Summer Creations Blog Hop

Welcome to the •MAKE•IT•Crafty• Seasonal Blog Hop! 

This month we will be featuring summer paper crafting creations.

If you’ve arrive from Pam Furlong's Blog, you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way around. If you get lost, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants here.

This month we have a number of Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using various CTMH products to help you get in the mood to scrapbook your summer fun. Not that we need a lot of help in that area! I have been ready for summer for months now!

Because February was so cold here I decided that I needed to immerse myself in summer photos to remind me that we actually do get nice weather here! Here are my creations:

The first collection of layouts is an entire week long camping trip we took last summer. I chose the pocket page approach because of the number of photos I wanted to use. Most of the paper used in this project is the Seaside Picture My Life (PML) collection but I also used some Surf's Up and Hopscotch PML cards and a few other non-CTMH cards and embellishments.

the happy birthday picture is actually a flip flap

Products Used:

Seaside Picture My Life

Seaside Compliments

Surf's Up Picture My Life

For Always Picture My Life

Hopscotch Picture My Life - retired

lagoon hearts washi tape

black arrow washi tape

4" x 6" flip flaps

memory protectors

For the next set of layouts I used the National Scrapbooking Month Taste of Summer exclusive paper collection to document a BBQ. I was so happy to see the colours worked so well with these pictures even though they were taken 2 years ago! I added my journalling and a few more embellishments after taking these pictures.

Products Used:

Taste of Summer paper collection

Blossom compliments

This next set of layouts is one of my favourites using the Surf's Up Picture My Life kit.

this is the title page that comes with the full PML kit

this is the back side of the title page

Products Used:

Surf's Up Picture My Life

Surf's Up stickers and embellishments - retired

gold polka dot washi tape

camper crazy stamp set

Thank you so much for following along on our Blog Hop today! I hope you enjoyed all the lovely artwork... Now it’s time to head on over to Natalie Racine's Blog and see her artwork! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great summertime crafting ideas! 

Look for our next Blog Hop in the fall where we will feature products from the new 2015-2016 Annual Inspirations Idea book! But first enjoy your summer!

Surf’s Up

 

Check out all the layouts I completed with the CTMH Surf’s Up paper line. Luckily it is being carried over to the fall/winter 2013 idea book so you still have time to pick up your package. I listed them in the order I made them.

 

I love how this layout turned out with the Project Life pocket pages. This layout is part of my Disney album in which I am primarily using pocket pages.

 

This is the Surf’s Up workshop kit layout. Because I had already made 3 layouts with the paper pack I needed to add a 2 inch strip of paper from another pack to complete the layout exactly.

This is a great summer paper pack that everyone should have in their stash.

Check out the details here.

The Rest of the LOAD

 

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Pink Paislee Indigo Blue paper line, family sticker by Heidi Swapp, CTMH wood veneer hearts, doilies from dollar store, wood veneer good times from Studio Calico

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I am so in love with this Maggie Holmes paper! Embellishments from Pink Paislee, Elle’s Studio, Amy Tangerine, CTMH, Maggie Holmes. The gold letters are from American Crafts.

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For this layout I used the CTMH Stella paper line, dollar store washi tape, CTMH embellishments and Simple Stories SNAP alphabet letters.

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CTMH Dream Pop paper, American Crafts letters, sentiment stickers from Simple Stories Vintage Bliss and Heidi Swapp.

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CTMH Dream Pop paper line, CTMH wood veneer arrows and stars, CTMH Pixie Glitter alphabet, CTMH washi tape and silver shimmer trim and Heidi Swapp letters.

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Another Indigo Bleu paper layout using a Shimelle sketch.

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This layout is going in an album I am making for my parents about a cruise they went on about 4 years ago. I used a Simple Stories travel line.

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Simple Stories Vintage Bliss and Echo Park Dots and Stripes for the yellow background. The little fox embellishment is from Dear Lizzy 5th and Frolic. Letters are American Craft.

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CTMH For Always, silver glitter paper and Disney red glitter letters.

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This layout was created a few years ago with a special CTMH paper pack only available for a short time. It has been sitting in a binder waiting for the perfect pictures to put on it. For those of you who are skeptical that you can’t make a layout without having the pictures first – here you go! I don’t think you would have ever known that I made the layout years before I had these pictures if I didn’t tell you.

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This layout is going in my Disney album. I used the CTMH Surf’s Up paper line for this story about Hilary being transformed into a mermaid. The only product not CTMH is a Theresa Collins circle, American Craft Thickers and the digital stamp cameras.

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Another Disney album layout. I used a 4x6 CTMH flip flap shown open in next picture.

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This layout was pure fun inspired by something we saw late at night at the Calabogie Crop.

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This is a very old layout that I had never finished. I used the CTMH Game ON paper. Back of pocket page is in next picture.

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Another Disney album layout with a CTMH 6x12 flip flap.

I am going to put some information about our resort on the inside of the flip flap.

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This is a page in my childhood album using the Project Life Clementine kit.

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Today I got to play with my brand new Heidi Swapp paper from Michaels.

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This another layout for my Disney album. I used the CTMH Surf’s Up paper line again but this time I used it in Project Life pocket pages. I love how this turned out. I will be adding a flip flap insert to the page so I can include the brochure and some journaling about the day.

That’s it! I can’t believe I did all 31! Thanks for getting this far in the post and looking at my layouts, I really appreciate your interest.