Friday 24 May 2019

Colour Dare Challenge #344 Memorial Day Inspiration

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This week's challenge Colour Dare #344

You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #344 and add your entry. 

Inspiration Photo - Memorial Day. Use only the colours in the photo to create your artwork. You are free to use Black, White and Browns.

I pulled out some older fundamentals paper and created two similar cards just varying the size of the pieces. Plus some thin ribbon and black twine. Then to finish them off I added 3 white dots from the 
Black & White Dots on both cards. 

Quick simple cards that look bright and happy. I thought they would be happy mail for someone. 

I photographed them on the blanket that I was wrapped in cause it was cold :) We are heading into colder weather in Western Australia. 

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Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #344 too. I'm really interested to hear what you think about it, so I'd love you to leave a comment. See you again soon. If you don't have a Close to My Heart Consultant (and you're in Australia) feel free to contact me either on this blog or via my website HERE


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

Wednesday 15 May 2019

Sweet Girl Australasian CTMH Blog Hop



Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. We have all been creating with the most prettily decorative paper suite Workshops Your Way® Sweet Girl Scrapbooking Kit matching complements, kits, matching stamp sets, which are 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.


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Workshops Your Way® Sweet Girl Scrapbooking Kit

Product Description

Kit contents:
1 – Sweet Girl Paper Packet (X7246B)
4 — cardstock sheets (2 Ballerina, 1 Heather, 1 White Daisy)
1 – Sweet Girl Complements (X7246C)
1 – Sapphire Crochet Thread (Z4058)
photo placeholders
printed instructions
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This is the pack we were given at our 2019 Convention in March so I got to play with it there. We were given a set of instructions and I made my pages almost to the instructions. But I cut out the inside of the papers to save some (as it was new to me and I didn't have my orders arriving yet so wanted to make the new paper last as long as possible). 

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Then I laid out the photos I wanted to put on the pages and I had WAY too many photos to put onto the page. Come in my favourite addition to page making the humble 4x6 flip flap. These come in both vertical and horizontal within the pack (see here to open link to what I'm talking about Flip Flaps™ Memory Protectors™ 4" × 6"). They also come in a variety of other sizes = 3x4, 5x7, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 and 6x12.

Flip flaps get put onto the page protector so they have to be placed once the page is inside the protector. I prefer the Memory Protectors™ Side Loading sleeves.  Usually I photograph my pages without the memory protectors as having them on does make it very hard to photograph flip flaps with reflections and such. I haven't done a great job below as its hard to hold the page open, not get reflection off the covers and show the display. I've done the best I could without showing a video. 

This photo below is showing how I laid out the photos stacked on top of each other. 
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 The photo Below this is how the finished page looks when its in the page protectors and flip flaps. Obviously the top photos are the best photos and the additional photos are underneath. I could have cropped the photos but its a scenic mountain we visited in Queensland so I didn't want to crop too much or I would have lost the grandeur of the scenery. But the photos weren't that great so I was happy to hide them as my family are the central theme of the photos. 

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The below photo is taken with the flip flaps open. You can't see all the pictures I have on this layout because one flip flap is covering another but its just for the general idea. 8 photos in total fit on this page. 
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Close up of the super cute complements and the different signs to the ones we have in WA. No Koala's crossing in WA. 
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The below photo is the left hand side page with the favourite photos on top with a vertical and horizontal flip flap. this shows 7 photos on this page. 

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Really happy with how these turned out. While the paper is sort of girly and babyish, travel and holiday photos also suited quite well this gorgeous soft paper pack. I really enjoyed working with Sweet Girl and will miss it when its gone. Get your hands on it quickly because we only have a limited time with it. The complements and titles are my favourite. 

NB: When we got this paper pack at convention the White Alphabet Foam Stickers lettering wasn't available so I haven't got back to putting a title on it yet. I can't wait to get hold of that white foam lettering because I've seen the fabulous titles made with them. See below for a few artworks from Close to My Heart showing the cool title stickers. 
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Remember this great set Workshops Your Way® Sweet Girl Scrapbooking Kit and associated things will be only available while stocks last with this catalogue. 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  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

Friday 10 May 2019

Colour Dare Challenge #342 Sweet Girl Colour Palette

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This week's challenge Colour Dare #342
You are invited to participate in this challenge too. Go to the link for Colour Dare #342 and add your entry. 

TicTacToe "Sweet Girl" Color Palette 

Black & White Free - No Extra Neutrals


My Daughters school were having a Mothers Day stall this week and I made a bunch of 3x3 sized cards in this weeks colours in the middle line. Mink, Sapphire & Ballerina. I grabbed mink card stock and the ballerina dots and plaid/gingham scraps I had from some older paper packs including Mixed in Papers from the last catalogue. The Sapphire crosses were from that Mixed in papers too. I used ink from Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ and Mink Exclusive Inks™ for edges and stamping and some light Ballerina Exclusive Inks™ stamping of flowers on some of the cards in the white daisy sections of the card (You'll have to look closely to see them). Then used the grey twine called Whisper Thick Twine  (in the clearance section) and the NEW Sapphire Crochet Thread

The titles are from a bunch of older stamp sets - I grabbed out a few and used them over and over in different ways. 

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Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Color Dare Challenge #342 too. I'm really interested to hear what you think about it, so I'd love you to leave a comment. See you again soon. If you don't have a Close to My Heart Consultant (and you're in Australia) feel free to contact me either on this blog or via my website HERE

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