Close To My Heart Life’s a Hoot – Australasian Blog Hop

A Happy Hello and welcome aboard our Life’s A Hoot Australasian Close to My Heart Blog Hop.

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My eyes went directly to the circle elements, both on one of the paper designs in this collection & within the Life’s a Hoot—Cardmaking Stamp Set. A few years back we had an Album Retreat in Australia & one of the layouts we created had a Circle in the middle & a “wreath” of circles around it & I thought I would scraplift that layout using this collection.

I focused more on the blue tones of the collection than the purple tones, as this is going into a little boy’s album, he is too young to have a favourite colour yet, but this does show how you can focus on some of the other colours in a collection to change the feel of it.

I first gutted my Sapphire cardstock, as I wanted to create some embellishments out of the colour & this just saved cardstock. I added the lighter side of Glacier over that & used my circut to cut out a circle in the middle of white daisy which I made slightly smaller than the Glacier, so there was a border of that.

I die cut out a bunch of circles in different sizes from the various patterns of the Life’s a Hoot paper collection, and worked out what sizes I needed for some of the stamps in the Life’s a Hoot—Cardmaking Stamp Set. I stamped a bunch in Glacier, Lagoon, Sapphire, Wisteria & worked out later which ones I would use with the papers.

I created a shaker & used Blue Belle Loose Sequins which worked nicely with the colours I was using in the layout even though I have no Blue Belle in the papers or cardstock. Originally this was going to be in Sapphire, but I changed my mind as I did not want the shaker to draw the eye, so used the lighter side of Glacier.

I stamped the crosses from the Background Elements Stamp Set in Pewter Exclusive Inks™ & used an older retired Love Thin cut die. I added some pennant banners, one I stamped with the Life’s a Hoot—Cardmaking Stamp Set to add colour & texture.

I used the paint swish from Background Elements Stamp Set in Glacier Exclusive Inks™ & added my title that I cut out from Cricut & used an older stamp set around the title to fill it in.

I am thinking that I will add a smaller photo of a QR code that has a photo of the one month old linking to a video of a private Facebook Post – I just need to print out first, I am so bad as sometimes I don’t know what I will make to know what size I want first. I often create based on a photo & then work out what size photo I should make the design – it is just how I work.

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Enjoy the hop & thanks so much for taking the time to check out these ideas with this month’s feature.

Til next time, see you soon & keep creating
Maz