Wednesday 15 April 2015

April Cross Canada Hop

Welcome to our April Blog Hop featuring our Spring Theme, April Showers bring May Flowers.  To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local consultant to place an order.

We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop! 

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you want to follow us across Canada then please start at the beginning and join Michelle at mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca. If you came from Chris Robertons of  chris creative life then you are in the right place!

I made two projects a scrapbook page featuring my mom and my daughter Josephine and our new blossom paper & a mothers Day card with the stamp of the month. 

 I used the artist Cricut Cartridgeto cut the white pieces seen on page 71.  The layout was inspired by our idea books.

















I used the Chevron Punch to add a little something bellow this photo and backed it with the teal shimmer trim.  I backed the Carnival washi tape with white card-stock so that it popped


Here is my card.  I used the April Stamp of the Month in the Smoothie ink.  I twisted the paper befor i stamped it to give dimension and then used the 3D foam tape to pop it up. 




Supplies 
Blossom PP X7196b
Blossom Compliments X7196c
Coral Reef sequins Z3042
Carnival Washi Tape pack Z3067
Glacier  Extra Thick Twine Z3039
Teal Shimmer Trim Z1918
White Shimmer Trim Z3024
April Stamp of the Month
Smoothie Cardstock
Smoothie Exclusive ink
Paper Fundamental in Sunset


Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Janet ~ worksofheart2011.blogspot.ca. If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle S Blog, http://mycreationswithmichelle.blogspot.ca, as she has the complete blog list. 


Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. We hope you will join us again next month when our theme is Scrapbook layouts from CTMH How-To Books.  So mark May 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Monday 13 April 2015

Spring Twist Team Brae-er Blog Hop

Welcome to our April Team Braer Blog Hop that focuses on the new seasonal expression book,  but with a twist because we are all also featuring something from the main catalogue too!  To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today,kindly contact your local consultant to place an order.

We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we really love feedback from our blog viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!

If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop.  If you came from Sheri Ballantyne   then you are in the right place!


I am so in love with the new Jackson Paper Pack, I love the versatility and that it is so great for our many photos of the us at the lake.

When I read this months blog hop theme I thought it was perfect until I started creating and wanted to show off all my new goodies.
So I went to the Annual Inspirations book and the secondary layout for the pathfinding WOTG jumped out at me, right then I knew I was going to use that as my pattern to work from.

When I started cutting the pieces I originally had used only Jackson paper, the juniper in the aztec paper reminded me of the wood-grain on the seaside paper so I added a twist and replaced the jackson paper with seaside.



Here you can see some of the embellishments I used, When I saw the compliments for the Jackson PP it reminded me of the My Crush Wildwood assortment Seen in the Annual Inspirations Book on Page 153. I dug it out and sure enough some of the pieces had the same designs.  I used the Picture my Life cards in jackson for the title and then I cut a few up for embellishments as well. 
 I also was testing out my new cuttle bug with the wood-grain embossing folder (page 179.) on Cocoa card stock, I love the way it brings in the cabin feel.  
 

Check out the hidden journalling box, I used the new authentic life stamp, and the Jackson WOTG stamp to embellished it along with the file folder tab from the My Crush Wildwood assortment. 








here are the products I used:
Jackson Picture my life

Durable studs
The Authentic Life D1644
Wood-grain embossing folder
seaside paper pack $10.95 X7192B

Jackson Paper pack

My Crush  Wildwood Assortment

Thanks for hopping by now on to Michelle Stewart.  Remember if you get lost along the way you can stop at Chris creative life for the full list of this months participants.