National Scrapbooking Month Blog Hop

Live Beautifully Blog Hop

  

May 6th was National Scrapbooking Day, but we are celebrating all month with our Live Beautifully Collection.  Close to My Heart has created a stunning paper collection, a stamp set and a cut above kit. 

If you have come here from Melissa'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 all around.  If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog. 

This month we have  approximately 18 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's promotional collection and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

I really love this month's promotional paper, and have created quite a few layout using only 1 package of paper and I still have lots of paper yet to plan with. I only used 3 of the patterns here, the gold foil dots are 1 of 2 gold foil designs and it pairs well with all the remaining patterns.

I decided I wanted to use the flowers from the coordinating stamp set, and decided to try stamping them in black ink.  The leaves are stamped in New England Ivy ink.  I fussy cut all the flowers and leaves and then decided to go with a uniform layout, using 2 4x6 photo mats and 2 4x4 photo mats.

To see more of my artwork featuring the Live Beautifully collection you can visit these posts:
Heritage Layout , 2 2-page layouts , 2 page layout

Now "Hop" on over to Wendy's Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Remember, this collection is only available until May 31st or while supplies last!  Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get the Cut Above Kit for FREE!

             Always craft with  <3

Live Beautifully Heritage Layout, with painted flowers

I am totally loving the versatility of the Live Beautifully collection, and anytime I get to head into my craftroom to create I am pulling out this paper.  Our company has challenged us to create heritage style layouts.  So I decided to use a photo of my grandmother and the women in her family.

Here is my layout.

I distressed the mat and the papers used for this layout to give them that aged look.  I had some alphabet stickers left over from the Welcome Home Wreath kit, so decided to use those for my title.  My grandmother's maiden name was Young, and so I thought that was fitting for my title.  My grandmother is on the bottom, along side her twin sister.  My Great Grandmother is directly above her.

I've been asked how I created my flowers since they have a water color appearance.  I've shared a video that my daughter helped me with(it's my first technique shared video, so I'm sorry for the quality).

Thanks for stopping by and I hope I was able to teach you a new technique.

                                       Always craft with  <3

Live Beautifully Creations

I just can't get enough of this gorgeous paper collection.  The colors and patterns are very on trend, and there is just so much you can create with them.  There are 16 beautifully designed papers in this collection.

For my second layout I used the word Dream and stamped it in 2nd generation all over my base pages.  I used the gold embossed dots, pink shimmer trim, the pink watercolor paper to create the bottom portion of the page.  The bold flower print is the mats for the photos, and then I added the black and white striped paper for some pop!  The flowers were created the using the same technique as my previous layout, but added some shimmer with the Shimmer Brush. To finish off the layout I added gold sequins and the zipstrips with the gold embossed stripes.

For my third layout, I started with black base pages. I added the scripted pattern paper as my background.  I choose to pull the purple from the flower pattern as my accent color, and my closest color choice was Eggplant. My flowers are also stamped in the stamp color.  I added some compliments from You & Me and Good Life.  I colored in some sequins using purple and black markers to coordinate with the layout.

I still have 9 full sheets of pattern paper to create with out of my package, and lots of partial pieces. Make sure you come back to see what I create next using these stunning patterns.