More CTMH Ms. holiday Cheer cards

I made more cards today....


This is a closer look at the stamp and the berries, that i died the flat back adhesive pearls with cranberry alcohol inks.

CTMH Ms. Holiday Cheer card

i've been trying to come up with a card for my NY ladies stamps (thats what i call them) they are actually Ms. holiday Cheer. I used my CTMH inks and blending bend to color in everything. The background is kinda yucky. I also used red stickles on her dress and white stickles on the hat and adhesive backed pearls for the pom pom on her hat and around the corners. I also, used them on the tree after i dyed them with cranberry alcohol inks . even with the alcohol inks the pearlyness is still there!! The backgreen paper is from back country and the pink is from Bella. And just plain old pink grossgrain ribbon.

Scrapbook Expo Classes

I took 2 classes at the scrapbbok expo

the first one was by Down to Details (downtodetails.net)

tis is what the first layout was to look like:

this is my spin on it:


this is what the 2nd layout was to look like

this is my spin on it:

The2nd one was by basic Gray "eerie Album"

i havent finished it. i have a few things i want to cut from the cricut before finishing but once i'm all done i'll post the finished product.

My Christmas Countdown calendar

Yes, I'm thinking Christmas already! This is a 6x9 Clipboard. I painted it red and edged it with white. I'm still working on the number cards. i think i have the right size now, but do you think i remember what size i cut them at NO! I'm still playing with the combination of numbers so theres an even # of cards but dont want 24. Once i get that figured out I'm going to laminate them so they don't wear out and can be used year after year. I plan on making quite a few to sell either at a fair or on-line. I'm going to do different designs, i'll post when i get them done.

Cricut CDS Astro Blaster .cut file

The top one in the picture is the Cricut Design Studio (CDS), i have to go check which cartidges were used. The bottom in with Sure Cuts Alot (SCAL) .

For CDS .cut file click HERE

For SCAL .scut file click HERE

Cards I made with the Free promo kit

The top cards are to the cutting guide, sketch and directions given. the bottom cards are my twists to the top cards. Sorry about the coloring of the first picture, don't know what happen.






I made this LO with the scraps and extra peices i had leftover from the kit. The only thing that wasn't in the kit is the background papers.

National Stamping Month Campaign Is in Full Swing!
September is National Stamping Month and CTMH is celebrating early and in a big way, with something for everyone! Between now and September 30 when you purchase a minimum of $60 US / $75 CAN in stamp sets (A, B, C, D, and E-size; some exclusions apply), you’ll receive a FREE Everyday Celebration card kit containing materials to handcraft 16 exquisite cards. For complete information, or to place an order you can email me at artisanx@sbcglobal.net i dont have a CTMH website yet, just baby steps since i'm just getting started! Pics below are of the free card set!!

This stamp set is included in the free card kit!!

you can view the summer cataloge here :
http://www.closetomyheart.com/Ideabooks/Summer09US.aspx

the new fall/winter cataloge will be available Sept. 1, 2009

Chelsie's BF's b-day card

This was made out of a posterboard. We used Cricut expression and used Celebrations to cut the cupcake and happy birthday and all the birthday cuts inside. we used Mini Monograms to cut the scallop squares for the inside.

"Giggle" Chipboard book

This took me a lil under a month to do. i use to be able to whip something like this out in a few hours, still learning my limitations! very frustrating but i do love how it turned out. Just simple and colorful!

I used DCWV 4.5 x 6.5 chipboard for cover and few pages inside. i also used green CS cut down to size for insert pages too! Different coordinating printed papers and textured CS from the paper company, DCWV and my mind eye papers.

These are not all the pages, just what i "think" are the best ones:

Front cover:

inside pages:

Last page:

Cinderella Layouts

Not that i have any pictures for these, but was inspired to be creative and made these yesterday. Since, i dont have any pictures for myself, i'll be listing on my etsy store once i re-open it next week

Day at Disney!

New LO for My Friends Disney Book

This is my favorite LO so far for my Friends Disney Book. They came down from Washington last March for spring break and we took them to Disneyland for their B-days for the first time since all their B-days are in Feb and March. I just love the colors in this one! Even my husband commented on how the colors were nice!

While waiting in line to see Minnie Pluto came out so i snapped some pics of him!!

Pluto, the bones and the scallop paper were cut from the cricut machine!

The charatcers encounters and arrows cuts are from a disney swap on the Cricut MB from ThePartyFairy

my last recyled storage for now!

These i use for my "skittles" they are great cause they have two openings! one big one and one little one! again i havent decorated yet, these ones i will, not sure what to do with them yet! they are gum containers! we go thru these about one a month! again i have one for each color or shade of colors.

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Another Recycled storage!

This is for my ribbons. Again i havent done anything to the jars yet, not sure if i will, i kinda like how the ribbons add their own touch! These are plastic Mayo jars. I plan on having a jar for each color, my collection is almost done, just need 4 more!

heres all the recylced jars

More Recycled!

These are for my smaller flowers. They are cleaned out salsa and chip dip glass jars. I havent done anything specacular yet besides spray paint the lids to match the other lids. not sure i need to add anything to the jar or not. i think in a way seeing the flowers inside is pretty enough?

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My Recylcing crafts!

I have never been a waster, guess its part of being poor! pinching pennies is my lifestyle! So i may not be as green as some would like but i am creative with my Green!

I have been saving containers, both plastic and glass to store my beautiful scrapbooking embellishment collections.

This first one is for my large flowers. I took some old christmas tins i've had for years and covered them with wallpaper that matches the wall paper i put on my cabinets in my scrapgarage!. i stamped some swirls and embossed them with copper. Then for each tins color flowers i attached that color flower with a pretty rhinestone brad. I spray painted the lids light blue which you wont see in the pics cause i hadnt done it yet. I quite like the way they came out!

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Close up:

Procrastinator!

Ok, so i havent been keeping up with my silly blog! I keep saying oh tommorrow, i'll post! You got it tommorrow has come and gone too many times! Well, today is yesterdays tommorrow so i am gonn try to post some projects today!

New Year New Things!

I've abandon my Blog and am inspired to try to add to it this year and keep it up.
I need to figure out how to post pictures and such. That is what makes it all interesting!

one more time!

Testing

1... 2... 3... Testing! will the picture post or not?

So many projects going

I have so many Projects and swaps going. They have been keeping me busy!
Cards For Soldiers, this challenge is scrap your stash. Which i have plenty of. I committed to making 200 for the 3 week cahllenge.

Disney Book 2 swap is due the end this month, which i am almost done!
I have my other 2 swaps, stamped images and card candy. They are great and I get so many ideas from them.
Ppaer Doll Elements swap is due May 1st! Almost done with those too!

Finally figured out and handed in my summer schedule! hope it goes ok!

We made the decision to HomeSchool our 2 of 3 of our kids next year. shhh! they don't know yet, but can't wait to tell them, but have to wait for tthe end of the school year.