Live Your Day CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop featuring this months Special Picture My Life™ Live Your Day Scrapbooking Program Pack. If you have arrived here from Meryl Cheetham - Mez's Craft Room then you are in the right place. If you landed here another way, please join in by following the link at the end of this post. Follow the links, check out all the amazing ideas and eventually you'll come right back here to where you started.

The Picture My Life™ Live Your Day Scrapbooking Program is only available during January to Celebrate National Papercrafting Month. In Australia it's only $13.50 and available until 31st January 2016. 

Its a beautiful Picture My Life pack and matches the beautiful Everyday Life™ Album—Black and the Everyday Life™ 2016 Planner Pages (The 2016 planner pages are currently 50% off while stocks last). You can slip these PML cards into the special Album pages that fit into the Everyday Life Album or the larger sized 12x12 PML pages. 

These PML cards could be used in many ways, pages, cards, decorative items, PML large albums or these specialised newer sizes (shown above) which I'm sure the other ladies will show you all these different ideas, as you hop around the Blog Hop. 

I decided to use some of the cards as a decorative frame. There are so many options because so many of these cards have beautiful sentiments, just perfect to add to a frame for a beautiful poster. 

I had a frame left over from the blog post I made last month. I bought these shadow box frames cheaply from Kmart that fit these cards perfectly. So I sampled a few of the different cards to see which one I liked best. 

So many gorgeous options for gift frames. These would make great presents for someone in your life that you want to inspire.  

I decided on this card and like all our PML cards on one side its vertical and the same sentiment is repeated on the other side horizontally. 

Then I put it inside the frame and I'm very happy with it. A super quick décor item that looks great. 

After I made the frame. I decided on a card using the cute love heart PML card from this pack too (Picture My Life™ Live Your Day Scrapbooking Program). I decided to make a 6x6 card so I cut a piece of 12" X 12" White Daisy Cardstock in half and folded it in half. 

To make the PML card fit onto the 6x6 card evenly. I cut 1 inch of each side to make it a 4x4 square. 

Around the edge of the 6x6 inch card I stamped the January Stamp of the Month Beloved Bouquet—January 2016 Stamp of the Month flower using Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. I was inspired to use it in this way by Denise Tarlington from the last blog hop. 

Then I laid over the PML card with the heart on it over the top and decided it was too busy. 

So I cut a 12" X 12" White Daisy Cardstock to 4.5 x 4.5 inches and placed it behind the card to give some delineation for the two black pieces.

  
I was much happier with this. Then I used the Beloved Bouquet—January 2016 Stamp of the Month and put the title in the middle using Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad.

I placed the cards in the middle (the picture above isn't stuck down). I love the "You Mean so much to me" title. The Stamp of the Month and the Picture My Life™ Live Your Day Scrapbooking Program are both only available this month. 

I combined this card with a 6" X 6" White Daisy Envelope. 

Now I have a gift frame décor item and card that all matches, all ready to go. 

Remember this great PML set Picture My Life™ Live Your Day Scrapbooking Program and the Beloved Bouquet—January 2016 Stamp of the Month is only available throughout January from your Close to My Heart Consultant. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest projects, I hope you get inspired to create a beautiful wall art item or card this month. I'm really interested to hear what you think about it, so I'd love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop on our Australasian Blog Hop which is Maz Wood: Inky Fingers.

  Come back to see me again soon.

Beloved Bouquet – Australasian Blog Hop - January 2016 Stamp of the Month

Hello and welcome to our First Stamp of the Month Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop for 

2016!!!!

WELCOME TO THE NEW YEAR!!!

We also have the exciting new Seasonal Expressions catalogue launching today so make sure you check online with your consultant (or click on any of the links) for NEW PRODUCTS!!

We have all been creating with "Beloved Bouquet—January 2016 Stamp of the Month" Stamp set. If you have arrived here from Doris Taylor, Creative Inspirations then you are in the right place. If you landed here another way, please join in by following the link at the end of this post. Follow the links, check out all the amazing ideas and eventually you'll come right back here to where you started.

Today I would like to share with you my project which features the Beloved Bouquet—January 2016 Stamp of the Month  available exclusively throughout January 2016 for $27 or for just $7.50 when you spend $75. This is such a lovely stamp set for the Base & Shade technique. 

I decided I wanted to use this stamp set to create an artwork with my Designed Décor Black Shadow Box. You can make this project as a title page for your album or a a lovely piece of art for your wall for the whole family to enjoy on a daily basis. Before Christmas our family had a photo-shoot with a friend and I got some photos enlarged and thought it would look great as an artwork. 

My picture is 8 inches x 12 inches. Originally I thought I'd put the photo in the middle of the 12" X 12" Colonial White Cardstock page but then I decided it looked better at the base of the page. 

I used the stamp set to line up how much room I needed. I left a pencil mark on each side to give me an idea of how high to place the stamps without the photo there. 

I decided to used a title Fundamental Stickers Basics Pack and I cut out the LOVE sticker and backing to get the placement on my sheet right before I peeled off the letters. 

I placed in the middle (without sticking it down) and continued creating around it. 

I left the love placed there and used the leaves and stamped them with Sweet Leaf Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. This is the perfect leaf colour because its called "Sweet Leaf" (yes this made me giggle). 

On a scrap piece of 12" X 12" White Daisy Cardstock I stamped a few of the sweet leaf leaves and added the over leaf in a few different ink colours. Pear Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and New England Ivy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad I had my daughter advising me and she decided she liked the New England Ivy best, so we went with that. Looking at it afterwards I think I would have preferred the more subtle Pear over Sweet Leaf but either is fine for this project. 

I then stamped a number of the base large flowers in Pixie Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad (not pictured above) and then I put Cotton Candy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad over the top. After I completed the large flower I used the Cotton Candy Ink to stamp the base of the small flowers and then used the Hollyhock Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad over the top. Some of the small flowers I used the Whisper Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad as the base of the flower with the Hollyhock over the top. 

Then I fussy cut all the flowers out and placed them on the page without sticking them down.

I used Whisper Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad to stamp the babies breath flowers in two-tone generational stamping around the side and centre and placed the fussy cut flowers over the top. 

Rearranging the placement I stuck the small flowers on with Duck® Easy Stick™ Adhesive

and the large flowers with 3-D Foam Tape to give three dimensions for each of the layers. 

Then I took off the LOVE stickers and I have kept the backing so I can use that as a bonus sticker. Fundamental Stickers Basics Pack Great Value, getting 2 for 1. 

Close up Left.  

Close up Middle. 

 Close up Right hand side. 

As you can see with the close ups I haven't been too accurate but I think that adds to the rustic nature of these stamps. 

Very happy with the end result. 

I was so pleased with my page I took it outside for a photo shoot in the good lighting on my outdoor table. 

Finished project with the Designed Décor Black Shadow Box I can't wait to hang this baby on the wall. 

Remember this great stamp set Beloved Bouquet—January 2016 Stamp of the Month is only available throughout December from your Close to My Heart Consultant. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest projects, I hope you get inspired to create a beautiful wall art item this month. I'm really interested to hear what you think about it, so I'd love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop on our First Australasian Blog Hop of 2016 which is Meryl Cheetham - Mez's Craft Room.

  Come back to see me again soon.