My Grand Daughters First Birthday Banner

I had so much fun making the banner, door display, and a balloon wreath for my granddaughters First Birthday.
Here is the Banner or at least part of it.  I cut the Minnie Mouse heads with my Cricut using the Mickey and Friends cartridge.  Everything else is cut using the Art Philosophy cartridge.  All the paper is Close To My Heart.   The ribbong is from my stach.  The 1 is popped up on a spring so it moves when it is touched.  I used the half scallop circle and a rossette with the spring on top of that.

I did doodle on the Minnie Mouse head and Bow with white dots and I water brushed the detail on the Minnie Mouse Bow too.

Card Class Card #2

Here is another card we made in my last class.  It uses the ready made Colonial White die cut cards and envelopes.

I couldn't wait to use the Just Chillin' stamp set along with the Footloose paper pack.  I used the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge to cut the shape for the top part and a new Color Ready Accent wooden shapes for the closure part.  I colored the center of the flower with Sunflower ink and topped it with Liquid Glass and attached it with a glue dot Mini. 
Let me know if you would like to join us.   Check out my class schedule on the page header above. 
The umbrella was stamped in lagoon on the card and then the top of the umbrella was stamped again on White Daisy and cut out.  It is popped up with 3D foam tape and placed over the top of the stamped image.
I cut the coordinating shape from the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge and then cut that in half so it just fit on the front of the card.  Very Easy!

All products are Close To My Heart:

Paper Pack:  Footloose X7151B
Colonial White Cards and Envelopes Z1738
Art Philosophy Z1686
Inks:  Lagoon, Sunflower, Dove Grey, Chocolate, Olive
Stamp Set:  Just Chillin' C1495
Color Ready Accents Z1718
Liquid Glass Z679
3D Foam Tape Z1151
You can order yours here.

Card Class

Here is a quick and easy card that was in the Idea Book on page 80.  If you don't have an Idea Book you can see it here just go to page 80.  The card itself is cut out with the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge.  It is the Square Scallop Card
I also used the color ready seam binding ribbon.  I just love this ribbon because you can change it to any color that you want and it is so easy to do.  If you want to know how just let me know and I will add a tutorial.
This stamp is a great way to make multiple cards and only use one stamp.  I used a diaper wipe with my re-inkers in lots of different colors.

The ribbon on the card on the left is done with one drop of Twilight ink mixed with water in a craft jar.  The ribbon on the card on the right is done on the Twilight ink pad.  This ribbon has to be my new favorite thing and at only $6.95 for 10 yards it's a great deal. I will do a tutorial on different way to use and color this ribbon. Order yours here

Stamp Set
Color Ready Seam Binding
Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge

Join My Team in March and Get Art Philosophy for FREE

Now is a great time for you to join Close To My Heart.  Why?  Because when you sign up as a new Consultant  between  March 1-31, you will receive a FREE Cricut Art Philosophy collection!  The collection’s retail price of $99.00 adds great value to the New Consultant Kit and will give hours of creative fun with the included exclusive Cricut .  If you already own the collection then you can choose to receive $100.00 in select product credit.

The Cricut Art Philosophy collection contain the Art Philosophy cartridge with over 700 images, 3 D-size My Acrylix stamp sets that coordinates with  the cartridge and 3 sheets of matching Dimensional Elements shapes.
Now is a great time to join me and my Team and get in on the fun!   This offer is available March 1-31, 2012.  You can email me at michelesinkitstampit@gmail.com or sign up here.

My Creations Display Album March 2012

Jenn did it again, she came up with a cute and simple design using the CTMH Stella paper pack.  The stamp set is from the Workshop on the Go for Stella (you can see the WOTG here).  What a great page this is.  I just love the colors in the paper pack it is very versitile.  The blind hem stiching is a stamp that is also included in the same stamp set.
The March stamp is from an older stamp set but it worked well with this page.  The 4 leaf clover is made from 4 hearts cut out with the Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge.

You can see all the rest of the months we have done here.

Card Group February #1

This month was the first meeting of a new group for me.  We have 10 Ladies and we will meet once a month.  This group is different in the fact that everyone brings 10 cards all ready made up.  We do a pass around of each card that was brought and you end up with one of the ones that you brought and 9 others all different.  Because of Valentine's Day we went with that for this months theme.
So here is what each of us came home with:

Gayle, Lani, Jeannine, Me, Diane,

Laurie, Judy,

Debbie, Lani, Kathy, Jodie

What's that you say, there are 11 cards.  Well your right!  The hostess Lani made a little Valentine's gift for each of us.  It is the heart shaped one.  Its a little bag with some candy in it.  She cut out two hearts, embossed the front one and used ribbon for the handle. She also did a shirt fold demonstration.  As this was our first meeting she has set the bar high.  Some of the Ladies have been doing these kinds of groups for a long time and others like me, well this is a first.  But what fun.  Lani also made some great desert. 

I was not sure what to expect but I had a great time and so did everyone else. 

Judy and Jodie are from out of town so they missed out on desert.  They mailed there cards to Lani and we will mail each of them a set back.  We set a schedule for the next year and I think it will be lots of fun.

Here is a closer look at her card,  gift bag, and Shirt fold card that Lani did.

Sorry for the bad lighting in this picture it really does not do it justice. 

Great Time and Great Savings with Studio J

This month is another Studio J  money saver.  When you buy one Studio J 5pack (SJ5P), that's 5 - 2page layouts, you will get another Studio J 5pack (SJ5P) for free.  That is a huge savings.  You can use them for yourself or give one as a gift to your friend.

What a great time to get caught up on your scrapbooking.  That's 20 pages done and ready to put in your album.  Catch up from the holidays and all the pictures that you took.  Want to hear the best part....  They are printed and shipped to your door.  You just place them in your album and you are done. You will also save over 60% off retail.  How many times can you say you completed 10 layouts or 20 pages for you scrapbook.  Now is the time to get it done!

I have plenty of videos on my blog that show you some of the things you can do with Studio J. 
You can get started here.  Get yours February 1-29,2012