Just Treats S1809 CTMH Stamp of the Month Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. A group of us have been creating with the "Just Treats - September Stamp of the Month" Stamp set. 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. 

Today I would like to share with you my projects which feature the Just Treats - September Stamp of the Month available exclusively throughout September 2018 for $29.50 or for just $8.25 when you spend $82.50. 

The brand new catalogue has gone live today! YAY!!!

This is me when I first got hold of my catalogue at our product launch in July. Its so exciting that its finally live to EVERYONE now!! YAY!!! Check out my website to get a closer look at all the exciting things. 

So I used the new inks Candy Apple and Clover on my Christmas Themed card but I don't have the matching cardstock yet, so I used the Candy Apple ink to ink the edges of the white strip 1.5 x 5.5 inches. I did the half and half stamping on white cardstock and stuck with 3D Foam tape on the Gold Glitter Paper. I cut a Gold glitter paper pennant. 

I stuck the strip of white with the candy canes and Christmas trees with 3D foam tape too. Then I stuck white dots from the Black & White dots. 

I have been singing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"  Here is my favourite Pentatonix version of the song. Get into the Christmas Spirit (okay its September but I can get Christmassy already can't I?). 

After I got all Christmassy. I decided I loved the title "Thankful for sweet friends like you". I grabbed my favourite Raspberry ink (that's a bit messy since I got it returned after loaning it out to someone). Then I randomly stamped on white cardstock 3.75 x 5 inches with the lolly wrapper, then the love heart and then filled in the smaller areas with the 3 little stars. I lined it with raspberry cardstock, 4 x 5.25. Then the title in Black ink with 2.5 x 2 inches and then half inch larger with the raspberry cardstock to back it.  

I adhered the title to the cardstock and then sat it up with 3D foam tape. 

Remember this great stamp set Just Treats - September Stamp of the Month is only available throughout September from my website or from 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

Celebrate with Cake May SOTM - Australasian Blog Hop

We have all been creating with "Celebrate with Cake—May Stamp of the Month" Stamp set. 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.

Today I would like to share with you my project which features the Celebrate with Cake—May Stamp of the Month available exclusively throughout April 2016 for $27 or for just $7.50 when you spend $75. 

I am busily creating cards and paper-crafts to sell at the Fete at my kids school tomorrow so I didn't have much time to create something new with this lovely cakey stamp. So I'm posting this card I created for our ten fold swap at our consultant Fun Day at my Upline's house. Using the 5 1/2" X 4 1/4" White Cards & Envelopes, Value Pack.

Its such a simple card with Black Exclusive Inks™ and I coloured the outlines in with two pens (shown below).  

  

 The side card strip is 1 inch by 5.5 inches of  Kaleidoscope Paper Packet and then a strip of Pink Shimmer Trim. Shimmer trim makes every card special with that extra Bling!

The colours I used were ShinHan™ Touch Twin™ Marigold Marker and Leaf Green Marker. I think the flowers popped because I didn't colour them solidly, I left some white spaces around the edges of the petals. 

The below photos are from Close to My Heart head office. 

Remember this great stamp set  Celebrate with Cake—May Stamp of the Month is only available throughout May from my website or from your Close to My Heart Consultant. 

This month is also the launch of our New Seasonal Expressions Catalogue. Go to my website or your consultants website to see all the new exciting products available!!

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project, I hope you get inspired. 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 Australasian Blog Hop which is Doris Taylor Creative Inspirations

  Come back to see me again soon.

 

Paper Garden September Stamp of the Month Australasian Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to our Stamp of the Month Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop. We have all been creating with "Paper Garden September Stamp of the Month" Stamp set. If you have arrived here from Britt McDonald - Crafty Connections 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.

Today I would like to share with you my card which features the Paper Garden September Stamp of the Month available exclusively throughout September for $27 or for just $7.50 when you spend $75. 

You will find the stamp set in the new Holiday Expressions Catalogue that has been launched TODAY as well as the new 2015-2016 Annual Inspirations Catalogue. So many exciting new products. 

I think this stamp set is so lovely for both pages and cards. I wanted to create a card so I looked at the Originals Card Confidence Program™ (soft cover) book on page 116 I found an idea for a simple card called Originals Pretty simple. 

There is a great recipe and the below card is a photo of the idea in the book. The recipe is so versatile and looks so different in different colours, textures and stamp sets. 

I used a 2 inch strip of the green and flipped it for the grey colour on the back of the Zoe Paper (dimensions are in the book). I pulled out the Slate Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

to match the Zoe paper and stamped the two stamps from the Paper Garden September Stamp of the Month (wire and flower).

The wire looking stamp is about 1.75 inches x 1.75 inches on 12" X 12" White Daisy Cardstock and the flower stamp is quite large and I used the large  4" X 5" My Acrylix® Block. Once I had fussy cut out the flower with Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors I put on Thin 3-D Foam Tape to add some dimension. 

To finish off the card I put Enamel & Glitter Duos Green Triangles in the corner of the grey square. 

I took awhile to decide that I needed to add a title. So I used the THANKS title from the Hello, Life!—Cardmaking stamp set that is only available during September. We are going to do a blog post about this later in the month so watch this space. 

 Remember this great stamp set Paper Garden September Stamp of the Month is only available throughout September from your Close to My Heart Consultant. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project, I hope you get to make a card this month too. 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 Australasian Blog Hop which is Mandy Hall - Hall of Indulgence.

  Come back to see me again soon.

 

Business Blogging - I'm a Newbie

Hi Everyone, I'm a bit excited that I've just launched my brand new blog. Its a place where I can post information about my Close to My Heart Craftroom.

I thought I'd share the latest thing I've done, using my new favourite alpha stamp set called Handwritten Print E1030. I love this alphabet stamp set and even used it tonight helping my son with his school project. I completed my page below using the Yuletide Carol Workshop on the Go G1084 and the Handwritten Print Alpha set, but I made a tiny boo boo. Can you spot the mistake? Some people have found it harder than others.

So the moral of this little story is when you are using this font beware of the "s" it looks good either way up.

I chose to leave the title the way it was instead of fixing it, to be a lesson to my fellow scrapbookers and here is my completed page. The page layout is from the Ideas Book Reflections Scrapbook Program.

Go to my website and view the latest NEW products that have only been released from 1st August. 

Also remember that the August Stamp of the Month "What a Hoot" is available for $27 or $5 with your eligible purchase of $75 or more. This is an ADORABLE Stamp set!