School Year S1708 Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. We have all been creating with the "School Year—August Stamp of the Month" Stamp set. If you have arrived here from Colleen Geldenhuys 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 School Year—August Stamp of the Month available exclusively throughout August 2017 for $27 or for just $7.50 when you spend $75. 

This is clearly a perfect school style stamp but the extra's on the stamp are great for lots of general purposes, the speech bubble and Frame can be used with any sentiment and any set from any other pack. The hearts are too cute and should go on everything, plus you've got the arrow which goes perfectly with Bullet journalling. I'm sure you'll see lots of great examples on all the pages to come along the hop. 

I am currently making a small album for both my children with the Everyday Life™ Album—Bashful (for my daughter) and last catalogues Sea Glass for my son (which you can still purchase in the half price Everyday Life™ Sea Glass Album & 2017 Planner Pages Bundle). 

This album is an encouragement album with lots of positive self-esteem things in them. I wanted a title to fit into the 3x4 sized pocket near the photos about school. 

My daughter loves pink so I used a piece of Raspberry Cardstock (on the darker side) cut at 4x3 inches. Then my White Daisy Cardstock 

I cut half and inch smaller so 2.5 x 3.5 to stamp onto. I used Raspberry Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

to stamp the "First Day of School" and then the New COLOUR OF THE YEAR Bashful Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad

to stamp the hearts twice and then the pencil below. 

After I'd done my stamping I slotted it into my daughters album. All the photos are in the album in the Memory Protectors™ 3" × 4", Memory Protectors™ 4" × 6" and Memory Protectors™ 6" × 8". 

All that I need to do is finish the journalling and titles. I find I can't do this at a workshop or camp day because I need to focus on what I'm journalling so I need quiet. Hence this is the only part still to be finished. 

After I did my title 3x4 section. I decided to make a card too. I love the frame and think he was just perfect for the  Jack Cardmaking Stamp + Thin Cuts. 

That bear is unbearably cute (see what I did there... hehehehehe). 

The card was inspired by a friend who's son is graduating and finishing school soon. 

I needed to make a frame which was perfect on my first one because it wasn't a great stamped image first time around using Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad so I cut that one out with my Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors.

Then I stamped a second frame in the black ink (nicer) and stuck the first cut out frame over the second frame and stamped the bear on it with new Mink Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. 

On white daisy I stamped the frame from the Stamp of the Month in Black ink again and used the "its your day" from the Jack Cardmaking stamp set which fit perfectly. 

The I stamped Cranberry Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad for the bear hugs title and the tie on the bear. I fussy cut it all out including rounding the edges on my offcut of the "last day of school" and stuck it onto my 4 1/4" × 5 1/2" White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack using Duck® Easy Stick™ Adhesive. 

I finished off with the grey plaid paper from Workshops Your Way® Jack Scrapbooking Kit and inked the edges in black by just running it lightly over the stamp pad to get a black edge. I also wanted a touch more red on there so I grabbed out an old heart enamel sticker but Red Enamel Gems would also have worked here. 

Remember this great stamp set School Year—August Stamp of the Month is only available throughout August from my website or from your Close to My Heart Consultant. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest project idea. 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 

Doreen Watkins.

I hope you leave a lovely comment on all the blog posts and come back around to mine. See you again soon.

August 2015 SOTM Blog Hop Framed

Hello and welcome to our Stamp of the Month Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop. We have all been creating with "Framed – August 2015 Stamp of the Month " Stamp set. If you have arrived here from Wendy Hopper 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 Framed – August 2015 Stamp of the Month   available exclusively throughout June for $27 or for just $5 when you spend $75. This is a great all-rounder stamp set for cards and DIY embellishments or tags.  

 

 

The first thing I did when I looked at this stamp set was pick two colours that I use most often - Cotton Candy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. I am running low on Birthday Cards for that short notice birthday present that we always seem to be invited to (or remember at the last minute that I need a birthday card). So I focused on the Happy Birthday Sentiment and Frame.

 

 

I stamped one of each in alternative colours to see which I liked better... I liked both, so I decided to use both!! 

 

Next I used my Big Shot to emboss some scrap White Daisy Cardstock* with the Heart Embossing Folder. After embossing I used my Round Sponge (cut into wedges) to sponge one 5.5 inch long strip with Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and one with Cotton Candy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad.

 

*My photos make the white daisy look like Colonial White Cardstock but its just the lighting so you can see both options with just one set of photos :) I have tried to brighten some of them to bring out the daisy white.

 

 

Then I fussy cut out the frames with my Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors 

and placed them on top to see the designs. To start with I thought I would alternate the sponged embossed hearts with the colours on the frames and then I decided to swap it around.

 

 

I pulled out my 5 1/2" X 4 1/4" White Cards & Envelopes, Value Pack and stuck on the embossed strips with my Duck® Easy-Stick™ Adhesive and for the black card I cut in half a 5.5inch section of Black Shimmer Trim with my Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors a bit freehand. Then I adhered the Happy Birthday Frame and added some Coral Reef Sequins (which are WSL due to retire on 1st September).

 

I did my stamping and photographed my finished products on my Versamat™.

 

 
For my pink card and something a tad different but still following my theme. I put the Cotton Candy Embossed and sponged card with my Duck® Easy-Stick™ Adhesive and then adhered Black Arrow Washi Tape (WSL also retiring 1st September). To finish it off I added some Pixie Extra Thick Twine tying it into a knot and fraying the edges. Over the top I stuck the Happy Birthday Frame. On the inside of the card I used another piece of Black Arrow Washi Tape to adhere the Twine so it didn't move.

 

 

Remember this great stamp set Framed – August 2015 Stamp of the Month  is only available throughout June from your Close to My Heart Consultant. 

 

Also August is the last month to get many items before the new catalogue is launched in September and new prices take affect. Hint: Lots of items I have used this month are going up in price next month, so make sure you are aware and buy before the price rise. Many items are WSL.

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 Britt McDonald - Crafty Connections Australia. 

  Come back to see me again soon.

 

 

Choose Happy – March 2015 Stamp of the Month Australiasian Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to our Stamp of the Month Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop. We have all been creating with "Choose Happy – March 2015 Stamp of the Month " Stamp set. If you have arrived here from  Denise's Blog Scrap, Stamp, Share 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 to where you started.
 
Today I would like to share with you my artwork which features the Choose Happy – March 2015 Stamp of the Month  available exclusively throughout March for $27 or for just $5 when you spend $75. 

I wanted to use my Workshops on the Go® Hopscotch Scrapbooking Kit for this months blog hop because its the LAST month that it is available in the current Seasonal Expressions Catalogue and I love this paper and will miss it when it retires.

I had left over paper from when I made the pages from the workshop on the go so I used those, as you get such great value from the Workchops on the Go. I wanted to create a gift tag type card to hold my Base and Bling Jewellery that I've made to give as gifts. So I went to my Cricut Craftroom and my CTMH Cricut® Art Philosophy Collection and found a tag card. Its called Card, Tag 4.

I cut these two on 12" X 12" Flaxen Cardstock from my Hopscotch Workshop on the Go pack. Then cut scraps of the Hopscotch Paper for the front of the card.

On 12" X 12" Colonial White Cardstock offcuts I stamped in Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad the ruffled edge oval shape and I stretched the square frame into a diamond shape. Close to My Heart My Acrylix® Stamps are stretchable and moldable. My picture below shows the shape of the square and the "diamond" which is the same stamp just stretched on my 3" X 3" My Acrylix® Block .

Then I cut them out with the Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors. I cut out the square to show the difference between the diamond and square (the same stamp).

Assembling all the bits together. I put the diamond and oval shape on the front of the Hopscotch paper using 3-D Foam Tape. Then to adhere the Base and Bling I used lots of Smoothie Striped WASHI TAPE!!

I used it on the front to secure temporarily the front of the necklace and then inside to secure the entire chain inside. With Washi tape it can easily be removed and doesn't leave sticky residue. Then the inside can be decorated with some more colonial white cardstock and some more of the Choose Happy – March 2015 Stamp of the Month.

And here is the finished product. I put the "You're Special" stamp on the bottom of the card to finish it off as a nice gift for a friend.

The base and bling faux gold square was made using Aqua Dots and covering it with Liquid Glass.
The circle was cut from the Base & Bling Dreamer Style Sheet. 

Used in the Base & Bling jewellery in addition to the above listed Style sheet, Aqua Dots and Liquid Glass...
Base & Bling Rhinestone Charms
Base & Bling Dreamer Charms 
Base & Bling Craft Queen Charm
Base & Bling Chain—Faux Antiqued Silver
Base & Bling Chain—Faux Antiqued Gold
Base & Bling Square Pendant—Faux Antiqued Gold
Base & Bling Square Glass Covers
Base & Bling Circle Pendant—Faux Antiqued Silver
Base & Bling Circle Glass Covers


Remember the pretty stamp set Choose Happy – March 2015 Stamp of the Month  is only available throughout March from your Close to My Heart Consultant. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest fun project. 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 Wendy Hopper - Expressions of the Heart. See you soon and remember "you're special"!