Love 4th of July

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Artbooking, Bo Bunny, Copic, Cricut, Spectrum Noir, Sunsational Stamps, Wink of Stella

Howdy-do!  Today I decided to do a scrapbook layout.  I have been so busy making cards lately that I haven’t had much time for my first passion…scrapbooking.

I recently came across some pictures of our family at a local fireworks festival.  A polo field near our home has a fireworks display every year and we prefer to park at the church across the street from the field than park in the polo field…it can be quite messy.

Fireworks Couple Layout

First I printed out the Fireworks Couple digi image from Sunsational Stamps and colored it with my Copic markers.  I used a Wink of Stella gold and a Spectrum Noir blue shimmer pens for the fireworks, for that extra something, something!

Fireworks Couple Layout Close-up

I cut the layout mats using my Artbooking Cricut cartridge.  I cut extra stars, numbers, letters and little rockets using the same cartridge.  The foundation is Bazzill paper and the center anchoring strip is Bo Bunny.  This is going to end up being a two page layout, so I will post the other page when I have it completed.

Fireworks Couple Digi Image

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It’s V Day!

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Close To My Heart, Copic, Cricut, CTMH, Distress Inks, Henry the Mouse, Honey Bee Stamps, Stampendous, Whiff of Joy

Howdy procrastinators!  I have one final Valentine card post for this year.

Henry the Mouse by Whiff of Joy Valentine Card

This card has a lot of steps but it goes together pretty quickly.  First I stamped Henry and masked him off so I could make the background.  Second I made a heart stencil by cutting a heart from one of my Cricut cartridges and putting the open part of the heart over Henry and tipped it a bit for interest.  Then I stamped A-Muse scripty background stamp in Close To My Heart’s Whisper ink.  Leaving both the mouse mask and the heart stencil in place, I inked the heart with Tattered Rose Distress Ink.

Mask and Stencil Step

Once I removed the mask and stencil, Henry was ready to color.  I used various grey Copic markers, pink for the ears, pads on his little feet and nose, and of course red for the heart he is hugging.  🙂

Ready to color Henry

I stamped LOVE from that Stampendous stamp set I used earlier this week, stamped the inside of this card with Honey Bee stamps Beautiful Life set, added the colored panel to some Echo Park paper and voila!

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A Rad Grad Card

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Art Philosophy, Chalk It Up, Close To My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Teacher Appreciation

Greetings, I have been busy making lots and lots of cards.  I made a few more of the pop-up box cards.  To see the tutorial on how to make one of these great cards, click the link here:  https://papercanvascreations.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/the-abcs-of-a-box-card/

For today’s Rad Grad card I used Close To My Heart Chalk It Up paper pack, compliments and embellishments.  Here are pictures of my pop-up grad card.

Pop-up graduation card

A close-up peek inside

The back of card is where you write your greeting

Card – closed view. Used CTMH Chalk It Up paper pack and accessories.

The additional products that I used to pull this card together was the CTMH Teacher Appreciation stamp set, white enamel stars and the CTMH Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge.  I just LOVE this paper!

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Tea For Two!

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Alcohol Ink, Art Philosophy, Close To My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Elizabeth Craft Designs, ShinHan, Sweet Tooth Boxes

Cheerio!  Today’s post is centered around a birthday gift of relaxation.  My Bestie from ‘way back when’ had a birthday recently and she happens to be a tea fanatic.  She also is a bit frazzled with work.  So her gift was a no-brainer!  Tea, a relaxing candle & card.  🙂

Ingredients to make a Tea House.

The Tea House was so fun to make.  I used Cricut Sweet Tooth Boxes cartridge, which cuts all sorts of fun boxes to hold treats and surprises.  I cut the small sweet shop box and filled it with a variety of tea bags.

Finished Sweet Box – Tea House

Cut two of these to form a box

Score at the tic marks that the Cricut makes in the cutouts. Attach only at one side, to make decorating easier.

Add window frames, grass, plants and door. Be sure to add brad for the door knob before adhering to the base.

(Inside of Tea House) Use strong adhesive, such as Score Tape to assemble the box.

Details of the Tea House

Wouldn’t a nice candle be just the right touch??  I thought so too 🙂

Have a happy day.

The top has a cutout heart, highlighted with a twine outline.  Alas, the picture was too blurry to post.

Finally I need to add a card so I can tell her how much her friendship means to me.

Elizabeth Craft Design outline stickers.

Alcohol markers colored on micro fine glitter paper

Finished Teapot prior to fussy cutting it out.

I used ShinHan alcohol markers to color white ribbon in an ombre effect.

I cut “labels” out using my Cricut Art Philosophy, sizing one a quarter inch larger. Adhere ribbon to bottom label, teapot to top label and attach with pop dots.

Embossed base of card.

Finished card

Interior of card stamped with CTMH You Mean The World To Me stamp set.

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How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count The…Cards

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Artbooking, Close To My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, eBosser, Stamp of the Month

Valentine greetings friends, I am still cranking out Valentine cards, so with no further ado, here are a few more designs.

Hexagons cut using Cricut Artbooking cartridge.

I love hexagons!  So, of course I own the Hexagon stamp sets…(yes, plural).  The stamp set I used is called Happy Hexagons, which is compatible with the CTMH Artbooking Cricut cartridge.

Hexagon Card

I used CTMH Pigment inks; Hollyhock, Cranberry and Cotton Candy as well as Memento Tuxedo Black ink for the arrows and sentiments.  I also added some pizzaz with the Pink Glitter Gems.  I love the glitter gems and have them in pretty much every color.  These sets are great because they contain several shades of the color family and they vary in size.

Lace Embossed with bling

Two types of embossed hearts

On the card above I embellished this one with two different types of embossed hearts.  The solid red one was run through my eBosser with the Polka Dot embossing folder.  I stamped the heart with the cranberry pigment ink, added clear embossing powder and heat set it.  The sentiment came from the January Stamp of the Month ‘This Moment‘.  The top strip of paper is from the Heartstrings paper collection.

Last, but not least is the card I made using the new stamp set Amour which is available in the new Seasonal Expressions 1 catalog.  I love anything French, so I went “Ooh-la-la’ over this set.

Je T’Adore Card

Ingredients for the Amour card

I also used the Forever in My Heart stamp set for the inside sentiment.  I embossed the silhouette of the couple and the Je T’Adore sentiment.  The script background was stamped with slate dye ink on light grey card stock.  All the shapes where cut using the Artbooking cartridge.

Amour Stamp Set

Amour Stamp Set

Forever in My Heart stamp set

Forever in My Heart stamp set

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My Funny Valentine

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Artbooking, Close To My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, eBosser, Seasonal Expressions

Howdy do and hugs to you!  I don’t know about you, but I am in the Valentine spirit.  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Valentine’s Day.  If you could see the gazillion stamps and patterned papers themed around hearts, kisses and love, you would know that I am a fan.  Today I will share a few of the many Valentines I have made recently.

CTMH Heartstrings and the “You’ve Got a Friend” stamp set

CTMH “Forever in My Heart” stamp set and the border was the zip strip off the top of one of the patterned papers. I use EVERYTHING.

I just love the Heartstrings patterned paper pack that is in the Close To My Heart Seasonal Expressions I catalog.  This paper packet is only available until the end of March 2015.  I really like that they incorporated their Lagoon color to give this line a unique feel.   I made several different designs with this paper.

The next card up to bat was inspired by Joy with Obsessed With Scrapbooking, she is so helpful when it comes to letting us know what size to cut designs on the Cricut machine.  That can be a lot of trial and error…with me, more error than not.  HA!

CTMH Heartstrings patterned paper and the Cricut Artbooking cartridge – 

I used the CTMH “Forever in My Heart” stamp set.

I do not waste a thing…the little blue hearts are the cut outs from the “LOVE” frame…I decided you can never have too many hearts on Valentine’s Day, so I added the cut-out to the inside, by the top greeting.  I used Lagoon ink for the greetings inside.  I wanted to give the long heart panel some additional interest so I ran it through my eBosser using the CTMH Arrows embossing folder.

Stop back soon, we have a couple more posts coming up featuring our Valentines.  Until then, happy scrapping!  Please click on the left panel to follow our blog and like us on Facebook so you don’t miss a thing.  XOXO

 

Mini Hop – BIG Ideas!

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Artfully Sent, Close To My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Stamp of the Month

Howdy Hop-a-Long!  Today we are participating in a mini blog hop.  I partnered up with a fellow Close To My Heart Consultant to show you a couple of ideas using the Close To My Heart Cricut cartridge Artfully Sent.  This cartridge is jam-packed full of fabulously easy cards you can make in a flash!  There are 700 images on this cartridge, including pop-up cards, fold-out cards, icons, sentiments, pocket cards, sleeves, scenes, envelopes and an adorable font.  The options are nearly endless.  My card was a combination of two different pop-up cards.

 

Two Foxes Icon – I just love these little guys!

Two Foxes on the Nature background (Full inside view)

Front of card using the Fall Harvest stamp set and the You’ve Got A Friend In Me Stamp of the Month stamp set.

I also used this cartridge to decorate the inside of some Halloween cards I made.  Here is the inside of those cards.

Halloween Icons used inside a card

So as you can see these are very versatile!  Thank you so much for hopping over, now please hop on over to Kim’s blog if you haven’t already been there yet today.  You can find her here at:

http://www.kimbpapercrafts.blogspot.com

Happy Scrappy Hopping!

Pick a Card, Any Card

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Art Philosophy, Close To My Heart, Cricut

Greeting to all in Blogville.  I have had to make so many cards lately for so many different occasions, and my stash was depleted, so I had to go back to the drawing board.  I wanted to try something new and that is when I remembered about my  Cricut Close To My Heart Art Philosophy cartridge, talk about versatile!  I have several of the coordinating stamp sets too, so making layouts and cards is a snap.  This cartridge has some fabulous cut outs that specifically make cards and with all the images and stamps available the options are nearly endless.  Take a peek at the photo below for some great card making ideas, and add your spin on them to make them truly your own.  Happy Scrapping!!!

Cricut Art Philosophy Cartridge and Coordinating Stamps Make Card Making A Snap!