Final Card Class for the semester

For the last week of adult education card class, I sort of felt that I had to give them my very best; or as good as the last week's cards, anyway. I scoured the internet and found some really great cards to style mine after.

National Scrapbooking Month Surprise

Dotty For You Paper Pack is $5 Customer Purchase for everyone who makes a $35 purchase from the Spring/Summer Idea Book during the month of May, which is National Scrapbooking Month. To get yours, you can call/email me with your order or you can shop directly from my website. Here is link to the shopping site.

This pack of paper is chock full of beautiful patterns. The colors are delicious and the back of each page is covered with white polka dots and one of the 6 colors highlighted in the pack. Those colors are: Creme Brule, Lagoon, Sorbet, Sunset, Gray Wool, and Sweet Leaf. I decided to use this paper pack to make cards for my Monday night card class. These are the cards I designed for them. Please email me directly for a full product list.

Lucy Workshop on the Go creations by CTMH

I spent my entire Spring Break sick in bed with an upper respiratory infection, so I didn't get much accomplished. By the weekend, I was feeling much better and decided to make the projects in the Lucy Workshop on the Go Kit from Close to My Heart. I love this paper pack. So far, I made 2 - 2 page layouts as suggested in the kit and the My Creations Mini Banner. I also made 2 cards from the scraps. I still have 3 unused sections from the banner, 1 full sheet of Background paper and 1 full sheet of cardstock. The only things I added to this project was a few extra sheets of Colonial White cardstock and some of the accessories.

Here is the Lucy WOTG Layout I made:

This is the 2nd Suggested layout from the WOTG:

Here are some cards and the Banner I made.




Complete Product List
G1034 Lucy WOTG
9034 Magic How to Book (for 2nd layout)
z2106 Blush Exclusive Ink Stamp Pad
z2125 Gray Wool Exclusive Ink Stamp Pad
z2167 Creme Brulee Exclusive Ink Stamp Pad
z2153 Sweet Leaf Exclusive Ink Stamp Pad
z1736 My Creations Mini Banner
z1690 Blush Bitty Buds Assortment (Suggested by CTMH but not used)
z1694 Bouquet Assortment (used Creme Brulee pieces only)
z1710 Paradise Paper Flowers
x5901 Colonial White Cardstock 6 sheet pack (used 2 sheets)
B1402 My Peeps Stamp Set
Z1725 Adhesive Springs

I also used one of my retired stamp sets for the Happy Birthday sentiment and my MS edger punch to make edging on the tall card.

For more detailed photos or to ask any questions, please email me.

Close To My Heart Product Spotlight Blog Hop

Hi! Welcome to the February 2012 Product Spotlight Blog Hop. In this hop, each participant chose one alphabet stamp to spotlight.Luisa has chosen the Pennant stamp set. Didn't she do a marvelous job?

I chose the Polka Dot stamp set. It is a D-sized (D1469) set and retails for $17.95 plus shipping and tax. There are 51 stamps that include all uppercase letters, numbers 0-9, and assorted punctuation. I used this stamp set to stamp the title "MY HERO" on the tag. I love that the spots on the stamps don't take the ink and show up whatever color is underneath.

I also made this quick and easy birthday card using the word Happy in the polka dot stamped in Moonstruck ink and the stamp "birthday" which is from the It's Your Day Retired Stamp of the month from 2009 in Cranberry ink. The image was cut from a spellbinders die and layered on a slightly larger die cut. A layer of the striped side of the B&T from Superhero paper pack was placed along the center of the card front. The focal image was attached to the card itself using 3-D foam tape along the outer edges of the image and glued down the center. This gives the image an open book appearance.

Now, hop on over to Nikka to see what she created using the Trinity stamp set.

"Angry Bird" Card

I copied this from another CTMH consultant, Tracy Sanders. I played around with the designs until it looked right. I didn't have any colored cardstock with me, so I brayered Holiday Red ink onto the large circle for his body, and Goldrush ink for the beak.

I think it is so stinkin cute! I gave him to my Angry Bird addicted friend for her birthday.

More flowers from Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge

I had some fun during a lunch break at a teacher's workshop today. I planned ahead and had some flowers precut and ready to ink and twirl.

Cuts from Just 1 Button

Each button makes 14 different cuts. I selected one key at random and made every cut available. This display board shows many of the possible combinations you can get.
Unlike some of the other cartridges, where a layer may give you one tiny component of a figure, each of these buttons creates something that can be used on its own. That equals 700 different images in any size imaginable!

Art Philosophy spiral flower

This was a spiral rose that I cut at 5" and then used the markers to ink the edges. I rolled it but didn't like the space in the middle, so I did another one at 3" to put in the center..

Adorable Layout using CTMH papers, My Stickease, and the new Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge

I began this layout back in April, but my surgery forced me to put off finishing it. Now that I'm better, I had to get back and finish it.

I decided to create a layout that can accommodate a year's worth of pictures. The art teacher at my school adopted a baby and he is taking pictures of her each month with a stuffed monkey, making the monkey appear to "shrink".

I created the layout using CTMH Sophia Workshop on the Go and the coordinating My Stickease.

I cut out the name Sarah using a different cricut font back in April, but now that CTMH has the Art Philosopy cartridge, I cut the word shrinking using the font layer and made each letter a tenth or two smaller. The large black mat for the name was also cut using Art Philosopy. The words are stamped using the Field Trip Alphabet.





Materials Used
X7131B Sophia Level 2 Paper or G1019 WOTG Kit
X7131C Sophia My Stickease
A1686 Cricut Art Philosophy Bundle
1386 Black Cardstock
1385 White Daisy Cardstock
X5909 Hollyhock Cardstock from the Light Red and Pink Shade Pack
Z2128 Hollyhock Ink to sponge on name
Z2105 Black Ink to sponge over letters cut from black cardstock and stamp remaining words
E1013 Field Trip Alphabet Stamps (Upper and Lower Case in one set)


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