First class of 2016

Hi everyone,

Happy new year!!

and welcome to 2016

 

First class of the year is a valentines week one.

Making first the wonderful stamp of the month, the super cute balloon animals.

 

Second one is a stamp that I used a few days before for a baby shower card, so I kept everything out when I was preparing for my class.

So many uses for a stamp I thought would have just been for rainy day stamping.

 

 

 

Last but not least, is the beautiful Valentines card, made with January stamp of the month. 

Two step stamping, ended up such a beautiful result, and everyone was extreamly impressed with how it all turned out.  

 

Due to my time constraints,  these card designs came from different ideas from other wonderful Close to my heart Consultants.

I just chopped and changed a few things around to suit my customers .

Pintrest, a consultants best friend... thank you fellow CTMHers.

 

Kay xoxo

 

 

MIA

Hey to all my fellow bloggers out there,

this past few months have been very very stressful. With my partner in a accident in icu for a month, and then months in rehap. Things are only just kind of getting back to normal.

 

That's the explanation of my MIA, and believe me I have missed it,

But slowly will I be getting back into my blogging.
And the CTMH blog hops.

 

I have done a few workshops, and recently re started up my fortnightly card classes, but just have not had time to put up all the goodies we made on here, there may be a influx soon, when I get time too.

 

For today I'm going to add a part of the workshop for this weekend.

I'm really excited for it.

 

 

Isn't it so cute!!!! There is more to go with it, to use as a single gift or split it for a few gifts.

A taster for the workshop plan I will put up next week for this. :)

 

 

CTMH Blog Hop April 2015

Close to my Heart consultant
Kay Sutcliffe

April Stamp of the Month

Typed Note

 

TITLE:   Typed Note

CTMH Stamp of the Month Australasian Blog Hop

Hello and welcome aboard our Stamp of the month Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop.

If you have arrived here from

 Tracey Ray - Aussie Ink Blog  then you are in the right place. If you landed here by accident, no problem, please join in by following the link at the end of this post.

Today I would like to share with you these two cards and a simple layout which features April Stamp of the Month S1504  available exclusively throughout April for $27 or for just $5 when you spend $75 of product.

 

I love this "typed' stamp set. It so CUTE and so versatile.

I wanted to be different so I stamped in different colours instead of the traditional black that I find I was most attracted to at first.

 

I wanted to steer away from the traditional "typed" black and white colour with this card.

Stamped in Hollyhock and Gypsy inks.
I coloured in some Silver glitter trim with my Shinhan markers and used it as an accent around the photo and in the spare space up the top I just felt I needed to fill :)

 

 

I couldn't help myself and made a black and white card too.
Card really just speaks for itself, I used Archival black ink, and stamped the type writer. Then the saying inside the Paper.

I pop dotted it up, and down the bottem I used Daisy White ink to stamp the hand and the Happy Birthday sayings on the black. I love love love it :)

And again adding some of the White this time shimmer trim to the top space left. Who does not like a bit of bling bling. :)

Last but not least, is a simple layout I have made for a photo taken for mothers day with my mum.

Its a quite large photo so it takes up most of the page. but I have stamped down the side all the little sayings that are in the Typed Note stamp set that match the theme of my photo.

( xoxoxo, Happy mothers day, I miss you )

All just stamped random down the side, then using Distressed background stamp set I stamped all over the page, around the photo and over the stamped sayings.

(I second step stamped, so I inked up the background stamp, then stamped onto scrap paper and then stamped onto my page so it was not such a bright image, )

Finishing off again with a lovely coloured in strip of silver glitter tape, using the shinhan markers.

I love that I can change the colour to any colour that I am working with. Making the White and silver glitter trim fantastic.

Typed Note is only available until the last day of April 2015 from me. 

Check out my Store here

 Thank you so much for reading, and hopefully I can join in on the next blog hop in May 2015.

 I'd love you to leave a comment before heading off to the next stop,  Anne - Mummy you made this? , 

 

 

Cards N Cuppa Class 10th March

Well everyone, I Hope that you had a fantastic weekend,
a new week means a new card class.
Thank you to all that attended today, This card class is available again this Friday night for anyone who is interested :)

This week was 4 cards, two large normal cards and two small ones (two smaller ones making up for the big one)

I will start with the hardest card for today.
A trifold French doors kind of card.

Using Lagoon card I made the card into a tri fold
The Lagoon card was cut at 8.5 x 5.5 Inches (making it when folded a standard card size)
I then used the CTMH scoring board to score the "French door" folds.
Scoring at 2.1 on one side, and then turning it to score at 2.1 on the other side

The panels on the doors are the CTMH blushed papers. Beautiful using either side of the paper.
The panels are cut at 1 3/4 x 5 1/4
The little tags are using colonial card stock, (these were originally rectangles, but because you could not see the lovely brushed papers behind the tags, I put them into little  flaggy tags)
Tags are 2 3/4 x 1.5, cutting down both to make the flags.

Stamped images on the card are from the CTMH stamp set " Your own kind of wonderful"
I used the Hollyhock ink on this one. Make sure when your stamping that two of the images are facing one way and just one is flagging the other way, so they form the card above.

This card was not too easy but def NOT a beginner card.








The next cards are nice and simple, not much to them at all.
One was just a panel of the Brushed papers, silver glittered tape (coloured in with markers)

the card to the left is so lovley, with a pretty little rolled rose on the side.
I am going to do a blog post on how to do them later in the week.





 The last card is soooo simple, all I used was the "Chalked up" paper packet, cut into a panel, then tied some of CTMHs new Flaxen extra thick twine.

Using a simple Happy birthday stamped onto colonial white card, and edges inked with Hollyhock.
This card says all it needs to, quick easy and can be done last minute!!!


Thank you so much for reading my blog post for today. Please give me any feedback. OR even just comment. It all matters.

Kay
 
 

 
 

 

 

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