Tuesday, June 30, 2015

DOUBLE PAGE MIXED MEDIA SCRAPBOOKING WITH CLOSE TO MY HEART - CTMH CRICUT ARTBOOKING CARTRIDGE COLLECTION


I couldnt be prouder of my son, graduating from University this year, and to honour the occasion I created a double page layout.  Feeding my mixed media scrapbooking addiction, of course i had to make it mixed media.  In both pages i have used the home made brick stencil from the Close To My Heart Artbooking Cricut Cartridge.  IN the top page i only used half of the stencil and in the bottom page, i used the full stencil.  Once the textured paste dried i sprayed both pages with the close to my heart spray pens filled with water and our reinkers.  Todays colour i used Desert Sand.  Fill the spray pen 90% water and 10% in ink colour.  Once the spraying was dry, i used a paint brush and the same ink to touch up some  of the bricks in the first page and i would add a drop of water to the ink each time to get different coloured affects using the same colour ink and just touched it up with the brush.  Even though it is just one colour reinker, I was able to get several different colour shades from the one colour.


SCRAPBOOKING WITH MIXED MEDIA AND CLOSE TO MY HEART - CTMH TRACEY


Loving working with my mixed media and scrapbooking, i struggled with regular scrapbooking for such a long time and since discovering Mixed Media, I am fastly becoming addicted to mixed media scrapbooking.

I love creating and making my own stencils with My Close To My Heart Artbooking Cricut cartridge it gives me such a variety to choose from to turn overlays into stencils.

My Close To My Heart Artiste and Art philosphy Cartridges have awesome paper flowers to choose from to create gorgeous embellishments on my pages

Sunday, June 21, 2015

CLOSE TO MY HEART MY CRUSH SCRAPBOOKING BOOKS AND MIXED MEDIA WITH CTMH PRODUCTS AND MY CRICUT - FREE TEXTURED PASTE RECIPE

Ive been tinkering with mixed media of late and incorporating my Close To My Heart products.
This month I have an awesome special on during June 2015 for My Crush Books and assortments
or checkout all the promotion details - CLICK HERE


Stencils can be so expensive to buy, So why not make your own ?
Its so easy, I simply laminate a pouch through my laminating machine.  Using my Cricut Expressions Machine,  a new Cricut Mat and My Close To My Heart Artbooking Cricut Cartridge, i cut out the chosen stencil i like from the Overlay section of the cartridge.


Cover your My Crush Book with mod podge (click here free mod podge recipe) and allow it to dry then place your stencil on top and cover with textured paste and either allow to dry or use your heat gun to dry it faster.

TEXTURED PASTE RECIPE:
1/4 Cup Boiling Water
2 Cups of Bi Carb Soda
2 Cups of White Acrylic Paint
1 Cup of Pva Glue
3 Cups of Corn Flour

Next step is to embellish your journal and cover in Gesso


Now lets colour it in, Close To My heart have spray pens
3 in a pack for only $5.50 and I mix mine with water and my Close To My Heart Reinkers a great range with over 40 colours to choose from.



Here is a HANDY TIP - Mix your ctmh reinker with our fabulous LIQUID GLASS and it will give you a wonderful coloured glossy finish on your projects, such as on the lettering of the finished journal.


I have an awesome range of BASE N BLING, charms, pendants and chains.  Why not incorporate them in your Mixed Media, dont just leave them as necklases and bangles, they make great scrapbooking embellishments.


Wednesday, June 17, 2015

SCRAPBOOKING WITH CLOSE TO MY HEART SOTM ICE CREAM DREAMS AND CRICUT ARTISTE CARTRIDGE

Im just loving this months Stamp Of The Month SOTM Ice Cream dreams, i created a card in an earlier post with the australiasian blog hop and thought i would now do a scrap page with the same stamp set.

Did you know you could do stamping with ink on your scrapbooking pages ?
A little bit about this page is case you would like to CASE it.
Firstly using a 12 x 12 sheet of white daisy card stock , my Cricut expression machine and my close to my heart Cricut Collection Artiste cartridge, i cut out the background page.  In the overlay section of the cartridge, found the overlay i wanted and set it to 11" RDS to cut out the lacey background.

Then i filled my trusty spray pens with ink from my reinkers and spritzed colours all over the page.  Colours included: buttercup, cotton candy and sorbet.  These are great when doing mixed media or any project to add a spritz of colour too.  Simply fill your pen to the 2nd last line at the top with water and then put 6 - 10 drops of ink or fill with ink to the last line.  It depends on how rich you would like the colour to be.  By the way did you know that Close To My heart have over 40 different ctmh colours in the reinkers to choose from and that you can purchase 3 spray pens for only $5.50 ?

Set your page to the side to dry.  Now using WOTG Brushed paper, i cut out another page of the lacey page but this time set the size to 9"l.  Once it was cut out on the machine i then cut it down so that i had the same shape without the lacey frame and glued it to my page.

I coloured the stamped images from the SOTM Ice cream dreams with my shin han alcohol markers and highlighted them with liquid glass.  When wanting to colour stamped images it is always a good rule of thumb to use either a memento ink or a stazon ink to stop the stamped image from bleeding out the colour of the image.


TOPIARY TREE MADE FROM CTMH - CLOSE TO MY HEART ARTPHILOSOPHY CRICUT CUT ROLLED ROSES - FREE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE


In the process of rebuilding a new blog, I missed reposting this gorgeous Christmas hand made paper Topiary Tree made with Cricut cut paper roses and snowhaven paper WOTG Paper pack from my old blog back in December 2014.  At that time it was only 2nd one in the world ever made with the Cricut die cut paper roses.
FOR FREE PICTURES AND INSTRUCTIONS ON MY ORIGINAL TOPIARY TREE

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

FREE STAMP SET WITH PURCHASE OF THE CTMH - CLOSE TO MY HEART MY CRUSH BOOKS AND ASSORTMENTS DURING JUNE 2015


During June 2015 when you purchase any of the My Crush Books and the co ordinating
Assortments you will receive the matching stamp set for Free.

Checkout all the available My Crush books below and see the list below with the order codes.

My Crush™ In the Pink Book Item Number: Z2000

My crush in Pink assortments have sold out so replace the order Code with  My Crush In the pink Clips Z2048 $6.50

My Crush™ Wildwood Book

Item Number: Z2001

My Crush™ Bluebird Book Item Number: Z1856

My Crush™ Holiday Happenings Book - 

click here to checkout my Holiday Happenings Book Complete

Item Number: Z2098

My Crush™ Modville Book Item Number: Z1855


Monday, June 15, 2015

CTMH HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS MY CRUSH SCRAPBOOKING FROM CLOSE TO MY HEART


CLOSE TO MY HEART MY CRUSH BOOKS ARE AN AWESOME WAY TO
SCRAPBOOKING.  Its fun to use up your photos and decorate the already


If you like the thought of scrapbooking and find large pages daunting, like I do, then Crush Scrapbooking could be for you.  Teenages just love crush scrapbooking.



Incorporating these awesome assortments helps to make your Holiday Happenings My Crush
just pop.  Checkout my photos below to see how I have decorated my crush holiday happenings.












 Christmas is the one holiday season that is most photographed resulting in many many photos.
What do you do with all the extra photos ?
Add Flip Flaps !!!!!!!!!!!!
So you can fit as many photos as humanly possible in your book.














CLOSE TO MY HEART MY CRUSH MODVILLE - SMASH SCRAPBOOKING - SCRAPBOOKING JOURNAL


SMASH BOOKING IS THE LATEST SCRAPBOOKING CRAZE
SWEEPING THE WORLD
AND CLOSE TO MY HEART AUSTRALIA ARE LEADING THE TREND WITH ITS
MY CRUSH MODVILLE JOURNAL AND BESTIES ASSORTMENTS.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE JOURNAL PAGES I HAVE DONE TONIGHT.
IF YOU LOVE SCRAPBOOKING BUT JUST DONT GET THE TIME
THEN GIVE SMASH BOOKING A GO.  ITS QUICK ON THE RUN SCRAPBOOKING
IN A JOURNAL.