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.