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

Boutique CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. We have all been creating with the most lovely paper suite Workshops Your Way® Boutique Scrapbooking Kit matching complements, kits, stamp sets and ribbon, which is featured this month. 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.

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Workshops Your Way® Boutique Scrapbooking Kit

Product Description

Kit contents:
1 – Boutique Paper Packet (X7235B)
1 – Boutique Complements(X7235C)
4 – cardstock sheets (1 Peach, 1 Peacock, 2 White Daisy)
1 – Boutique Puffy Stickers (Z4234)
1 – Mink Twine (Z4221)
photo placeholders
printed instructions

Use the materials in this kit to create three coordinating scrapbook layouts or combine them with the Boutique Deluxe Bundle (Z4500) to create three enhanced layouts. (Instructions for both sets of layouts are included with each kit and are also found on my website here.)

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To make my cards for this blog hop, I pulled out the coordinating inks that match in with the colours of Boutique. Sugarplum, Peach, Saffron and Peacock Inks are the ones I chose to add to the New stamp set called Bunches of Love, which is in the Boutique area of the Seasonal Catalogue. 

I stamped the colours for the flower and then fussy cut it out. I LOVE this bunches of love stamp set because its designed to be rough to look like a block printing thingy, so you literally can't make a mistake with it. It looks good no matter the roughness of your stamping. I wish all stamps were this forgiving!

I added the gorgeous spotty paper to my card with the matching colour of the year Sugarplum at the bottom of it with some Gold Glitter paper strip in between. Then with 3D Foam tape I added the stamped and cut out flower on top. I did the Just Because in Peacock on the sugarplum cardstock. 

I LOVE this stamp set so much the Bunches of Love that we have played lots of times with it. Caroline & I have done a craft video that just needs to be edited before I can load it to my blog. I will post it here when its finished. See below few pics on our samples on the left using Sugarplum and Sage and Caroline's card on the Right using lots of the new colours. As you can see she's also used the paint platter stamp from Bunches of Love to make a gorgeous border around the card and birthday sentiment. 

The next card I did very similarly to my first Boutique Card but I used a larger piece of Sugarplum cardstock and less dotty paper. I had a small gap between the paper and cardstock so I put thin 3D foam tape and added the gold with a small 3D element on this card to make that element a bit more enhanced. I used the Operation Smile™: Beautiful Soul set for the title. When you order the Operation Smile stamp set Close to My Heart will donate $7 USD of the proceeds to Operation Smile™, a non-profit organization that provides surgeries to repair cleft lips and palates for children around the world.

To finish off this card I used the Boutique Puffy dotty stickers around the encouraging sentiment. This would be a great card when someone's done something really amazing in their life, school, work career, celebrate a kitchen tea, a pregnancy, or any achievement worth noting or a reminder for someone who is feeling a little down to lift them back up. 

Remember this great set  Workshops Your Way® Boutique Scrapbooking Kit  and associated things will be only available while stocks last with this seasonal catalogue which finishes in December (if not sold out beforehand) 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 Lara Moss, Scrappykea, 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

Cardmaking with Caroline and Vandra Part 3 - Sponging with Embossing Folders

Our third video in this Sponging series. This one is using embossing folders and sponging techniques. I hope you enjoy. Please let us know what you think. Kind regards Caroline & Vandra

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

www.vandra.closetomyheart.com.au

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Documented CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. We have all been creating with the most lovely paper suite Workshops Your Way® Documented Scrapbooking Kit matching complements, kits, stamp sets and ribbon, which is featured this month. If you have arrived here from Doris Taylor 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® Documented Scrapbooking Kit

Product Description

Kit contents:1 – Documented Paper Packet (X7234B)
1 – Documented Complements (X7234C)
4 – cardstock sheets (2 Linen, 1 Saffron, 1 White Daisy)
1 – Documented Titles (Z4171)
1 – Documented Dots (Z4177)
printed instructions
photo placeholders

Use the materials in this kit to create three coordinating scrapbook layouts. 

I made a quick card using scraps from my favourite bricks paper from the Documented set. With the lovely floral paper. Then I used the stickers from the complements to add the hello typewriter and the bunch of flowers. Quick Simple, Effective and a lovely card to give a friend for a hello. I took the photo in the light so it looks a bit washed out, the dark grey charcoal colour is more prominent in real life. 

The other card I've been working on is one I've done as part of my 3rd video with Caroline in our "Cardmaking with Caroline & Vandra" YouTube series on Sponge Techniques. To get the instructions on how to make this card, you'll have to watch our video when it's ready this week. I will add the link here later or subscribe to receive my blog posts to see it when its ready to go live. Click here to go to Youtube to watch it or click here to go to the blog post to watch it.  

The below card uses 2 sided Peacock Cardstock (peacock is a featured colour in Documented), White Daisy Cardstock, Peacock ink, Daubers, Rose Embossing Folder and the Love wooden letter stickers Documented Titles. All on white cards and envelopes. 

Remember this great set Workshops Your Way® Documented Scrapbooking Kit and associated things will be only available while stocks last with this seasonal catalogue which finishes THIS MONTH (LAST CHANCE) 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  Shaunna Richards Passionate About Pages 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

Cardmaking with Caroline & Vandra SPONGING VARIATIONS Video 2

Caroline & I have been working very hard to make this latest video for you. We had such fun making it, I hope you enjoy watching it. 

Our Second video in the Sponging series, "Cardmaking with Caroline & Vandra" Be Kind this is only our 2nd ever video. We've made cards with daubers, spray pens, watercolour pens and the most exciting Shimmer Brushes. 

The Mermaid is the finished card from one of our demos. She was made with a bit of stamping onto the sponging and water colour/shimmer brush effect (as per the video).

Below are stills from the video (for Pinterest and to show what we used. ).

Also please note the pretty girl that we stamp in the video is only available for June 2018 while stocks last so she will be gone soon. Contact me ASAP if you want a copy of her.

See you next time with Cardmaking with Caroline & Vandra

Cardmaking with Caroline & Vandra - Sponging Techniques Video 1

This is the very first video we have made called "Cardmaking with Caroline & Vandra" 

We are pretty happy with our very first video. I'm sure as we make more of these I will get better at editing, speeding up and improving the quality of the video. We had lots of fun making this, which is the whole point of this exercise. 

 
 Please enjoy this instructional video teaching some sponging techniques for your cardmaking.