Sawyer Blog Hop

 Hello and welcome to the CTMH Sawyer collection blog hop, if you arrived here from Doreen's blog you are in the right place. If you arrived by chance just click on the link at the end of this post to  continue the hop.

Close To My Heart never fails to deliver, the Sawyer collection is another wonderful set of papers and decorations. The paper pack includes 6 sheets 2 each of 3 double sided designs, and one coordinating sticker sheet plus a 1/2" zip strip on each sheet.

Do fairies live in your garden? They do in mine and they also inhabit my home as well, here are a few photos that I managed to snap of them. The colours in this paper pack are perfect for these photos and the Fairy Garden stamp Z4526 is just gorgeous. I went through my stash of embellishments to add some extra flowers. I absolutely love these Slim Alphabet dies Z4334 

I made a cardstock flower for this card and to give it extra texture I dry embossed the petals with the dot embossing folder. Pearls always add a touch of elegance to any card.

Thank you for stopping by to see more great ideas hop along to Alison's Scissors Paper heart blog and see what great project she has to share.

Happy crafting!

February Stamp of the Month Blog Hop

 Welcome to the February CTMH stamp of the month blog hop, if you arrived here from Doreen's blog you are in the right place. If you arrived by chance I hope I have inspired you with my projects, you can continue the hop by clicking on the link at the end of this post  

This stamp set is called "Here's The Story" and will be great for cards as well as scrapbooking. It's perfect for journalling prompts and for titles.

Here's a card I made using the oval frame for my Happy Birthday sentiment. I used pattern 30 from the Vol 5 Make It From Your Heart ideas book for this card. It's a simple design but a really pretty card. The papers I used are from a previous Mix In pack.  

For this layout I have used three of the sentiments, I did tone on tone stamping using the A Favourite  Memory to create pattern paper from the grey cardstock. The Here's the Story stamp is perfect for my journal box. I have used papers from the As You Grow paper pack X8020B.

Thank you for stopping by to get some more great ideas go to Danielle's Scrappy Chicks blog . 

Happy crafting!