Seaside PML

I think this will be my last post on the Seaside collection, at least for a little while, I still have some paper left over and I know how I am going to use it, but I am feeling like moving on to another paper pack.  Anyway, I love how easy it is get a lot of photos all journaled and organized using the Picture My Life cards (PML).  

And because I had one page of PML cards and photos and three two page layouts I needed to make a one page layout that coordinated to keep the Seaside feel in my album.  I don't normally care, but I think that I have enough photos and stuff from our trip in November to fill a full album and if not I kind of want the layouts all together anyway.  So I made a quick little one page layout using the Seaside PML cards and paper.  I love how it turned out!

Seaside PML

Seaside paper

Aqua dots

Happy Scrapbooking!

Seaside again

On our family trip to Newport Beach, California, last November I may have taken way too many pictures, and liked/loved most of them.  So here is another layout using the Seaside paper and featuring my cute family.  Hopefully you are enjoying seeing the Seaside paper in different layouts, and hopefully it is helping to give you some ideas on how to use your own Seaside paper.  

As you can see in the pictures I am also working really hard and putting my layouts right into my album instead of letting them pile up like I have in the past.  Here is a list of the products used and links to my website to get them if you would like to:

Seaside paper pack

Seaside Picture My Life cards

Aqua Dots

Paper Fundamentals Whimsy collection

Sorbet stamp pad

I stamped the little fish using a stampset from an old Workshop on the Go that you can't get anymore.  Also I am loving how fun and easy it is to use the PML cards on layouts.  On this layout I didn't want it to look like PML cards so I cute out the title and the seahorse.

Happy Scrapbooking!

Seaside Part 2

Here is the second layout I made using the Seaside Workshop on the Go.  I love how it turned out!
The Workshop on the Go are such great values and super easy to follow and put together.  If you haven't tried them yet, you should!

If you want to purchase the Seaside Workshop on the Go, just click here.   Also don't forget that you can get the stamp of the month for FREE this month with a purchase of $25 in stamps, or you can get one of the Hostess stampsets for $5.  I love a good deal don't you?

Happy Scrapbooking!

Seaside part one

I have been waiting for 500+ pictures to show up at my house so that my creative mojo could come back.  Does that ever happen to you, I still have quite a few pictures that need to be scrapbooked from 2011-2013, but I just wanted to scrapbook 2014-2015.  So I waited.  Well the pictures arrived yesterday and today I got my first layout from the Seaside Workshop on the Go finished.  It seriously took me an hour to do and I love it!  Tell me what you think!

You can get your Seaside Workshop on the go here.  It comes with all the papers, and embellishments that you need, along with a stampset that only comes with this kit.  All you need are some stamp pads (glacier, pear, sorbet, and desert sand).

Happy Scrapbooking!

Brushed Workshop

Hello everyone!  I hope that you enjoyed the blog hop from earlier this week, if you missed it you can just go here to get started.  But remember to come back to learn about a 6 2-page layout and 12 card using the Brushed paper and assortments.  It is super fun, sparkly, and works for boy and girl layouts.   A fellow Close to My Heart consultant, Susan Williams, came up with the layouts and I was able to purchase the files from her so that I could offer it to you guys.  Sometimes I come up with my own, but when someone has already done all the work and I love it, I have decided not to reinvent the wheel and just share what I can with you instead.  So I hope you like it.

In order to get the files to put together the layouts and cards you will need to place an order on my website of $25 or more in the month of June.  Please add your order to the Brushed workshop gathering.  If I get enough orders to reach $150, I will give away the $25 hostess rewards to one of the people who placed an order in June.  So spread the word and share this blog post so that you can have a chance at winning $25 in FREE scrapbooking supplies (or cardmaking).  I will have a supplies list posted after all the pictures.

Brushed Workshop Supply List:

Brushed Paper pack X7190B ($9.95)
Brushed Complements X7190C ($4.95)
Brushed Assortment Z3013 ($6.95)
Black/Grey Glitter Paper Z1829 ($5.95)
Pixie Thick Twine Z3035 ($3.95)

You will also need 15 additional sheets of White Daisey Cardstock.  You can use what you have in your stash already or order the 24 pack #1385 ($9.50)

If you are wanting to do the 12 cards than you will need card bases and envelopes.  If you don't already have some you can order those as well.  They come in a 50 pack X254 ($14.95).  You will also need to grab your favorite stamp set or order a few new ones to add some sentiments to your cards.  I am loving the M size stamps for cards.  I used My Happy M1045 ($2.95) and Sweeter with You M1053 ($2.95).  I also used the sentiment from Your Own Kind of Wonderful D1627 ($17.95). I would post pictures of the cards, but my internet is touch and go today (it took me 5 hours to just get this much done, and I had already written everything up last night).  I promise I will try to get them up tonight or tomorrow morning!

Let me know if you have any questions, I would love to help!

Happy Scrapbooking!

Pathfinding and Exploring

The Pathfinding paper pack is so fun to use with everyday photos that work well with orange and blue (which by the way are complimentary colors because they are opposite each other on the color wheel).  While looking through my photos from 2010 that haven't been scrapbooked yet I found some that worked well with the Pathfinding papers.

I had a great time using up a ton of my stash in this layout.  I used three products that are retired and that you can't buy anymore and I love how they mix in well with current products.  I love that Close to My Heart keeps their colors current and that they don't change ALL the time, so my chocolate stuff is still usable with current products because chocolate is still a current color.

Products used: 

Pathfinding paper pack

Chocolate cardstock

Goldrush Cardstock

Love Blooms stampset C1511 (no longer available)

Pathfinding Scrapbooking Workshop stamp set D1621 (only available in the workshop on the go)

Dark Chocolate Ribbon Z1617 (no longer available)

Rosette Ribbon Z1800 (no longer available)

Bronze Shimmer Trim 

Bling Gems Assortment Gold

Dimensional Elements letters (no longer available)

Chocolate ink

Sap Green ShinHan marker

Marine Blue ShinHan marker

Marigold ShinHan marker

Bronze ShinHan marker

Happy Scrapbooking!

Pathfinding Workshop in the Go

Yesterday I finally felt the desire to work with the Pathfinding Workshop on the Go. It has been sitting in my pile of to do since the Annual Inspiration came out almost a year ago.  Crazy I know.  Anyway I wanted to share the finished layout with you guys:

I love the workshop on the go series because it allows me to put together an amazing layout in no time at all. The hardest part is finding the perfect pictures for the layout.  Plus thy are a bargain! You get a full paper pack plus some extra cardstock, a stamp set you can't get any other way, and usually two full packs  embellishments. I also like having the instructions for a layout that isn't published anywhere else.  That way I can use other paper and embellishments to make another layout.  If you haven't used a workshop on the go, go to my website and check them out!

Products used:

Pathfinding workshop on the go G1082

Goldrush ink Z2123

Olive ink Z2137

Chocolate ink Z2111

Artbooking Cricut cartridge Z1906

Happy scrapbooking!

Punches

Challenge 10 in Super Stashbusters was hard for me because I do not have a lot of punches.  The challenge was to let the punches speak, well I have two a corner rounder and a heart.  So I used the corner rounder to make scallop borders and I used the heart to make umm... hearts.  Crazy I know.

My youngest was crazy and was crawling by 4 months and this layout is all about that.  It is kind of nice because I didn't need a ton of journaling to finish the layout.  

Products used:

Hopscotch Paper X7194B

Colonial White Cardstock

Silver Shimmer Trim !799

Junebug Puffies Z3038

Handwritten Print Alphabet E1030

Black Ink Z2105

Smoothie Ink Z2196

Vintage inspired

So the next challenge in Super Stashbusters was to use something that is vintage inspired. I do not have much that is vintage inspired, in fact I have nothing.  So another take on it was to do an older photo. So I dug through my old photos and found three that worked with the sketch.

I decided to use some of my Skylark Picture My Life cards for the background as well as the journaling and accents.  All the rest of the product I used is retired, sorry!

Speaking of retired/retiring here is a long list of retiring stamps.  These stamp retire on Saturday so get them while you can!

A1124 A Tree
A1139 Congrats Graduate
A1141 Be Still
A1154 Friendly Thoughts
A1156 Flower Confetti
B1418 Love Doily
B1423 Hoppy Easter
B1439 Dreamer
B1440 Fancy Fair
B1441 Buggy Love
B1444 Greatest Love
B1445 Happy Hive
B1450 Owls
C1571 You're the Best
C1573 Do Your Best
C1574 Believe in Yourself
C1577 Mother's Day
C1579 Coming Up Roses
C1583 Robot Family
D1547 Paper Doll
D1579 Windy Day
M1035 Newlyweds
M1036 Perfect Polka-Dot Day
M1037 Balloons
M1038 Shooting Star
M1039 Good Job Stencil
M1040 Parasol
M1041 Hi
M1042 Colored Egg

You can get these on the retiring section of my website.  You can also get the Skylark Picture my Life cards there as well.

Super Stashbusters old and new

Challenge 8 in Super Stashbusters was to use some of your oldest stuff with your newest stuff.  I dug around and found some fun metal embellishments that I got close to the beginning of my journey with Close to my Heart almost six years ago.  I have been having so much fun playing with the Hopscotch paper and it is really new to me so I picked that as my new thing.  I also wanted to play with the January stamp of the month so I pulled that out as well. Here is what I ended up with:

I have decided that I love to mix and match things!  One of the reasons I started with Close to my Heart was because everything coordinated which made my scrapbooking easier and faster, but I am loving that I can mix and match and stil create fun and beautiful layouts in a matter of minutes.  

Products used and available on my website:

Smoothie ink Z2196

Warm clay ShinHan marker

Colonial white cardstock 

Hopscotch paper X7194B

Teal shimmer trim Z1918

Aqua dots Z1853

Hopscotch assortment Z3016

Tags Z1684

This moment January stamp of the month S1501

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Hopscotch layout #2

I decided to create the second layout using the Hopscotch workshop on the go.  I ended up rotating the pages to work with horizontal photos (apparently I live horizontally since most of my photos are horizontal).  So once again, make the sketch or the guides work for you, they are made to make your scrapbooking faster, simpler and easier.

Products used:

Hopscotch workshop on the go G1091

Flaxen ink Z2642

Glacier ink Z2641

Slate ink Z2173

Smoothie ink Z2196

Cricut artbooking collection Z1906

Marcy journaling pen Z1979

All of the above are available on my website at sharesa.ctmh.com

Hopscotch workshop on the go

I love the new Hopscotch paper and thought that the workshop on the go was a lot of fun.  There were a few things that I didn't like and I felt it was all a little busy, so I changed it to something that I loved. To do this I didn't do all of the cricut cutting and I moved the journaling as well.  So if you get a workshop on the go and you just aren't feeling every little detail it is okay to change it and make it work for you.

A couple of tips for this workshop:

Spray glue works wonders on Cricut cuts, such as the photo mats that needed colonial white strips and the photos adhered before glueing to the layout.

To get the pinwheel look the easiest thing to do is to put them all on the block and then turn your stamp sheet over and hold your block over the pinwheel shape and adjust your stamps till you get the shape you are looking for.

Use tape on the back of your layout to hold the twine.

Products used:

Hopscotch workshop on the go G1091

Flaxen ink Z2642

Glacier ink Z2641

Slate ink Z2173

Smoothie ink Z2196

Cricut artbooking collection Z1906

Marcy journaling pen Z1979

You can get all of the above at my website: Sharesa.ctmh.com

Sparkle bonus challenge

One of the bonus challenges for Super Stashbusters was to use sparkle or metallic on a layout. I love sparkles!  Close to my Heart has so many fun ways to add sparkle to your layouts.  Glitter paper, glitter trim, glitter embellishments like the Junebug Puffies, sparkles, glitter dots etc.  I decided to use some pink glitter paper that I have had for awhile but haven't used very much of.  Here is the final product:

Don't you just love the glitter paper?  This layout was so easy to put together and used up a bunch of old paper and scraps.

I ended up doing the journaling along the edge of the paper because I didn't want to cover up any more of my glitter and I wasn't a huge fan of where the journaling was on the sketch.  The joy of being creative is making things your own and hat is what I did with the sketch and this layout.

Products used and still available:

Colonial white cardstock 

Glitter paper pink Z1922

Flamingo dots Z1934

Clay ShinHan marker

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Tomorrow I am hoping to share a workshop in the go layout so stay tuned!