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Cross Canada March Blog Hop: Bring on Spring!

Welcome to the March Cross Canada Blog Hop featuring any bit of spring we can find! This month we want to channel warmer weather and budding flowers- anything that will help to speed up (or help us feel like it is speeding up) winter.

This month I got my inspiration from our Monthly Special ‘Showtime’. This cute stamp set (or bundle) features a super fun set of images that make you think of the circus, carnival or amusement parks! All things that need warmer weather LOL

Product featured in my card:

Gold Foil Paper (12 x 12)

Watercolour paper

Watercolour paints

Showtime Stamp set

Gold ribbon

Circle Thin cuts

3D foam tape

To create the background of my card I added a generous amount of paint on to my CTMH all purpose mat. I think spritzed the paint with water and carefully laid my watercolour paper into the paint. After tapping the paper down to ensure it had made contact with the all purpose mat, I pulled the paper up and laid it aside to dry.

While the watercolour papers dried I did my stamping (except for the ferris wheel) and assembled the pieces that I could. Once everything was dry I was able to stamp the ferris wheel and assemble the rest of my card.

I may have to make more of these tomorrow in more fun colours- they are the perfect addition to any birthday party my kids might attend this spring and summer!

Now, as mentioned, the Showtime Stamp set can be purchased on it’s own (at $23) or you can take advantage of one of our monthly sales and purchase the Step Right Up bundle for only $37.95… and if you are not sure what to do with all the paper and accessories in the bundle then check out my last blog post for THREE fantastic layout ideas!

 

Now hop on over to Kristine’s blog and see what she is bringing to the blog hop party!

Until we craft again, The Brae-er


Sunshine Birthday Party

If you have followed my blog for any time you know that I enjoy throwing a good birthday party for my kids. Now, my son is older (11) and has evaded the birthday fun the last few years- opting for hockey games with friends and a trip south.  My daughter thought is still young and LOVES a good party!

This year Ellery turned four and we decided to have a Sunshine themed party- outside games, beach visit if it is hot and lots of yellow! Of course I use as much Close to my Heart product as possible in throwing my parties!

Treat bags- we used the CTMH treat bags to create our little bags of sunshine for our friends. They included the sunny treats of bubbles and a ring pop! The front of the bags were decorated with cuts from the CTMH Artbooking cartridge and some of our new orange shimmer trim!

sunshine party bags

 

Our ‘Happy Birthday Sunshine’ banner was made with more yellow treat bags. The sun was cut out on the Artbooking cartridge and the alphabet was cut using our new CTMH Artistry cartridge (and I LOVE the font!)

sunshine party banner

 

This fun birthday decoration was created using tissue paper- cheap and easy but it took a long time! We took polaroids of all our guests and I added the pictures to this bunting with clothespins- a fun little addition but one that I forgot to snap a pic of in all the excitement.

sunshine pinterest banner

We also had lots of yellow food- fresh corn on the cob, lots of lemonade and other sunny treats. I baked a cake and my sister decorated it- the cake was out ‘shone’  by the banana split bar (HUGE HIT!!)  My big girl is now four and off to school- boo!

sunshine birthday collage

Until we craft again, The Brae-er