Heather's Paper Playroom

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...

I've had this frame for quite some time now.  I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it though.  The kit that comes with it is nice but it just wasn't what I was looking for.  Instead I wanted to create something to hang in my new mud room.  The room isn't finished yet but I really wanted to use one of my new family portraits and see how it would look.  I was inspired by a post that I saw on another consultants blog.  Here is the link. http://4heartsscrapbooking.blogspot.ca/2013/08/close-to-my-heart-new-product-blog-hop.html   I used a variety of CTMH products on this frame.  I used the mini-medley wooden collection clothespins to attach the entire piece to the frame.  I thought this would work nice so that I can change it in the future if I decide to.  Other items are the mini-medley Rosewood collection, Reel Life stamp set, Ivy Lane paper and the Timberline paper for the background page. ...

Welcome to our monthly team Blog Hop featuring projects that make you think of SUNSHINE & WARM BREEZES.  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 Sheri Ballantyne'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'm very excited to share my first My Crush Book with all of you.  This is a new type of scrapbooking for me and I'm not very good with just sticking things down without a pa...

I'm still trying to play catch up with my blog posts.  It got a little hectic over the holidays and I just couldn't seem to find time to take pictures and sit at the computer to post anything.  I certainly have been crafting but I probably did more organizing than crafting.  I always find that I want to reorganize my house at the holidays.  Do you get into these moods too?  Sometimes I think I'm the only one that gets so obsessed with organizing.  I think a big reason that I do this around Christmas is to make room for all the new toys my boys will get.  This year I went quite a bit beyond that though.  I completely reorganized my laundry/storage room which was quite an undertaking, but it is sooooo much better now.  I can finally get to things without having to move everything out of the way first and fighting to pull things out of corners.  I consolidated all of my pantry items to the storage room which hopefully will stop...