At the Close To My Heart convention this past July in Dallas, I received the Scroll Album Workshop On The Go, one of the first home decor WOTG that CTMH introduced in the Fall/Winter 2012 idea book. Well, the Spring/Summer 2013 book is about to be unveiled on Feb. 1st, and I have finally put my scroll album together. I don’t know why I waited so long….it went together very easily and I love how it turned out. The colors of the canvas stickers suited these photos of my son and his family perfectly.
The WOTG kit includes a My Acrylix® Scroll Album Workshop Stamp Set (C-size), the 7½” Wooden Spool with 4 feet of Kraft Paper, 10 buttons (3 Twilight, 3 Chocolate, 4 Sunset), Chocolate Grosgrain Ribbon (1 yard), 2 – 12″ × 6″ Printed Canvas Sticker Sheets and an instructional Brochure.
Some basic tools you may already have, such as inks, stamp blocks, or tools are needed to complete this project.
This project displays perfectly on a fireplace mantle or shelf and is great way to highlight several treasured photos, and it makes a perfect gift. Can you guess who’s getting this one? 
With the introduction of the new Idea Book on February 1st, this item will no longer be available…..so get yours today! Click here to order and join January’s gathering before checking out.
. To achieve the watercolor look on the flowers I used a stamping technique called tissue stamping. Basically, you scrunch up a tissue and use it to randomly apply different colored inks to the stamp. For the stems, I selectively inked just the stems and leaves then lightly stamped off some of the ink on a scratch paper so that the color would be softer and more fitting with the watercolor look of the flowers. I stamped the sentiment with chocolate ink, then stamped it again with versamark ink and heat embossed with clear detail embossing powder. The beauty of CTMH’s clear acrylic stamps and blocks…you can see through them to perfectly line up where you want to stamp your image!
. The shapes were all cut using the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge, and the flowers were stamped with coordinating stamps in the Hooray Bouquet set (C1491). The sentiment is from Thoughtful Tidings (S1202), the February stamp of the month. You’re getting a little sneak peek today! The flower centers are embellished with a Canvas Badge Button (Z1397) and Mocha Opaques Gems (Z1333). The ink colors that I chose are Crème Brulee (Z2167), Olive (Z2137), Cocoa (Z2114)and Chocolate (Z2111). I made the card base from Colonial White cardstock and matted with Cocoa cardstock. I inked the edges of some of the pieces and added Cocoa grosgrain ribbon (Z1100) and some faux stitching with a white gel pen. I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. Now to write a note in it and send it off to a special recipient.