September Stamp of the Month: Poster Tidings

In this video, Carlie shows some great techniques to use with the upcoming September Stamp of the Month.

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Baby Carriage Spin Card

I was so excited to see Circle Spin Cards in CTMH's 2013 Autumn Winter catalog! They were one of my first purchases from the new catalog. (My daughter just said, "Your first purchase was everything!" Ok, that's somewhat true). I'm glad these are 7" x 5" because I've made standard size spin cards before and it just doesn't give you a whole lot of room to decorate your card.

I was also drawn to the adorable "M" sized stamps. They fit perfectly onto the circle portion of the spinner card. Here I used Chantilly paper with the Baby Carriage "M" sized stamp for a baby card. I never need baby cards and now all of a sudden I need three!

I also used the Congratulations stamp which comes with the Cricut Art Philosophy bundle on the other side of the spinning circle part of the card.

 

I made all of my scalloped borders lickety-split with CTMH's new Scallop Border Punch.

 

 Here's a view of the card opened. I put a piece of the Chantilly paper right behind the opening for the spin part of the card so I would know where not to write and so it would look nice when the card was closed. 

 

 I used my Ruby pigment ink to stamp the baby carriage. I learned my lesson after trying to color after stamping with my Ruby Dye ink -- I got too much smearing. The pigment ink did the trick!I also used my Ruby, Cotton Candy, and Pear CTMH alcohol markers to color.

Baby Carriage

Chantilly Paper PAck

White Daisy Circle Spin Cards & Envelopes

Scallop Border Punch

Enchantment Mini Pigment Pads

 

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Product Spotlight: My Crush Books

Look what came in the mail yesterday! My order of My Crush books!

I have been anxiously awaiting these gorgeous books! They can be used as photo albums, memorabilia keepers, journals, or some sort of combination of all of these.

Here are a couple of pages from Modville (the one with the orange chevron cover)...

 

...and some pages from Bluebird (blue brocade cover).

 

My daughter claimed Bluebird for herself and I chose Modville. As we were looking through the books, I thought they would make a great gift for anyone who has a creative bent or who likes to journal. I love them and know I will use mine, but I also think they would particularly appeal to the preteen and teen population. The book alone would make a great gift but you could add on one of the My Crush Assortments which have cool journaling spots, envelopes, and sticker sheets. The My Crush Besties and Best Day Assortments match well with Modville while the My Crush Memories and Favorites match well with Bluebird, but you could always mix it up.

 

You could also add the Small Assortment of Flip Flaps to have an interactive element and they fit the My Crush Assortments! Washi tape would be a perfect complement to these books as well. Then, if you'd like to put together a really super gift, add the set of Metallic Markers and you are all set!

 

Click through the following links to come up with your perfect gift collection!

 

My Crush Modville	My Crush Bluebird	My Crush Besties Assortment	My Crush Best Day Assortment
My Crush Favorites Assortment	My Crush Memories Assortment	Lagoon Houndstooth Washi Tape	Slate Polka-Dot Washi Tape
Metallic Markers	Small Assortment of Flip Flaps

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Tommy Thank Yous and Journaling Cards

Today is the final day of my, "Use up all of my Tommy Paper Pack," challenge! So, by now, I was down to smaller scraps. I decided to add a piece of retired gray cardstock, which I should use up anyway, right? I made two standard card bases from it and cut out some shapes with my Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge to match a stamp I wanted to use from the D1542, For a Friend, stamp set. Using my leftover scraps, here's what I came up with. Since the fronts of these cards are relatively light, I kept the insides blank.

 

Well, then I still had some scraps so I made some journaling cards which I could possibly add to

 my Project Life Style Album or to one of the layouts I made with Tommy.

So I got quite a few projects done with one paper pack! I only added two full 12" x 12" sheets of cardstock (Grey Flannel and Slate) and one White Daisy card base plus White Daisy scraps and Colonial White craps. After making all of the projects I shared with you this week, I am left with just the few scraps pictured here. For reference, that striped square piece measures 1.5" x 1.5."

 

Not bad, don't you think? Of course, when I finished, my daughter asked, "Do you have any more of that red anchor paper?" Sigh!

 

I imagine I could probably get another card or journaling spot out of these scraps but I'm content with filing away the larger pieces in my scrap drawers and recycling the smaller pieces for now.

I hope you enjoyed my challenge and seeing what I could come up with.

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Tommy Layout from Cherish

We are on Day 5 of my, "Use up all of my Tommy Paper Pack," project!

 

For this double scrapbook layout, I used the pattern called Portrait Collection on page 76 in Cherish. Cherish contains 50 double layouts and comes with step by step directions as well as an example of the layout. I love the examples since they sometimes show how you can modify a layout and how to add different embellishments. I have the original hardcover version but it now comes in a softcover spiral bound book which allows it to be very affordable at $14.95.

 

I wanted to keep the nautical theme out of these pages since I don't know what pictures I want to use on them and I stuck with mostly a blue and yellow color scheme. I added a piece of Slate cardstock as a backing and I added a few narrow strips of paper which go down vertically in between the yellow and striped paper on the left and in between the striped paper and Slate cardstock on the right. I didn't embellish much except for the, "Treasured Moments," strip I cut from one of the zip strips in this pack. Once I know which pictures I will use on these pages, I may embellish more, but for now, I kept it simple.

 

Both pages, side by side

 

Left page

 

Right page

 

This seems to be a good layout to use when you don't want to have to fuss too much! I changed the order of the papers a bit and since I already had the narrow strips of paper earlier from some other cut (two are the narrow zip strips from the tops of the papers which I usually cut off right away), I think I just used two slices of my paper trimmer to get the pieces I needed! One was for the striped paper. I then adhered one striped piece on the Honey patterned paper on the left and one on the Slate cardstock on the right. Then I cut my Outdoor Denim in half and adhered those pieces on after adding my narrow vertical strips. How easy!

 

Tomorrow will wrap up my Tommy challenge so be sure to come back and see my final projects!

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Tommy Birthday Card #3

Here's the third birthday card I made with Tommy. I decided that since I was trying to use up my whole paper pack, I should try to finish the Tommy Assortments also, and I only had two pieces left from my Assortments pack. I really like the little canvas flags and cork pieces that come in the Tommy Assortments pack. I almost thought I should hold on to them...but I was good and did not hoard them! I added a little bit of the yellow and white Baker's Twine and again, as with my first Tommy layout, I may add some Outdoor Denim or Cranberry once I get the Harvest Baker's Twine set. The sentiments are from the Card Chatter - Birthday stamp set, a set I go back to again and again.

 

Front of card

 Inside of card (the inside really needed some heft since I had added the Tommy Assortment embellishments to the outside -- it helped the card even out a bit in weight)

 

Tomorrow, as I continue my, "Use up all of my Tommy Paper Pack," project, I will show you another double layout I made.

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Tommy Birthday Card #2

The following Tommy birthday card is very similar to the one I posted yesterday in that I used the same stamps sets from the Cricut Artiste bundle. I added a candle from that stamp set this time and a sentiment from a different stamp set, Card Chatter - Birthday, to the inside of the card. I also used pattern 20, on page 42, from Make it From Your Heart, Volume 1.

 

Front of card

 

 Inside of card

 

As I mentioned in my first post of this series, Tommy came out in the Spring/Summer 2013 Idea Book so it is on it's second run in the current catalog. That means it will only be available while the Autumn/Winter 2013 Idea Book is valid, until the end of January 2014. If you're interested in it, you might actually want to purchase it before January though. I know some papers which were not being sold anymore after July, like Later Sk8tr, sold out before July was even over!

 

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Tommy Birthday Card #1

It seems that I am always in need of Birthday and Thank You cards, so as part of my, "Use all of my Tommy Paper Pack," project, I set out to make some cards.

 

I used D1529, the Cricut Artiste Collection Birthday stamp set to stamp the sentiment, Oh Happy Day, and the cupcake image on White Daisy scraps shaped to match, cut out with the Cricut, of course. I used colored pencils to color in my cupcake which I had stamped in both Outdoor Denim and in Cranberry (on two different shaped pieces from the Cricut Artiste). Foam tape gives both the cupcake and the sentiment some dimension without making it too bulky.

 

Front of card

 

 

Since the front of my card was heavy with layers of paper, I added some of the scraps which were left over, after I made all of my Tommy projects, to the inside of my card just to balance out the weight and to give some interest to the inside as well (and to use up my paper, yay!).

 

Inside of card 

Stay tuned for another Tommy project tomorrow!

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Tommy Pattern Nine Scrapbook Layout

Believe it or not, I hadn't touched the Tommy papers even though I had bought them with the release of the Spring/Summer 2013 Idea Book all the way back in January. I love them. The colors are vivid and the designs are crisp and bold. Sometimes when I really like a paper pack, I'm afraid of cutting into it. My hoarding tendencies come out and I don't want to ruin the paper. Crazy, no? So, I thought I needed to challenge myself. I decided to try to use my whole pack of Tommy...all at once!

 

For the next several days, I will feature the different items I made using the Tommy Paper Pack. Here's what it looks like and what comes in a pack.

6 – 12" × 12" Cardstock Sheets (2 Desert Sand, 2 Outdoor Denim, 1 Cranberry, 1 Honey)
6 – 12" × 12" B&T Duos® Papers (2 each of 3 double-sided designs)

I used Make It From Your Heart, Volume 1, pattern 9 on page 22 for the following scrapbook layout.

I also used the Tommy Assortment pictured below to add some pizazz to my layout.

7 pieces: 4 printed canvas flags, 2"; 3 adhesive-backed cork labels, 1½"; Cranberry, Outdoor Denim, Honey.

 

Here are both pages of the layout. You can click on any picture to see it a bit larger. The first photo mat should say 7" x 5" and not 5" x 7" but you know what I mean!

Here is a closer view of the left hand page...

and a closer view of the right hand page.

 

The only other item I used besides the Tommy Paper Pack, and the Tommy Assortment was a bit of yellow and white Baker's Twine from the Paradise Assortment. I am waiting for my Harvest Assortment of Baker's Twine to get here. Once it does, I may add some Outdoor Denim and Cranberry Baker's Twine to the layout too. We will see. The pattern in the book suggests adding a title to the bottom left side of the layout but I think I will probably put my title in the upper right hand side after I see how it look with pictures. While I don't have my exact pictures for the layout yet, I am intending to add some beach photos to this layout.

 

I used a little more paper than is called for in the original pattern because I added the red anchor paper in the middle of both of my background papers, just because I liked how it looked!

 

Come back tomorrow for my next project!

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Hostess Rewards: Better than Ever!

I love how Christine used the Washi Wonders stamp set (only available as a hostess reward) on the layout in this video. Check it out!

 

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Be An Alpha! Contest

Make a comment on Jeanette Lynton's Blog, Facebook, or on YouTube for a chance to win one of 20 E-sized Alphabet stamp sets. Make sure to comment before August 31st. Watch the video for more details!

 

I've just ordered the following alphabet stamps, Framework Alphabet. I can't wait until they arrive and I can start creating with them. I've seen such beautiful artwork using this set.

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Crop for a Cure 2013!

Proceeds from Tri Delta's Crop for a Cure benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, a pediatric research and treatment facility where no family is ever turned away.

The first year I vendored at the Tri Delta Crop for a Cure was in 2009. My friend Maggie was finishing up with Close To My Heart and was nice enough to ask me to come along with her so that I could possibly vendor the next year too. I had never vendored before and had no idea about what to bring or how to prepare. But the cause was near and dear to my heart, so I just decided to participate and not worry about the results. I'm so glad I did! Fast forward to last weekend and to my fifth year of being a vendor at Crop for a Cure -- what a blast! It was the biggest and best crop they have had. This year's crop raised an amazing $30,300 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital!

Check out Tri Delta's Crop for a Cure page for information about registering for next year's crop!

Here are some pictures from this year's crop.

Me, at my booth

 

Heather, my wonderful friend, at her 31 Gifts booth

 

Doing a "Make and Take"

 

Lisa, donating her hair

 

 

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Just a Note Digital File

Have you seen the latest free digital file from Close To My Heart?

Go to this link: http://www.closetomyheart.com/Campaigns_and_Promotions/~/media/1693497A92064AF48F9563EE5D994B4A.ashx

Wouldn't that make a cute set of stationery?

You can download this file until August 31st!

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Autumn Layout with Artbooking

I've only had a relatively short time to play with the new Cricut Artbooking cartridge but I am sooo excited about it! There are a number of great options for scrapbooking layouts that I am looking forward to trying out. Here is one double layout I made with a fall themed overlay, beautiful maple leaves, the word "Autumn," two coordinating photo mats, and the journaling all cut with the Artbooking cartridge.

Left page

 

Right page

The orange striped paper is from the Babycakes paper pack (so you can see that you can use it for things besides baby themed projects). This layout came together fairly quickly. I'm looking forward to making some more layouts with Artbooking!Pin It