Trending Now

Welcome to another Heart2Heart Monday!  For this week's challenge, we are visiting the different products and techniques "Trending Now" in the world.  From watercolors, alcohol markers, shaker cards, pocket scrapbooking and 3D papercrafting or your favorite new top, this is your opportunity to share your scrapbook layouts, cards or other paper crafting projects showcasing our theme.

You will have all month long to participate in any (or all) of this month's challenges!  We're excited with what we're already seeing for our first November challenge, and we know this will be no exception.

Our guest designer for the month of November is Hansi Brittain, let's check out Hansi's interpretation of this weeks challenge.   By the way, don't forget to visit her blog and check out some of the other cool stuff Hansi shares with us.

And here are the fun and inspiring projects from our design team:

Angela White

Brandi Robinson

Haley Bell Dyer

Laurie Levorson

Lauren Moore

Thanks for stopping by and checking out our creations, we hope that you find these projects inspiring and join this weeks Heart2Heart Challenge by sharing your own work.

A Sketch Challenge

Happy Fall everyone, and welcome to a whole new set of October challenges here at Heart2Heart! Thank you to everyone who played along with us in September - we love getting some inspiration from YOU too!

We have a sketch challenge to show off to you this week created by one of our fabulously talented Design Team members, Brandi!

Here is what our Design Team came up with:

Alyson

Allie

Paige

Cynthia

Brandi

Melissa

Join the gallery using the link below. Remember to use some Close To My Heart products in your creation. We can't wait to see your take on this sketch!  Remember that you have all month to play along with our October challenges.

Splat!

Welcome to this weeks challenge here at Heart 2 Heart. Painting is all the rage right now. And with painting there is always splats. Use what was once a mistake into an awesome piece of art. So gather your Close To My Heart products and make a messy piece of art.

And if you need some inspiration, check out what our team of designers have made.



Nikka Geers





Laurie Levorson



Melissa Robinson



Lauren Moore

Angela White



Haley Dyer

You have until the end of September to play along with this and all of the September challenges. You will need to use some Close To My Heart products to play along. Post your blog post with our linky and share our link so everyone can play along. So lets get messy.

September Color Challenge

What's a challenge blog to do when the very last day of the month is also the Monday to introduce a new challenge?  We didn't think it would be fair to give you less than 24 hours to participate in a challenge (because all of our challenges end on the last day of the month), so instead we are giving you a peek today at our amazingly beautiful (if we do say so ourselves) September color challenge.  Tomorrow (September 1), you'll find our Design Team's inspiration with this color challenge and the InLinkz link up tool to add your beautiful creations.

Isn't this picture and color scheme lovely?  We encourage you to combine Cranberry, Sunset, Glacier, Lagoon, and Topiary, and we can't wait to see what blossoms.

Thanks to everyone who visits us here at Heart 2 Heart!  Please remember that today is the last day to participate in any of our August challenges.  You can get a jump start on our September color challenge and link up beginning tomorrow (through the end of September).  Thanks!

Working 9 to 5 Challenge

Welcome to this week's challenge at Heart2Heart Challenges: "Working 9 to 5"!  There are so many ways to have fun with this challenge and you have this last week of the month to do it!  Do you have pictures of a home remodel job you want to show off, pictures of a kid at their first job or group photos from work?  How about a congratulations card to someone who just started a new job or a thank you card for someone who did a job for you?  Grab your CTMH papers and inks and have some FUN with this challenge!  I know our Design Team did!

First up is our Guest Designer Sue Reynolds. Be sure to visit Sue at her blog to say hello and check out the rest of her awesome artwork!

Sue Reynolds

Alyson

Allie

Heather Jane

Brandi


Melissa


Cynthia

Paige

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you'll join us this week and or any of our other fun August challenges!  Make it your own and show us your inky, glittery, crafty and paper filled fun projects!

Life is GOOD

Summertime and the livin' (and craftin') is easy!

Maybe it's eating fresh produce from your garden or farmers' market or barbecue with friends. Maybe it's a family vacation or a lazy day reading and napping in a hammock or visiting on a porch swing. Perhaps it is celebrating a wedding or birthday any time of year. We scrapbook all kinds of moments to help us remember the good times. Looking back, we can probably say that despite its sometimes unpleasant difficulties, for the most part, life is good.

What does living the good life mean to you? Show us how your Life is GOOD by making a papercrafting or digital project -- be sure to use at least some Close To My Heart supplies -- and link up your blog to Heart 2 Heart Challenges. For this challenge, you'll have to hurry! All July challenges close July 31. This is the final challenge in the "Life is" series. Come back next week for the first August challenge on a different theme.

Our talented guest designer Gretchen has this amazing project to show just how good life is!

Guest Designer Gretchen

Take a look at how our Design Team interpreted this Life is GOOD challenge and get inspired!

Melissa Robinson

Brandi Robinson

Paige Dolecki

Alyson Mayo

Allie Kostiuk

Heather Jane

You have until the end of the month to play along with any of our "Life Is..." challenges.  What are you waiting for?  We want to enjoy the good life with you!

Life is a Highway

Welcome back to another Life Is... challenge here at Heart 2 Heart!  Are you enjoy this month's series?  We love seeing how you interpret our challenges!  Thanks to everyone who has played so far this month!

This week, we are thinking Life is a Highway. This may conjure up images of road trips, cars, or you may even be inspired by the song! We would love to have you play along with us.

Our Guest Designer, Gretchedn, has come up with this fabulous scrapbook layout to get us started.

Gretchen 

Here are some of the Design Team creations to help you feel inspired.

Laurie Levorson

Angela White

Nikka Geers

Haley Dyer

Lauren Moore

We hope this has inspired you to get crafty with your highway ideas!

There's Still Time!

No, that's not the name of today's challenge, but it is a call to action!  There is still time to play along with any of our June challenges, but only until tomorrow.  The link ups will close, and Team Canary and Team Thistle will have one final job to do before their design team term ends: choose the June Top 10.  You can't win if you don't play, so join us today!

• Warm v. Cool Color Challenge
• Around the World: Maps
• Man, Oh Man
• Let Them Eat Cake

We'll be back on July 1 to introduce our guest designer, and then we'll start introducing our July-December Heart 2 Heart Design Team.  Check back often for the latest news!

Mum's The Word

Welcome to another week of Heart 2 Heart Challenges. We are bringing a head-start project for May: we want you to create something for Mother's Day! Alternatively, you could be keeping mum about something and we would like to be let in on the secret.

Our May guest designer Casandra has this lovely layout to share:

Casandra Bennett

The Design Team Thistle has been busy creating with their favorite products in honour of mums all over the world.

Lauren Moore

Haley Dyer

Alyson Mayo

Nikka Geers

Cynthia McCloud

Brandi Robinson

Can you guess if any design team member is also keeping mum about anything?  Visit their blogs to be sure!  We cannot wait to see your project, please link up below!

What a wonderful world!

Hello and welcome to another fun weekly challenge from the Heart 2 Heart Challenges theme. This week we have a theme that is pretty diverse and open to many different interpretations.  Your challenge, if you choose to accept it (and we hope you do!) is "What a wonderful world!"

• What a wonderful world:
• Travel, unique beautiful, wonderful places in the world.
• Earth Day - we live an a beautiful world, what do you do to make this world the best it can be, or what have you done to beautify the world (gardens, flowers, etc.)
• And of course there is the Louis Armstrong song, "What a Wonderful World" What does this song do to you, remind you of, inspire in you?
• As always, the sky (and your imagination/creativity) is the limit on how you interpret the challenge!

So as you can see, we have a wide open theme this week and we are so looking forward to seeing what you do with this theme! To help inspire you, here is what our design team has come up with, we can not wait to see what beautiful creations you come up with!

Alyson Mayo

Brandi R. - crzy4scrapbooking

Cynthia McCloud

Lauren Moore- CTMH CraftingsTravel Mini Album

Haley D.

Thanks so much for stopping by and please join us by linking up your wonderful world project below!