June Kard Club Swap 2018

Has it already been a month since our last Kard Club Swap?  Wow, time really does fly.
Last night we all met at Laurie's house.  It was Lynn's turn to host and because she lives farther away Laurie offered her home so we didn't have to drive so far.  Thanks Laurie for that!
We always have a great time getting together and chatting with each other.  Fun group of ladies.

Lets get started!  First up is Debb, she was not there but took her cards to Laurie's early so we would have them.  She used a wood grain embossing folder, first she inked the embossing folder then cut the fence shapes out of that and then added the nail heads with a marker.  She used a die cut for the grass.

Next we have Kathy's.  She used a playing card and rounded the opposite corners.  She used papers from her stash, embossed the Celebrate and added some pretty gems.

This is Donna's and she used the Stampin Up Star Punch.  The hello is a die cut.

Laurie used an Art Impressions die to make this cut card and every part of the knife moves and is stamped with a cute saying.  You will be able to see this better in my video.

Then we have Lynn's she used Ann Griffith paper, a star punch and the stamp is from
Taylor expressions.

Erin use her Paper Pumpkin kit to make this one.  We even got a cute envelope to go with it. 

Cathy made this one and she splattered the star, the circle was a Sizzix die, the rock was a Cricut cut, the Wolf was a Spellbinders die, the Trees are Cottage Cutz.

Jeannine Use her Distinctive Impressions stamp for this one.

These are mine and I always make extra just in case.  I used the Free Printables from The Navage Patch.  I also used the G45 Regular Tag &m Gears Metal Dies.

Lynn also had a make and take for us to do.  So here is the Pin Wheel that we made.

So that is it for this Month, we don't meet in July (to much going on).  The Aug one is at my house and our theme is Travel.  That should be a fun one.  Who doesn't love Travel

Here is my Video of all the cards and the insides too.

For the Love of Owl's

Who doesn't love Owl's!  Sometimes when I am walking on the trails I will scare an Owl and it will fly out of it's tree.  Or maybe it scared me.  Who knows.  It's kind of a Chicken, egg kind of thing, I guess.
Here is an Owl card that I made using a Sizzix Die.  It was on the clearance Isle in Hobby Lobby.  I had to watch a couple of youtube video's to see how it was done.  I could not figure it out with the directions that were on the package.  But I love how it turned out.  I cut it out with Close to my Heart Sapphire for the main body.  I used an older paper pack and for the life of me I can't remember the name.  It has a western theme to it.  The beak is the back side of the paper.  I used Black and White Daisy for the eyes.  The inside is Daisy White too with sapphire ink.  The Stamp set is a disc one too.

Here it is open.

I think it is so cute!

 

For The Love Of Owls

It is my Grand Daughters 12th Birthday soon.  I have been racking my brain for something special for her.  She is a beautiful, loving, and very caring young lady.  When you ask her what she would like for her Birthday she always says I don't know, anything is fine.
What do you do for someone like that.  You want to make it special but boy, that is a hard one.  She has loved Owls for years now so when I see something with Owls on it I think of her.  When we go to the any wildlife place she wants to see the Owls.  She has done several reports at school on different kinds of Owls and how they live.  So you guessed it!  I will make her something with an Owl on it. In the Four Seasons Home Decor cartridge there is a 3D shadow box with an owl in it.

When you bring it into the Design Space it is different shades of the same color so I first ungrouped it and added different colors to each one closer to nature.  Then I copied and pasted another Owl one and used the hide contour button to make a darker silhouette that way I could add feathers and the branch would have different shades to it too. 

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.

Artfully Sent meets Frozen

Well today when Helen came over she said she had a Great Grand daughter Kaydence that was turning 6 on Sunday.  Happy Birthday Kaydence!  So I ask my usual questions.  What is her favorite thing.  Answer: Frozen.  So that is where we started.
Anna is her favorite.  Helen wanted to make her a pop-card so we used Artfully Sent and found one that work.  We used the Love Bug card.  I just ungrouped it and deleted everything but the card base and inside with the cut makes.
I used the Cut then Print for the Anna and we also cut out some snowflakes from Frozen too for the inside.

For the front we used the Happy Birthday sentiment from page 36 of the Artfully Sent handbook #M10678E for the Explore. We cut it down so there is a border around it. The 6th is from an image search cut out in carnary along with the cupcake frosting and candle flame.

Clayton Relay for Life Update

Just a reminder for the Card Class for the Clayton Relay For Life Fundraiser April 18th Saturday 10 am - 12:30 pm.
The cost is $25.00 all of which will go to Clayton Relay for Life.  You will go home with 5 cards, a gift and a chance at 2 raffle prizes.  You won't want to miss out.

Here is what we will be making.

Hope to see you there.  I will be donating my time and supplies for this class and any sales that result from this class I will give 20% back to the Clayton Relay. This also includes any sales from my website the entire month of April.  You can see all the products here Come join us and have a great time.
Contact me at michelesinkitstampit@gmail.com

Here is the location

St. John's Episcopal Church

Parish Hall

5555 Clayton Road, Clayton 94517

April Stamp of the Month Typed Note S1504

April's Stamp of the Month Typed Noted S1504 is a fun one.  I was playing around with the Fundamental Paper pack and decided to use it with the SOTM.  The Typewriter is so cute I knew when I was done that I would have to take pictures of it using one of my old hand crank telephone with the mouth piece.  I love antiques!  

You can get the SOTM for only $5.00 when you purchase $50.00 or more.  You can also buy it outright for $17.95.  This month you can also purchase the Deal of the Day and that will qualify you for the SOTM too.  

I made an assorted batch of note cards.  I think they turned out cute and I love the Fundamental Paper pack too.  That is the on of the new Washi Tapes on the side of each card.

Here is a Thank you card with a Pixie Typewriter.

This is the Birthday one with a Chrystal Blue Typewriter

A Hello Card with a Pear Typewriter.

Just for you card with a Canary Typewriter.

I used Daisy White. Kraft cardstock for the cards.  

Inks were Pixie, Canary, Chrystal Blue, and Pear.  

When you order on my website this month I will be donating 20% of my sales to Relay For Life Clayton.

Birthday Card made with my Cricut Explore by a 4 year old

My Granddaughter turned 4 last month.  I needed to make her Birthday card and I wanted to try the penny spinner.  So I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and this is my take.  Well actually it is her take on it.  I started with the birthday category in Cricut Design Space 2.0.  She loved the image Layer Birthday Cake #M47691 Smiley Cards.  I decided to start with that so I then used the circle from Art Philosophy I ungrouped the circle and made the actual circle large enough for the card.  I then took the border circle and put it were I though it should go to be the cutout and then used the slice feature to make the cutout where the spinner would go.  Sounds confusing but it is very simple.  I will make a how to video on this one.  Leave me a comment if you want the video.
The Balloons are Balloon #M4429F Birthday Bash I used the flatten feature so that I could just print then cut them out because she wanted those colors.  I laid out some white twine and let her run my ShinHan markers over the twine.  One color and then another until we had enough for each balloon.  Then I just tied them with a piece of white twine and made a bow.
She pick out all the colors for each thing and colored her own background just the way she wanted it. Even though they are not colors that I would have pick she loved them and that is good enough for me.  I can't wait to see what she does as she gets older.

On the Sunday morning after her birthday she called me and says "guess what Grandma!  What I said.  I am 4"!  Why yes you are!  She was very excited
Here is her finished card and she loved it.  The cake spins around by itself and also spins around circle

Fun Cards My Customers made

Here are some cards that a couple of my customers made.  I love when they share with me what they have created.  They have a great time getting together and creating lots of cards to give out.
So here they are:

This one is very cute valentines card.  Brenda came up with this one.

This one is a great one for using up your scraps..  love the heart stamp

This one uses adhesive pattern paper.  You just cut and stick.  Black, White and Red so classy.   Great job ladies.  

Lorraine came up with this one.  This one is CTMH paper Footloose, I recognize it.  LOL!

You ladies are having way to much fun without me.  Keep it up. 

Thanks for stopping by.  Keep checking back I will have more for you soon!

Birthday Card in a box

I had so much fun making this one.  My friend Helen came to me and asked me to help with a birthday card for her 5 year old Great Granddaughter.  She brought me the invitation so I could see the theme of the party.  I got excited when I saw it was going to be on a Ranch and that she was wearing cowboy boots in the picture on the invitation.  After asking some questions we came up with this card in a box.
When the box is all closed up this is what you see.  I use the B1467 You Mean The World To Me
and the Old West Cricut Cartridge.

When you open it up you get all this.  I love how it turned out.  I think she is going to love it.  When my Granddaughter saw it she said she loved it.  I am hoping that Makayla will too.

Here is the side view.  We added lots of glitter paper, a gem for the horses eye.

I just love a good challenge.  How about you?

I love making things with a horse theme.

CTMH ANNUAL INSPIRATION NEW PRODUCT BLOG HOP

This is a very exciting day!  It is the launch of the new Annual Inspiration Book 2014/2015.  It is so full of new and exciting products that I really am not sure where to begin.  But begin I must.
I am joining in on a New Product Blog  Hop so enjoy the ride.  I know there will be lots of awesome things for you to see.

I am doing my first new product using the new Picture My Life Sea Side.
My Granddaughter had a birthday party to go to and needed a gift.  So we put our heads together and since she loves to doodle and journal I thought maybe her friend would like to do the same thing.  So I used my mini album from convention last month as my inspiration.  (Pun intended) LOL!
I got out my Picture My Life sets and she picked the Sea Side one.  She picked out cards that allowed her to add some embellishments and some stamping too.  She punched 3 holes and placed the binder rings    

Here is the cover

She cut out a couple of plain cardstock in several colors.  She then used the corner rounder on them.

I gave my her a box of leftover cutouts and a little packet of dimensional stickers a couple of stamp sets and she had a great time putting this together.

She tied some ribbon around the binder clips.  I think her friend will love this gift that she made.

I think she did a great job.  Just think of what she will be able to do next year!!!
I can't wait to see.

You can order everything you need to make one here