Love Your Layout: April 2013

Here's some creative inspiration for Studio J, CTMH's digital scrapbooking program.

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Chevron Happy Birthday

Every year, a few of my college friends and I get together and we celebrate our birthdays. We have one December birthday, two January birthdays, and one September birthday but we usually aim to meet sometime between January-March. We all have work, school, extra-curricular, and/or family obligations plus one of us drives from out of town, so you can just imagine how difficult it is to find a Saturday that accomodates all of our schedules. Well, this past Saturday was our day. We went to see a play, had dinner at a nice restaurant, and then came back here to exchange presents, have cake and do a little beading!  

 

I opted to make the same style birthday card for each of them. I was really intrigued with this sketch from the Clean and Simple Stamping Blog.

I really love the example which uses the negative space for the word and wanted to try that out. The sketch was from the 15th but I hadn't had a chance to play with it because I've had tennis elbow (from stirring sand, alum, and cornstarch together in a pot on the stove to make treasure rocks for my preschoolers -- how do I explain that to people?!) and I have had to rest my arm. But there's nothing that motivates me like a deadline so I worked on Saturday morning...yes the morning before we were to meet! I used my Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge to make quick work of cutting the letters out of my Lagoon (teal) cardstock and got three panels with the word, "HAPPY," cut out of them, lickedy-split! It's difficult to see but the paper backing the, "HAPPY," panel is a lighter blue houndstooth pattern from a long retired CTMH paper called Splendor. I added the little flower from the Card word Puzzle set stamped on honey for a little pop (and I popped it up with foam tape)!

 

 

Supplies Used (All CTMH)--

Patterned Paper: For Always (love that chevron pattern) and a scrap of blue houndstooth from the retired set called Splendor (used behind the HAPPY)

Cardstock: Lagoon, Honey, White Daisy, Black

Stamp pad: Archival Black

Stamp sets: Card Word Puzzle and Card Chatter-Birthday (I cut Birthday... off of the rest of it's sentiment-you could just mask it too)

Embellishments: Baker's Twine Neutral Assortment, Opaques Licorice Adhesive Gems, foam tape

 

I have also been wanting to play along with the Heart2Heart challenges but my arm has been bugging me too much. I was so happy to see that this week's chalenge is for  CAS-Clean and Simple. Yay! So I'm linking this post up to this week's challenge at H2H.

 

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Hi Birdie -

I made a quick little card for the current Play Date Cafe Challenge #166, Black, White and a Splash of Emerald Green.

 

I used my Cricut Artiste cartridge to make my (Topiary) green border and to cut my word bubble. The word bubble stamp which says "hi!" also comes with the cartridge bundle and is probably my favorite from that set! I love all those little flowers surrounding the "hi!" The little bird is a sneak peek from a stamp set called Hello Blooms and the paper is also a sneak peek of the paper pack called For Always. I was intending to do some different things with this card. I was going to paper piece the bird after stamping it -- I wanted the legs to show but I was going to adhere the top of the bird stamped and cut out from plain white cardstock and the layout was going to be completely different...but I liked the bird stamped directly on the patterned word paper and I liked the less fussy look from what I intended so there you go!

Supplies Used (all CTMH) --

Stamps: Word Balloons from Cricut artiste commercial, (C1540) Hello Blooms - available 2/1/13

Stamp Pad: Black

Paper Pack: (X7165B) For Always - available 2/1/13

Cardstock: Topiary, White Daisy, Black

Alcohol Marker: Pear

Embellishments: Opaques Licorice Adhesive Gems. Bitty Sparkles (for bird's eye), Foam Tape

 

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