July–August 2021 New Product Blog Hop

Welcome to the Close To My Heart July–August New Product Blog Hop. This hop is brought to you from same the group of CTMH Makers who bring you the Stamp Of The Month Blog Hop. Today we are featuring projects created with products found in the new CTMH July–August 2021 catalog.

We have just shy of 15 CTMH Makers sharing their creations on our July–August New Product Blog Hop. If you stumbled upon my post, please join our hop by clicking the link to the next blog (often found near the bottom of the page) until you come back to my page.

CTMH New Product Blog Hop - cover July–August 2021 Catalog

You should have arrived here from the gifted Melinda Everitt. If you get lost along the way, Melinda also keeps a list of all blog hop participants on her blog at If You Bling It.

For our July–August Blog Hop I created cards. This card was created with Smiles from the Garden Stamp + Thin Cuts and cardstock.

card created with Smiles from the Garden Stamp + Thin Cuts

Except for the sentiment and leaf stamp in the background, I inked the stamps with sponge daubers then "huffed" on the stamp prior to applying to the die cut White Daisy cardstock. If "huffing" is new to you, you breath out of your mouth onto the stamp at add some moisture back to the ink before stamping (unfortunately probably a technique that should only be done at home alone during the pandemic).

If you are wondering what inks I used, from top to bottom they are: Green Apple (background); Blue Belle & Desert Rose; Lemonade (inked background with sponge dauber) & Black (sentiment); Blue Belle & Peach; Lemonade & Paprika; Peach & Desert Rose; Lemonade, Nectarine & Cinnamon.

In addition to random stamping the leaf with Green Apple on the light side of Green Apple cardstock, I used a Waterbrush to pick up some Green Apple ink and splattered it on the Green Apple cardstock.

When I was getting ready to cut, I thought I would share something I do when there are many Thin Cuts on a magnetic sheet. Sometimes when there are many dies, especially when a die is stored within a die, I find I have are hard time finding a place for a die and need to re-place a die (or shuffle many dies) to fit all of them back on the sheet.

Thin Cut dies on magnetic sheet

My Acrylix® stamps on White cs

stamped images on White cs

So I started to stamp the images, in approximately the same location they are on the magnetic sheet, on a 5⅞" x 5⅞" piece of White cardstock. This makes it easy to place the die back on the sheet and quickly verify all of the dies made it back to the magnetic sheet when I am finished crafting with the set.

I also created this card using the Wander—Cardmaking Stamp + Thin Cuts and some scraps of Wander paper I had left after cutting for some pages and cards.

card created with Wander—Cardmaking Stamp + Thin Cuts

To make the mountain in the foreground shorter, I built the mountain off the card.

mountain front view

mountain rear view

I placed some Thin 3-D Foam Tape on the back of the pool of water. While the adhesive was still protected, I layered the pool of water over the top of the mountain, aligning the bottoms, to see if any of the mountain showed through the water. I trimmed the corners of the mountain to prevent them from showing then attached the water to the mountain. I used Thin 3-D Foam Tape on the back of the mountain and 3-D Foam Tape on the water edges. Once this was created, I added it to the card.

I used a Waterbrush to pick up some ink inside the Glacier Stamp Pad and brushed it along the top edge of the pool of water. Once the pool of water was dry, I also used the Clear Shimmer Brush in five locations on the card: to add a bit of "reflection" on the water, the edge of the cloud (inside the stamping without covering the ink), the inside of the sun, the "snow cap" on the mountain and the top edge of the ink on the mountain to soften the edge between the snow and the rock.

close-up card created with Wander—Cardmaking Stamp + Thin Cuts

I used both the dark and light side of Evergreen cardstock to die cut the trees and used a combination of Adhesive Runner and Thin 3-D Foam Tape to create dimension. I need more Thank You cards (I am behind in sending them) so I "shopped my stash" of CTMH stamps and found "Thanks So Much" part of Truly Blessed; when the stamps on a stamp set do not work for you, I encourage you shop your CTMH stash too. I love a having a large variety to "staple" sentiments in various sizes and fonts.

Before you head to artistic Gina Brandstetter, 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: Smiles from the Garden Stamp + Thin Cuts (Z3967) or Smiles from the Garden (D2030), Wander—Cardmaking Stamp + Thin Cuts (Z3959) or Wander—Cardmaking (C1898), Rainbow Bridge (D1862) or Rainbow Bridge Stamp + Thin Cuts bundle (Z4084)–if you have it; Truly Blessed or Truly Blessed + Thin Cuts (Z3528)
  
• Patterned Paper: Wander (X7271B) or Wander + Sticker Sheet (X7271S)
  
• Cardstock: White Daisy (1385), Lemonade (X6035), Green Apple (X6031), Pebble (X5955), Evergreen (X6030), Wander Coordinating CS (X7271C) or Glacier (X5978)
  
• Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pads: Green Apple (Z6513), Blue Belle (Z6519), Desert Rose (Z6525), Lemonade (Z6517), Black (Z2805), Peach (Z6502), Paprika (Z6515), Nectarine (Z6510), Cinnamon (Z6522), Glacier (Z2841), Pewter (Z2832)
  
• Slimline Cards & Envelopes (X257), White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack (X254)
• Clear Shimmer Brush (Z3293)
• Small Round Waterbrush (Z3224), Sponge Daubers (Z726) or Sponge Daubers Value Pack (Z1938)
  
• Thin Cuts: Circles Thin Cuts (Z3943)
• 3-D Foam Tape (Z1151), Thin 3-D Foam Tape (Z2060), Adhesive Runner (Z3372)
  
• Die-cutting & Embossing Machine (HB1080)

If you are not already working with a CTMH Maker, you may purchase all of the supplies I used at my e-commerce website.

If you have a few moments, please leave a comment letting me know what you think of the card I created. I hope you are enjoying the projects created with items you will find in the July–August 2021 catalog. Thanks for hopping with us!

So you do not have to scroll back up, the next stop on the hop is Gina Brandstetter.