Creative Projects

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Damask Divas Valentine Blog Hop

Hi! Welcome to the Damask Divas Valentine's Day Blog Hop! If you came here from Tracy's Blog, then you are in the right place! If you hopped here by chance, be sure to check out the full list of participants at the Damask Divas Blog. You'll find all sorts of inspiration for the "season of love."

For my project, I used the Cricut Artfully Sent cartridge and made a card for my husband. This cartridge makes it so easy to put a card together that really has your own touch. Simply cut out the card, adhere various papers behind the cut-outs, add your embellishments and you're done! If you didn't notice, in my doodling around the card edge, I actually added "love" as part of my doodling. I also love that they are a full 5x7 inch.

The card base is found on page 35 of the cartridge booklet (sleeve+Shift+b) and was cut at 7 inches.

For the inside, from the same page, I cut the sentiment (sentiment+b) at 5 inches, then I cut it apart to piece the inside (I wanted a full piece to cover the papers behind the hearts).

Washi-tape makes it simple to add that extra touch. The small heart on the inside left is one of the cutouts from the card front that I covered with washi tape.

Close To My Heart products used:

Cricut Artfully Sent cartridge
Heartstrings paper pack
White Daisy card stock
Hollyhock card stock
"You're the Bomb" stamp set ($3 of proceeds from this stamp sale is donated to Operation Smile)
Exclusive Inks - Black, Lagoon, Hollyhock
Lagoon Hearts Washi Tape
Gold Sequins Assortment
Black Journaling Pen
Foam Tape & adhesive of choice

Thanks for stopping by to check out my project!

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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Totes To Go

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Rub & Remove™ Eraser

Washi Tape Dispenser

Friday, October 10, 2014

the NEW Arfully Sent Cricut Collection

So if you love to make cards, there is absolutely NO REASON you should not consider getting the new Artfully Sent Cricut Collection!! It can totally take the guesswork out of designing a card. I just got my cartridge a few days ago but hadn't really looked through it yet until last night. I needed a card for a baby shower at work (one of several in the next few months...something's in the water!!), so I browsed through the booklet to find this design. I had some retired Babycakes paper and Assortments so I put it to good use. This card was SO easy!! And it comes with a second booklet that shows you how to assemble your card.

This particular card is one of the Pop-Up designs but it makes so many other types of cards as well. Scene cards, sleeve cards, pocket cards, gift-card holders....you can make 400 projects with this ONE cartridge!! (the pennants for "Baby" were some cuts I had leftover from another cartridge, I believe Art Philosophy).

For $99 you get the cartridge, 3 D-size stamp sets (I used the font stamp set to stamp "Baby"), plus a package of White Daisy cardstock.

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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

6" x 6" Canvas

Christmas is just around the corner! Have you thought about what gifts you might give to your friends and family? Have you thought about making your gifts? Close To My Heart has many options to create your own gifts that everyone is sure to love. Like this 6" x 6" canvas display, featuring my cutie-pie granddaughter. This pattern is actually shown in the current Idea Book on page 128. I pretty much followed the pattern as seen in the book, but you could easily make it your own....switch up the colors, stamp the hexagons instead of embossing them, even use a different sentiment. Whatever you choose, you'll end up with a beautiful project that makes a perfect gift.

The hexagons were cut using the Cricut Artbooking cartridge, at 3/4 inch and 1 1/4 inch RDS (real dial size). Use a VersaMark ink pad to stamp the various designs on the hexagons, then heat emboss using gold embossing powder. The flowers, leaves and branches were cut using the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge (see keys and sizes below). The leaves were covered with Topiary Striped Washi Tape. All pieces were adhered with Liquid Glass.

You can find all of these products on my website.

My Acrylix Honeycomb

White Daisy Cardstock

Pear Cardstock

Smoothie Cardstock

Black Exclusive Inks Pad

VersaMark Ink Pad

My Creations 6" x 6" Canvas Display

Yuletide Carol Assortment

Topiary Striped Washi Tape

Ranger Princess Gold Embossing Powder

Cricut Artbooking Collection

Cricut Art Philosophy Collection

Liquid Glass

Flowers cut from Art Philosophy:

1" and 1 1/4" Shift (cut several, p. 28) - Smoothie

1", 1 1/4", and 1 1/2" Shift (p. 29) - Smoothie

1", 1 1/2", and 2" Shift (cut several, p. 43) - Pear

1 1/2" Shift (p. 50) - Smoothie

3/4", 1", and 1 1/4" Shift (cut several, p. 56) - Pear

Thanks!

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Damask Divas Scaredy Cat Blog Hop

Hello there! Welcome to the September Damask Divas Blog Hop featuring the Scaredy Cat paper packet. If you came here from Sarah's blog, then you are in the right place. If you hopped here by chance, be sure to check out the full list of blog participants on the Damask Divas Blog.

For this blog hop, I made a one-page layout and a card. For the one-page layout, I used the Cricut Artbooking cartridge, and all of the cuts were made using the "V" key. The Artbooking cartridge is designed for scrapbook layouts, in that for each of the keys, you set your cutting size as indicated on the page and then each item on that page will be cut in proportion to the rest of the items to make your layouts easier than ever. Now you can still use RDS (Real Dial Size) to make your cuts (which I did to cut the fence pieces), but everything else was cut at 11 inches WITHOUT setting to RDS. (I cut the fence pieces....there are 4 pieces all together....at 1.5 inches RDS).

Artbooking cartridge

12x12 page

I had some scrap pieces of yellow-orange that I glued behind the windows of the haunted house and I sanded the edges as well. The fence pieces were cut from the houndstooth pattern of cardstock from the Paper Fundamentals Basics cardstock pack.

For the card, I cut the "Beware" piece from one of the patterned pieces in the paper pack, and the inside of the card has a sticker from the Complements set. I added a half-circle of purple glitter paper for a little extra color. The scalloped kraft piece is actually the flap cut off of a 6x6 kraft die-cut card and trimmed down a bit. The black cardstock was embossed with the dot embossing folder and then I sanded the top to bring out the white.