S1711 Through The Year CTMH Stamp of the Month Australasian Blog Hop

Welcome to the November, 2017 Stamp of the Month Australasian Blog Hop. This is a circular hop. If you arrived from Tanya's blog, you are in the right place. Simply read through this post and click on the link to the next blog at the end of it. Keep reading and hopping until you find yourself back where you started from. Each blog will showcase a project featuring the Through the Year (S1711) stamp set which is November's Stamp of the Month. S1711 This is a must have stamp set for a few reasons:

There is a VERY cool calendar kit coming next month which uses it and you will kick yourself if you have to pay full price for the stamps in December.
Having the months of the year in a fun font makes it easy to add information to pages to help remember when the photos were taken.
The small illustrations are super cute. You can add them to journaling, titles, borders and cards.

My first project today is a scrapbook layout using Cats & Bats papers. The emerald dots paper is just divine! We were travelling through Carnarvon in Western Australia and came across these gorgeous knitted tree scarves. I love handcrafts being exhibited anywhere but in the street is so fabulous because everyone can enjoy it. Create whimsical decorations for your pages using S1711 Through the Year stamps by Close To My Heart. www.shaunnarichards.ctmh.com.au Once the papers were down I used the small leaf from the stamp set to create the top border. Mount it on a 1" block and align the LH edge of the block with the inch marks on a ruler to make the spacing even. I also used the horizontal line engraved on Close To My Heart Blocks to line up with the top of the spotted zip strip. This helped keep my line of leaves level. (That's a tongue twister of a sentence for sure!) S1711 Through the Year CTMH stamp of the month available Nov 2017 www.shaunnarichards.ctmh.com.au Creating a tab with the month stamped on it is easy. All you need is a scrap of paper and your corner rounder. A flurry of circles sweeps across the layout. These were cut with the Basic Circle Thin cuts and scraps of paper. I used silver foil paper but it looks gold in this photo. Stamp a few icons on the circles and add some colourful dots for fun. S1711 Through the Year CTMH stamp of the month available Nov 2017 www.shaunnarichards.ctmh.com.au My second project is to help you organise your printed photos. Photos for the year I am scrapbooking are stored in a medium organiser (pull out one of the dividers) and I had all sorts of odd shaped scraps as dividers. Now I have a professional looking system to separate the months and then divide the photos in bundles for layouts. S1711 Through the Year CTMH stamp of the month available Nov 2017 www.shaunnarichards.ctmh.com.au The month dividers are cut 6" x 4 1/2" with top two corners rounded. I offset the stamping of the months to make them easier to see once they were in the organiser. The numbers are cut 3" x 4 1/2" and could be used for the days of the month if you had an extremely busy month of photo taking. I use mine to separate groups of photos for layouts. This way I can easily pull out the next bundle and be scrapping quickly. [gallery ids="4887,4891" type="rectangular"] Finally, here's a look at how gorgeous the stamps are on a calendar. I love those little icons that I can match to my events. I'm being optimistic that we will have a couple of days sunshine in Melbourne!!! Can you see yourself trying this design on your next layout? I’d love you to leave a comment for me before you click on the underlined link and move on to Doreen's Blog, Scrapping and More with Doreen, to see what she has designed for you. Happy Scrappin’ Shaunna