Three Amigos October 2017 Blog Hop and Challenge

Welcome to the Three Amigos Blog Hop. We are three Close To My Heart Independent Consultants with a love for stamping and scrapping, and would like to share our creative ideas with you. On the 3rd of each month, we feature a different CTMH product and create a card, layout, or other project. There are only three stops on this hop, so it will only take a few minutes to hop through. When you finish hopping, be sure to check out the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge!

This month we are sharing projects using Cats & Bats (papers or featured colors) from the new Holiday Expressions Idea Book. The featured colors are Black, Charcoal, Emerald, Goldrush, Pebble, Pewter, White Daisy, and Willow.

I used two very special stamp sets on my card today. That cute lion is just one of 13 adorable images on the Operation Smile Punny Pals stamp set. When you purchase this stamp set, CTMH will donate $7 to Operation Smile. CTMH also designed a stamp set specifically to benefit those affected by disasters, such as the recent hurricanes in the United States and the wildfires throughout the US and Canada. The stamp set is titled Stronger Together and features a variety of sentiments that can be used for comfort, encouragement, and more. 100% of the cost of this stamp set will be donated to disaster relief efforts!

I thought the courage sentiment was perfect with the lion.This particular sentiment is vertical on the stamp set with a row of dots separating each word. Using the masking technique, I stamped each word on one line. I offset the two die cut circles and accented them with gold pearls. I used another Stronger Together sentiment on the inside.

Thanks for hopping by today! Hop over to Lisa's Blog and Donna's Blog to see what they created for you, then over to the Three Amigos Blog Hop Challenge. We hope you play along!

Supplies Used:

C1716 Stronger Together

D1751 Punny Pals

X7224B Cats & Bats Paper Packet

1385 White Daisy Cardstock

1386 Black Cardstock

X5969 Emerals Cardstock

Z3271 Archival Black Ink

Z2805 Black Ink

Z2823 Goldrush Ink

Z2806 Emerald Ink

Z3318 Thin Cuts Circles

Z3371 Gold Pearls

Z3224 Waterbrush- Small Round

X254 White Daisy Cards & Envelopes

Three Amigos May Blog Hop

Welcome to the Three Amigos Blog hop.  We are three Close to My Heart Independent Consultants with a love for stamping and scrapping and would like to share our creative ideas with you.  On the 3rd of each month we feature a different CTMH product and create a card, layout, or other project.  There are only three stops on this hop so it will only take a few minutes to hop through.

This month we are featuring the Happy Everything stamp set. Close To My Heart will donate $3 of the proceeds of each Happy Everything stamp set purchased to Operation Smile. I love the sentiments included in this stamp set! April was a busy month around here, leaving very little time to be creative. I designed my card to send to my mom, and also for a make-and-take project at an all day crop I attended yesterday.

I paired patterned paper from the Brushed paper pack with Smoothie cardstock, black Shimmer Trim, and Flamingo Dots that I colored with the black Shin-Han alcohol marker. The black accents really make the colors in the card pop and plays off of the black outlines in the paper.

I added more patterned paper and smoothie cardstock to the inside to dress it up a little. The sentiment says "Because you're a one-of-a-kind, fabulous person."

After I created my card, I remembered I used some of the sentiments on the insides of a couple other cards I haven't shared yet. The first Card is from the Blossom Workshop On The Go set.

The second card uses Jackson papers and the Dizzy Circles stamp set.

Thank you for stopping by today. Hop over to Lisa's blog and Donna's blog to see what they created for you.