Sunday, August 13, 2023

August Stitch and Colour Layout Kit

 

My friend Claire organises a scrap day at a hotel near where she lives every six weeks or so.  A few of the ladies asked me to create a kit for them and so my 'Scrappy Kea Layout Kits' started!  These kits have cutting guides and instructions as well as the papers, cardstock, images and embellishments needed to create the layouts - just add your own basics e.g. black ink, adhesive, trimmer and photos.

After Sharing the layouts, there was a bit of interest from other Makers for the instructions and cutting guides.  I'm not sure I'm ready to share these far and wide just yet but it is something I am considering as a possibility!

 

Close To My Heart generally has lovely layout guides with each collection they create too - if you love double page layouts these are the way to go.  My kits are single page layouts which is what I and most of the ladies I create with prefer.

Layouts created with the August Stitch & Colour Kit:







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Thursday, March 10, 2022

Cardstock Carnival

 As I needed to make some cards for parents who recently helped out at school, the colours of the CTMH cardstock invited me to create with them.  I wanted colours that reminded them of the pool and luckily the colours I used are two long time favourites! It is very convenient that Close To My Heart currently has a 'Cardstock Carnival' going on and the cardstocks are on special!

I have used pattern 15 from 'Make It From Your Heart' Volume 4 and used Glacier and Lagoon cardstock.  Our double sided cardstock, where one side is lighter than the other is perfect for this kind of project and I can think of many of the CTMH colours that would work for this card!

I raided my scraps box for the patterned paper to back the sentiment (great way to use up some scraps) and embellished the card with wooden flower embellishments and liquid pearls (white opal, robin's egg & sage). 


The sentiment was from an older stamp set (C1895) and stamped on white daisy cardstock cut slightly smaller (4 1/4 x 1 1/4) than the patterned paper underneath it. Many of our sentiments would work beautifully on this card!

Possible future changes (I like this card and am keen to replicate it for other purposes):
  • Use some stamps and inks, in the same colour of the cardstock, to add texture/ pattern to some of the strips.
  • try some glitter cardstock behind the sentiment
  • Use some white or black acrylic shapes other than the flowers
  • Use glitter gems or acrylic dots instead of the liquid pearls
  • Try out some different sentiments and colours, maybe even pull in some patterned paper.
























Monday, March 16, 2020

CTMH Everyday Moments Cricut Collection - Sweet Life

I was invited by Close To My Heart to create with the 'Sweet Life' double page layout project in the new 'Everyday Moments' Collection for Cricut.  The layout above is the entire project, using the mat colours in the image to create this page using the Cricut and cardstock.

I created a process video for this layout:


While using the 'Sweet Life' project I kept thinking of ideas I could use elements of it for in creating further pages and my next project was the use of sequins in the citrus segments.



Thankfully the camera was rolling while I put this together too so here's a process video:

I came up with a few other variations of this project too..

Using the Julep glitter paper in the cricut gave a whole new level of sparkle to this page. Seas The Day Collection created further embellishment options on this single page layout.


I cut the citrus elements from a stencil sheet and used this to daub ink through and to also smear some texture paste through to give a 'dirty' look for a more 'boy' page.


I decided to 'shrink' the citrus and frame to measure 6 x 6 inches so I could create a card.  I used the current mixins to go under the white daisy cut and some silver glitter gems for the centre of each slice of fruit. The 'life is sweeter' stamp was perfect for this card!


There are so many different ways you can use the projects in this collection as they are or 'change them up' to suit your style using different products or by just using some elements of the intended design.

Have Fun!

Saturday, October 20, 2018

Grateful Heart CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

Hello and welcome to our Grateful Heart Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop. Where we hope to inspire you to use the 'Grateful Heart' collection. If you have arrived here from Doreen's Blog then you are in the right place.

If you have visited from a link elsewhere, please join in by following the link at the end of this post.

 
Grateful Heart wasn't my favourite collection in the current Seasonal Expressions (my favourite will be featured in December) but I enjoy a challenge and ended up enjoying the process of creating with it.  I made good use of the Seasons Mix-Ins to soften the autumnal colours (it's Spring here at the moment). For these layouts and a couple of cards, I also used the October Stamp Of the Month.

My first layout using Grateful Heart was put together with a process video and you can go to my previous post HERE.

I had packed the Grateful Heart Workshops Your Way Kit, along with my Cricut and the Seasons Mix Ins in my travel bags to spend a week at my parents beach house and my layouts using this collection were mostly created there - I took over a table in the lounge and created when I had the opportunity.  I am going to share two of my favourite pages with you and then add a few of my other projects using Grateful Heart at the end.

Shine

I used both Seasons Mix-Ins and Grateful Heart papers on this page, tucking them behind a Cricut cut and then layering the Grateful Heart complements with stamped and fussy cut images from 'Thanks and Giving' and 'Bunches of Love' to create a 'triangle' with the title.  The title was cut using one of the Cricut fonts (gypsy), linking them together and cut from our silver glitter paper. Some sparkle gems were added to finish off the 'shine' concept.

  


Full Heart

Using similar toned papers to that of the 'shine' layout I continued to use the October Stamp of the Month to embellish this layout.  Journaling was made simple using the paper with all of the pocket pages cuts on it.  I adore the wood veneer look of the complements.  I didn't have my sewing machine with me at the beach house and utilised the Stitched Borders stamp set to add the look of stitching. As always, a bit of sparkle by way of gem dots and pearls finishes off the page.

      


Here are a few other pieces I created using Grateful Heart:
  

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Monday, October 01, 2018

Granny Loves You

Grateful Heart is the Close To My Heart October Feature Collection. I had the chance to begin my foray into this collection yesterday afternoon whilst staying at my parents place.  The Workshops Your Way kits along with some stamps, Inks and a basic tool kit are all you need to be able to create ‘on the go’.

Workshops Your Way Grateful Heart Scrapbooking Kit:


I used this kit, along with canary, tangerine and pomegranate ink, an older ‘documented’ stamp set and ‘watercolour impressions’. I used the Cricut for my title but some of our font stamps would be perfect for this too.


 You can watch a video of the process used in creating this layout: