9 days to go

It is now 9 days to go until Craft Alive Logan. Everything kicks off at 9am on November 29!

A few things to remember before you arrive at the show...
1) Get your tickets online and save!
2) We take cash plus Visa, MasterCard, Amex, eftpos*, apple pay, and googlepay with a 2% processing fee. *Eftpos is considered a card payment by our provider.
3) Eftpos cards must have a chip to be accepted. No chip, no go.
4) Cash out is available from the Craft Alive ticket desk for a fee.
5) Bring your reusable shopping bags, a good refillable water bottle, and wear your sturdy comfy shoes.

What a delicious rainbow of cardstock! We have a huge selection of single sheets of cardstocks, glitter papers, vellums, foil papers, and patterned papers at great prices. We also have full packs of cardstocks and patterned papers plus an array of gorgeous Close to my Heart products ready for you to take home and create something beautiful.

We've set up, laid out, photographed, and packed up into boxes ready for Craft Alive in 9 days time. We'll be there bright and early ready to assist you with all your crafting shopping needs.

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Documented CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

If you arrived here from Shaunna's Passionate About Pages, welcome.

If you landed here by chance, join in and hop around! This hop features our stunning Documented collection. I've never seen a paper suite like it.

This is my absolute favorite pack from Seasonal Expressions 2 and I am so sad to see it go at the end of the month!

Featured colors: Almond, Bashful, Blossom, Charcoal, Eggplant, Heather, Linen, New England Ivy, Nutmeg, Peacock, Saffron

I created this layout for my last Beginners Scrapbooking workshop from Seasonal Expressions 2. It uses some gold glitter to emphasize the yellow flowers in the paper.

I added the shimmer brush painted flowers after I took the full photo. It needed some oomph!

I'm really excited about how these cards came together. I'm planning out my Christmas Card workshops and they will be my featured designs.

The flowers reminded me of stars so I grabbed my star stamps and went to town. A little of this, a little of that, poof!

To make these projects, I used my basic toolkit plus these materials. Click through to purchase or contact your consultant. Basic Toolkit: (Versamat, Trimmer, Adhesive Runner, Non-stick Micro-tip Scissors, and Stamping Starter Kit), Documented Paper Packet and Coordinating Cardstock, Black Cardstock, White Cards & Envelopes Value Pack, Basic Stars and It's Your Day Thin Cuts, Documented Cardmaking Stamp + Thin Cuts, Gold Glitter Paper, Eggplant Canary Sea Glass and Peacock Exclusive Inks, Make It from Your Heart™ Volume 3, retired Christmas and Stamped with Love stampsets.

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For the love of crafting

If you arrived here from Doris Taylor's Creative Inspirations, welcome. Join in and hop around!

This hop features our stamp of the month, S1808 For the Love of Crafting. The mix of cheeky sentiments and images is one that makes me giggle.

At our recent consultant training and networking day, five of the six ladies at my lunch table won a prize in our lucky dip raffle. I won a roll of shimmer trim! By the end of the day, I had glitter everywhere aftter cutting a sheet of glitter paper for some workshop kits. I craft so hard I sweat glitter. ;) I had to use this layout for the day's photos.

It was a good day. My project debut went well, Vanessa rejoined my team, and 5 of the 6 of us at my lunch table won a prize. I got shimmer trim!

It was a warmer than normal winter day (to me). I was very glittery!

My shapes weren't dry enough to thin cut and attach to my page. The big flowers will be on the RH page peacock striped pieces. I have shimmer up to my elbows now.

Tone on tone stamping with Bashful ink made this strip pop.

To make these projects, I used my basic toolkit plus these materials. Click through to purchase or contact your consultant. Basic Toolkit: (Versamat, Trimmer, Ruler, Adhesive Runner), Documented Paper Packet and Coordinating Cardstock, S1808 For the Love of Crafting, Documented Cardmaking Stamp + Thin Cuts, Gold Glitter Paper, Shimmer Brush—Clear, Shimmer Brush—Bashful, Shimmer Brush—Gold, Bashful Canary New England Ivy Peacock and Eggplant Exclusive Inks, Thin 3-D Foam Dots, Make It from Your Heart™ Volume 3, My Legacy™ D-ring Album and Memory Protectors™ Top Load Value Pack.

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Central Park CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

If you arrived here from Vandra’s Virtual CTMH Craftroom, welcome. Join in and hop around!

This hop features our Central Park collection. The vibrant palette of Bashful, Glacier, Lemon, Mink, Pacifica, Poppy, White Daisy, Willow is perfectly fresh and playful without being too bright.

I set myself the challenge of using only the Paper Packet + Coordinating Cardstock. I originally made these pages with no idea what photos I would use. (Does that happen to you too? Happens here all the time.)

I volunteered for Le Festival, Brisbane's French Festival last weekend. My red shirt just happens to perfectly go with this dotty paper!

One of the fun features of the festival was an instagram booth. Take any picture during the festival, upload it to instagram using the designated hashtags, and within minutes your photo popped out of the onsite printer. I may have printed a few of them! 😇

I was really not happy with this yellow paper and I couldn't see what I'd use it for. (Yellow is not my color.) Late one night I had a sudden brain burp. "Use it as your page bases!" Duh, of course! I could use it as my bases and plop other designs on top. So that is exactly what I did. Problem solved! 😉

To make these projects, I used my basic toolkit plus these materials. Click through to purchase or contact your consultant. Basic Toolkit: (Versamat, Trimmer, Ruler, Adhesive Runner), Central Park Paper Packet and Coordinating Cardstock, Make It from Your Heart™ Volume 3, My Legacy™ D-ring Album and Memory Protectors™ Top Load Value Pack.

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Fresh Air CTMH Australasian Blog Hop

If you arrived here from Vandra’s Virtual CTMH Craftroom, welcome. Join in and hop around!

This hop features our Fresh Air collection. The soft yet rugged palette of Glacier, Juniper, Linen, New England Ivy, Nutmeg, Toffee is perfect for many occasions and projects. When this collection was announced at our 2018 Convention, the room gasped. I couldn't wait to get my hands on it!

I set myself the challenge of using only the Paper Packet + Coordinating Cardstock + Complements. I created this set of layouts for my Scrap Your Stash workshops. They all come from Make It From Your Heart volume 3!

Believe it or not, these pages are being used for my Mother's Day photos. We had a family picnic lunch of fish & chips along the water at Wynnum. The textures and colors of Fresh Air are a perfect complement!

To make these projects, I used my basic toolkit plus these materials. Click through to purchase or contact your consultant. Basic Toolkit: (Versamat, Trimmer, Ruler, Adhesive Runner, Nonstick Microtip Scissors), Fresh Air Paper Packet Coordinating Cardstock and Complements, Make It from Your Heart™ Volume 3, My Legacy™ D-ring Album and Memory Protectors™ Top Load Value Pack.

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Beautiful Friendship Blog Hop

If you arrived here from Megan's Crop Craft Create, welcome. Join in and hop around!

This hop features our Beautiful Friendship collection. The combination of pinks and yellow florals mixed with navy and gray teapots makes for a lovely versatile palette.

There's papers, stickers, stampsets, thin cut dies, embellishments, and kits to choose from in this collection. I used the paper packet, cardstock, and the cardmaking thin cuts bundle to create this card and layout.

My mother in law's mother's day card. :)

I gifted my mother in law and sister in law a treat and cuppa for mother's day. When we go have our excursion, this is the layout I'm using to document it. I maaaaaaaaaay have gone a bit overboard with the dovetailed banners.

Tea for Three layout. The toffee paper helped lift the colors and makes the yellow pop.

Easy journaling prompts on a PML card. I used the SOTM for these.

Stamped, die cut, and layered banners with a bit of bling.

More banners!

Yep, more banners. Couldn't help myself!

To make these projects, I used my basic toolkit plus these materials. Click through to purchase or contact your consultant. Basic Toolkit: (Versamat, Trimmer, Ruler, Adhesive Runner, Stamping Starter Kit, Blocks, Nonstick Microtip Scissors), Beautiful Friendship Paper Packet Coordinating Cardstock and Stamp + Thin Cuts, Classic Summer Bash and Angel Policy Stampsets, Basic Banners and Block Alphabet Thin Cuts, Sparkles, Gold Glitter Gems, Bashful Shimmer Brush, Heather Pacifica Bashful and Toffee Exclusive Inks, Make It from Your Heart™ Volume 3 and Journaling Pen.

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Postcard Perfect - National Scrapbook Day Blog Hop

If you arrived here from Megan's Crop Craft Create, welcome. Join in and hop around!

This hop features our beautiful Postcard Perfect collection. The bright florals and tropical prints are simply gorgeous and very easy to craft with. Simply seeing this packet on my studio table makes me smile. :)

Paper Packet $23

Stampset $27

I used the gift card box thin cuts along with Postcard Perfect paper packet and Stampset to create these gift boxes. The boxes are made from the ombre and floral papers. The stamped images are all fussy cut and stuck down then embellished with some blingy bits. Inside is a message and a gift for the recipients.

Box 1

Box 1 - inside

Can't wait to give these to some very special people!

Box 1 and 2

Box 1 closed and Box 2 open

I also created a series of layouts using the paper packet and cardstock. This is one of the 10 I created just for National Scrapbooking Month.

Layout #6 of 10

To make these projects, I used my basic toolkit plus these materials. Click through to purchase or contact your consultant. Basic Toolkit: (Versamat, Trimmer, Ruler, Adhesive Runner, Stamping Starter Kit, Blocks, Nonstick Microtip Scissors), Postcard Perfect Paper Packet Coordinating Cardstock and Stampset, Angel Policy Stampset, Gift Card Box Thin Cuts, Sparkles, Gold Glitter Gems, Bashful Blossom Pomegranate Canary Tangerine Fern Pacifica and Toffee Exclusive Inks, Make It from Your Heart™ Volume 3 and Journaling Pen.

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