A few misc. projects

I wanted to get these posted before they totally escaped my memory!!  These are a mix of cards I taught or projects we completed at class as well as cards I created for various people.  I have to confess, most of these are CASes.  If I remember where I saw the idea, I'll try to link back to it. 

Here's my inspiration: Folded Christmas Tree Card

Unfortunately the link to Here doesn't work any more!

 I made a bunch of these in different colors.  Shown is Thistle  I made some as sympathy cards as well as birthday.  Loved the monochromatic theme!  

Sincere Expressions and Your Own Kind of Wonderful

Here's where I inspiration for this: Predominately Purple

I used CTMH Have a Happy Day for both the sentiment and frame.

This was a technique card: distress inks and heat embossing. 

I love CTMH's shimmer trim.  It's adhesive backed and goes on so nicely.  Plus who can resist all that sparkle!!  I used Teal Shimmer Trim

I used CTMH Dotty For You paper!

Totally loved this CTMH Hostess Stamp and totally CASed THIS

My mom came up with this design from this inspiration.  Really love the texture on the Cricut Art Philosophy acorn!

I love making shaped cards and this one is super sweet for the fall.  I used my Cricut Art Philosophy Collection to cut out the card, leaves and sentiment shape.

Gotta Love Mary at Cardz TV

Gotta love Dawn too!  Birthday gift card holder.

 I loved this set from Lisa and totally re-created it!

 CTMH Your Own Kind of Wonderful, Paper, bags and inks!

Fall themed cards.  Used left over Cricut Art Philosophy leaves. 

Lawn Fawn...need I say more! Birthday card.

Stampendous...just loved this guy!  I used these as thank you's for Christmas gifts for the kiddos.

Whew!  Glad I got these up!  Nice trip down memory lane...so many talented folks out there willing to share with us creatively challenged folks!!  I, for one, am very thankful!

Hi all!

Today I'm playing catch up again!  I'm really trying to be better about posting my crafty creations.  I like being able to document them...so they are not just forgotten in my card boxes somewhere.  As I was thinking about what to do for the last card class before the summer break, my mom came across this braided card tutorial ...so I decided that we would create a theme of "fun folds" for our class.

Next, I found this folded paper frame tutorial and had some sweet seashell stamps that worked perfectly.  I even made my own B&T (background and texture) paper by stamping with versamark ink.  I used a sentiment from one of the stamp set from the CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Collection.

Lastly, I decided to make this Twisted Gift Card Holder.  I sealed the front so I only had one pocket on the inside.  Also, the diecut and sentiment were from CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Collection.

I think the ladies had fun and they weren't too complicated.

Mother's Day and Father's Day gift ideas

Hi all,

I'm so far behind in posting my most recent crafty creations...so, of course I now have to play catch up.

Here's a very easy and cute Mother's Day gift, especially if you have a lot of Mother's to celebrate!
I diecut and stamped the sentiment with my CTMH Art Philosophy Collection as well as the doily.  And I admit, I did not come up with this myself...I found this idea on one of our CTMH blog hops from Here.

And of course, we cannot forget the Dad's...what man doesn't like a little chocolate...well, mine doesn't, but if it's full of nuts, then he'll eat it.  That's why his was a Mr. Goodbar!  I cut these ties from the CTMH Artiste Collection.  The ones we made during card class were smaller chocolate bars and had mustaches instead...so cute!

Lastly, here are a couple of Father's Day themed cards I taught to the ladies at church.  I followed this fabulous tutorial on how to do a sailor's knot on a card.

And I couldn't resist making these cute Hero cards...the card base was cut from the Hello Kitty Greetings Cricut Cartridge.  Love this cute Lawn Fawn set too...did you guess it's a Halloween set?!?

Did you know you could do this to a toilet paper roll?

I confess, I did not make this!  My mom must have been saving these toilet paper rolls for some time, as she whipped out these cute babies at our last craft night for all the ladies and also gave them out to the grandkids for Easter...how ingenious.  She did assure us that they were "clean" but I did notice all the candy was individually wrapped! :-)

Coordinating Stamp set from CTMH Art Philosophy Cricut Collection

Mother's Day

Life's been a little crazy, but I wanted to showcase the Mother's Day project we did at our craft night.  I'm casing one I saw at our local stamp store over a year ago, but of course, I had to find a different stamp.  I wanted to teach the ladies how to roll the 3D flowers, so I thought this sentiment went perfectly with flowers.  I cut the two different types from the Art Philosophy cartridge.  I love how this turned out.  I actually added glitter after the fact but didn't take a picture.  I also had a different stamp that I used to make one for my mom...I'll have to see if I can get a picture of it.

Catching Up!

I've been missing in action all right, but I have been busy homeschooling and crafting and well, living life!  I coordinate a monthly women's craft night at my church, so I thought I'd post some of the projects we've done since I last "blogged".

This is a gift card holder...you put the gift card in the pocket.  This is a direct copy of one found here!

This is a CTMH stamp set and is based off the sketch below!

 I wanted to teach how to work off of a sketch, so we used this sketch for the card. Sketch 148

I also had them create this scrapbook page, also from a sketch. Here

I pre-cut, stamped and glittered the leaves using the CTMH Art Philsophy cartridge.  The acorns also were from Art Philsophy with a little inking/Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing.  "Autumn" came from Gypsy Wanderings and "blessings" from Wall Decor & More.