Crafting for sanity? Or insanity?: National Scrapbooking Month Blog Hop

Welcome to our blog hop featuring the exclusive Blue Skies product suite created for National Scrapbooking Month. The same group of Independent Consultants who bring you the CTMH Stamp Of The Month blog hop are presenting the Blue Skies hop. We have over 15 Consultants sharing artwork created with Blue Skies.

National Scrapbooking Month–Blue Skies Blog Badge

You should have arrived here from ***Michelle Loncar's Show and Tell, with Michelle***. If you get lost along the way, Melinda Everitt also keeps a list of all participants on her blog at If You Bling It.

For our hop I created two cards. The first is the Mother's Day card I plan to give to my mother on Sunday. I love love this floral paper so I had to use a fairly large piece on her card.

card created with Blue Skies, Amazing Mother and Mother's Day Door

I tried to keep thinks simple to let the floral and stamped sentiment shine.

card created with Blue Skies cs, Blue Skies and Beautiful Day Stamp + Thin Cut

To create the background clouds I sponged though the waste after die cutting the clouds. I sponged ink on the rainbow to get a softer look, "huffed" on the stamp to moisten the ink, then stamped. I create some more interest, after inking the sun with Canary, I dipped the tips of the rays in Pixie.

Before you head to ***Gina Brandstetter's Gina's Little Corner of StampinHeaven***, the supplies I used to create my project are listed below.

All supplies are from Close To My Heart except where noted:

My Acrylix™ Stamp Sets: Blue Skies (CC5201); Beautiful Day (CC5203) or Beautiful Day Stamp + Thin Cuts (CC5202), Time to Celebrate — May Stamp of the Month (S2005), Mother's Day Door (CC42013), Amazing Mother (CC42015)
Patterned Paper: Blue Skies Paper Packet (CC5206) or Blue Skies Paper Packet + Sticker Sheet (CC5205)
Cardstock: Blue Skies Coordinating Cardstock (CC5212)
Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pads: Candy Apple (Z6509), Pixie (Z2844), Canary (Z2843), Green Apple (Z6513), Lagoon (Z2895), Sapphire (Z2848), Intense Black (Z4189)
Die-cutting & Embossing Machine (HB1080) – available at Level 1 of Hostess Rewards; see page 4 of Core Products or Party on my Consultant Website)
White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack (X254)
Round Sponge (Z697), Stitched Bracket Thin Cuts (Z3631), Quilt Embossing Folder (Z3663), Bitty Sparkles (Z1263)
Supplies not from Close To My Heart: We R Memory Keepers Precision Press Stamping Tool, Spellbinders Nestabilities Standard Circles–Small

If you are not already working with a CTMH Independent Consultant, you may purchase the CTMH items I used on my Consultant website.

If you have a few moments, please let me know what you think. I enjoy reading what people think of my artwork. Thank you for hopping with us!

So you do not have to scroll back up, the next stop on the hop is ***Gina Brandstetter's Gina's Little Corner of StampinHeaven***.