Colour Dare #454 Inspiration photo 3 colours

Our Colour Dare Challenge for #454 is an inspiration photo of this gorgeous bird, you are free to use Black and White with at least three of the colours of the bird. When you are creating for more than one challenge please make sure your project meets our requirement. Most importantly - have fun!  Go to the link for Colour Dare #454 and add your entry. When you submit your entry you must provide a link to your post, not just to your blog in general. There are LOTS of ways to enter either a Blog Post or post to an online gallery (Facebook, Pinterest, SplitCoast Stampers, or Instagram).

I decided I wanted to recreated the look of the bird so I pulled out my distress oxide inks. Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide™ Ink Pad, Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide™ Ink Pad, Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxide™ Ink Pad, Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide™ Ink Pad & Peacock Feathers Distress™ Oxide Ink Pad. I blended them together with my Mini Ink Blending tools. 

I thought the inks looked like the bird. 

After I had blended them on White Daisy Cardstock I sprinkled water onto the ink to get the spots. 

Then I used my heat gun tool to dry it completly before running it through the BigShot with the new and gorgeous Butterfly Background Thin Cuts.

I stamped the sentiment from the Wander—Cardmaking & thin cut set with Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad on White Daisy Cardstock. 

Then I cut another butterfly background thin cut with White Daisy Cardstock.  

 Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project. Hope you can join in the Colour My Heart Colour Dare Challenge #454 too. I'm really interested to hear what you think about my cards, so I'd love you to leave a comment. See you again soon, subscribe to my blog so you don't miss a challenge. 

 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

Fresh Air CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

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

I have to say that this is one of my very favourite ranges we've played with in ages. I love the natural look of the papers, fibres, fabric, wood, earthy tones and forest pages. This suits so many of my photos of living in the Perth Hills and doing lots of camping as a Scout leader and being a scouting family. The sentiments are amazing, the stamps of leaves and trees and titles are awesome. Enjoy what myself and all the ladies in this hop have created.

Workshops Your Way® Fresh Air Scrapbooking Kit

Item Number: G1152

Product Description

Kit contents:

1 – Fresh Air Paper Packet (X7232B)

1 – Fresh Air Complements (X7232C)

4 – cardstock sheets (1 Almond, 3 White Daisy)

1 – Fresh Air Shapes (Z4185)

1 – New England Ivy Burlap Ribbon (Z4170)

printed instructions

photo placeholders

I made up the pages as per the printed instructions but I made a few adjustments because I didn't want to use the large pieces of the sheets as just backing paper cause I wanted to save them and use them for my Monthly Card & Scrapbooking Clubs. The very best pages I wanted to use. So all I did was substitute for other cardstock (or another hint on my 3rd page layout). 

 For the first page layout (below), I took out the lovely forest pages and used 12" × 12" New England Ivy Cardstock (you can get this paper in Green Cardstock Bundle special pack on sale this month or you can get it in the Fresh Air Coordinating Cardstock) BUT you can ONLY get this forest paper in the Workshops Your Way® Fresh Air Scrapbooking Kit or the Fresh Air Paper Packet. To me its rare and special. To show it just using paper as a backing is also another way of getting the most out of your printed instructions. You could use the templates and cutting guides with other papers too. Thus extending out this kit quite a lot! I certainly have. 

I've shown both the sample page (above) and my version (below) . I think I would put in another few photo spaces on the right hand side page when I add my photos to this page because without the trees the top of the second page is a little bare and could easily fit more pics. 

For the below page layout 2. I used 12" × 12" Linen Cardstock instead of the patterned paper which had the lovely hessian look paper (see my cards for the hessian paper and why I didn't want it to just be the backing paper hidden from view). 

On the 3rd page below I still followed the page layout but instead of cutting a 7.25 inch x 12 inch strip of the wooden look paper. I cut half inch and slightly smaller than half inch strips to put on the pages instead of using the whole 7.25 inch strip on 2 pages (14.5 inches) I used less than a 3 inch strip. So that's a handy hint for making this page. Save yourself heaps of this glorius wooden look paper. I love this paper and would use it again and again. 

Please note: I also noticed I photographed the pages around the opposite way to the sample but I think either way works :)   Right/Left swap to be Left/Right :) 

When I was looking at this range of paper in the catalogue in the lovely tree/leaf/nature featured pack I also purchased the Workshops Your Way® In My Heart Cardmaking Kit because I LOVED the stamp set that goes with it as its all about Kindness. It has instructions and cards/envelopes to make 12 cards with the Fresh Air paper. I cut all those out I will finish them off late. I wanted to make others first that weren't from a pattern.  

I made the following two cards using the stamp set with my scraps left over from making the Workshop your Way Scrapbooking pages. An off cut off the wood look, plus the mottled linen look paper, plus a thin off cut off the New England Ivy cardstock. I stamped with New England Ivy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad on the Picture my life card and added the wooden heart.  Really happy with this card. This sentiment is what my 10 year old daughter wants to send her Aunty Daena who's moved to the UK, "Always on my Heart and On my Mind". Watch this space Aunty Daena, Missy is going to make you a card with this stamp set (don't tell her I told you) 

For my last card, I really love the hessian look paper (as already mentioned) I think that it really looks like fabric. I used offcuts of that, the top is the back of it and the bottom is an offcut of the leaf paper. Then I stamped in New England Ivy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad on the Almond Cardstock and stuck on a wooden star and 3 bronze sequins from the set in the card kit. The green "washi" is actually the offcut from a complement sticker that was a leftover from making my 3rd page layout - the sticker goes across where the small pine cones are. The off cut of that complement fits this card in a unique way. Love to use my scraps productively. 

Another stamp set in this range is the Fresh Air—Scrapbooking I made some pages using this stamp set earlier in the month and I really like the Titles in this. Our Incredible Fun Crazy Silly Family - suits my family down to a T. 

Remember this great set Workshops Your Way® Fresh Air Scrapbooking Kit and associated things will be only available while stocks last with this seasonal catalogue 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 Creating with Kara Davies
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

Jack Australasian Blog Hop

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

If you have arrived here from Nell Ward 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® Jack Scrapbooking Kit This kit is featured by Close to My Heart in August and is available until the end of the Seasonal Expressions Ideas Book just 2 more weeks!!! 

Workshops Your Way® Jack Scrapbooking Kit

Product Description

Kit contents:

1 – Jack Paper Packet (X7222B)

1 – Jack Complements (X7222C)

4 – cardstock sheets (1 Juniper, 2 Whisper, 1 White Daisy)

1 – Black & White Dots (Z3314)

1 – Whisper Thick Twine (Z3095)

Use the materials in this kit and the online instructions to create three coordinating scrapbook layouts and a number of cards.

For my first project I used a layout from the Make It from Your Heart™ Volume 2 How-to Book. The books are great because they give the cutting guides and a sample or 2 of each page layout (This one had 2 samples). There is a new Make it from your Heart Volume -Make It from Your Heart™ Volume 3.

This one was great for scraps and leftovers using lots of 1.5 inch and half inch strips. 

 You'll see I was a bit short on one of the strips (with the faces) but I knew I was placing a big photo section there so I knew it wouldn't matter. 

 See - covered up and it doesn't matter that there was a small gap underneath :) 

I made this page at our camp and left my Jack Complements at home so I didn't get to embellish it yet, I nearly drove home from camp to get them. Also thinking of adding extra photo wells. I am thinking it is perfect for photos of our Scout Camps. 

This layout above, came from the Creative Insider (You can get this from your consultant usually on purchase of Jack or at a class or workshop). I flipped the paper over from the tree paper on the creative insider because I thought the "little man" title seemed more ideal with the men on the paper. 

I really love the tree tamps from the Jack Scrapbooking Stamp + Thin Cuts. The trees go so great with the overlapping colours. 

After I did the pages I decided to make a card with the trees plus the Tree stamp and Tree paper. Plus Black Shimmer Trim and Black & White Dots. I raised the white banner with 3-D Foam Tape

The last card (below) I want to show is made by my friend and sister consultant Alicia Lawrence. We did a swap of some cards we each made. I wanted to show it in this one because it was a "girly" card made with the masculine papers. 

Remember Workshops Your Way® Jack Scrapbooking Kit is only available for a limited time TWO WEEKS LEFT!! (I'm panicking). 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 out of 10 bloggers this month on on our Australasian Blog Hop which is Lara Moss.