Dots Scrapbooking is a Close To My Heart consultant blog. Learn about scrapbooking, card-making, and papercrafting. Learn how to incorporate different techniques such as, embossing, die-cuts, Cricut images, etc. into your creations.
I am using the Mojo Monday sketch along with the Color Dare Challenge to make some Valentine's Day cards for a friends friend that delivers cards to nursing homes. Color Dare Challenge colors:
Mojo Monday 508:
I decided to take the same papers from I Heart Us and reverse them making the same card design. This was fun to do just to see how different the cards would look by reversing the papers.
So a month ago I started going through my re-inkers knowing I had some to add since we had new colors added last fall. I was going to use the system I've been using for my papers and stamp pads. I took my catalog and copied the color palette enlarging as needed. So I got my new January 1, 2019 catalog and put it on my HP printer and hit copy. And that's where it ended. I got a message saying the printer head died :-( . So a trip to Staples was necessary because I was going to buy a new printer head. Silly me. A printer head costs more than a whole new printer. It seems like my HP wasn't even that old and as luck would have it, I just purchased a full set of ink. Isn't that the way things work?!!!!
Bottom line, I purchased an Epson Workforce Pro WF-3720. I worked with Epson printers and liked them, so, Epson, I'm back!
After all this decision making, I clearly blew some brain RAM and forgot what I was doing with my little project. I guess I put away my re-inkers because unboxing the printer and getting rid of the HP took up a lot of space (BTW-Staples takes back printers and gave me a reimbursement for the unused inks).
Yesterday I was looking for a re-inker and remembered my little project. So this is why I made my video. Now I know what I have in my re-inker inventory and also know what I need to purchase over a period of time to fill in the blanks. I also know that if you don't keep track of what you have, there is a tendency to buy more than 1 of something. I have 3 Cashmere re-inkers and that color is discontinued!!!
You will save money by checking your stash and keep things as simple as possible. Keeping all like things together, allows you to easily take an inventory and check off what you have to minimize duplication. Take it from me, little (not really) miss (not that either) 3 Cashmeres, 2 Glaciers, 2 Smoothies, 2 Pomegranates, 3 Blacks...
Hope you enjoy and get motivated by the video, that I finally remembered to make. Your list doesn't have to look like mine, just something to check off your colors.
I am making a series of videos for the Feels Like Home Deluxe Scrapbook Workshop to show the detail of how to put these pages together. The deluxe kits add more detail to your layouts than the regular Workshop Your Way kits. The purpose is to give you incentive to step out of the box and expand your techniques making you more comfortable with working with various supplies.
Heat embossing is not complicated and gives you such beautiful detail you will be thrilled with the results. Besides, it is so much fun watching the powders melt and become shiny.
In my video, I am trying to show you how you too can learn do this just by watching me and seeing how easy it is. Once you do this, you will do it again.
I love the Feels Like Home papers so much that I've created 7 layouts (so far). The papers would work well with any black and white vintage photos as well as your modern day photos. The papers are gorgeous. Just see for yourself!
I haven't even started making cards yet, but here are some ideas from Close To My Heart:
I made an introduction video showing the contents of the Deluxe kit:
I will be creating 4 more videos showing how to make the deluxe layouts.
Oh my. Where have I been? Let me get back into the groove and show you some beautiful papers fro the line of Close To My Heart papers called I Heart Us. These papers would be perfect for the upcoming Valentine's Day pictures or any family and friends pictures. I created a video to show you how easy it is to produce 3 layouts to handle lots of cute pictures.
Here's my video:
Here are the finished images of my layouts:
The supply list for this kit includes: I Heart Us Scrapbooking kit Kit contents: 1 – I Heart Us Paper Packet (X7242B) 1 – I Heart Us Complements (X7242C) 5 — cardstock sheets (1 Canary, 1 Lagoon, 1 Mint, 2 White Daisy) 1 – I Heart Us Sequins (Z4270) 1 – Black Shimmer Trim (Z1809) 4 – Memory Protectors™ Top Load photo placeholders printed instructions If you would like to make more detailed pages then the next kit is good for you: I Heart Us Deluxe Scrapbooking kit (without a stamp set) Kit contents: 1 – I Heart Us Paper Packet (X7242B) 10 – cardstock sheets (1 Ballerina, 1 Bluebird, 1 Lagoon, 1 Mint, 6 White Daisy) 1 – Loose Sequins—Gold (Z4235) 1 – Shimmer Brush—Mint (Z4225) 2 – Memory Protectors™ Top Load 6 – Everyday Life™ Memory Protectors™ 6" × 8" photoplaceholders printed instructions Heart Us Deluxe Scrapbooking kit (with stamp set)
Kit contents:
1 – My Acrylix® Wordfetti Stamp Set (B1652)
1 – My Acrylix® I Heart Us—Cardmaking Stamp Set (C1760)
1 – I Heart Us Paper Packet (X7242B)
10 – cardstock sheets (1 Ballerina, 1 Bluebird, 1 Lagoon, 1 Mint, 6 White Daisy)
1 – Loose Sequins—Gold (Z4235)
1 – Shimmer Brush—Mint (Z4225)
2 – Memory Protectors™ Top Load
6 – Everyday Life™ Memory Protectors™ 6" × 8"
photoplaceholders
printed instructions
The I Heart Us deluxe scrapbooking workshop focuses on assembling a 6" × 8" mini album, creating a wreath by stamping, and paper weaving. This kit makes 1 two-page layout, 2 single pages, and a 12-page 6" × 8" mini album
Hope you want to try making these layouts for your albums. I had a mani-pedi yesterday and sat next to a woman who told me an amazing story of her immigrant family starting with her grandfather. It was the quintessential American story. I asked her if she had this story written down with pictures of the relatives. Well the answer was no, we just pass the story down to the next generation. Ugh!!I should have pressed her more...
Using the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge and the Color Dare Color Challenge for inspiration, I created another card that was made with a nursing home patient in mind. Hearts and butterflies are cheery, happy elements that I think would bring a smile to someone. So my card has both and I hope it will accomplish the task.
Here are the 2 challenges:
Using one of our new stamp and thin cuts sets, a stitched heart thin cut and a rose embossing folder and a little bit of paper from Feels Like Home, I created this card:
I just had to add the butterfly. If I used a background and texture paper for the Sugarplum strip I probably wouldn't have added the butterfly, but there you go! The sentiment on the inside is from the same stamp set. What beautiful script!
