Boyish Birthday card

I made this card for a card swap that my upline with Close to My Heart did a month ago. I always like doing birthday card swaps, for I always use the cards I get in exchange. I also like to go with boy themes. 1. Because I have two boys, those are the birthday cards I use most often, and 2. People seem to like to do girly themes more. Maybe it's just the group I swap with, but I have an overabundance of girly birthday cards and not so many boy birthday cards.

This is a 6X6 card using bamboo, cranberry and outdoor denim papers and inks. I stamped the stars on a white piece of cardstock, adding some dots to muddy up the background a bit. The darker brown diamonds were stamped on a piece of acetate (I just cut up one of my page protectors and used Staz-On brown ink). The guitar, arrow and ticket pieces were cut on the Cricut.

Irresistibles!

Close to My Heart's website, http://closetomyheart.com/, has lots of ideas for your scrapbooking, card making and paper crafting needs. Here are some ideas using the Irresistibles frames.

Triple easel card for our Faux Convention

Every year Close to My Heart has a convention. Not all of us can afford to go, so instead, two of my fellow consultants throw a Faux Convention where the rest of us get together on one of the convention days and scrap all day. We try to mimic the convention with make and takes and a tiny extravaganza section. It's loads of fun, and we keep in touch with our uplines and sidelines who are actually at the CTMH convention so we can get updates!

This year I got asked to make a card for a make and take/ extravaganza. The organizers asked if I could make a triple easel card using one of CTMH's paper packs, Tommy. Here is the result. (The tutorial for the card is from Split Coast Stampers, http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/tripleeaselcard)

The base is in cranberry cardstock, using a cut from the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge (Select Card and use circle #5. Sizes are 4.5", 4" and 3.5").  Then I cut three circle #5 in desert sand cardstock, added some circles from the Tommy patterned paper and embellished.

I also used milepost shapes stars, which have been discontinued, but back when they offered just the stars in bulk I bought a bunch, so I have plenty left. I filled in the corrugations with CTMH's red and bronze glitter glitz, and colored one of the stars with a cranberry marker, then stuck them onto toothpicks with glue dots.


I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Now I just need to cut 20 of these puppies for the gals to put together!

Happy crafting.

For Always Cards

These are two of the three cards we'll be making at our next get together. You have your choice of doing these, or the layouts (to be posted soon!) or both.

The Thanks card uses a bunch of retired stamp sets, but I couldn't help myself. I like the way it turned out. I used a bit of the For Always fabric on both cards, and I'm really liking it! It's fun to play with.

I've been working on a calendar. Last year I had one from Glacier Park, but this year no one bothered to buy me one for Christmas despite several hints to the contrary. So I found a blank one in my stash of scrapbooking supplies and decided that I'd make my own, month by month.

Ideally, I'd be putting pictures on it month by month too, but I haven't quite gotten to that part yet.  I also used a few premade layouts for a few months that I got in swaps, so I won't show those here. I'd rather not display them if I can't attribute them to the right person.

Here's the cover:

I got this idea from Vicki Wizniuk.

Now let's skip to March, because January and February were someone else's layouts that I had sitting around.

  Sorry it's a little cut off on the left, the calendar was bowing a bit when I snapped the picture. I need to work on a better setup for taking photos. This page uses the paper from Close to My Heart's Chantilly pack. I love the bright colors, and the fact that you can pair so many different colors with the patterns. I used a navy blue, Outdoor Denim, here for an extra punch. The bunnies and the saying are from a retired stamp set, the bird and the white flowers are from Life is Tweet. Bracket is from milepost shapes. All supplies from Close to My Heart.

March Papercrafting Class

For March I've designed a set of 3 cards that my papercrafting group is going to make.  I tried my hand at making a chalkboard card using one of Close to My Heart's quick cards stamps. I like how it turned out, but I'm not sure how much it looks like the chalkboard cards floating around out there on the internet.

It's the one on the left hand side. I used black cardstock, embossed the image in white embossing powder, and then colored the dragonfly with some pencils. I added a bit of white pigment ink to give the chalkboard look, and outlined the image with a white pencil.

The other technique is the Buzzing card. For that one I sponged 3 different ink colors on the stamp (it too is a single image stamp) and then stamped the whole thing on Colonial White cardstock.

The Happy Birthday card is a little more involved. No fancy techniques were used for stamping, but the card itself is more than just what you see here. It opens up.

This card uses the same stamp as the Buzzing card above, but I've cut out the bee and the sentiment. I got the instructions for making this foldout card from
http://craftingwithjoanie.blogspot.ca/2013/02/how-to-make-s-fold-flap-card.html

All cards are made using the Buzz and Bumble paper pack from Close to My Heart.

Happy crafting!

Welcome to my blog! My goal with this is to showcase some of my scrapbook and card artwork. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy creating it. I mostly use Close to My Heart products, but every now and then I'll throw something else into the mix.

Let's get creating, shall we?  For this inaugural post I'd like to show you something I made for the men in my life - my husband and two boys - for Valentine's day. We needed some new glassware, and so I bought some glasses and dressed them up. Then I filled them with candy. I set them out on the table and there they sat, perfect, until my husband got home.

You see, he brought me some roses, and I put them into a vase. Then I set the vase on the dining room table and walked away, probably to start cooking dinner. When I next went into the dining room, the vase had somehow overturned (I'm blaming a cat for that one) and water was everywhere. Luckily it didn't get to the wood on my grandmother's teak dining table because I have a protective pad on it, but a few of the wrappers on these cute glasses had slid down, and the water blurred the ink. So my cute little glasses were now smeared and unreadable. No one really seemed to mind though. Luckily I had snapped a few photos before the rose incident.

I used the following to make the heart and the wrapper around the glass. All products from Close to My Heart unless otherwise stated


All My Love, a retired stamp set
Affection, stamp set
Perfect Fit Frames, stamp set
Cricut images from Close to My Heart's Art Philosophy and Artiste cartridges
Lagoon, Tulip and Cotton Candy inks
Tulip, Lagoon and Colonial White cardstocks
Patterned paper from the Stella paper pack
Foundry pin clips