Christmas Cards with Cricut Art Philosophy and Artbooking Cartridges

 

 When you make your own Christmas cards, it's never too early to start!!  Both of these cards are an easy design, making quick work of your cardmaking time.  The "Happy Holiday" card is made using one of the overlays from the new Artbooking cartridge.   It was cut at real dial-size at 6 3/4 inches.  The card base is one of the die cut cards sold by Close To My Heart.  The card flap was covered with paper from the Frosted paper pack. The tag was cut out using the Art Philosophy Cartridge and stamped with it's coordinating stamp from the "Holiday Cheer" stamp set. I inked all of the edges in Cocoa ink.








 This Ho Ho Ho card was so much fun to make...and VERY quick.  I used notecard bases purchased at Michael's, cranberry cardstock and the squares were cut using the Art Philosophy Cartridge...white was 2 inches and black was 2 1/4 inches.  The ho Ho Ho stamp is one of the new mini stamps, stamped in Cranberry ink.  Santa's "belt" is a 1/2 inch strip of black shimmer paper, and a pearl badge button. You could also use a white button as well.   You can find all of these products at Close To My Heart.  Shop with me to find all of these products...and to see what's new!

Damask Divas Blog Hop-Sarita

 

Hi!  If you came from Roberta's blog then you are in the right place!  If you are here by chance, be sure to check out the full list of blog participants at the Damask Divas Blog.

I like to create home decor items so when I saw this frame at the gift shop where I work I had to buy it....I knew I would come up with something!   It's an open back frame and the inner opening is 6x6 inches.  I started by layering some chipboard (4 pieces of 6x6 inch) in the opening so my sentiment wasn't so "deep" into the frame. The sentiment piece and frame around the sentiment was cut at 3 1/2 inches. After I glued the frame to the sentiment, I inked the edges with Gypsy ink. The large flowers were made using the Sarita textiles and adhesive circles (just twist strips of fabric and beginning in the center, coil the strip around onto the adhesive. The smaller flower is made with (4) 1-inch circles that have been quartered and secured to an adhesive dot, then metal accent glued in the middle. The "ribbons" are also Sarita textiles.  I finished it off with black sparkles flourishes and the floral accents. The sentiment was then adhered with foam tape.  It went together pretty quickly!

 

Products used:
Wooden frame (available at most craft & hobby stores)
Sarita paper pack
Sarita textiles
Gypsy Exclusive Ink
Black Exclusive Ink
Stamp Set: Scrapbook Statements-Poets
Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge
Sparkles Black Flourishes
Adhesive Dots
Base & Bling Floral Accents
Plain chipboard (found at most craft & hobby stores)

All of these products (except for the frame and the chipboard) can be purchased at CTMH!

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Close To My Heart Autumn/Winter 2013 Idea Book

I'm so excited about the new products available in the Autumn/Winter Idea Book!  ESPECIALLY the new Cricut Cartridge, Artbooking!!  Here's a sneak peek of some of the new items that are available beginning August 1st.  You can order these items directly from my website jamieblades.ctmh.com. I know you are going to love them!! 

Frame display

Base & Bling-make your own jewelry and headbands!

New Consultant Kit

Autumn/Winter 2013 Idea Book

You can make this with Cricut-Artbooking!

Cricut Artbooking Cartridge - only available at CTMH!!

Frame Art Kit

Hostess Exclusive Stamp

Laughing Lola paper pack

Frosted Cardmaking Workshop

Huntington paper pack

ProPlayer paper pack

 

This is just the tip of the iceberg.  There are so many more new items you won't want to miss!  Contact me to get your new Idea Book!! 

May Workshop Projects

My monthly workshop club meets tomorrow....National Scrapbook Day!  Here's the projects we will be making this month.  The scrapbook page and the pinwheel card are both made using the Close to My Heart DreamPop paper pack, which is the special this month.  With any qualifying $35 purchase, you can get the DreamPop paper pack for only $10!!  It's beautiful paper, very bright and yummy!

The stamp set used on this page is the May Stamp of the Month, Pinwheel.









The pillow box is made using the Claire paper pack.








DreamPop paper pack again, for this card, as well as the May Stamp of the Month, Pinwheel.










I made this card with some Pear & Partridge paper that I still had from the previous Idea Book.  Thanks for stopping by!

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Claire Blog Hop

Hi! If you came here from Amie's blog, you're in the right place.  If you hopped here by chance, please visit our team blog at www.damaskdivas.com for a complete list of blog participants.

This month's Blog Hop features the Claire paperpack.  I just love the colors of this pack!!  I decorated the bracket frame using an inspirational theme rather than a picture.  The flowers were made using the Art Philosophy Cartridge (inspiration courtesy of Cathy Derouche, a fellow Damask Diva).  The balloons, bird, and sun were cut out with the Artiste Cartridge. The sentiment is computer-printed on White Daisy cardstock in dark blue ink and matted with Outdoor Denim cardstock.

 

I used the following products:

My Creations Bracket Frame
Claire paperpack
April Stamp of the Month: My Sunshine
Honey cardstock
Hollyhock cardstock
Crystal Blue cardstock
Cocoa cardstock
White Daisy cardstock
Art Philosophy Cartridge
Artiste Cartridge
Silver Shimmer Trim
Exclusive Inks: Hollyhock, Sunset, Outdoor Denim
All of the above items are available from Close To My Heart

I also used adhesive pearls & a glitter pen on the balloons; Glimmer Mist was sprayed on the flowers (those particular products are not CTMH but CTMH does carry adhesive pearls).

Thanks for checking out all of our projects using the Claire paperpack.  We hope you can find some inspiration!

Jamie Blades
Close To My Heart Independent Consultant
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Quick Cards

I'm having my monthly workshop today and these are the cards we are going to make.  This month we're using the Buzz and Bumble paper pack so I thought these stamp sets were a great choice.  I love the Quick Cards stamps because you can make a card in no time but it doesn't look like something just "thrown together." I used Exclusives ink in Cocoa to stamp the images, then colored in various parts of the image with a yellow Copic marker.  All of the items used (except the Copic marker) can be purchased on my website at jamieblades.ctmh.com.  Thanks for visiting!

Jamie Blades
Close To My Heart Independent Consultant
http://jamieblades.ctmh.com

Damask Divas Buzz and Bumble Blog Hop

Hi!  Welcome to the Damask Divas Blog Hop featuring the Buzz and Bumble paperpack!  If you came here from Cydney's blog you are in the right place.  If you happened to just hop here by chance, please visit our team blog to see the complete list of participants.

This month, I chose to make a project that I can use every day! (well, at least 5 days/week).  I carry a clipboard at work and was getting a little bored with the one I had so I came up with this one.  It was fun, quick, and easy to put together.

back

front

I used the following products: the Buzz and Bumble WOTG Scrapbooking Kit, glitter paper in brown/tan, Bohemian alphabet stamp set(found in the previous Idea Book), Distressed Backgrounds stamp set, Exclusive inks in Sunset and Chocolate, Copic markers cream YR21 & sanguine YR18 (used those to color the large flowers on the back of the clipboard), Liquid Glass, and Mod Podge (I used the gloss-lustre finish).

For the back I just tore random pieces and glued them in place with Mod Podge to make the background.  I also used the Mod Podge to glue everything else in place, with the exception of the "wax" seal embellishment and the jewels on the small flowers on the back....I used Liquid Glass to adhere those. Then I just applied two additional thin coats of Mod Podge on the whole thing (letting them dry in between) and it's ready to go!!

I hope you've enjoyed seeing my project and all of the other great projects in this Blog Hop.  We all hope you can find some inspiration!!

Jamie Blades
Close To My Heart Independent Consultant
Shop with me at jamieblades.ctmh.com

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