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If you {heart} Close To My Heart, then this challenge blog is for you!
Each Monday, a new challenge is posted, and Close To My Heart products are required to enter.
Don't have any CTMH products? Then beg, borrow, or BUY from our fabulous roster of Consultants!

Sponsored and created by Independent Consultants for Close To My Heart, all challenges will be posted on Monday mornings with the deadline to enter on the last day of the month or on the Saturday following the month's final challenge. All challenges close at midnight EST. (Each month, the final challenge date will be announced to help you play along. You have all month to play, so join us often!) You might even be in our Top 10!

Monday, October 14, 2013

You Better Shape Up

Whether you're a regular follower or just visiting for the first time, we are glad you're here!  Playing along is really easy: create something that you think fits the week's challenge theme (using some Close To My Heart products of course), post your creation online, then come back here to link up.  You have until the end of the month to play along with any of this month's challenges.  It is time to shape up, sowe challenge you to use a shaped based for your project that is neither square nor rectangular.

Are you ready to shape up?  Our design team sure is!  We're shaking things up with both of our great design teams playing this week.  First up is our guest designer, Becca Whitham:







Are you inspired and motivated to get in shape?  You can see that there are so many different ways to interpret this one, so have have fun as you work it.  Get crafting and get back here to link up your project by 10/31.  

Saturday, October 12, 2013

September's Addicts and Top 10

One of the best parts of being on the H2H Design Team is seeing YOUR interpretations of each of our challenges.  We are thankful for all of our H2H participants each and every week.  Whether you play a lot or a little (or just lurk to see what's going on), we're so glad you stop by!  Thanks for making H2H a part of your life.

We'd like to recognize our September addicts, those lovely ladies who participated in all four of the challenges.  They are:
*Katrina
*LaJeania Hicks
*Debbie Bonczek
*Jody Gustafson
*Debbie Reed
*Hansi
*Jo Armstrong
*Beth Talken

Thank you, ladies, for sharing your talent with us throughout September!  Be sure to grab our "addicts" blog badge from our sidebar.

One of the most difficult (but still fun!) aspects of being on the H2H DT is narrowing down our weekly selections to choose our Top 10 for the month.  Here are our September winners:

Sunset, Barn Red, Cashmere, and Gypsy Color Challenge:


Brown Paper Packages Tied Up with String:


Few of My Favorite Things:


Alphabet Soup:



How about a big hand for our September Top 10?  Your blog badge is also on the side bar for you to grab.  Wear it with pride!   Now it's time to announce our overall winner, our September Heart 2 Heart Challenges Top Chick...






Thanks again to ALL all of our H2H players, addicts, top 10, and top chick!






Monday, October 7, 2013

Little Black Dress

Good Monday morning everyone! I hope your weekend was tons of fun. Perhaps you were able to dress up and go out dancing or somewhere special. And maybe you got to wear that little black dress you have hanging in your closet. Do you have one? I think most women do and it's their go-to dress for just about any occasion. So think about your dress and create something that reminds you of it or just go fancy schmancy on your artwork or maybe just use the color black. Whatever comes to mind when you think of a little black dress will work!

Without further ado, here is what our guest designer, Becca Whitham, created for our challenge.


And here is what the rest of Team Twilight created.
Carol
Haley

Kelly

Marie

Brittany

Lucy

Now it's your turn to show us how you interpret our 'little black dress' challenge. Post your link here so we can check it out and be sure to use mostly Close To My Heart products or your link will be removed. Have fun creating!

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Au Naturale

The calendar still says September (and that means you have until tonight to play along with any of September's challenges), but we couldn't give you just half a day to complete this challenge.  Nor could we wait a week to inspire you, so this week's challenge is actually our first challenge for OCTOBER!  We hope everyone who stops by will create something this month and join us for any of the upcoming October challenges.

Our theme is Au Naturale: use either all neutral colors or something from nature. Are you up for the challenge?  Our guest DT, Becca Whitham, sure is!


Here are Team Sunset's Au Naturale themed projects:
Amie Kiger

Katy Taylor

Melinda Everitt

Paige Dolecki

Pam Korte

Shirley Ross


Sunday, September 29, 2013

Introducing our October Guest Designer

Congratulations and welcome to our October guest designer, Becca Whitham!

I am a former D.O.T.S/CTMH consultant who still loves (and has way too much of) every scrap of paper and stamp.  In my non-crafting life, I am an aspiring author.  I've won a couple awards, finished a few novels, but am still several years away from having a publishable novel ready to sell.  I am an Army wife and mom currently living in Oklahoma, but Washington State will always be home.  My husband and I have been married almost twenty-nine years.  We have two grown children, one son-in-law, and no pets...or grandchildren...not that I'm, you know, hinting at anything. 

Thank you, Becca!  We're excited to have you join us here in October!  

Don't forget that all of our September challenges end Monday.  There's still a little time to link up!

Monday, September 23, 2013

Alphabet Soup

While the "lazy" days of summer fall behind us, we are excited to see so many of you playing along with our challenges!  Even if you can't play each week, feel free to leave our DT a little love in the comment section.  You have until the end of the month to play along with any of our September challenges, including this final one.  Thank YOU for making us a part of your online/crafty life!

Is the September weather starting to cool off where you are?  Is there a nip of fall in the air?  If so, then it's time to dish up some alphabet soup!  What do we mean by this challenge?  We are interpreting it to use multiple alphabets in your creations.  Maybe different stamp sets, maybe some Cricut love, or a little chipboard thrown in the mix?  No matter how you stir it, be sure to show off those cool fonts.  Variety IS the spice of life, after all!  As always, you are free to interpret  our challenges any way to your heart (or taste buds?) desire, as long as you use some Close To My Heart products in your creations.  (Please remember to mention your favorite challenge blog in your post and use the deep URL when you link up.)  Also, if you fail to use anything CTMH, we'll have to delete your entry.  Thanks for understanding.

Now, let's see what our guest DT, Wendy Coffman, has whipped up.  Thank you, Wendy, for sharing your talent with us throughout September!

Team Twilight got their creative juices stirring to share the following delectable creations with you.



 Lucy


Aren't these "soup-er?"  (Groan!)  Now it's time for you to make up your own alphabet soup and then join us!  Use the InLinkz tool below to link up your project(s).  You have until 9/30 to complete this and any of the H2H challenges. 

Saturday, September 21, 2013

August's H2H Addicts and Top 10!

Where has the time gone?!?  Sorry to be so late to announce August's Heart 2 Heart ADDICTS and TOP 10!  Thank you to each and every one of our H2H players.  You are all wonderful to us!  The following lovely ladies participated in every August challenge.  Congratulations to...
*Jo Armstrong
*Hansi
*Debbie Reed
*Lillian Yeh

The DT had a difficult time as usual narrowing down your amazing projects, but we managed to select the following fabulous creations!  Congratulations to our August Top 10!
Bon Voyage:
Jo
Hansi
Lillian


Sentimentally Yours:
Becca

Jo
Lisa
Sing a Song:
Jody
Becca
Make a Scene:
Gretchen
Hansi
Our August Top Chick is the amazing...

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How about a little comment love for these talented ladies?

There is still time left to play along with all the of the September challenges, so maybe we'll see YOU here next month!