Birthday Box Card

I am having so much fun making a variety of box cards. One of our Granddaughter's in celebrating her birthday this month. So I decided to make another fun box card for her. This one is a Hot Air Balloon theme. The SVG file is from www.svgcuts.com. 

I used a embossing folder on the clouds and also added glitter to each of the clouds. 

I hope you enjoy this one. 

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Yuletide

I have a couple of layouts I made using the beautiful Yuletide paper and embellishments from CTMH to share with all of you today.

I haven't posted in a while. But I have been busy crafting away. I made a cute Halloween House that I will still post even though it is after the Holiday. It was fun to make. I used a SVG file from www.svgcuts.com

They have some of the cutest files for cards, layouts, 3D projects and so on. If you are able to cut these kind of files give them a look and see what they have. 

Well now for the Christmas Layouts I mentioned. 

The first one was taken from the WOTG and I added some Gold shimmer trim and Bitty clear sparkles in the Gold Sequins. I think it is quite stunning with the Black background. 

I also added just one little red tiny sparkle to accent the letter I in the Cricut cut "Christmas" piece. The cartridge used was CTMH Artbooking. 

The next layout was put on a Champagne CS base page. This is an extra WOTG Yuletide layout. In this one in addition to the Yuletide Assortment I also added some sparkle to the pine cones with a Glitter Gel Pen. Also with the pleated paper and a pretty Red Rose I think it has some pretty touches. I can't wait to get some pictures on both of these layouts. I will have one more layout using this paper coming up. Here are the pics for the second layout.

The stamp set used in both layouts also come from the Yuletide WOTG. 

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Birthday Balloon Box Card

Here is another one of my box cards that I have been making. This was again a SVG file from www.svgcuts.com They have the cutest projects for all occasions and holiday's etc. I am having so much fun making so many different styles of box cards.
Soon I am going to be making some Halloween and Fall home decor projects. I can't wait to get them done and shown on my blog. Stay tuned for those.

I have some layouts that I will try and get posted as well. I just need more time in the day!! lol Don;t we all?? !!

Hope you enjoyed this card.
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Flower Box Card

This is one of the box cards I have been working on. This svg file is from www.svgcuts.com. I haven't filled in my label on the front yet until I decide for sure who I am going to send it to. This one could be made with many different colors giving it many different looks.

I have a few more to share with you in the next few days.

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Fun layout with an overlay

There is a layout in the past CTMH Idea Book that caught my eye the first time I saw it. Now I grant you it has taken me a long time to actually get it made!!! lol Especially since we are in a new CTMH Idea Book already!! Anyway I still wanted to share it with all of you.

It uses the Artbooking cartridge and the Honeycomb stamp set primarily. However there are numerous embellishments and interesting techniques throughout the 2 pages.

This layout has so many details. I will explain a few of of them.
1. The Overlay was cut from Olive CS and the Artbooking cartridge. I left it together while working on it. To fill in each of the honeycomb shapes many different items were used. Some were stamped in Bamboo, Olive, Chocolate, Cocoa inks, Some were images cut from one of the Style sheets that are used in the jewelry section, many images were cut from one of the Skylark B&T papers, the Skylark fabric group was even used. Once I got all my honeycomb shapes filled in then I cut it in half at  5 1/2" x 12" and attached to the base pages.
2. Some gold metallic  thread was used to stitch around the base pages.
3. There are 4  1/2" x 12" strips on each page. One of the papers used was from the Basics Paper Fundamentals pack. To make this paper look a bit subdued a spray pen and Bamboo re-inker was used. , the other strips were cut from another one of the Skylark B&T papers.
4. Another component is making the box pleat with a B&T paper. A strip of the Skylark fabric was added to the box pleat and completed with a stamped image.
5. Many of the embellishments are cut from one of the B&T Skylark papers too.
6. Some ribbon, wooden arrows and chevrons , the keyboard alphabet, some green bubbles and brown sparkles also add a little bling to the layout.

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Best Friend...

Like I said previously I made quite a few layouts using the Skylark Paper Pack. Today I have another 2 page layout that was made using that paper and the chipboard elements and the embellishments. I took 2 different layouts that were featured in the CTMH Idea Book and turned them into a 2 page spread. I changed just a few things up in putting these 2 pages together.
The left page has some stitching, some zipper lace ribbon, a little teal shimmer trim, a scalloped border chipboard elements, these rel cool enamel shapes that in this case I placed some Kraft paper behind the opening. some black & grey bubbles  and some pretty resin embellishments. Again using that beautiful B&T paper as the base page does so much all on it's own. The letters were cut from the Artiste cartridge at 1". Last but not least a little stamping was added.
Note: the area that shows the blank piece of CS is where the photo is to be placed. I put that in it's place until I can add my photo. If your photo isn't as large and you want to mat it then I would use white daisy not the colonial white that I have shown here. I had just taken a scrap to insert there temporarily.

The right page so it would blend fairly well well with this page has many of the same elements used. My thoughts for the pictures I am going to use will be of my Husband & I. It is rare that I or my husband are in any of my layouts.This one is perfect for some photos of the two of us.

Here is a little trick on my stamped large bird. The large bird you see in this layout was stamped twice with Cocoa ink. On one of the stamped images I used a dauber and colored in the bird with Juniper ink. Then I cut that bird out but not the legs. Then layered the two together. That way you can color outside the lines but have a clean looking image when you are done.

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Remember.....

While surfing the internet I came across a beautiful layout using the Skylark paper. I just had to CASE it!! I thought it was so pretty. So that is the layout I have for you today. This is the link to see the blog of the person who made the layout originally. While there check out her other projects. She has some beautiful artwork to see. 

http://girlpluspaper.blogspot.com/2014/03/skylark-layout.html

Here is my layout.

To make this layout I used a number of CTMH products along with the Artbooking and Artiste cricut cartridges. I cut the overlay and word "Remember" with the Artbooking cartridge and the Flowers and leaves with the Artiste cartridge.  The little border stamp and the words were all stamped using the "Love This" stamp set.  The border I did a technique that I am not sure what it is called or if it even has a name but what I did is first inked the stamp with desert sand ink and then lightly inked it again in Pear ink and then stamped on the paper. I liked the look I got with the double inking.

For one of the embellishments I used a Zip strip from  the top of one of the B&T  papers in the Skylark paper pack. A Zip Strip is at the top of each paper and on one side is a decorative design and on the other is the information of the colors in this particular paper pack etc. The arrows you see on both pages are from one of the Zip strips. I cut the strip apart and added pop dots. The paper  is so pretty on it's own that it does a lot of the work for you.

I have one more Skylark to share with you. I should have that posted in a couple of days.

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Fishing theme Birthday Box card

Have you seen all the cute Box Cards on the internet???  I love this type of card. They are so unique and interesting.  A friend and I got together and bought a couple of different svg files and took pieces from each to make this card. I made it as a birthday card for one of my brothers. The fact that these kind of cards can be folded flat to mail and then when opened they just pop up into there box shape makes them a fun card to send to someone.  The svg files I used were one from Lori Whitlock and another from www.svgcuts.com. It took a little trial and error in getting the size right for some of the elements we used in our card. But once we determined what we wanted to use and what size of each element we had fun putting it all together.
I took a couple of views of it. Here we go....

I hope you think it is cute too. It was very fun to make.I added some acetate 1/4" strips to some of the elements to give different heights and spacing things up down and to the sides. You don't see them and it adds to some of the interest.
I will have some more box cards in teh coming days. I got on a roll making them for the different cards I needed after having so much fun with this one.

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Skylark WOTG layout

First I want to say I am sorry for the delay in posts. Life got in the way and I am back with some things I have done previously and will be doing. Thank you for hanging in there with me. I appreciate so much.

So on to today's project. In the last idea book for CTMH they had a beautiful paper called Skylark. I am featuring what was the WOTG layout today and will have a number of more layouts I did with the same paper and embellishments. I wanted to see just how many projects I could do with one paper pack.

I also have been making some box cards. They will also be in some upcoming posts. I am having so much fun making them and learning more about my new Cricut Explore machine.

This was a fun and quick to put together layout. It used some Slate twist ties in a cute way.  I hadn't used these yet and adding them to the photo and embellishment area shows 2 unique and interesting ways of using them. This layout uses the B&T paper for the base pages. It is printed as though the elements seen in the upper left corner of the left page were stamped or added to the paper. To conserve this paper and be able to use it in another layout I had planned I did the trick of cutting from behind the lagoon cs. I was able to get 2 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 squares by doing this to both papers.  When you have a design such as this one where there is a good amount that is covering the paper behind it. It only needed the strip along the left side and top on the left page and the top and right side on the right page to show. So it was a really good design to use this little trick on.  I left enough so the papers on top had something to hang onto. I also added a col.white cs base behind all the B&T papers to give it stability for my cutting such a big section away from the page. You can use any cs for the base when you have this kind of design.
In addition I also added some of the Skylark embellishments along with some stamping. I stamped the heart and sentiment on scrap white daisy cs and cut them out. Then attach with opo dots for more dimension. I also stamped the large heart on the white dovetailed piece to give it a bit more depth when the cut out heart was attached.

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See you next time with another Skylark layout.

Wedding Card

Today I have the Wedding Card I made for the couple that my previous post was for. 

Again I used my Cricut Explore and a SVG file. This one has a combination of papers putting this one together. I have another older CTMH paper pack called "For Always" for the B&T that looks like handwriting. The pink B&T is from my stash.  Black  CS from CTMH.  Bazzill textured CS in white and 3 shades of pink. 

This card went together fairly easily. It is a 5 x 7 card. first I placed the background paper on the card front. The cute little hearts have the white card base shine through. Then I added the tablecloth which is the writing B&T. Before putting the layers of the cake together I embossed the 3 sections with some border strip Cuttlebug embossing folders. Then I layered each of these strips onto the main cake piece and put a row of pearls across the middle layer. Then I made the flowers for the cake by squeezing the petals and rolling the tips to add some dimension. . Then take a large, medium and small flower and layer together turning each layer slightly. I added a clear bling to the center of each flower. I placed them cascading down the cake. Finishing the cake with adding  a few pink "bling" randomly placed amongst the flowers on the cake and adding the dark pink plate to the bottom of the cake.Then adhere to the card front. Lastly the banner  had the title attached and was placed with pop dots to the top of the card. 

My envelope was made with the WeR Memory Keepers Envelope Punch Board. I love that tool. It makes any size envelope in no time. Plus I am finding  many other uses on the internet that other talented craters have made with it. So you will probably see projects from me that come from that tool that isn't an envelope in the future. I decorated the envelope with  a white layered flower with streamers of pearls. 

Supplies
CTMH B&T paper and misc B&T paper
A variety of CS in 3 shades of pink, white and black
Embossing folders
Pearls
Clear & pink "bling"
adhesive and pop dots
Cricut Explore
SVG file- Love Always

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Wedding Gifts

I can't believe it is June already!!! Where does the time go? lol I have been busy crafting a wedding gift for a close friend who was just  married on May 31 2014. She is also a crafter and I wanted their gift to be one that would last for a long time and be able to be displayed in their new home serving as a remembrance of their wonderful day. I had to wait to post this so it would remain a surprise. 

 I thought  a lot about it and went back and forth on papers and designs. In the end I chose an older CTMH paper pack I had that I thought would be perfect for weddings which is called "Bliss". It has a combination of beautiful browns, vanilla, light grey and soft green in the prints.   I thought it would be perfect for what I had in mind. 

I used a combination of different svg files that  I bought  from www.svgcuts.com.  My Cricut Explore is the machine I used to make all the cuts. Also because the Explore can cut, score and write (isn't that amazing?)I  added some text to one of the projects. That is such a fun to do to make your project even more unique and special. So here are my projects. 

Project #1 Frame

 As I said the paper is called "Bliss". Isn't the pattern rich and soft looking? I added chocolate CS that went nicely with the B&T paper. I love the detail of the flourish type cut that were panels added to the frame. It has a hole in the back for hanging. I don't know if you can see it in the picture but the frame is not flat. The center is inverted. That also adds to the design making it a bit different. They just have to add one of their special wedding  photos  to the center and they are all set.  

Project #2 "And they lived happily ever after"

This is a 3D Ampersand sign. For my quote  I used the sign itself for my "and" and then typed "they lived happily ever after.
I used another one of the B&T papers from Bliss. It is a very soft and subtle pattern. This is the same paper  I used to cut the intricate detail that is on the frame above.  I added the text going down the front . It may be hard to see in the picture but if you click on the picture to enlarge it you should be able to see it much better. To give it some bling  I added a pearl strand all around the front edge using Liquid Glass to adhere it. Then I took my Bow Easy tool  and made a double bow with a sheer cream ribbon. I completed it with a heart charm that has a intricate deign etched in the charm. I thought it was perfect with the theme I was trying to put together.It is very sturdy and stands nicely all on it's own.

Project #3 Tall pail of Roses

Now what wedding doesn't have flowers? As beautiful as the wedding bouquet is unfortunately it doesn't last long term. So to act as a remembrance of the flowers I made this tall pail type vase with a dozen vanilla CS roses. By rolling the edges of the petals and the way the pieces are cut you get very realistic looking roses, I think anyway. They may not be the actual bouquet but it still gives the feeling of flowers from the wedding day  I used  Chocolate CS for the main part of the vase and added some more of the B&T papers as accents. The roses were made from Vanilla CS, 3/16 " dowels, floral tape and leaves cut from Olive CS. I painted the dowels a dark green first. Then I made the roses which are inserted into the dowel. Once the rose is attached to the dowel then I started to wrap the dowel with the floral tape and insert the leaves as I went down the stem. They stood in the vase well but to be extra safe I put some floral foam in the base of the vase and put the flower stems into the foam. I attached the handles with large brads. Finished it with another strand of pearls going around the vase on the top and bottom edges of the wider accent strip.

Finally here is a picture of all three grouped together.

What do you think? Do you think it is a gift the new couple will enjoy?
I sure had fun making this grouping with them in mind. 

Supplies:
CTMH Bliss B&T paper
CTMH Chocolate, vanilla, olive CS
CTMH Chocolate, Olive inks
Misc strand of pearls
CTMH Bamboo brads   
3 /16" dowels
Misc. green paint
Floral tape
Scotch Quick Dry White glue
Liquid Glass   
Misc ribbon and heart charm
Cricut Explore
Cricut pens  and score tool
SVG files- Love Always, Vintage Valentine, Mom's Garden Gifts

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Dimensional Baby Shower Card

 Isn't this just the cutest box card for the new baby on the way? I got the svg file for this from
www.svgcuts.com They make the cutest projects there. I then picked out my papers. The sex of the baby is unknown so I made a yellow and green card. I used my Cricut Explore to cut all the pieces and then started putting them all together. It really does look like a real crib!!! Some of  the details are the little socks hanging at the corner of the crib, the baby bottle, teddy bear blocks etc. It folds flat and stand nicely when you take it out of the envelope.

On the back top of the crib is where you can write your message. I cut another piece from white CS just like the inside checked piece only solid not with the stars cut out of it. Isn't the side detail cute with that tiny heart cut out? This was for my daughter who in about 4 weeks will be blessed with her 4th child and our 4th Grandchild.

Hope you enjoyed this project.
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Balloon Ride Layouts with a twist

 In the current CTMH Idea Book there are some projects using Frames that are sold by CTMH .For this layout a chicken wire white edged frame was used in the Idea Book.   I took that project and turned it into a 12 x 12 layout. I liked all the images that were cut from using all 3 CTMH cartridges. The  Artbooking  , Art Philosophy and Artiste cartridges. It has numerous different types of embellishments used such as washi tape , charms, resin embellishments and more!!! It is jammed packed with details and so much fun to figure out how to make it look good as  a layout. What do you think?

The right page of this two page layout also comes from a project in the Idea Book that was the Pennant Frame. So instead of having the actual frame I cut the paper that would fit the frame and used that on my layout. I used pop dots to raise it up and off the page. Again lot's of embellishments were used and stamping and coloring using the blending pen for the Hot Air Balloon on both pages.
If you want to see the details click on the images to see them larger. There is a lot going on in each of these  layouts but I feel the image still is the main focal point. Do you?

It took some doing in putting these two pages together but I had fun along the way. It is fun to use items in different ways etc.
 I hope you enjoy them.
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Tiny cards

I love making those little cards!! 3 x 3 and 3 x 4 sized cards. They are nice for gift inserts and thank you cards. I have a few to share with you today.

The first one is 3 x 3. I cut the card with Outdoor denim CS and cut it with the Cricut. Then I used the Quaterfoil Embossing folder from CTMH to emboss the front side of the card. Then I added a couple strips from the Ariana paper pack and a layered butterfly also cut with the Cricut. Finally I added a few clear sparkles to the body of the butterfly.

 The second card is 3 x 4. This time a Ruby Cs card base was used. Then 3 strips of paper were added to the front. Two are from the Ariana paper pack and the middle one is Ruby cs that was embossed with the Damask Embossing folder from CTMH. Then I stamped a sentiment from the Inspirations Flourishes stamp set with Ruby ink and added a few clear sparkles on either side.

The third card is a 3 x 3 card. This one also uses an embossing folder from CTMH. This time it is the Chevron folder. The flower, leaves, and banner were all cut from the Cricut and stamped with a couple different stamp sets. The colors in this card are Indian Corn Blue, Pear, Honey. Lastly I tied some twine in a button and added it to the flower center.

I'm sure I will be back with more of this size card. I love them so much.

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It's Baby Shower Time

There are 3 Moms to be all due about the same time . My daughter and her sister in law are due within a week of each other in June. The third one is the sister in law's  sister and she is  due in May.

So the crafting began!!  So first I went to www.svgcuts.com and found the cutest projects in there Bundle of Joy file. Next the search for the quantity of paper I was going to need. I had to plan to make 50  3D Rocking Horses  half for Baby Boy & the half for Baby Girl for the table favors for each guest. In addition I decided to make Diaper Pin name tags again making half in blue and the other half in pink.

It took me hours to find just the right papers to cut all the different pieces I would need and of course I wanted them to match. I did pretty good I just had to choose two different paper selections for the Girl horses. They just didn't have the quantity I needed all in one main paper. So finally I had my paper picked out and grabbed the adhesive I would need and a few embellishments and off I went to get started.

I used my Cricut Explore and had 7 mats going feeding them through one after another. This process took quite a few hours/days!! It was an assembly line of putting a mat in and taking the pieces off the mat that came out. I stacked all my pieces and bags for each pile to go in so I wouldn't lose track of any of them. I was so fortunate to have a friend help me, That made it a much more fun process and another "brain" for figuring out what we needed to do next!! lol

So to start with I wanted to make one of each version. So we got looking at the all the pieces and I said I think we need to do some inking on the edges. So we choose a couple of pieces that we thought that would do it. Well I probably don't have to tell you what happened. We decided we needed to ink ALL the pieces!!! Now of course that added more time to this HUGE project but I was much happier with the result.

Inking got done and assembly began. After putting a few together I got thinking I need to decorate both sides!!! Not only did this add even more time to the mix but I had to buy more paper!!!!  But in the end I am happier with the look of them with the inking and the completing both sides.

I have quite a few pictures to show you. I hope you think these are as cute as I do.

 This first picture shows one of each version. The Girl Horses vary only slightly. The main body paper is stripes in half of them and butterflies in the other half.

 The second picture is a group of the Girl Rocking Horses.

The third picture is a group of the Boy Rocking Horses.

 Close up of the Boy Rocking Horse

 Close up of the stripe version of the Girl Rocking Horses

Close up of the Butterfly background Girl Rocking Horse.

 These are the diaper Pin name tags. The svg file was meant to be a place card. But I needed them as name tags so I just cut the place card piece in half.

 I found matching papers that had little shoes in different colors. You can see that a little bit in the decorative pieces that ere added to the front and back sections of the pin.

The boy paper also had little hats scattered on the paper along with the shoes. Then we are going to have each person write their name in the center portion.

I know this has been a long post but I hope you enjoyed what you saw. Thanks for staying with me to the end.

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Butterfly card

When I got my Cricut Explore there are a number of Make it Now projects. Anna Griifin has a number of them in this category too. This is her Butterly Card. I thought it was so pretty I had to make it for a Birthday card I needed. Now I didn't have any of her papers at the time so I had to improvise with some papers in my stash. I think no matter what papers you used it would turn out beautiful. The design is so pretty and intricate. The butterflies are two layers. This was one of my very first projects with my Cricut Explore. I was very impressed on how it cut the details in this card. How fun!!

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Balloon Ride Layouts

I love this paper pack called Balloon Ride form CTMH. It has really pretty soft colors. I made both the WOTG and the extra layout from the WOTG.

This layout uses some Cricut cuts, stamping, sparkle flourishes and the Balloon Ride assortment of dimensional type buttons.

These  are the Extra WOTG layouts. Isn't that base page a beautiful paper?!!  I love the beautiful Cricut cut for the large photo mat. Plus adding the stamping along the one side in Saddle ink really adds to it. Again sparkle flourishes and the Balloon Ride assortment were used as embellishments on the pages.

I am going to be making a couple more pages with this paper so stay tuned to see those too.

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Card in a Box Craze!!!!

Well by now you must have seen all the posts of the Card in the Box. At least I think that is what they are called. Let me tell you if you haven't made one yet you have to give it a try. They are so much fun to do.  There are a number of videos on You tube that show you how to make these. I used this one for one of mine that I added some money inside it. She shows how to add a slot for a gift card.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnqZ7bWl2js

The other one I made was from this site .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XIZ3a_mA3o

This is another video on making these card in box and she shows using the  CTMH Skylark paper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At4JHCszelo

There are many more also you just have to search for Card in a box and you will see a number of them listed.

So let's get to the project. My first one  was the one without the gift card insert. I used a Retired CTMH paper pack called Bella. I used a number of stamp sets and started building my card. Plus if you are careful on how you place your pieces you can fold it flat (or reasonably flat) and it fits in a regular size envelope. But what a WOW factor when the person gets it in the mail. The back side of the back piece  is where you can write your message.

 This next one has the gift card insert slot and I have a few pictures to show you. I used Retired CTMH Chantilly Paper for this one and again a number of stamp sets. Some of the flowers in this box were Cricut cut and then stamped and some were stamped and hand cut out. In both boxes I also used some 1/4" x 3" pieces of clear acetate to adhere some of the flowers to. When the box is opened they move back and forth just like a real flower garden. You can make these for any occasion and with any elements you want to put in your box. Balloons look really cute too. Since I have made these two I have found another version of how you do the inserts. Also a rectangle version instead of a square. So I will probably be back with some more in the near future.

Give one of these a try. You will love making them. They actually are a little bit addicting!!

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