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Perfect for any level of paper papercrafter!

Love of Color - CTMH Technique Blog Hop

Welcome to the December 

Close to my Heart Technique Blog Hop!

There are 13 other amazingly talented Close to my Heart Consultants sharing their artwork with you for this month's Blog Hop. 

Should you get lost along the way, all participant's links can be found here. 

If you are coming from Michelle's Blog, you are on the right track.

As mentioned in a post a couple weeks back, I love to use our new 

Love of Color How-to-Book to inspire my cards and layouts. 

This month's Blog Hop showcases how useful this book really is.

The book has several awesome features:

It fits inside our Everyday Life™ albums for easy and convenient transportation. 

It includes breathtaking artwork that illustrates how to create perfectly balanced color combinations, and has tons of patterns for cards and layouts.

This book is perfect for both new and seasoned crafters. 

It would make an awesome Christmas or Birthday gift!

I created this card, to showcase the color combination on page 10 of the book. 

The three featured colors are Saffron, Smoothie and Lagoon.

The card base and second layer of the circle is Saffron cardstock. 

The torn strip is Lagoon.

The layer of cardstock behind the strip is Smoothie. 

One of my favorite Stamp Sets in our current catalog is the Grateful Heart Stamp Set. 

It is perfect for Thank you, Birthday, even Wedding cards!

I used Versamark Ink with the butterfly from the Grateful Heart Stamp Set, to create a very subtle tone on tone background on the Smoothie cardstock.

I used Lagoon ink to stamp the "Thank You" from our Grateful Heart Cardmaking Stamp Set.

For a bit of dimension, I used Saffron Ink to distress the edges of the White Daisy circle. 

Thank you so much for stopping by, before heading over to Darlys's Blog, please consider leaving a comment and enjoy the rest of the creative talents in this month's Blog Hop! 

Cute Cat Themed Card

Today's card features the cat and sentiment from the Punny Pals Stamp Set. 

This Stamp Set was part of the Close to my Heart Operation Smile fundraiser. 

It has several adorable animals with various sentiments to match. 

I chose to use three main colors: Canary, Lagoon and Sapphire. 

These three are featured together in the new "Love of Color" How- to -Book from Close to my Heart. 

It has tons of layouts and card samples, using a variety of complimentary colors.

I entered the card into the following challenges:

Pile It On! Challenge Blog-#148 Pets

Creative Moments- #155 Anything Goes 

Friendship Challenge- #35 Anything Goes 

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge-November Anything Goes with Patterned Paper 

Addicted To Stamps and More - #316 Anything Goes 

Lemon Shortbread Challenge Blog - #79 Anything Goes