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!

August's Top Ten (finally)

I am so sorry for getting August's Top Ten posted so very late into September.The truth is, I simply forgot. My bad! So here they are, better late than never:

Sympathy card challenge:

Vicki

Dena

Eva

 

Dog Days challenge:

Donna

Debi

Alyson

Color challenge:

Erin

Karen

Back to school challenge:

Jody

Tracy

And the top chick of the Top Ten is:

Tracy!

Congratulations to all! Your badge information will be in your email inbox soon!

See you all tomorrow for another challenge!

Scrapbook Layout from Cheryl

We're back to our monthly scrapbook layout sketches from the talented Cheryl and wait till you see the awesome sketch she has for you this month! Just follow along to the H2H Scrapbooking page (use the tab at the top of the page) and be sure to leave any comments on this post.

Here is Cheryl's sample layout to pique your interest  :

Enjoy!

It's Time to GO BIG!

Thanks so much for joining us here at H2H!  If you thought it was hard to fit all your bling and embellishments onto last week’s mini cards, then this is the week for you!  It’s going to be a big one!  Biggie cards, that is!  The challenge is to create a card larger than the standard A2 (4 ¼” by 5 ½”) that we all make so often.  We would love to see what you create, so get crafting, and don’t forget to GO BIG!  

To offer a little inspiration, here are the creations of our September Guest Designer Amy, followed by those of Design Team B here at H2H.

Created by: Amy (our FABULOUS September Guest Designer)

Created by: Angel  

Created by: Dorothy

Created by: Dania

Created by: Haley

Created by: Nancy

Created by: Cheryl

       

We hope we have inspired you to thing BIG!  We’d love to see your BIGGIE cards here too!  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 BIGGIE card!
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. Finally, you have the whole month of September to join us on any of our September challenges and be eligible for our Top Ten!

Happy crafting!

Time for a Mini Card Challenge @ H2H

Happy Labor Day! This week is all about mini cards! WHAT? Yes, you got it right!! We will challenge you to create mini cards smaller than a standard 4-1/4" x 5-1/2" card. The purpose of our challenges is to help you expand your imagination as immense as the Universe is, and when you combine it with the wonderful line of products that Close To My Heart has to offer you, we are 100% sure you will create a unique and amazing project. You'll have the whole month of September to join us on any of our September challenges and be eligible for our Top Ten!

 

H2H designers, as well as followers, would love to see what YOU create...come and share your art with us! For a start, we want to share with you our SEPTEMBER Guest Designer, AMY's creation:

 

 

 

Created by: AMY [GUEST DESIGNER]

 

And now, here is Team A's inspiration for you this week:

Created by: KELLY

Created by: SHIRLEY

Created by: ERIN

 

 Created by: CAROLINE

 

 And of course....

Created by: MADELINE :0) [ME]

 

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 MINI CARDS.
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.

Here at H2H, we love to see what YOU create, so let's go! AND don't forget to check out our Design Team's blogs by clicking on their names each week. They have lots of inspiration for you every day!

Happy CRAFTING!!

Madeline

Welcome to our September Guest DT Amy!

Before our new month starts, I want to thank Lori for joining us in August as our Guest DT and welcome Amy as September's Guest! Let's learn a little about Amy:

"My name is Amy Edwards. I live in Northern Illinois with my family. I have 3 girls, Danielle, Savannah & Maizie. I have always loved art. I started coloring and drawing as a young girl and then my aunt taught me how to paint, Rosemalling and folk art stuff. I started my college carrer majoring in Art...and then the kids came. I switched to finger piants and crayons. I always took tons of photos and was introduced to scrapbooking right after I had my second daughter in 1995 and shortly after that I started stamping. The rest is papercrafting history! I currently try to balance my love for scrapbooking and the quick ease that I find making cards. I love to make mini-albums and have recently fallen in love with my Cricut.

 

When I am not doing papercrafts you can find me hanging out with the family. I also love to read, watch movies, and explore the world around me".

 

 

Stop by and leave a welcome for Amy at her blog, Paisleys Playhouse. We're looking forward to seeing Amy's creations! Don't forget, you have until Saturday at 10 pm EST to enter any of our August challenges and you could be our next Guest DT! See you Monday for a brand new month of inspiration and challenges!