May blog hop

Welcome to the May Joyful Stars blog hop.  We just released a NEW Seasonal Expressions and we would like to share some new products and some products from our annual catalog.  So hop from one blog to the next, just look for the link at the bottom of each post and click on it.  

This month I would like to share with you  Carnival fun and carnival fun thin cuts.  This cute set can be found on page 21 of Seasonal Expressions May-August.  This set would make great party invitations or just a fun birthday card.  I made this card with an opening flap.  So you would make a card base and cut another piece 2 1/2" x 6".  I scored the 6" length  1/2" from the end.  That 1/2" pc gets glued onto the back or behind the striped pc of background texture paper.  All the shapes are cut with the thin cuts and stamped with colors you desire.  Liquid glass is fun to use on the snow cone, pretzel, ice cream and the mustard of the corndog.

3-D foam tape can be used to pop some of the shapes.  I hope this gets your imagination racing with all the possibilities.

Now hop over the Marie's blog and see what she has been stamping. 

Joyce Houck                    Joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com

Marie Flayer                      njstampingqueen.blogspot.com

Debi Brile                         thatmightlookgoodonacard.blogspot.com

Andrea Sherman                    girlpluspaper.blogspot.com

Krista Hershberger            Kristascraftycorner.blogspot.com

 Betty Locco                        scrapbookgirl2.blogspot.com

 Lori Meadows                    craftymeadows.blogspot.com

 Donna Ackley Long           hintsofhappinesswithdonna.blogspot.com

 Crystal Davis                     craftingwithcrystal.blogspot.com

Back to Joyce...                         Joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com

New Seasonal Expressions

Starting May 1 the NEW Seasonal Expressions.....Go to Joyce.ctmh.com and view all the new products and ideas.

You will love the 3 new paper packs and the stamps and matching thin cuts.

Really want to see all the new stuff .....come out to our Annual Spring Fling
this Sat at Barto Fire Co.
Limited spots left, so contact me asap.  

April Blog hop

Welcome to Joyful Stars blog hop
Enjoy all the creative ideas we have to share with you and  our hope is that we inspire you to create. So click on the highlighted name at the bottom of each post and hop from blog to blog until you get back to me. 

This month I would like to share with you..... Magic cards.  I must admit they are not the easiest cards to make, but I sure like the results. The Flamingo card is a SNEAK
preview to the next Expressions that will be available in May.  

Card closed

pull up the tab and see the magic

See the pretty pink flamingo

This card is featuring the April Stamp of the month

Here is the card closed I used Regatta paper and zip strip only available to the end of this month.

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opening up the card, I like the words in the empty spot, on the flamingo card I should put "Tickled pink" 

Here is the camera with color.
Directions for these card can be found of You Tube under magic card   

Now hop over and see what Marie has created and be inspired.  

Joyce Houck                    Joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com

Marie Flayer                       njstampingqueen.blogspot.com

 Debi B                                    thatmightlookgoodonacard.blogspot.com

 Nancy Brown                     creativelyartsygallery.blogspot.com

Andrea Sherman                    girlpluspaper.blogspot.com

Krista Hershberger            Kristascraftycorner.blogspot.com

 Yvonne Barbosa                      justpaperandbling.blogspot.com 

 Stephanie Huber                lavendersagedesigns.blogspot.com

 Betty Locco                        scrapbookgirl2.blogspot.com

 Lori Meadows                    craftymeadows.blogspot.com

 Helen Gullett                         helengullett.com 

 Donna Ackley Long           hintsofhappinesswithdonna.blogspot.com

 Crystal Davis                     craftingwithcrystal.blogspot.com

Back to Joyce...                         Joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com

Spring Fling

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NEW KIT NEW PRICE

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New Consultant kit only $75 +
$50 in Select Product Credit to spend on additional supplies
Submit $350 in sales in April earn a FREE Cricut collection or
an additional $100 in SPC.

Just go to Joyce.CTMH.com April 1st.  and sign up  Contact me so I can be excited for you.  What we do......    Become a Consultant

Happy Easter

Happy Easter........ Here are some cards that I made for a couple of people who needed to have a card.
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I hope you have a blessed day.  

Cricut club cards

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

March blog hop

Welcome to the March Joyful Stars blog hop.
Hop from blog to blog to see all we have to share, every month we share what we have been making and hop we inspire you to create and have fun the way we do.  So look for the highlighted name at the bottom of each blog and click on it and it will take you to the next blog.

I'd like to share with you a circle side step card that we made in class on Tuesday.  I made it to fit in a A2 envelope.  The directions are at the bottom if you care to make one for that special person in your life.

Happy Easter!

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If you have Cricut Explore here is the link:  https://us.cricut.com/design/#/canvas/37711821

Cut a 5 1/2" circle  Score at 3 1/2"  make 5 more score line in the opposite direction at 1 1/2"  2"   3"   3 1/4"  3 1/2"   Make a slit from the first score to the last score.  Take your circle and fold  it in half on the side that does not have any scores.  When you have your card folded in half, with the mountain and valley folds on the right side, trim the card.  Cut a 5" circle (cut in half)to layer on top of the card base. Cut out the notch at the step, trim and glue to the next step.






Hope you enjoyed my card and now it's time to hop over to Krista's blog .

Here a list of bloggers in case you get lost.

Joyce Houck                      Joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com

 Krista Hershberger            Kristascraftycorner.blogspot.com

 Nancy Brown                     creativelyartsygallery.blogspot.com

 Betty Locco                        scrapbookgirl2.blogspot.com

Marie Flayer                       njstampingqueen.blogspot.com

 Crystal Davis                     craftingwithcrystal.blogspot.com

 Stephanie Huber                lavendersagedesigns.blogspot.com

 Debi B                                    thatmightlookgoodonacard.blogspot.com

 Lori Meadows                    craftymeadows.blogspot.com

Andrea Sherman                    girlpluspaper.blogspot.com

 Donna Ackley Long           hintsofhappinesswithdonna.blogspot.com

 Helen Gullett                         helengullett.com 

 Yvonne Barbosa                      justpaperandbling.blogspot.com 

Back to Joyce...                         Joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com

Special 10 card workshop

This was a Special card workshop that we made this week, thanks to everyone who took the class.

We used Penelope paper,Penelope Compliments,  thin cuts,  puffies, Cricut Artistry cuts. 

This month we will be working on Easter cards and masculine.... cards, check out my calendar on the above tab. 

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Feb JoyfulStars blog hop

Welcome to our Joyful Stars blog hop for the month of February.  We have great things to share, so hop from one to the next until you get back to me.  Look for the highlighted name at the bottom of each post.  

Today I would like to share with you some cards that I made using Penelope paper.  That can be found in the new Expression catalog. 
These birthday cards were made with Artistry Cricut cartridge, page 17
background cut at 2 1/2 inches.  The pennants were from the Penelope Compliments.  the stars were from the Thistle fundamentals and silver glitter paper.   

 The balloon animal is the February Stamp of the month, one of 6 animals S1602 and the words are from Animal greeting D1679 Operation Smile  stamp set.  I also used shimmer trim and Penelope paper. 

Hope you enjoyed my cards and now it's time to hop over to Krista's blog

Here a list of bloggers in case you get lost.

Joyce Houck                      Joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com

 Krista Hershberger            Kristascraftycorner.blogspot.com

 Nancy Brown                     creativelyartsygallery.blogspot.com

 Betty Locco                        scrapbookgirl2.blogspot.com

Marie Flayer                       njstampingqueen.blogspot.com

 Crystal Davis                     craftingwithcrystal.blogspot.com

 Stephanie Huber                lavendersagedesigns.blogspot.com

 Debi B                                    thatmightlookgoodonacard.blogspot.com

 Lori Meadows                    craftymeadows.blogspot.com

Andrea Sherman                    girlpluspaper.blogspot.com

 Donna Ackley Long           hintsofhappinesswithdonna.blogspot.com

 Helen Gullett                         helengullett.com 

 Yvonne Barbosa                      justpaperandbling.blogspot.com 

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Tuesdays' class Feb 2, 2016

We made Stamp of the month cards using Penelope paper and just 3 out of the 6 balloon animals, these are such cut cards and there is so much you can do with them. Everything you see stamped on these cards come from the set.  Remember you can only get this set this month. This is not only good for birthdays, but also babies. 

Wait until you see the elephant, giraffe and rabbit made into cards and scrapbook pages.

This card was for a masculine valentine card using B1507 To the Moon.  Pg 11 in the new Expressions catalog.   

We used sapphire paper, embossed it with the star background embossing folder and sanded it.
We then spritzed it with white watercolor.  Edged the words and the planet with blue and colored the rocket with watercolor pencils.
Hope your enjoying this foggy day, should go out but why?  

Let it snow!

This was one of our Cricut club projects, it can be a very simple card or it can be a very detailed card.  We used glacier paper and backed the snowflakes with white sparkle paper. (picture doesn't do it justice) We also traced another snowman to back our snowman so we could paper piece the nose and the scarf. The hat we colored in with marker and as well as the eyes, mouth and buttons.
This swing card can be found on the Artfully Sent Cricut cartridge. It was cut at 7".  White shimmer trim was added to the side with some white pines paper.  Snowflakes were added to embellish.  

snowman layout

Who would know that we WOULD be snowed in this weekend!

 We made this layout at our Scrapbooking club night.  Inspired by LeeAnn Greff.
We white embossed snowflakes on the background. Made the snowman using a 3" circle for the head and a 4" rectangle the we rounded off at the neck.  The eyes were 1/2" black with a touch of wht pen for highlights.  Three buttons, a nose and a scarf.  Some 3-D snowflakes were cut from Cricut.  The bottom border was a 4x12 piece of White daisy ripped down the middle to make snow banks.  All the photo wells were edged in light blue.  

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Tuesday's 1-19 class cards

Here are the cards we made from the January Stamp of the month at Tuesday's class. This stamp set can be used for some many occasions.  

Belt buckle card, sorry the picture is blurry. I do have the slot cuts on a Design Space file.

I watercolored the colors on a sheet of paper and stamped it with Momento black ink.

I was asked to post the class cards  for some of my snow birds.

I have a layout to post tomorrow that really says it all for us on the East coast.  I will be easy to put pictures on the pages.  

Band aids cards

One of my favorite new sets in the New Expressions is with a band aid and lots of great sayings.  The background color is the same for both cards, I don't know why they came up different.  I used the embossing folder just part way down and added the words.  I cut lots of band aids out using the CTMH Artistry cartridge at 3/4" that way whenever I need a get well card my band aids are cut and stored in the stamp set envelope.  

This card I used the zip strip from a retired paper and barn red ink ( also, retired)

Tuesday's class

These cards were made using the January Stamp of the month. Inspired by Kathy Burrows.  This set had lots of possibilities.  The favorite words on Tuesday was "thinking of you". So many times we could be sending out cards just to let someone know they are in our thoughts.  Who doesn't love getting (RAC) random acts of kindness cards.  

This card uses fern ink and the sprig from the Stamp of the month.  S1513. Fern cs for the  base cut at 4 1/4 x 11" (cropped out) black 4x 5 1/4"  and col. white 3 3/4 x 5" to stamp on.  Very fast and simple. Almost forgot added fern twine as an accent.  Words are from the set also. 

This card was stamps in slate and colored in with colored pencils.  We scribbled a small circle of yellow on scrap paper and picked it up with a waterbrush to add accents to the end of the sprigs.  The large rose was popped.  The words were from "Say it all" stamp set.  Silver foil tape was added under the Get well soon.  

This card was made by embossing silver for the flower, the sprigs and the words.  We also added silver around the edge of the white stamping piece.  The rose was popped.
 
Check back tomorrow when I  show the two band aid cards I made.  

January Joyful Stars Blog hop

Welcome to the Joyful Stars blog hop. We are starting out the New Year with a New mini catalog called Expressions. I hope you see all the new products we have to offer.  Brand new are "thin cuts" with matching stamps, 3 new paper packs and many more accessories.

I would like to show you a gift card holder I made using our Cricut cartridges and embossing folder, stamps and black pen.

It doesn't show up very good, but there is a slot to put a gift card or money.  Now hop over to Helen'sblog and see what she has created.  Keep on hopping until you get back to me.  Have a blessed 2016!!!!

Joyce Houck                      Joyce-joyfulcreations.blogspot.com

 Helen Gullett                        helengullett.com 

 Nancy Brown                     creativelyartsygallery.blogspot.com

 Krista Hershberger            Kristascraftycorner.blogspot.com

 Crystal Davis                     craftingwithcrystal.blogspot.com

 Donna Ackley Long           hintsofhappinesswithdonna.blogspot.com

 Lori Meadows                    craftymeadows.blogspot.com

Stephanie Huber                lavendersagedesigns.blogspot.com

 Yvonne Barbosa                      justpaperandbling.blogspot.com  

Marie Flayer                       njstampingqueen.blogspot.com

 Betty Locco                        scrapbookgirl2.blogspot.com

    

Debi B                                    thatmightlookgoodonacard.blogspot.com

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Tuesday's class

On Tuesday we made cards for the new Expressions, featuring Charlotte paper.

We had fun using the new Thin cuts, gold puffies, paper and blk and gold ribbon.  These are were made by Eileen.  We combined 3 stamp sets for the sentiments that we wanted.  

The last card Eileen chose to let it blank, the beauty of this paper, this card could turn into a birthday, get well, thinking of you, thank you, sympathy or best wishes.
Some snow birds are anxious to see these cards, so if you want any of products we used......you can find them on my website  Joyce.CTMH.com.  or contact me.
Miss you guys!!!

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