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Monday, May 13, 2019

Traveling Soon?

The World Is Yours National Scrapbooking Month Collection will feature those pictures in a beautiful scrapbook to cherish for years to come. 

This is a sample of the scrapbook workshop available to you in a bundle which includes the guide and a DesignSpace File for your Cricut. 

If you wish to create your own designs, the paper collection and coordinating stamp set is a great option. And, if you want layouts easy and fast then the Cut Above Kit is just the right solution for you.  

Whichever you chose, The World Is Yours!


Happy National Scrapbooking Month!





Once you have placed your items in your cart, be sure to then download your guide by clicking on the appropriate link for Scrapbooking, Mini Album or Cards.  
Happy crafting.

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Card Captions: January Stamp of the Month

Versatile for Cardmakers and Scrapbookers

Notice how the sentiments are straight across?

This allows for easy cutting, stacking, borders and including in shaker windows. This style also allows for easy partial sentiment stamping to include on Scrapbook Layouts and in your Day Planners. I love the phrases of Just a Note and Just Because the most to use in journaling and on versatile notecards. What is your favorite phrase?

Love this stamp set as much as I do? You can get it for $5 during the month of January by spending $50 retail on my website here. Or, purchase it for $18.95 outright again during the month of January only. After January it goes away :(




Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Time for some Fresh Air!

Summer Brings "Fresh Air"

Camping, hiking, nature, picnics...

There's no better paper collection to capture summer memories than CTMH Fresh Air.
Join me the month of July for my tour of papercrafts created with this "fresh" collection. Some of my favorite features are the copper metallic accents on the Complements, the sayings on one of the paper designs, how beautifully the Mini Stapler and 
Cricut "You Are Here" pairs with this collection. 
First up is one of my own 2 page Scrapbook Layout Designs:
The triangle "word" pieces are a 10x10 cut on the diagonal.
Cut out a few of the words you prefer from your scraps, matte them on cardstock for stability, and then pop them with foam tape for some fun dimension.
Some of the Copper Accents are cut from bigger images of the Complements.
All pieces except Copper Complements are ink distressed.
The Mini Stapler is an awesome addition to this rustic layout. Staple away!

The copper triangle top left matte is cut from one of the larger Complements.
Triangle under "good therapy" also cut from larger Complement.
Notice the sayings that were cut from pieces of scrap paper, mounted on CS then popped.

Click Products to get your own:

*Tip on adding Sequins to your pages and cards. I always remove the small glue dot they come on with my Piercing Tool and attach them to my project instead with a dot of
Liquid Glass. I have found this to be well worth the time for much better adhesion over the long term.

Sunday, July 1, 2018

Beautiful Friendship Stitched and Embossed Cards

Technique: Dry Emboss 4.25x5.5 White Daisy CS with Rose Embossing Folder
Using your Trimmer, cut out a triangle and fill that gap with scraps of Decorative Paper.
Trim off seams with 1/4 inch x 5.75 strips.
One of my favorite new tools in the Seasonal 2, 2018 catalog are Stitched Thin Cut Dies. 
They come in nesting Circles, Hearts and Ovals. Ummm, one set of each for me please. 
Beats the heck out of paper piercing, sewing, or faux sewing with my journaling pen.
Here is what each set looks like:
Such an easy and quick card producing stunning interest.
 This card design is a CTMH featured card in the Seasonal Expression 2 catalog.
All I did was switch out the papers and dies.
Links to Products Featured:
This is my last entry featuring the CTMH Beautiful Friendship Collection.
If you love any of the products featuring throughout this collection, be sure to get your items prior to August 31, 2018 at which time most of these items will retire. 

Stay tuned for the FRESH AIR Collection to be featured throughout July.

Friday, June 8, 2018

Beautiful Friendship Sunburst Card

Sunburst Cards have always been on my to do list, and I finally created one using the Beautiful Friendship Paper Collection. Here is the easy Tutorial that I used:
The flowers and leaves are Cricut Flower Market (cosmo flower and violet leaves). 
Here is a free and quick DS file for all of my lovely readers for your convenience: 
*You must own Cricut Flower Market collection for this to work.
For my cartridge users: Cosmo is 1.89 high (round to 1.75 or 2) and leaves are 1.75.
I softly ink edge distressed all of the rays of sunshine using Linen Ink to give definition. 
The Linen Cardstock bottom piece was sanded and edge distressed with my scissors to reveal the white core and give a shabby look.
The final technique is to cover the Love You sentiment on the front and You and Ever on the inside with Liquid Glass to give an enamel look. I love how it drew emphasis to these words.
The stamp set is one of Stacy Julian's designs: Colorful Texture. 
Don't you just love the grammatically incorrect use I made of this set? LOL
I have the perfect few friends that this card would drive crazy, and I love it!
LOVE, LOVE this new stamp set. Product links and full supply list at end of post.
Be sure to subscribe to my Blog for many more project posts, technique shares, and templates/files to be posted all summer long. I've been a very busy girl this past Spring.
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Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Beautiful Friendship Scrapbook Layout

The Idea Book from CTMHⓇ is a wonderful tool for layout and project
inspiration. The first page is from a retired Idea Book changed up with the new Stitched Dies: Circles and Hearts and the Rose Embossing Folder. It's nice to have a fast, easy layout so I incorporated a second Pocket Page. This gave me the chance to use the PML (pocket cards) included with every paper pack.
Other items used are the gorgeous Beautiful Friendship Suede Bows and Complements and some Gold Sequins. Full list of supplies with links at end of post.
A simple, soft inked edge distress technique was applied to all pieces using Pebble except the primary Sapphire photo matte on page one that I edge distressed using my scissors to reveal the white core of the cardstock.
I coated the back of a few stickers in the Complements with baby powder so I could then pop them on the page with Dimensional Foam.
Here is the Bundle, Beautiful Friendship Workshop Your Way, that I used:
 
Supplies Used: