Day 85: Artfully Sent Board

Today is the last day to come visit us at the Heirloom Pro Stamp show in Puyallup. And this is the last of my four Cricut boards, featuring the newest CTMH cartridge, Artfully Sent.

Just as Artbooking was slanted towards scrapbooking, Artfully Sent is abundant in card making projects. Of course, I tend to use whatever I want on any project I want, so I think the hardest challenge for me in making these boards was sticking to one cartridge!

While Artfully sent has literally hundreds of projects to choose from, I think one of my favorites are the tiny card pockets. They are adorable, and perfect for cards or pocket scrapbooking. I made these in minutes - just cut, fold, glue, and pop some paper inside! I had to add some bling too, but even still the pockets come together so quickly!

I'll be driving home across the state of Washington this evening after the show. I'll share some pics of the actual booth later this week, after I get my fill of little boy snuggles and family time. Hope to see you in Puyallup today! 

Day 84: Artbooking Board

Good morning! I am looking forward to a fun and busy day at the Heirloom Pro stamp show in Puyallup today. 

Here's the third of my four Cricut boards that I made for the show. Artbooking is slanted towards scrapbookers and mini album makers, so it's very dear to me. It was harder for me to size down the elements intended to be for a 12x12 page for this board project, because I wanted to include so many things! That hexagon grid is one of my all time favorite Cricut cuts. 

This tree is definitely a favorite, too. It comes as both a page overlay and an accent. I filled the leaves in with washi tape, stamping, Shin Han markers, and embossing. It was so much fun to make, and so simple with just one button to push!

I hope you'll come by to visit if you're in the Puyallup area this weekend!

Day 83: Artiste Board

Right now as you are reading this I'm busy with my team of fabulous ladies building the CTMH booth for Heirloom Pro tomorrow. Here's the second of my Cricut boards we are using for signage in the booth.

Artiste has an entirely different flavor than Art Philosophy. While I love the simple shapes of Art Philosophy for scrapping and building my own garden, I love the 3-D images of Artiste. There's so many cool projects I had a lot of trouble choosing what to put on this board.

I had to bring in the cuppie, which I detailed with some freehand embossing, Shin Han Markers, and lots of glitter and gems. I also made a sparkly sunshine out of a flower and a button image. 

I love the different shapes of the rolled flowers on this cartridge. I also love that the 3-D elements are even incorporated into cards on this cartridge. Hello! How cute is that? 

Tomorrow is the first day to visit us over at Heirloom Pro in Puyallup - hope to see you soon!

Day 82: Art Philosophy Cricut Board

So for days now I've been working on a series of Cricut demo boards to use as signage in the Heirloom Pro Booth this weekend. I wanted them to be informative and show off some of my favorite cuts from each cartridge. 

This is my board for Art Philosophy. This was the first of CTMH's Cricut cartridges, and it's still probably my favorite. I love playing with the shapes to see what I can build out of them, and I really love making flowers. 

Rolled flowers, flat flowers, 3-D flowers, big or small - I love them all. This branch with leaves is one of my all time favorite flower making pieces. I literally cut extra every time so there will always be a branch or six in my leftovers bin. The butterflies I colored with Shin Han Markers.

We'll be setting up the Heirloom Pro Booth tomorrow, and hanging out all weekend, (hopefully) selling card kits and demoing some fun techniques. If you're in the Puyallup, WA area, stop by and say hi! 

Day 77: Orange You Sweet Card

Here's the last of my Taste of Summer cards for now - I've linked all of them on this post.

I am loving the bold colors and subtle patterns on the backsides of the Taste of Summer papers.  I used the CAS(E) this Sketch #122. I mounted this chevron onto Orange Cardstock that is just 1/8th inch bigger for just a touch of a frame. I split the sentiment into two banners with some careful selective inking.

I inked the oranges in Sunflower ink and Rolled the edges in Sunset ink. Then I glittered the centers. I added a few green epoxy bubbles to pop against the orange. I love me a sweet and simple thank you card!

Day 76: Friend You're Berry Special Card

Here's the third of my Taste of Summer cards. I am fully craving strawberries at this point, and it is not yet strawberry season here!

Working off the cute new Freshly Made Sketches challenge, I laid down a base banner of smoothie stripe washi tape. then I used some patterned paper to make the second banner. I stamped the main sentiment panel with the BERRY special sentiment in Cranberry ink repeatedly before adding the berry vine in Topiary ink. Then I dotted in a yellow border using the bullet tip of my Shin Han marker.

I inked each berry body in Hollyhock ink, then rolled it in Cranberry ink. My team plans to demonstrate this technique (amongst other things) at the Heirloom Pro show booths we are doing in Hillsboro, OR all day Saturday and two days in Puyallup, WA next weekend. It's one of my favorite solid stamp techniques. I topped off the berries with Topiary ink caps, and nestled some paper flowers around the berries. They are attached with Brads that I gave a quick coat of glitter polish. I like to stand my sanding block on one end and push my brads into the block to hold them while I paint on the glitter. Once they are dry I just pop them out!

I made a couple extra of these and stamped out the word TEACHER instead of Friend for our teacher appreciation gifts today. We feel very lucky to have such wonderful teachers working with our boys - they are BERRY special to us indeed.

Day 73: Happy Birthday Floral Card

I've got another sweet Blossom paper card for you today. 

Today I was inspired by the new Muse Card club challenge.  I used the inspiration photo as a sketch. I widened the center dividing strip, since I was using glitter paper. My philosophy is everything is better with glitter!

I used three stamp sets on this. The big circle is from Doodled Designs. The big flower is from Shower Flowers. The sentiment and the wreath spray is from Happy to Be Friends. I made some with the birthday sentiment and a few with the Happy Mother's Day sentiment. I love the assortment of sentiments in that set! 

Tomorrow I'll be playing with the new Taste of Summer goodies that CTMH is offering especially for National Scrapbooking month. See ya soon!

Day 72: AHSC Floral Blank Card

I am loving the bright, happy colors in this blossom paper lately. It just makes my heart happy when I'm working with pretty paper!

Today I used the new Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge sketch. It was sweet even before I added the blossoms from the Shower Flower stamp set.  

I added some stitching into the block at the bottom, using strips instead of a solid block. The main flower is popped up with foam tape. I colored some Sparkles with a Shin Han marker and filled the tiny flower centers. Happiness!

Day 67: Oh So Happy For You Card

I'm back with one more Elegant Bouquet and Dreams Come True card. I'm a little sad that my stash of this paper has run low, but it also feels really good to be emptying out so many paper holders. Wonder how I'll fill them again...

This time I used the sketch over at Retro Sketches as a jumping off point. I rotated the sketch, and then I chopped up the main panel for a tiled effect that I quite like. 

I stamped the main panel with Cashmere, Garden Green, and Cranberry inks. My panel was 4 1/2 x 3, so I cut it into three 1" strips and then I turned the strips and trimmed the squares at 1 1/8". 

For my corner flower I inked the bloom in Cashmere ink, then rolled just the edges in Cranberry ink. I stamped that off onto scrap paper, then rolled just the tips of the petals around in more Cranberry ink before stamping onto Colonial White cardstock. That gave me a really nice variegation in the petal coloring without a lot of complicated coloring! I did the same with the leaves for the flower, inking first in cashmere and then rolling it in garden green ink before stamping.  

I'm Oh SO Happy that I'll be headed to Seattle in just two days! I hope you've got something that makes you Oh So Happy today too!

Day 65: Have a Happy Day Card

Happy Monday! The sun is shining...the grass is green...it's like I woke up in a Disney movie today! In honor of Springtime actually being here, I've got a bright and cheerful happy day card for you.  

I loosely based my card on the CASE this Sketch #120. I went a little out of the bounds with my flower background behind the birdie. I hope you'll forgive me. Must be the sunshine!

Update: Check out this card by Lilian YF. She made this months before I made mine - freaky, right? I couldn't find it in my pins, but I pin a lot of stuff, so maybe I saw it somewhere and filed the inspiration away until I finally got around to using this set? In any case, she's got a fab use for that feather image in this set, so go check her super cute blog out!

 I colored the focal flower and bird with my Shin Han markers. Have you seen my quick tip infographic on alcohol marker blending? I use a lot of blender pen when working on these guys, I also used the bullet tip of my marker to add that dotty outline to the sentiment!

Hope you have a fabulous HAPPY day!

Day 58: Triple Time Happy Birthday

My card for the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #104 was inspired by the colors in my Elegant Bouquet papers spread over my desk. 

I've wanted to do one of these Triple Time cards for a while. I'll do a tutorial later this week - but in the meantime you can search it on Pinterest and find a lot of examples. It's a super fun technique!

This was one of my favorite stamp sets once upon a time. It's fun to pull out old retired favorites and give them another chance. I combined it with Your Own Kind of Wonderful and Finding the Words. 

Hop on over to Atlantic Hearts and give this fun technique a try!

Day 55: Elegant Thanks Flower Pot and a Winner!

Happy Friday, Stampin' Friends! First off I'd like to congratulate the winner of my Bling giveaway, Joy B! Check your email, Joy, 'cause I can't wait to send you a little bundle of goodness! Thanks to everyone who entered - I'll do another giveaway soon.

Today I'm sharing the first card from my next card kit based on the Elegant Bouquet papers. This is a gift card holder - you slide up the flowers and out pops the gift card. I've always loved this watercolor-y floral paper, and when it retired I hoarded it like mad. Now I'm finally OK with using that pretty paper as it was meant to be used, instead of keeping it in my stash. I'm linking this card up to the Paper Issues Prints Charming party, for inspiring me to let go of the stash.

I cut all the flowers and leaves using my beloved Art Philosophy cartridge. I sanded the cranberry CS flowers and inked the Colonial White ones with Cranberry ink. Then I flipped them face down on the back of my foam mat and used a stylus to shape the petals. I flipped them back over to form the flower centers using the stylus, then layered them all together with Liquid Glass and topped them with Sparkles. 

So...I can acquire some new stash now, right? 

Day 54: Black and White For You Card

I think this is my favorite card from my Heirloom Pro hexagon card kit. Something about the crisp black and white with the clean hexagon lines...

I used the patterns from the May stamp of the month to stamp the hexagon diecuts and the sentiment. I cut some banners from the Paper Fundamentals Basic collection.

I layered these over half a cute doily I got from Spiegel Mom Scrap Shop. A sprinkle of sequins and yay, happy!

Check back tomorrow to see if you won my celebration giveaway this week!

Day 53: Hexagon Thank You Card

So after cutting the honeycombs for my Just Beecause card I was left with a plethora of teensy tiny hexagons... what to do...what to do?

I figured stamping them was a good start. I'd seen the ColourQ Challenge for this week, which was Black and White plus one color, so I grabbed some Cranberry. I used the patterns from the May SOTM to add texture to my hexagons. I added the sentiment from Finding the Words, which is quickly becoming a favorite set.

I stitched the edges with black thread, and added some black enamel dots. Then I used a fine line pen to shadow the stamped image, just following the stamped image edge. I love the extra definition just a bit of foam tape can give to a simple card! 

Day 52: You Are Sew Special Card

Today I've got another sweet card from my Heirloom Pro sewing card kit to share.

I think that I originally saw this inspiration card from Lisa Stenz, and tucked that cute thought away for a good long while. My version is slightly different and I added a little banner flag to my bigger sentiment. 

I popped up all the hearts with foam tape for some extra dimension. That made it easier to place them too, since I could line them up and nudge them around before committing. Thanks for the inspiration, Lisa!

Day 49: Sew Special Card

I'm so excited! My team just got the Heirloom Pro booths for Portland, OR and Puyallup, WA, so we have been working hard on Create-A-Card kits for the show.

 Do you remember this adorable Jubilee paper? I so love gingham everything! 

I stitched on a little swirl using the stitch guide, and ran my thread through the eye of the needle. I'll be sharing more sneak peeks of my card kit designs during this month. I sure hope I'll be seeing you at the show in May!