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This card was made using two of the CTMH Cricut catridges. The Art Philosophy and Artiste cartridges.  These  cards were designed by Adeline Brill. Thank you Adeline. Check her out for some more fantastic projects.
In this project she was showing how to use some of the different buttons available to us on our Cricuts that we may forget about or not know how to use. Also both cards are very similar but not exactly the same. The top one is cut with the Artiste cartridge and the bottom one with the Art Philosophy cartridge. Some of the buttons that we don't often think about using like Flip, Portrait, Fit To Length, Repeat Last, Settings to change from 1/4ths to 1/10ths,  Quantity and Real Dial Size, to name a few.  As an example in these cards the stamped frame  comes from a stamp set called Frame Flair D1548. On the carrier sheet for the stamp set it states which Cricut cartridge is used and what size to cut the images for the stamp to fit exactly. So it said to use the Art Philsophy cart and to cut it at 2 1/4". So in the bottom card the stamped image fits nicely on the white daisy CS cut piece. But on the top card the same stamp was used but the image was chosen from the Artiste cartridge and so it doesn't match exactly but yet it still works. 

It is something to try when you are playing around with your different Cricut buttons. Pick a cartridge and a stamp set that has a Cricut image and see if you can make the same card using another cartridge by finding similar images. It helps us to look outside the box a little and expand our knowledge and our supplies. Try out some of the different buttons to see what they do for you. It will be surprising on how much can be done with a change or addition of a few buttons.

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Family Accordion Display Album

I  saw this project and fell in love with it so I bought a  kit from Angela Garcia.  It is made from all Cricut cuts and she used the Craft Room as well.  I made jut a few changes and additions to make it my own. Thank you Angela for this beautiful project.

It stands nicely on a mantel, table or shelf and also folds up if you want to put it away or make it s a gift and mail it to someone.

It is made with the Huntington paper pack, natural hemp and a  Rosewood Mini Medley all from CTMH.

What I did a little different was I added a Cocoa CS letter to the back of each Champagne CS letters and offset them a bit giving it a shadow type look. I liked how the letters stood out from the papers they are placed on. I also cut Cocoa Cs shapes for the mats in the openings and for the back of the frames. This not only gave it a finished look on the back of the display but it also added stability and sturdiness to the project when it is standing up.

The cartridge that was used was CTMH Art Philosophy.

 

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Thank You card #2

Here is my second Thank you card.  This time I used the Artiste cartridge to cut the card and the wrapper along with some of the flowers, leaves and the swirl. I also used a couple of Smoothie flowers from the Floret paper flower pack and pewter brads for the flower centers. The stamps were D 1544 Distressed backgrounds which I used on the Cricut cut flowers that come out from behind the paper flowers. For the Thank You I used the stamp set A1119 A Garden.

I had an older stamp set C1448 Magic Tabs  that has a bunch of very small sayings of "pull here", "note inside" etc. I used it to add a couple of those sayings so the person would know how this card opens. I put "pull here" on the bottom front corner and on the back of the wrapper I put "note inside".
I am really short on cards in general for all occasions so I will be trying to get a variety made and will post them as I get them done.

Thank you card

I needed some Thank You cards so sat down and made two different ones. Here is my first one.

I adapted a pattern from the CTMH How To Wishes Card book. The pattern had a piece that wrapped around the card and the card would then slide out from the wrapper. I made the look of that card on my card front but my card is a top open card. Confusing? I hope not.I used B&T paper from Buzz & Bumble and Saddle, Juniper and Colonial White CS colors.
The flower garden was stamped with Olive Pigment ink and the two flowers that were highlighted were with Gyspy and Autumn terracotta pigment inks. The sentiment was stamped with Cocoa ink. I embellished with some twine and a clear button and some Opaques Mocha gems for the flower centers. The stamp set was a SOTM titled "A Flowering Bunch".

2 of a Kind Layout

Back in July I believe it was there was a CTMH project shown on Big Picture Classes website on one of there PJ Party nights. Well I didn't get around to making it back then but have completed it now so I thought I would share it with you. 

It is almost entirely made using the Artbooking Cartridge and a stamp set that that came in the bundle as well. It was a lot of fun to make and a good learning experience in how the Artbooking cartridge works.

This is the left page. One of the interesting features in using the Artbooking cart. is that you can pick a layout for example and anything you cut on the page in the handbook will cut using the same size on your dial. So in this case the suggested size was 11". So the overlay, title, banners and photo mats were all cut using 11" but as you can see they did not all cut at 11" in actual size. They cut in proportion to all the elements for this layout.
*the only change I made was because I wanted to use some stamps that coordinated with the arrow images I needed to change the dial size to what it said on the stamp carrier sheet and use the RDS button. Then they cut to match the stamp and the Dimensional Elements that were also a par of the Artbooking cart. bundle.

This is the right page. One other little trick I did was for the Sweet leaf photo mats instead of using 3 2 x 2 photos I placed a 4 x 6 behind the openings and trimmed the  top and bottom to fit. On the left page I really lucked out in that the kids lined up in the middle opening exactly! Now that doesn't happen very often. On the page above it was a scenery so it worked very easily.

I haven't done a whole lot with the Artbooking cart. yet but after making this layout I am very excited to work with it a lot more. I especially like that you can cut everything the size it says on the handbook page or you can change and cut any size you want. It is so versatile.

Stay tuned for more Cricut projects and more to come.

Sorry I have been absent

Hi everyone,
I am sorry I have been absent for so long. Between the busy Holiday's and some other reasons I haven't been crafting or posting. I am getting back into my groove and will be showing you some projects soon.  Hope to see you then.

Artbooking Made Easy: Inspiration Mini Albums

CTMH has another Artbooking video. Check it out!

It isn’t every day that inspiration comes along, but loved ones have a way of sharing it just when you need it. With cuts from the inspiration–themed keys of the Cricut^® Artbooking cartridge, your pages will say the things you can’t put into words yourself. Watch the video for ideas on combining your most treasured memories with borders, overlays, and other complementary shapes from the cartridge to make inspiring artwork of your own