Side Step Birthday Card

I don't know why, but this type of card has always intimidated me. But now, I have mastered it! It really isn't hard and makes a great impression on the person who is receiving it.

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I put together to ideas that I found - yup- on Pinterest! They can be found HERE and HERE.

The pitcher and flowers are from Country Life cut at 3 inches and the Sentiment banner is from CTMH Art Philosophy cut at .75 inches. The sentiment is CTMH -  D1187 - For Every Occasion and the paper is Chantilly - X7163B

I am definitely going to make more of this card !

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We have a great special for the month of August!

 With every $50.00 order, you will get the 

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Butterfly Birthday Card with Cricut Expression

Today's project is a set of birthday cards that I am going to add to the card box at work. I found my inspiration on Pinterest HERE.

All the cuts are from the Close To My Heart Art Philosophy cartridge. I used a Stampin Up stamp for the background on the card base and the colored butterflies. For the butterflies I used Versa Mark ink and Iridescent Embossing powder. I used a twine that has a silver thread (from Paper Wishes) for the body and antennae. The birthday sentiment is from Paper Trey Ink.

I absolutely love how great this card is in all the different colors.

Don't forget the August special from Close To My Heart...

If you would like to see the new CTMH Idea Book for the fall/winter please check it out

HERE

We have a great special for the month of August!

 With every $50.00 order, you will get the 

August Stamp of the Month for

FREE!!!!

Learn more HERE!

And with a $75.00 order I will send you an ink pad of your choice, FREE!!

If you would like to receive the new Idea Book, just leave me a comment with a way to reach you.

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Post It Holder Tutorial

My project for today is one that gets done several times a year in my craft room. I love this for lots of different gift giving occasions. This one is for a birthday. I will be doing some soon to get a jump start in the holidays...

For now, here is the how-to..

First, start with a piece of card stock 3.25 inches x 11 inches

Score as shown below:

Fold on the score lines:

Cut as shown for the pen opening:

Fold and add adhesive:

I wanted to use this pretty flourish stamp from Close To My Heart but didn't have an acrylic block big enough. I had seen, somewhere in my web land travels, a suggestion to use a Cuttlebug embossing plate... well, it worked!

Here are a few of my trial and errors:

The one on the left, that is similar to my final project, shows how I stamped the sentiment on the wrong end...

And the finished Post It Holder...

Stamps sets used:

Close To My Heart C1503 - The Bests Things

Close To My Heart C1538 - Girls Rock

Inks:

Close To My Heart - Sky

Close To My Heart - Gypsy

I don't have any of the small pens that this needs ( shopping trip to Staples on my future ! ) so I used a regular pen...

Now for the 

Special Offer !!

From today until July 31, 2013

when you place a $50.00 order (before tax and shipping)

I will send you the ink pad of your choice 

for

FREE!!

 You can place your order 

HERE

While you are there, check out the Close To My Heart specials...

The July Stamp of the Month for $5.00 with your $50.00 order

S1307A

And this beautiful Workshop on the Go  Canvas Art Kit - G1062

for

 $19.95

that's 50% off the regular price of $39.95

Please leave a comment if you have any questions about my tutorial for this easy Post It Note Holder.

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Fun Summer Wreath Using My Cricut expression

Good Morning,

Today I have a fun, easy summer wreath that I made using my Cricut Expression, Art Philosophy, Artiste and Flower Shoppe.

Over the coarse of a few weeks, it shouldn't have taken that long, I made about 50 flowers from the 3 Cricut cartridges above from lots of different papers in my stash. I inked the edges of most of them, assembled using hot glue.

I purchased a green wreath form from Walmart and again using my hot glue gun, attached the flowers to the form.I only put them on the front half of the form so it would lay flat against the door. The ribbon I used to hang it was from a roll of chiffon type that I got from The Christmas Tree Shop. After I attached the flowers I decided it need something else so I cut out leaves using Artiste and stamping them with the Close To My Heart June Stamp of the Month - S1306. I put them in randomly between the flowers to hide any gaps.

It was such a good feeling to finally be able to take down my Christmas door decoration and replace it with this bright and cheerful wreath, even if was in June ! :)

Now for the 

Special Offer !!

From today until July 31, 2013

when you place a $50.00 order (before tax and shipping)

I will send you the ink pad of your choice 

for

FREE!!

 You can place your order 

HERE

While you are there, check out the Close To My Heart specials...

The July Stamp of the Month for $5.00 with your $50.00 order

S1307A

And this beautiful Workshop on the Go  Canvas Art Kit - G1062

for

 $19.95

that's 50% off the regular price of $39.95

If you have any questions about my special for July or this fun wreath, please leave a comment or email me.

As always, thanks for stopping by  :)

Card Holder Thank You Cards and Special Offer!

Wow, It's Friday... and the end of my first full week back in 'Blog Land" :)

Today I am sharing the final set of cards that go with the  Card Holder that I showed you on Tuesday.

Like the Birthday and Friend sets, these are done with Close To My Heart Dream Pop Paper, Ink, Stamps and Cricut Art Philosophy and Artiste cartridges

CTMH For Every Occasion D1187

CTMH Card Word Puzzle  C1494

CTMH Casual Expressions D1525

CTMH Cricut Artiste Collection Word Balloons  D1531

Now for the 

Special Offer !!

From today until July 31, 2013

when you place a $50.00 order (before tax and shipping)

I will send you the ink pad of your choice 

for

FREE!!

 You can place your order 

HERE

While you are there, check out the Close To My Heart specials...

The July Stamp of the Month for $5.00 with your $50.00 order

S1307A

And this beautiful Workshop on the Go  Canvas Art Kit - G1062

for

 $19.95

that's 50% off the regular price of $39.95

This was a fun project to do and the cards worked up very quickly by taking advantage of the stamp sets that have Cricut cuts to go with them.

Now I have 12 cards ready to go or a great gift if need be.

I hope this has given you a few ideas of your own, If you have have any questions, please leave a comment and I will try to answer them for you !

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Card Holder Friendship Cards and a Special Offer!

Hello !

Today I am sharing the set of four Friendship Cards that go with the Card Holder I showed you on Monday that can be found HERE.

Please go to the end of this post to check out my July  Close To My Heart Special offer.

All of the cards were made with the Close To My Heart Dream Pop paper, CTMH stamps, inks and Cricut Art Philosophy and Artiste cartridges.

CTMH Cricut Artiste Word Balloon  D1531

CTMH For Every Occasion  D1187

CTMH Casual Expressions  D1525

CTMH Pinwheel  Stamp of the Month S1305

Now for the 

Special Offer !!

From today until July 31, 2013

when you place a $50.00 order (before tax and shipping)

I will send you the ink pad of your choice 

for

FREE!!

 You can place your order 

HERE

While you are there, check out the Close To My Heart specials...

The July Stamp of the Month for $5.00 with your $50.00 order

S1307A

And this beautiful Workshop on the Go  Canvas Art Kit - G1062

for

 $19.95

that's 50% off the regular price of $39.95

Tomorrow I will show you the Thank You cards that go with this set. I hope you will come by and check them out !

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Card Holder Birthday Cards

Good Morning! Today I am showing the first set of cards that go with this cute Card Holder.

I am starting with the Birthday cards, All the papers, except the white, are from the Dream Pop set ( no longer available) from Close To My Heart, The stamps and inks are all from CTMH. The cuts are from CTMH Cricut Art Phliosophy and Artiste.

CTMH Cricut Artiste Collection Birthday

CTMH Card Chatter - Birthday - D1475

CTMH For Every Occasion - D1187

This last card is a happy coincidence :). After I cut the frames for the ovals, I turned the paper over and just loved the negative space left over. I trimmed it down to fit the A2 card base, used a Sakura Souffle Gray pen to do the stitching, Stamped the sentiment CTMH Card Chatter - Birthday - D1475 in slate, added the flower, button and twine from my stash and was done. A simple card, but I love it ! I will be watching for more of this negative space stuff !

I hope you will come back tomorrow for the Thank You cards.

As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Cricut and Close To My Heart Card Holder Tutorial

Today, I am starting a project that was made easier and better after learning from  a mistake I made and told you about HERE.

The Card Holder is made from the CTMH Cricut  Artiste cartridge, cut at 6 inches. The papers are from the Dream Pop promotion pack that unfortunately is no longer available.

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I made another mistake while figuring the dimensions for the base. I wanted it to be 1.5 inches tall, but instead of adding 3 inches to the lenght and width I only added 1.5 inches so when I scored at 1.5 inches on each side I realized I had done THAT wrong ( you can see the extra score lines ) But I fixed it and  scored again at 3/4" on all sides, clipped up to the score line as shown and glued the flaps on the inside.

 The three folders fit very nicely inside the base and the measuring mistake turned out to be for the beast as the circle labels wouldn't have worked if the base was any taller.

The labels are cut from Art Philosophy at 1 1/4 inch and stamped in Slate - Z2173, and Lagoon - Z2195 using the Perfect Fit - Birthday B1417 and a set that I think came in my new consultant kit.

Tomorrow I will start showing the cards that go in this cheerful card holder. Please let me know if you have any questions on how this was put together,

As always, thanks for stopping by :)