Welcome to the Stamp of the Month Australasian Blog Hop.  This is a circular hop.  If you arrived from Maz’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 You Warm My Heart (S2011E) stamp set which is November’s Stamp of the Month from Close To My Heart.

So many creative options

• Will you have your pie with or without cream?
• Marshmallows floating on your hot chocolate or will it be mulled wine?
• Traditional red or a rainbow of candy cane colours?
• Cups stamped tone on tone or in contrasting colours?
• Christmas, catch up with the girls or baking theme?

Traditional Christmas scrapbook layout

I’ve gone with traditional colours, hot chocolate and red candy canes.  I use the Love of Colour Vol 2 to find the shades of red and greens that work best together.  This 4 colour combo of Scarlet, Evergreen, Fern and Mink are easy on the eye when backed by linen base pages.

I will add a title once I know which of this year’s Christmas photos will go on this page.

Stitched Square Thin cuts make designing easy

It was super quick to make the blocked layout.  Two colours cut at once through my CTMH die-cutting machine with the two smallest squares in the set.  I love that these dies give you a frame and a solid square from one cut.

Then it was a simple matter of mix and matching the 4 colours and making sure the squares were straight on the page.

Step your photos

Whilst the colour blocks are squares there is no reason some of your photos can’t be rectangles.  You may need to creatively crop the photo that spans two pages, just keep the focal image on the LH page.

Order your Stamp of the Month

You Warm My Heart (S2011E) is only available during November, 2020.  If you are Australian, be sure to order the set with E on the end of it’s code so your get Cosy instead of Cozy.

Full retail price is $34 but VIP’s can have this gorgeous set FREE when accompanied by an $80 order. If you are not a VIP, you will pay $9 with a qualifying order.  But seriously…check out our VIP program first!  Place your order with your Close To My Heart Consultant.

Thanks for visiting. I’d love you to give this post a thumbs up, leave a comment or share the post with a crafty friend before you click on the underlined link and move on to Doris’s Blog ,  Creative Inspirations, to see the lovely project she has designed for you.

A list of the products used on this project follows.  All items are available to purchase from your Close To My Heart Consultant. If you don’t have a consultant, this link will take you to my website.

Happy Scrappin’

Shaunna

CTMH products used in the Project

S2011 You Warm My Heart Stamp Set

9047 Love of Colour Volume 2

Z4259 Stitched Square Thin Cuts (set of 3)

X6049 Scarlet Cardstock

X6030 Evergreen Cardstock

X6053 Fern Cardstock

X5947 Mink Cardstock

5946 Linen Cardstock

Z2825 Mink Exclusive Ink Pad

Z2805 Black Exclusive Ink Pad

Z6526 Scarlett Exclusive Ink Pad