Silver & Gold CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

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

If you have arrived here from Doreen Watkins 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® Silver & Gold Scrapbooking Kit.This kit is featured by Close to My Heart in November and is available until the end of the Seasonal Expressions Ideas Book.

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Kit contents:

1 – Silver & Gold Paper Packet (X7226B)

1 – Silver & Gold Complements (X7226C)

5 – cardstock sheets (3 Black, 1 Pewter, 1 White Daisy)

1 — Gold Glitter Gems (Z3312)

1 – Gold Shimmer Trim (Z1985)

 The above card is made with 2 picture my life cards, and the reindeer button. 

The above card was made with the picture my life card 4x6  and I cut off the stitching ends to make it fit the 5.5 sized card - (see below x stitching from the PML card). Then I added the red shimmer trim and added the small half inch  section back to fit the space. I put Red Shimmer trim behind the 25 and then put the whole star in 3D foam tape. 

I really enjoyed this zip strip card. I used the x stitching from the PML card and stamped the Merry Christmas in the white spaces with red enamel gems. 

 More PML cards and I covered the title with the white Merry Christmas 3D foam tape. 

Another zip strip and some off cuts plus an M sized old style Christmas stamp and old red enamel hearts. 

The last thing I made was this page that I was so happy with. I used the off cuts and zip strips and black cardstock and Black Shimmer Trim and PML cards and some complements and some black and white stripes diagonal paper from the Cats & bats that went really well with it too. I really loved how this page turned out. Black and white doesn't have to be a christmassy page. 

Remember Workshops Your Way® Silver & Gold Scrapbooking Kit is only available for a limited time. 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 this month on on our Australasian Blog Hop which is Creative Workshops By Rachel Stribling .

Christmas Tunes Australasian Stamp of the Month Blog Hop S1710

Welcome to our Australasian Blog Hop. We have all been creating with the "Christmas Tunes—October Stamp of the Month" Stamp set. If you have arrived here from Doris Taylor - Creative Inspirations 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 Christmas Tunes—October Stamp of the Month available exclusively throughout October 2017 for $27 or for just $7.50 when you spend $75. 

This is clearly your 2017 go to Christmas Stamp set for all your Christmas Cards! I am away for a few days with my kids on School Holidays so I brought a Workshop your Way, some White cards and envelopes, a few basic ink colours, a few acrylic blocks and some adhesives. I am pretty happy with the Christmas cards I made with these limitations. 

The first thing I did was get some Christmas colours out - red and green (Willow Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and Ruby Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad) NB: the Ruby pictured below is in the old format and no longer comes like this. 

Then I stamped the pretty wreath in Willow Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and the Title Banner in Ruby Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad on White Daisy Cardstock.

I have the Workshops Your Way® Silver & Gold Scrapbooking Kit and firstly cut out all the pieces to make the pages and cards and had one of the card bases for Project 6 in the cutting guide. I usually make up my cards out of the "scraps" from the kits after making all the projects. But the project 6 makes 3 cards so I used the base and made my card below. You can find the instructions for all the kits on my website www.vandra.closetomyheart.com.au or on your consultants website, with specific instruction guide is with the Silver & Gold Workshops your Way kit. 

This kit is one of my favourites because so much of it isn't christmassy.  Almost ALL of the papers can be used for non-christmas pages and cards. Anyway I had the card base for Project 6 and I used it for the card I made below. 

To make the shimmer paper backing (as I didn't have my glitter paper stash with me), I did have the Black Shimmer Trim and Gold Shimmer Trim (the gold comes in the kit) and I used a larger piece of White daisy card stock (half inch wider) and covered the edges in Black Shimmer Trim. I matted the Wreath on top with 3-D Foam Tape and then the larger glitter on the bottom with Thin 3-D Foam Tape. To give it extra dimension. I do love where the "I Love Christmas" on the paper came out on the card. 

Next I used one of the Reindeer Zip Stips to edge the bottom of the card below. I stamped with Ruby Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad the Merry & Bright bauble onto one of the Picture My Life cards from the kit. Then I matted it with the dark side of the Pewter Cardstock that came inside the Workshop your way kit with Tombow® Permanent Adhesive. A very basic card but I'm happy with how it turned out. I really like grey as a Christmas neutral colour!

Last month I made some cards using the Gold Foil Hearts from this kit to make the "You're in my Heart" card with the special National Stamping Day Special Stamp set, for a consultant swap and as sympathy cards for sale (see below). Using Gold Shimmer Trim and Bashful Pearls.  

 I loved how this turned out and I still had some of this lovely gold foil hearts paper cut to size and so I decided to use that same pattern to make a Christmas Tree card. I stamped in Willow Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and used Gold Shimmer Trim and Gold Glitter Gems from the kit to spruce up the card. 

This is a great card to use some of the beautiful foil heart paper but only 1-2 inches at a time (1.5 or 1.75 I think) x 4.25 inches... getting lots of cards out of one stunning paper sheet. 

Please note: I found photographing the gold foil difficult both times I took pics of it (above last month and below today), so I do apologise for the quality of the photos. I hope you still get the gist of what I made.  

Remember this great stamp set Christmas Tunes—October Stamp of the Month is only available throughout October 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 

Wendy Hopper -Expressions of the Heart

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