It is bittersweet for me to say this will be my final post on the Heart2Heart Design Team. I have served 3 terms from July 2014 - December 2015! During my time I have felt so much inspiration, tried out new techniques and stretched my crafting repertoire. With the craziness of December and finishing up my first two Master's courses, I am a little late with this post. This holiday season is a tough one for me, but I feel so fortunate to be able to be around supportive family and friends. For my Christmas cards this year, I really focused on the theme of my heart and created all of my cards with the same design this year. 

CTMH Pride My first challenge on the Design Team! July 2014

Some Like It Hot July 2014

Scrapbook Your Favourite Colour Combo September 2014

Favourite Technique September 2014

Anything Goes April 2015

A big thank you to Haley and the rest of the Heart2Heart design team for a great experience!

To start the month off at Heart2Heart we are promoting items from our Holiday Expressions catalogue! Get your supplies while you can as everything in this mini-catalogue will expire at the end of this month. Stay tuned for a new Seasonal Expressions in January :).

I couldn't help but make another coffee cup card from the Artistry cartridge with our beautiful White Pines paper collection. I also used some white glitter paper from our Gold Glitter Pack.

Today over at Heart2Heart we are featuring watercolour! Whether you like to use watercolour paints or watercolour pencils, we want to see your beautiful creations. I have been playing around with my watercolour paints this fall and have been working on this effect. Here is a fall card I created.

It is my turn to post on the Heart2Heart blog this week and we have a sketch challenge to show off to you! This sketch was created by one of our talented Design Team members, Brandi!

This week at Heart2Heart we challenge you to doodle or create something inspired by doodling! I got an exciting package in the mail from Close To My Heart the other day, so I set to work with some of my new supplies.

I thought one of the patterned papers from the La Vie En Rose paper collection looked like doodling! I used a pocket card cut out from the Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge and set to work using some of our new colours from the Paper Fundamentals Enchantment (Eggplant, Sapphire, Saffron, Pomegranate) pack. To top it off I used a PML gold overlay.

Hope to see you in the gallery over at Heart2Heart!

I am in LOVE with my new watercolour pencils from Close To My Heart and this week at Heart2Heart we are showcasing colouring! I needed some Thank You cards heading back to school this week, so I set to work with some of my new supplies and tried out a few different styles.

What a way to make a livin' ;). It's getting close to that time of going back to work for me - eek! In the meantime, we at Close To My Heart have been working hard to get ready for the release of our new Annual Inspirations idea book, which goes LIVE September 1! Contact me to get your copy.

Here is another look at one of our NEW paper collections, Zoe. I made this card to celebrate our friend's little guy turning 3! He loves "working hard" with his toy trucks.


Now it's your turn to be inspired by our Workin' 9 to 5 theme at Heart2Heart!

This week at Heart2Heart our theme is Ticket to Ride. This challenge will be open for the rest of the month!
It was our third anniversary in July and I like to scrapbook a page for each year. Chris bought me a paddleboard this year and I absolutely love it! It has been my "ticket to ride" across the lake as much as I can this summer :).

I've got to say, there's no place I'd rather be than at the lake in the summertime. I have been spending as much time as possible at the lake this summer and on my new paddleboard! My grandparents have a summer cabin on Kootenay Lake and on one stormy morning, my aunt and I decided to can some green beans. You can get the recipe here.

I love using our chalkboard vinyl and chalk marker along with the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge to make cute labels for my canning. I picked up some funky fabric from the Sugar Town Quilt Company and found some pinking shears a few cabins down and set to work. Life is good at the lake!

Now come on over and check out the inspiration we have for you today at Heart2Heart. Hope to see you in the gallery!

I am pleased to say I will be staying on for another term designing at Heart2Heart! I have now been on this team for a year - wow! It is a busy time in our lives having just completed a move and looking forward to starting my Master's degree soon, but I love having something to motivate me to continue making time for crafting - it is a great release for sure!

Our challenge for you this week is to incorporate the theme of "Life is a Beach" into your project. Lots of inspiration for that in July, right! Here is a birthday card I made for my brother-in-law who loves enjoying a cold beverage on the beach in the summertime!


Come and join us at Heart2Heart!

Our theme at Heart2Heart this week is "Let Them Eat Cake"! I remember learning about Marie Antoinette in school and was fascinated seeing the history and palaces involved in her life when we went to Paris. This theme makes me think of weddings, so I decided to make some monogram cards for my cousin who is getting married this summer.



Hope to see you in the gallery at Heart2Heart!

This week at Heart2Heart we would like you to get inspired by maps. I chose one of my favourite places (and it so happens to be my Dad's favourite place, too, making this perfect for Father's Day): Kootenay Lake.

It's rhubarb season in the Kootenays! I've never planted it myself but always seem to be given just enough every year :)

When I heard of our challenge at Heart2Heart I knew I would want to create something with our fun Taste of Summer paper pack. I wanted to play around with the Bokeh technique again and this is what I came up with:

I have finally made this recipe my own and LOVE the addition of Huckleberry BBQ sauce.

Come and play along with our final May challenge at Heart2Heart!

It's my turn to post on the Heart2Heart blog and we have a fun new challenge to kick-off the week: Game On! Whether you take this in a sporty direction or simply vow to put in some serious crafting time, remember,

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision." - Muhammad Ali

I took this opportunity to make a birthday card for my nephew who happens to love soccer.

For our last challenge this month at Heart2Heart, we've decided to really open it up to Anything Goes, Close To My Heart style. I knew for sure that I wanted to create something using the fun new pack, Taste of Summer, that we will be offering during the month of May to celebrate National Scrapbooking Month!

This week at Heart2Heart we have a sketch for you to play along with! I made a few modifications to the sketch to create a sunburst card. This is my first time making one and I absolutely love the effect!

Come and play along with this fun sketch over at Heart2Heart!

We aren't fooling around this week at Heart2Heart and we want to see your fun scrapbooking layouts based on this theme! I have been working on our house album and decided to do a layout showcasing the building of our basement. With our first house, we held off on finishing the basement until after we moved in and learned it was more hassle than it was worth - you have to finish it at some point! So when it came to building this house we decided not to "fool around" and to do the basement as we were going along. To complete this project I used a CTMH layout from the book Cherish called "Give Me Ten". The layout features our new paperpack, Blossom, available in Seasonal Expressions 2, which goes live on April 1!

Hope to see you in the gallery over at Heart2Heart!

In celebration of the upcoming St. Patty's Day, we are going Green with Envy over at Heart2Heart! This week we want you to show us your favourite CTMH Green! One of mine would definitely have to be Pear, as it was one of my wedding accent colours! I must admit, I was green with envy when I saw the fabulous Seaside paperpack my friend ordered from me awhile ago, so I just had to get it myself!

Today over at Heart2Heart our theme is Opposites Attract. I chose to use the opposite side of a patterned paper from Chalk It Up when designing this card for a special little guy on his birthday.

Today over at Heart2Heart we are looking for you to become EnTWINEd with Close To My Heart products! Whether that be by using our fabulous colourful twine like I did, or using one of our stamp sets with lovebirds and vines, such as I Do from our Seasonal Expressions mini catalogue, this challenge is open to many interpretations!

I created this card with my friend, Natasha, in mind for her 30th birthday! She is an amazing friend and "simply the bomb" :). I absolutely LOVE this stamp set, which is only available to order until March 31!