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Scrapbooking Birthday Layout From A Workshops Your Way Cardmaking Kit

As most of you that follow my blog know, I am an avid scrapbooker, I have been for over 20 years. As soon as I saw the new Beautiful Friendship Collection from Close to my Heart, I knew I had to have it. 

There are several pieces to the Collection, to include a Scrapbooking Kit and a Cardmaking Kit.

I may not always purchase every stamp set as a consultant, but I do usually take advantage of the Cardmaking kits, and here is why:

-You get an exclusive stamp set that only comes in that kit
-You get several sheets of paper and cardstock that coordinate really well
-You get really cute embellishments that are not always sold seperately
-Right now, all of our Seasonal Expressions 2 kits, are under $20! That is an awesome deal.

The great thing about them is that you do not always have to make cards! That's right, yesterday I attended an awesome National Scrapbooking Day crop with a local Close to my Heart Director. I did make a few cards, but really spent most of my day creating Scrapbooking layouts. 

I will share one of those in this post, and then the another in a second post. 

I ended up using the some of the same photos in each layout to show you how well they both worked. 

The photos will probably end up staying with this first layout. 

The 12 x 12 cardstock used is Bashful, using the darker shade. 

The patterned paper, Bashful cardstock, and Linen cardstock are all sheets from the Workshops Your Way Festive Birthday Cardmaking Kit. 

I also added black cardstock. 

I used Sapphire ink to stamp the sentiment for the layout title. 

I used a little Charcoal ink to distress and age the Linen cardstock on the layout title. 

The second Linen box that is blank will house my journaling once I mount all of the photos permanently. 

And finally I added a few of the ink dots from the Documented Dots embellishment pack. 

I hope you enjoyed my layout, and stayed tuned for the post of the second one. 

Just Thinking Of You "Impossible Card"

If you haven't had an opportunity to watch one of the many videos on Youtube about the new "fancy fold" card, called the Impossible Card, you are truly missing out. 

There are some really nice videos out there, and if my schedule allows, I will try to post one as well. However for now, I'm simply going to share the one I made for a dear co-worker, that's at a different location, that needs some cheering up. 

As most of you know, our current Seasonal Expressions catalog ends at the end of the month, so I wanted to showcase one of our adorable card kits. 

I used Workshops Your Way Something Magical Cardmaking Kit. 

Nearly everything I needed to create this card was included in the kit. Even down to the cute diagonal ombre paper... that is actually pack of the "zip strip" that comes with the paper in the kit.

My base is made out of 100lb. White Bristol Smooth Paper by Canson. 

However all of the other papers and cardstock are from the kit. 

I love that the kit includes several of my favorite colors; Bashful (Color of the Year), Pansy, and Peacock.

The sentiment "Hello Lovely" came from the stamp set "Something Magical" which is included in the Cardmaking Kit. 

I love that each of our kits include an exclusive stamp set, that you can get only with that kit. 

I stamped the sentiment in Thistle, to help bring out the Pansy purple color in the patterned paper. You can also get the coordinating "Make Waves" paper packet to go along with this Cardmaking kit.

For a final touch, I added two of the little sequins flowers from the "Make Waves Sequins & Gems" pack included in the kit.

I hope you enjoyed my card, and I would love to see what you create from your kit or your Impossible Card design in general. 

Thank you for stopping by and Happy Stamping!