A Cup of Good Cheer

This week's Heart 2 Heart Challenge is Hot Cocoa. I took the theme literally and came up with a Hot Cocoa holder! I used my Cricut Artiste cartridge to make a library pocket (shift, card, key U). If you use "Fit To Page," the size will show up as 6" so I made a liner for it sized at 5-3/4" using the same shape. My liner sheet is another sneak peek from my favorite new paper pack, Chantilly (available on 2/1/13). The frame is a sneak peek from a new stamp set called Frame Flair.

Supplies Used (all CTMH except Copics)--

Stamp Set: (B1404) Cup of Cheer, (D1546-available 2/1/13) Frame Flair

Stamp Pad: Chocolate

Cardstock: Crystal Blue, Juniper, White Daisy

Patterned Paper: (available 2/1/13) Chantilly

 CTMH Markers (Retired): Buttercup, Sunflower

Copics: B21, E25

Embellishments: Liquid Applique, (Retired) Heart Bead, (Retired) Juniper Waxy Flax, Designer Ribbon Cocoa Collection, Cricut Artste, Cricut Art Philosophy

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Wonderland Wishing You Well

My poor sister-in-law suffers from terrible migraines and actually had to be hospitalized this week so I wanted to send some get well wishes to her. When I saw the colors at CR84FN, they struck me as being very soothing and I thought they would work nicely for my card. I actually like them for any type of card and I think I will try to use this design with a different sentiment for a couple of birthday cards I need to make. I also used the sketch at Mojo Monday for my card's layout.

Here are the colors for CR84FN:

...and here's the Mojo Monday sketch:

This is my first easel card and I used Beate's video to help me along. I also used my Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge for the flowers, the circles, and the ovals. I was in the mood to roll flowers today!

Supplies used(all CTMH): (G1031) Wonderland stamp set from Workshop on the Go, (D1283) Say it in Style stamp set, (Z2119) Dutch Blue stamp pad, (Z2194) Sky stamp pad, (Z308) Liquid Applique, (retired) Sweet Home Level 2 paper pack, Buttercup cardstock, Dutch Blue cardstock, Grey Wool Cardstock, (Z1336) Opaques Pearl Adhesive Gems, Buttercup Waxy Flax, (Z1686) Cricut Art Philosophy CartridgePin It

Mojo 180 - Wishing You Well

I used sketch #180 on the Mojo Monday blog to make the following card for my mother-in-law who just had surgery on her knee.

The teacup and sentiment are popped up on foam tape. For fun, I used liquid applique sprinkled with cinnamon on top of the teacup to look like whipped cream or frothed milk. I had some ladies over for a card workshop last Saturday and we used liquid applique as frosting on a cupcake on one of the cards we made. We applied it to the paper which had the stamped cupcake, heated it up to make it puffy, and then attached that piece to the card. It wasn't the easiest thing to attach it to the card at that point since we didn't want to place our stamped image upside down on the table and possibly flatten our "frosting" while applying our tape runner to the back of the paper. We tried to apply adhesive to where the image needed to go on the card which also isn't that easy. So for this card, I attached all my pieces to my card, put the liquid applique on the part I need to, and then heated it up. Of course, my card warped after using the heat tool! But I just lay some flat items on top of the places it warped to try to flatten it out and it seems to be okay now!
 
Supplies used: (X7127B) Magnifique Level 2 paper pack, (A1109) A Sip stamp set, (D1283) Say it in Style stamp set, (Z2192) Pacifica stamp pad, (Z2125) Grey Wool stap pad, (Z1385) Designer Ribbon Blue Collection, (Z308) Liquid Applique, cinnamon, (Z1151) Foam tape
 
It was a challenge for me to make a square card. For some reason, I tend to stick to standard size cards but it was nice to try something different (my card is 5" x 5"). Here's the sketch from Mojo Monday.

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