Cats and Bats and Falling For You CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop featuring this months featured packs...yes you read that correctly there are TWO packs this month. We are focusing on Workshops Your Way® Cats & Bats Scrapbooking Kit and Workshops Your Way® Falling for You Scrapbooking Kit.

If you have arrived here from Rachel Stribling - Creative Workshops By Rachel Stribling 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 Cats and Bats and Falling for you, These two kits are featured by Close to My Heart in September and is available until the end of the current Seasonal Expressions Ideas Book.

I've used elements from both packs in my card projects in today's blog. I really love the black shimmer elements from the Cats & Bats Complements. 

OKAY I LOVE ANYTHING WITH SHIMMER ON IT!!

I plan to use most of these complements for my kids album pages that have NOTHING to do with Halloween. I love that a lot of the papers (almost ALL) are designed in this set to be useful for so many other projects other than simply just Halloween. There is only 1 paper sheet that is clearly ONLY Halloween the rest can but used in any project! I LOVE THEM!

This photo above is all the shimmery elements I love! Its hard to capture the shimmery beautifulness that is these complements. I've zoomed in as best I can to capture some of it. 

There were a few elements that are typical Halloween elements and I think the cute little owl that has the origami shape is a great birthday owl. It could be a good card for a male or female. 

This was my first card with the have a Hoot - the alphabet is from Cricut® Artfully Sent Collection (physical cartridge) pack. White Daisy Cardstock for the title and White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack for all the cards I made. I used Black Memento™ Ink Pad for all the black stamping in these projects. 

Then using some of the paper from both Cats & Bats and Falling for You I made this card with the  Feel So Blessed—September Stamp of the Month. This is a lovely stamp set full of thanks and gratitude and is only available to purchase in September (You can get it for only $7.50 with eligible purchase). The orange check paper from Cats & Bats goes well with the flowers and spots of the Falling for You papers. The Quote in the middle was stamped with Heather Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. The "love this" heart is stuck on with 3-D Foam Dots.

Then I did a final simple thank you card. I've been looking for more multi-gender versions of my thank you cards because often I do them with flowers and hearts and I definitely require more masculine or 'suitable for anyone' thank yous. The black and white stripe paper is from the Cats and Bats and the spots are from Falling for You. The Thanks is stamped in Black Memento™ Ink Pad directly onto the paper and the "for everything" was stamped on White Daisy Cardstock and cut out and suck on with Thin 3-D Foam Tape for a little dimension. The star from the Cats and Bats was stuck on with Tombow® Permanent Adhesive (as well as the owl) because it is easily adhered around thin edges. 

Simple, basic, elegant with the black and white stripes. Easily replicatable and simple for beginners. 

Remember Workshops Your Way® Cats & Bats Scrapbooking Kit and Workshops Your Way® Falling for You Scrapbooking Kits are only available for a limited time. They are both lovely and I had to have them BOTH. 

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 them, so I'd love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop this month on on our Australasian Blog Hop which is Wendy Hopper - Expressions of the Heart.

CTMH Australasian Stampaganza Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop featuring every stamp set currently available to purchase for STAMPAGANZA. March is Buy 2 stamp sets and get 1 FREE!!

If you have arrived here from Tanya Armitage-   Happy Papercrafting 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 decided to use a selection of stamp sets for my blog this hop because there are so many stamp sets available and this is a really great offer. 

I started with Watercolor Paints and painted up some paper with my Paintbrush Set. 

This is my first page by 12" X 12" White Daisy Cardstock (I should have used Watercolor Paper  but I forgot and it worked out okay). 

Then I used some off cuts of 12" X 12" Colonial White Cardstock

Then I used one of the bunnies from the Spring Critters that I cut out using the Spring Critters Thin Cuts on my Big Shot Embossing Machine using 12" X 12" White Daisy Cardstock with Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and used my Watercolor Paints and Paintbrush Set to paint him. So cute, using the smallest paintbrush to colour him in. 

Then I decided to paint some free-hand Carrots in a "bunch" to create a Thank You card with a difference. 

I matted the green background I had watercoloured and my carrots with 12" X 12" Slate Cardstock and used 3-D Foam Tape to adhere the bunny in a 3D way. I finished it off with Coral Shimmer Trim.

 

Next, after my 12" X 12" White Daisy Cardstock page that I had painted with the green edging had dried. I stamped with Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and stamped Delightful Ditty musical stamps all over the edge.

I stamped with Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad over the top of the water colour painting. I LOVE this stamp set. So versatile for a musical family like ours. 

My son is off to his first band camp in a few weeks. So now I have a page all ready. I put the title with the stamp set Handwritten Print and the LOVES it. 

To finish off my last watercolour painting scraps I used the Always Grateful 

stamp set. 

I matted the 12" X 12" Colonial White Cardstock scraps I had painted in purple with 12" X 12" Black Cardstock and stamped on the tree and Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. 

Simple and Elegant and I love it. 

With the STAMPAGANZA special you get 1 stamp set FREE when you buy 2. 

During March, buy any two My Acrylix® stamp sets (M-, A-, B-, C-, D-, or E-size) at full retail price, get a third stamp set of equal or lesser value FREE! That is a savings of up to $45.00! Take advantage of this amazing deal by simply adding your selected stamps to your cart!

Remember STAMPAGANZA is only available for March 2016 so make sure you get it soon, so you don't miss out! Go to my website www.vandra.ctmh.com.au 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 what I've made, 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: Inky Fingers

  Come back to see me again soon.