Heather's Paper Playroom

Welcome to our monthly team Brae-er Blog Hop featuring WORKSHOP WONDERS from Close to my Heart. If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you get lost you can find your way by going to Sheri's blog at  http://sherisays-justscrapit.blogspot.ca/2014/11/workshops-blog-hop-great-way-to-learn.html for a full list of participants. If you came from Julie's blog then you are in the right place!  We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!  This month we are featuring different types of Workshops.  I have been offering workshops for some time now and generally focus on the standard Workshop on the ...

Welcome to our monthly team Blog Hop featuring NEW PRODUCTS from Close to my Heart that make us happy to be a part of such a great company. If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you get lost you can find your way by going to Brae's blog at  http://thebrae-er.blogspot.com  for a full list of participants. If you came from  Nicky's blog then you are in the right place!  We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!  I can give you so many reasons why I love CTMH but it would take far to long for me to type all if them. This month I decided to use some of the great products to turn a two dollar find ...

Welcome to our monthly team Blog Hop featuring NEW PRODUCTS from the Annual Inspirations book. If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you get lost you can find your way by going to Brae's blog at http://thebrae-er.blogspot.com for a full list of participants. If you came from Create with Alyson 's blog then you are in the right place!  We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!  Ok, so I've been absent from the hop for a while.  I've been so busy this summer that I've hardly found time to scrap much at all.  I have completed a few projects which hopefully I can share som...

At our last club meeting we started to create this great layout with the Timberline Workshop and the  Timberline Complements .   We copied the layout on page 48 of the current Idea Book.  It was a little difficult to get it looking just right but I think we figured it out.   I wasn't too sure at first what to do to make a coordinating second page so I basically just extended the elements across.  I thought it would be too busy and take away from the left page if I added another Artbooking mat, so I just went with simple paper. I based the second page layout loosely on Layout 01 in the Make It from Your Heart V2 .  I wanted to maximize the quantity of pictures that I could fit.  I really like the way this turned out.   Here are a couple of close ups so you can see the dimension. I'd love to hear what you think.  If you have any questions about how I created these layouts please ask.  I'm a...

My husband's best friend turned 50 this past month.  I knew that I needed to make a little something for him to remember the occasion.  I searched through my stash and found the perfect little mini book.  It's the CTMH My Creations 3-ring binder.  It's discontinued now but there are new ones to choose from. I used some old Lucky paper and stickease and some embellishments from my stash.  I love how well the new  Outdoor Denim Chevron Ribbon matches with this.  It added some nice texture to the cover.  I also used a couple of the new mini stamps.  I used the  Heartfelt Birthday and the  Shooting Star one.  These are great little stamps that are so useful and they only cost $2.95. I decided to stick with the white pages and just add some background stamping.  I love all of my background and texture stamps.  I have quite a collection of them.  This one is the new  Fli...

Welcome to our monthly team Blog Hop featuring MY FAVOURITE THINGS. If you have just hopped onto my blog, you can start here as this is a circular hop, but if you get lost you can find your way by going to Brae's blog at http://thebrae-er.blogspot.com for a full list of participants. If you came from  Alyson's blog then you are in the right place! We hope that you will take the time to leave comments on our posts, as we love to get feedback from our viewers....whether it was something that you really liked or some new technique that was used that you would like to learn how to do....by leaving us comments, we get to hear what you like, and what you want to see. Thank you… now on to our hop!     You may have seen my recent post of the book I created for my parents.  While I was searching their house for some more photos to include in that project I discovered a drawer full of past portraits that they had been given of the g...

My parents recently moved after living in the same house for over 45 years.  I've been encouraging them to move closer to me for about 5 years now.  It's taken a long time and was a very hard thing for my parents but they came around and are very happy to have a new house now.  They moved in this past October and then headed down to Florida for the winter about a month later.  They haven't had much time to enjoy the house and get it set up yet but they are on their way home now and will be back at the end of the week.  I really wanted to make them some kind of keepsake and housewarming gift.  Since I have so much Heidi Swapp product I thought it would be a great opportunity to use lots of it and have some fun with Colour Shine. I used one of the Heidi Swapp wooden albums which I covered in Colour Shine and some CTMH mini pigment ink.  I really do love how nicely the colour shine soaks into the album.  The photos just don't...

I'm so glad that Studio J layouts are on sale this month.  I really needed to get caught up on some of my scrapbook layouts.  I just haven't had a lot of time lately and when I do I've been busy making home décor items.  I don't have a lot of experience in Studio J but it really is super easy to use and a lot of fun.  Below are the layouts that I created. I love that I can use paper packs that I didn't purchase when they were available in the Idea Book.  Studio J is a great chance to create layouts that I might not make with paper because of them being a little complex. It's also great that I can leave parts of the layout blank so that I can add embellishments later.  For the Magic layout I have a vellum square that I'm going to add. I can quickly make two or even three layouts the same for all of our books by just copying them and changing out the focal pictures and text. There are so many new opti...