Fresh Air CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

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

I have to say that this is one of my very favourite ranges we've played with in ages. I love the natural look of the papers, fibres, fabric, wood, earthy tones and forest pages. This suits so many of my photos of living in the Perth Hills and doing lots of camping as a Scout leader and being a scouting family. The sentiments are amazing, the stamps of leaves and trees and titles are awesome. Enjoy what myself and all the ladies in this hop have created.

Workshops Your Way® Fresh Air Scrapbooking Kit

Item Number: G1152

Product Description

Kit contents:

1 – Fresh Air Paper Packet (X7232B)

1 – Fresh Air Complements (X7232C)

4 – cardstock sheets (1 Almond, 3 White Daisy)

1 – Fresh Air Shapes (Z4185)

1 – New England Ivy Burlap Ribbon (Z4170)

printed instructions

photo placeholders

I made up the pages as per the printed instructions but I made a few adjustments because I didn't want to use the large pieces of the sheets as just backing paper cause I wanted to save them and use them for my Monthly Card & Scrapbooking Clubs. The very best pages I wanted to use. So all I did was substitute for other cardstock (or another hint on my 3rd page layout). 

 For the first page layout (below), I took out the lovely forest pages and used 12" × 12" New England Ivy Cardstock (you can get this paper in Green Cardstock Bundle special pack on sale this month or you can get it in the Fresh Air Coordinating Cardstock) BUT you can ONLY get this forest paper in the Workshops Your Way® Fresh Air Scrapbooking Kit or the Fresh Air Paper Packet. To me its rare and special. To show it just using paper as a backing is also another way of getting the most out of your printed instructions. You could use the templates and cutting guides with other papers too. Thus extending out this kit quite a lot! I certainly have. 

I've shown both the sample page (above) and my version (below) . I think I would put in another few photo spaces on the right hand side page when I add my photos to this page because without the trees the top of the second page is a little bare and could easily fit more pics. 

For the below page layout 2. I used 12" × 12" Linen Cardstock instead of the patterned paper which had the lovely hessian look paper (see my cards for the hessian paper and why I didn't want it to just be the backing paper hidden from view). 

On the 3rd page below I still followed the page layout but instead of cutting a 7.25 inch x 12 inch strip of the wooden look paper. I cut half inch and slightly smaller than half inch strips to put on the pages instead of using the whole 7.25 inch strip on 2 pages (14.5 inches) I used less than a 3 inch strip. So that's a handy hint for making this page. Save yourself heaps of this glorius wooden look paper. I love this paper and would use it again and again. 

Please note: I also noticed I photographed the pages around the opposite way to the sample but I think either way works :)   Right/Left swap to be Left/Right :) 

When I was looking at this range of paper in the catalogue in the lovely tree/leaf/nature featured pack I also purchased the Workshops Your Way® In My Heart Cardmaking Kit because I LOVED the stamp set that goes with it as its all about Kindness. It has instructions and cards/envelopes to make 12 cards with the Fresh Air paper. I cut all those out I will finish them off late. I wanted to make others first that weren't from a pattern.  

I made the following two cards using the stamp set with my scraps left over from making the Workshop your Way Scrapbooking pages. An off cut off the wood look, plus the mottled linen look paper, plus a thin off cut off the New England Ivy cardstock. I stamped with New England Ivy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad on the Picture my life card and added the wooden heart.  Really happy with this card. This sentiment is what my 10 year old daughter wants to send her Aunty Daena who's moved to the UK, "Always on my Heart and On my Mind". Watch this space Aunty Daena, Missy is going to make you a card with this stamp set (don't tell her I told you) 

For my last card, I really love the hessian look paper (as already mentioned) I think that it really looks like fabric. I used offcuts of that, the top is the back of it and the bottom is an offcut of the leaf paper. Then I stamped in New England Ivy Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad on the Almond Cardstock and stuck on a wooden star and 3 bronze sequins from the set in the card kit. The green "washi" is actually the offcut from a complement sticker that was a leftover from making my 3rd page layout - the sticker goes across where the small pine cones are. The off cut of that complement fits this card in a unique way. Love to use my scraps productively. 

Another stamp set in this range is the Fresh Air—Scrapbooking I made some pages using this stamp set earlier in the month and I really like the Titles in this. Our Incredible Fun Crazy Silly Family - suits my family down to a T. 

Remember this great set Workshops Your Way® Fresh Air 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 Creating with Kara Davies
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

No Worries Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to our Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop featuring this months featured pack called  Workshops Your Way® No Worries 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® No Worries Scrapbooking Kit. This kit is featured by Close to My Heart in June and is available until the end of the new Seasonal Expressions Ideas Book. 

Product Description

Kit contents:

1 – No Worries paper packet (X7220B)

1 – No Worries Complements (X7220C)

4 – cardstock sheets (4 White Daisy)

1 – No Worries sequins (Z3322)

1 – white burlap ribbon (Z3323)

Use the materials in this kit and the online instructions found on all consultants websites (click here find the instructions if you don't have a consultant) to create three coordinating scrapbook layouts.

I made the pages first using the cutting guide and then the cards as per the instructions except for a few minor changes that made a massive difference. As I usually do, I use a variation of the cards and pages just by turning over the double-sided papers. I wasn't a huge fan of the large print palm trees, so I turned those sheets over and the pages turned out quite different. I love them. I also used my scraps plus some Kraft cardstock to make another set of 2 pages, giving me 8 pages in total. I haven't shown them here because I haven't added photos and they look a bit plain without anything on them. I really love the natural look of the timber and thatched paper and how fun and playful the blue striped paper is. 

The pictures below are from the CTMH head office team and are shown in the catalogue. 

I also made the cards as per the instructions (using two sides of each paper to create different samples) but didn't use the stamp set as instructed because I don't have anyone I know retiring. So my cards are waiting on titles and empressions on them. They are perfect for a masculine card or gender neutral option. 

So after making 8 pages and 6 cards I still needed something I could show everyone on the blog hop. 

I LOVE the wooden paper and using one of the Picture My Life cards of wood I cut the 4x6 card down to 4x5.25 to have a border on my 4.25 x 5.5 sized cards (4 1/4" × 5 1/2" White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack).

Then I added True Love Stamp set with the solid heart stamp in Whisper Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and then I stamped over "This card is a PAPER HUG" with Black Memento™ Ink Pad on 12" × 12" White Daisy Cardstock offcuts. 

This stamp set True Love is the Operation Smile stamp set so $7 US dollars from the sale of every set of this stamp set goes to Operation Smile - operations in third world nations on children to repair cleft lip and cleft palette issues. Its a truly amazing stamp set. So sweet and versatile. 

To finish off my card I used 12" × 12" White Daisy Cardstock offcuts to cut out a thin cut heart. I adhered the thin cut hearts with Bonding Memories™ Glue Pen and the title with 3-D Foam Tape. 

I will finish the 8 pages and 6 cards I've made and post them at a later stage. So please come back again soon to view my Blog and see all the things I've made with this kit!!

Remember Workshops Your Way® No Worries 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 on our Australasian Blog Hop which is Lauren Moore.