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. 

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February My Creations Display Album

Here is the February page for our Display Album that we are making in class every month.  My DIL Jennifer makes creates these and the Ladies in class love them.  Jenn does a great job creating these and February is no exception.  The page says it all.  The hearts are cut out using the Cricut and the Art Philosophy cartridge.
When you have to cut 20 per album page and we have 15 ladies in our group well the Cricut is the star.  You just pick your image, pick your size, and the quantity.  When you use the quantity key you don't have to count them one by one.  It keeps track for you.  If you ask it to cut 100 and it will only cut 75 per page it will keep all the info.  You just put a new paper on your mat load it and press cut, it will cut the other 25 for you.  So simple!
Can you tell I just love my Cricut.  Would you like to see all the other pages click here.

All products are CTMH unless otherwise noted
Cardstock:  Smoothie, Black
Paper Pack:  Roxie
Stamp Set:  Is included in the Roxie Workshop on the Go G1025, Save the Date D1386
Ribbon:  From our stash

Happy Valentine's Day card #3

This is another card that we did in Class.  I love the way it turned out.  I had some left over Colonial White card stock cut out at 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" from another class.  I folded it in half so it was 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 but I needed it to be square so I cut off one side to make it a
 4 1/4x 4 1/4 and left a little strip so I made it into a very simple book mark.  I had fun creating this card and using up some of my stash.  The Close To My Heart Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge was used to cut the ribbon holder where we stamped the Love on.  The rose and the leaves were stamped on different colord cardstock (listed below) and then cut out.  My favorite Rose is called Gingersnap so I am always trying to make one that looks like that.

On the book mark I used Red paper clips that I had and a small heart that I cut out with my AP at 3/4" and one of the CTMH pre-cut Butterflies. 
The inside of the card was stamped with the Rose, Leaves, and a scroll for the border.
All items used are CMTH unless otherwise noted.

Crcut Art Philosophy collection Z1686
Cardstock:  Colonial White, Chocolate, Blush, Sunflower, Garden Green
Exclusive Inks:  Tulip, Chocolate, Sunflower, Cranberry, Olive
Paper Pack   Elemental X7141B
Ribbon:  Cranberry Z1103
Butterflies:  Just Bloom Paper Shapes Z1463
Stamp Set:  Roxie Workshop on the Go   G1025
On of my favorite tools is my Fiskars Paper Trimmer:  Euro Personal Paper Trimmer Z338 (this is the one I use the most out of all my paper trimmers
Red Paperclips (from my office stash)

You can order yours here

Happy Valentine's Day Card 2

Here is another card we did in class.  This is so simple to do thanks to the Close To My Heart Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge and my Gypsy.

I used the heart card from the AP cartridge in my Gypsy.  Then I hide the heart and replaced it with the scrolled heart from the Weddings cartridge.  I then hide the outside of that heart.  I joined them together so it was all out lined in Red.  I was able to get two on one mat.  So quick and easy.

I always say that with the my Cricut and my Gypsy I am only limited by imagination...  Okay sometime that is not much but as you can see with this card you don't need much.  I literally did this in about 10 min or less.

I just love the Daisy White and the Baby Pink.  This would be great as a Valentine Card, Wedding Card, Shower Card, Missing you, on and on.  So simple and cute don't you think?

All products listed are CTMH unless otherwise noted.

Cardstock:
Daisy White
Baby Pink

Blush Buttons
New Paradise Assortment Bakers Twine-  you get 10 yards each of 4 colors on one card.

Stamp set is from the Roxie Workshop on the Go
Exclusive ink-   Tulip

Let me know what you are going to try with the AP cartridge.  I would love to see what you make...

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.