Shake Things Up! - CTMH Technique Blog Hop

Welcome to our Shake Things Up Technique Blog Hop. We are using our new shaker card products to make a shaker card or incorporate the associated products into our artwork in a creative way. This is an International blog hop group and I am in Australia, with lots of my sister consultants in this blog hop in the US and Canada.  If you have arrived here from Miss. Carrie’s Creations 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 for using texture in your artworks and eventually you'll come right back here to where you started.

I have to say how much I love Shaker Cards and Close to My Heart have made it SOooo easy for us now with the new Shaker Card foam and acetate windows. Plus we have the fabulous Thin Cut to make the windows and confetti for our Shaker Cards. I have made HEAPS of these kinds of cards and its a fairly new product.

We have also been working on a YouTube Video which I will post here to give you an idea of how to use the Shaker Card items. I haven't given much description in this blog post so you can watch the video and find out how we made some of these cards. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project ideas. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my Shaker cards and our Video so I'd love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop on our Technique Blog Hop which is Lauren Moore. I hope you leave a lovely comment on all the blog posts and come back around to mine. 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

www.vandra.closetomyheart.com.au

Workshops Your Way® Beary Christmas Scrapbooking Kit.This kit is available until the end of the Seasonal Expressions Ideas Book (December 2017). I made things with Beary Christmas Workshop your Way kit last month and kept creating with the leftovers of the kit this month. I still have lots of leftovers but I've been using them up card by card, project by project. Lots of people are asking for Christmas cards where I sell them at work and at at upcoming Christmas markets.

The Beary Christmas Workshop your way contains... 

Workshops Your Way® Beary Christmas

Product Description

Kit contents:

1 – Beary Christmas Paper Packet (X7225B)

1 – Beary Christmas Complements (X7225C)

6 – cardstock sheets (2 Cranberry, 1 Fern, 3 White Daisy)

1 – Beary Christmas Dots (Z4038)

1 – Silver Shimmer Trim (Z1799)

Zip strips and off cut of red stripes. I cut my own tag shape and stamped the Ho Ho Ho M sized stamp set in black ink and inked the edges. Then I used 3D foam tape to have it be 3D and added Whisper Thick Twine that I had split it in half. 

This one was offcuts of the red cranberry cardstock (from the pack), Silver Foil Tape 
the Joy was from a stamp set from last year. and Clear Sparkles. The star was cut with the CTMH cricut cartridge (slightly stretched on computer).

This one was an offcut of Black Glitter paper with the paper and the Very Merry was the last years Christmas stamp called unsurprisingly "Verry Merry"... hehehehee...

Some zip strips and offcuts. the Merry Christmas from last year and the Gold Glitter Gems

This is a PML card and gold glitter paper with some 3D foam tape and gold glitter gems. Very happy with how this one turned out. 

an offcut of the paper complete with zip strip, stamping the sentiment with Cranberry ink and using some Sequins Gold Assortment.

zip strip half inch and off cuts at quarter inch plus Silver Shimmer trim. with Merry Everything
circle thin cut and a heart embellishment on 3D foam tape. This is one I've loved to create and how it turned out. I used cranberry ink around the circle. 
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A mix of old and new paper. the bear is the PML card and the green and red paper is old christmas paper with a silver foil star sticker from Better Together Complements.
Sentiment is from Very Merry stamp set from last year. 

These cards are for sale at $4 each or 3 for 10. Contact me to purchase some if they don't sell out soon at the markets. 

Beary Christmas CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop featuring this months featured pack called  Workshops Your Way® Beary Christmas Scrapbooking Kit.

If you have arrived here from Wendy Hopper Expressions of the Heart 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.

We are all creating with the Workshops Your Way® Beary Christmas Scrapbooking Kit.This kit is featured by Close to My Heart in October and is available until the end of the Seasonal Expressions Ideas Book.

Workshops Your Way® Beary Christmas

Product Description

Kit contents:

1 – Beary Christmas Paper Packet (X7225B)

1 – Beary Christmas Complements (X7225C)

6 – cardstock sheets (2 Cranberry, 1 Fern, 3 White Daisy)

1 – Beary Christmas Dots (Z4038)

1 – Silver Shimmer Trim (Z1799)

Beary Christmas is such a sweet Christmas set and the matching Beary Christmas Scrapbooking Stamp + Thin Cuts is the cutest!! I was excited to hear that these cute animals are especially designed with Australia in mind - they don't have scarves on! 

A work colleague commissioned me to make some Mumma Bear cards for his mum and I really loved making this one. Colouring in with the ShinHan Markers on the Thin Cuts was fun. 

The card below I used the Thin Cuts—Tree Line Border with the new Gold Foil Paper and then the Merry Everything stamp set. 

The below card was made at our consultant Launch of the Seasonal Expressions Catalogue. The glittery cheer comes from the Silver & Gold Complements. I really love the way it shows the new style double sided cardstock. 

Remember Workshops Your Way® Beary Christmas Scrapbooking Kit is only available for a limited time. Go to my website www.vandra.closetomyheart.com.au or your consultants website and order today. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest projects. 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 this month on on our Australasian Blog Hop which is Shaunna Richards Passionate About Pages.