Sheila's Stamping Stuff: Take Note

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Friday, January 17, 2014

Crop Tuesday!

Have you been trying to find time to create scrapbook pages? If so, then join us for Crop Tuesday on the first Tuesday of each month. Our next meeting will be February 4 at 10:00 am. If that day and time is not convenient and you would like to create this layout, contact me and we can schedule a time for you.

For our first Crop Tuesday in January, everyone created a fun birthday layout using the <'makea'> key on the Artbooking Cricut cartridge. Thanks to Pamela for sharing her awesome 'Make A Wish' Scrapbook Layout using Babycakes paper, which we created using papers from the Sarita kit.

Left page of the layout includes a 5"x7" photo and some accent stamping with the Geometric Backgrounds set. The 'good times' sentiment is in the Take Note stamp set which is included in the Artbooking Collection.

On the right page, there is more accent stamping with the Geometric Backgrounds 'ikat' image along with four photos.

If you would like to join us for Crop Tuesday in February, or if you would like to schedule a time to create this layout, please contact me via email or phone. All of the pieces will be pre-cut and ready for you to stamp, assemble and embellish. The cost is $10 per kit, or the fee is waived if you order $30 or more in CTMH products.

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

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

Saturday, November 23, 2013

My Happy Place

Finally, the last set of pages for the Album Retreat which Close To My Heart held in October. Hope you have enjoyed seeing all of my completed scrapbook layouts!

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.

My Happy Place

For the 'My Happy Place' layout, I chose photos from many different places that I have visited as well as our home.

My Happy Place (left page)

There are a lot of details on these two pages. The polka-dot paper is from the Sparkle & Shine kit. Circles behind both of the Outdoor Denim overlays include patterned paper from the Frosted and Sarita kits along with a variety of cardstock colors, some of which were stamped with images from the Geometric Backgrounds and Take Note stamp sets. Framework Alphabet was used to stamp the title, and sentiments from All the Details add a small touch to each page.

My Happy Place (right page)

Embellishments include pieces from the My Crush Best Day Ever Assortment, Baker's Twine, Lagoon Houndstooth Washi Tape, Sparkles, Bronze Shimmer Trim, and some of the Base & Bling Word Accents.

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

Friday, November 22, 2013

On This Day

'On This Day' scrapbook pages from the Close To My Heart Album Retreat showcase photos from a trip my husband and I took to San Francisco. As with several of the other pages, a few spritzs from a Spray Pen mixed with Slate reinker and water add texture to the background.

On This Day (left page)

To add texture to the heart banner and Pear banner on the right page, stamps from Geometric Backgrounds were used. The only other stamping is the word 'smile' from the Take Note stamp set, which is included with the Artbooking Bundle.

On This Day (right page)

No patterned paper is used for this layout, just different colors of cardstock. The 'word bubble' journaling piece is available in the My Crush Best Day Ever Assortment which has been used with several of the pages for this Album Retreat project.

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