March Blog Hop

Easter Craft, or Traditions




Hi everyone, it's that time again, time for a new blog from my craft room. This months blog theme is Easter Traditions. Welcome. As you are probably aware now, a blog hop, 'hops' from one post to another. By hopping around to everyone blog post you can get a real feel for what others are up to with their papercraft projects.
If you have come from Kerry's blog at Kerrys Creative Collection you are on the right path. Don't worry if you lose your way, a complete list is on Alisons blog at Scissors, paper, heart
I had a heap of fun creating my project for this months blog hop. Easter for me is a chance to celebrate my faith, so what better way to do that than create my very own work of art. The problem with creating works of art is that you need to draw or paint, right?
Well no. Close To My Heart have all the tools a 'non-creative' like me can use to create beautiful, one off, artworks.
Here is my first attempt at incorporating lots of my favourite techniques, and Close To My Heart's products I love to play with, all in one piece.

This artwork sits on my mantle and reminds me of my faith, and my love of craft. It is quite special to me. I also know if I get tired of it, I can create something new to replace it with.
I have used may tools in constructing this. I cut out the letters on the Cricuit machine, in Toprary paper. Firstly, though, I sprayed the whole Colonial White cardstock 12 x 12 base, with Cranberry and then Pear, re inkers, which I diluted and sprayed with Close To My Heart spray pens.
This is a great little technique for altering the colour of paper, if you don't have any paper to match your needs. And spraying ink all over the place is FUN! Its like I'm in preschool again! I just have to clean up the mess myself. But as the product are non toxic, I could do this safely.
After drying the base cardstock with a heat gun, which are crafters version of a power tool, I just adhered various hand-made embellishments onto the paper.

These Flowers are from various Close To My Heart stamp sets I have collected. Don't get me started on how much I love Close To My Heart's stamps.... My well loved and used collection is about to increase, because Close To My Heart is having a fantastic special during March. Buy two stamp sets and get a third completely free. Its great value, so please check out the wonderful stamp sets of offer at my website;  Julie Close To My Heart (Got a bit sidetracked, but Im sooo excited about this months wonderful special, I just had to share it.)
The Grey tag is cut again from the Cricuit machine.
I have stamped a background stamp under the tag to give the illusion of texture. I also used some buttons I found around home.
The whole artwork has turned out very well and its something I made for very little cost. That the thing about collecting Close To My Heart's products, once you buy a few stamps, some inks and some paper, you can create anything you like and use them over and over again.

I have a few stamps with bible verses, which I have got a lot of use out of. This is just another way for me to be able to showcase them.

In this section I used a Picture My Life card under the F letter, to again bring a little bit of dimension, and alter the background slightly. I think it works really well in this case.
Well thats me for this post. I hope you enjoyed reading, and learned something. Stretch your craft supplies, use them to decorate your home, or give as gifts.
If you would like to come and see the fantastic range of products Close To My Heart has, and which continue to inspire me, come on over to my website Shop
Please go onto Wendy's blog  Paper, Ink & Bling and see what take on Easter traditions, Wendy has.
Thanks for coming and happy crafting everyone.