Typed Note - April Stamp of the Month Australiasian Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to our Stamp of the Month Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop. We have all been creating with "Typed Note – April 2015 Stamp of the Month" Stamp set. If you have arrived here from  Anne - Mummy you made this?  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 to where you started.
  Today I would like to share with you my artwork which features the Typed Note – April 2015 Stamp of the Month available exclusively throughout April for $27 or for just $5 when you spend $75. I LOVE this stamp set!!

I thought I would make a card first cause I love the "Just a quick NOTE to say THANK YOU" sentiment because I always need and use Thank You Cards!! I thought the Yuletide Carol Paper had an 'old world' look about it and this type writer looked 'old worldy' too. I wanted to use 12" X 12" Black Cardstock and using the White Daisy Cardstock but the white against the black looked too stark. After stamping the Typewritter and the sentiment in Black Exclusive Inks™ I wanted the card to look more rustic so I used my Round Sponge (cut into 6 wedges) with Desert Sand Exclusive Inks™ and blotched the ink around the edges and accross the top to make the paper looked aged. Finished it off with some Bronze Shimmer Trim because everything is better with shimmer trim!!

After I'd made my card I decided I wanted to make a page too. Today the latest Seasonal Expressions Idea Book and Catalogue is launched and my favourite little new product is Carnival Washi Tape Pack. Its so versatile and cute. I love the bright colours, so thinking that this stamp set was perfect for that too, in a bright modern look.

To start the page I put the larger Washi tape from the  Carnival Washi Tape Pack on the top and bottom of my 12" X 12" White Daisy Cardstock. Using the bright colours of the Carnival Washi Tape I stamped the type writter in Lagoon Exclusive Inks™ and the "You're my TYPE of friend :)" in Sorbet Exclusive Inks™ 

Then at the top I stamped the pointing fingers at the top in the Sorbet and the sentiment "Did you hear the NEWS?" in Lagoon Exclusive Inks™ and used generational stamping to stamp 3 times without reinking. 

Then I used the thin washi tape to make a frame around the photos. The photo of my page isn't the best but I am very happy with the page I made with photos from our Close to My Heart Convention last year. I love this Typed Note – April 2015 Stamp of the Month and the new Carnival Washi Tape Pack. These two items were all I needed to make a gorgeous page, thats bright, fun, quick and easy to replicate. I hope you make one too!

Remember this great stamp set Typed Note – April 2015 Stamp of the Month is only available throughout April from your Close to My Heart Consultant. 

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 Mandy - Hall of Indulgence. Come back again soon.  

Choose Happy – March 2015 Stamp of the Month Australiasian Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to our Stamp of the Month Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop. We have all been creating with "Choose Happy – March 2015 Stamp of the Month " Stamp set. If you have arrived here from  Denise's Blog Scrap, Stamp, Share 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 to where you started.
 
Today I would like to share with you my artwork which features the Choose Happy – March 2015 Stamp of the Month  available exclusively throughout March for $27 or for just $5 when you spend $75. 

I wanted to use my Workshops on the Go® Hopscotch Scrapbooking Kit for this months blog hop because its the LAST month that it is available in the current Seasonal Expressions Catalogue and I love this paper and will miss it when it retires.

I had left over paper from when I made the pages from the workshop on the go so I used those, as you get such great value from the Workchops on the Go. I wanted to create a gift tag type card to hold my Base and Bling Jewellery that I've made to give as gifts. So I went to my Cricut Craftroom and my CTMH Cricut® Art Philosophy Collection and found a tag card. Its called Card, Tag 4.

I cut these two on 12" X 12" Flaxen Cardstock from my Hopscotch Workshop on the Go pack. Then cut scraps of the Hopscotch Paper for the front of the card.

On 12" X 12" Colonial White Cardstock offcuts I stamped in Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad the ruffled edge oval shape and I stretched the square frame into a diamond shape. Close to My Heart My Acrylix® Stamps are stretchable and moldable. My picture below shows the shape of the square and the "diamond" which is the same stamp just stretched on my 3" X 3" My Acrylix® Block .

Then I cut them out with the Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors. I cut out the square to show the difference between the diamond and square (the same stamp).

Assembling all the bits together. I put the diamond and oval shape on the front of the Hopscotch paper using 3-D Foam Tape. Then to adhere the Base and Bling I used lots of Smoothie Striped WASHI TAPE!!

I used it on the front to secure temporarily the front of the necklace and then inside to secure the entire chain inside. With Washi tape it can easily be removed and doesn't leave sticky residue. Then the inside can be decorated with some more colonial white cardstock and some more of the Choose Happy – March 2015 Stamp of the Month.

And here is the finished product. I put the "You're Special" stamp on the bottom of the card to finish it off as a nice gift for a friend.

The base and bling faux gold square was made using Aqua Dots and covering it with Liquid Glass.
The circle was cut from the Base & Bling Dreamer Style Sheet. 

Used in the Base & Bling jewellery in addition to the above listed Style sheet, Aqua Dots and Liquid Glass...
Base & Bling Rhinestone Charms
Base & Bling Dreamer Charms 
Base & Bling Craft Queen Charm
Base & Bling Chain—Faux Antiqued Silver
Base & Bling Chain—Faux Antiqued Gold
Base & Bling Square Pendant—Faux Antiqued Gold
Base & Bling Square Glass Covers
Base & Bling Circle Pendant—Faux Antiqued Silver
Base & Bling Circle Glass Covers


Remember the pretty stamp set Choose Happy – March 2015 Stamp of the Month  is only available throughout March from your Close to My Heart Consultant. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest fun project. 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 Wendy Hopper - Expressions of the Heart. See you soon and remember "you're special"! 

February Album Special

A TREAT JUST FOR YOU! - ALBUM ALLURE SPECIAL

Some albums are Ruby, others are Lagoon... they are ALL buy one get one half off!

During the month of February, when you purchase one of Close To My Heart's alluring coated canvas albums you will be eligible to receive a second album of your choice at half price. That is a savings of over $22 AUD / $27 NZD! These albums are available in a gorgeous variety of colours and patterns in both post-bound and D-ring styles-perfect to pair with traditional, Studio J®, or pocket scrapbook layouts. 

This offer is only available while supplies last, so make certain to get your order in early to ensure you can choose the styles and colours you love. They're going fast and are built to last; so don't delay - place your order HERE = www.vandra.ctmh.com.au

The D-Ring albums make an awesome "Album in Progress" style album which you can use to put your completed album pages in while you complete the whole project. 

There are lots of options to pair with the album coversets in terms of pages, in a variety of styles. Some to fit full page tradtional scrapbooking or studio J pages in either top or side loading. Or memory protectors in 5 different designs to fit 4x6 and 3x4 sized photos in a variety of styles. You can also get a variety value pack

Album Accessories

12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ Design 1 

12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ Design 2 

12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ Design 3   

12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ Design 4

12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ Design 5 

Memory Protectors™ Variety Pack   

 

12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ Top Load (10)   

Memory Protectors™ Top Load Value Pack (25) 

12" x 12" Memory Protectors™ Side Load (10)   

Memory Protectors™ Side Load Value Pack (25 per) 

Check them all out and tailor your album to your own needs. 

 

A Happy Hello - February Stamp of the Month Australiasian Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to our Stamp of the Month Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop. We have all been creating with "A Happy Hello" Stamp set. If you have arrived here from Georgia O'Shea - Georgia Creates 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 to where you started.
 

Today I would like to share with you my card which features the A Happy Hello – February 2015 Stamp of the Month available exclusively throughout February for $27 or for just $5 when you spend $75. 

This is such a pretty stamp set that has so many beautiful applications. I can't wait to see what all the blog hop girls have made. I made my card for a consultant swap day a few weeks back, I made 12 of these cards and they are simple to do in bulk.

I used 12" X 12" Kraft Cardstock as the background and to stamp the flower using Cranberry Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. I fussy cut out the flower with my Non-Stick Micro-Tip Scissors.

I cut half inch of White Daisy Cardstock for the penants and stamped the wonderful title from the You're the Bomb Operation Smile Fundraiser stamp (which is only available until 31st March 2015) using the Sorbet Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad. 

The circle "You're" from the You're the Bomb Stamp set fitted perfectly inside the flower so I stamped it with the Sorbet Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad and then the trick is to cut it out with the 1" Circle Punch after stamping. Its easier to line it up to punch after stamping, instead of trying to stamp on a small circle. 

 I stamped the stem/leaves with Flaxen Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad 

I hung the stamp over my 2" X 3 1/2" My Acrylix® Block to just use some of the stem.

Note: when I stamped with the flaxen it was darker but as it dried it went lighter on the Kraft Cardstock. If I was to make this card again I would stamp the stem a second time, darkening the stem.  

When I placed the cranberry flower on the craft cardstock it didn't stand out enough so I put a white square underneath.To finish it off I added a puffie from the Chalk It Up Assortment.

Remember the pretty stamp set  A Happy Hello – February 2015 Stamp of the Month is only available throughout February from your Close to My Heart Consultant. 

Thanks so much for dropping by to check out my latest simple project. 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 Mandy - Hall of Indulgence, See you soon!
 

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.