Seasonal Expression 2 The New Catalog

I am loving the new Seasonal Expressions 2 catalog.  It is 38 pages of goodness!!!

I love the Blossom Cardmaking Kit.  What fun would that be to give as a gift or to get one of them. You get everything  you need to complete 15 cards with envelopes.  The only thing you will need is your inks.  They have such a fun festive and summery feel to them.

The Blossom Paper pack is great for making scrapbook pages too.  You can even add the Blossom Complements and Assortments too.

The Blossom paper pack makes beautiful invitations as well as cards.  You will have lots of fun with this paper pack and all the fun stamp sets that you can use with it..

Lets see what you can do with this fun paper pack.

Project Inspirations: Pocket Album

This video show you how they decorated the cover of the pocket page album Z1870.   These make such great gifts.  They are great for wedding showers, baby showers,  a long time friend,  for your Grand Kids,  for your Grand Parents,  a trip to Disneyland or any vacation.  It has pockets for tickets, trinkets, hotel keys, Gift cards, what ever you want.  A dried leaf from a Fall drive or trip.  You can have a lot of fun with these.


You can order yours here!

Whooo's Your Valentine? National Papercrafting Month: January 2013

You are going to love this and not just for Valentine's Day either.  You can get yours with a qualifying order.
When you place an order of $35 or more in Close To My Heart products, you’ll receive the Whooo’s Your Valentine kit for only $10. Qualifying purchases must come from Autumn/Winter 2012 Idea Book product (or products live on my website through January). Spring/Summer 2013 Idea Book preview items are not eligible as qualifying retail purchases for this campaign.
You can see below that you will be getting a sneak peek at a couple of new items that we will have in the next Idea Book. 
It is available December 13, - January 31, 2013.




Featured Products: Whooo’s Your Valentine kit (CC1022)
12 – Die-Cut Boxes (3 each of 4 colors: Blush, Hollyhock, Ruby, White Daisy)
3 – 12" × 12" Cardstock Sheets (Blush, Hollyhock, White Daisy)
1 – Sheet Silver Glitter Paper – new product for Spring/Summer 2013!
12 – Treat Tubes with Lids – new product for Spring/Summer 2013!
1 – My Acrylix^® Whooo’s Your Valentine Stamp Set (D-size)


Be sure to get yours now these are while supplies last and they are going to go fast!  Don't wait!!!

Easy Party Planning with Cricut®

Planning a party?  Take a look at this video and see how easy it is to customize any party.

So cute and easy with just the Artiste Cricut Cartridge.  You can make Invitations, envelopes, banners, gift bags, cake boxes, and lots more.  Everthing to make you  party perfect and you can make it.
Get yours here!

July's Card Class

Here is one of the cards that we made in class.  Using my Gypsy and the butterfly card from page 55 in the Art Philosophy handbook at 8 1/2",  I added the Decorative Layer oval from page 55 and the hide feature on the outside layer leaving only the oval.  I then placed it in the center at the topof the front of the card.   I created another layer and cut the Decorative Layer/Shift and used the same measurements as the oval that I made before so it would make a frame. 
I cut out the tag with the matching butterfly, bttrfly2 added in my Gypsy and rotated at 45degrees.  Then cut 2 flowers, the border on the tag is a leftover piece from my 4th of July Cards.  I keep all my little leftover pieces and they do come in handy.

I love creating things in my Gypsy.

All the products used are Close to my Heart.
Cardstock:  Baby Pink, Daisy White, Hollyhock.
Exclusive Inks:  Blush, Hollyhock
Art Philosophy Z1686  Cricut cartridge
Ribbon is from the pink collection.

I sponged all the edges and closed the card and sponged over the butterflies so the soft shapes of the butterflies transferred to the inside of the card too.
Hope you try something new too. 

Diaper Cake No. 2

Last weekend Jennifer and I went to a Baby Shower and this is the Diaper Cake that we made.  This one has receiving blankets folded up and wrapped around to cover the rubber bands that hold the diapers together.  Then each layer was wrapped with a ribbon.  We cut stars from the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge in different sizes, scored and folded them to look 3D.  They were stamped randomly and attached to the outside of the cake. The star on top was 2 of the stars put together with a silver pearl in the center and placed on a dowel in the center.  The stamp set is the Stamp of the Month for Aug 2012.  It will be available Aug 1.

You can see the other diaper cake here.
Get your Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge here.

Diaper Cake for my Daughters Baby Shower

Talk about time flying.  One year ago we were getting ready for my Daughters Baby Shower.  We had it at our local Resturant Guadalahara.  I made all the favors, banners, diaper cake, onsies and dress cut outs for leaving words of wisdom for the new mother -to- be, and an Altered Compisition Book to list all the gifts and who gave them.
Since I started my blog in May 2011 I guess I never posted all the goodies that I made.  I had just gotten my Imagine for Christmas so the push was on to get every thing done in time.  I had so much fun, my DIL helped me put eveything together.  My DIL (Jenn) and I have made lots of invitations and shower favors and all the goodies that go with them.  We were calling ourselves the It Girls, if you need It we can make It, and we did.  But this time it was extra special it was for my Daugher. 

Here is the Diaper Cake.  I just wish I had my Art Philosophy Cartridge to make all flowers.  They were all cut using 4x4 squares trimed, folded, rolled and sponged.  Days and Day of it.

When we came home from the shower and we were unloading the car my 5 year old Grandson was standing by the car and watching everything come out.  You could tell that he had something on his mine but he just keeped standing there and waiting.  Finally he asked me "Grandama didn't you just come from the baby shower"?  Yes we did I said, then he put his arms up in the air and asked "then where is the baby"?  We all just started laughing.  You never know what they are thinking.

I will post more pictures soon.

Tea Light and Art Philosophy

I thought that I would share this today.  It is a 0 calorie tiny cake inspired by the Birthday Pop at Starbucks.  Every time I see it that is excatly what I think of.  I just love making these. They make me smile.
I used one of the Flowers on the Art Philosophy Cartridge as well as 2 different scallop circles on the cartridge too.  I used the 1 1/4" Circle punch in the center of the 2" scallop on the bottom to give you access to the battery and the on/off switch.  Or if you have a Gypsy you can design it with the circle in the center.
I am not near my Cricut to give you all the detail so I will post that soon.  But here is the picture and the products used.

All products are CMTH
Ribbon is from the Pink Collection Z1384
Ink Tulip
Blush Cardstock
Sweet Leaf Cardstock
Art Philosophy Cartridge

Here are some Favor items for Weddings or Showers

I wanted to share some Wedding Favors and Shower Favors that my DIL and I have made.  The little purse is a candy holder,  The photo holder is a large binder clip.  The Tea Light holder is a box cut from the Wedding Solution Cricut Cartridge, The purse is printed and cut with my Cricut imagine and the Nursery Tails Cartridge.  I love doing Wedding invitations, Showers, Weddings, and  Baby Showers too. If you need help or ideas just contact me. The Milk Carton is a Sizzix Die Cut.

The Tea light is a battery Tea light.  They make a perfect light to put with the paper box.

This is what it looks like with the lights out.  Sorry the photo is blurry.  I will have to get out my tripod next time.  You can imagine these at every plate when you have dimmed all the lights.  It is very elegant looking with the flicker of the tea light.

The box is cut at 11.52 or fit to page.  The finished box ends up about 3" The tea light is covered with the CMTH scallop punch and pink Ric- rack.  I made little flowers and stamped the top scallop with a border stamp that I molded to fit in a circle on the top.  That is what is so cool about the CMTH clear acrylic stamp you can bend them to fit a shape that you need.  I do that all the time to form fit to my needs.  You cannot do that with any other stamps that I know of.  That is just one of the things that I love about Close To My Heart.  I will post more on these later too.