Dotty For You April/May Special

Celebrate National Scrapbooking Month in May by mixing and matching to your heart’s content with our new Dotty for You paper packet! The trendy patterns on the front of the papers coordinate perfectly with the dots on the reverse side, giving you lots of options for crafting colorful layouts, cards, and other projects. Dotty for You includes 24 specially designed, coordinating B&T Duos^® sheets (2 each of 12 patterns) and an artwork idea insert to get your creative juices flowing.

There are three ways to get this exclusive Dotty for You paper packet, valued at $19.95:

• Place an order of $35 or more in products from the Spring/Summer 2012 Idea Book between April 17 and May 31, and add the Dotty for You paper packet for just $5*.
• Host a Gathering with a sales total of $400 or more (excluding tax, shipping/handling, and Operation Smile^® donations) between April 17 and May 31 and receive a Dotty for You paper packet FREE.
• Join Close To My Heart as a new Consultant between April 1 and May 31 and receive a Dotty for You paper packet FREE.

Here is a picture of all the papers that come in this incredible kit.  You can purchase it on my website Westman Scrapbooks.

 

Here is a layout I did using the “Dotty for you” papers. 

When I seen the Dotty For You B&T Duos Special I knew I had to use these Photos of my granddaughter. The colors in the photos just go with the papers.

One thing I did to this layout was to stamp on of the flowers in the Hooray Bouquet Set to form by bottom border. To do this I drew a line in pencil 2 inches up from the bottom of the paper and one inch from each side, then I inked up the stamp and stamped the flower making sure that it was centered on the line. Then when I paced my orange dotty paper I placed it exactly on the line that I drew so only the bottom half of the flower shows.

I cut 3 different sizes of the flower with my coordinating cricut Cartridge, Art Philosophy and stamped the flowers then layered them. I gently bent the petals downwards and popped them up with a foam dot for dimension.

My title was made with the Pennant Alphabet, cut out by hand then placed along the bakers twine string, with foam dots too for dimension.

 

All supplies are from Close To My Heart:

CC1017 Dotty For you Paper Packet

Colors are Sunset, Sweet Leaf, Honey, Smoothie and Colonial White

E1018 Pennant Alphabet Stamp Set

D1491 Hooray Bouquet Stamp Set

D1053 Kid Power Stamp Set

Z2153 Sweet Leaf Ink

Z2137 Olive Ink

Z2191 Sunset Ink

Z2162 Honey Ink

Orange Bakers Twine

Z1338 Sunset Mini Medley Accents

Foam Dots

Glue Dots

 

Thanks for stopping by…

Laurie

Workshop On The Go

This layout is made with the Roxie Workshop on the Go kit. These are really simple to make as all the instructions are provided in a full color brochure. They are also very flexible to make changes to suit your photos or your tastes.

One of the things that I did not really like about the instructions for this layout was the plain circle on the left hand page. It was too plain for me. So out comes my trusty old Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge! I really liked the look of the Circle4 image on page 51 of the booklet. I didn’t have a whole sheet of the paper that the instructions said to use so I went digging in my stash of paper and came across the notebook sheet from the Notebook paper packet. So that is what I used to cut out the Circle4 image at 9 inches.

One of the other great things about using only Close to My Heart paper is that it is so easy to mix and match different kits! You are not searching endlessly for papers to match with just the right shade of beige. A real time saver!

I also got to use the straight pins from the Bling assortment. They do come with little rubber stoppers to place on the back of the pin if you were wondering. I know I was happy to see the little rubber stopper as I bought some other pins from another company a little while ago and the did not come with the protector so I was scared that someone would get poked so I never used them.

All supplies are from Close to My Heart unless otherwise noted:

G1025 Roxie Workshop On The Go Kit

Colors Black, Smoothie, Tulip and Desert Sand

Roxie Workshop Stamp Set

X7102B Notebook Paper Packet

D1491 Hooray Bouquet

C1466 Instant Memories

Z1686 Art Philosophy cricut Cartridge

Z1466 Bling Assortment

Z1104 Clear Sparkles

Black Satin Ribbon (unknown)

 

Thanks for stopping by…

Laurie