August Paper Trail Blog Hop - Anything Goes!

If you've hopped over from Lynne's blog - welcome to this month's Paper Trail blog hop.  This month we were allowed to use any paper from the new catalog or one of the patterns that are carrying over from the Spring/Summer catalog (Sophia, Lucky, Mayberry and Fanfare).  I have a mix of items to offer up!

The first item is a Journal I made and gave as a gift to each of my first downline at Convention - I used the Fanfare papers with sparkles and Cranberry ribbon to decorate - these little journals are in the CTMH catalog and are super simple to keep on hand to decorate as a quick gift - the insert into the plastic pocket is the same size as a 5x7 card so its easy to simply make a card front, slip it in the pocket and its ready to go!

My first layout uses Fanfare plus the super cute stamp set "Dreams" which we were given as gift at the Awards Dinner during the CTMH 2011 Convention - the set includes a couple of Walt Disney sayings plus images that will inspire many Disney-themed pages for years to come!  Love the gifts CTMH showers on us at Convention each year!  The layout itself is the pattern from the Fanfare Workshop on the Go and I embellished it with the Blue Button Assortment, waxy flax and some scallops created with the Scallop Punch.

I just got a new camera this weekend (after mine took a dunk on Splash Mountain while I was at Disneyland for Convention!) so I'm still playing with it a bit.  I've included shots of each side of the layout so you can hopefully see the details a bit better!


Next, I created a layout using our new Dreamin papers from the Fall/Winter catalog - I'll be featuring these papers at my August classes so check out the calendar to the right to see when you can join me in making some items with this fun paper.  I used the new Antique Copper Brads, Bronze Glitter Gel and the new Unscripted (C1465) stamp set to decorate the pages.  See the little banners on the left side of the layout?  Those are words cut from the new zip strip that has been added to all our B&T papers!  While the CTMH logo information is on one side of the strip, the other is a cute border that you can add to your pages - I love that you can use these and they don't get thrown away!

For my last offering, I have included a card that I made for a Stamp of the Month swap to which I belong.  It uses the cute August Stamp of the Month called Wicked and I used the new Mischief paper.  Again I incorporated the zip strip from the B&T paper into my card - I used the broom image in the set to create the little black "grassy" border at the bottom of the card and the hat image is paper pieced using Sunset ink. I finished the card with the black button brads from the Black Mini Medley Collection.

I hope you've enjoyed my offerings for this month....be sure to stop back often to see more new goodies from the Fall/Winter Close To My Heart Idea Book!  If you go to the "Follow By Email" button on the right side of my blog and provide your e-mail address, you'll receive an e-mail notice whenever I post something new!  Now, hop on over to Vicki's blog and see what she's got cookin'!