New Product Highlights and a bit of a Journal Challenge

Jane Davenport's

The Butterfly Effect System

Jane's Display at the American Crafts booth 

at CHA2017 in Phoenix

I happened upon Jane Davenports new line of traveler type notebooks and accessories while perusing Michael's the other day. I've followed Jane Davenport over the years, so this immediately caught my attention. While at CHA2017 I made sure to get by the American Crafts Booth to review all that was available in her line. I see a lot of potential here for items for The Traveler's Box.

I chose the Mermaid Cover  

The TN (Traveler's Notebook) or Butterfly Effect Book as Jane calls it, comes in four varieties: There is a blank (ready for you to design) and three Jane designed options available. They are made out of a canvas like fabric that seems higher in polyester. The book is 5" x 8 11/16" and comes with one insert that is 4" x 8" in size. So these are slightly smaller than a personal sized insert. There are two bands available in the notebook. The insert has no cover and is made out of thicker smooth cardstock. It has the weight of a mixed media paper but not the tooth. It is made out of 4 sheets so there are 8 double sided pages. The pockets are plastic and come in a set of four. The outside is a Jane design and the inside is a matching color and is transparent. Each pocket folder has a pocket on the front and a pocket on the back.

This is one of the pocket designs slid over a personal size insert so you can see the difference in size.

I had recently signed up for the Planner Squad's Journal Challenge and thought this was a great excuse to try out her new line. The first step of the challenge was to pick out what type of journal you'd be using. Whether it would be an art journal, junk journal etc. So moving forward through this challenge my plan is to share with you how I used Jane's Butterfly Effect Book to accomplish my challenge and how the different products in her line hold up to the challenge.

I created a cover for my BE (Butterfly Effect) insert using the Planner Squad Challenge image and a little personalization. 

New Product Hightlight: CTMH's Sugar Rush Creative Collection

Close to my Heart's Creative Collection: Sugar Rush

~Sugar Rush is sweet treats meet fun and playful, hugs & kisses and all things girl.

Featured Colors:

blossom, canary, pomegranate, raspberry, sea glass, tangerine, whisper and white daisy

Like all of our Creative Collections, Sugar Rush comes in a background and texture paper packet, coordinating cardstock pack, complements and additional matching embellishments.

~Sugar Rush Creative Collection~

Paper Pack

12 = 12" x 12" B&T Duos (2 ea of 6 double-sided designs)

Sugar Rush Coordinating Cardstock

12 - 12"x 12" cardstock sheets (3 ea of Pomegranate, Sea Glass, Tangerine and Whisper)

Sugar Rush Complements

Coordinating stickers and chipboard die-cuts, including some with gold foil accents

Sugar Rush Coordinating Embellishments

Dots & Washi

Dots ~ 72 adhesive-backed glitter dots in three different colors; 4mm and 6 mm

Washi ~ 3 rolls of washi tape; 5 yards ea, 1/2" and 1/4" wide

Sugar Rush Workshops Your Way

The Workshop Your Way comes with everything you need to create three, 2-page coordinating scrapbook layouts.

Using your remaining workshop materials and a few extra supplies you can create 9 cards, 3 of each these designs.

Here are images of additional items created using the Sugar Rush Creative Collection.

New Product Hightlight: CTMH's Hello Lovely Creative Collection

Close to my Heart's Creative Collection: hello lovely

~hello lovely with it's soft floral's speaks all things wedding, love and togetherness.

Featured Colors:

colonial white, desert sand, fern, new England ivy, sea glass, sorbet, whisper and white daisy

Like all of our Creative Collections, hello lovely comes in a background and texture paper packet, coordinating cardstock pack, complements and additional matching embellishments.

hello lovely Creative Collection

Paper Pack

hello lovely Coordinating Cardstock

12 - 12"x 12" cardstock sheets (3 ea of Fern, Sea Glass, Sorbet, Whisper)

hello lovely Complements

hello lovely Coordinating Embellishments

hello lovely Workshops Your Way

The Workshop Your Way comes with everything you need to create three, 2-page coordinating scrapbook layouts.

Using your remaining workshop materials and a few extra supplies you can create 9 cards, 3 of each these designs.

Here are images of additional items created using the Hello Lovely Creative Collections.

Head on over to the CTMH store to see all the matching acrylic stamp sets.

CTMH's Seasonal Expressions I 2017 Release

Oh the things inside this little beauty.....

I'm so excited to announce that the first Seasonal Expressions of 2017 is now available and full of beautiful items. Through the next couple of months I will feature some of the items in here on the blog so be on the look out for the New Product Highlights. As well as details about a giveaway where you can win some free NEW product and get your FREE copy of the SE1 2017 in your hot little hands.

More will be reveled soon...

New Product Highlight: CTMH's Oh Deer! Creative Collection

I have to say I'm a sucker for a classy Christmas look and Oh Deer does not disappoint. This creative collection is chocked full of elegant images, colors and embellishments. Lets start out by looking at the collections featured colors...some of my favorite I might add.

Classic Christmas colors with a bit of pop. When I received the elements to play with this collection I was immediately satisfied and that was before even laying my hands on them. I couldn't stop thinking of all the possibilities. Here are some of the different elements in the Oh Deer! Creative Collection.

 and here are some of the stamp sets that go with this collection.

as you can see by the red outline the Season of Magic set can be used in conjunction with the Cricut Flower Market Cartridge.

I started off with this simple easel card and tried adding the Oh Deer! Complement die-cut foiled deer to the top and then went non-CTMH with a bit of floral holly. What you can't see in the image below is that the Cricut Cut sentiment is raised with a piece of 3-D foam tape to give it dimension.

if you like the easel card you can click HERE to download the simple instructions on how to make one for yourself.

Here are the supplies I used for this card.

Oh Deer Easel Card Supplies:
X7214B - Oh Deer! Paper Pack
X7214D - Oh Deer! Coordinating Cardstock
Z3262 Rustic Home Fundamentals
Z2816 Cranberry Ink Pad
Z2805 Black Ink Pad
Z726 Sponge Daubers
Z2060 3-D Thin Foam Tape
Z3168 Cricut Artfully Sent
M1127 Hand Lettered Christmas Holiday
D1631 Curlicue Frames
Z7214C Oh Deer! Complements

Next I dove into the Workshop Your Way (WYW). I'm positing pictures of what I created although I haven't put pictures into them yet as I'm fully caught up with my Christmas scrapbooking and I think I'll use these pages for this years Christmas pictures.

Here is the downloadable directions for the WYW. Once you view it you can see I changed up the Layout 3 pages a bit and used some PML cards to break up the picture spaces.

CTMH Corporate Artwork

Here are the add on option cards. I recreated these but used a different stamp set then shown here.

Instead I used the M1127 Hand Lettered Christmas Holiday stamp set and A1170 Doodled Designs Flair. I also added Z679 Liquid Glass for the holly berries to give them dimension.

Also with the WYW they have an add on PML insert. This is shown above and you can see details when you download the WYW direction sheets.

There is also a Card Workshop that you can do using the Oh Deer! Creative Collection. HERE is the downloadable directions and the samples of these cards are shown below.

Here are more samples using the Oh Deer! Creative Collection.

Once again thank you for being a Nina's Art Spot reader/follower. I hope you have found all this information helpful in making your purchasing decisions as well as your Creative Christmas that much more FUN!