June | 2014 | Papercrafting with Kelly Janes

When I saw the most current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, I immediately thought about Close To My Heart’s Picture My Life™ Kits. The kits come with 122 cards in 2 different sizes and you get multiples of the each design. Because I get multiples I feel I have a little more freedom to use them on multiple projects.

Take a look at the sketch…

…and now take a look at my card.

Starting with a white card base I rounded the corner of a layer of Outdoor Denim Cardstock. Next I grabbed a 3″x4″ card from the Later Sk8r Picture My Life™ Kit. I love the saying on this card….it’s perfect to use for multiple celebratory occasions {including my son’s preschool graduation next week}!! I didn’t have any ribbon that I particularly liked for this card, so I went to my favorite obsession, WASHI TAPE!!! I placed the Slate Polka-Dot Washi Tape on White Daisy Cardstock before attaching it to my card. By doing it this way the tape will not stick to itself when I loop it around the PML card. My card has a masculine theme and I thought a button may be a little to feminine, so I added a couple of staples at the base of the washi.

Did you notice that I didn’t do any stamping on this card?!? Another perfect example that you don’t have to be a stamper to use CTMH’s products!!

-Kelly

My husband and I went on a cruise in January 2012, and I haven’t even made a dent in my scrapbook. I took a little time this week to play around with the Tommy Paper Packet*.

After placing the blue B&T Duo™ {that I stitched} at the base of the cardstock, the White Daisy Cardstock seemed too bright. Using Honey Exclusive Ink™ and the My Hero Stamp Set I created a pattern on the white cardstock. The My Hero Stamp Set is one of the seven hostess exclusive stamp sets available in the Spring/Summer 2014 Idea Book. As an added incentive to hostesses, there are now stamp sets that are exclusively available to hostesses only! And to make it even better….they are discounted!!

Onto the embellishments…..I layered a couple tags from K & Company, using a sponge dauber and Outdoor Denim Exclusive Ink™ to define the edges of the tag. The title and little birdies come from the Tommy Complements*, and the pennants are from the Tommy Assortment*. The subtitle towards the top of the page was created using the Keyboard Uppercase Stamp Set and Outdoor Denim Exclusive Ink™.

The journaling is hidden underneath the red tag. I’ll simply cut a slit in my page protector and slide the top portion of the oval through the slit for easy reading. I’m not a fan of my handwriting, but I think it is important to include it in my scrapbooks. I like the look of the typed journaling, but then I think about how special the items that have my great-grandma’s handwriting on them. I think about how disappointing it would be to see those words typed, and I’m hoping my scrapbooks will be passed down through the generations!! There is just something so personal about a handwritten message, and I hope my great-great-great grandchildren will feel the same when they are flipping through my scrapbooks.

{*=retired product}

This scrapbook page is linked to the Heart 2 Heart So Very Nauti (Cool) Challenge.

-Kelly