-ready Alphabet letters.  I took a six pocket Photo Storage protector and cut it down to obtain two sets of two pockets.  These I sewed together and then sandwiched between a cut apart clear card (I cut down the fold to use one for the front and one as the back cover of my accordian fold book).  The attached pockets then create nice pockets for pictures.

The first picture is in the left side of the two part page protector.The buttons attach the clear cover front to the first of the photo storage page protectors (there are four pockets in all and a total of 6 pages with the front and back of the clear card).

Here is a detailed picture of the sewn together photo pockets (I used my sewing machine on zigzag but you could do this by hand):

Remember, the June SOTM is only available until June 30th! Contact your CTMH Consultant to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount or even free!

If you get lost along the hop, click here for the complete list of participants.

Now "Hop" on over to Angela Tutton's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to see all the great crafting ideas!

May Blog Hop

Welcome to the May Stamp of the Month Blog Hop! Cherish the Moment is a set of 8 tags that are great for cards, bags and journaling!

If you have come here from Katy Donaldson's Blog you got a taste of the talent represented in this hop! We have over sixty Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations, using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products. It is simple to hop along - just click on the link at the end of the post to move to the next one!

Here is what I made this month.

The paper is from the Emporium Collection. I used the Celebration to overstamp in Tulip on the pocket insert and used a marker to place a "1" in the No. line. Two stickers from the Notebook set were placed behind the stamped image for Happy Birthday and I wrote in "It's your day!" with a cocoa marker.  I used rub ons to highlight the pockets on the front of the bag, a border sticker from Emporium set for the top of the bag and a sticker "leftover" from the border used on the top of the bag above the rub ons (I had a green strip left when I removed the border sticker from the paper and used that green strip as a highlight on the top of the pocket with chocolates in it).The bag is made from  . . . are you ready?!     . . . .

a page protector!  Hee hee!!!!  You know the routine, I'll post the directions shortly!  Want you all to check back on my blog site.

Here is a detailed picture of the tag:

        

Remember, the May SOTM is only available until May 31st! Contact your CTMH Consultant to see how you can get this stamp set at a discount or even free!

Behind the celebration stamped paper is a pocket for hidden goodies!

If you get lost along the hop, click here for the complete list of participants.

Now "Hop" on over to Beth Naumann's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to see all the great crafting ideas!