Cricut club cards

Here is what we made at Cricut club this month.  Happy Easter!

Easter glass blocks

I made some glass blocks for the Easter Season using Close to My Heart Cricut and vinyl.

Don't for after March 31 you can't order some things from the Seasonal Expressions 1, so call me if you want anything. Or go to my website and place your order before it's to late.  

glass deer block

Here is the block that I made for my brother and his wife.  I put trees inside, pinecones and snow. The deer and believe were cut out of vinyl with my cricut and CTMH Cartridges.  

Iris folding, Tues class

I discovered this frog cut out from our new cartridge "Artfully Sent" page 26 and by teaming him up with the January Stamp of the month, this makes a cute card.  Using it for Valentines Day or a birthday and you have a fun card .  Putting the springs under his eyes really  makes it fun.

This is the positive cut out from hot air balloon.
We covered it with washy tape, dry embossed the
background and mounted it to the card.

This card was made with envelopes, check out the
inside of business envelopes and you will see all different
patterns and colors.

These cuts were done on the Cricut, to match the pattern and the shape from the cartridge.

Iris folding balloon with a cuddlebug
background.

We did one more card, I will post it on my next post.

Jan 2015 blog hop

Happy New Year Everyone, Welcome to our monthly blog hop, our hope is to inspire you to make your own creations.  

I am learning how to use the NEW Explore Cricut machine. I want to share how you can take a card from your CTMH Cricut cartridge and completely change it to suit your needs.   

This card was made the way "Artfully Sent" meant it to be

The swing card on page 25 in the "Artfully Sent" cuts out a separate Happy Birthday that you glue onto the swing part of the card.

 This card was cut out right on the card and I removed the fancy base.  New items on this card are Heartstrings paper, white shimmer trim and puffy stickers.   

This is the inside of the card, the box is a scene card on page 50.  This is what started me on this project.  The original cut has a santa hat coming out of the box. I was able to remove that and I cut out balloons  to have them coming out of the box. The white balloons could have the person's age on it.  

This card was made using the Explore.

I decided to add a cupcake to the top of the card. With the Explore I brought the three cupcakes onto the screen and placed  one on top of the card until I was happy with the size.  I cut these with  our new Heartstrings paper.  Love it!

This is the page you can find the swing card.  If I can figure out how to share the file, I would be happy to do that.  

Now hop on over to Krista's blog and see what wonderful things she has created.




If you get lost, here is the list of bloggers:

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      Crystal Davis                       www.craftingwithcrystal.blogspot.com

    

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Sherpherd's card

This is a real simple card, using the new Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge for the shepherds.  I cut a 1" strip of striped paper and put a piece of aqua shimmer trim down the middle.  The words were stamped in black using 3 different sets.  D1613 or B1468 for the Joy.  C1598 for the "to the world" and D1614  Reason for the Season for the star.  

Halloween

One of my favorites using the Artfully Sent cartridge.  Brenda did a great job with this card.
Order you cartridge from me today and discover all the great holiday items it has to offer.  Be safe!

Deer hunting

 My brother's birthday is this Thursday and thanks to CTMH I was was able to make him a card easily and exactly with what he loves.  Deer hunting!  I am always having fun discovering what you can make with the CTMH Cricut cartridges.  

October Blog hop

Welcome to our October Blog hop, We have lots to share and you may even get a glimpse of samples featuring our NEW "Artfully Sent" Cricut cartridge.

This month I have been having lots of fun using the NEW Artfully Sent.  One of my favorite cards I made is this nativity pop-up. It goes very well with the stamp set D1614 Reason for the Season. 

I used Yuletide Carol paper packet x7187B

Glitter paper  Z1830 

Bling gems gold  Z2023

Liquid glass z679

Can you believe that all those shapes were cut from the Cricut?  The insert provides the pop out ledges to put your figures on.  The star was cut out of the insert and I backed it with glitter paper. Love that stuff!!! I used Basic paper fundamentals Z1939 for the black paper, notice it has a glossy pattern to it.  This paper comes in many different colors and designs on both sides.This paper cuts great on the cricut: I will be showing more ideas with this paper in my next posts.

Now hop over to my good friend BETTY  to see her wonderful entry.         If you get lost and can't find your way here is a list of bloggers  Joyce     Houck               Joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com          Betty Locco                     scrapbookgirl2.blogspot.com          Jolene Barron                  jolenespapertrail.blogspot.com          Andrea Sherman             girlpluspaper.blogspot.com          Nancy Brown                   creativelyartsygallery.blogspot.com          Krista Hershberger          Kristascraftycorner.blogspot.com             Stephanie Huber             Lavendersagedesigns.blogspot.com              Crystal Davis                     www.craftingwithcrystal.blogspot.co   Nickie Hoffer                   nickiehoffer.blogspot.com  Janice  Centritto              craftingeek.blogspot.com       Lori Meadows                 CraftyMeadows.blogspot.com   Back to Joyce                                                         Joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com

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Bicycle

Having some fun with the new "Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge.  One of the Icon on the Cartridge is this bicycle, it's so cool to have a bike that you can make anysize, any color.  Paper piece it by cutting it out again and you can change the fenders or seat a different color.  

Wait till you see what I'm doing with the pop-up card and the deer, it can be a Christmas card or a birthday card.  So easy...................

Artfully Sent one key

                              Pop up card

                             This was really on black paper and looks much better in person.  

Playing with our NEW Artfully Sent Cricut Cartridge

                                        When I had Cricut club this month, I told them no homework and we made cards using Artfully Sent and just one key.  I have more to show just using one key.  So keep checking in or better yet follow my blog and you will get an email when I post and you won't miss a thing.

Here is another version of the same card, on this one we used the block of words and trimmed the edges with black shimmer trim.  

 The inside was cut out of orange paper mounted on a black base, which is a key on the cartridge, so you don't even have to figure out the base size.

                                     We were cutting the spider out of black sparkle paper.  Nice accent!

Workshop cards

 I thought I'd post some of the cards we made at our last workshop.  I just posted the Sept schedule. Two BIG events, make that 3 BIG events are happening in SEPTEMBER.  

1,  Westminster, Maryland Expo  Sept 6 & 7th

2.  Christmas Card Extravaganza (see last post)

              3.  New Cricut cartridge "Artfully Sent will be released

Start figuring out your order, so you can get some of the hostess stamps, send it to me and be one of the first people to gets to use it.  Believe me you won't be disappointed.  September special buy $30 in stamps and get a free stamp set made especially for CTMH's 30th Anniversary.

New background stamp, comes with two other stamps, bambo and leasves.  

Fun Hostess rewards stamp set.  

This card was fun using a new technique with painters tape.  Slide it through the ink and rub it on you paper. Pull the tape off and you get a neat background.