Jeepers Creepers Australasian Blog Hop September 2016

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

If you have arrived here from Maz Wood : aMAZing Close To My Heart Creations 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™ Jeepers Creepers Scrapbooking Kit.This kit is featured by Close to My Heart in September and is until the end of the current Holiday Expressions Ideas Book. 

Kit contents:Monstrous Halloween Thin Cuts Bundle.

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1 – Jeepers Creepers Paper Packet(X7211B)

1 – Jeepers Creepers Complements (X7211C)

5 – cardstock sheets (1 Pansy, 2 Whisper, 2 White Daisy)

1 – Jeepers Creepers Assortment (Z4009)

1 – Jeepers Creepers Washi Pack (Z4010)

Use the materials in this kit and the online instructions to create three coordinating scrapbook layouts.
Featured colors: Black, Emerald, Lagoon, Lemon, Pansy, Raspberry, Tangerine, White Daisy, Willow

I really love the Jeepers Creepers set and the
 

These are the cutest little monsters and I really love the themes of Harry Potter (with the lightening strikes), Halloween, Monstrous Birthday, Spooky fun, Kids birthdays, Monster Kids photos or theme park ideas. 

There are so many ideas using this set and I really wanted to make lots of them, so I went to Pinterest for some ideas and I found one about spiders. I used a bit of scrap Jeepers Creepers paper with the eye balls. This is my favourite paper because you can use it for so many themes and projects. Photos of sleepovers, night time, bed bugs, plus the birthday/halloween themes.  

The above paper was cut out with the Thin Cut Monster and using the scraps I cut a freehand spider body with the eyeballs. 

I then took scraps of the Zip Strip (Eek! Boo!), a strip of the blue stripe paper and offcuts of Black Cardstock.

I adhered the half inch strips using Duck® Easy Stick™ Adhesive and then ruled a dotted line using the Ruler to make the "web".

I stuck on the body of the spider with the convenient eyeballs and then drew freehand the spiders legs. I think in the middle I will stamp "have a Monstrous Birthday" using the stamps above and a masking technique to cover the unwanted words. 

Remember Jeepers Creepers is only available for a limited time so make sure you get it soon, so you don't miss out! Go to my website www.vandra.ctmh.com.au or your consultants website and order today. 

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 Lauren Moore- CTMH Craftings.


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Wrapping Paper

I am excited to share some cool wrapping paper and a card that I made this week for my nephews 5th birthday. I love this idea of having an endless variety of personalised wrapping paper.

I bought some cheap brown paper on clearance after Christmas at a big chain store for $1 per roll which is 7m x 70cm wide. I bought 5 rolls and then went back and bought a few more cause I want to be able to do this for every gift I give. You can't probably get it that cheap at the moment but keep an eye out, lots of places do sell it and places like Ikea sell white paper on a role too.

I decided to let my daughter (who is a mad keen stamper) do the wrapping paper while I worked on the card. I set her up with the Fast and Furious stamp set (she choose which vehicles she wanted to use and which colours).

This stamp set is such a fabulous set for young boys (and the young-at-heart boys). My daughter chose Cranberry Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad, Lagoon Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and Honey Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. She then random stamped all over the paper, which we had cut to size of the present by loosely wrapping it around the present first. 

Note: When getting my 6yr old to stamp I put the cars on the 3x3inch block and then realised that putting them diagonally on the block meant she was able to stamp more evenly than if the cars were at one edge of the block.

I started the card by deciding to make a Pop-Up card from the Cricut® Artfully Sent Cartridge.
On page 28 there is a pop up card that is designed to have the little aliens on it. I just cut the pop-up insert at 5 inches with the shift key on (as per the instructions) but did not cut the aliens :)

I picked a blue cardstock from my pile of Whimsy Cardstock Combo Pack and cut out the pop up design. To follow with the recycled brown paper look I chose 12" X 12" Kraft Cardstock to create the outside of the card and stamp the three matching vehicles as my daughter had chosen for her paper. 

In the centre of the paper and the centre of the card I stamped my nephews name in Urban Alphabet font stamps and Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad.

 After I had stamped on the front of the card with the same colours as the wrapping paper, I stamped one set on scrap Kraft Cardstock and cut them out, leaving the bottom of the cut out stamps fairly flat for the pop-up. 

 I stuck on the vechicles on the pop up sections of the card with 3L® E-Z Dots® Adhesive and used that same adhesive to stick the insert down to the outer card.

I was very happy with the finished product and think that it made a nice co-ordinated personalised gift wrapping. I hope I have given you some inspiration for your next gift giving opportunity.

I was originally inspired to make wrapping paper when a friendly sister consultant Laura Beacham shared some cute paper she had made with a matching card using the cutest Love Ya Silly stamps and the Operation Smile Fundraiser stamp set You're the Bomb to make the balloon (turning the bomb upside-down). She used the paper Paper Fundamentals Adventure Assortment and 12" X 12" Black Cardstock with Honey Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad.

Thanks Laura for permitting me to show your cute work on my blog, I love your little cute party alien/monsters.

Made by Laura Beacham - used with permission.

Made by Laura Beacham - used with permission.