Jean Pocket Card

My son Jerome was invited to yet an other birthday party. In all that makes 7 birthdays this month.. oh and one expected birth. Here is a card that I made for this birthday. Obviously it was for a little girl. This is a bit of a challenge for me. With having two boys, I almost never get to do girly, and it seems the closest I can get to it is Tomboy. Oh well. I am still pleased with this card.

Heart 2 Heart Colour Challenge (Sky, Pear, Colonial White)

I wanted to participate to the Heart 2 Heart Colour Challenge but I didn't have cardstock in the colours that was selected... well except for the colonial white... I'm addicted to that one.

Since I have the colours in the ink pads (Sky Z2194, Pear Z2197) I made my own cardstock with the rubber brayer. So here is my card.

First I added the sky and pear colour to some white cardstock using the rubber brayer. I then stamped a background with the Intrinsic Background (D1335). I then stamped the bird outline with the April 2011 Stamp Of The Month (D1455 - Ya I know... sorry about the tease of using a stamp set that is not yet available... what can I say... it's the perk of been a consultant) in Cocoa ink (Z2114). I then stamped the silhouette of the bird in Sky ink second generation Rock-N-Rolled into sky ink. (see at the very end of my post for a more detailed explanation of the techniques used).

I then stamped the border with the Wing Workshop stamp set and the greeting with the Unity stamp set (C1422) in Cocoa ink.

I attached a piece of Pear cardstock with a scalloped edge to my focus piece which I raised with foam tape. And of course, if you know me you know I never skip this part, I inked the edges of all my pieces of cardstock in Cocoa Ink.

Second Generation: Ink a stamp in the desired colour and stamp once on a piece of scrap paper and again without re-inking unto your project. This with give you an image in a softer hue.

Rock-N-Roll: Ink the stamp set in either a lighter of two colours then roll the edges of your stamp in the darker colour ink pad or same colour if combining with the second generation technique.

Girly Birthday Card

Jérome has been invited to a few birthday parties this month for little girls. Which is great! It gives me the chance to use my girly scrapbook stuff. I don't get the chance to do that very much. So here is the card that I created. The original plan changed a little bit but I'm very pleased with the final product.

Here is the list of materials I used.

Pink, Purple and White Cardstock came from my stash of scraps. I do believe they are from Close To My Heart. But no guarantee.

Inks:

z2129 Hydrangea

Z2147 Smokey Plum

Z2167 Créme Brulee

Z2166 Tulip

Z2128 Hollyhock

Stamp Sets:

D1335 Intrinsic Background

D1407 Piece of Cake

D1082 Made By Me

Extra Tools:

3174 Blending Pen

y1008 4"x4" Acrylix Block

z1163 Double Scrubber

1778 My Acrylix Spritz Cleaner

Non Close To My Heart Tools:

Uni-ball Signo Brand White Gel Pen

Martha Stewart Laced Edge Punch

Jérome Signed the card himself and opted for the french spelling. Yeah!!

Waterfall Pictures

This layout features 33 pictures!! Mostly 4" x 6" and 3" x 3". Ya that's right 33 pictures and all of them a fair size. How is that possible??? Well with the use of the waterfall picture technique featured in Close To My Heart Magic Layout book and with the use of Flip Flaps (Visit http://melaniebarr.myctmh.com for more details or to order). Well worth the effort.

Peek-A-Boo Picture

This technique is featured in the Close To My Heart Magic Layout book. (visit my website to get more information on this book http://melaniebarr.myctmh.com/). It seems very involve but the secret to this technique is ziploc sandwich bags. It is surprisingly easy to make; once you have the instructions (available in CTMH Magic Layout book).

Studio J

Well, I got the Studio J membership with Close To My Heart, which is the CTMH Digital Scrapbooking program; and finally I have used it. I must say I am impressed. I don't think this will completely replace scrapbooking for me. But in one evening I have completed four 2-page layouts. This will be a great tool when I want to catch up on some scrapbooking.

Here are pictures of the pages I have created (I get the JPEG file for free with the membership, so that I may print/share these as much as I please).

Layout 1: Test Ride

Layout 2: Thirty

Layout 3: Calaway Park

Layout 4: Just Girls

There is so many paper kits to pick from (some extra under the membership) and layouts (tons more with the membership), and from there the embellishments. I had a great time and I am so pleased with these.

My sister and I recently got together to prepare some samples for upcoming workshops. My sister, Jinny, recently became a consultant with Close To My Heart. She's always had an interest for scrapbooking although she mostly just admired what I made and made very little time for her own scrapbook. I had started doing the workshop with CTMH and contacted her when I was doing the Cherry-O Workshop knowing she would love it. Well she couldn't make time, which was fine. She is a busy single mother after all. A few months later she came to one of my workshop and saw the sample page that had been done with the Cherry-O and she whacked me in the arm (sisterly love.. you know!). She loved the workshop and was mad I didn't make her come. Go figures.

She started hosting her own workshop and it was getting so big that we figured we would be better off if she became a consultant. Gives her a discount and cut down my trips to Calgary. Best of all, I now have a consultant friend to make the sample pages and cards with. Yeah!!

This is a partially completed two page layout for the Olivia Workshop. At first from the pictures in the Idea Book I wasn't completely sold on this. But to see it live... is a complete different experience. I really like it. and the stamp is absolutely gorgeous!!!

The only problem is that it features the sanding edges technique. Well it's not really a problem for me, and the look is amazing... but my sister didn't fare too well.

Yup that would be a face cloth in her mouth... She was attempting to diminish the grinching feeling she would get from sanding the paper. She complained a lot... loudly... it was really funny. Didn't bother me at all. This may be a tricky workshop for her.. hehehe.