Oh What Fun CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. We have all been creating with the most lovely paper suite Workshops Your Way® Oh What Fun Scrapbooking Kit matching complements, kits, stamp sets and twine, which is featured this month. If you have arrived here from Maz Wood 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.

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Workshops Your Way® Oh What Fun Scrapbooking Kit

Product Description

Kit contents:1 – Oh What Fun Paper Packet (X7238B)

1 – Oh What Fun Complements(X7238C)

4 – cardstock sheets (1 Clover, 2 Lagoon, 1 White Daisy)

1 – Oh What Fun Felt Shapes (Z4228)

1 – Raspberry Baker's Twine (Z4216)

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printed instructions

Use the materials in this kit to create three coordinating scrapbook layouts. (Instructions also found on your consultants website and on my website here.)

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I love these Oh What Fun Felt Shapes and I wanted to do something special with them. I still had some 'Tis the Season Snowflakes left from last month and have seen a number of decorations being made with them. So I collected my ingredients from Workshops Your Way® Oh What Fun Scrapbooking Kit ... the Felt shapes, the Snowflakes, Raspberry Baker's Twine and some Clover Cardstock cut with Thin Cuts—Stitched Circles

I cut the clover circles with the light side up because I wanted the dark green to show through the holes in the snowflakes. From the back they'll also look neat with the stitched ring on the light side. I stuck the Raspberry bakers twine to the 3D foam adhesive. Put a bit extra Tombow® Permanent Adhesive to make sure they stuck to the ribbon and the circles.

So quick and easy to put together as the felt are stickers so they just stuck onto the front of the snowflakes with the dark green clover cardstock cirlces showing through the holes and the larges 4 felt shapes. So cute. So easy and they look great on our Christmas Tree (although I may use them as gifts on cards but I'm not sure yet). 

Best part is that I've still got 4 small felt shapes to use on other projects. 

Remember this great set Workshops Your Way® Oh What Fun Scrapbooking Kit and associated things will be only available while stocks last with this seasonal catalogue which finishes at the end of December (if not sold out beforehand) TWO WEEKS!!! So DON'T MISS OUT!!! 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 Shaunna Richards: Passionate About Pages. 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

Beautiful Friendship CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. We have all been creating with the most lovely paper suite Workshops Your Way® Beautiful Friendship Scrapbooking Kit matching complements, 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.

Workshops Your Way® Beautiful Friendship Scrapbooking Kit

Workshops Your Way® Beautiful Friendship Scrapbooking Kit

Product Description

Kit contents:
1 – Beautiful Friendship Paper Packet (X7233B)
1 – Beautiful Friendship Complements (X7233C)
3 – cardstock sheets (White Daisy)
1 – Beautiful Friendship Bows(Z4195)
1 – White Ribbon(Z4196)
printed instructions
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I love the tea pots and tea cups in this set. I love the thin cuts with the teapot and teacup and teabag. Beautiful Friendship Cardmaking Stamp + Thin Cuts (as shown above). 

I found some tea in our tea chest at home that had cute teapots on it, so as part of our consultant swap I decided to make a set of teabag holders as gifts. I've seen a lot of consultants using these to put chocolates in, I decided afterwards it would be good to pop a chocolate in also (if I'd had chocolates I would have given them too), tea and an after dinner mint maybe :) 

I cut the cute teapot with the blue dot paper from the set and since the tea bags were orange I used 12" × 12" Tangerine Cardstock to make the strips of paper 3 inchs by 8 inches wide. Then I used 12" × 12" Sapphire Cardstock 3 inches by just over an inch. I bent the tangerine paper around in a tear drop shape with the tea bag sachet in the middle and folded the sapphire cardstock in half and stapled them all together with the Mini Stapler.

Then I cut the sweet NEW Thin Cuts—Stitched Hearts from white daisy cardstock and put them on the teapots and stuck them on the front of the gifts. 

The other card I made was a technique in a video I made "Cardmaking with Caroline & Vandra".  I used the die cut teapot as a mask to sponge the lemon ink around the teapot and then raspberry ink and then lagoon ink. After I'd removed the teapot I stamped the outline of the teapot in the space directly inside the sponging edges Then I added black paper surrounds and a thin cut shaped cup. As it was a technique showing card, I didn't put a sentiment on it. 

Remember this great set Workshops Your Way® Beautiful Friendship 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 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

January is National Papercrafting Month

January is National Papercrafting Month  

and there is a special Promotion. It is called the January National Papercrafting Month 
Year >> Noted campaign, which is a perfect beginning to any memory keeper’s year. The exclusive Year >> Noted paper kit gives you all the tools you need to prepare for a year’s worth of memories. The vibrant patterned papers have been designed to be cut into 4" x 6" cards, embellished with the trendy golden foil stickers, and then slipped into the pockets of the new My Creations™ mini book along with your favourite photos from the year. At the end of the year, when your mini book is filled with treasured memories, you can use the golden foil seal sticker to close it up, transforming it into a time capsule for the year.

With a qualifying order of $75 or more, you can choose between two kits. For just $10 you can purchase the Year >> Noted paper kit, which includes two sheets of exclusive B&T Duos™ paper, four sheets of cardstock, golden foil stickers, and a C-size stamp set. If you choose the second option for $15, you get the Year >> Noted paper kit as well as the new My Creations™ kraft mini book, featuring a sturdy chipboard cover and 10 mini page protectors. With either option, you save big on high quality products you can use to capture and preserve your memories.

January is going to be a great month to party! 
In addition to the fun Year >> Noted campaign celebrating National Papercrafting Month, Close to my Heart will also be offering a hostess special that will give our hostesses an extra $45 AUD in Hostess Rewards when your Gathering sales reach at least $500 AUD. That means that a hostess whose Gathering reaches $500 AUD in sales will earn $135 AUD in free products instead of the normal $90 AUD—that’s 50% more Hostess Rewards! This special applies specifically to the free products hostesses earn; the number of half-price items a hostess earns will remain the same. Start booking your January events now so you can be ready to earn extra rewards! For more information go to www.vandra.ctmh.com.au or your consultants page for more information. 


Sorry if you got this information twice, it was originally in my blog hop post but I needed to take it off the blog hop to make that more streamlined.