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.

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!!!

Artiste Cricut Cartridge Cuts page 32

Okay well I got a little sidetracked but that is a good thing.  It's the 6th of Aug and I am only on the second page of cuts.  There are so many new things to share with you.  So let's get started.
Here are the cuts I made from page 32 in the Artiste Handbook.  The Card and Envelope are cut at 4", 2 tags cut at 3", Font at 1 1/2", flower and leaves at 1 1/2", Corner piece at 2". 
The Stamp Set I used on the Card is the Stamp of the Month for January 2013 Happy Valentine's S1301.  I use the water color pencils 3505 to color in the Roses and leaves.  I stamped the sentiment from 4 My Friend D1510.  The 3-D project is cut at 2" and stamped with this month's Stamp of the Month Baroque Borders S1208 with the new pigment mini inks set Basic Z2503 in Whisper.  You are going to love these.  You can see them here.  The Happy Birthday is from 4 My Friend D1510.

Here is the sign that I made from page 32 also.  I hung it around the neck of my soap bottle with some ribbon.  It is a bottle that I have had for years and put an olive oil stopper in it.  Now it is my soap dispenser.

The Accent 4/S piece is on the front of my card box holder here.
So all this is just on 1 key on the overlay.  All these images and we have only just begun. You can see that I did not do much to any of the cuts yet they are so cute.  The sky is the limit!
Keep checking back I am trying to post daily on what you can do with the New Artiste Cricut cartridge..  It is so amazing!!!!
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Artiste Cricut Cartridge page 31

Here is a sampling of what you can do with the new Close To My Heart Cricut cartridge Artiste.
First is the 3-D Object the Purse that I showed you yesterday.  Here it is before I decorated it.  All these cuts are from page 31 in the handbook and the first key on the overlay.  You can see the card with the envelope, Accent 1 doily and the border, plus the purse and the tag.

Here is the purse all decorated.  I used the Fit to Page button on my Cricut Expression which made it cut at 3 1/2".  I cut the boarder (Accent 1/S) at 3/4" and the Doily at 3".  The Tag above is cut at 3".  I will be showing you that later when it is decorated.

The card and envelope are cut at 4 1/2" stamped in Twilight with the Stamp of the Month Baroque Borders S1208 and the Avonlea Cardmaking workshop flair C1527 from the Workshop on the Go Cardmaking kit G1041.  I will post all the cards and a cute card holder later.  So don't miss this one!
I used Twilight ink to sponge everything you see here.  I used second generation Baroque Borders to stamp the inside of the card with the same image.

I can't forget to show you the Display Album Page that Jenn made it uses 2 doily's Accent 1 and Accent 4 from the first key on the overlay and page 31 in the handbook...  See all the Display Album pages here.  As you can see there are even more images that can be cut from page 31.  Let me know what you think.

If you want a tutorial on anything I did just ask and I will post it too! 
This is just one key of the overlay.  I am going to have some fun with this cartridge.  How about you?
Order yours here.

Card and Sweet Treat Holder from the July Card Class #2

I have been making 1 Christmas card each month in my Class to get a jump on Christmas.  This month I wanted to make a hanging ornament so I created this one in my Gypsy using the Art Philosophy cartridge.  Using Olive cardstock and a page from the new Pear & Partridge Paper Packet.  You are going to love this one!  New Products will be available Aug 1st.

Here I used the card layer from page 47 and hid the cutout in the center.  I put the oval from the center of the Decorative Layer hiding everything but the oval and placed in the center near the top.  Creating a second layer in the Gypsy I cut out the Decorative Layer/S the same size as the oval so they would match up.  I also put the sweet treat tag on this layer.  In the 4th layer I use the ornament from Layer/S I cut 2 out of the new Ruby.  In the 5th layer I cut out Shape2 from page 36 to use for the pop up part of the Title in Colonial White which I stamped with Christmas Love D1492 in Ruby.  I just masked off the Star.  If you don't have a Gypsy you can do the same thing in the Cricut Craftroom. 
I randomly stamped the background on the card using 3 of the stamps from Happy Clusters C1471
The Sweet Treat Holder is scored and folded to have a flat bottom.
The Sky really is the limit!!!  If you can imagine it you can make it.  Give it a try and see what you come up with.

Happy Valentine's Day Card

This months Card Class was all about Valentine's Day.  We used the Art Philosophy cartridge for everything.  I just love how useful all the cuts are on this cart.  This is the pillow box cut and one of the layered hearts.  It is so easy to put together too.

The pillow box with the heart was made by one of my customers Jeannie Jeffers.  She brought everything pre-cut and all ready to sponge, emboss, glitter and put together for our classes.  She even showed how to emboss the band and glitter the heart.  The ribbon just put the icing on the cake!

By putting the band on after the pillow box is sponged, put together and puffed out was her great tip so that the box keeps its shape.
The heart was spray glued and the glitter was sprinkled on with a spoon.  She keeps her glitter with a plastic spoon in a Ziploc container.  That was another great tip for the class.  Jeannie did a great job and everyone just loved what she did.
We have a guest designer each month in class they are one of the members that wants to make something and teach it to all of us.  That is so much fun..

This would be a great Gift Card Holder or even a Sweet Treat Holder too. 

Thanks Jeannie we all loved it.

I still have a couple extra if you want to make one.  Just let me know.



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.