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Welcome to another Close to My Heart Product Spotlight Blog Hop!  This month we are featuring Just Bloom flowers!  Flowers are one of my favorite products and with two girls I add them to almost every page.  Plus, the Summer Posies and the White Daisies are currently on sale!

Here’s a closeup of the flowers (the best I could get because they are so shiny):

Products used are all CTMH: Magic Moments Level 2 Paper Packet, Just Blooms White Daisy Variety Pack, Spot On Backgrounds stamp set, Playful Flourishes stamp set, Create-a-Shade paint, Sparkles, Bitty Sparkles, Hodge Podge Color Ready Alphabet, Hollyhock, Sweet Leaf, and Chocolate ink.

Layout Challenge: #55 of 210

My favorite flowers are the White Daisies because you can make them any color you want by using reinkers and dying them.  There are so many things that you can do with these flowers: add a little or a lot of color with reinkers and ink, stamp them with any design and color for added detail, layer them, or paint them.  There are many things you can add as the flower center: a drop of paint or glitter glue, buttons, brads, eyelets, rhinestones/gems/sparkles, pearls, a ribbon knot, sticker, or stamped image.

You can see many of these techniques on the flowers on my layout.  I stamped some of them with different images and because I just love the shimmer I painted them all with Create-a-Shade paint.  I also love sparkles so I added them as my flower centers and around the flower clusters.  The Color Ready alphabet stickers are sponged with Sweet Leaf for a perfect color match to my layout.

Now hop over to Tracy’s blog to continue!

Please come back and visit on July 15th for our next blog hop spotlighting the Cupcake Sprinkles stamp set.

See the previous post for a complete list of participants.

Supplies used are all CTMH unless noted: Twitterpated Level 2 Paper Pack, Dimensional Elements in Color – Organic, Hello There stamp set (exclusively sold with the Twitterpated WOTG), Sweet Leaf, Chocolate, and Sorbet inks, Sorbet Marker, Natural Hemp, and Cricut Lyrical Letters cartridge.

Layout Challenge: #54 of 210

This layout was done awhile back when I did the Twitterpated Workshop.  I just got a picture and title added.  The title didn’t show up very well so I took a marker and colored the letters making them darker.

Supplies used are all CTMH unless noted: Zippidee Level 2 Paper Packet, Holiday Buttons, Black Hemp, Badge Buttons, Tinkerin’ Level 2 Stickease, Simple Stitches stamp set, Cocktail Alphabet stamp set, black ink, black & colonial white cardstock, Zig marker, and Cricut Plantin SchoolBook cartridge.

Layout Challenge: #53 of 210

The challenge this month at Scrap Our Stash is to stitch on your layout.  Be sure to check it out and enter your own project for the month.  I love the look of stitching and there are so many ways to achieve it.  You can, of course, use your sewing machine.  (This is actually the only sewing I have ever done – on paper!)  Or you can poke holes with your paper piercer and connect them with a marker, use a marker to make “dashes” that resemble stitching, or what I did on my layout – stamping.  The CTMH Simple Stitches stamp set is one of my favorites.  It is faster than actually sewing and because the stamps are acrylic the are very easy to line up.  I created the look of stitching on the title as well as around all the blue photo mats.  It is a great look for any layout and often adds the perfect extra touch.

Supplies used are all CTMH: You Rock Level 2 Paper Packet, Dimensional Elements – Stars, Outdoor Denim Mini-Medley (includes buttons & ribbon), Goldrush Cardstock, Outdoor Denim & Goldrush ink, and Building Blocks Alphabet stamp set.

Layout Challenge: #52 of 210.

Stephanie was so proud to bring this certificate and trophy home from school.  And rightfully s0!  For 2 weeks straight she would come home and read, eat, read some more, and go to bed.  She even took a timer to school to keep track of when she read during free time.  It’s all the kid did was read!  So it was great to see that she was rewarded for it.  She read the most minutes during that time period out of not only her class but the entire elementary school!

Supplies used: CTMH Bella Level 2 Paper Pack & Stickease, CTMH Olive & Lilac Mist cardstock, unknown chipboard flourishes, Making Memories paint, Bazzill? flowers, CTMH Sparkles, Cricut Storybook cartridge.

Layout Challenge: #51 of 210.