Monday, August 26, 2013

Christmas Card Using CTMH Frosted Paper, Cricut Artiste and Cricut Artbooking Cartridge

DT Project For Tammy's Scrapin Corner Challenge #77- Anything Goes
 
Hello to all my friends/followers and fellow crafters!  It is so good to have you visit again.  I really look forward to your questions, comments, etc.  I answer all questions and try to comment on as many entries as I can; but time flies and I don't always get to acknowledge all of you.  I wish we could sit down together and have an old fashion chat, drink a cup of tea and just enjoy each other's company.  Maybe do a little Scrapbooking, Cardmaking, or whatever craft we wanted to create that day.  Wouldn't that be fun? 
 
I have met many people online and have become good friends with several of you.  I enjoy our friendship; whether it be on the phone, texting, emailing or just commenting back and forth on the blog.  It is a great community of crafters and I cherish each of you.  I feel as if I know many of you already.  Isn't it great that we can do that; even with people who don't speak our language?  I love it.  Who would have ever thought we would be able to chat, email or contact others in another country who didn't speak our language and yet have something in common?  Amazing, isn't it?  I feel this is a fabulous support system.  Sometimes these relationships can be more meaningful than our own blood relatives.  I know we have more in common at times. 
 
It is time for another fabulous week at Tammy's Scrapin Corner Challenge #77- Anything Goes.   I love Anything Goes.  You have no excuse not to create something/anything and share it with us.  We love to see your creations and leave our comments.  Our sponsors this week are Meljen's Designs and Bugaboo.  Be sure to check out their blogs by clicking on their names.  I love their stamps.

Our Guest Designer this week is Wiola F.  Be sure to click on her name to see her blog with all her wonderful creations.  Just add GDT behind your name when you enter for a chance to be a Guest Designer on Tammy's Scrapin Corner.   
 
I decided to use a Meljen's Designs Cozy Winter Owl; because I fell in love with it the first time I saw it.  It was so much fun to work with.  I decided to create a Christmas card.  I am really shocked that I actually created a Christmas card in August.  That is very unusual for me.  I also was able to create snow to add to the branch.  I used a new Blue Hills Multi Shaper Punch - Tiara for the border.   I really love these punches.  I have added all of the information to my Video page at the top of the blog if you want to check out the videos and online sites to order them.   
 
Cricut Artiste for sentiment label on front. 
Sentiment label and Frame from Cricut Artiste match CTMH Holiday Tags stamp set (D1560)
Cricut Artbooking for the snowflakes and inside.
Blue Hills Studio Magnetic Multi-Shaper Punch Tiara for the border on front.
 
 
Inside Card
 

 
 
Supplies used to create this card:
 
Die Cuts - Cricut Artbooking Cartridge (Snowflakes, sentiment inside)
Merry Christmas tag on front - Cricut Artiste Cartridge
 
Copic Markers
Scarf - BG11
Owl - E13, E23
Branch - E25
Owl face - E0000, E000, E00
 
Front sentiment - CTMH Holiday Tags - D1560
Inside sentiment - CTMH Christmas Love - D1492 (Retired)
Ink - CTMH Heavenly Blue (Retired)
Swirls colored with CTMH Silver Metallics Marker
Flourish bling - CTMH Sparkles Flourish
Bling - CTMH clear from Frosted Cardmaking Kit
Glitter Ribbon - Offray Metallic
Glitter paper for snowflakes - Recollection Glitter Cardstock Paper
Snow - Liquid Applique from CTMH
 
 
 
 I am entering this card in the following challenges:
 
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Sister Card Act Challenge - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Friday - Anything Goes
Inklings and Yarns - Anything Goes
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes (2 of 2)
City Crafter Challenge - 1 stamp, 2 papers, 3 embellishments
Craft Room Challenge - Something New (Paper, sentiment, owl, punch) (1 of 3)
Crafty Sentiments - Colorful
Creative Card Crew - Down On The Farm - You can find Owls on the farm, right? (1 of 3)
Loves Rubber Stamps - Round or Square Cards
Sweet Stampin' Christmas - Winter Animals
Crafter's Café - Bling and Sparkle
Creative Belli - Glitter (Glitter ribbon and glitter paper are old)
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Anything Goes (1 of 3)
Penny's Paper-Crafty - Dies and/or Punches (1 of 3)
The Perfect Sentiment - Christmas Without Red or Green
Whimsical Designs - Just Add Glitter
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes
A.R.T. Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments - Anything But A Birthday Card (1 of 5)
Crimbo Crackers - It's Snow Business
Dream It Up - Christmas in August
Happy Campers - Use A Stamp
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
Southern Girls - Warm Fuzzies
Alphabet Challenge - N For Newest Stamp or Decoupage
Creative Corner - Cute Critters
Delicious Doodles - Birds of a Feather
Docerela Challenge - Use a Border (1 of 1)
Jellypark Friends - Things That Fly
Pattie's Creations - Anything Goes (Use Image)
QKR Stampede - Anything Goes
Stampin With The Dragon - Christmas in August
2 Sisters - Square Cards
A Gem of a Challenge - Anything That Starts With A "B" (Branch)
The Hobby House - Christmas
Cheerful Stamp Pad - Your Choice
Crafty Boots - Christmas in August
Exploring Cricut - At least 2 Cricut cuts of your choice
Eureka Stamps - Be Sentimental
Heart 2 Heart - Make A Scene
Stamp and Create - Glitter
 
 
 
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Thank You Cards Using CTMH "For Always" Paper and Cricut Artbooking Cartridge

Hello fellow crafters.  I hope everyone is doing good and enjoying the remainder of the summer weather before it turns fall.  I am ready for cooler weather; but I don't really feel I did much this summer outside due to the heat.  I haven't made it to the beach at all this summer.  I usually like to go there in the spring and fall; because there are less people.  Having to deal with the smells of sunscreen, cologne, perfumes, etc. makes it very challenging for me to take a walk on the beach when it is full of people. 
 
I created a video on my YouTube channel for these cards; if you would like to watch it.  They are very simple cards; but so elegant.  I have shared a few from this paper pack in the past; but this time I used the Cricut Artbooking cartridge to create a border; which adds even more to them.  You could change the stamp and use this card for any occasion that you needed including birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, congratulations, encouragement, inspirational, baby card or sympathy card.
 
 
Card 1
Using Cricut Artbooking for 1 inch real dial size border.
Blue Hills Studio Punch Marta
Sentiment - CTMH "A Flowering Bunch" S1306 (Retired SOTM)
Ink - CTMH Black
 
 
 
Card 2
Using Cricut Artbooking for 1 inch real dial size border
Sentiment - CTMH "Thoughtful Tidings" - S1202 (Retired SOTM)
Ink - CTMH Desert Sand
 
 
 
Card 3
Using Cricut Artbooking for 1 inch real dial size border
Sentiment - CTMH "Thoughtful Tidings" - S1202 (Retired SOTM)
Ink - CTMH Black
 
 
 
Card 4
Using Cricut Artbooking for 1 inch real dial size border
Sentiment - CTMH "A Little Thanks" D1444 (Retired)
Ink - CTMH Black 
 
 
 
 Card 5
Punch - Blue Hills Studio Honor
Sentiment - CTMH "A Flowering Bunch" S1306 (Retired SOTM)
Ink - CTMH Black
 
 
 
Card 6
Punch - Blue Hills Studio Lace
Sentiment - CTMH "A Flowering Bunch" S1306 (Retired SOTM)
Ink - CTMH Black
Oops!  Accidentally got the script upside down on this one.
 
 
 
Card 7
Punch - Martha Stewart Deco Fan
Sentiment - CTMH "A Flowering Bunch" S1306 (Retired SOTM)
Ink - CTMH Black
 
 
 
Supplies used to create these cards:
 
Border Die Cuts - Cricut Artbooking Cartridge
Paper - CTMH "For Always" for all 7 cards
Ribbon - Offray
Ink - CTMH Desert Sand and Black
Sentiments
Thanks a Bunch - S1306 CTMH "A Flowering Bunch" (Retired)
Many Thanks - S1202 CTMH "Thoughtful Tidings" (Retired)
Thank You - D1444 CTMH "A Little Thanks" (Retired)
 
I am entering these cards in the following challenges:
 
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Friday's - Anything Goes
Craft Room Challenge - Something New (paper)
Cuttin and Stampin - Monochromatic
Papertake Weekly - Flower Power
Sweet Stamps - Anything Goes
Use It Tuesday - Uninked Stamp - "Thank you" stamp never used
Artistic Inspirations - Clean and Simple
Cheerful Stamp Pad - Your Choice
Craftin Desert Divas - Anything Goes (1 of 8)
Craft Your Passion - Summer Flowers (Flowers on some of cards.)
Love To Scrap - Bingo (Flowers, Sentiment and Ribbon)
Mema's Crafts - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Monochromatic
ABC's Challenges - Lots of Layers
Clean and Simple On Sunday - Floral Fantasy (1 of 1)
Dream Valley Challenges - Monochrome
Fashionable Stamping Challenges - Clean and Simple
Allsorts - Use Your New Stash (New punches/Another new pack of "For Always")
Our Creative Corner - Words, Words, Words
Totally Gorjuss - Die Cuts and Punches
Bloggers - Flower Power
Card Makin Mama's - Black, White and one color
 Creative Corner - Anything Goes (2 of 3)
Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes
 
 
 
 
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Monday, August 19, 2013

Birthday Card Using Cricut Art Philosophy, Cricut Artbooking, Nate's ABC's and Kate's ABC's

DT Project For Tammy's Scrapin Corner Challenge #76 - Theme is Image Containing Food

Hello to all my crafting friends.  It has been very hot here in Southern CA.  I hope it cools down soon.  I hope all of you are having a fabulous summer and enjoying the weather wherever you are.  I never seem to have enough time to get everything done that I would like to do.  I think I got more done when I was a mother of 3 and working full time than I do now.  LOL!  I think we learned how to juggle it all and had a lot more energy.  I am in awe of so many of you mothers that you find time to actually create things.  That is amazing to me.  I didn't start this until several years after my kids were moved out and had families of their own.  My oldest granddaughter is 21 years old and my youngest grandson is 10 years old.  My daughter has 4 kids and works and finds time to take care of her grandmother.  I don't know how she does it all.

It is a very sad day for myself and my family.  My sweet, precious, ex-mother-in-law passed away last night in MO.  She was my children's father's mother.  So sad.   She would have been 90 in Dec.  She had a mild stroke a week ago and seemed to be doing really good; but took a turn for the worse on Friday night.  I will not be able to attend the funeral; which is very heartbreaking for me; but not much I can do about it.  She had lived alone until this happened.  She will be greatly missed by everyone who knew her.  She passed away on one of my grand-daughter's birthday-Abigail.  I made this card for Abigail.   Please say a prayer for myself and the family.
 
It is time for another wonderful week at Tammy's Scrapin Corner Challenge #76 - Theme is Image Containing Food.  I hope all of you will take time to create something and enter it for some fabulous prizes.  We look forward to your creations and miss you when you are gone.  This week is a really easy one.  Just include an image with food on it.  Our sponsor this week is Eureka Stamps.  I love their stamps.  They have both Digi and Rubber stamps; so click on their name and check out their awesome collection of stamps.
If you would like to be considered as a Guest Designer; just add GDT behind your name when you enter your creation this week.  Take a chance.  It is a great experience!  Good luck.
I chose Eureka Stamps - Pumpkin Racoon for my card this week.  Raccoon is actually spelled with 2 c's; but it is only spelled racoon in their shop.  I love this stamp.   I used the Cricut Art Philosophy for the die cuts on my card this week.   I decided to create a birthday card for my granddaughter with this one.  I love the dragonflies on this background paper with the combination of orange and green together. 

I used a sketch from Sketches By Carly from last August, 2012.   I was on their Design team before they discontinued it and I have a lot of their sketches.   I loved working with Carly.  She is very creative.  I hope you enjoy it.  I also used a stamp set inside that I won from Your Next Stamp. (Whatnot Sentiments One-KWS01).   

Eureka Stamps - Pumpkin Raccoon (Their site shows Racoon.)

Inside Card

 
Sketch by Carly #63
 
Supplies used to create this card:
Die Cuts
Circle, corners, scalloped circle - Cricut Art Philosophy
Inside Doily - Cricut Artbooking
Grass base and some of the grass - Cricut Nate's ABC's
Some of the Grass - Cricut Kate's ABC's
Paper - DCWV The Spring Fling Summer Days Combo Pack
Cardstock - CTMH White Daisy, Topiary and Sunset
CTMH Markers
Slate, Topiary, Topiary Light
Copics
C4, W5, YR02, YR04
I used Slate first for the raccoon and added C4 on top of it to create this color.
Ink - CTMH Sky and Sunset
Buttons - CTMH Buttons Green Assortment (retired)
Inside upper sentiment - Your Next Stamp. (Whatnot Sentiments One-KWS01)
Happy Birthday sentiment - CTMH Card Chatter - Birthday (D1475)


I am entering this card in the following challenges:
 
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Friday's - Anything Goes
Bearly Mine Challenges - Anything Goes
Die Cuttin Diva's - Orange and White
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - Autumn Colors
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes
Crafts And Me - Anything Goes
Inklings and Yarns - Anything Goes
Whimsical Designs - Bingo (Die Cuts, free, stamps)
Cute Card Thursday - Button Up
Seize The Birthday - Birthday greeting inside
Bloggers - Flower Power
Creative Corner - Anything Goes
Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too - For A Child
Color Me Creative Challenge - Anything
Totally Gorjuss - Die Cuts and Punches
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Glitter N Sparkle - Anything But A Square
C Is For Challenge - Animals
Craft Your Passion - Summer Flowers
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Favorite Things (Cricut Die Cuts, CTMH Stamps, Bling) (3 of 3)
Cutie Pie Challenge - Anything Goes
Digi Darla Challenge - Birthday Celebrations (see inside)
Love To Scrap - Bingo (Bling, Die Cut, Flowers)
The Crazy Challenge - Animals
There She Goes - Fur Friends
Use Your Stuff - Circles Galore (Old Paper, bling, buttons)



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Monday, August 12, 2013

Congratulations Baby Card Using CTMH Lucy Paper and Cricut Artbooking

Guest Designer for Use It Tuesday for August 13, 2013
Use An Un-inked Stamp
 
Hello to all my crafting friends.  I am so delighted that you are visiting my blog today.  I am here to share a creation of mine as Guest Designer for Use It Tuesday.  I love having a challenge that requires you to use up your old stash.  This one was easy for me; because I have a lot of un-inked stamps.  I buy them and never have time to use them all or I don't have any occasion to use them; like this one. 
 
My best friend from Junior high just became a grandmother and I finally had a chance to use my baby stamp set.  There haven't been any girls born in her family for 62 years; and they finally got the first baby girl!  All boys for the past 62 yrs.  Can you believe that?  You talk about excited.  Plus - it is her first grandchild.  So - I combined Congrats for the new baby from the grandmother side of it.  This is a very important day in so many ways.  I am so happy for her and her family.   I had to use pink since this was such a very special occasion.  I haven't bought baby paper for quite a while; because I haven't needed any since I started making cards.  The photo doesn't do these colors justice.  It is mostly pink with a light yellow background and is a gorgeous paper.  The buttons and bling are also pink. 

I just found out recently that I am going to be a Great-grandmother to my step-granddaughter's baby.  She is due the end of January.  I am not really old enough to be a Great Grandmother.  LOL!!  I don't think it has hit me yet; but it will be fun when it happens.  She is in Mississippi; so it will be hard to see the new baby except on the Internet.

So sorry that my pictures are not very clear.  This paper does not like to be photographed.  LOL.


 
Inside Top portion
  
 
Inside Bottom Portion
  

Supplies used to create this card:

Card base - CTMH Cotton Candy
Paper - CTMH Lucy  (retired)
Cardstock - CTMH White Daisy and CTMH Cotton Candy
Image and Sentiment on front - CTMH Baby Love - B1368 (retired)
Inside top - It's A Girl circle - Bross Art Addiction
Inside top - Baby Sentiment - Whimsie Doodles
Sentiment - Inside bottom - Grandmothers - unknown author
Congratulations circle - CTMH Salutation Seals (C1461)
Buttons - Belle By Dritz
Bling - CTMH Glitter Gems
White Butterfly - Martha Stewart
Pink Butterfly - EK 3 way butterfly
Bling on butterfly - Want2scrap.com
Ribbon - Offray


I am entering this card in the following challenges:
 
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Sister Card Act - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes
By Lori Designs - Designer Paper
Inklings And Yarns - Anything Goes
Divas By Design - Bingo - Gems, Buttons, Die cuts/Punches
Flutterby Wednesday - Any Winged Creature
Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge - 2 or more Designer Papers
Cards Galore Challenge Blog - Bingo (Flowers, Die cuts and Summer)
Stamp N Doodle - Anything Goes
As You Like It Challenge - Favorite Twine or Ribbon (Offray-one part see through. Great on cards.)
Crafty Ribbons - Anything Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Die-ing To Punch (Used Die)
Hannah and Friends - Anything Goes (Must use living creature.)
Brown Sugar - Anything Goes
Delicious Doodles - Butterflies
Crafty Calendar - Anything Goes (3 of 3)
One Stop Craft - Pastel Colors
Our Creative Corner - Words, Words, Words (2 of 3)
Word Play Saturday - Childhood (1 of 4)
 613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes - Twist School Supply
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes (3 of 3)
Artistic Inspirations - Die Cuts/Punches
Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Bingo - Buttons, Sparkle, Gems
Card Mania Challenge - Bling is my favorite embellishment (2 of 3)
Craft-Dee Bowz - Anything Goes with a Bow
The Crafty Bloggers Network - Favorite Things (Cricut Die Cuts, CTMH Stamps, Bling) (2 of 3)
Crafty Boots - Die Cuts
Eureka Stamps - Blooms and Blossoms
Paper Playtime - Lots of Yellow
Stamps & Fun = Creativity - Anything Goes


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Don't forget the Tutorials tab and the Videos Tab at the top for more ideas to create.  Click here for information on becoming a CTMH consultant for only $49.

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