September Stamp of the Month "Grateful for This Life"

 Welcome to the Australasian CTMH stamp of the month blog hop, if you arrived here from Lauren Moore's blog you are in the right place. If you arrived by chance I hope you will get some inspiration from my projects and you can continue the hop by clicking on the link at the end of this post.

The September stamp of the month is Grateful for This life and and it has so may great sentiments that you will be using them time and time again.

I have created two layouts and card with the stamp set, this first layout is of my niece who had a car accident earlier this year. Thankfully she was not injured but her car was a right off, this meant a new car and who doesn't love a new car. She and her husband decided it would be a brand new Mazda! I used pattern 13 from the Volume 3 Make It From Your Heart ideas book as inspiration for this layout. I stamped grateful on the page and used various papers and decorations from my stash.

 This is the first time I have used the stunning Black Ore specialty paper and it is truly beautiful, this photo does not do it justice. It has a shimmery metallic finish, I have used it to mat the pattern paper and also for the die cut thanks. I only had the larger size gold glitter gems and they were too big for the smaller flowers, so I coloured the smaller silver ones with a tri blend marker. Isn't it great that you can mix the stamped sentiments with any of the many word Thin Cuts that CTMH offer

I love that the younger generation fathers share the parenting role much more these days. This is my niece's husband having breakfast with their girls at the kids table. It's obvious that Frank is enjoying himself. I am very happy with how this layout turned out, after adding the floral decorations I came across the older stamp set with the kitchen utensils and great sentiments, I think they bring a bit of whimsy to the page. 

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Happy crafting!