This fun pinwheel card was created with this month’s Stamp of the Month called Pinwheel. It’s a set of 10 images and is perfect for every day celebrations, birthdays and simple summer fun! And best of all, it coordinates with the Cricut Artiste Collection so you can have perfect cuts with perfect stamping–simple “wowie” … Read more Let’s Celebrate Pinwheels Card
The papers in Close To My Heart’s Dream Pop Promotion for National Scrapbooking Month are so delightful and fun. The patterns and *NEW* colors are fresh and on trend, but I also love the *NEW* “pop” to the cardstock. Check out the fun embossed look and feel to those tulips! This project was … Read more Dream Pop Papers are in Bloom!
{PHOTOS HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR PUBLICATION…I apologize for any inconvenience; photos will return after the publication hits the stores} One of the projects we created this month at Stamp Club was this gorgeous Mother’s Day Treat Holder. I had a request to create a project for Mother’s Day using the Cricut Artiste flowers and this … Read more Mother’s Day Treat Bag
I thought today I could show you a project I created with the Perfect Fit-Mom Stamp Set–a Mother’s Day card. And I should point out, that this stamp set has coordinating images that work with the Cricut Artiste Collection (awesome!) Pretty, right? Here are the supplies I used to make it: Perfect Fit-Mom Stamp Set … Read more Happy Mother’s Day Card
New month equals new Stamp of the Month with Close To My Heart. I am loving the *NEW* My Sunshine stamp set for sure! How great are these images?!? Here is the first project I created using this stamp set. I love how the wing is a separate image so you can stamp it in a different … Read more April Stamp of the Month: My Sunshine
Happy 1st Day of Spring! I thought this cheerful card from Lisa S. was a perfect card to share today. It uses the *NEW* adorable Bugs & Hugs Stamp Set along with the emboss resist technique–love this technique as it really makes things POP! Check out the fabulous grass/flowers/mushrooms combo at the base of the … Read more Life’s Sweet Card
Close To My Heart has a fun *NEW* interactive embellishment–perfect for a scrapbook layout. The *NEW* Spinner is a stampable white chipboard piece complete with a removable moving arrow. Plus, if that wasn’t cool enough, there’s also a fabulous coordinating stamp set; the Wheel of Life Stamp Set helps make this new embellishment have even more … Read more Interactive Scrapbook Layout
I love how Close To My Heart has so many fantastic stamp sets. They are all so fabulous! This A Bowwow Stamp Set is so darling… I used this stamp set along with our *NEW* Buzz and Bumble Paper Collection. I colored in the image with our Watercolor Pencils and then softened it using … Read more A Bow Wow Dog Card
I finally finished it…a hair accessory organizer for my daughter. I started this project nearly a year ago…{GASP}!! Pretty pathetic considering this is quite an easy project to do! Sadly, I have many (and I mean many!) projects like this in my craft studio. When a project isn’t pressing, it gets put to the … Read more Hair Accessory Organizer
I’ve only used the Cricut Craft Room a few times–mainly to use digital cartridges I’ve purchased. But after watching this short 5-minute video showing some fun CTMH projects made with the Artiste and Art Philosophy cartridges along with the Cricut Craft Room, I realize I need to utilize it more often! Hopefully you’ll learn a … Read more Close To My Heart and Cricut Craft Room
Mustaches are very trendy right now; so much so that Close To My Heart released a stamp set called Perfect Fit–Dad to coordinate with their mustache cutout found on the Cricut Artiste cartridge. Pretty fun stamp set, right? I played around with the circle frames to create the eyes…just insert some brads! You could … Read more Fun with Mustaches
For Valentine’s Day I wanted to share a fun valentine with you. With mustaches being all the rage these days, this makes for a cute card! “I {mustache} you a question…will you be my valentine?” 🙂 Card uses the Cricut Artiste cartridge to cut out the mustache (at 1″) and then the Perfect Fit-Dad Stamp … Read more A Fun Valentine
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been coordinating and preparing for a baby shower for our Kindergarten teacher. She is expecting her first child…a little baby girl. The first thing to do was to make the classic gift…a Diaper Cake! We were able to get several of the smaller items on her registry … Read more It’s a Girl Baby Shower
Last week I shared my Christmas Countdown using the *NEW* Advent Calendar WOTG Kit, but why not use the same concept and create one for Thanksgiving? This festive thankful countdown uses the My Creations Cubby to celebrate Thanksgiving. Fill the Cricut cut boxes (from the Artiste Collection) with reminders of things you are thankful for, and share … Read more Thankful Countdown
I’ve shared with you that September is National Stamping Month, but did you know that it’s also National Piano Month? I didn’t until recently. Not entirely surprising since I don’t know how to play the piano so I don’t have a close connection with it. I thought this card from Joy was so beautiful and … Read more Sweet Music for National Piano Month