Team Brae-er August Blog Hop - New Products

Welcome to our August Team Brae-er Blog Hop featuring new products.  Since August is the first month of the Annual Inspirations Idea Book, we decided to feature some of our favourite new products.  To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, kindly contact your local consultant to place an order.  For my customers or if you do not have a consultant, and see something you would like, you may order from my website or contact me.

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, but if you want to follow our team's blogs, then please start at the beginning and join Brae at the Brae-er.  If you came from Michelle at The Right Hugh then you are in the right place! 

One of my favourite products in the new Annual Inspirations if the G1089 Seaside Workshops on the Go Scrapbooking Kit.  I love these kits because they are great value, this one contains over $45 in products for $32.95.  It has all the cardstock, paper, stamps and embellishments to create two 2-page layouts with a lot left over. I'm still scrapbooking our family cruise and this workshop kit was great for our stop in Grand Turk.  I've only made the first layout so far and I still have a little journalling and finishing touches to complete. 

The layout shown uses Z1906 Cricut Artbooking Collection. However if you don't want to use cricut cuts, there are instructions for an alternative layout.

Your next stop on the Team Brae-er Hop is Jan at More Than a Little Ink.   If you get lost along the way, you can head to Brae's blog at the Brae-er, as she has the complete blog list.

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope you enjoyed some of our favourite new products and that we inspired you to get creative with some of designs, products and techniques seen along the way. 

Annual Inspirations - New Product Blog Hop

I'm joining other Close To My Heart Consultants to celebrate the release of Annual Inspirations, the brand new annual Idea Book from Close To My Heart.  If you follow the link, you will also have the option to download the .pdf  One great thing about the new annual format is that customers and consultants alike get to see the Stamp of the Month for the whole year.  I decided to make a card using the August Stamp of the Month S1408 What a Hoot.

I used the new ShinHan Touch Twin Markers to colour in the owl. The paper and cardstock came from the new X7192B Seaside Paper Packet and I embellished with Z1853 Aqua Dots and Z679 Liquid Glass.  I usually buy the Workshops on the Go Kit for their great value.  G1089 Seaside Scrapbooking Kit includes the Aqua Dots used in this card.   Exclusive Inks used were 44751 Archival Black, Z2118 Desert Sand and Z2164 Sorbet.  The pattern used was 9042 Make It From Your Heart Volume 2, Pattern 25.

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

This card is based on the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #66. This is my first time entering the challenge.  

For this card I used some of my favourite new products from the Close To My Heart Annual Inspirations: X7192 Seaside Paper Packet, and the stamp set D1627 Your Own Kind of Wonderful.  I also used several of the ShinHan Touch Twin markers that CTMH carries to colour in the butterfly.

 

Other products I used were: 44751 Archival Black, Z2128 Hollyhock and Z2195 Lagoon Exclusive Inks, 1246 Hollyhock and X5762 Lagoon Cardstock, Z679 Liquid Glass and Z1327 Blue and Green Sparkles (retired) 

Team Brae-er July Blog Hop - Out With The Old

Welcome to our July Team Brae-er Blog Hop featuring retiring products.  Since July is the last month of the Spring/Summer Idea Book, we decided to feature some of our favourite soon to be retired products.  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, but if you want to follow our team's blogs, then please start at the beginning and join Brae at the Brae-er. If you came from Lucy's Creative Expressions then you are in the right place! 

One of my favourite retiring products is the Skylark Paper Pack.  It was great for my post Easter family cruise on the Carnival Breeze.  My layout today shows my family enjoying some fun on the ship.  It was inspired by Laura Lee Ryan and uses the Imagine Pattern, Sweet Symphony.  

I am making this layout available to customers to do as a class, as well as a kit to pick up or receive by mail.  All options are $10.  The by mail option includes the postage but not the base kraft cardstock. 

Supplies Used:

X7177B Skylark Paper Packet

1301 Bamboo Cardstock

C1575 True To Life 

Z2118 Desert Sand Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad

Z1296 Distressing Inks

Natural Hemp (retired)

Chocolate Mini Medley (retired)

Cocoa Brads (retired)

Your next stop on the Team Brae-er Hop is Nicky of Timeless Cottage.   If you get lost along the way, you can head to Brae's blog at the Brae-er, as she has the complete blog list.

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope you enjoyed some of our favourite retiring products and that we inspired you to get creative with some of designs, products and techniques seen along the way. 

July Cross Canada Blog Hop - Summer Albums

Welcome to our July Blog Hop featuring our Summer Mini Album creations.  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.  If you arrived from Deanne Jacob's blog then you are in the right place.  She is also the start of our hop, so if you want to hop across Canada, pop over there first.

My project today features Flip Flaps.  This past Easter, we went on a family cruise to the Southern Caribbean.  I made this page of our stop in Curacao.  It was based on Make It From Your Heart Volume 2, Pattern 15, and inspired by the Spring/Summer 2014 Idea Book p.21 and Tabitha Goddard-Deuso.

Like many of you, we took too many pictures to scrapbook them all.  I still had many photos I wanted to use so I created a little mini-book on the page using the 4X6 Flip Flaps.

Supplies Used:

X7177B Skylark Paper Packet

X7177C Skylark Complements

Z3000    Skylark Assortment
Z1853    Aqua Dots
Z1947    Picture My Life Skylark Scrapbooking Program
Z1918    Teal Shimmer Trim
Z1984    Memory Protectors Top Load Value Pack

Z4114    4X6 Memory Protectors Flip Flaps

Z2194    Lagoon Exclusive Inks Ink Pad
Z1979    Marvy Uchida Journaling Pen

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is Michelle of My Creations With Michelle.  Michelle also has the complete blog list posted in case you get lost along the way.

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 we will be featuring alternative uses for Picture My Life cards.   So mark August 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

Exploring the Cliffs of Moher with Studio J

We spent a year living in Limerick, Ireland and during that time we saw a lot of sights.  We bought a used car and as soon as we were comfortable driving on the "wrong" side of the road, we went exploring.  The Cliffs of Moher are one of the most popular tourist destinations in Ireland.  They are located in the Burren region of County Clare.  I knew looking at our photos that a simple 4X6 would not do.  

One great thing about scrapbooking in Studio J is that it is easy to put really big pictures on a page.  My pages above are each 12"X12".  Close To My Heart has made easy to follow videos to help walk you through your first few layouts and I followed one of the Love Your Layout videos to make the above layout.  From Studio J you will need to enter the login information you use for my website, or create an account.  

Once you are in your account, click "Create a New Project".  You then name your project and upload your photos.  You can also upload your photos later.  Next select "Create a Custom Layout".  To see all kits available, select "all kits" from the pull down bar on the right hand side.  For my layout above I selected Splendor, the Pattern was Powerful Trio and I used Kit Mix 2.  The rest of the steps can be seen in this video:  

If you have any questions, be sure to post below, or contact me.

Hello and welcome.  My name is Julie and I created this blog to share two of my passions, travel and scrapbooking.  I joined Close To My Heart as a consultant in 2004, shortly after they came to Canada.  The My Acrylix stamp sets had just been released and I was hooked.  I have always enjoyed travel, but it was during my husbands year long sabbatical in Ireland in 2008-2009 that I really began seeing more of the world.  Renting a house, finding school for our children and buying a car in another country was just the start.

We have taken a lot of pictures of our travels, and Close To My Heart has a lot of solutions to get them off the computer and into albums.  Traditional scrapbooking, mini-albums, digital scrapbooking with Studio J as well as the new Picture My Life pocket scrapbooking.  Journey with me as I preserve my memories, and show you ways to preserve yours.  Along the way I'll share travel tips, particularly how to travel as a family and stay within your budget.

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