Welcome to our August Guest DT!

A new month is here and a with that brings a new Guest DT to Heart 2 Heart Challenges! One last goodbye to July's Guest, Marg - thanks for joining us!

Now meet Lori, who will be starting with us on the next challenge coming up!

"I'm a 41-year-young mom of three, and although I live in the far reaches of Chicagoland now, I am still a small-town farm girl from Walnut, Illinois at heart! I've been crafty for as long as I can remember, with countless hours spent on my 4-H Arts & Crafts projects. I picked up my first stamp over 20 years ago, and was introduced to scrapbooking by a coworker about 17 years ago. Once I caught the scrapbooking bug, I was unstoppable. I quickly progressed beyond the simple style popular at the time, but it was difficult to find fun, attractive, and quality supplies. In my quest for the perfect scrapbook album, I found a lady on a computer bulletin board (yes, it really was THAT long ago) who sold D.O.T.S. and she told me they had new albums that sounded exactly like what I wanted. Of course I loved them, and everything else in the catalog. As luck would have it, that consultant lived only 45 minutes from me and eventually, ten years ago June, she became my upline when I joined Close To My Heart! I still get excited with every new Idea Book, and Close To My Heart still sells my favorite products. I am so excited to be a guest DT member for August, and can't wait to start sharing my creations with you all!"

You can pop over and leave a welcome for Lori at her blog Saving My...
 
Don't forget - the deadline to enter all of the July challenges is this Saturday at 10:00 pm EST!
See you again soon!

It's a “Scraps” Challenge!

We're excited to bring you a “Scraps” challenge 

this week.  

Dig into your Close to My Heart paper and use up some scraps! This challenge can be any type of crafty project using some of your favorite Close To My Heart goodies.  It can be a layout, card or a paper craft!   You'll have all week to join us!  AND you have until this Saturday, Aug. 4 at 10 pm EST to enter ALL of the July challenges and be eligible for our Top Ten!

We here at H2H love to see what YOU create, so let's go! 

First up, our Guest DT Marg:

Thanks for joining us this month Marg - we loved having you and your beautiful artwork!

Now let's see what  Design Team B has created. 

 Cheryl

 Dania

Dorothy

 

 Nancy

 Haley

Angel

So are you ready to get scrappy? Get your artwork ready and posted to your blog and then link up back here. Remember, you MUST include Close To My Heart products in order to enter our challenges!  Thanks for playing along here at H2H Challenges!!

Happy Scrappin’ and Stampin’!

H2H Challenge - Water Fun

What is summer to you? Water Fun is our challenge this week. So grab your flip flops, sunglasses and a nice cool drink, and get crafty.  

We'd love to have you play along with us!

We'll start with a inspiring entry from our Guest Design Team Member, Marg.

Kelly

Caroline

Erin

Madeline

Shirley

So are you ready to let your water fun ideas flow?  Get your artwork ready and posted to your blog and then link up back here. Remember, you MUST include Close To My Heart products in order to enter our challenges!

What is required is that you...

1. Use mostly Close To My Heart products, though it doesn't have to be 100%.  
2. Use a Water Fun theme.
3. Post your project to your blog or other online gallery.
4. Come back here and directly link to your blog post, not your blog home page. 
5. Mention Heart 2 Heart somewhere in your blog post indicating that you are playing along with us and link to our site. 

Failure to follow the challenge rules will disqualify your project and your link will be removed.

It's a Sketch-y Challenge!

We're excited to bring you a cool sketch to try!  We here at H2H love to see what YOU create, so let's go!  Use this sketch as the springboard for any type of crafty project using some of your favorite Close To My Heart goodies.  You'll have until early August to play along with any of our July challenges, so get your craft on!  We love and appreciate our H2H players!

Now let's see what our guest designer, Marg, has created.  She has been at the Close To My Heart annual consultant convention, so she's providing a sneak peek at some new products! 

Thank you, Marg!

Here's the talented Team B, starting with Angel:

Cheryl:

Dania:

Dorothy:

Nancy:

Haley:

Are you inspired?  We hope so.  Now it's your turn!  Please use some CTMH products and this sketch as the basis of your creation.  Upload your project to your blog or an online gallery (using keyword H2H.Sketch15).  Please consider turning off word verification if you'd like to get comments (you can always enable comment moderation if you're concerned about spam).  You have all month to play along, so get your sketch on!

July Scrapbook Sketch

It's going to be a sketchy week coming up at H2H (shhh...just a hint of what's to come) so let's start off with another awesome scrapbook sketch from Cheryl.  You can find all her details on the H2H Scrapbooking page (tab above). Here is her sample based on the sketch:

Find out more about this sketch at H2H Scrapbooking and give it a try!

See you Monday with a new challenge!

Our June Top Ten

Once again, we had some awesome entries to look through and oh, the inspiration! Thanks to everyone who played along with us during June. Here are the people we chose for our Top Ten:

Color Challenge:

Sarah

Wendy

Father's Day:

Karen

Lorrinda

Ribbon:

Amy

Susan

Tasha

Wedding:

LeAnne

Lori

Lubna

And our top chick of the Top Ten is:

Lori!

Congratulations to everyone! Remember you can play with every challenge in July to increase your chances of being in our next Top Ten selection.

I'll be back soon with another H2H Scrapbook sketch!

A "geometric" challenge

Welcome to another week of challenges with H2H. How are you enjoying our new DT members?? I'm sorry I was absent last week but I am home from the hospital and almost feeling back to normal.

This week, our challenge is to include the following:

Line, Line, Circle, Square

Yep.

That means two items on your card must be lines, one must be a circle and one must be a square. All 4 items must be present and accounted for. Now these don't all have to be images - you can use embellishments for any of these shapes as long as we can see what you mean each item to be.

Let's see what our Guest DT and Team A have in the works for this challenge:

From our Guest DT Marg! Super cute!

Madeline

Kelly

Caroline

Shirley

Erin

So are you ready to let your geometric flag fly? Get your artwork ready and posted to your blog and then link up back here. Remember, you MUST include Close To My Heart products in order to enter our challenges!

Have fun and I'll see you back here soon with the June Top Ten announcement -