Please Welcome Our September Guest Designer!

We're excited to welcome Donna Digby to our team this September!  She has graciously agreed to help us show off all that you can do with Close To My Heart this month after being a recent Top Chick.

Donna writes:

In October, I will be 39 years old. I have had a very interesting life with many high and low moments and I choose to make the most of each day. 

I have crafted my whole life, but I have been doing some form of scrapbooking since I was 15 years old when I first joined the yearbook committee in High School.

My true passion is photography and love taking photos of my family and friends; especially my 16 year old daughter, Amy, my soon to be 3 year old son, TJ, my almost 11 year old pug, Sparkle and my husband of nearly 18 years, Trevor. We have a lot of celebrations in October. 

I love losing myself in my craft room and inspiring others to make the time to do the same.

Inspired by Food

This week our Inspired by theme is food!  How does food inspire you?  Do you eat a certain type of snack while you are in your creative zone? Are you a foodie who loves to cook and try new things with food? How does food inspire your life?

For me I love cooking and trying new things but I do not consider myself a foodie at all. I also love baking but with cooking and baking comes clean up... and I really do not like the clean up at all. 

We would love to see how food inspires your creativity. It could be a project about your favourite food, a featured food in your project, anything as long as it has or was inspired by food in some way. 

This is our final Inspired by challenge, and you have until Sunday, the end of the month, to participate in any of our August challenges.  Have you made your submission(s) yet?  We want to see you and your creations!

Let's take a look at what our very talented designers have come up with and how food has inspired them this week:

Our Guest Designer Gail gives us this sweet card:

Gail

Be sure to stop by the blogs of our design team to hear the stories of how food inspired their projects and got the specifics on how each of these projects were made. 

Haley

Jen

Lauren

Lucy

Brandi

We hope you have found some inspiration in our designs and we are so looking forward to seeing your creations so be sure to link you projects below.  Please remember that we are a Close To My Heart challenge blog, so be sure to use a few (or more) CTMH products.

Inspired by ....a Book

As we continue on with our August's  "Inspired by...theme", this week's inspiration is a book. Do you love to read?  Have you ever read a book and never wanted to put it down? I love to read but sometimes, it is at the bottom of my list when it comes to my free time.

Please join us this week as we are inspired by a book.  It could be the title, a character, or the theme of the book.  Thank you to everyone who has participated in this month's challenge and remember you have all month to play along with the August themes.

For a little inspiration to get you started check out the design team creations below. 

Our guest designer Gail has created this lovely project.  Can you tell which book inspired her?  Check her blog to be sure!

Check out Team Crystal Blue's inspiration for you this week.  Be sure to visit our Design Team blogs to see how they have been inspired by a book.

Allie

                                                                 Adeline

Katy

What book will inspired you?  You have until the 31st to play along with any of our August challenges.  We can't wait to see what you make!

July's H2H Addicts and Top 10!

We the H2H DT are absolutely convinced that we have the best CTMH heARTISTS on the planet participating in our challenges!  We love to stretch your creativity, and you continually amaze us.  Thank you to everyone who steps up to the plate and accepts the challenges that we love to throw down.  You're totally awesome!  We are really excited to see some new faces to add to our H2H family.  Please continue to join us!

Also, if you have a challenge idea, shoot us an email (h2hchallenges @ gmail dot com).  We just might feature you and your idea!

Aren't you loving our new DT?  You set the bar high, and we are so proud of your July H2H Addicts who played along with every single one of our challenges.  Thank you and kudos to...
*Donna Digby of DAT's My Style
*PAM of Pam's Clearly Crafty Corner
(Be sure to grab our "Addicts" badge for your blog!)

Now on to our Top 10!  You had five challenges to work with last month.  Here are our winners...
Red & White Daisy Scrapbooking:

Donna @ DAT's My Style

Pam's Clearly Crafty Corner

Up, Up, & Away:

Lindi @ Love Create Celebrate

Dawn C.

The Spice of Life:

Pam's Clearly Crafty Corner

Donna @ DAT's My Style

Some Like It Hot:

Becca

Katrina

Picture My Crush:

Lillian YF

Brittany

Top 10 winners, please be sure to snag some swag and post our Top 10 blog badge on your blog!

Aren't these gals fabulous?  It is always so hard to narrow down our choices to one overall winner, but our July Top Chick is...

Donna Digby!!!

How would YOU like to be featured here next month?  All you have to do is play here at H2H!

Inspired by...A Song

Continuing with our "inspired by" theme this month, your challenge this week is to create a project that is inspired by a song. Songs provide us with great opportunities for inspiration such as a song title or by an album, or even song lyrics.  We are looking forward to seeing your fabulous projects this week.

Thanks to everyone who has already joined us for August's "Inspired by..." series!  You still have plenty of time to play along with all of our August challenges.

For a little inspiration to get you started check out the design team creations below.  First from our Guest Designer Gail:

Now here's Team Cranberry's inspiration for you.  Be sure to visit our DT's blogs to see which song they chose.

Jen Patrick

LaJeania Hicks

Lauren Moore

Brandi Robinson

Haley Dyer

Lucy Kelleher

You will have until the end of the month to participate in this week's Inspired by a Song challenge.  We can't wait to see your project!  Don't forget that this challenge must use some CTMH product and be sure to let us know how your song inspired you.

Inspired by...A Movie

Continuing with our "inspired by" theme this month, your challenge this week is to create a project that is inspired by a movie. Movies provide us with great opportunities for inspiration such as a movie title like "Friday Night Lights" or by a movie quote like "Life Is Like a Box of Chocolates" or just a movie theme like "National Lampoon's Summer Vacation." No matter what you us for your movie inspiration we are looking forward to seeing your fabulous project. For a little inspiration to get you started check out the design team creations below.

Can you tell which movie inspired our Guest Designer Gail?

If you guessed "Frozen," you'd be correct!  Now here's Team Cranberry's inspiration for you.  Be sure to visit our DT's blogs to see which movie they chose.

Allie Kostiuk 

Debi Barber

Haley Dyer

Katy Taylor

 LaJeania Hicks

You will have until the end of the month to participate in this week's Inspired by a Movie challenge.  We can't wait to see your project!  Don't forget that this challenge must use some CTMH product and be sure to let us know how your movie inspired you.

Are you ready?  Lights, camera, action!

August's "Inspired by..." Series & Scrapbooking Challenge

For the month of August, we here at Heart to Heart will inspire you with our "inspired by..." series.  Of course we are all being inspired by the release of the new CTMH Annual Inspirations Idea Book!

Before I unveil our August Inspired by... scrapbook challenge, I'd like to introduce our guest designer, Gail Gross.

Hello!  My name is Gail Gross and I’m so excited to be a guest design team member this month.  Challenges have become a source of inspiration to stretch my creativity.  Heart 2 Heart is special because it is a CTMH community.  I’ve been a consultant since 2011, and my upline is the consultant who did the gatherings back when I was introduced to stamping over 16 years ago!  Then it was a social outlet for my group of homeschooling moms.  Now, it’s a passion.  My husband of 28 years is a huge support in all that I undertake, and even though my two boys out of the house, they still give feedback on my projects.   My biggest challenge is keeping the dog from eating my projects – she has an affinity for paper.  I just returned from the CTMH Convention and am looking forward to working with the great new products for the challenges this month.   It will be fun to see what you come up with as well, so please, join in!

Thanks for joining us this month, Gail!

Our August scrapbooking theme is Inspired by... nature!  We can't wait to see how you interpret this theme.  There's just one more thing: you need to also incorporate some distressing on your layout.  How you accomplish this is up to you, so be sure to share your technique.

Now, are you ready to be inspired?

Guest Designer Gail

Lauren

Allie

You will have until the end of the month to participate in this month's Inspired by Nature scrapbook challenge.  We can't wait to see how you interpret this!  Don't forget that this challenge must use some CTMH product and be some type of photo art/scrapbooking project.