Make It Crafty Seasonal Blog Hop ~ January

Welcome to the •MAKE•IT•Crafty• Seasonal Blog Hop!

This month we will be featuring Valentine, January Stamp of the Month or National Scrapbooking Month

 If you’ve arrive from Lisa's Blog, you are on the right path!

 The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way around. If you get lost, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants here

This month we have a number of Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using various CTMH products to help you get in a Loving mood for Valentines Day, National Scrapbooking month or sharing the monthly stamp set... .

I have chosen to use the National Scrapbooking ~ Live Your Day ~ Picture My Life cards to prep my Everyday Life planner ~ 

I have used the cards to create Pockets for each month to hold momentos, a list of Birthdays for that month & create a little journaling about special moments... 

I have also created a couple flip up cards using washi tape so that I can attach a picture or write a little note that is hidden away.

Each Month there is a new inspiration pocket for me to view & start each month off in a positive mind set...

I Love how the PML cards coordinate with the Planner pages ~ 
For a horizontal pocket,  use Bonding Memory glue stick applied to 3 edges to secure the pocket 
(be sure to let dry before adding additional cards to the pocket)

January

February

For a Vertical pocket apply glue to one side & the bottom

March

April

Then tuck cards into the pockets created...

May

June

July

Journalling in your planner is a great way to keep track of all the special events happening in your life!

August

September

October

November

December

I will be adding additional My Crush pages throughout the year ~ showcasing color coordinating patterned paper ~ 
As well I will be adding Memory protectors made for the everyday life album for special occasions.

This was a straight forward project ~ the product used were:
Everyday Life Album
Everyday Life Planner Pages
National Scrapbooking ~ Live Your Day ~ PML cards
Washi tape from my stash
Bonding Memories Glue Stick
PML cards ~ Beautiful You


Thank you so much for following along on our Blog Hop today! 

I hope you enjoyed all the lovely artwork… Be sure to comment so we know you stopped by...

Now it’s time to head on over to Sue's Blog and see her artwork!

 Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas!

Look for our next Blog Hop where we will 'Spring is in the Air' projects ~  see you

soon!

Keep on playing with paper

Diana 

And the winner is...

Thanks to everyone for liking, sharing & commenting on both my facebook page posts & this blog... I hope you will come back often to see what I have been up to!

Now on to what you have been waiting for

Congratulations Christine V... you are the Big Prize winner...

We had 22 people like our page, comment on blogs ~ some many different times so they got additional ballots... 

We made an executive decision to draw for 2 additional prizes... the winners are  Mary A and Darlene F... Congrats ladies!

Keep checking our blog, facebook page and comment... let us know what you would like to see... 

Keep on playing with Paper

Diana

New Seasonal Expressions

It's here, It's here ...

 CTMH Seasonal Expressions

January ~ April 2016

And you should see the goodies we have to offer...

New Paper Lines include:

~Charlotte

 

~Penelope

~Ragatta

~New stamp sets 

~New Stamp sets & Thin cuts to co-ordinate with the stamps

~Washi Tape

~Every Day Life System ~ Planner, Album, Journal ~ Make it your own with whatever pieces fit your needs... I Love that!

~A NEW Instalife album with coordinating Instalife Cards

Soooooo excited to play with some of the new goodies...

Check out the new Seasonal Expressions online today!

Keep on Playing with Paper

Diana

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

Just 3 more sleeps til all the good little boys & girls wake up at the crack of dawn... anticipating all their wishes come true!

With that being said... I have been finishing up the projects for the holiday~ 

Start off with a Phone book... I could not find sheet music this time ~ 

roll the cones & adhere them to a circle cut from Cardboard.

Start to add layers of Golden Bronze Spay paint 

(spray this outside on a non windy day) 

Be sure to do many fine layers to keep paper from going soggy...

then a final coat (or 2) of spray on Gold Glitter

Next was to create the center medallion

Most of this I cut out with my Cricut machine and the atristy cartridge 

(you can order yours here)

The Stamped image came from White Pines Scrapbooking Workshop ~ only available til December 31st... so order it now!

I first stamped with Versa Mark ink & then Gold Embossing powder 

The paper is from an expired paper packet called Pears & Partridge (LOVE it)

White pines would work just as well... or any paper of your choice!

Create layers using B&T paper, our gorgeous Gold Glitter paper,  & Colonial White Card Stock 

Pieces were layered using Foam tape Adhesive

Then Using a glue gun, attach to the centre of the wreath.

Don't forget to comment so you can be entered into the draw... here are the details 

 Keep on playing with Paper...

Diana

Everything's ABC blog Hop ~ Letter 'Z'

Welcome to the Everything ABC's Blog Hop

For this hop will will be featuring the letter 'Z'

This may be the name of a paper, a stamp set or an embellishment.

Whatever the crafter has choosen as their element will be featured in their post.

If you have come from Lauren, you are on the right track

For this hop I chose Zoe B&T paper packet and Zoe complements as well as Zip Strips to create this card & a mini scrapbook as a gift for the recipient ~ I hope they are not hopping along!

the stampset I used for the card is a previous set for operation smile 'Happy Everything'

The mini album is an envelope style Mini ~ using Zoe B&T paper, complements & zip strips ~ I included the extra Complements with the gift so the recipient can add their pictures & place appropriate stickers as needed!

 

Back of Album

Your next stop on our everything ABC's blog hop is Catherine of CatScrapbooking

In case you get lost along the way Catherine has a complete list of participants!

Keep on playing with paper!

Diana