Creating a darling basket full of strawberries seemed only natural when CTMH released it’s special Taste of Summer Paper Packet and Taste of Summer Stamp Set in honor of National Scrapbooking Month. Plus, I found these cute berry baskets at Michaels that would work perfectly for holding the fun 3-dimensional paper strawberries. Cutting the strawberries … Read more You’re Berry Special
This month’s Stamp of the Month from Close To My Heart is going to be a popular one–I can feel it! Or maybe it’s just that I had several people ask me to get the Typed Note Stamp Set as soon as it was available! This stamp set comes with 19 images perfect for … Read more Typed Note Card
Using CTMH’s Stamp of the Month—Choose Happy–I set out to create a St. Patrick’s Day type project to do with my Stamp Club this month and here is the result! There was some initial intimidation with being able to do the paper weaving, but once everyone figured it out and passed the test of having … Read more St. Patrick’s Woven Heart
Don’t you just love the look of the Bokeh Technique? It’s not only pretty to look at, but fun to do! What is the Bokeh Technique? In photography, it’s when the lens blurs the background. For card making, we can mimic that blurry background look to add the illusion of depth. (Need a more in-depth … Read more Bokeh Technique Cards
Short on time for creating a special Valentine’s treat? Use the Diaper Fold Technique and create any size container/pouch to stuff with some yummy chocolates like Hershey Kisses & Hugs! Supplies used: Heartstrings Paper Packet (X7193B) Heartstrings Workshop Stamp Set (G1090) Whisper Ink Pad (Z2172) Pink Shimmer Trim (Z1986) Sanding Kit (Z1294) Cranberry Striped Twill … Read more Valentine’s Diaper Fold Treat Container
When I sat down to create a card for my monthly Stamp Club using this month’s Stamp of the Month—A Happy Hello, this card from CTMH’s Cricut Artfully Sent seemed perfect. Step 1 was to stamp the sentiment “A happy hello” in second generation Desert Sand ink to cover the entire front of the card. … Read more Cricut Artfully Sent: A Happy Hello Card
Here is another project my Stamp Club did this month. The focus of this card was to show how to create custom Shimmer Trim to match any project as well as how to get a great assortment of patterned paper at a phenomenal price. Have you seen CTMH’s My Crush books? These books contain 60 … Read more Birthday Wishes Card
Using CTMH’s January Stamp of the Month—This Moment and the Heartstrings Paper Collection, my Stamp Club made this beautiful Valentine’s Day card. We added in some embossing with the *NEW* Arrow Embossing Folder and finished it off with a Red Enamel Heart. It makes for a wonderful card full of texture and color!
Today’s card is one that my Stamp Club made this month with the current Stamp of the Month—Cutie Pie. The card base is cut from CTMH’s Cricut Artiste Collection. Then we did some paper layering behind the cutout cupcake using the *NEW* Heartstrings Paper Collection as well as the Lagoon Hearts Washi Tape. We finished … Read more Cutie Pie Cricut Artiste Cupcake Card
It’s just one week until Thanksgiving. Are you ready? Here’s a creative idea for place settings using CTMH’s Cricut Art Philosophy Collection. We made this thankful turkey project at this month’s Stamp Club. We started with the Fry Box cut from the Cricut Art Philosophy in Saddle Cardstock. We then added a Saddle Fundamentals Cardstock … Read more Cricut Art Philosophy Thanksgiving Place Setting
This darling little tote cut from CTMH’s Cricut Artiste cartridge was one of the projects my Stamp Club made this month. It uses this month’s Stamp of the Month–It’s the Little Things. It incorporates random stamping, masking as well as using the Quilling Tool to roll the 3-D flower (also cut from the Artiste.)
Each month with my Stamp Club I always create a project using the current Stamp of the Month. Here is the card we created this month using the Home for the Holidays Stamp Set (this set coordinates with our Cricut Art Philosophy Collection.) It was fun showing off the ease and beauty of using 2 separate … Read more Polar Bear Home for the Holidays Card
When I created today’s project share, I wanted to do something a little different with this month’s Stamp of the Month—Family is Forever. I’ve seen lots of projects created using the beautiful tree (which seems like a great choice given it’s beauty and size.) My project (which is one of the ones my Stamp Club … Read more Family is Forever Basket
Close To My Heart has a *NEW* Halloween Stamp Set called Halloween Greetings. When preparing for this month’s Stamp Club, I decided to use this set as it’s so spectacular. I love the different fonts, images and sentiments it contains (plus, it doesn’t hurt that it’s also a Cricut compatible set, too!) I designed the … Read more Frightfully Cute Halloween Card
Today’s card is one of the projects my Stamp Club made this month. It’s a fun pop-up gift card holder card without any fussy cutting. We used the *NEW* Chalk It Up Paper Collection, the *NEW* Great Job Stamp Set, several *NEW* ShinHan Alcohol markers and the *NEW* Slate Diagonal Striped Ribbon. There are lots of … Read more Pop-up Gift Card Holder