Let's Stay Home Blog Hop

Welcome to the Legendary Father's Day/Let's Stay Home Blog Hop. If you have come from Melissa Robinson's blog you are in the right place. This month we are focusing on some of the special stamps Close to My Heart created for such a time as this.

This month I am using the Blue Skies papers and the Story By Stacy StoryTeller to tell this crazy story we have all been living through - the Corona Story. If you are like me, you are ready for this whole Covid craziness to be over, but as a scrapbooker I feel it is so important to tell the story of what has been happening so our future families can understand what we went through - the good and the hard.

Here are a couple pages I have created using the On Repeat stamp set:

To make the virus stamp look like the spikey virus we have all seen in pictures, I stamped it in Charcoal and colored it in with our Dark Ice Gray Tri-Blend Marker and then used the Christmas Red Stickles to add dimension and the "spikes".

Here on the last page of the workshop I used several stamps from the Let's Stay Home Stamp and the On Repeat stamp set. 

As you can see I added more red stickles to the hearts and dots around the saying and then used a black shimmer brush to the puppy's nose to make it look wet. I love the special touch just a little swipe of the shimmer brush gives.  Using our watercolor pencils I drew some spots and dots to the puppy to resemble our little Bailey pup.

Finally, to make our White Alphabet Foam Stickers stick out a bit more on the white daisy paper, I added a layer of Diamond Stickles.  I love the extra pop it gives it.

I hope you enjoyed these ideas for telling your Covid story.  These last few months will definitely be in all the history books but will your children and grandchildren know how it affected you?  Consider taking some time and putting your story together.  Also, feel free to join me on my Scrappin' with Heather Hicks Facebook group on June 8th at 6:30pm as we create these layouts and more, together.

Now go see what Darlys created and if you get lost, you can always head to Melinda Everitt's blog to see a full list of those participating in this blog hop.

Let's Tell a Story Workshop

I hope you are doing well and staying healthy. These last few months have been life-altering for all of us and I think it is safe to say, something that we never thought we would see. I hope during this time of Covid-19 you have been able to find a little time to relax, create and laugh while being quarantined at home. The laughter may come a little harder but hopefully there was some laughter.

This has been such a strange time and though it is fresh in our heads, 10 years from now, people will be asking what it was like and as a scrapbooker I want to help you tell that story. 

Join me June 11th in my Scrappin' with Heather Facebook group to create the workshop below. You can create this "mini-album" workshop with any papers that you like but I created it using the May special - Blue Skies papers and I think you will love them as much as I do.  This workshop uses each of our different size page protectors to create a unique, multi-page, interactive layout.

To create the layouts shown above as I have created them  you will need the following items:

·       Blue Skies Paper Packet (CC5206) $9.95

·        Blue Skies Coordinating Cardstock (CC5212) $12.95

·        4 sheets White Daisy Cardstock (1385) (11.85 for12 sheets)

Or

·        Blue Skies Scrapbooking Workshop (CC5210) $37.95

(has more paper then what you will need but will allow you to preserve your special UV cardstock in the coordinating cardstock pack)

·        Sapphire Ink Pad (z2848) 9.95 out of stock at the moment.  Black Ink will work too. 

·        Memory Protector Combo Pack (z4092) $4.95

·        All the FREE SVG downloads on my website -https://heatherhicks.closetomyheart.com/ctmh/promotions/campaigns/2005-lets-stay-home.aspx

(If you don’t have a cricut that can cut digital images, let me know and I will cut them for you for free on regular cardstock)

Optional:

·        Sapphire Shimmer Brush (z3510) $5.50

·        Christmas Red Stickles (z3555)

·        3x3 block (Y1006) 10.95

·       Black Journaling pen

·        Any or all of the Let’s Stay Home Stamp Sets created for the Pandemic

o   Let’s Stay Home (CC3212) $18.95

o   The Great Indoors (cc5217) $18.95

o   On Repeat (CC5218) $18.95

**Several of the FREE SVG downloads referenced above are used as embellishments on these pages. If you don't have a digital cricut and would like to participate in this workshop, email me and I would be happy to cut them for you using regular cardstock. **

If you aren't sure you want to create this layout with the Covid theme but have many pictures and another story to tell, feel free to join us and recreate the layouts with your own theme.  We would love to have you.