Cross Canada Hop - Language Stamps

Bonjour / Hola / Hello

Welcome to our March Blog Hop featuring CTMH stamp sets that are available in French, Spanish and English. When you flip through the catalogues those stamps are identified with a World globe. 

We have an amazing group of talented ladies all across Canada, and they sure would love to hear from you, so before hopping onto the next person, take a moment and leave a comment about what you loved.

If you've arrived from Donna of DAT'S MY STYLE then you are in the right place! If you would like to start at the beginning of the hop, and continue from East Coast to West Coast, you can start here “CREATIONS WITH MICHELLE”

My family is a french speaking family. We speak French at home, at daycare, at school and I work in the French daycare so naturally I like to buy the French versions of our stamp sets. I was that lady who sent in a request every year for French stamps and starting with the new annual catalog we now have a handful per catalog. I love it!

 Here is a page I created that I am using for my title page of our new family album. In case you don't understand French "Aujourd'hui" means "Today" and "Tu rends mon coeur joyeux" means "You make my heart happy". I used two different stamp sets on this page. Hello Lovely Scrapbooking and Happy Heart.

I really like these two sets and they are extremely versatile for any layout or card.

I heat embossed the title as it is difficult to stamp ink over the vellum paper from the Rustic Home paper pack (backside). I used some leftover scraps and PML cards from the Hello Lovely paper pack to embellish. The flower bunch to the right of my youngest is cut out of a PML card. 

I also hand stitched a bit on my layout in the corners using our stitching guide ruler.

 

 Leave me a comment if you have any questions on my technique or if you like this page. :) Have a great day!

Supply List
Rustic Home Paper Pack
Hello Lovely Paper Pack
Hello Lovely complements
Hello Lovely Scrapbooking (French) Stamp Set
Happy Heart (French) Stamp Set  
Sea Glass Cardstock
Gold glitter gems
Black, Sorbet, Fern, Sea Glass Ink
Black embossing powder
Craft Heater
Versamark Ink
Black thread
Stitch guide ruler
Journaling pen 

To purchase any of the items seen in our blog hop today, contact your local consultant to place an order.

Your next stop on the Cross Canada Hop is  Janet of JAN'S WORKS OF ART. If you get lost along the way, you can head to Michelle's Blog, as she has the complete blog list

Thanks for hopping along with us - we hope we were able to inspire you to get creative using some of the designs, products and techniques seen along the way. We hope you will join us again next month when we will be featuring creations using the Shinhan Touch Twin Markers. So mark April 15th on your calendars and hop along with us.

CTMH's Technique Blog Hop - Let's Interact

Hello and welcome to CTMH's Technique Blog Hop. This week our featured technique is "Interacting".We are focusing on artwork that has a type of element that "interacts" with us. Whether it be flaps, windows, moving embellishments, etc.

If you have just joined us you can start here and continue on, as this is a circular hop or if you get lost along the way you can start at the beginning with Melissa's Blog as she has the complete list. If you came here from SASSY'S CREATIONS you are in the right place. Now on to my project:

I know the lighting isn't very good, sorry about that. So I made this layout as a title page for my Across Canada album using the new Magical Paper Pack. It's hard to tell but the background page is the white triangle B&T page. The interactive part of the layout is the little car that moves across the map. I cut a slit in the page protector and sewed two buttons together to make it a sturdy moving piece. Here is a close up:

 

So I had originally planned on making a layout with old product and a layout with new products. Because sometimes I feel like everyone just gets caught up in the new and forget to use up the old. That is why for the next few blog posts I plan on challenging myself to doing a layout with the old and one with the new.

Let's face it we all have scraps or even full packs of old paper packs from CTMH that you just love and want to use on projects but you keep on using the new stuff and that's fantastic because our stuff is AWESOME. Problem is though sometimes we just need some ideas on ways to use old product. Here is a fall layout I made using our old paper pack called Claire.

I had A LOT of photos of our time at the pumpkin patch and so I needed to find an alternative to making the layout look too crowded. I didn't want to make more than a 2 page spread so I used 4x6 flip flaps and used the FUSE TOOL to cut and fuse the pockets to make them 4x4. Then I made a fun interactive "book type" on the right hand page. My 2 year old just loves this layout.

Here is a closer look: 

I also had a great time coloring in the stamped images to make this page. :) I cut slits in the memory protectors for the flip flaps to slide through. I preferred that look instead of gluing them to the outside of the pages. You can read how to cut slits in your pages in THIS blog post. You can also view another interactive layout I did for Easter. Here's a quick look at the page.

Supply List:
4x6 flip flaps
Magical Paper Pack
Magical Complements
Canadian Celebration Stamp Set
Adventure Canada Stamp Set (retired)   
Claire Paper Pack (retired)
Pick O' Patch Stamp Set (retired)
Brown enamel gems (retired)
Picture My Life - My Story
Various ShinHan Markers
Random Buttons
Fuse Tool (not CTMH)

Thank you for checking out my project. If you would like to place an order for any of these supplies you can buy them here. If you enjoyed my project please comment below as we love feedback! Next on our blog hop is Michelle from SHOW AND TELL WITH MICHELLE. Make sure to check out her amazing work featuring this same product.

See you on June 15th as we will be featuring our Color Your World Technique! Have a great day!