May is National Scrapbooking month!

 This month, Close to my Heart has been offering a special paper pack and accompanying stamp set to celebrate National Scrapbooking month.  The theme of the paper pack and stamp set is "Taste of Summer". 

 









 
The Taste of Summer paper pack has stunning, bright papers, with bold fruit patterns on one side and full colours on the other side.  The Taste of Summer stamp set includes fruit and sentiments.  The strawberry is so cute!

Above is one of the pages I have creative using Taste of Summer.  It was inspired by a layout by Brenda Rose as well as Layout Pattern #6 from the "Make it from your heart" Volume 1 book.

My heading was stamped using my favourite letter stamp set Handwritten Print.  One of things I love about this stamp is that there is no need to line up the letters exactly! 






The fruit were stamped using the cute Taste of Summer Stamp Set, and fussy cut using the Non-stick Micro tip Scissors.  To give the page some dimension, I have raised the fruit up using 3D Foam Tape.




Rock 'n' Roll Technique
To get the two colour effect on the lemon/lime stamp, I used the "Rock 'n' Roll" technique.  Initially, the stamp was inked using the Honey stamp pad then I "rolled" the edge of the stamp on the Pear Stamp Pad so that only the very edge of the lemon/lime was inked in the pear green.
This is a great technique that can be used on so many different stamps to create some amazing stamped images.


The Taste of Summer paper and stamp set are only available this month, so get in quick!  To see more of the great products from Close To My Heart, please visit my website,  wendywatson.ctmh.com.au

Thanks for visiting my blog.
See you soon,
Wendy x