CTMH Spotlight Hop - Circle Cards

Welcome to this month's Close To My Heart Spotlight Blog Hop! If you came here from Nikka's blog, you are on the right track. If you are starting here, then just keep hopping along to see all of the other creations.

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This month we are featuring Circle Cards - I forgot how much I love circle cards, I really should make them more often!  I like using the Colonial White and White Daisy circle cards and envelopes - I love that they come with their own envelope, I always struggled finding the right size before.  I also love the Clear Cards, I need to play around with those some more!
First up I have a card that I made for a niece's first birthday.  This one was really simple, I just cut a Hollyhock ring, a Blush piece for the sentiment, stamped and cut the candle using the Candlelight stamp set and Sophia papers, and added a few pink buttons.  I will admit, I always like to thread my buttons before I put them on a project, they just seem naked without something.  This time I made myself leave them plain - not so bad, right?

Here is another circle card that I made a while ago but haven't posted yet.  I also used the Sophia papers but this time with the You're Sweet stamp set.  I used Liquid Glass on the orange.

I have more circle cards posted below, but if you are ready to continue along the Blog Hop, the next stop is Amie!

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These cards have been posted before, but if you missed them and want more details, just click on the card title to go to the previous post and find out more!

Halloween Card

Owl Card

Flower Thank You

Father's Day Card

Baby Boy Card

Celebrate Card

Thanks Card

Baby Girl Card

Thanks for looking - don't forget to hop along to Amie's Blog!

CTMH Spotlight Blog Hop - Color-Ready Kraft Borders

Welcome to this month's Close To My Heart Spotlight Blog Hop - I'm thrilled to get to play along again this month!  If you came here from Luisa's blog, you are on the right track.  If you are starting here, then just keep hopping along to see what all of the talented Consultants came up with.

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This month we are featuring the fun Color-Ready Kraft Borders - let me tell you, great things come in small packages!  I was amazed when I first received my order of these, there are a ton of borders and the possibilities are endless!  Let me show you some of the things I have created recently using these borders - my favorite feature of these is that they come adhesive-backed, so they are perfect for adding to CLEAR projects, like I have done here...can anyone guess where I saved this case from?

It's the case from our iPod Touch - I knew I saved it for the perfect project!  I kept the front super simple, starting with the colors from the Wings Papers.  I just cut a border strip to the right size and applied it to the cover.  Then I embossed a heart from the retired February Word Puzzle stamp set using Vineyard Berry embossing powder.  I then colored some Irresistibles Lots of Dots letters using Juniper Ink and attached them to the front, handwrote the word 'notes' and attached some Opaques Pearls.

I will not share the inside pages yet, as it's a gift and needs to stay a surprise, but I used a lot more of the borders on those, too.  I love how this turned out!

I have more border projects posted below, but if you are ready to continue along the Blog Hop, the next stop is Haley!

Here is another project - this time using a Clear Card.

I weaved a 1/8" piece of Hollyhock CS through this border.  This card uses the Ricochet pattern from Wishes along with Hollyhock, Blush, Colonial White, and Desert Sand CS and the Sweet Baby stamp set.  Here is a look at the card and the layers as it opens.

This card is for a dear friend who just had a baby girl (after 2 boys) - after I saw her darling girl monkey room I found this darling outfit and made some cute matching flower clips (she can never have enough!) and just HAD to make a monkey card using the retired Life's A Jungle stamp set ;-)  Now I just need to get it in the mail so she can enjoy it!

Now for some previously posted projects using the Kraft Borders.

I love that you can leave them as-is...

...or color them using inks...

Thanks for looking - don't forget to hop along to Haley's Blog!

Miracle

I love the versatility of the Miracle papers.  Here is a variety of cards that I have created using these papers.

This was a card for my SIL Sandy's birthday - I used the button punch that she gave me for my birthday - love that thing!  I used the On The Side pattern from Originals.

Here is a close-up of the buttons - the punch embosses them as well so I sanded the Cocoa ones and inked the Colonial White one with Sweet Leaf ink.  I then 'tied' them with strips of paper instead of string.

I just love this Hedgehog from the Happy Forever stamp set - this was the first time I've used this set which was a Stamp of the Month last year, I just remember getting it around the time we moved so it hasn't seen ink until now.  I also used the A Little Everything stamp set and Over the Rainbow stamp set on this card.

One of David's coworkers had a new baby boy - this is the card I made for him using the Center Circles pattern from Wishes and the retired Little Boys stamp set for the dinosaur, Circle Around stamp set for the stitches, and Sweet Baby stamp set for the words.  I added more faux mini brads here.

I thought it matched the gift nicely.

We hosted David's family Easter party - these were the invites that I created.  I started off just cutting the frames using my paper cutter...

...then I remembered that I did have my Coluzzle once again so I cut the frames with that and liked it better when I angled it...

I used one of my dot cuttlebug folders and thanks to the past Stamp of the Month Easter Eggs stamp set, each one was unique!

Here are some long lost projects the girls helped me make - we did these last year when Miracle was one of the monthly specials.  This was a note holder for Kaylee's piano teacher.

These were for Brianna's dance teachers.

I also started working on a page using these papers for Brianna's dance recital pics, but they got packed up before our move and I haven't found them yet - I'm hoping to get them done soon, especially now that Miracle is a full paper pack - they matched Brianna's recital costume perfectly!

Baby onesies and matching cards

Do you remember THIS shirt that I made for Trysten shortly after he was born? Well, I've had a lot of fun making more - even a version for a girl! ETA: If you want to know how I created these, check out the link I posted in the first sentence - super easy, super cute! Here are my latest...

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For a family in our ward who adopted a baby boy a few months ago - the mom made sure to show me when he wore it to church a couple weeks ago - he looked so cute! The card, bag, and envelope were all created with the same papers - how's that for coordinating! I LOVE how this tie turned out, I might just have to make one for Trysten, too!

I actually made up this card pattern - just grabbed my scraps and put them together - that's not something I usually do, so I was quite impressed with myself ;-) Sometimes I get too dependent on sketches and patterns and don't work on my own. The vellum phrase on the front came from a random pack of vellum sentiments.

The stamp set used on the bag is called Baby Impressions (retired).

Here is my girl version - using the Twitterpated paper pack I created a fun girly collar and buttons - or at least I hope it looks girly ;-) I had to play around with my idea/shape a lot - at first it looked too much like a bra - I hope it doesn't anymore! This was a nice quick gift for a friend who just had her baby last night!

Sorry I didn't get a better picture of the card - the clothes are paper pieced or colored in with markers and look super cute! The card pattern is from Wishes - Classic Closure. I used the Sweet Baby and Baby Steps stamp sets.

Here are two shirts for a friend who is due with a baby boy - she gets two shirts just because they are both so darn cute and I couldn't pick a favorite. This set uses the Sarsaparilla papers.

This card uses the Childhood stamp set and another pattern from Wishes - Medallion.

Here is one I made to just have on hand for a quick gift - I used the Everyday Celebration papers.

I obviously love this stamp from the Childhood set for baby cards - perfect! This card uses another Wishes pattern - Collage.

Thanks for looking!