Whimsy Fundamentals Cards

One of the things I love about my CTMH sisters is their willingness to share. Kelly English-Triggs was a presenter at our convention this year, and she shared a card workshop featuring the new Whimsy and Adventure Fundamentals paper collections. I put together three of the cards using Whimsy papers. Of course, I inked all of my paper edges and decorated the inside of my cards as well.

The first card uses a drapery fold as a backdrop for flowers and a sentiment. I used the Shimmer Brush on the flowers, which were cut using the Cricut Artbooking cartridge and layered.

The second card uses three colors (Crystal Blue, Sweet Leaf, and Pixie) of the same pattern. The tag for the sentiment is popped up with 3-D foam tape.

The final card uses a very subtle combination of the Glacier stripe and Glacier watercolor print papers with Whiper cardstock. 

All of the cards have sentiments from the Happy Heart stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies used:

A1192 Happy Heart

Z3255 Whimsy Fundamentals

X5751 Sorbet Cardstock

X5929 Whisper Cardstock

Z2782 Whisper Ink Pad

Z2844 Pixie Ink Pad

Z2817 Crystal Blue Ink Pad

X254 White Daisy Value Pack Cards with Envelopes

Z3029 Grey Enamel Gems

Z3095 Whisper Thick Twine

Z3169 Cricut Artbooking Collection

Z3293 Shimmer Brush-Clear

Z1151 3-D Foam Tape

Z2089 Memory Book Micro Glue Dots

Three Amigos June Blog Hop

Welcome to the Three Amigos Blog hop.  We are three Close to My Heart Independent Consultants with a love for stamping and scrapping and would like to share our creative ideas with you.  On the 3rd of each month we feature a different CTMH product and create a card, layout, or other project.  There are only three stops on this hop so it will only take a few minutes to hop through.

This month we are featuring the Stitch Guide or Ruler with the Piercing Tool. I created the Confetti Wishes Workshop on the Go layout and added a little bit of stitching on the pages to go along with the stitched accents. We are in the midst of relocation activities around here, and I can't find the box my camera  was stuffed into. I had to use my iPad to take pics for this post, so the quality may seem sub-par. I can't make the pics any larger for viewing here either. Sigh. You can barely see the stitching in the first photo, but it's there.

I added the stitching around a few of the stamped star embellishments. The stitch guide has four circle sizes to choose from. I temporarily placed my embellishment on my layout, centered the circle on the stitch guide over my embellishment, and used the piercing tool to poke holes to sew through. If you squint and look closely, you'll notice I also stitched around the star shapes on the photo mats. The stitch guide contains all sorts of shapes and patterns. 

The title and stamped embellishments were also heat embossed with clear embossing powder to add a little more texture to the layout.

Thank you for stopping by today. Hop over to Lisa's blog and Donna's blog to see what they created for you.

Brrrr! It's Cold Outside!

A major winter storm is passing through the area today, leaving piles of the white stuff in it's wake. I've never been a fan of winter, especially Buffalo winters! The Snowhaven layouts I'm sharing today seem fitting given the weather. I love the cranberry and glacier in this paper pack and how the black makes them pop.

The Warm & Cozy layout was inspired by a Scrapbook Generation layout I saw on Pinterest. I could only see part of the layout in the picture, but knew Snowhaven was the perfect paper pack to recreate it. I can't locate the picture on their website, but they have some very nice sketches and photos worth checking out.

I may add some more bling once I get photos on the layout. Journaling strips will adorn the space to the left of the first photo mat.

It's hard to see the sparkle of the shimmer trim in the pictures and the bitty sparkles on the snowflakes, but they add to the snowy theme. I tried different angles. Nothing captured the essence of the shimmer trim.

My Making Spirits Bright layout was inspired by a layout from Shannon Buck, CTMH Director of the Stampin' Buds team. I love the symmetry of the layout. Instead of using banners in the bottom section of my layout, I decided to use the snowflake border from the Cricut Artbooking collection (page 76 in the image booklet).

The layout looks very red right now, but once pics are added the red will be more of an accent than a focus.

The resin accents from the Snowhaven Assortment add depth and texture to the layout. White shimmer trim and red enamel hearts dress up the Snowhaven Complements.

Bitty sparkles are sprinkled around the layout, and more white shimmer trim adds a frosty touch to the snowflake border. The line of trees stamped tone on tone along the bottom are from the Snowhaven Card WOTG stamp set.

Thanks for stopping by on this very cold day!

Supplies Used:

X7188B Snowhaven Paper Pack

X7188C  Snowhaven Complements

Z3008 Snowhaven Assortment

G1085 Snowhaven WOTG Cardmaking Kit (stamp set)

Z2173 Slate Ink Pad

Z2116 Cranberry Ink Pad

Z2641 Glacier Ink Pad

Z2009 Red Enamel Hearts

Z3024 White Shimmer Trim

Z1906 Cricut Artbooking Collection

A Good Day to Play

My friend, Lisa, texted last night, "Scrapbook a bit tomorrow?"  We rarely get the chance to scrap together since she lives 2000 miles and a few time zones away.  My response, "Yes!  I need the creative inspiration!"  Lisa wanted to do something with masking and asked if I had any ideas.  When we signed onto Skype this morning, I still had no idea what we would make.  Winging it, this is what I came up with...

We cut out a fun overlay from the Travel Mini-Album (pg 39) with the new Cricut Artbooking cartridge, temporarily adhered the overlay onto a piece of Colonial White cardstock cut to the same size, and sponged the design using Buttercup, Sunset, and Slate inks.  The color combination was inspired by my favorite new paper pack, Babycakes.  I added a piece of the stripe paper from the Babycakes pack, color ready ribbon inked with Buttercup and Sunset, a dimensional tag stamped with words from the Card Word Puzzle stamp set, and a sentiment from the School Years stamp set.  Oh, and to dress up the masked background a wee bit, I added a small dot of Almond Glitz to the center of each sunburst.  Not bad for a spur of the moment idea!  I'm going to enter this card in the H2H July 1 challenge.  Be sure to check out all of the beautiful artwork on the Heart 2 Heart blog and try a challenge or two while you're there.

Take a peek at Lisa's blog too!  She's been creating up a storm lately!