Huntington Workshop on the Go

Hello my friends.  Can you believe we are half way through September already!! Geesh!!!

Today's post my contribution for our second month of the Don't Get Yourself In A Tangle Blog Hop.  At the bottom of my post are the rest of blogs for your hopping leisure.  

Today I am sharing a two page layout using the Close to my Heart Huntington Workshop on the Go.  If you haven't tried a Workshop on the Go, I recommend you do! With Workshops on the Go, you create a beautiful project — either a two-page scrapbook layout or a set of cards — using the materials in just one Workshops on the Go kit, which includes papers, coordinating embellishments, an exclusive My Acrylix D-size stamp set, and an instructional guide. Which I followed to a T!  I have space to put at least 4 pictures plus a space for journaling.

Here you can see some of the embellishments that come with the kit.  Above are some shiny rhinestones and cute little buttons and below is one of the canvas shapes.  See that little tri-colored leaf?  I did that with a stamp from the kit and three colors of ink!  Isn't it adorable!!!?

The lines on the kraft paper above are also from a stamp from the Huntington Workshop on the Go.

Here's one last peek. I LOVE those leaves!
Thank you for joining me today.  I'd love to hear what you think of my layout.

Supplies used
Huntington Workshop on the Go
Exclusive CTMH inks: 
Barn Red Z2104
Olive Z2137
Cocoa Z2114
Goldrush Z2123
Saddle Z2171

I hope you will enjoy your hopping!!

Up next is Carol Loftus
CTMH Festive Friday Blog Hop Line up
1. Diane Tuggle
2.Rebecca Brown
3.Michelle Bowley >>>You are here.
4.Carol Loftus
5.Linda Pekrul
6.Jamie Barney
7.Paige Dolecki
8.Mary Ellen Driggs
9.April Grigson
10.Theresa Miller
11.Brenda Lapp
12.Ashley Denny 
13.Mary Schwimer(Ida's Attic)

Close to my Heart new Frosted Premier!

Hello lovely blog land, have I got a project for you!  I recently joined a swap with other CTMH consultants featuring the new collections coming out in the new Autumn/Winter Close to my Heart Idea Book. I chose the beautiful Frosted line ~ I absolutely LOVE the soft blue and cream colors. And the patterns in this designer paper just sent me over the edge!  LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!

 Our projects were to create a Double Page layout.  I decided to go to a tried and true layout that can be found in the Make it From your Heart Volume 1.  I'll tell you more about that later... We also needed to create an A2 size card, a 3 x 3 card and a 3D item.

  So up first is my 3D project ~ For each ornament, using the Cricut Artiste cartridge, I cut out the base ornament out of colonial white, then used some of the gorgeous snowflake paper from the collection for the top layer.  I glued four pieces together with the red and white twine in the middle then decorated it with Silver glitter glue.

 Next up is the 3 x 3 card.  Easy to put together using one of the stamps that come with the new Workshop on the Go Frosted Card Making Kit.  Included in the kit are 10 stamps!  TEN!! TEN different stamps! Here's what's included in the kit 

• 2 - Frosted B $ T Duos Papers
• 5 - Cardsock Sheets-15 - Colonial White Cards and Envelopes
• 10 - Stamps
• 10 yards of Champagne, Colonial White & Silvers Baker's Twine
• 108!! Silver Glitter Gems
• 1 - Instructional Brochure

That's a whole bunch of awesomeness for $24.95!  Below I will tell you how you can get in on this deal.

 On to the card...Isn't it beautiful?!  I love the softness of these colors.  Again, I used one of the stamp sets from the Workshop on the Go Frosted Card Making Kit. Do you see the twine?  Gorgeous!  This comes in the kit as well.  It is Champagne, Colonial White and Silver Baker's Twine.

Remember the first picture...here it is again.  I just wanted to show you how the layouts look side by side. LOOOVE!!

Above is the left side ready for a 6" x 8" and a 3" x 3" picture. The beautiful shape was cut with the Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge.

And, above, is the right side ready for two 3" x 3" and a 6" x 4" pictures.  I've also included a lift up journaling spot decorated with more of the pretty twine and a gorgeous Silver Glitter Gem.

 I hope you enjoyed today's post.  It was a long one for sure, but I just can't say enough about this paper.  It is so beautiful.  I think you really need to see it in person.
  So if you are ready to place an order :-)  bop on over to my shop page ~ you'll see a link to my most recent gathering.  I called it August 1, 2014 (don't know what I was thinking when I named it) Click on the JOIN button and you're off! 

Thank you for staying with me until the end.
If shopping online is not your thing, send me an email and I'll get a catalog right out to you.
hugs,
Michelle

New York circa 1998

 Hello my friends.  Today I am sharing the two page layout I just finished.  The pictures are from a vacation my kids and I took to visit our friends, in NJ, to celebrate New Years.  We took the train in to New York and soaked in the city.  There was so much to see! One of the things we did was to go up to the viewing balcony in the Empire State Building and that's where I took the background images. I loved the Chrysler Building, but it's the other photo that has more of an important meaning.  The Twin Towers.

Another memory of the time we spent there were the taxi's.  They were everywhere!  I created the taxi's I used with some clip art. Print, cut and then layered some for a bit of dimension.

The papers are from Close to my Heart.  If you haven't seen their glitter paper, you don't know what you are missing! It is so um glittery LOL  Here's a link for the papers here.