Sheila's Stamping Stuff: My Life

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Friday, January 24, 2014

Create & Share ~ Gift Card Holders

For the third week in the Create & Share Cardmaking workshop offered at Big Picture Classes, we made a library pocket to hold gift cards. Since my CTMH order arrived, I used new products which will be available in the Spring/Summer Idea Book.

Papers in the Lollydoodle kit are fun and bright and perfect to create a pocket card. Images used for the sentiment tag are in the Oodles of Doodles stamp set. This whimsical card includes a lot of different shapes and textures with the patterned paper, Glitter Paper, Twist Tie, pink flower, and Baker's Twine.

For a masculine gift card holder, the Timberline paper pack has great colors. A Ponderosa Pine card base provides a deep, rich color with a bit of woodgrain Washi Tape and some Baker's Twine. Sentiment used is from the Congrats Graduate stamp set and the arrow image is included in the My Life stamp set which is part of the Artbooking bundle.

All papers and stamps are from Close To My Heart (CTMH).

	Sheila Bennett Close To My Heart Independent Consultant (913) 485-4355

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Looking for Adventure

One of my favorite pages from the Album Retreat is 'Looking for Adventure' which includes a photo of my husband on his month-long bicycle ride from California to Florida along with some of my son and grandson's adventures.

Looking for Adventure

The color scheme for this layout really appeals to me and goes so well with outdoor/nature photos.

Looking for Adventure (left page)

Patterned paper from the ProPlayer kit is combined with stamped images from Geometric Backgrounds and the My Life stamp set, which is included in the Artbooking Bundle.

Looking for Adventure (right page)

Included on these two pages are a few pieces of patterned paper which you may not recognize from a CTMH kit. These are from the My Crush Best Day Ever Assortment and are a great way to include some additional variety to your scrapbook pages and cards. Even though each assortment is designed to be used with the My Crush books, they use CTMH Exclusive Colors and coordinate well with other Close To My Heart products. Four different assortments are available, and each includes more than 20 4"x4" double-sided pieces for only $4.95. The letter stickers spelling 'looking for' are also from the same Best Day Ever Assortment.

All of the pages for the Album Retreat were designed by the CTMH Art Department and include multiple cuts from the Artbooking Cricut cartridge as well as papers from different CTMH kits with a mixture of embellishments and stamp sets. Even though each page is very detailed, it was fun and challenging to create each of them. Click on any of the photos for an enlarged view.

Be sure to follow my blog to see all of the completed pages which I will be sharing throughout the month of November.

All papers and stamps are from Close To My Heart (CTMH).

	Sheila Bennett Close To My Heart Independent Consultant (913) 485-4355

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Album Retreat ~ Capture the Details

If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, then you saw lots of photos posted last month when I attended Close To My Heart's Album Retreat in Salt Lake City. It was a wonderful weekend spent with friends, creating fabulous scrapbook pages designed by CTMH featuring the Artbooking Cricut cartridge.

As they did with the Album Retreat in March (see my completed pages), CTMH sent a "homework" assignment a few weeks prior with specific themes and sizes for photos and journaling on each page. For this event, they even printed the photos and journaling for us. Completing the "homework" included uploading photos into Studio J and placing them into a specially-designed template so that all photos were automatically sized to the correct proportions. Using the 'No Limits' pattern in Studio J is a great way to print photos of any size since you can create an entire two-page layout of just different size photo wells. Since each two-page layout is only $6.95, this is a very economical way to print non-standard size photos.

Each of the pages that we created is very detailed and includes multiple cuts from the Artbooking cartridge as well as papers from different paper packets with a mixture of embellishments and stamp sets.

For the cover page, a black & white 5¼" x 4" photo was suggested. Texture was added to the Colonial White background by spritzing a mixture of Slate reinker and water using a Spray Pen. Stamp sets used for this page include All the Details, along with both the Take Note and My Life stamp sets which are included in the Artbooking Circuit Bundle. Patterned papers are from the Laughing Lola and Frosted kits. Click on the photo for an enlarged view.

Be sure to follow my blog to see all of the completed pages. In addition to the cover page, there are ten 2-page layouts which I will be sharing throughout the month.

All papers and stamps are from Close To My Heart (CTMH).

	Sheila Bennett Close To My Heart Independent Consultant (913) 485-4355