Rose Blossom Blog Hop - Stamp of the Month

Welcome to the Rose Blossom Blog Hop featuring the September Stamp of the Month, Paper Garden.  We are really excited to show you our creations with this beautiful floral stamp set.  This hop is a great big circle so you can pick it up anywhere and just keep hopping.

I love the big flowers in this stamp set so I made you a 5 x 7 card.  Let me tell you the steps to building this card so that you can re-create it if you'd like!

1. Create a 5 x 7 card base with Pomegranate cardstock (yes, this is a new and beautiful color!)
2. Cut a 4-3/4" x 6-3/4" White Daisy cardstock.  Using Bamboo ink and the chain link stamp from Paper Garden, create a background.
3. Using the largest bouquet stamp and Bamboo ink, stamp the image off the let and right side of the paper.  You are starting to build subtle dimension on your card.
4. Next take the second largest bouquet and Bamboo ink and stamp twice in between the previous stamps and this will create a lovely background.
5. If you have a cream colored organdy ribbon, layer it with Gold Foil Tape.  If not, you can use just the foil tape.  Place as shown.
6. Cut four large single flowers at 2" and ten small single flowers on White Daisy paper using the Cricut Artiste cartridge (page 54).  You will also cut eight leaves from the same page at 1".  If you have an Explore, the Design Space file is https://us.cricut.com/design/#/canvas/30744592.
7. Stamp the large flowers and eight of the small flowers with Pomegranate ink.  Stamp the remaining two small flowers with Bamboo ink.  Stamp the leaves with Fern ink (yes, another new color!).
8. Cluster and build the flower arrangements as shown.  If you use Thin 3-D Foam Tape, you will be able to build a more effective cluster.  Start with the large elements first when you build a cluster and then tuck smaller elements on, around, and underneath.
9. I've used a scrap piece of ribbon for a bow.  The little poppy-colored leaves (Poppy is a third new color!) tucked here and there are from the Sangria Complements.  Because I love to cluster, I am overjoyed with the new complements!!  I've also used resin flowers from the Sangria Assortment and Gold Bling Gems.
10. You can use any sentiment you'd like, but I have used the new stamp set called Sending Love.

Now, it's time to move on to Lynn's blog where she has some amazing artwork waiting for you.

Thank you so much for stopping in and visiting our hop!

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September Cultivating Creativity Workshop

It's time to tell you all about my September Workshop using Nevermore paper!

• Sunday, September 27th
• 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm (It won't take you this long, but I want you to relax and know you have the time you need.)
• Andover Senior Center - 1685 Crosstown Blvd NW, Andover, MN

Your $35.00 class fee includes the following THREE projects:

 2-page Friendship layout that could easily be turned into a Halloween layout.

Three Halloween cards to tuck in a bag (or attach to the front of a bag) with a treat!

Three ADORABLE pint-sized containers for treat-giving or home decor!

Product you will receive in this class:

• Nevermore Paper Packet (pre-cut for your projects and you get all the extras)
• Nevermore Complements
• 3 Pint-Sized Containers
• Roll of Purple Shimmer Trim
• 54 Grey Enamel Gems
• 3 Card Bases & Envelopes
• 3 Extra Sheets White Daisy Cardstock
• Full Color Directions and Cutting Guide

You will learn how to use the new clear Complement shapes, try out the new embossing folder on your cards, and how to turn Halloween paper into every day use.  

This is going to be a super fun class!

RSVP to girlygirlrose43@msn.com or order your kit by September 15th so that I have enough materials for you!

(Note to Consultants:  You can order the kit pre-cut or you can choose to pay for the files.)

Nevermore Workshop

Nevermore Kit with Shipping $42.00 USD CONSULTANT ONLY FILES $18.00 USD

Please let me know if you have any questions!

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Annual Inspirations Retiring in 2 Days!

It's August 30th, and that means that there are only two more days left before the papers from the Annual Inspirations book are retired!  I thought I'd show you some of my favorite projects from the papers that are still available along with the link to the original post.

Chalk it Up

Scaredy Cat

Pathfinding

Brushed

Wanderful

Seaside

If you like any of these papers, be sure to order them right away!  

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$49 Returning Consultant Kit - Just a Couple More Days!

I want to send out a reminder about the returning Consultant Kit special for August.  If you have bee a Close To My Heart Consultant in the past, you have a few more days to re-join Close To My Heat and get  your Essentials Kit for just $49!

These are the items that are in the new Essentials Kit valued at $129:

 Zoe Workshop on the Go Scrapbooking Kit
Order Forms
Idea Book Postcards
Annual Inspirations Idea Books (10)
Holiday Expressions Idea Books (10)
Paper Fundamentals Sampler
B&T Duos® sampler
Petite Perks Incentive Stamp Set

It's an awesome way for you to get started again at a very low price!

I have had the pleasure of welcoming 4 new Rose Blossoms to my first downline this month, and two of my downline have also welcomed two team members!!  It's such an exciting time with Close To My Heart, and I'd like to think that the Rose Blossoms make it even more exciting!!

Please let me know if you have any questions or you can go right to my website to re-join:

http://brendarose.ctmh.com/ctmh/what-we-do/be-a-consultant.aspx

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Masculine Card

The current Paper Fundamentals are retiring on the 31st, so I was looking through my scraps to see what I had left.  I used a sketch from a PageMaps University class that I took early in the year.

This card is completely unlike anything I would make.  I am not comfortable using kraft paper (although I have team members that make it look so easy!).  But I had a 4 x 4 piece of the desert sand with black houndstooth, and I really like that pattern.  I used the Artistry to cut the eye glasses and moustache, and I used Artiste to cut the ticket.  The black glitter paper was perfect!  I used Liquid Glass inside the glasses frames, and I dug in my stash for black hemp, a clip, letters, ribbon, and cork.  It pays to hang on to a little of this and a little of that!

Thanks for stopping in today!  I appreciate your visits!!

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Order Your New Idea Books!

Do you have your new Annual Inspirations and Holiday Expressions books?  They go live on my website on Tuesday, September 1st!  Order using the link below.  

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You're My Inspiration

Brushed paper will be retiring in less than a week, and it's a paper you want to have in your stash.   It's just so pretty and very easy to work with!

I used the vellum complements along with zip strip for a sentiment.  What a lovely card to send to that person that inspires you and helps you be the person you want to be.

Brushed Paper

Brushed Complements

Pink Shimmer Trim

Pixie Extra Thick Twine

Pink Gem from the "While Supplies Last" Base & Bling

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Happy Thoughts

It's such a beautiful day today with the sun shining and the butterflies playing by the plants.  I wanted to make a card that would share that feeling of a pretty summer day.

This is Zoe paper (don't you love it?) and the die cuts are from our new Artistry cartridge.  So easy and captured this summer day perfectly!

I can't leave without telling you that it is our 25th Anniversary today!  I don't quite know how time went so fast, and it seems almost surreal that we are celebrating our Silver Anniversary.  What I know is that I love my husband more with each passing day, and that I am problem the luckiest girl around.  We truly have a blessed life together!

Thank you for stopping in today!  Your visits make my day!

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Card Buffet - Sunday, August 23rd

Do you need to re-stock your card supply?  Come on over to my Card Buffet this Sunday!

Sunday, August 23rd

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Cards - $1.50 each with envelope

Andover Senior Center

1685 Crosstown Blvd NW, Andover

Bring your tape runner, scissors, foam tape, and glue dots. There will be 10 card choices, and you can make as few or as many as you'd like!  

Here's a card we'll be making that day using a fall stamp set and Jackson paper.

Hope to see you on Sunday!!

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Rose Blossom Featured Artwork

You will see a brand new feature on my blog twice a month.  I will be showcasing a member of my talented Rose Blossom team!  They are all such talented artists, and over the months, I think you will agree!  I will have a challenge for them on my team Facebook page, and every time they participate, they will earn a ticket in the random drawing.  During the first half of August, I challenged my team to post artwork using the beautiful new paper packet Zoe.

I've known Kim since I started blogging in 2008.  We've been on design teams together, and she is now one of the Rose Blossoms and loving Close To My Heart.  Kim is also the founder of the Sketches in Thyme challenge blog.  I will share all the links after showing you a couple of pieces of artwork that Kim has created with Zoe!

It's easy to see how much Kim loves paper crafting!  She certainly has an eye for detail.

To visit Kim, click on the links.  Be sure to leave her some love!

Kim's Blog

Kim's CTMH Website

Sketches in Thyme Challenge Blog

Look for another featured Rose Blossom on September 2nd!

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Welcome to the Rose Blossom Artistry Hop!

Welcome to the Rose Blossom Blog Hop!  Today we are featuring the brand new Cricut Artistry Collection, and we are excited!   There are 9 of us in the hop, and I hope that you will visit all of them.  You just follow the great big circle, and you will end up back here.  There is some amazing artwork along the way, so I know you are going to enjoy yourself!!

First of all, I want to tell you that if you are wondering what the shapes and images are on the Artistry cartridge, you can visit this blog post.  I have posted all the shapes so that you can see what is involved in this big batch of 700 images.

I made this card using Zoe paper.  The Artistry shapes are the flower, leaves, butterfly, and two banners.  The stamp "you and me" is from one of the Artistry stamps.

Now it's time to move on to Lynn!!  Enjoy your hop!!

Brenda - YOU ARE HERE!
Lynn 
Shelly 
Kim Hill 
Morgan
Cathy A
Mary
Kristine
Kim Sparks

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