New Product Blog Hop featuring Julep!

If you're joining me from Michelle's Blog, welcome to our New Product Blog Hop!!! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.

If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog

This month we have many Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using product just released from our newest Seasonal Expression Idea Book!

Welcome our newest colour JULEP to the Close To My Heart family!!! 

This quite possibly could become your new favourite colour, as it has mine!

I created this layout using some of our *new Mix-In papers, Julep cardstock and Julep Glitter paper.  (I will have a full list at the end of this post)

Time to get more trip photos scrapbooked and into albums! This was a selfie taken at the top of a tower in a heritage park in Thailand...it was a scorcher of a day, super humid AND all females had to cover their arms and legs to enter the park.

I've used a SVG cut for the stacked 'joy' title and backed the 'O's with scraps of the mix-in pack. I also cut out several leaves from Charcoal cardstock and used our *new Thin-Cuts layered Leaves, which has been added to my favourite things list as well!

We joined forces with renowned calligraphy and lettering expert Melissa Esplin...I've added the image 'today, I choose joy' from the *new Joy by Melissa Esplin exclusive stamp set! This was stamped in Charcoal ink and backed on White Daisy cardstock, cut from our Stitched Circle Thin Cut die. The Julep glitter paper matting this sentiment was cut from the inside of the Shaker Thin Cut die...I absolutely LOVE the fonts used in this set.

You may have also noticed the lovely butterfly above?...meet our Exclusive Stamp & Thin Cut included in the *new Every Little Thing Cardmaking Workshop kit! Ummmm...yes please!

Thanks so much for taking the time today to check out our Hop...I know you'll have found LOTS of new product you LOVE...most of the products you'll see are only available September 1st to October 31st...so don't delay if there's some items you must have! Contact your Consultant to place an order or head to the Consultant locator on closetomyheart.com to find one near you!

Now head on over to Lauren's Blog to continue on with the Hop!

Supplies Used:

X6029 Julep cardstock

X5953 Charcoal cardstock

1385 White Daisy cardstock

X9007 Mix-In Paper Packet 

Z3506 Julep Glitter Paper

Z3507 Julep Glitter Gems

Z3523 Thin-Cuts Layered Leaves (6 dies)

D1868 Joy by Melissa Esplin (8 stamps)

Z2831 Charcoal Ink Stamp Pad

Z2805 Black Ink Stamp Pad

Z3367 Vellum Paper

Z4181 Stitched Circles  (4 dies)

Z4309 Shaker Window & Confetti (4 dies)

Just Nick digital SVG 'joyful'

Follow

April 15th !!! Wowzers...I feel like this year is already going too fast.

I have to say that Michelle hit it outta the park with this layout...

simple yet perfect for so many events!

I'm getting lots documented from my trip to Cabo San Lucas,

 this sketch helped me get 8 photos down :)

I've got room above my title on the RHS to put some journalling...I'll add that later!

The tags reminded me of suitcases and I do have a few holidays to get documented and into albums so it all worked great together!

If you're wanting to make this layout more interactive you could make those tags slid in and out and it could be a great place to tell the story of the photos...I liked it as a design concept but can already see using this idea in another layout with this same sketch :)

Have I told you lately how much I LOVE my border punches? Well case in point, this added bit changes the overall look by a bunch don't you think?! Plain 'ole cardstock getting a little jazz up!

It was a fabulous holiday and I've only just started documenting it...spending time with my BFF's to just unwind #allthefeels

Thanks for stopping by for a peek and I hope you have a chance to use this sketch for your projects.

Hugs, 

Kristine

Follow

Sizzlin' Summer Sketch#12

Sizzlin' Summer sketches are still coming your way...when I get a chance to actually get them done! I hope you are visiting Scrapbook Challenges to see all the sketches and examples from our Design Team and members in the gallery!

This sketch started one way and ended another, which is fine because I like how it all turned out!

I'm playing with our new 'Frosted' paper collection from Close To My Heart which will work great for Winter or Christmas  themed projects...check out some cards I created at the end of this post using one of our fantastic card kits! 

These glittery sparkles are discontinued now but I'm glad I bought lots when we had them in our catalog! I've just used an assortment of punches for the snowflakes that were in my stamp drawer at home...fast and easy when you are punching it outta card stock! Which is 'Colonial White' by the way :)

I have been featuring CTMH's new 'Artbooking' cartridge from Cricut in the previous few weeks...this project's title and fancy doily on the left side were both cut out of our cartridges...our glitter paper is so fantastic that it cuts like butter on the Cricut machine too! Which makes for some fun embellishments and titles in glitter!

Isn't this great, what an awesome doily huh?!!! Anyways, my goal was to keep this layout simple with simple embellishments and stay within the colours of this paper line...the photos are from 7 years ago when our family stayed at Leavenworth in Washington over the Thanksgiving weekend...this town is so interesting at that time of the year!

Our card kits come with enough product to create 15 cards! We also include an exclusive stamp set and envelopes!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Enjoy your weekend wherever you may be!!!

you ready for another one?

Ok well here we are already with our Sizzlin' Summer sketch #7 from Scrapbook Challenges! Have you been playing along? I'd love to hear from you if you have been!

I knew I wanted to use some baseball photos for this sketch...after trimming them to 3½" X 5" I sanded the edges...laid the photos on some black cardstock and then thought...now what?!!!

So I sat and thought about a title...the sketch has a big one along the left hand side...I don't always care to follow the sketch exactly but in this case I thought I'd like to play with my Silhouette! It's been ages since I used it and the #1 reason I bought it was so that I could cut really cool downloaded images and words and...you get the idea!

So I played with the phrase 'take me out to the ball game'...used my 'too much paper!' font, 'ariel black' font and 'huntson' font that were on my computer, fiddled with various sizes and welded the letters together so that it would print nicely! I am still learning the Silhouette machine but it's been easy enough to figure out so far :)

The only patterned paper I've used on this layout is to cut the title! I am amazed that I was able to just leave it alone...simple enough in theory but hard for me to just let it be plain'ish...if you know me at all you would be amazed with me too!!! I have several stickers left over from my Simple Stories 24/seven collection so they made adding little finishing touches to this layout crazy fast! Of course the best part of this layout is the story...I LOVE baseball...just sayin'

Enjoy the sketch and I hope you have some luck getting a little scrappy time for yourself this month! Thanks so much for stoppin' in here and checkin' me out ;)

PS. Do you sense a little cheeky'ness? not sure whats come over me...must be this late night scrapbooking!

Lakeside Scrapbooking...

Well I've had a great break away at the lake for July...still enjoying a few more days before I need to pack up and head back home. While here I've been plugging away on finishing up projects and completing sketches. The sunshine and lake are a big distraction during the daytime but the evenings once they cool down, make for a nice scrapbooking setting.

This is the view from the porch and front windows of the cabin we've been nestled in for July...as you can see we have been spending most daylight on our dock and evenings around the campfire...we are lucky there aren't any fire bans here just yet.

this is the sketch from Scrapbook Challenges for this week...I figured the dock was a great place to take some photos! This was from our Christmas last year in Hawaii...all the kids got some lessons in surfing!

These flowers were fussy cut from a sheet of Fancy Pants Down by the Shore...it was time consuming as opposed to stickers but worth it in the end :)  The surf board paper is from EP Paradise Beach collection and the camera and sentiment stickers are from the EP Urban Traveller collection.

My Project Life cards works very well to add a journalling spot or titles and sub-titles to any project...the colours were a great match too.

As you can see I'm still enjoying all my wood veneer bits on my layouts! The arrows are from Close To My Heart and the speech bubbles are from Studio Calico! Love them!!!

SBC sketch#354

Lately, I've been trying to keep it simple with my layouts and also incorporating the Project Life sleeves in amongst my albums...getting holidays completed and into albums for everyone to enjoy is the main goal and while I love to embellish and create little pieces of goodness throughout my albums, I want to have more albums completed and more photos printed out...scrapbooking every moment in a holiday isn't realistic and will lead to frustration instead of enjoyment in this fun hobby! 

Thanks so much for stopping in!

Let's Scrap with Chantilly and CTMH!!!

Hello! So glad you've stopped in today...it's always fun to start with a sketch...whether it's a card or layout sketch, whatever gets you creative and creating!

It's Wednesday and so that means it's time for a new sketch at Let's Scrap, this week is the third Wednesday in the month so that means a Card Sketch! As you can see, I created a layout instead!

So in case you haven't been following along, it's also time for a new Close To My Heart catalog! (contact me if you need one!) So of course with a new catalog, Consultants get to order from it one month before it goes live to customers, a great perk for us, and I ordered!!!

Now in case you've noticed, that lovely little fabric brad is from our *New Chantilly Assortment...and there are 9 adhesive backed ones in each package for $5.95...so they aren't really brads but they look like them! I've tucked this wee birdie onto a flower from the Paradise Paper Flowers and the Colonial White Rosette Ribbon  from last catalog! These lovely papers are from the *New Chantilly paper Packet and those FANTASTIC kraft mini-alphabets are NEW from CTMH too! So excited that we finally have some mini-alphabet stickers and even more excited that they are in my favourite Kraft!!!

Now a heads up...we are offering FABRIC to coordinate with two different paper collections and Chantilly is one of them...this bow coordinates with the paper collection  and all of the items in the artwork below are from our new catalog!

Here's the sketch!

Thanks so much for taking a moment today to check out my post, I love that you stop by and I hope you have a chance to get busy with paper, scissors and glue!

Scrapbook Challenges Sketch 302

Good Morning and welcome to another Scrapbook Challenges Sketch for this week...only this time, I'll be presenting my layout with this sketch as one of their new Design Team members!!! So excited and so thrilled that they wanted me!!!

Now this is the single page version above and the double page version below...I decided to work with this sketch in the double page version because I had lots of photos of Marissa's Handball season...and you know how I am about trying to get the school albums up to date and complete...

now here's my take on sketch 302...

Now as you can see, this sketch certainly is loaded with photos, so for those of you that have so many pictures that you can't live without, this sketch is totally for you!!!

I had more trouble with using less paper...I found some sporty paper and some patterned paper that had a wood flooring look to it that reminded me of the hardwood floors in school gymnasiums...

I made the embellies from a piece of patterned paper with pre-printed images on it, dug into my corrugated stash of stars and misc. buttons and twine...easy peasy, lemon squeezy...not my favourite layout, but done nonetheless :)

Make sure you check out the SC site for more creations with this sketch from some of the other Design Team members and thanks for popping in today!!!

Card or Layout???

Well it could be either....can't it? This is what I love about the sketches over at Let's Scrap...when I first saw this sketch I wanted to make a layout...it makes a great card too but this photo of Olivia with Mt.Baker in the background was perfect for it.

This photo is so reflective, it reminds me of the next stage in her life after graduation..looking to the horizon and future...the whole world at her beautiful feet!

I literally found this ribbon downstairs and decided to incorporate it here...at first I thought maybe it was too thick but I like how it reminds me of a tuxedo bow tie!

Found some great sentiments in my collection of stamp sets and I like how they all said what I'm thinking as I created this layout :)

I added some bling between the words for separation but also because it is her prom picture and it needs some BLING !

In the end this photo is what I want to notice the most, so keeping the embellishing to a minimum let that happen :)

Thanks for stopping by today...have a great Wednesday!

Scrapbook Challenges

Hello my scrappy-friends...it is a beautiful sunny day here, just one in the past seven, but I'll take that :)

I thought I'd share a layout with you today that I've created for the Scrapbook Challenges DT Call.

As I've shared over the past few months some different Challenge and Sketch sites with you, Scrapbook Challenges is a wonderful place for those of you that are Traditional, Digital or Hybrid Scrapbookers and are looking for another place that offers sketches and weekly challenges.

I have discovered over the past year that I LOVE Sketches and challenges as they help me get more scrapbooking done and a variety of challenges helps to encourage us all to scrapbook perhaps a little out of our comfort zone...perhaps even discovering something that we now really love to do!

Well this morning I took a look at this sketch, dug up two sweet photos of my niece Jada and got to work...

and this is what I've created for the Scrapbook Challenges Design Team application fingers crossed they like it, but even if I'm not successful, I know where to go for some great Sketches and Challenges and I hope you do to!

I found a full roll of super special ribbon that I've been hoarding for years because it's super pretty and I like to keep things forever...but it looks lovely here and my niece is super special too, so this is the perfect place for it !!! I've also raised the photo of Jada and created a Polaroid feel with the cardstock I've matted it on...and some fun butter yellow twine adds some nice dimension.

Now you could easily carry this across two pages by meeting the inside edges of the patterned paper flush together and continuing the banner across two pages...

I've used the My Mind's Eye 'This & That' line and purchased the coordinating sticker sheet to go with the five different patterned papers I purchased...it made creating this banner super easy and quick! 

I love digging into my stash of goodies and finding flowers or other do-dads that work nicely with my project even if they weren't purchased together...these flowers were in my stash and the colours worked great for this layout...don't be afraid to piece things together as you will always find something fun to add texture and dimension to your projects!

Thanks for stopping by today...off to work on my BC Crop for Kids classes...check out my classes tab on my Blog for more details of my upcoming classes :)

One sketch, three looks...

Time to start posting some layouts that I actually have scrapped over the past couple weeks...as you know I was away a couple weeks ago up at Loon Lake and the Ultimate Scrapbook Retreats...in April I was able to treat myself to a four day weekend of Scrapbooking...it's the only retreat that they offer for Thursday to Sunday...I love the extra day, it's amazing what you can get done with that extra day!

So we had a sketch at Let's Scrap a few weeks back for cards...now as soon as I saw what Debby had created, I thought only of layouts! Here's her sketch and some photos of how I used it for inspiration around getting three dance layouts completed for my daughter's Dance album!

Some really old embellies I've had laying around, so glad to put them to use!

These layouts are getting added to my daughters dance album...and seeing as they are all the same size, it was hard to try to think up multiple different looking layouts...but working with the same sketch made it fast and they all do look different even if I used the same sketch to start off  with!

My handy Exacto blade came to good use here as I didn't want to cover the wings on this emblem...the cork embellie and studs worked great with the military looking dance photo :)

Super plain layout...not really finished in my eye, but done nonetheless! Marissa had the best most perfect hair, so the photographer had her placed in the middle :) I love the stars here and the pink alphabet sheet stickers in felt were a great size to work with!

This last layout was fun because I was using up some of the tags I've collected that I liked from the kids' clothes! I thought they added a sassy attitude to the layout seeing as that was how I felt they danced to this song :)