And the winner is…..

Happy Monday Everyone!

It’s time to announce our blog hop winner! The winner is……

Kimberly Jaster!!!

Congrats, Kimberly! Please email me at tcraftypickle@gmail.com with your mailing address.

Be sure to check our our DT members blogs as some had prizes along the way!

Thanks for playing!

Happy Crafting,

The Crafty Pickle

Worlds Greatest Brother

Hi Crafty Friends!

  Today we have a card for you by our fabulous DT member, Joann! She has a great card using both CTMH product and TCP flair! Take a look.

Hi, thanks for stopping by today! I am sharing with you another masculine card. A quick tip that I found was, pick your color combo out first and you’ll find out that the card will come together quite quickly.

I started off with a dotted stencil and some CTMH Lagoon ink to created a faded corner background. I cut the label using the CTMH Art Philosophy cartridge and stamped the image with a coordinating stamp set Perfect fit- Frames Flair with some CTMH Slate Ink,
I also used the stamp set Perfect fit- Dad Holiday to stamp the “World’s Greatest” on some vellum, finished the card off by cutting a few banner shape pieces, some yellow orange twine and of course some TCP Family Themed Flair!
Hope you enjoyed today’s card and as always thanks for stopping by!!
Supplies used
CTMH Inks:  LagoonSlate
Thank you so much for sharing your creativity with us, Joann. This has to be one of my favorite cards!
Happy Crafting!
The Crafty Pickle

You “Shine”!

Hi Crafty Friends!

   I hope your having a great week. Today our DT member, Julie, is sharing a layout all about herself! How often do we forget about documenting us because we are so busy documenting our family and friends? Take a look at her fabulous layout!

Hi! Today I’ll show you my new LO about me!) 
Not long time I found these photos in my box-with-old-photos and decided to create the Layout with kraft background. 
I added one more colour and made the LO using only brown-kraft, pink and white colours.
I hope you enjoied my project
Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day!
You definately “Shine” Julie! Thank you for sharing with us!
Happy Crafting!
The Crafty Pickle

Cute Easter Tag by Alicia

Hi Alicia here with another project for The Crafty Pickle. This time my focus is Easter. I used a November flair (church) to  make this simple tag. I use some old  pattern paper i have and some Tim holtz distress ink but you can use any kind material you want. For the final touch I used an embellishment (flower)  Here is a photo of my Tag:

Be sure to check out TheCraftyPickle on Etsy for lots of inspiring flair!
Thank you so much for sharing Alicia! It is a lovely tag!
Happy Crafting!
The Crafty Pickle

CTMH Lifting Spirits: One Stamp Set. Two Looks.

Hi Crafty Friends!

Today we have something special for you. Design team member, Carrie Bryant, and myself have teamed up to bring you two looks with the CTMH stamp set “Lifting Spirits”.

Here is a photo of the stamp set:

Lifting Spirits by CTMH @thecraftypickle.com

I had a lot of fun creating with this stamp set. It is one of my favorites ever since it showed up as a seasonal set last year. It is now in our annual expressions catalog for $13.95. Not only can you use the sentiments included in the set but there are other sentiments like “Happy Birthday” for example, that would look great in the banner as well.

I wanted to create a one layer card but still show some dimension as well. I chose to use alcohol markers as my main medium and used a bit of ink on the edges.

Here is my finished card

CTMH Lifting Spirits card by Taniesa@TheCraftyPickle.com

I started by stamping out the images and sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black ink. I colored the clouds, airplane, banner, and background all with alcohol markers. I used the CTMH Touch Twin markers and for extra shading used a few Copic markers as well.

Once everything was dry I took a Wink of Stella clear glitter brush pen and a Sakura Gelly roll clear glitter pen and added glitter accents. I used the Sakura pen where I wanted a high amount of shine (around the lines mostly) and the Wink of Stella as a filler.

CTMH Lifting Spirits card by Taniesa@TheCraftyPickle.com

For the final touch I used CTMH Liquid Glass to cover the body of the airplane to make it all shiny. Once completely dry, I mounted the panel on printed paper and then on a note card. You can kind of see the shiny on the airplane in the photo above.

CTMH Lifting Spirits card by Taniesa@TheCraftyPickle.com

I had a lot of fun making this card. I think this is one of my most favorite CTMH sets so far.

Here is a little peek at Carrie’s card, you will need to visit her blog HERE to see more photos as well as a walk-though on  how she created her card.

CTMH Lifting Spirits by Carrie Bryant for TheCraftyPickle.com

I love the dimensional look she achieved with her card!

I hope you enjoyed our One Stamp Set – Two Looks special feature. Let us know if you would like to see more of these kinds of posts in the future by leaving a comment below. There is some wonderful new stamp sets coming out in April!

Also, don’t forget about our Blog Hop giveaway that closes this Wednesday 2/25. Click HERE to get to the first post in the blog hop.

Have a “Uplifting” week!

Happy Crafting!

The Crafty Pickle

Project life with Mona

Happy Friday Crafty Friends!!!

  Today designer, Mona, is sharing her project life pages with us once again. Take a look at her use of TCP Flair within her project life!

Hi guys!

As I said, I will show you my last pages from 2014. This is the last one – week 52.

I’m so sorry, you probably are up to date with your spreads, me too ( almost), but this one had to wait a little to be shown here 🙂

I used Studio Calico cards form Pl kits, some old embellishments from Sc kits and of course flairs from The Crafty Pickle. Take a look how great they are!

Thank you so much for sharing, Mona. As always, LOVE your Project Life pages!
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Don’t forget about our blog hop contest and challenge! You can enter up until 2/25. To start at the beginning of the hop click HERE and leave comments along the way…. Participate in the sketch challenge for even more chances to win 
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Have a fantastic weekend!
Happy Crafting!
The Crafty Pickle

Just a pop of color!

Hi Crafty Pickle Fans!

  Today designer, Elodie, has a cute little card using a TCP flair button. Sometimes you just need a pop of color and this flair along with our Color POP collection is perfect for just that. Take a look!

Hi crafty friends !, today I want to show you a little card that I make with TCP flair.

I made this card for the birth of the son of my friend. For this card I used a soft colors.

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Supplies used:

Colorful Star button flair set 

 Thanks for stopping by !

Elodie

I love the bright bold colors she chose, don’t you? 

Don’t forget about our blog hop/Sketch Challenge. The prize is HUGE and you still have time to enter several different ways! Check out the post HERE.

Have a great Thursday!

Happy Crafting!
The Crafty Pickle

Follow that flair!!

Hi Crafty Friends!!!

Today Designer, Kristin, has a cute Disney pocket page idea for us. Take a look!

The Arrows Button flair is a fun addition to your page when you want people to follow the pictures around the page and I also added Vintage Camera flair and  A Disney “Let’s Party!” flair also …
Thanks for looking at my pocket page!!!

SO adorable, Kristin! Thank you so much for sharing!

Happy Crafting!

The Crafty Pickle

Birthday Card by Joann

Hi Crafty Friends!

  Today Joann is sharing a sweet birthday card that anyone would love receiving. She is using some fantastic Close To My Heart products. Take a look!

Hi, and thanks for stopping by!

I hope you’re not tired of my birthday cards…lol, I’m in the process of building my birthday card stash!!

I used CTMH-Honeycomb stamp set to stamp out my images with colors  LagoonSlate, and Honey. I than stamped my Happy Birthday sentiment with VersaMark and used Ranger White Embossing Powder to emboss it on vellum.  Finally, I took some brads to hold my sentiment piece in place.
That is all for today, hope you leave inspired and thank you for taking the time to stop by!
Stop by TCP CTMH page and pick up some goodies!
Supplies used:
CTMH Inks- Lagoon, Slate, Honey
 
Simple yet stunning! Thank you so much for sharing Joann!
 
Don’t forget that we have our blog hop and challenge going on right now. Click HERE for that post.
 
Happy Crafting!
The Crafty Pickle

TCP’s Sketchy Blog Hop

 

Welcome to another TCP blog hop!

Today our creative team will be sharing with you their take on a sketch created by our very own designer, Treasa!

This is the fantastic sketch she created for us:

Treasa's sketch for TCP

How would you like to win a “Year of Flair?” There are two ways to win! Enter both ways to improve your chances! First, Leave a little love on each of the designer’s blogs as you hop along. Every comment gets you an entry into the drawing for the flair. Second, Participate by creating your own take on our sketch and link us in the comments to your photo (Can be posted on your blog, Flickr, Photobucket, Etc…) It can be any type of project, however the sketch inspires YOU. International friends are welcome to participate as well! You have until Wednesday Feb. 25th to enter. Winner will be announced on TCP’s blog on Friday Feb.27th

Winner will receive 12 monthly sets of TCP flair valued at over $50.00

On with the hop!

First up is Alicia!

If you get lost along the way here is the order of the hop.

Alicia

Carrie

Catherine

Elodie

Joann

Julia

Kristen

Monika

Stephanie

Treasa

Don’t forget to comment on the TCP blog too!

Happy Hopping!!

The Crafty Pickle