3rd January Challenge: Fancy Fold Techniques

It's me, Angela from Angela's Craft Closet waking you up on this great Monday morning!  Is everyone enjoying their long weekend?  Are you ready for this week's H2H challenge?  Well get your fancy on, we want to see your most fantastically fancy folds!
(And the fold in the card base does not count. )

 



Our January Guest Designer, Kim, has created this beautiful card to kick off our Fancy Folds challenge!

 

This week, Team A will be sharing their artwork with you.  Take a look at all the fancy folding they've created!

Carol

 

 

Haley

 

Jody

Lucy



Tamytha

and me, Angela



 

Now it's your turn to show us what you've got! We hope Team A has given you some great ideas. Please remember a few simple rules:
*Our challenges are open to everyone!
*To enter, follow the challenge of the week and post your results to your personal blog or other online gallery.
*Be sure to come back here and direct link to your challenge post so we can see your artwork! (You can see our sidebar for some simple instructions.)
*In order to enter a challenge, you must use Close To My Heart products but your project does not have to be 100% CTMH.
*If you use something from another company, please consider including details in your project's description.
* You MUST mention H2H challenges in your blog post (and a link back to us would be appreciated).
*Spread the word about our challenge blog by including our badge on your blog.
*Most importantly, have fun creating - the Close To My Heart way!
Note: Any entries not following the above rules are subject to having their link removed.

 

It's a Technique Challenge!

Thanks to all of those that joined last week's challenge.  If you didn't get a chance to play along, it's not too late. You have until 10 p.m. EST Saturday to submit your project for any of March's challenges in order to be considered for this month's Top Ten.

Now for this month's final challenge....EMBOSSING!  You might be wondering..."What kind of embossing?"  Whatever kind of embossing gets your creative juices flowing.  You can use dry embossing or heat embossing, or both!  It's up to you.  


As you can see from the projects from this week's design team, the things  you can do with embossing are almost endless.  If you want more details on the design team's projects, simply click on the designer's name to be directed to their blog.

Our Guest DT member, Kelly

Haley

Ann Lessner

Jen Zimmerman

Mary Gunn

Tamytha Jenkins

Allisa Chilton

Now it's your turn!  Just remember the rules of the challenge.  

1. Use mostly Close To My Heart products, though it doesn't have to be 100%.
2. Use some form of embossing on your project.
3. Post your project to your blog or other online gallery.
4. Come back here and directly link to your blog post (not just your blog home page).
5. Most importantly...have fun!

We hope you are inspired and we can't wait to see everyone's projects!

Happy creating!

From Your Heart to Ours - Techniques

It's time for another challenge but before we get to that, it was just brought to my attention that I forgot something very important - I forgot to draw two winners from the April challenges for the prizes from our awesome sponsors!!! So I let Random.org pick two winners and they are:

#3 Carla I. from the Showers/Flowers week
and
#17 Shelly D. from the Recycle week

Congrats ladies! Please email me with your mailing address so I can forward the information to the prize sponsors and they can get your prize in the mail.

Now on to this week's challenge. It's another From Your Heart to Ours week which means we want you to share not only your artwork with us, but also some details and this time it is all about your favorite technique. We not only want you to share your artwork using that technique but also tell us how it's done. We might just find OUR next favorite technique from YOUR post!

Here is what the DT created - be sure to go to each gal's blog to read about the technique they used:

Debbie

Lorrinda

Jody

Karen

Haley

Jessica

Mary

Now it's your turn to show us your favorite technique! Create your artwork - be sure to use CTMH products - and link up here. We can't wait to learn from you!

A new week - a new challenge - embossing!

So many exciting things going on at H2H - let's get right to it!

Last week was a 4 for 40 week and YEAH - we had 40 entries!!!!  Now I know, some entered twice, and I think one may have been a duplicate, but I don't care - there's 40 entries and I'm awarding Jessica's 4 pieces of artwork to one lucky player. And that person, chosen by Random.org is ......   #5 LINDA NORMAN!  Congratulations Linda - please contact me with your address so Jessica can send out your prize! 

This week, our prize is sponsored by Carrisa Peach. Carrisa will be sending one of our lucky participants a complete KEY TO MY HEART set from CTMH. This is an older promotional item that is not available any more so it's a little rare! I will have a photo of it as soon as I can get the photo to cooperate. Thank you Carrisa for sponsoring us this week! You can visit Carrisa's blog at Just Peachy Creations and check out her adorable artwork!

This is also our last week to be highlighting our Guest DT, Lorrinda, and her artwork for this week's challenge is gorgeous! But then again, have we seen anything less from this talented lady?  Our challenge for this week is EMBOSSING - dry or heat embossing. To start off our inspiration, let's take a look at Lorrinda's card:

Lorrinda used 4 different embossing styles on this beautiful card. If you want to get all the details, head over to her blog for more information. Thank you for joining us this month Lorrinda! We loved having you as part of the team!

Here are the rest of the DT samples:

Andrea

Mandy

Mary

Deneen

Jamia

Jessica

Kelly

WOW! Everyone did such a great job and I hope you're inspired to give some embossing a try this week. Create your project (*and be sure to use Close To My Heart products) and then post your artwork to your blog or other public gallery. Be sure we can leave you a comment on your post in case we need to contact you. Then come back here and leave a link to your post. It's that easy! Details on our challenge "rules" can be seen in the sidebar to the right.

Have a wonderful week~

A techie challenge for you!

It is so much fun looking through all of your posts every week - what a lot of talent! Consultants and CTMH fans alike - your artwork impresses us every single week!

Before we get to the new challenge for the week, I want to thank Adeline once again for being our prize sponsor! The lucky winner, drawn at random from all entries (and it's rare to come up with the #1 entry on this list) is Benjaman! Congratulations! If you will email me please at mbryt1@bex.net I will get your mailing information over to Adeline and she will send out your prize.

Here's the fun news - this is a back to back prize week so there will be a prize package to be won this week as well! Our sponsor is none other than our newly chosen Guest DT for May - Deneen! And look at the goodies she is going to be sending to one lucky participant:

This is one fabulous prize and you can see more about it at Deneen's blog. Thanks Deneen for sponsoring our challenges!

Ok, so now on to the next challenge. This week you can create whatever you like but it must include a technique that you can tell us about. Oh, there are tons of techniques - just Google stamping techniques if you need to find one. And we want to see what technique inspires you to create! Don't forget that you must use mostly Close To My Heart products in your artwork.

Now are you ready to see what the DT came up with? Take a look:

Angela

Helen

Mary

Carol

Jayma

Tracey

Katy

Want to know what technique each team member used? Then pop over to their blog (their name is the link) and read all about it!

Now it's your turn. Let's see how techie you can be! Post your artwork to your blog or other public online gallery and then come back and leave us a direct link (see the rules and directions in the sidebar).  We'll make our rounds and check you out and you might just win a prize, become a member of the next Friday Five and maybe even be selected the next Guest DT!

Have a great time creating!