Featured Paper Blog Hop - Basics Fundamentals

Welcome to our Featured Paper Blog Hop! We will be showcasing items from our Basics Fundamentals Paper Pack with various projects created by talented Close to my Heart consultants. If you are visiting from RaNae’s blog then you are on the right track, if not please start at the CTMH Blog Challenge and Support Group Blog Hop Guidelines beginning with our hostess Carol, oh wait, that is where you are going next.

Basic Fundamentals are my FAVORITE of the Fundamental collections (that is today, it may change tomorrow depending on the project I am working on).

And this month the Basic Fundamentals are featured in our monthly special, Through The Year calendar kit! And it has been so much FUN creating the layouts, stamping and embellishing each calendar month.

Here is June, see how wonderful the Basic Fundamental Pebble stripe coordinates with all the wonderful Close To My Heart cardstock!!

And the leftovers work great to embellish the calendar page, too!!

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Love, love, love the Basic Fundamentals

Next check out Carol's blog.

Design Space Friday Circle Overlay

I loved a circle cutout overlay on Pinterest and thought this would be way cool to try in Design Space.

Enjoy the video!

Technique Tuesday - Alcohol Markers and Vellum

Today I am sharing several of the cards I created while learning more about alcohol markers and vellum.

Here are the three samples, each a little different. Lessons learned, cut the small circle first if you plan to create a matted look, stamp very carefully on vellum and be careful not to add to much alcohol ink.

And, always remember to add some love to the inside. 

My Favorite Things Monday - Alphabet Stamps

One of my favorite things is alphabet stamps. It is like having stickers but better cause you don't end up with all those extra 'q' and 'u' stickers.

Today's project is a simple card created using the Make It From Your Heart Volume 1 recipe 22, Silver & Gold paper collection, Lagoon, Black and White Daisy cardstock, Black and White Dots, Black Ink, and Jennifer's Hand alphabet stamp set.

Here are the current Close To My Heart alphabets available! 

Design Space Friday creating a Flower from an Ornament

I love vellum and am so glad Close To My Heart has brought it back and in celebration, I am sharing a technique I used a few years ago to create a vellum overlay for a flower using an ornament image.

Here are two of the cards we created in a class 

And here is a little close up of the flowers. The vellum is not cut through so it looks etched. Enjoy!