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.

New Product Blog Hop

I can't believe we are already in the last two months of 2019 but I love that we have this super cute, super fun catalog to give us plenty of crafting fun for the remainder of the year. If you came here from Kristine Ponte’s blog you are in the right place. We are here to show you all things new and super cute!

I love Christmas and am usually all about traditional Christmas cards. However, I saw this cute elf in the New Holly Jolly Cardmaking Workshop Kit and fell in love!

I had recently seen a video on a moving card and thought a dancing elf would work perfectly. I changed the card up and made it a simple pull card/gift-card holder.

The stamp set included in the card kit gave me plenty of options to make some really cute cards. The gifts in his hands can easily be switched out for a sign or name tag.  I added the Fa-la-la-la with an old stamp but everything else is current.  I backed the "You made the nice list" note with Red Glitter paper to make it pop a little and added red gems to represent musical notes rising up.   I colored his hat, shoes and bow on the presents with the Red Shimmer Brush and filled the fuzzy part of the hat with the Diamond Stickles Glitter Gel. 

Here you can see where I pulled out the card to reveal another note of "Special Delivery". A small note can be written on the card that I pulled out and then a gift card can be attached to the back of red pull-card itself.

Now hop on over to Ronda La Duke’s blog to see what she has been creating.  If you get lost during the hop and want to start from the beginning, hop over to Melinda Everitt's blog.

Happy Scrappin’!

World Changers

It's been almost a year now and I am still in love with the Craft with Heart subscription box. I love the simplicity of the layouts but also the ability to change them up super easily and make them mine. Also, at this time of my life sometimes it is hard to have much time to scrap so having a base to begin is SO helpful.

Today I was able to play with one of the Craft with Heart layouts from Into the Wild. Here is the layout as they created it to be made:

Here is my final layout:

As you can see, I stayed to the basic layout design but made it work for my pictures.  If you look closely to the top white area of the original layout there is a word pattern that fits well for a baby.  I don't have any little babies anymore and I know many of you don't either.  To change that, I simply added a white daisy cardstock, cut to still allow the Pewter photo mat to pop out. It took a little measuring and cutting but it honestly only took about 5 minutes.  A super quick fix to make the layout more versatile.   I changed the title by cutting out on my cricut the title "World Changer". The director at our homeschool tutorial constantly refers to students as world changers encouraging them to do just that - impact and change our world.

I wanted to incorporate the graduation invitation so I added a 5x7 flip-flap that will attach to the outside of the page protector. 

For embellishing the layout, I found the cute title "reach for the stars" on circut and cut it out on one of our tags from the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge.   The journaling strips were left over from previous Craft with Heart layouts and then I added lots of little embellishments from several of my retired stamps. I love being able to use my stamps over and over - the beauty of stamps and not stickers.  The stamp sets I used are:

Smarty Pants C1649

Memories in the Making CC9182

Just a Little Something C1730

Graduation Tassel C1755

If you haven't tried the Craft with Heart subscription yet, give it a try!  It is such a great value with gorgeous layouts to keep you scrappin' faster simpler and easier!  Click here to get all the details!

Happy Scrappin'!

It's Your Day to Sparkle Blog Hop

Welcome to the June Stamp of the Month Blog hop!  If you came here from Kristine Pointe's blog you are in the right spot. The blog is a big circle so when you get back to me you know you have completed the whole hop.  You can find the next blog to hop to below. 

This month we have this beautiful, super versatile, celebration stamp set as our Stamp of the Month.  As my daughters get older and we celebrate the entry to teenage years for one (please pray for me!) or her sweet 16 for another (double the prayers please!) I can see so many uses for this stamp set. However, I know several people celebrating their anniversary and/or getting married this summer so I wanted to create a card for the occasions. 

In this card, I used the True Love papers as my base. I stamped the cake image on white daisy and cut it out.  I then stamped the cake plate on the blue patterned paper from the True Love paper packet, trimmed it out and paper pieced that on top of the white daisy cut out.  For the flowers, I simply colored in the flowers with the color of the year - Sugarplum Shimmer Brush and the leaves with the Sap Green ShinHan marker. As an added embellishment, I stamped on scrap paper 3 more of the small rosettes, colored them in and cut them out to decorate the rest of the cake and add to the bottom of the card. Making a small banner out of scraps I added the saying "always & forever" in New England Ivy.  I popped the title and the cake up with our Thin 3-D Foam Tape (the thin tape is perfect for cards and sending them in the mail) To give the look of the banner sticking out of the cake I glued down two small strands of the new Sapphire Crocket Thread to look like stakes holding up the banner. As always, I couldn't leave it my card along without a little extra sparkle.  I love the sparkle the Sugarplum shimmer Brush gives the flowers and decided to use the gold shimmer brush and trace the lines of the cake.  It's hard to show the shimmer in the picture but it gives it such a special feel. Perfect to celebrate the occasion.  I added a little silver embellishing thread between the background papers and three bitty clear sparkles around the bottom flower. With a stamp set titled It's Your Day to Sparkle, I couldn't not add lots of sparkle!

 Ta-da!  I hope you like!

Don't forget: The It's Your Day to Sparkle stamp set is only available during the month of June and is only $5 with any $50 purchase!  Make sure to get yours before it is gone!

Now to see what the fabulous Jen Rubio created select here!

Happy Scrappin’!

How Old Can You Go Challenge

With all the AMAZING product that Close to My Heart released this month in their Seasonal Expressions 2 book it is easy to get swept away and want it all (yep, I do!)  But what about the super cute papers and embellishments that you already have?  If you are like me you have lots of supplies that you really love but i\they are quickly forgotten because of all the pretty new items appearing.   I want to help you use your old supplies to help make room for all the new goodies you NEED.

So... Announcing our newest challenge. 

How Old Can You Go 

At least once a month from May to August I will post a challenge on my facebook page for you to create using as many old supplies as you can. During that month, upload and post your own creation using your older supplies to the ScrappinwithHeather facebook group.  On August 25th, each person that participated in the challenge all 4 months will receive $10 in product credit of papers, inks, or stamps towards their own $20 purchase made between August 25 and August 31st. 

To make it an even better, for each month that you include 3 or more retired/old items in your project, you will receive an additional entry into the Hostess Rewards pot.  I will hold the drawing on August 25th and the person chosen will receive an additional $25 in Hostess Rewards.  

Here are a couple layouts I created for May:

Here is what I used:
Cricut - Artbooking
Cricut - You are Here
Take Note Artbooking Stamp Set
This Happened Stamp of the Month - March 2019
Slate Cardstock - retired 2017
Basic Fundamentals - retired July 2017
Embossed Sapphire Cardstock - retired 2016

La Vie En Rose Paper Pack - retired 2015

Black Gems - retired 2015

Pictures from 2015

Here is what I used on this 2nd layout:

Cricut - Artbooking

Cricut - You are Here 

Game Day stamp D1829 - current

This Happened Stamp of the Month - March 2019

Basic Fundamentals - retired July 2017

Memo Fundamentals - retired July 2017

Slate Cardstock - retired August 2017

Embossed Sapphire Cardstock - retired 2016

Black Gems - retired 2015

Pictures from 2009

Whew - I was able to go back 10 years!

I used a series of layouts created by fellow consultant Kelly Baxter-Fitzgerald but changed the papers out to use what I already had in stock. Easy Peasy.

As a special bonus just for those people participating in this challenge, I have the cutting files for the above layouts plus 3 more layouts.  If you would like them, email me letting me know you will be participating in the challenge and that you would like the files. Once I see your May submissions in my facebook group I will email you the directions. 

I absolutely loved creating with my old supplies and feeling like it was money well spent. Now I don't feel bad at all when I purchase all the new papers and supplies!  I'm sure you will feel the same.  Will you join me?!

New Virtual Class coming to you!

I am so excited about all that Close to My Heart is unveiling in their catalog releasing May 1st and have been trying to figure out a way to create with you again.  I know everyone's time is precious and many times when there is a class or workshop, you already have a family event on our calendar.  That coupled with the fact that we all scrap at different speeds led me to the idea of holding a virtual workshop using our special Made with Love kit.  I KNOW you are going to love this kit and the versatility that it brings.

Are you looking for the perfect Mother's Day, Baby Shower, Birthday, Anniversary or Wedding Gift?  This album is a beautiful gift any woman would love to receive!

Featuring a Wooden mini album this kit is super cute, super fun and super meaningful.

Here is a sneak preview of the pages that we will create to complete the album:

PLUS 4 MORE PAGES!

So how does this virtual thing work anyway?  Well, I'm glad you asked 😊.  I will set up a private closed classroom on Facebook for only those creating the workshop.  I will post two videos in May to complete the workshop. The 1st video will be cutting the papers. I will give you some tips and hints for cutting your papers. For those cutting your own papers, you can cut along with me or use the cutting guide. I will give you some tips and ideas along the way. The 2nd video will be "the putting it all together" video. Watch or work along with me as I show you how to put it all together, pointing out tips and techniques along the way. The videos will stay up so you will have access to them any time you want, even after the sessions are over. That way if you can't join me when I create, you can watch and go at your own pace any time. 

Kit Contains: 

1 – My Acrylix® For My Mother Stamp Set (CC4192E)
1 – Mix-in Paper Packet (X9003)
1 – Mix-in Coordinating Cardstock pack (X9004)
1 – White Ribbon (Z4196)
1 – Wood Mini Album Cover—Heart (CC4198)

Additional Supplies needed:
Charcoal Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad (Z2831)
Pixie Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad (Z2844)
Sapphire Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad (Z2848)
Black StazOn™ Ink Pad (Z888)
Glue Dots® Micro Dots (Z2089)
Cricut® Artbooking Digital Collection (Z3503)
Clear Matte Acrylic Spray Sealer 
       - such as Mod Podge or a Spray Sealer





Workshop Options:

Option 1 - Pre-Cut Option.

  Place your order for the workshop kit with me.  I'll submit the order, it will ship to me. I'll pre-cut the kit and ship to you! The cost of this option is $45.  This includes shipping to you priority mail.  Everything you need is in the kit except for ink pads.  Many times you already have the inks you need so no need to have to purchase them again. See above for the list of inks needed. Orders for this option need to be into me NO LATER THEN APRIL 30TH.  I ship out the kits so that everyone will receive their kits by May 8th, just in time for Mother's Day.  

Option 2 - Order On Your Own Option.   There might be a few ladies out there that WANT to cut their own paper. This gives you a little more creative options and time to place your initial order.  *Please note this workshop does use the Cricut Artbooking collection for several of the cuts. You will need to have already purchased this or be willing to purchase it now to cut the pages yourself.   I will have a Class Party Link posted.  Those ordering the kits on their own will need to purchase their kits on my website no later than the 5th of the month.  This should ensure that everyone receives their kit before we sell out and to be able to work on it as soon as possible.  You will have the ability to add other items to your order.  Your kit ships directly to you from Close To My Heart. The cost of this option is $32.95 +shipping and handling from Close to My Heart. 

ALL kits will include the items shown above. The stamp set is optional and though it does highlight Mother's and Grandmother's there are several journaling prompts included in the set that could be used for any layout theme long after you complete this workshop. Subtract $8 if you want the kit WITHOUT the stamp set.  

I am so excited to be creating with you again. I really feel like this virtual workshop is the best of both worlds. We get to create together again and you can go at your own speed. So, will you join me?  I sure hope so!