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.

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 – White Alphabet Foam Stickers (Z4088)

1 – Sapphire Crochet Thread (Z4058)

4 – Memory Protectors™ Top Load 

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). 

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. 

 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. 

 

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. 

Close up of the super cute complements and the different signs to the ones we have in WA. No Koala's crossing in WA. 

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. 

 

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. 

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 

Maz Wood.

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

Purposeful Plastic - CTMH Technique Blog Hop

This Purposeful Plastic CTMH Technique Blog Hop will be incorporating Flip Flaps, Pocket Plus Pages/Plus in our artwork in a creative and fun way to show their valuable uses. This is my first time joining this Technique blog hop group and I'm very happy to be part of it because its an international 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 Kimberly Bower 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 and eventually you'll come right back here to where you started.

For my artwork I decided to use Flip Flaps™ Memory Protectors™ 3" × 4"

and I used the side fold flip flap. I used the PML cards from the Workshops Your Way® Documented Scrapbooking Kit or the Documented Paper Packet. The stamp I used is from the Workshops Your Way® Sweet Friends Cardmaking Kit which is also in the CTMH Documented range. 

I stamped the "Wishing you the" and "Today & always" titles in Black and the "best" in New England Ivy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. The leaves in the New England Ivy and the Flowers in Eggplant Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad I stamped upside down on the Details PML 3x4 card and to hide the "details" I covered it with Gold Shimmer Trim.

I really love the double doors PML 3x4 card and that was to be my front for the card. The Green diamond paper is from the Documented paper pack and then I stuck the 3x4 Flip Flap onto the 4 x 5.25 inch card front on the White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack card. I cut a 3x4 piece of the purple spot paper from the Documented paper to put on the back of the door inside the flip flap. Then I lined up very carefully the stamped sentiment PML card (pictured above) and stuck it over the top of the plastic flap adhesive and the backing paper. 

The above picture shows the card front with the flip flap closed.  

This picture shows the card opened and the video underneath shows how it opens and shuts. 

I think it would make a great wedding or Engagement card as the door symbolises going opening the door to a new life. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project idea. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my flip flap door card, so I'd love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop on our Technique Blog Hop which is Melissa Robinson 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

Zoe Australiasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Special Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop featuring Zoe. We have all been creating with the brand NEW Zoe Products that have been released in August before the new Catalogue goes live 1st September. If you have arrived here from Patricia Manhire - Patricia Manhire's Creative Corner 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.

I started with the Workshops on the Go® Zoe Scrapbooking Kit  (WOTG). 

I created the Double-Page Layout at our recent Consultant Fun Day but I wanted to make it special and add something of interest to our Blog Hop especially for Zoe. 

So I decided to create a Zoe Flip Flap, to fit MORE photos on the page. Using the Memory Protectors™ Flip Flaps™ 12" Assortment I decided to create an 8 inch "page" to sit over the top of my Zoe WOTG Right hand side page. I used off cuts from the WOTG pages and created a similar designed layout to what was to lay underneath. 

To decorate it I used the line stamp from the Workshops on the Go® Zoe Scrapbooking Kit  (WOTG) to create the Journalling box and I decorated this flippy flappy page with Zoe Complements. My lines aren't that straight but I have learned that sometimes quirky is interesting. The title Sticker "This is what I've been up to" was matted in scrap 12" X 12" White Daisy Cardstock to ensure it stood out on the grey grid background. I also used the Duck® Easy Stick™ Adhesive (which is clear) to adhere the vellum camera, as the Ez Dots is a bit blue so sometimes you can see through the vellum using that form of adhesive. 

This is my 8 inch page with the same 3 inch blue strip of B&T paper and the same Coral Shimmer Trim that is currently only available to purchase within the Zoe Workshop on the Go pack. (Coral Shimmer Trim will be available to purchase individually from 1st September). 

The Zoe Complements are a great addition and the new format of complements with Stickers, Vellum diecuts and Kraft diecuts makes this an awesome little set with such versatility. 

Once I had completed my Zoe Flip Flap. I adhered the Memory Protectors™ Flip Flaps™ 12"x8" to the top of my Memory Protectors™ Top Load pages. I did move the photo squares up a little bit higher so the flip flap sat better without any "bits" showing up underneath (as you can see in the below photo compared with the original double page spread). I'm sorry I can't take a better photo of my flip flap, its a bit hard to show the flipping, without getting shadowing. I'd love to be able to show everyone in person because its a lot more effective. 

All the instructions for the Zoe Workshop on the Go are in the pack so its really easy to make up the page. Then use any leftovers with additional paper from a Zoe Paper Packet to create your own Flip Flap Album page addition. Memory Protectors™ Flip Flaps™ 12" come in a variety of widths and sizes in that Assortment pack. 

I also wanted to show you this "Fun" card that I made for our Consultant Fun Day 10 fold swap. For a bit of extra inspiration. I used the stamp set from the Workshops on the Go® Zoe Scrapbooking Kit .

My sister consultant Alicia Lawrence gave me permission to share her masterpiece card with you as well. She made 10 of these beautiful patchwork Zoe cards for our Monthly 10 fold swap. Such a great card and its using this months Stamp of the Month Framed – August 2015 Stamp of the Month 

Thanks Alicia for being so generous in your sharing and creation!! I'm so glad I got to have your card as a sample for my workshops. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project (with a few extra's thrown in), I hope you get Inspired and fall in love with Zoe like we all have. 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 Special Zoe Australasian Blog Hop is 

Anne - Mummy you made this?

  Come back to see me again soon.