Christmas - Part 2

Welcome back to Heart2Heart for another round of great Christmas creation ideas. 

 First up is a beautiful card by our Guest DT Tracy:

Stunning! Thanks Tracy!

Now on to our crafty little team A where we will start out with a a great Cricut inspired gift box. We have a boxes and tags and cards.

Kelly

Caroline

Erin

Madeline

Shirley

Are you in the Christmas crafting mood now? Here's how to join in this week's challenge:

1. Use mostly Close To My Heart products, though it doesn't have to be 100%.
2. Create your Christmas Project.
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. 
6. Consider adding the H2H badge to your blog. We'd love to spread the word and see more crafters participating.
7.  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).
8. Thank you to all our H2H participants and Design Team.  You all help keep our creativity on!

 

September's Top Ten!

Our Top Ten picks from September's challenges are ready to shine so let's get to it!

From Mini Cards week:

Kim

Amy

Donna

 

 From Biggie Cards week:

 

Debi

Gail

 

From Sketch week:

 

Becca

Pam

 

From Christmas #1 week:

 

Alyson

Allisa

Tina

 

And the top chick honors this month go to.................Alyson!

 

 

 Congratulations to everyone chosen. If you didn't make our Top Ten this time around, keep playing! The more you play, the more you have a chance to be in the H2H Top Ten!

 

 

Birthdays By the Numbers

Before we get to this week's challenge, thank you to all of our readers, participants, and followers!  It is so fun to see your creations each week.  You are truly an inspiration to all of us here at H2H!  Here are a few things to remember about all of our challenges:
     *You have all month to play and share for that month's challenges.
     *You can backlink to older projects if you wish.
     *You must use some Close To My Heart products in your creation.
     *Please mention H2H in your post.  We also love to know how we've inspired you.
     *Get crafty and have fun!

This week's challenge is to celebrate a birthday using NUMBERS on your project.  Now it's our turn to inspire you.  I'll bet a lot of us can relate to our guest designer Tracy's pretty card! ;)

 

 Next up is Angel's flirty and sweet 7th birthday card.

 

 Cheryl is on a roll with the 7s!

 

 Dania continues our western theme, dude, with her fun "21" card.

 

 Nancy included a cool chipboard technique on her handsome card!

 

Our final card comes from me, Haley, to celebrate a special teenager's upcoming birthday.

Are you ready to celebrate by the numbers?  If so, link up your CTMH creation here!  (Remember, if you're posting to a blog, use a direct URL link to the post itself, not to your blog in general.  Thanks!)  You have all month to play, so get those birthday projects made.  Happy birthday from all of us here at H2H!

Rolling, rolling, rolling along...

A new month, a new Guest DT (did you meet Tracy? See the post below this one) and a new challenge. And this time we have a technique challenge for you!

How about trying your hand at stamp rolling?

Here is a link to a description of the technique (sorry, it's a Stampin' Up description but it has great step-by-step photos).  http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/rock_n_roll/

Now let's see rock and rolling samples the DT created, starting with our October Guest, Tracy:

 

Be sure to check out each DT member's blog for further details on their creation

 

Caroline

 

Kelly

 

Erin

 

Shirley

Madeline 

 

 Great job, Team A! You rocked (and rolled) that challenge! But now it's YOUR turn, out there! Join in the fun and post your creation and then leave a link below. Here are all the "rules" for joining in on our challenges:

 

1. Use mostly Close To My Heart products, though it doesn't have to be 100%.
2. Post your project to your blog or other online gallery.
3. Come back here and directly link to your blog post, not your blog home page.
4. Mention Heart 2 Heart somewhere in your blog post indicating that you are playing along with us and link to our site.
5. Consider adding the H2H badge to your blog. We'd love to spread the word and see more crafters participating.
6. 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).

 

 

Meet our October Guest DT!

It's almost time for a new month and with it, a new Guest DT! But first a big THANK YOU to Amy who was with us in September. It was great creating alongside you Amy!

And now, let's meet our October Guest DT, Tracy Holmes:

I am the stay-at-home-mom of two great kids and married to a wonderful man, who lovingly supports my paper crafting addiction!  I discovered paper crafts about two years ago while organizing my kids birthday parties.  It was such a blast researching and creating the invitations, decorations and loot bags, and since then, I have gotten into cards, 3D projects and the odd scrapbook page. In May 2011, I became an Independent Consultant for Close To My Heart, and more recently asked to join the My Time Made Easy Pretty Palette design team.  It has been such an inspiration and boost to my creative mojo, and I am continually amazed and awed by the wonderful talent of the paper crafting community.

Welcome Tracy - we're glad to have you on board for the month. While we wait for Tracy's first project coming this Monday, be sure to stop by her blog and say hello: Paper Craft Nut.

Christmas Time! Part One

I KNOW!  Can you believe the holidays are just around the corner and my FAVORITE - Christmas!!!  This week's challenge is to create anything Christmas.  This will be the first of our Christmas challenges and you get to pick whatever - be it a card, tag, scrapbook page, etc.   Grab those Close to My Heart goodies and show us what you can do with them.

This is our last challenge for September so please make sure to get your entries in for all the September challenges by thius coming Saturday at 10:00 pm EST!!

Take a look at what our guest designer, Amy, has whipped up for us:

And now what our design team B has come up with and I do hope it will inspire you:

Cheryl

Dania

Angel

Dorothy

Haley

Nancy

Love it!  Aren't you just ready to play along???? I hope so. 

Here's how to join in this week's challenge:

1. Use mostly Close To My Heart products, though it doesn't have to be 100%.
2. Create your Christmas Project.
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. 
6. Consider adding the H2H badge to your blog. We'd love to spread the word and see more crafters participating.
7.  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).
8. Thank you to all our H2H participants and Design Team.  You all help keep our creativity on!

Sketch Time

We're excited to share another cool sketch for you to try! Here at H2H, we love seeing what YOU create - are you up for it?  Use this sketch as the starting point and let those creative juices flow.

Remember to use some of your favorite Close To My Heart products.  You'll have until early October to play along with any of our September challenges, so what are you waiting on?  We love and appreciate our H2H players!

Now let's see what our guest designer, Amy, has created.  

Thank you, Amy!

Here's the talented Team A, starting with Kelly:

Erin:

Madeline:
 

Caroline:
 

Shirley:

 

 

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 H2HSketch16).  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!