Joyful Stars blog hop - Tis the Season Scrapbooking

Welcome to our monthly hop!

We're excited to share our creativity with you using PRODUCTS

from Close To My Heart!!

Come on in and see what BEAUTIFUL projects my crafty friends have creating using the AMAZING products from Close To My Heart!!

 This blog hop is easy to do…just click on the link at the end of the post to go to the next creation!!  If you get lost along the way, CLICK HERE to see the list of this month’s hoppers! 

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If you have arrived from Joyce Gough's blog you are right on track.

Do you know how FABULOUS our Workshop Your Way (WYW) kits are at Close To My Heart??
Today, we are going to take a look at one of our beautiful kits!

Each paper suite on our Idea Books (catalogs) have a scrapbooking workshop kit we call "Workshops Your Way" (WYW). 

TODAY, we'll be taking a look at the "Tis the Season" kit and the beautiful pages you can create with the purchase of this kit! 

Here are the contents of this kit...

1 – ‘Tis the Season Paper Packet (X7239B)
1 – ‘Tis the Season Complements (X7239C)
4 – cardstock sheets (1 Candy Apple, 2 Linen, 1 White Daisy)
1 – ‘Tis the Season Buttons (Z4227)
1 – ‘Tis the Season Snowflakes (Z4226)
photo placeholders
printed instructions

Each month, I host a Scrapbooking Class using a WYW kit....and, I try and put my own "spin" to the layouts of each kit.  

Here are the layouts as CTMH designed them, so pretty! 

With this particular WYW kit, some of my ladies, weren't crazy about the thick snowflakes that CTMH had added to the pages. 
SO... I improvised & used our AMAZING Winter Flurries Thin Cuts instead!! 

Other items I added to my pages...
Gold Shimmer Trim
Gold Flecked Gems
White Glitter paper


I'll share each of the layouts below...the CTMH version & then my version...fun -FUN!!!

Layout 1

Tis the Season - WYW - layout 1 by CTMH

Tis the Season - layout 1 - Krista's version

I changed out a few cardstock colors, as well as adding that gold shimmer trim...and those gold flecked gems finished off the Thin Cut snowflakes! 

Layout 2

Tis the Season - WYW - layout 2 by CTMH

Tis the Season - layout 2 - Krista's version

Adding the gold Shimmer Trim to the top of the page, added just what I was looking for. 

I wish you could see the sparkle & shine the white glitter paper & gold foil embellishments give!!

Layout 3

Tis the Season - WYW - layout 3 by CTMH

Tis the Season - layout 3 - Krista's version

I added another photo well on my layout & also chose to use the "JOY" glitter letters from my Tis the Season Complements pack! 
It was fun to cut the Snowflake in half...putting one piece on the outer edge of each page! 

Layout 4
This is a layout I often create "on my own"...but this time, I looked at our Deluxe WYW kit & took one of the layout designs from that kit....

Tis the Season - Deluxe WYW -  by CTMH

Tis the Season - layout 4 - Krista's version

I hadn't used colored Cardstock for my base page in a little bit...so I pulled out my coordinating cardstock from my Tis the Season cardstock pack & decided to use the Fern Cardstock.  It's AMAZING how this changes the look of the entire layout!!

What BEAUTIFUL pages these turned out to be....all ready for my photos!!

If you enjoy Creating & having the ideas already created for you....I highly suggest you give one of CTMH's WYW kits a try!!  They are always beautiful pages & you can even change things around a bit if their design isn't quite like you like.    

That's all for today....thanks for stopping by, and I hope you were inspired to go CREATE something on your own! :) 

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Now it’s time to Hop on over to Joyce Houck's Blog and see what BEAUTIFUL, crafty item she has to share with us today! :) 

Happy Hopping and we’ll see you on the 9th next month, when the Joyful Stars team members will be sharing more artwork using Close To My Heart products!    

Blessings to you for BEAUTIFUL day!!!

Krista Hershberger

Workshop Your Way kits–by CTMH

Have you ever tried Close To My Heart’s (CTMH) Workshop Your Way kits? 

If you haven’t – I encourage you to read along on today’s post to see what they are all about! J

These kits are FABULOUS, as they create both scrapbook pages & card designs…so you get a mixture of both kinds of paper crafting!!

So…what are the Workshops Your Way kits???

With Workshops Your Way™, you create…

* three beautiful scrapbooking layouts with no stamping

* a fourth layout featuring Picture My Life™ cards

*and the option to create an additional cardmaking project featuring stamping and other techniques—all with one workshop kit!

(You'll also need a few basic tools you may already have.)

So…let’s take a look at the MAGICAL kit – this is the kit we used at this month’s Hostess Club Scrapbooking Class….

 

Close To My Heart’s “Magical”

Workshops Your Way (WYW)

kit

What a BEAUTIFUL fun kit!!  While this kit can be seen as  “Disney” themed kit, I encourage you to think “outside the box”!  This could be used for birthday, Graduation, Summer fun – all come to mind, of ways this paper collection can be used! J   

Here is a list of ALL the items that are included in this Workshops Your Way (WYW) kit...

Workshops Your Way™ Magical  Kit Contents:
1 – Magical Paper Packet (X7209B)      

1 – Magical Complements (X7209C)     

4– Cardstock Sheets (3 White Daisy & 1 Sapphire)

        1 – White Twine (Z3216)

1 – Magical Sequins (Z3214)

Featured Colors: Black, Cranberry, Crystal Blue, Honey, Sapphire, Whisper & White Daisy

CTMH has a FREE  online cutting guide available for you to print out or save, & create the exact creations as the CTMH has created OR use the paper pack however you’d like. J The new WYW kit layouts are BEAUTIFUL, and pretty simple too!  Believe it or not – there is NO STAMPING on the 4 layouts in the guide!!

(You can view these complete recipes, full-color photos, and helpful hints for the additional projects through the entire cycle of the idea book they’re featured in.)

Let’s take a look at each of the layouts you will create with this kit…

Each WYW kit ALSO creates 8-10 cards (Additional purchase of A Fairytale Birthday stamp set required) J OR – maybe you’d like to use the “extra” paper to create more layouts instead…it’s up to you!!

As part of my Hostess Club, I often will “re-vamp” the layouts & cards to suit what I know YOU love!  It’s been fun to have this starting base, cutting the papers as CTMH has designed, but then adding a stamp set, or maybe another few sheets of cardstock to give it a “Krista touch” for these workshops.  

Would you like to see the “Krista version” of the Magical WYW kit? 

I liked how CTMH designed these workshops, but I wanted to use a few more of the Complements (that are included in the kit) PLUS I ADORE the “Carnvial Fun” stamp set (retiring Aug 31,2016#)– and wanted to incorporate that into my creations too….Check it out!

PLUS…I then “scrap lifted” (yes, copied – LOL!) my good friend, Gina Brandstetter, on the card designs she created.  I LOVED her cards when I saw them…they were so similar to the cards I wanted to create using this stamp set!!   

  These card designs are the SAME design & paper pieces that you cut from the Magical WYW kit for the orginal cards (shown above)…but they use the Carnival Fun stamp set instead of the Fairytale Birthday stamp.

I added some liquid glass….can you see the dimension this adds to my stamped images?

So…now that you know about the Workshop Your Way kits, can you see how AMAZING they are?   

If you’d like to check out the rest of our current kits, click HERE to check them out!! 

Also – you’ll want to make SURE to check out the “GOING SOON!” link on my website as well. 

These items are “WHILE SUPPLIES LAST” and are retiring July 31 OR Aug 31, 2016. 

Contact me if you’d like to know when a specific item is retiring…but I will say these items are going fast!!

Thanks for joining me today!!

Blessings to you for a WONDERFUL day!!!

Krista Hershberger J

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