Stamptacular Blog Hop

Welcome to our Stamptacular Blog Hop!  We will be featuring all of thew wonderful stamps on sale this month- some of our favourites are back in stock!  

If you have come here from Brenda'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 all around.  If you get lost along the way, you’ll find the complete list of participating consultants on Melinda’s Blog. 

This month we have 20 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using this month's SOTM and other great CTMH products on their blogs. This is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

I had some photos I needed to scrapbook from our family holiday, and in particular from our trip to the Kelly Tarlton's Aquarium in Auckland, New Zealand. I had the Summer Vibes Cardmaking stamp set, which is on sale in our Stamptacular sale, and so I thought this would be perfect to use for some motivation to get those photos scrapped!

Here is the full look at my double page layout- but without a special addition that you will see at the end of my blog post.

Let's have a closer look at the left hand side with the focal circle point. This circle was cut from the Daisy Meadows Paper Packet- a spring and Easter themed but I have managed to make it sea themed!

I used the bubble stamp to create a border along the outer edges of each page using Glacier ink. I also used the stamp set to create the Just Keep Swimming Banner, and matted a journal card onto a bubble PML card from Summer Vibes. 

I then stamped lots of the cute little fishies in Peacock (first and second generation) and Glacier ink. I added a cute bubble border from the Summer Vibes Sticker Sheet to keep the theme going, and you can also spot some grey die cut shapes from the Seas The Day Diecuts.

Here is the right hand side of my layout- with a slightly smaller piece of the circle paterned paper background and some more of the fishes and bubbles from the Summer Vibes Cardmaking stamp set. 

Here are more of the cute die-cuts, and I really love the Together title under the photo of my two boys! I accented the die-cuts with White Pearls, as they always remind me of the sea.

Once I had done my two page layout, I realised I had all of the green screen souvenir photos from the day too! I simply added some more of the Summer Vibes PML Cards and the photos into the 6x12 Flip Flaps Memory Protectors. I love these fold outs for adding additional photos to a layout!

The PML card already had a pattern on it, but I stamped all over that with the bubbles stamp in Peacock ink, and added some more die-cuts and a strip of the Daisy Meadows paper to keep everything cohesive. 

Here is the finished layout, complete with the extra Flip Flap! 

Now "Hop" on over to Darlys' Blog to see her work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get some great crafting ideas and other fun ideas! Contact your CTMH Consultant (or click here) to see how you can get this and all the other Stamptacular stamp set at a discount!