Beautiful Friendship CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. We have all been creating with the most lovely paper suite Workshops Your Way® Beautiful Friendship Scrapbooking Kit matching complements, stamp sets and ribbon, which is featured this month. If you have arrived here from Shaunna Richards: Passionate About Pages  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.

Workshops Your Way® Beautiful Friendship Scrapbooking Kit

Workshops Your Way® Beautiful Friendship Scrapbooking Kit

Product Description

Kit contents:
1 – Beautiful Friendship Paper Packet (X7233B)
1 – Beautiful Friendship Complements (X7233C)
3 – cardstock sheets (White Daisy)
1 – Beautiful Friendship Bows(Z4195)
1 – White Ribbon(Z4196)
printed instructions
photo placeholders

I love the tea pots and tea cups in this set. I love the thin cuts with the teapot and teacup and teabag. Beautiful Friendship Cardmaking Stamp + Thin Cuts (as shown above). 

I found some tea in our tea chest at home that had cute teapots on it, so as part of our consultant swap I decided to make a set of teabag holders as gifts. I've seen a lot of consultants using these to put chocolates in, I decided afterwards it would be good to pop a chocolate in also (if I'd had chocolates I would have given them too), tea and an after dinner mint maybe :) 

I cut the cute teapot with the blue dot paper from the set and since the tea bags were orange I used 12" × 12" Tangerine Cardstock to make the strips of paper 3 inchs by 8 inches wide. Then I used 12" × 12" Sapphire Cardstock 3 inches by just over an inch. I bent the tangerine paper around in a tear drop shape with the tea bag sachet in the middle and folded the sapphire cardstock in half and stapled them all together with the Mini Stapler.

Then I cut the sweet NEW Thin Cuts—Stitched Hearts from white daisy cardstock and put them on the teapots and stuck them on the front of the gifts. 

The other card I made was a technique in a video I made "Cardmaking with Caroline & Vandra".  I used the die cut teapot as a mask to sponge the lemon ink around the teapot and then raspberry ink and then lagoon ink. After I'd removed the teapot I stamped the outline of the teapot in the space directly inside the sponging edges Then I added black paper surrounds and a thin cut shaped cup. As it was a technique showing card, I didn't put a sentiment on it. 

Remember this great set Workshops Your Way® Beautiful Friendship Scrapbooking Kit and associated things will be only available while stocks last with this seasonal catalogue so go to my website or to your Close to My Heart Consultant. If you don't have a Close to My Heart Consultant feel free to contact me either on this blog or via my website HERE. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project ideas. I'm really interested to hear what you think about them, so I'd love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop on our Australasian Blog Hop which is Doris Taylor - Creative Inspirations.
I hope you leave a lovely comment on all the blog posts and come back around to mine. See you again soon.

Vandra Stenton, Close to My Heart Consultant, Perth Western Australia

www.vandra.closetomyheart.com.au